skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAICS no one is trying to literally ban encryption, the headline seems very exaggerated to me.

Looking at some of the EU documents linked, I don't see any real intention to ban E2E encrypted communications - at most the documents are saying that child abusers using E2EE is a problem, or explaining various technical possibilities to try to catch them (with or without breaking E2EE).

I'll be concerned when there is an actual proposal mandating backdoors or banning encryption.
Wow, that's a cool hack. I wonder if they did more stuff like that to go around Xbox limitations. Reminds me of Crash Bandicoot hacks for ps1 :))
Walmart invests in self-driving startup Cruise
Indeed, I commend this project for raising awareness but there can only be so much awareness about a problem without a solution currently.
As crazy as that would be, it's actually a much better solution. Heck, it would even be better if they wanted to ban all images on the internet.

But of course, banning encryption isn't actually about protecting children
In Brazil we called it "toquinho" (literally "little touch", contextually "short ring").
Your sarcastic point is kind of valid, IMHO.

Humans establishing self-sufficient communities beyond Earth would prove that humans have the capability to thrive sustainably on Earth. It would silence forever any technological objections to the possibility of human sustainability on Earth.

And a firm idea that humans can never establish self-sustaining communities in space is not that far from the idea that we probably cannot do so on Earth, either.

It really is not a huge step from pessimism about human future (ie in space) to nihilism about sustainability on Earth, and I do wish people would acknowledge this more: people enthusiastic about permanent settlements in space are, in fact, more certain about the possibility of sustainable thriving on Earth than the space-pessimists are.
I think that the Holocaust can't be compared to any event in history because the cold blooded mass murder of innocent civilians, including women and children is unprecedented. It's my opinion of course. I tend to get uneasy when people compare the Holocaust with other events because more often than not they have political motives and using the Holocaust as a comparison only serves to attack the compared idea/group of people. This is very unfair to the victims of the Holocaust. I repeat, it's just my opinion
At first I thought the headline referred to Bill Ewasko who has been missing in Joshua Park since 2010 [1].

I came across that story after somebody on HN posted about the Death Valley Germans [2]. A couple of hours well-spent.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/22/magazine/voya...
[2] https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
Fight for your Right to Fileshare (2004) [video]
The use case I bought it for was note-taking in class. My thought was to learn how to use it on my left hand, keeping my right hand free for drawing diagrams in my notebook or anything else that was hard to type out via just text (like math formulas).
1 in 30 is very odd. Rate limit? Make sure you have reverse lookup for IPv4 and 6?
> However, it seems really wasteful and like a mis-allocation of resources to put the top performing silicon in devices that don't really need it

Semiconductor research requires a lot of capital. If Apple is providing that upfront capital at a higher rate, then that's great for TMSC. More capital for spearheading development. And with better and better yield at smaller node sizes, it'll trinkle down. 2 years later 5nm would become common place and can be used to produce chips for servers. It's just the question between now and a couple years later.

> Both of these things are great but also just not high on the list of problems humanity needs to solve.

At the end of the day, it's the market that determines innovation and R&D. More money for a specific product results in more money spent in researching and development. It's about what people need rather it's about what people want. Also not having a fan and improved battery life means less ewaste, smaller batteries and less electricity use.

> What I am trying to say is that, for the last few decades, it at least seemed like 'real' work drove semiconductor development.

First it was military spending that funded CPU development. Later on, it was enterprise because of companies had money. Now with cheaper and faster hardware, more and more people are able to get their hands on a PC. You can watch educational videos online. Talk to thousands of people or connect with relatives. You can do online webinars or shows. Heck, you can even learn languages on apps on your phone. In the end, mobile phones are a tool. They can be beneficial or detrimental on the use.

> mobile operating systems still have never matured to replace then so instead even Apple is bringing mobile software back to the traditional computer.

It's about centralizing software development between platforms. It's cheaper and easier to develop one software OS across platforms than to have MacOS and iOS separate. This might mean that later on your Ipad can run VScode.

> I can easily imagine a day where consumer level electronics are completely locked down and the only way to get a open/free platform is to buy server hardware - if that is even possible.

Its the opposite. The prices for all these microprocessors have been getting lower and lower while becoming exceeding more powerful. You can buy an integrated microcontroller with bluetooth and wifi modules for <$10. In fact, open computing has expanded due to cheaper cost to PCs and faster hardware. More people can afford to do software and hardware development. There's so many resources nowadays for open source development or even hobbyist tinkering of hardware. This is one of the best times you can be in for open computing.
> K9sAlpha contains the next generation of features and enhancements for a nominal fee.

