skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily an endorsement (although I do own one), OnlyKey lets you store and use PGP keys in this way as well as U2F, OTP, etc.
I think you need to "soften" your messaging - in order to calm all the "pearl clutchers" out there.

Remember the first law of the 48 laws of power - you are still a minnow playing in the huge pool, and you have to appeal to ALL (if not MOST) of the current gatekeepers - who would not be as passionate about this as you are.

If you have any "fangs", this is not the time to "bare" them.

My advice is to be less explicit in the beginning, and use careful "dog whistles" in your messaging to target your audience - have you not learnt anything from history?

What's good for the goose, is surely good for the gander too.

BTW, I support what you're doing, and wish you all the success, you've just got to be more subtle with your messaging - as all the bleating in here suggests.
Everyone knows that flying wings can be more fuel efficient. The problem is that putting passengers out further from the roll axis makes them airsick during turns. Cargo might be a better application.
Does it even matter what you've done in a lifetime?
Have you done any science worthwhile and cited?
Last line :)
Markets are emergent phenomena that exist where ever there are free people. They are so natural that even in Soviet Russia markets were endemic, as well as current North Korea. If there exist products people want to buy, and prices are not fixed at gunpoint, there will exist markets.
The result looks cool but sadly it is not an online service.
F# has a lot more going for it than I expected. It is a great mix of the simplicity of python and type safety
yes, it is layered
Fed: Can't wrap head around not having U.S. central bank digital currency
The entire US economy is dependent on its world reserve currency status. If this happened the US would likely completely collapse.

The stagflation of the 70s was a start of this process but the petrodollar put a stop to it. The US is way more dependent on it now than it was then.
If this is an agave, it would be different from the plants that you're familiar with since it grows in a different country, no?

Edit: Growing conditions can drastically impact the development of a plant, am I wrong?
Yes these are expressly libertarian outfits. Liberty is a good thing! Also, the Koch Brothers fund a lot of things, including criminal justice reform: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/charles-koch...
> Has there any empirical studies/evidence that supports this claim?

Two things:

1.) This grammar is atrocious.

2.) You’re being needlessly argumentative.
The smartest way to "beat the system" is to . . . well, reject that it is the system. Loans are not normal. No sane person should be in debt. Owe debt to no-one, and at least you have a chance.
Wow, that's pretty bad design. I didn't see that either.
We can only hope. On the other hand, we'll probably be moved on to another round of hysteria.
There isn't "an" alternative to PGP, because the idea of a single tool like PGP that covers all the use cases PGP attempts to cover has been revealed to be bankrupt. PGP does a bad job at practically everything it's applied to, because different problem domains ask different things from their cryptography. Backup tools want deduplication. Secure messaging wants relentless forward secrecy. Package signing systems want short, simple signatures --- meanwhile, messaging systems want authenticated key exchanges without signatures. Sometimes you want non-repudiation, but often you want the opposite.

To put this in perspective, it's a little like someone invented a bad balanced binary tree before anybody else came up with a hash table or a radix tree or a heap, and then a weird subculture formed around that balanced binary tree based on the idea that you should only ever use that tree algorithm, even though someone subsequently came up with red-black trees that were superior in every way to the original.
Would you want the same capability on the Internet? If not, what makes Internet communication different from POTS communication?
And again, you’re being needlessly argumentative and couching it all in very poor communications skills. Your comments have had absolutely no value. Please stop - it’s low brow and boring.
SMS being low tech is what I like about them. No read indicators, no "x is typing", no reaction gifs (I wish we would just ban those), few images. I really don't "get" modern instant messaging.
Doesn't the article debunk this in the first paragraphs?

That night, I googled Bhoochakara Gadda. There wasn’t much. Wikipedia identified the scientific name of the plant as Maerua oblongifolia, but had no photos of it. Maerua oblongifolia is a low, woody, undershrub found in India, Pakistan, parts of Africa, and Saudi Arabia, whose tubers are sold as snacks and used as a stimulant in the ancient medicine system of Siddha, I read. Research papers showed its leaves and flowers but not the root. So I decided to dig in.

