skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple: The oppressive regime in question can deny you a certificate thereby censoring you. Some also require you to use a particular certificate, thereby creating the illusion of security while being able to intercept, interdict, or MiTM information any time they like or continually. Here's an article that touches upon it superficially from 2010, and also notes that private companies are already selling these capabilities to authoritarian governments: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/03/govts...
If you go to vesselfinder you can follow the drama in real-time! Seems it's still stuck: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000
>misalignment of interests between founders (growing a sustainable business) and VCs (dilution)

Not all foundrrs are interested in growing a successful business. In fact, what with all the brainwashing that has been going on for years by VCs ("go big or go home", "10-bagger" - old, now it is "unicorn", or is there another more current mot du jour, ha ha?, "lifestyle business" passive-aggressive shaming, etc.), it's a wonder that anyone exposed to that shit still has the balls for doing a traditional business that relies on, you know, just honest sales, customers and profits. But there are still many who do (have the balls for it).

Who do you think bags the 10(x their investment)? VCs, not founders or emps.
Yeah I did; Hidden Cups are always peak for AoE2 e-sports scene. Unbelievable matches! I think they hit 100k viewers on Twitch, which is amazing for RTS game.
Well, as a private matter I am certainly going to ignore their claims that my identity somehow automatically makes my opinions invalid. The sad truth, however, is that they have much more clout currently in many of our society's institutions - like the academia, the education, the press, the administrative state - that people, who, like myself and many other, smarter and more prominent people in the past, thought that identity is not what defines right or wrong. Now, in many cases, it does, at least when the political and institutional power is concerned.

> Why should I take her seriously?

You and I may not. But people who distribute grants, academic positions, book deals, who compose curricula and who make political decisions - would. That's the problem. And until the cultural norm is forged to make this not happen, the problem will continue.
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>how could regulators and authorities let this happen

because they have been asleep at the wheel for almost two decades now, letting tech companies privatize and eat away at the open nature of the internet, so now we have to live in tech giant fiefdoms where they can determine the very form and content of everything displayed on the web because they're the ones who control every access point and standard.
As a user, I don't have any complaint for news sites using AMP. But Reddit links using AMP is a crime against humanity, and I search Reddit threads using Google a lot.
>>There are actual consequences to people.

>No, there aren't. No child is being unknowingly radicalized by inappropriate jokes (except maybe as a response to the twits taking up arms against them).

OP already provided an example of consequences. Not radicalization of white kids but racial trauma to black kids.
> What most academics and others like them tend to miss about the American suburbs, is that most Americans like their suburbs.

Is income taken into account?

> Like published happiness research, the State of the City survey shows that reported satisfaction is highly correlated with income. Some 88 percent of those with incomes over $75,000 said their community was excellent or good; only 66 percent of those with incomes of less than $30,000 said the same. It’s worth noting here that the impact of income is larger than the impact of location in influencing satisfaction (a 9 percent difference between city and suburb as opposed to a 22 percent difference between high and low-income groups. These data suggest that the real headline finding of this survey should be “higher income people are more satisfied with the places they live.”

* https://cityobservatory.org/are-suburbs-really-happier/

Survey in question:

* http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/08/overall-americans-in...
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Thank you for sharing this, it's comments like this that make it hard to give up skimming HN. I have two Pi's running on SD cards that this is immediately beneficial for, so thank you.
One thing that stops me from moving over to Svelte from Vue is the lack of a Vuetify (component framework with an API & tons of slots) equivalent.

That's also what stops me from moving over to Vue 3 (for which Vuetify support is currently in Alpha).

Vuetify just makes dev life so much easier. If Svelte had something that deep and all-encompassing I'd go all-in.
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Ok it looks like you're right that by default a lot of tracking is done.

However the link you provided shows that in "Google Activity Controls" and "Google Ad Settings" the user has the possibility to completely opt-out of this tracking.

If privacy-minded users are fully aware of all of these options, that may be fine for them? (spoiler: I was NOT aware of all!)
On a related note, pinning the public keys of TLS certificates in browsers used to be a thing (HPKP) and it did mitigate certain classes of attacks with caveats (i.e, let's hijack a domain using an "incompetent" domain registrar and MITM clients that previously visited this site before, happens more than you think[1][2]).

Given how it was configured using HTTP headers and with the average site that has buggy webapps and such that could be used for header "injection" independent of the webserver it was unfortunately considered a theoretical persistent DoS vector, and thus removed from browsers.

I'm not convinced other solutions (CAA, CT) are adequate replacements because it best, they are reactive (versus preventative) solutions, and CAA assumes all CA's are properly checking DNS records at the time of issuance and that those DNS queries are not being intercepted, which is a big assumption in my book.

