skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daily co-founder here. We try to be very careful with the language we use around security, privacy, and encryption, because it's so important to be able to trust (and verify) all claims. We try to always be clear that with Daily, media streams are end-to-end encrypted when a session is running in peer-to-peer mode, and aren't when a session is running in media server mode.

The WebRTC standard mandates encryption on the wire for each WebRTC connection. Which is really great! But there is currently no standard way to implement true "end-to-end encryption" for calls that are routed through a media server. Calls routed through a media server are separate connections to the server for each client. Each connection is encrypted, but the media server decrypts the RTP packets in order to forward them.

You can definitely implement end-to-end encryption if you have a custom WebRTC build (for example, a native mobile or desktop library). And you can now
sort of hack end-to-end encryption together using the new Insertable Streams standard that is partially supported in Chrome.

But even with the current version of Insertable Streams, you'll have to generate encryption keys at the application level. So if, for example, your provider operates under a regulatory regime that requires they be able to provide law enforcement with access to your media streams, they will be able to do that.

Some video conferencing providers have claimed "end-to-end encryption", meaning "we don't decrypt the media as it flows through our servers." And I understand how they got there. If you do care about security, and you think you're following general security best practices on your media servers, and you don't ever touch the decrypted RTP packets except to forward them, that definitely feels like you're guaranteeing end-to-end encryption in every sense that anyone should care about. After all, for true end-to-end encryption you have to accomplish the key exchange somehow, there will be attack surfaces there, and your customers will want some of their media traffic to be decrypted on your servers for things like recording and transcription. So how is layering on this additional encryption going to actually make your system more secure, given the already very good security provided by the WebRTC point-to-point connections?

But ... end-to-end encryption has a technically precise meaning, so it's a lot better not to claim you're doing it, if you're not.

Another relevant HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27390377

[ Edited after I re-read this, to be 100% clear: the onus should be on us, the service providers, to say precisely what we do with regards to security. Slingshow, and all of our customers and partners, should be able to depend on us for accurate, clear, and complete security documentation. ]
If you have a shrinking population then the % of the population that makes stuff gets a lot smaller so everyone has to be poorer. No "economic system" can change that.

sure, but if people are too exhausted to make the time to have a family (a.k.a nookie) then its maybe worth examining [0] if "constant growth" is societally sustainable

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/japan-m...
I am suspecting that because of the lack of full employment a degree is just a hack to get first in line for the jobs that the economy is resentfully providing. If companies couldn't find enough workers they'd lower standards and offer training. It's precisely because they can find all the workers they could hope for that we have put the burden of training onto workers.
I don't think that is the case. As I noted in a sibling comment, many of TJ's store brands are identical to the name brand.

Buy a tub of the French Village yogurt I mentioned, and also buy the same Nancy's yogurt at Whole Foods, and you won't find any difference between the two.
This conversation is about college aged 22-28 year olds who have been under the care and advisement of their parents far far after their 18th birthday.
Not really. "The number of colleges and universities grew from 1,851 in 1950 to 3,535 in 1990 to 6,900 in 2013."

https://college-education.procon.org/history-of-college-educ...
On that note, the liberal cry of student loan forgiveness will overwhelmingly favor people who went to expensive private colleges. Taxing big endowments seems pretty senseless and doesn't create any positive incentives either. More support and less stigma against state schools would probably do the most good.
The gender role for men in TV the last 35 years has been to be stupid like Homer Simpson. Studies show it worked?
Not required, but the clear implication of the article is that things were more "fair" when the admit rate was 40%, and thus I'm asking what if we mandated that Harvard accept a "fair" portion of applicants.
Ah, that would be why I hadn't seen any recipes from them in some time. Not even their announcement of the redesign, since the feed stopped updating right before that went up…

I'll send them some feedback—hopefully it was just a side-effect of the redesign, and they can re-add one without too much trouble.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468698, which was posted earlier.
Ah thanks. I wasn't sure what this project was, but this particular update was very interesting regardless.
You mean, anyone's web index that they created outside of Google?

Indexing the web is an old tradition.
Hackers steal 26M account logins for Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and more
The FBI is used to situations where they can issue targeted takedown orders when groups publish illegal information, but blockchain setups complicate the situation. How does a company "providing" an immutable blockchain stop providing illegal / unlicensed content? Does the fact that their blockchain contains illegal / unlicensed content mean the service is illegal to operate in the US? The alternative is having some sort of legal safe harbor where there is content that, in other circumstances, you would not be allowed to distribute but you can because you are on the blockchain.

Lots of distasteful outcomes possible.
Do the two stacks each have their own database? Have you had customers wanting to move back and forth between channels?
Also more prosaically force is used to prevent anyone from counterfeiting Fiat currency. In the US that was why the secret service was created.