That's $99 for: Resource lists limited to 20 entries
or $199 for: Unlimited resource lists
Heartwarming story!

On a related note, have there been any attempts on developing AI models that can pinpoint an (approximate?) location, given a photo?
I think it's more the case of getting to 7nm Blue Chips and realizing how much more costly they are in terms of prerequisite requirements.
> how do I monetize this stickiness to extract maximum value from future customers?

Don't. Focus on acquiring more customers instead.
Topsoil takes a long time to build up. If you wait until it's an emergency to start trying to change farming practices, it'll take 10 years for farming practices to change, then another 10 years to build topsoil, and a lot of people will starve.
America actually does it with our fantastic National Parks system.
Ah sorry for the confusion. I think the poster was referring to my new product Slip (the site this blog is on).

vim.so is $25 one time fee.

Slip is a subscription
I've quit a lot. I haven't lasted anywhere longer than 2 months. I contribute a lot and then quit after I feel like I'm not getting appropriate compensation. Though I certainly agree that I need to stick with a job. I think ageism, and other biases are in place though. More years of experience I get the less disdained I will be I think.

I don't think I'm a know it all. I'm only in my early 20s. I definitely have a lot to learn, and I'm receptive to new stuff.
It went from approximately $235 to $250, which is about 6%. On calls, especially short-dated ones, that can easily be a 40-50% gain. I've got a number of different MSFT LEAPS in my portfolio and they all went up 15%+ on that news.
Those salaries numbers alone would be enough to put me off of using this platform as an employer or an employee. They clearly are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

$71k is just barely above what the BLS reports as the 10th percentile for software developers in the US[1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
I’ve always wondered why people talk about their time like this.

Unless I’m taking an hour off of work, that hour is not worth any specific amount of money.
I can understand owning a pistol for self defence, but what situation does a civilian need an assault rifle in?

Surely it'd just get in the way massively in any kind of home invasion scenario and if you end up firing it the bullet will go through 3 houses and hit someone's dog
I disagree on the first note.

The human footprint already covers nearly the entirety of the planet. Conservation of systems that are within or directly adjacent to that footprint is actually very important. Extraordinary amounts of biodiversity are contained in these areas and we need to study how to reconcile our land use with the needs of that biodiversity. We shouldn’t ignore it out of a fear that people will get the wrong idea.
Ugh, paypal is bad for this. I have to keep an ancient hotmail account alive, just because it is the email I used to create the account 10+ years ago.

I can login with my more recent email account, so it would be easy to forget the old hotmail account is even tied to it.
Ah, there are plenty of other ways to communicate than just talking...

Perhaps this won’t be replicated in the digital sphere, but the identity behind “leader boards” and physical aspirationals, which I believe these digital offerings still provide, is an effective means to create community and followings.

Heck a couple great friendships began in silence for months, with strict social distancing before it was cool
One of the threads that make me wish we had downvotes here... Very deceiving clickbaity title!
The bit about Facebook's planned end-to-end encryption ends with:

> One of the specific initiatives under the EU Internet Forum in 2020 is the creation of a technical expert process to map and assess possible solutions which could allow companies to detect and report child sexual abuse in end-to-end encrypted electronic communications, in full respect of fundamental rights and without creating new vulnerabilities criminals could exploit. Technical experts from academia, industry, public authorities and civil society organisations will examine possible solutions focused on the device, the server and the encryption protocol that could ensure the privacy and security of electronic communications and the protection of children from sexual abuse and sexual exploitation.

I read this as "Okay, fine, we can't ban end-to-end encryption and we cannot backdoor it. What can we do?" If that is what they mean, it seems a reasonable enough question to ask.
>*Also, Another field that needs to be disrupted is paid webinars. There's alot of people who give talks on topics and get paid per attendee. If you could centralize that, i'm sure it'd be a good business to get into. I have a friend who gives webinars on certain topics and he uses onlyfans lol.*

This one is money.
Good luck with that EU, it's dead on arrival.

The day a politician tells a mathematician what to think is the day a mathematician instructs a politician on how to think.

Real criminals have good opsec, it's part of the job. Non-criminals want provable privacy and security. Deluded and ignorant politicians want a PR stunt with good optics.