[1]: https://www.fox-it.com/en/news/blog/fox-it-hit-by-cyber-atta...

[2]: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/phish-of-godaddy-employe... (okay, was just a deface, but still accomplished with a hijacked registrar account)
Not in the same way. Again: you can't revoke the DNS.
One post said that the ship was cutting off other ships, so possibly some reckless sailing as well.
The advantage of AMP is precisely this: when an executive wants to put fifty tracking scripts of various sorts on an AMP page, the developers can say “this is impossible, Google doesn’t allow this”. When it’s on your site’s own page, the developer doesn’t have this leverage.
Then the ideas will die, and we will relearn these lessons again in the future, hopefully.

And they will die because it's just not a priority otherwise. Our opponents know that and absolutely will exploit it.

Solidarity on things is hard. It does require dealing with people we do not like, and it often also requires we accept our enemies, and "those other people" benefit same as we do.

I entertained this chat to see whether similar dynamics are in play on this matter, and they are. I have experience in this from labor politics.

Know when they win? They win with high degrees of solidarity rooted in mutual benefit. They always lose when personal judgement is a higher priority than the mutual benefit is.

Put simply, even the assholes need to pay rent, feed the kids, spend time with family, see the doctor, etc.

If it is more about who is the bigger asshole than it is the ideas, we will be left with a solid understanding of who the bigger asshole is, not a more robust, solid state of software freedom.

Now, that said, don't go blaming Stallman for your own choices. I won't blame him for mine.

He said very undesirable things. Lots of people do that, and it would be better if they didn't.

As painful as all that is, the hard truth of it has nothing to do with software freedom.

I think he can be a ripe ass, frankly. Maybe better choices are in his future. I hope so.
Disclaimer: I am building a company around this.

Not entirely. There's room for improvement on pricing. But you have to employ a culture where being cost-effective is engrained in the company.

I like to quote the pizza chain Lil Caesar's when I discuss this, which is why my company I am building is able to provide the same core features but cost less. We look for ways to save on operational costs and resources ourselves so that we can pass the buck down to our customers without compromising on quality.
This is disturbing. I think it is up to people like the ones who read hacker news to at least raise awareness of the issue with ordinary people. A lot of people are uncomfortable with the monopoly power of Google but aren't sure exactly what is wrong with it.
Well, let me break it down for you: The US political landscape looks like this:

Republicans want deregulation everywhere, no matter the cost, the second you talk about limiting big business or monopoly busting they run away.

Democrats on the other hand rely heavily on favors from the tech establishment to keep their agendas front and center and hide any downsides, this means letting BigTech(tm) have free reign.

Thus both parties are incentivized to look the other way. Only recently did the Republicans wake up to TOO BIG = bad; but their solutions are all terrible and thankfully were never entertained by any meaningful majority. Meanwhile the democrats are working very hard to cement the current big tech conglomerates into having control and power so you can expect more of the same.
Common mistake in stream code:

-- .on('end')
++ .once('end')
Intel Foundry Services to be formed, will manufacture chips for other companies
Amp sucks and IMO is a broken concept counter to the way the internet is supposed to work... case in point the only thing I use it for is to link Epoch Times articles since it bypasses the required login prompt.
In my opinion the most important role in its adoption was having researchers putting it in application in their field. In a way it was Julia's killer app. Considering it is made for technical computing, this showed that it is useful and actually *used* for its purpose, and not something that some researchers have academic fun with. This is not to say that languages meant for academic purposes are bad but rather that it isn't something which will make a language popular.
I can see one way the mass is relevant in this case: it changes the particle’s wavevector. It does change the probability of tunnelling through the energy barrier (lighter particles tunnel mor easily), but that effect is completely negligible compared to the height of the barrier.

The energy you get from the reaction has nothing to do with the mass of the particles; not all mass is “converted” to energy. The mass energy of a proton is 931 MeV. The energy you get from a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction is ~14 MeV.

Besides, this is irrelevant, as there is a ~1 MeV energy barrier preventing the reaction, which you still have to go through.

If you’re implying that the energy from one reaction could be used to make another reaction happen, then yes. But when your atoms emit 14 MeV each, you don’t have a crystal, you have a plasma. And this is not cold fusion, it is just regular fusion, same as in a star or in a tokamak.
I think this is the mechanism behind the shower effect too.
talked to the author on mail. it will remain a closed source product
I don't think I'd ever considered prior to now how much more economic it would be to release "The one nuclear bomb [TerroristOrganisation] can afford to muster" in a shipping choke-point, rather than a city.