Obviously if anyone could print USD it'd be near worthless.
What if we built a Harvard campus in NC and called it Duke?
I assume that’s because this is HN and it says Knuth in the title.
This is very hyperbolic, everything in human history is a product of ‘artificial time’. You didn’t invent a hammer, or figure out how to read and write by yourself, or have to build a printing press to distribute messages, those were handed down to you. The digital age definitely accelerates this phenomenon but it is by no means the sole contributor the article makes it seem like it is. Chess champions before Magnus would’ve had books of strategies to learn from as well, thereby benefiting from the time spent of players long gone.
This 100%.

Additionally, they want decentralized logins. People use logins of work and their phone all the time. No work environment is going to give control out to help their employees for example.

No SAAS wants to be unable to help their users.

They mention that DNS isn't meant to be about auth and then they talk about signing your identity with your wallet private keys. I want that to be totally seperated!

And blockchain isn't meant for sso either.

So many people just won't understand any if this, this is just a dead born baby from the start. The statement "many people use this" is probably insignificant in relative terms. I'd be surprised if there are 50 on Belgium in a population of 10 million.
Nothing, I just don't like slack.
You have to consider that deciding to stay unemployed is one of the few remaining ways workers can strike nowadays. Most of them have zero power on the negotiating table but they still have some power by choosing to not work at all.
I've been out of the office since March 2020 and have not worn deodorant that whole time. Other than a few exceptional situations, I dont smell at all (at least according to my wife).

Short of significant negative feedback, I don't plan to start using it again when I go back into the office.
> surely black folks getting disproportionately policed and killed is a bigger manifestation of institutional racism

Are they disproportionately killed & policed? It depends on how you cut the statistics for your narrative. As a % of population vs % of Violent Crime vs % of Homicides etc etc. This is not to say there are no benefits about going into an encounter White.
I would be worried about my data behind held hostage by a black box proprietary RAID controller from a hostile manufacturer (unless you're paying them millions to build & design you a custom product, at which point you may have access to internal specs & a contact within their engineering team to help you).

I'd rather have ZFS or something equivalent in software. Software can be inspected, is (hopefully) battle-tested for years by many different companies with different workloads & requirements, and worst-case scenario, because it's software, you can freeze the situation in time by taking byte-level snapshots of the underlying drives as well as a copy of the software for later examination/reverse-engineering, something you can't do with a hardware black box where you're bound to the physical hardware and often have a single shot at a recovery attempt (as it may change the state of the black box).

Have you heard of the SSD failures about a decade ago where the SSD controller's firmware had a bug that bricked the drive past a certain lifetime? The data is technically still there, and would be recoverable if you could bypass the controller or fix its firmware, but unless you had a very good relationship with the manufacturer of the SSD to gain access to the internal tools and/or source code to allow you to tinker with the controller you were SOL.
> A child of a steelworker simply isn't becoming a doctor short of a very, very small number of paths (generally involving military service).

This wasn’t true in Ireland in the 70s or 80s, a far poorer country than contemporary America. The US system of funding higher education has many, many problems but not allowing smart people to study more is not among them. If you can get admitted to medical school you will get a loan to cover the costs.

> A child of a high-school teacher simply isn't becoming an Olympic figure skater. The monetary investment is far too titanic.

Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian ever, is the child of a middle school principal and a police officer. Tiger Woods is the son of an infantry officer. Money is not the limiting factor on more people becoming elite level athletes. It’s some combination of talent and insane, deluded commitment.

> Engineering used to be one of the few fields where you could transition from blue collar to white collar even if you were a child from a poor family. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be very true, anymore.

The average US college graduate has $35,000 in debt. Engineering is one of the fields where your college matters least. More people attend college than at any time in US history.
Tough break for the Berkeley grads widely assumed to be dumb idiots.
> In 2013, the world of international chess was shocked by an upset.

Carlsen was the favorite going into the match.

> A young 22 year-old prodigy from Norway, Magnus Carlsen, defeated the reigning world champion, Viswanathan Anand of India, in a series of 10 spellbinding games.

The games had their moments but none are considered classics, and a few were spoiled by the players' nerves.

> The common wisdom has long said that older chess players win on experience over younger, more talented ones.

Not at all the common wisdom in a sport where 7 of the top 10 are under 35.

> But when Carlsen emerged victorious, something different was on display. Carlsen was the first chess world champion to have trained primarily against sophisticated chess AIs available on personal computers as he grew up in the 2000s.