I had a breakthrough a few months later when I came across a thesis paper by Dr. MS Rathore, who had propagated Maerua oblongifolia in the lab in 2011. He had seen the tree many times in the desert state of Rajasthan. “But I haven’t heard or seen anybody eating the root,” the scientist said over a call, sounding puzzled.

“Its roots are sparse and inedible,” added Dr. NS Shekhawat, his thesis adviser and a retired professor of botany. “Growing in dry regions, where will it have so much water to develop big roots and be fat and juicy? [The snack] can’t be Maerua oblongifolia.”

Additionally, the plant in the video looks nothing like Maerua oblongifolia: http://inaturalist.org/taxa/505837-Maerua-oblongifolia
This is an especially funny thing to say when you compare the number of daily users Signal --- itself a niche cryptosystem --- has to PGP.
A drone seems like overkill.
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The desktop app will be released within the next few days.
Vic Health denies vaccinated woman's request to visit daughter in cancer ward
Lucky 10k
Depends on your skill set. Look for passive opportunities with potential to scale.
I use both Visual Studio and Emacs. In general Visual Studio does a pretty good job and it is my day to day editor. But there are some things that it's simply not worth bothering with in Visual Studio.

The problem with most editors is that every buffer and every command is different. Code is different than the terminal which is different than your source control. Sorting text is different than copying text is different than formatting text. That means every new thing you want to do, even if it's small, requires you to learn how to do it the way that tool wants you to do it.

In Emacs, every buffer is the same. Which means I can do all sorts of mini workflows without learning anything new. I can navigate the buffer the same way and I can copy text the same way. I can run arbitrary linux commands from my scratch buffer on buffers on multiple machines and massage the output and put it in my code buffers. I can run a macro to repeat that 1000x. Then I can tweak it slightly and run it another 1000x. I don't need to learn anything specific to my editor. I can whip this up in a minute then move on with my day because it's a one off.

Yes, sort lines is available in all editors. What if you wanted to sort all the import statements in every file? In Emacs you can do a quick macro to do that. It would take you a couple of minutes MAX. You wouldn't have to even think. All because sort-lines is text that you can copy and paste. In Visual Studio... I don't even know what I would do... probably find a plugin or write a program. Imagine you found a plugin. Then imagine you didn't want to sort ALL imports, there's one import you always want at the top. Trivial to change in Emacs, not so trivial for a plugin.
I'm not sure what is considered groundbreaking science, but a lot, a majority of science even, is not groundbreaking. But offhand, the ISS provides us the ability to monitor the difference that microgravity has on humans, eg the twin study they've done as well as other studies on blood pooling and muscle loss. If we plan to ever have long term missions in space, like Elon Musk and his mars aspirations, then the ISS is an important stepping stone to understand the implications on human health and experience managing humans in space.

It's pretty easy using Google to find some of the research that people have thought was notable:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/five-things-the-iss-has-d...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03085-8
Of course it isn't. I really hope you didn't get that from what I said.
The baby is dead. It's time to bury it and mourn its passing.

There are better tools and technology to "curate" science - the only reason for these journals is rent extraction and gatekeeping.
Parallel Space should solve that problem for you.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbe.parall...
Vaccines Cannot Prevent Covid Transmission Anymore – CDC’s Dr. Rochelle Walensky
Data warehousing has problems. A data mesh could be the solution
He checked in with the ACLU before putting it on the air, too: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2y5skh/hi_im_trevor_m...
I would disagree here. AWS has to be strong out of the gate to push opensearch as more than just "elasticsearch, but on AWS". Elastic has proven its worth, or this fight wouldn't even be happening. AWS is simultaneously David and Goliath in this fight - they obviously won't have ES' newest, coolest features immediately, but companies will sign up with them instead of Elastic if it means they get good-enough software at a reasonable pace.

