skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How fortunate that an executive order was waiting in the wings, which requires federal contractors to purchase an authentication service and guarantee they use the underspecified ZTA (which will probably mean pay for AWS or Azure services to do anything at all), days after multiple highly-publicized million-dollar cybercrime heists were, quite astonishingly, thwarted by the FBI resulting in no money lost.
Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics in Biology (Part 2)
This Changed Everything: Source Code for WWW x Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT
Ask HN: How would you scale a site backed by Git to a million contributors?
If you were to build a community site, say something like Wikipedia or Reddit, but powered by Git, how would you shard things?

Imagine the specs would be: 10 million files. 1 million users committing changes.

What would be some good resources to read?
At my company (StoragePug) we use:

-HubSpot for sales CRM, for email marketing, and for our website. Easy to set up email templates and automated follow-up sequences, and there's a huge benefit to having your sales CRM be the same system you're using for email marketing & website because you have a really granular view of what a lead has engaged with that isn't there if you have a separate email marketing tool.

-JustCall for dialer/phone system.

-Canva for presentation decks (a designer can set up great templates that will look good even when folks like me who are design-challenged are building a new deck)

-Zoom for discovery calls / product demos (and Zoom webinars for marketing events)

-Loom for video sales letters (and for internal training videos)

-Google Workspace
Carlin has also been criticized for being loose with history in favour of story.

Carlin's podcast series are much, much longer than Gladwell's typical podcast treatments though, so at least it lets him include a lot more details.
> unclassified version of the report is expected to be released later this month

so has the report been released? i would like to read it rather than continuous speculation about its contents. also, i'd love to see a leak of a more classified version of the report (if one exists), just to see what they consider sensitive information and not. the more info the better really.
I'm convinced that these sorts of laws would be better if we just bought the foreign equivalent and wrote a check to the domestic manufacturers who weren't chosen.

Here is an experience I had with the "Fly America Act" (a law saying that government funded travel must be done on American airlines, except in the most extreme circumstances):

I was traveling to a city in a foreign country. That country's flag carrier had a 5 hour flight for $600. The best option from a US airline (Delta) was an indirect flight (around 9 hours each way) for $800. Between the ticket cost, overtime I got for the additional layovers, and extra per diem spent during the layovers, flying on a US airline probably cost the government an extra $1000.

It would've been a win-win-win-win if the government had let me fly the foreign flight and just given Delta a gift of $200

* The foreign airline gets another customer

* Delta gets $200 without having the costs of another passenger, and they'd still be able to sell the seat I ended up sitting in

* The government would've saved hundreds of dollars by not having to pay me overtime

* I would've gotten home sooner
Combine #2 and #3 and a culture of reticence amongst military and civilian aviation observers to report strange things, it makes sense to laugh less at them and be more encouraging.

Those sailors and airmen are intelligence assets.
Thing is, how is regulation supposed to ever keep up with the rapid advancements of technology and advertising and the lobbies that come with all that revenue?

Capital and technology need not respect sovereign borders and laws as long as they can keep one step ahead of enforcement and still get enough revenue. The laws and lawmakers are fundamentally slower and weaker and poorer; by the time CCPA et al have an actual deterrent effect (beyond just mandated privacy notices), the industry will have moved on to some more sinister loophole.

It's an arms race that 1700s-style government simply cannot keep up with. It takes months to come up with new algorithmic loopholes, decades to change the law, one industry-friendly administration to undo all the progress.

Offloading privacy to government only works when you have strong states (China, the E.U. maybe). In the US, what's left of the federal government is too crippled to effectively tackle this (and arguably any technological problem) at scale. State-specific laws are subject to the same constraints, and additionally face the problem of enforcement across borders and Commerce Clause issues. If anything this will be an arms race between adtech and adblocking; Congress is the kid in the corner crying, "But I wanna play too!" and pretty much shrugged off by everyone else.
> The computer in question dates back to the 1980s and is responsible for controlling science instruments within the telescope. It shut down Sunday, with a damaged memory designated as a possible cause, the Associated Press reported.

Well WTF thats no help; tell us you need a 2mb 30 pin stick or whatever. Us geeks with deep closets will dig for the Hubble.
It is one of the most in demand job roles in the world right now, after all.
/moveon
Aside from the usual hedonic treadmill explanation, a lot of our problems with ever-inflating costs are due to competition for limited goods—especially those conferring advantage to our kids. Houses in good school districts, private school slots, various expensive activities that make getting into top-tier colleges more likely, et c.