A common myth Carlsen has dispelled many times -- he seldom used chess computers growing up.
> I think if Facebook got truly broken up worse apps would take its place

Facebook has nothing approaching a monopoly on attention, social media, messaging, anything really. All of their products have serious, billion-dollar, hundreds-of-millions-of-users competitors. Even if they disappeared in a puff of smoke I don't think any competitive landscapes would change much.
Yeah, I was quite surprised to see "the drive presents itself as two disks"... I can only imagine building the drive this was was seen as the lowest risk in terms of both firmware NREs and additional hardware required.

That being said, dual head stacks (as opposed to just dual actuators on a single head stack) would almost certainly not fit within the footprint that ordinary drives do, which would mean not being able to use standard disk enclosures for them... which would be a non-starter. Alternatively you shrink the platters, which means less capacity - and given that hard disk drives have been stuck at a certain areal density limit for a while I imagine nobody's particularly keen on losing lots of capacity for a small IOPS benefit.

IDK - maybe if HAMR goes mainstream in hard drives then we can make that tradeoff without the drive seeming like an inferior product.
This is presented in a conspiratorial manner. "Who wants their money to be worth less?" "Governments don't want you to know..."

It's very simple. 100 euros in your hand right now is worth more than a possible/probable 100 euros in your hand next week. And Jeff Booth is arguing that we are trapped in a mental prison because we agree with this obvious fact.
It's recovering and that is a good thing.

Youth unemployment in Spain or Italy is clearly structural.
Google removes whatever they want from search results.
The ribs and terrors in the whale

Arched over me a dismal gloom,

While all God’s sun-lit waves rolled by,

And lift me deepening down to doom.

‘I saw the opening maw of hell,

With endless pains and sorrows there;

Which none but they that feel can tell—

Oh, I was plunging to despair.

— H. Melville
Kimono is 着物 which transliterates to “wear-thing.” It’s the word for clothes, not just the traditional robes, and it’s not etymologically related to a word for Winter in any language.

Japanese has many -mono words based on verbs: tabemono 食べ物 is food (eat-thing), nomimono 飲み物 is a beverage (drink-thing), tatemono 建物 is a building (build-thing), kudamono 果物 is fruit (reward-thing; the Japanese word for “to fruit” being related to the verb for achieving, similar to English “come to fruition”).
> Often the man claiming that men don’t care about a woman’s education, goes on to say that what matters is that the woman knows, for example, how to cook. That, too, has never made sense to me. I live in a country where for the childless, eating out good healthy food is not appreciably more expensive than cooking at home, and a woman who chooses to take advantage of that and use her valuable time for other pursuits, would seem more attractive.

If a woman is basically the mirror image of a man (degree, high paying job, spends most of the day at an office), then what exactly is a man buying into with a relationship with said woman? Maybe intimacy, but that feeling will wear off after a few years. A vagina? Well, that's kind of depressing on its own. Expecting men to love and accept women who serve the exact same role they do in life is like wondering why companies aren't run entirely by managers, or entirely by assembly line workers. Men can already make a bunch of money and find intellectual stimulation from other men, and a woman has to compete with that. So what does a woman necessarily provide a man in that case?

Related to that, an intellectual woman probably isn't going to have a lot of time for anything outside of a few hours of eating food, watching Netflix, and maybe sex. That's all fine and good, except there's a kind of relationship that already fulfills those things, and it's called friends with benefits. Why make a contract with the state that gives half your possessions to the opposite party if things go wrong when you can get the benefits without any of that baggage?

No offense, but it can be really astounding how people simply can't understand that the programming they received about college degrees can be wrong. Man spent millions of years mating with women who didn't have a college degree (and vise versa!). A woman with a college degree does little more than what the man already can do with his own college degree.

It's just like the field of software engineering. No one really wants to work with a jerk with credentials. They want someone with good qualities that they can get along with.
El Salvador passes its Bitcoin Law – and it's a Tether scam
Of course inheritance is not meant as an incentive for people to choose to be born to someone rich; that is not something one can choose.

When asking whose behavior something incentivizes, the answer must always be among those who can influence it.

The possibility of inheritance is an incentive to have money when one dies, that it might be passed on to one's heirs, whose wealth one often values, by virtue of valuing their general well being (as money can be exchanged for goods and services).

It is not the not-yet-conceived who advocate against there being large inheritance taxes.
> the liberal cry of student loan forgiveness will overwhelmingly favor people who went to expensive private colleges.

True, but you can be expensive & private & not be elite (most of them are not by definition).
> People already added it into bitcoin if you stretch the definition a bit.

Which is a fancy way of saying that they haven't. The only images in the bitcoin blockchain are ascii art.

There are plenty of hashes of different types of data in the bitcoin blockchain, but hashes are not the hash function's input data.

Schneier himself repeated this bogus "there's illegal content in the bitcoin blockchain already!" claim, which shows the legs this false meme has on it.