Elastic's playbook is almost diametrically opposed to this: they need to prove that they're worth paying a premium for, over AWS' offering. The repo activity clearly shows that they're working on more stuff, building faster, whatever signals you want to glean from that. Change is happening, and if it's good change I can see the gambit AWS is pushing turn into a losing proposition.

The endgame for Elastic is a partnership on AWS, on "equal" terms; license fees, a cut of the profits, the whole shebang. The endgame for AWS is an end to Elastic as a company, but not heavily increased profits one way or another - AWS still gets its cut if Elastic succeeds.

The incentive models aren't equal here, and that's what kills AWS' agenda. I'm not affiliated with either company, so I don't have any inside info, but I have to imagine that Elastic will succeed here in carving out a niche for themselves - unless there's been a silent exodus from the company I understand that these are smart folks building software under, shall we say, extrenuous motivational circumstances. A little stress is good for productivity :)
"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes"
Thomas Paine
Look at the wikipedia article for agave. The varied species are quite different from each other.
Nice! I like the syntax, this reminds me of the structural search and replace feature from IntelliJ IDEA. Is this the project you were referring to?

https://github.com/erezsh/py2js
Oh. Shit. You fucking think speech is oral communication rather than communicating ideas in any damn format or medium. How crapping sad you think so.
Agreed, I used to read Jon a lot back in the magazine days. Glad to see he is still at it!

This page will answer some of your questions:

https://blog.jonudell.net/about/
They go into the protocol some here: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
Sadly the moon's gravity is 1/6th of the earth's, so each block would have to be six times the mass, or you would have to lift it six times as high to store the same amount of energy.
Fuckin tragic. One of the funniest guys ever. This world isn't fair
Jerry, I am so very sorry to hear about your daughter. My toddler son is affected by a very rare cancer, and while I can't put myself in your shoes, I know that feeling, that it's upon you to go through all the biomedical knowledge to figure it out.

The company I co-founded, Epistemic AI [0], was built to accelerate biomedical research especially in rare diseases and cancers. I would love to connect and give you free access to our platform, and to extend it to any researcher working on your daughter's condition.

Feel free to shoot me an email at info at epistemic.ai should you find that useful.

In the meantime, best of luck to you and your family.

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The question doesn't presume that, as the the secret for blinding the CSAM database would only be helpful if a third party were also looking to see which accounts contained CSAM.

In this case, the question assumes that an attacker would more or less be creating their own database of hashes and derived keys (to search for and decrypt known photos and associate them with user accounts, or to bruteforce unknown photos), and would therefore have no need to worry about acquiring the key used for blinding the CSAM hash database.
This world isn't fair. Rip Trevor
> Follow the logic chain out a step. If they wanted to sell it, they could lower the price...

This is not true about the Canadian market for a couple of reasons. The majority of this overstock cannabis is unpackaged. Unpackaged cannabis cannot be sold outside of licensed producers -> licensed processors.
It kills me that every researcher the writer contacted has never actually seen the plant or bothered to go look for it, including the guy that studied agave!
I can help you with that:

Both are referred to as "black" (or worse), anywhere they go in the world, and both suffer the effects, prejudice and discrimination of racism - anywhere they go in the world.

Another fan fact - your hypothetical Jamaican and Nigerian, are the most likely to type "How does country X treat black people" before deciding whether to visit a country on holiday - something very few other people (if any) do - so there is a lot that binds the Jamaican and Nigerian together - the nonsensical (but very problematic) notion of "race".

HTH
There's Android eReaders like the Boox and Likebook lines. They even have USB C already and more size options. Don't have to be shackled to any one store since you can just run random apps including Kindle.
> If we can't keep people alive on a space station, how will we ever spread beyond a single planet? If we don't start trying now, then when?