Two-income households? Now you're richer? LOL no, just more money lost to zero-sum competition. Making retirement contributions voluntary? Oh great, now my competitors who choose not to save well can out-compete me for advantage for their children now, thanks a bunch. And so on.
I'm not sure if it's from the authors of the paper, but this appears to be that: https://github.com/tech-srl/RASP
After I realized you could theme DuckDuckGo, I switched.
I think it's because if we as a society decided what we all have now is enough, we would have a few good short years until everyone realizes we aren't producing more things and we aren't improving things and we've been left behind economically. In this system, you can't afford to stop and smell the roses because next year, someone else will come and bulldoze the field the roses were planted in.
Ask HN: Book under 100 pages that changed your life the most?
Mark Cuban's "How to Win at the Sport of Business" is top drawer for me.
I trust Google and Apple 100x more (low estimate) than I do Comcast/Verizon, AT&T, etc.
Fair point. I guess I watch (my) kids use them enough (tossing iPads/tablets into this group too) to make me feel like they are a personal computer. But you are right. They are not.
That's what I'm trying to figure out too. The narrative is the biggest change so far. Low quality videos and eye witness reports aren't exactly new.

Sam Harris, who I consider trustworthy, was given a heads up about what's to come:

"I got contacted by somebody who gave me a heads up with respect to all of this happening and he more or less told me listen, when this other shoe drops you’re going to be in the position of having to acknowledge that all the experts are on the same page, and there’s just this blanket declaration that we’re in the presence of alien technology, and we don’t know what to make of it. So prepare your brain for that and figure out what you’re going to do."

https://samharris.org/podcasts/252-alone-universe/
80% of the US population is urban. Europe’s percentage is even higher.

You think Morocco hitting an estimated 73.7% by 2050 actually supports your position?

It fascinating just how emotionally motivated your reasoning is, to the point that you’re absolutely certain of your position despite it arising from a place of gross ignorance.
How do you have a book about WWII bomber strategy and not have Billy Mitchell in it? His influence is pretty large.
I'm probably going to get voted down for saying it, but Fox plays a lot of UFO/Bigfoot type of stuff. Clearly it gets rating, and the previous President got a lot of his ratings from the same audience as Fox so maybe there is some strategic play towards the Fox/Trump crowd.
There are two kinds of "company bullshit":

Type 1 is characterized by broad policies and processes indiscriminately applied that may not always make sense at the ground level. This type is not only inevitable, but is actually necessary for a company to work at scale—once you get into the hundreds and thousands of employees it just doesn't work leave things to each individual manager's judgement as it won't be fair, and it will eat a lot of cycles.

Type 2 is characterized by the people problems you mention, including all manner of incompetent management, and other inefficiencies that prevent the essential work from being done properly. While some amount of this is also inevitable, it's generally avoidable by competent management as long as the org doesn't release a tipping point of dysfunction at which point all the competent folks start to leave for greener pastures.

Distinguishing between type 1 and type 2 can be very tricky, especially for low-level employees at a large company where they won't have the experience or the visibility to make an informed read. However making the distinction is super important if you want to be upwardly mobile in large companies. There is a level of bullshit you will need to put up with anywhere, you just need to be able to understand what is worth putting up with for the greater good and what is not.
Then maybe it is a PWA that you are looking for.
But this fine site we are using now works 100% without javascript. And it is fast.
Pardon my ignorance, what is gprs and GEA-1 and what is it’s significance?
I agree, it is probably intentional, but I think it remains to be proven that it was malicious?

Maybe 40 bit was seen as sufficient at the time, but are there any engineering reasons to actually shorten the key intentionally, does it improve the transfer rate in any way?

I can't think of any, but I'm no expert, so maybe somebody else can chime in?
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> why would proliferation of firearms be the opposite of modern society?

In the past, guns and weapons generally were required to survive for folks outside of cities. That is not the case today. I see this as a move towards the modern - a society that can solve problems without the use of guns.

I mean a combination of both higher numbers and how widespread guns are.

That said, I think the case law supporting the 2nd amendment to the level it is today is flawed, but I understand that given past rulings the only legal things to do are: a) allow basically any and all guns with no restrictions or b) overturn past decisions on the matter.