So, another thing to worry about :)
Polybutylene piping, asbestos and lead paint everywhere, ungrounded electrical outlets, leaky doors and windows...
Some sick people had the doors to their homes welded shut by the government in China so that they wouldn't spread COVID.
The data in that article only goes up to 2018. It will be interesting to see if that 27% figure is now higher.

It's pretty clear what is happening: Online dating has become the main way romantic partners meet online [1] and the average man finds it far more difficult to find a partner than, say, in a bar or the workplace [2]

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/21/online-dating-popular-w...

[2] https://qz.com/1051462/these-statistics-show-why-its-so-hard...
I haven’t. Maybe it’s not a popular term in Brazil.
I wonder if Intel would allow AMD to build chips using their fabs. That'll be interesting to see. I believe it happened once before in the early days.
Aren’t the cited measures all lagging indicators? It might be that the batch size has now increased past the sweet spot but the impact won’t show up until they look to raise Series A.
Which regulators? Which laws or policies have they broken?

The failure here is more that regulation covering this stuff is very unclear. Is it anti-trust? Telecommunications?

And if it is antitrust, what is anti competitive? How is the consumer harmed? How are others being prevented from competing?

Basically you can't just say "Google bad" here. Regulators need to go from that to "Google bad, and illegal." That last thing is not clear right now
They don't.
In fact they can't actually currently exist on their own. If a calf tried to feed off it's mother it would drown because the mothers produce far too much milk. They actually have to bottle feed the calves now.
Yes, it does not exist yet. It needs to be created, if we don't want our society to be consumed by attention-hungry trolls. I think a lot of people - whether right-wing, left-wing or neither - are starting to realize that.
Surely we all have the potential to improve or have problems regardless of where we start in life. I don't think being a prince is a good qualification but I don't think it precludes anything either.
Ask HN: What are examples of shared spreadsheets you use (if public link it)?
> none of this will matter anyway

That's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

What I mean is that the mindset that "none of
this will matter anyway if <foo>" injects some measure of irrational optimism into the economy, causing the relative economic severity of the occasional inevitable blip to increase somewhat.

We'd all do well to rationally consider the (small) risk of widespread destabilization. Doing so may keep bubbles smaller, but that's a good thing insofar as they are bubbles relative to value.
Really if I do not need new functionality and it's not a sensitive app (i.e. one that deals with funds, email, text, etc..) I just dont. Some of my APKs are REALLY REALLY old. If i get a new phone, I save them off and roll them over.

If its for an app that has potentially significant security issues I'll wait a while and monitor the reviews and check the web before I update (I'll also backup the installed APK before updating) so I can rollback if I need to. But the number of apps on my phone for this is very slim.
At policing I think you're right, they are quite flaccid, but organizations such WHO and UNICEF are somewhat successful as well as peacekeepers when they're "welcome" by both sides.
Trust hasn’t much to do with it, there are people with much capital and nowhere to put it accepting anything.
> I've never been very moved by the pi line for "non-maker" "server-type" stuff.

I love raspberry pis but pi-mania is absolutely out of control. I can't count how many $100+ programmer hours I have seen wasted waiting for a $10 pi to boot, build, or generally stop being slow. I have witnessed the deep shame of a multi-million dollar exhibition center-featuring a RPi kiosk deployed in front of customers that chugs so hard the sales team takes shifts intercepting people before they can poke at it and realize how much of a dog it is. But at least they saved $200 on not using a laptop, right?

If you want to dip your toes in the hardware world from the comfort of ubuntu at impulse buy prices, pis are great, but they stop making sense very quickly once you exit that specialized vertical.
I'm skimming this, but why does a developer need to know about contest also-rans like Skein, or stuff like Whirlpool? Contra the book text, Whirlpool is not popular, and it is probably not a good idea to use it in new designs, if only because modern protocols are built in SHA2, SHA3, and Blake2.

The MAC/HASH stuff seems a bit fuzzy, too; for instance, part of the idea behind SHA-3 is not needing the HMAC construction anymore. Also, a bit strange to have MACs and KDFs in the same section. Are they closely related?

The bcrypt vs. scrypt vs. Argon2 stuff, also, is pretty unclear.

I think the randomness coverage is actually pretty bad. For instance, it walks programmers through building their own userland CSPRNG, which is a terrible idea --- most Linux randomness flaws have stemmed from userland CSPRNGs. It also doesn't understand the difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom.

There's also a sort of inexplicable walkthrough of bare Diffie-Hellman (ECDH is deferred), and not much coverage of authenticated key exchange, which is what in practice what systems using DH-style key exchange need.

Just a shotgun blast of random thoughts. I know it's early days for the book.