If I, as a relatively mathematical individual, employ mathematical methods of communication there is literally nothing any government can do about it. I can even obfuscate. Judge in court tells me what for? I tell judge in court what for. Contempt of court? Ab-so-fucking-lutely. Qualms? Zero. I've no dependants. Fallout of jailing someone for defending their privacy? All the way up to revolution. Jailing 80% of a population because they know how to use a one-time-pad, or a free, libre, and open source solution such as Matrix? Sure. Let me know how that works out.

Telephone/email/registered post your representatives today if an EU citizen. Tell them to study http://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon...

Otherwise ignore this pathetic grandstanding by vacuous vainglorious amadáns.
Isn't this growth pattern a straightforward consequence of disorderly growth?

When microorganisms divide, the children "appear" in the same location. Our species growth dynamics kind of has this same property in that it's easier to build something closer to the already established region than far away.

So, in the end, looking from far away, the growth pattern is the same.
I think the "surprising" or unintuitive part for me is that I wouldn't have thought that a join could be sufficiently strong.

However, in another thread recently, it was mentioned that large ships can't support their own weight without water anyway, so I guess that the strength needed is mainly just in tension?
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Aluminium is hard to manipulate...

Fatigue, and failure modes are unpredictable for a lot of alloys.

Machinability, and masleability is usually going in reverse to strength.

Tempering, and annealing to counter the above add to cycle time, and cost.

Some aluminium alloys cold flow.

Aluminium is generally excellent for corrosion resistance against anything you have in your household, but sometimes it isn't.

You can't weld it.

Few things can stick to it.

It's thermal expansion is much bigger than glass, and steel.
I agree, but your comment might be better served by giving reasons why. An advanced species that we can observe is, by definition, a successfully self-reproducing species. That is, a species that didn't die out in an early stage of its (social and technological) evolution. This means you have to ask (1) what steps did they take to avoid extinction, and (2) what social values allowed them to achieve those moves.

The biggest threat we face as a species in the foreseeable future is the exhaustion of our natural resources. Ergo, it makes sense to reserve as much as we can for future generations to decide what to do with. Some argue that we should use them as fast as possible in order to blow past some (claimed) barrier to entirely technological reproduction (producing a self-sustaining system on the Moon, for example), but this strikes me as hasty. The difficulties of achieving this might be far more difficult than advocates imagine, and if so we're likely to hit resource exhaustion.

That's before you even deal with the values. We don't have a lot of choice over those, but it's worth pointing out that many of our personal scruples are more compatible with collaborative than combative approaches to growth. The real moral challenge is whether the new frontier of growth (wealth acquisition) hits any wall before it destroys the environment.
Well I was homeschooled since the 6th grade. So, I can understand how I can be weird/socially inept. I think that I'm more demure than creepy/werid imo.

I did a mock interview with a friend a while back. But good suggestions for sure.
> The losers will be the foolish late retail investor who buys on IPO day. (Since it will dump due to the institutions selling off)

As expected.

> Downvoters: So you want to buy Coinbase stock at over $200 a share on IPO day and be holding the bag when it drops when the founders, investors and employees start selling 10% of their shares? Sounds like a FOMO investor mindset to have.

As expected. Typical pump and dump activity and another set of FOMO bag holders sitting at the $424 a share mark.
Thanks, but it's not clear to me how/if you modeled the electrical losses related to emitted acoustic power.
Buying crypto with credit cards is not and was never a good idea due to chargebacks. Back in the early days there was an ACH-based intermediary called Dwolla that some exchanges used, but Dwolla also suffered turmoil due to ACH chargebacks.
It's actually better than it used to be though. I can't even count the number of goals and breakaways that were called back by the linesman because surely that guy who is open by 5 yards was offside.

The current interpretation of the rule appears to take "level with" the 2nd to last defender to be a zone of infinitesimal width. So having your body lined up with the defender's isn't enough to be level with if a pinky finger is extended beyond them. A player could have his entire torso behind the defender and be offside if his arm or toe extends beyond the defender. The defender could literally (by any reasonable definition) be between the forward and the goal and it would still be offside.

It's like they saw the NFL's ruling on what is a catch and thought it was a contest.