Even with all of that the cat is out of the bag in the US - there are too many guns to remove. Beyond the US, 3D printing will make creating a gun at home somewhat trivial in the near future. I don't know how we dig out of that hole societally.
Flowdash (YC W20) is hiring engineers to help teams build internal tools faster
Thank you Rob, I’ll definitely look into that! It is meant for groups who may or may not know each other. Appreciate the feedback!!
That does seem far fetch considering how slow they move, but I wonder how many agencies have something like that already. Back when I worked as a government contractor I had to get a CAC card and use that with a card reader to sign into a computer when I had to visit a military base. That was about 2 decades ago (man that makes me feel old).
Say the chance of developing FTL travel is totally minuscule but still inevitable given a long enough time horizon . Once that technology is developed by its very essence it spreads rapidly almost like the development of the wheel.
What is Super Agent?
This is a flawed logical argument. Imagine this article from 1830:

"If you think phrenology is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1810".

Rinse & repeat for the appropriate time frames for alchemy, astrology, or any other field that tried to misapply science. Just because a field is studied for a long time or tries to apply the scientific method doesn't lend credence to the approach. All it means is, at best, we've managed to toss some things that are now obviously wrong/flaws. In 20 years we'll be doing the same to things we "know" today OR the flaws will remain because we don't have the math/science to demonstrate the flaws more obviously & there's social pressure to keep "building" (even if the foundation is flawed). However, as we should all be aware, false knowledge grows exponentially more quickly than our true understanding of the universe because our imagination is limitless.
I use https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartYouTubeTV

It ah the same UI as youtube, but no ads.
If the apps still exist or had users he can just point to that. You don't really need to have collaborated with others. Plenty of valuable software is done by solo developers.
Something ultra-specific to this particular gatekeeping individual, I suppose.
It’s terrifying to think how much doomsday technology we’re amassing out of the fear the enemy might have it. Add that in to scared people and a system capable of giving people LSD without their knowledge. It turns out that giving primates weapons of mass destruction was an unbelievable mistake.
Why is the private key saved on the rom?
We have those in a negative sense. Manufactured consent is mostly about directing motivation towards wars of control and acquisition and preventing other activities - including the peaceful development of sustainable energy, which is finally happening fifty years after it could have, and non-corporate non-military access to space on top of a non-corporate internet, neither of which are happening at all.

Manufacturing positive consent for a billion-year project is - obviously - a completely different kind of problem.
Sure, that's a valid point. But another valid point is the causative agent for homosexuality in humans is the same causative agent for homosexuality in animals and this would invalidate your point if it were true.

Anecdotally, and this is sort of a alternative guess. Within a population of equal size, much more humans will be homosexual than animals. I mean gay people are really abundant but I can't say the same for gay lions in Africa.
Good idea, "how to search" should also be paired with filtering noise.

There's a ton of information now and it's not always intuitive to understand what information you should value and when.
> Zoroastrians are not "liberal". No religion with priests can ever be "liberal". It's the original religion with a zillion rules of dos and donts.

I don't know about ancient things, but I can say being raised Zoroastrian I was never, ever given a rule worded with a "don't".

Do good deeds - Yes

Do say good words - Yes

Do think good thoughts - Yes

I was never (based on religious reasons) asked to not drink or smoke or be a glutton, etc.

I'd find it hard to imagine you would even find such a "rule", let alone "zillion".
Well, you could make a stablecoin that was trivial to audit - you merely need to demonstrate that, at the moment of the audit, the number of tokens in circulation equals the amount in your backing funds account with a reputable bank. And that the auditor can see the history of cash in your account and coins in circulation match up.

Of course, if you don't want to be easy to audit, you can introduce a bunch of complexity - play a shell game shifting money around, intermingle the clients' money with the company's money, operate independent lines of business and intermingle those too, and so on...
And with that, billions of people vote with their dollars and express their dislike of drinking Coca-Cola (and show Coke who is boss) instead by drinking Dasani, Smartwater, Topo Chico, and Aha.
I like Adam Curtis for the same reason
Do you have a substantiave criticism of the paper that I linked?
Just list yourself as a consultant. If you want.. file for an LLC. You work for the LLC so there is no gap.
"It's pretty cheap and easy to take a short position in Tether. You can borrow USDT on Compound for 3.37%, convert it to USDC at Curve for 0.06%, then collect 2.32% on USDC at AAVE. If/when Tether collapses, you'll only have to cover your short at the collapsed value."