Depends on your meaning of "we". As of June 17, 2021, the Chinese space station Tiangong, is manned. Chinese manned missions to Mars in 2030 have long been announced and may even be completed earlier than anticipated.
I thought it was interesting. Who knew that Indian street food was wrapped in so much mystery?
Some science fiction describes the phenomena as a starbow.
Yeah, I've worked with HSMs in the past and to say that it's a challenge to get key material out of them is an understatement. That said, a lot of this depends on the architecture surrounding the HSM - if the key material leaves the HSM at any point, you've basically increased your attack surface from an incredibly secure box to whatever your surrounding interfaces are. At Apple's scale, I have to imagine it's more economical to have some kind of envelope encryption - maybe this is the right attack vector for a malicious actor to hit?
For your health and happiness, it is better not to marry if the marriage is an unhappy one. There have been many studies on how marriage impacts the health of men and women. Happily married people have better health outcomes than single people. Unhappily married people have worse health outcomes.

From one of the articles I cite below, "Marital stress is associated with lifestyle risk factors and nonadherence to medical regimens. Poor marital quality is also linked with more depression, hostility and anger, all risk factors for coronary heart disease. Thus, marital status and quality could influence metabolic risk factors and acute stress responses, which in turn predict cardio-vascular morbidity and mortality, according to the study."

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/marriage-and-mens...

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2003/09/marital-bene...
The Signal protocol is very well designed but the implementation requires a telephone number (I know it is coming). That's a step removed from PGP which can be completely offline.
Internet connections have a more-or-less reliable source IP (spoofing does occasionally happen and we take measures to mitigate it), IP ranges have owners and if an address is consistently used for abuse (attacks, spam email, ...) then people do report this to the owner of that address?
There’s something… different about how people (techie people are most of my sample) would write before the 00’s. I’m not sure if it has to do with the medium, or the constraints of the time, but reading it always fills me with something I can best describe as peace/nostalgia. The belief that technology honestly can change the world for the better and that the most influential people driving it have good motives instead of profit motives. And they were real visionaries most of the time. By contrast, anything seemingly after the dot com boom (I can’t draw a clear line, this is just throwing a dart) seems, I don’t know how to describe it. Too self-aware, too clever? It’s similar to the contrast between HN and other forums/social media out there. I’m not sure, but whenever an older article or something shows up, I usually enjoy it. Perhaps it’s that only the best have survived till now.
The nontechnical costs are made up FUD. If you cut that out then it is a better solution, and considering the FUD is ridiculous. It's better to properly educate people.
Oh they care, there are just some major issues with execution. Amazon, because of their much-panned internal culture, struggles to hire the required developers for many areas. Elasticsearch... is especially bad; because that org is absolutely swamped with operating issues. It's a pressure cooker inside a pressure cooker. There are so many high-priority tickets waking up devs in the middle of the night all the time. Many reports of developers juggling 60+ high severity tickets a week.
Then because of this, few people want to work there because the conditions are extra bad and the current devs leaving.
It's been a mess for a long time. Not for lack of care about the business opportunity, but because management is unable to figure out a healthy way of approaching it.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait, Rayiner. Liberty is a good thing. It does not follow axiomatically that libertarianism is a good thing. Libertarianism has a quirky and unpopular orthodoxy, one that equates drivers licenses to "a license to make toast in your own damn toaster", and creates utopian New Hampshire townships that are ultimately overrun by bears.

Give me liberty, as the saying goes, but also drivers licenses, and hold the bears.

Libertarianism isn't bad on spec. But it is not reasonable to suggest that people shouldn't be made aware when their sources are all libertarian, as these ones are, for the same reason that it's good to know if your sources are Jacobin, Current Affairs, and In These Times.
In what ways program synthesis different than code generation taught in compiler and/or PLT courses? Is the goal here get ad high level ss possible, or be able to create as much code as possible?
In principle I agree, but there's a lot riding against a proper, non-nasa investigation.