Other books in this space that I like: Aumasson's "Serious Cryptography" and David Wong's "Real World Cryptography".
if you want a hot coastal job you are likely looking at 60 hours a week

Startups, maybe. FAANGs, no.
While that's an impressive zoom, the camera is moving much slower relative to the targets (~0km/s) than if it were in even a low orbit. It's also imaging people at the extent of its zoom at only a few km away. In orbit it would be hundreds of km from its targets.

CubeSats and other small satellites can capture useful imagery but they're not spy satellites. There's optical limits to their capabilities because of their size.
> perfectly secure.

I think you're trying to use 'perfectly secure' here the way one might say 'perfectly fine', which changes the reading a lot from a first pass.

That said, I agree, there is a subset of TLS 1.2 that is suitable.
Samsung, Global Foundries, UMC, and SMIC are other large players in the foundry space. It would be very difficult for TSMC to eliminate these competitors.
I am just following the teachings of the master:

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt. – Rob Pike 1"

"It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical. – Rob Pike 2"

Sources:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Pa...

https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
Funniest rejection I've gotten: I once applied to mid-size company and during the phone screen helped them understand the role they wanted/needed was actually a senior program manager position.

They later contacted me to thank me for helping them understand the role they needed to interview for. They adjusted the listing but said that they would not be bringing me in for an interview...
I've seen the vast bulk of the films. Intolerance you definitely need to watch as a period piece. It's a pretty good example although something like Safety Last or The General would be easier to watch examples.Don't really disagree on "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Isn't a lot on the list I seriously disagree with although there are period favorites I'd probably skip and different films I'd include.
Elegantly written, thanks.
The reddit bot that automatically de-amp website URLs is pretty nice... https://ns.reddit.com/user/AmputatorBot
Stutter is becoming much less of a factor with variable refresh rate display technology. Modern consoles, TVs, and many monitors are being built with VRR these days, and in a few years it will probably be ubiquitous.

Unless you have a highly optimized game, you are probably not able to consistently run at a 144 Hz monitor’s native refresh rate anyway, so even without skipping frames you will see stuttering. VRR solves this problem as well.
I'll be that person. Have you tried DuckDuckGo? No AMP and their "bangs" are great.
AMP has been #1 on my list of web/Internet things that I hoped would fail since it emerged. It was a transparent attempt to start walled-gardening the web.
I suspect that ARM will be a real competitor as well for x86 in the future, that will make the turnaround even harder than what it looks like, even with great execution. (Writing from an M1 MacBook Pro)
Agreed, updated that
I guess you probably do not read article comments?

For some reason I almost always want to read them, and most of the time the AMP version does not have them, and most of the time there is no way to get to the non-AMP version.

Example from my Google feed: https://www-tomshardware-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.toms...
There could be real values in faking a technical outage and then getting stuck.

I don't claim to understand the global shipping dynamics, but I do see that there's lots of frustrated ship crews with nowhere to go, because of the pandemic.
I wonder what Uriel would think.
I am in my late 20s and a senior engineer at FAANG. I am conventionally attractive and have been asked out by numerous women over the years, even when I did not have my FAANG salary. However, I have had very few sexual partners.

The article has four ideas on why men like me have fewer partners. That men lack the money for partners, that the top 10% of men outcompete the bottom 90% on social media apps, that at least some of these men are homosexuals, that men prefer pornography over the actual act.

The answer for me (maybe not you) is the fourth one, "Rise of the tube sites." It is easy to fit a tube site into my schedule. It is hard to fit another human in to my schedule. After going on a tube site, I have no incentive to go to parties, go on tinder or to otherwise meet women. If I did not have tube sites, I likely would have gotten married in college when my future earnings potential became obvious.
> the second you talk about limiting big business or monopoly busting they run away

Unless big business is de-platforming right-wing content, in which case this principle is instantly forgotten and we need regulation and monopolies need to be broken up...
Meta-Gradients in RL – Dr. Tomas Zahavy (DeepMind) – Video
Anyone know how 'Alpha' this game is? I'm looking at their news archive and their first post is from 2003, then jumps to semi-regular posts starting 2011. Is this a reasonably stable game? Is this like Dwarf Fortress and will just forever be in some alpha state?
But also a few times on this site in the past few years when someone complained about AMP, technical people on HN would also say that Google was doing the right thing to make mobile pages more responsive.

Google was saying they were trying to solve a real problem, and it isn't easy (for me at least) to have known their true goals. Now if you read the the Texas anti trust suit -- and I recommend it to anyone who is interested-- it seems pretty clear that their motive for AMP was to improve their ad revenue.
I'm using it right now and kind of dig it. It makes the switch for MacOS way easier, while still staying true to the overview thing. I find it way less jarring than 3.38 personally.

Apart from that - snappy and lean release! :D