I am genuinely interested in exactly that short trade and your list of counterparties, above, is the reason I have never pulled the trigger on this.

A handful of new, interesting and untested entities all need to function properly at a time of market panic for that trade to complete as expected.

EDIT:

Somewhat off-topic, but given the actual real-world economic pain that chiacoin has caused me, I am much more interested in the prospect of an IPO of (chia parent) which could then be shorted (or optioned) properly through normal channels.

I daydream of being on the right side of that trade with every batch of triple-priced SAS drives we have purchased in the last 4-6 weeks ...
> make such wild accusations

... says the guy who shows up to plant intel agency propaganda.
I'm glad that the government is finally pivoting to a zero-trust model here. It sounds like companies like Microsoft and Apple are going to have increasingly difficult questions to answer about their data infrastructures when this law rolls out.
Is there any context here beyond a fever dream of privacy advocates and sleep researchers? Has Amazon/Goog ever even said they wanted their smart speaker to feed ads to people while they were sleeping?
Thanks for the information. I wasn't aware of such feature at the time of writing the post.
She was at least able to make a dashboard that combined database info as well as "Trojan horse status" for active victims. In a way that worked well enough for them to scam enough people that it caught the US's attention.
This is the oldest compliance trick in the book. To adopt is easy. To implement is difficult. This is why some regulations specify “adopt and _implement_”.

We adopted multi factor and now we’re in the process of rolling it out. At the moment Ted is our only user. But we aren’t not compliant.
>If your threat model includes state level actors

My personal threat model doesn't include state level actors, but if it did I would certainly differentiate between a solution that the NSA can break with some expense and one that my local police department can break with a warrant.

My actual threat model is advertisers, so I think the Apple solution is quite elegant and will serve me well. It shouldn't be conflated with TOR though.
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> I also don't believe a species that masters slow interstellar travel would care about stars and planets.

> Why trek into an inner solar system

Why venture off to unknown shores to build yourself a farm when you're settled into a comfy European lifestyle?

Although we only have ourselves as a data point, I think that natural curiosity is a strong evolutionary trait that we developed, and it's not a huge stretch to assume that other lifeforms would develop the same curiosity.
> How about "private entities shouldn't be able to collect my information without my explicit consent".

If the information is public, no consent is needed.

Privacy is about trusting someone with private information and expecting they will not do anything with it that you would not approve of.
A bit confused here by the proposed/envisioned alternative. As others have pointed out, it’s extremely likely Fuschia will replace Linux-Android which has dominant market share in smartphones. Unless you’re proposing we get PinePhones, there’s really no way to jump ship.
A few years ago I invested in a small startup called `hyper.sh`. It open sourced a container runtime called `runV` which provided exactly this: security of virtual machines plus convenience of containers.

The project later merged with Intel Clear Container to become what's now called Kata Containers (https://katacontainers.io/) and is now widely used by several Internet giants like Alibaba and Baidu.

The startup was acquired by Ant Finance a couple of years ago.

(I recorded a podcast with one of hyper.sh engineer if you can listen to Mandarin https://pan.icu/25)
There is nothing illegal about storing cash for any duration.
I've hired people in similar situations.

If it's what you were doing (nominally) full time, it's not a "side" project, it's a project.

Were these project technical? If so, emphasize that and tailor it to the job you are targeting. If not, emphasize what you were trying to do, how it worked out, and what you learned.
Depending on your definition of "malicious," I think it clears that bar. The problem is not making a good-faith argument that 40 bits was sufficient (which was done for some extent for export-approved 40 bit SSL), but that it misleads people into believing that it's 64 bit encryption while it only has 40 bits of strength for people who are in on the backdoor.

And as far as the other half of your question, no, there's no possible benefit (other than to the backdoor owners) from a smaller keyspace, as it goes through the motion of encrypting with the larger one.
They have high turnover across the board. Another reason they don't do the typical 25%/year stock vest. 5% vests each of the first 2 years, with a catch up at year 3.
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Maybe they have enough of their own cities, and missing forests, large amounts of water floating at high altitude, whatever...
Shorting tether is a horrible idea. Tether manipulates the market and will spike the price to collapse your short.
Or tap water.