I actually like VAR, because referees and linesmen preferred to call back goals rather than risk an offside goal be allowed. So it is progress, but they wrote the rule to be a mechanical judgement, rather than a human one (as rugby does).
Yes, and the site guidelines ask submitters to drop magic numbers from titles:

If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

... although I notice that it's worded more restrictively than I remember. It should cover magic numbers in general, not just at beginnings. (Edit: fixed now!)
Where do they say they are against it? Can you quote precisely what you are referring to?

They seem to just explain the problem it causes and calls for finding new approaches since current ones are made ineffective.
"We taxed work generated income greater than investment generated capital gains and now everyone is speculating! Why oh why would the plebs do this to us?!"
What, simultaneously?
I don't know. I don't exactly have a "radio voice" and my Behringer mics seem to work fine--together with a mixer that is way higher-end than the mics in general. Again, for most people, there's a huge leap from built into laptop to just about anything else.
This is a weird choice to present the reader, as it can only tell you which freedom is more critical, not whether they are of similar form (and, FWIW, they are at least so clearly related that the United States regulates encryption largely as part of arms regulations and treaties).
I think the angriness was from Adobe refusing to cancel now effective at the end of the contracted year - i.e. making a simple "does not renew" note - more than 30 days before end of contract, or somesuch. Therefore catching forgetful customers paying for a second unwanted year. "Understandable", as they say.
Comp doesn't work with calendar years though
I was hoping to get a summary of how the guy guessed!

“Well, by the angle of the sun he had to be in an n-mile radius of his car. In that area, there are only 4 cliffs with sufficient height to be in that photo with wildfire burn areas in between. And the plants had to be of the genus whateverae due to the shape of their spikes, and those _obviosuly_ only grow on the north face of sedimentary rocks... so it had to be X”
Correct, you have different models for those.
Presumably then if the game was glitching on you and you did a save/load then the problem would magically fix itself.

(have you tried turning it off and back on again?)
"Szeged in 1934" [0]

"I heard subsequently that the position that had been offered to me was divided into four pieces"

[0] https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2...
They are not against it, they say it makes precenting child porn dissemination more difficult, which seems like a rather obvious truth. They say Industry and government need to work together SNF try and see what can be done about it without breaking privacy.

So total opposite of how you read it.
Agreed that tree algos are common, there's some in an app I'm building. And time complexity trade-offs too.
I am glad that this story has a happy ending.

But, as this poster stated (see comment tree here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065803) there is no reason to be going into wilderness in 2020 (or 2021) without a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB). You get them, of course, at a place like REI.

As another poster said "They should be considered as basic and as necessary as a life vest, seat belt, or bike helmet. You should not be backpacking on the Appalachian trail without one." See this comment tree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065435

There are also variants of PLBs (which are not as robust) called satellite communicators. The Garmin Inreach series and Zotero devices are quite popular satellite communicators.

Even when exercising outside and not in the wilderness, I carry a Garmin Inreach Mini (which works with my Garmin watch) in case of a medical emergency. I have health conditions and it virtually guarantees that emergency services gets my GPS coordinates. Of course, I take other safety precautions to avoid an emergency in the first place.
I sure hope not jfc
I think humanity is, and has been going through a collective learning experience over thousands of years, and any "advanced" civilization will necessarily have to go through a similar phase to get to that "advanced" stage. So while it's true humanity can do better, I think this - the global coordination challenge - is fundamental and irremovable in any collection of self-interested individuals.
> This is generally not the case. Rents on a property take a long time to catch up to the mortgage payment.

Over the last 10 years, though, I think this has been a pretty common occurrence in a lot of areas. My mortgage + property tax is right around $1k/month - admittedly I bought near the housing market bottom. Rent on similar properties in my location is getting close to $2k/month. My mortgage will be paid off in about 2 years (15 year mortgage with some extra principal payments)
Yes: https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/02/24/161885/google-un...
Well a course could make $20 and still be “profitable.” If you’ve got the numbers, I think you should boast the numbers to show that you’re legit.
Yes, but if one goes out of business you can buy your domain from someone else! Or even transfer it, if you are warned a nonzero amount of time in advance.

Being able to keep your address across service providers being the important part here, that way your online life doesn't get in a huge jumble when your provider goes away.
VAR is just people, it's not like an algorithm is dictating the results.
I do agree with you. I'm just pointing out that both are intended as rights of a sovereign individual to protect oneself from both other individuals and government.
I think you replied to the wrong post. I'm against banning encryption.