Please stop repeating this falsehood.
During the pandemic I really up leveled my cooking, even enrolling in online culinary school. YouTube was a huge inspiration, as well as some books and blogs. Throughout all of that one of my main inspirations was Kenji. His articles on Serious Eats and his book The Food Lab are basically a bible of how to cook correctly in a way that makes sense to the engineering minded, and his YouTube channel is low-fi, super approachable, and unpretentious. He's one of the most important voices today in empowering home cooks.
Amusingly, the "My" in MySQL is a person's name.
> Aha, so it's men that you have a low opinion of!

Why are you making this about sides? I don't have a low opinion of either side, I'm just making observations. Stop looking for a fight.
They essentially want institutions to be less involved in their community and social circles. Why should educational institutions be allowed to monopolize social groups in the first place?
They’ll just look at your family name and make an educated guess based on school demographics and your hobbies, or look you out or parents up on social media. They’re not stupid. They know who they’re discriminating against
Token most likely refers to a software OTP token. That would require having an account, but the same would be true for a hardware token.
https://www.axios.com/latinos-killed-by-police-estimate-858f...

Asians are remarkably vulnerable to dying by police. They are also extremely under-represented in the police force, unlike black Americans. In the Bay Area, police officers are paid very well. These are stepping stones to middle class membership.

Also, discussions of racism in education may just completely exclude Asians, as if they aren't even worth mentioning even once.

https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
I try to tell this to kids having FOMO right now with the housing market going crazy(same feeling people had in '06, even if the causes were different).

I bought a house young(26) and spent a good part of the next 16 years working on it. Sure, I enjoyed some of it, but much of it I did not. I did make money with the appreciation, but I also spent a lot on repairs and improvements. If I had focused on my career and my hobbies, I'd be richer and happier now. That all said, I didn't have kids. Maybe if I did I'd think it was worth it. Society puts a high value on having a home though, and much of that is bullshit. The world wants you to think owning a home will complete your life and signify your success but it is much more complicated than that.

Homes tie you down. They're fairly illiquid assets. Transactional costs are huge. Neighborhood issues can significantly affect your quality of life and net worth while remaining nearly completely outside your control.
Maybe the problem is you're hiring CS/engineering students to "show KPIs" or "set up mixpanel" or "not program"? I can't imagine any competent student from those disciplines, never mind a student from a top tier school, being happy at any kind of job like that. Especially if they were sold a job that would use their full abilities. Sounds like a recipe for otherwise talented people half-assing your job while looking for a new one, resulting in you thinking they suck rather than just don't care about doing trivial stuff.
You're a psycho.
Which makes one wonder why Google doesn't simply make it a policy to delist sites like RipoffReport and the mugshot harvesting sites (and public-record-PII-publishing sites) as spammy dictionary bullshit in the first place and be proactive about this.

They run the index, they get to decide what's in it or not.
Should really include the full title: “The World’s Northernmost Town Is Changing Dramatically”
Is that the telescope in GoldenEye?

Edit: YEP! (I swear every map from GoldenEye is burned into my brain)

https://news.sky.com/story/huge-telescope-scaled-by-james-bo...
Nix will also be in Debian Bullseye: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/nix-setup-systemd
Good write up and thanks for sharing OP. I can’t believe it was just 2014/2015 that Stripe was an 100 persons company.
That's kind of my point though. I haven't seen sufficient evidence to confidently believe the vodka played a role in the crust. To be fair, I haven't seen sufficient evidence that no difference exists either.

It just bugs me a bit that this is called "food science", when experimental design and significance testing are the core of what science is.

At the same time, I don't want to be the science police and go around discouraging people from trying to methodically make their recipes better. I love every one of Kenji's (and Stella's) recipes that I try, so much so that I don't really bother getting recipes from other sources than Serious Eats.
You think a better relationship would be built on a "cook and clean and take care of kids for me" role? I can pay to have that done for me these days!
CA also is pretty good about "promissory estoppel".

If you resign from your job, you can file for some damages. However, she points out that she was between jobs anyway, so that's not on the table.

I'm really surprised that Stripe didn't actually offer her some money along with an NDA. This is kind of a big misstep.
to be fair, he signed off his videos with that line even when he still lived in San Mateo
>You can’t access an orchestra

Maybe we could fund the arts more easily if we properly taxed the billionaires in our society. Harvard can afford it, there's no reason we can't afford elsewhere in our modern era of unimaginable wealth and plenty. We instead find it preferable to allow some people to hoard that wealth and plenty like fantasy dragons in caves instead of using it for the benefit of all of society.
Support system is definitely not often mentioned. Thanks for bringing this up