1. No one died, unlike Columbia, there won't be a Congressional committee put together on this.

2. Even if there was a congress committee/investigation done, what changes can actually be instituted? Block any more Russian modules?

That's requiring putting pressure on a foreign country to make changes where the relationship runs a knife edge balancing act of frenemy.

The Russian space program is a shell of its former self since ~2010.

The most realistic course of action (at this moment) of any corrective recommendation is to remove them from the ISS. They've been threatening pulling out for a few years now, so let them?
There is some IMS stuff in this repo, not sure about RCS though.

https://github.com/DoubangoTelecom/doubango
Vaccine mandates comes to mind.

Imagine Hitler had mandatory vaccines at his disposal, set in place by some benevolent administration for a seemingly good cause. He wouldn't have needed gas chambers that just does not scale as much.
That's interesting and all, but my point is just that you'll have to stop and think about how many orders of magnitude separate the userbase sizes.

A simpler way to make the same point would be that relative to modern cryptography, to a first approximation, nobody uses PGP.
IIRC the carriers abandoned the idea of being involved in RCS and left it entirely to Google.
https://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility
Speaking of frameworks, I don’t know how react gets away with calling itself a library. I think the only reason people call it a library is that it’s subtitle says it’s a library. It requires you to structure a large part of your app in a highly specific way by subclassing or implementing an interface, and react calls your code. It’s not that opinionated, but it’s far more opinionated than express, which is considered a framework (although it’s the lightest framework I’ve ever seen, and basically just procedurally builds a http event listener for you, so it’s very library like)
it's a little like someone invented a bad balanced binary tree

It's a little like that culturally but it's almost entirely unlike that technically - a suboptimal data structure or algo tend to be just suboptimal-but-functional whereas bad cryptography and bad cryptography engineering often fail catastrophically. I know you know this, of course! But for one thing, someone used an iffy analogy on the internet, etc. For another, PGP people love misusing exactly this sort of analogy.
Username checks out. Of course you'd want to bury horrible history under the carpet and move on - despite people still continuing to be weighed down by it's legacy.
Maybe only the right people use PGP.
I know a cat who’s trying to raise funds for this concept now. From what I’ve gathered, it’s a real pain to get going. Let me know if you’d like me to introduce you two - my email is in my profile.
You know we're living in a society! We're supposed to follow SemVer!

Regardless of whatever beef is going on between AWS and Elastic, they could at least have the professional courtesy not to ship breaking changes in a minor release.
So I posted a response to your comment that got instantly flagged and hidden. Wonder if HN employs automatic scanning and flagging for keywords.
First “celeb” death that has made me outright cry. It felt more like losing a friend. His show aside, I listened to his weekly twitch show throughout the pandemic, it gave me something to look forward to. With a young child as well, so fucking unfair.
need enough crypto understand
What is the difference between CP and CSAM and why is everyone suddenly using the term CSAM instead of CP?
“Where knowledge ends, religion begins” --Benjamin Disraeli (b. 1804)

% of Atheists:
India: 3%
Netherlands: 49%
Sweden: 43%
France: 37%
UK: 32%
Germany: 27%
Spain: 26%
Denmark: 25%
Belgium: 23%
Hungary: 22%
Finland: 16%
Austria: 11%
Portugal: 7%
Italy: 6%
Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
I honestly have no trouble believing that's what PGP's userbase believes about themselves, which is absolutely part of the problem.
These are facts but they don't answer the question "Why do people think this kind of stuff is reasonable and positive for society?"
Strange, I've found it for all major platforms. I don't do much encryption, but keygen and message signing works for me on Android, iOS, GNU+Linux, FreeBSD, Mac, and Windows.
What do you mean by "constructions"?
I'd use the analogy of "someone came up with C and then people came up with high level languages and even low-level languages that provided memory safety and..." but then we'd just be in another debate about how mired in the 1980s we should remain. :)
Cryptographic constructions.