skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Tourists have to pick up on it" seems like a strange thing to bet one's life on.

Tourists are generally advised to pick up on local customs. I used to live in Amsterdam. Cyclists expect pedestrians to hear the bell ring once and get the hell out of the fietspad. If you don't, you will get hit.

> Does making the very tight turn faster get one home much quicker?

In Italian Alps where you spend half the time turning? You bet!

> Why not just slow down?

Have you met many Italians? :)
The progress bar is neat, and it's impressive what modern fonts are capable of and everything... but I'm personally not a fan of ligatures in code fonts. Not sure I can articulate why, but it just feels like we should draw the line at our fonts causing fundamentally different glyphs to be displayed in our editors (e.g. ≤ instead of <=).

Surely this comes down to preference. Does anyone who uses Fira like those ligatures?
There is also some research showing this 'wisdom' of crowds in polling that theorizes if you ask someone who they think will win - versus who they support - the result will be more accurate prediction [1]

This article mentions "complacency" and "dejectedness" which are so sad to me and so prevalent among people under 40

I work in politics and hear online: why vote it doesn't matter, all politicians are bought for corporate stooges there are no differences between R and D.

There are valid critiques on these issues, but from my perspective this attitude is a cancer which benefits a conservative minority.
"doing active scans for any unsecured wifi network in range"
I seem to remember the same thing, although I won't complain as I absolutely adore his works
I was both curious and skeptical about this. I appreciated the explanation which successfully sated my curiosity, though I remain skeptical. But I also have a new interesting thing to consider, to compare and contrast my thinking against. Moving forward I'll be wondering whether any fury I feel is more akin to jealousy or annoyance and that will be a new and interesting lens to look at things through.

I really was curious! But that isn't mutually exclusive with skepticism.
Do you mean embedding Latex in a Markdown code block and having that render at build time (perhaps to SVG) that is embedded in (or linked from) HTML?

If so, that might be something I could look into. Version 1 of md2blog actually did almost exactly that for Graphviz diagrams (but I removed that feature because, frankly, I didn't understand the Graphviz license). A quick look indicates that Latex also has its own unique license that is... quite lengthy.
Web3 is an attempt to solve a political problem with technology. The issue facing us is corporate power. Rather than engage in a political fight to change either the way corporations are policed or the incentives that produced our situation (i.e. capitalism), they are desperately trying to build a wall around themselves with "trustless", "decentralized" technology. What they're missing is, the centralized powers they're trying to defeat will never permit a technology to succeed if it removes their power. That being the case, we may end up with a version of "web3", but it will be one that either supports the powers we'd hoped to defeat or creates a new class of powers we'll be trying to combat with web4.
all of this is true.

but those people had no such platform before, maybe not thinking about the consequences because "growth" wasn't a great idea after all.
Oops! Thank you!
It finally worked! Jack Dorcey just resigned.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720/p...
That would just destroy all user generated content on the internet....
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll try to find a way to bring more of our product outside of the login wall.

Creating a brand and getting a style guide is free. We charge in the hundreds-of-dollars range for the agency side of our business.
After this and the recent conversation about the 'rat shadows' setting in Dishonored, I just keep humming to myself-

♫♪♪ The last that ever she saw him ♫♪♪

♫♪♪ Carried away by the Doom-rat shadow ♫♪♪
There's no reason a spatial layout shouldn't be remembered (by default) per-user on a multiuser system.
How about when someone leaves their rear fog light on and you are behind them…
> will the kids buy a self charging Toyota 30 years later because they remembered old propaganda?

My bet would be on this one, and I can confirm that this kind of a strategy worked on me personally.

As a kid around 5-7yo, I liked playing Colin McRae Rally on PS1. My favorite car in the game by far was Subaru Impreza, mostly because of its cool design and livery. Not much else to it, as I wouldn't know a single thing about car specs at 5-7yo, and the car wasn't "the best car in the game" in terms of performance or anything of that nature IIRC. It was literally just a cool-looking car to me as a kid.

As an adult, I have no interest in purchasing a Subaru Impreza, but when I see a modern version of it on the streets (especially in the classic rally blue or the classic rally blue+yellow livery), my eyes instantly get peeled to it, and I think "man, this is a great car that I started liking as a kid and still think it looks great, I kinda want to give it a test drive, just for fun, not to buy".

And while I am not actually planning to do a test drive anytime soon, it is like a sales funnel. A good chunk of people who have similar thoughts, they will give it a test-drive. Out of people who do "just a test-drive, not planning to buy", a good number of them end up changing their mind and buying the car because of how much they liked the test drive.
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Why, yes, a vaccination mandate using an experimental vaccine for a disease which is not a significant risk for a large part of those who would actually be forced to take those vaccines given that those for whom SARS2 is a risk mostly have been vaccinated by now and where those vaccines do not give significant protection against catching or spreading the disease is not reasonable. I suspect you would have not called this reasonable before the pandemic hit but were scared into accepting a "new normal" for 'the greater good of society".

Calling the vaccines "approved" is playing with words, compare what it normally takes to get approval for a bog-standard vaccine with how this novel mRNA vaccine was "approved" to see what I'm getting at, consider that there is no long-term experience with either mRNA vaccines in humans nor this specific vaccine based around the (known to be harmful [1,2,3,4]) "spike protein". Realise that the method of action for these vaccines (whether mRNA or vector-based) is to induce your body to produce just that harmful spike protein and consider the potential for damage, especially in combination with the untargeted delivery mechanism - nano-lipid particles carrying mRNA fragments, targeting is done by injecting into muscle tissue and as such wholly depends on the accuracy of the injection - my wife could hardly move her arm for a week after an inaccurately (too high) placed first dose of "Moderna SpikeVax".

Do we speak a different language? That is possible, language is malleable and words change their meaning. This tends to be an evolutionary process which takes a significant amount of time. Changing the definition of words and concepts in a mere few months is not evolutionary but revolutionary, this is not a natural process. I'll stick to evolution instead of revolution.

[1] https://www.contagionlive.com/view/spike-protein-of-sars-cov...

[2] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-sars-cov-spike-protei...

[3] https://www.drugtargetreview.com/news/90224/gene-changes-cau...

[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34100279/
I think it's PCI so it could fit in pretty much any motherboard from the time.
Those all strike me as very much advanced-user features, so as much as I'd enjoy using some of them, I doubt they'd make much difference to general-audience growth.

And I think you're being unfair about the spam/scam replies. Twitter has made great improvement there in terms of downranking/hiding junk replies. It'll never be perfect, but it's at the very least much better than it was. I have to go a long way down in most threads I look at to see that stuff if it appears at all.
The irony in the fact that his resignation tweet was an image of text, designed to get around the character limit, was not lost on me.

You want Twitter to be the most transparent company? Maybe start by making it accessible to the visually impaired by not posting images of text.
A platform to induce change was the highpoint?
> and how the [AES] block size is too small

> The block size [of ChaCha20] is 512 bits, compared to AES’s 128 bits, making a wide variety of attacks, such as birthday bound or PRP-PRF distinguishing attacks many orders of magnitude less practical

It's too bad the AES competition didn't accept Rijndael's option of 256-bit block size. I wonder why?

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard#c... )
Ehhhh. Not at all true. Or at least that's maybe 50% true. Many high impact papers in my field, including "holy grail" type papers, have been published in "low tier" journals. Some scientists would much rather publish quality research in a timely manner than go through the Nature review process and waste a lot of their time. It's extremely dependent on the disposition of the lead author.

For the record I can't at all speak to the quality of this research paper, I'm only trying to address this comment specifically.
I realized quite late that when communication gets militarized, citizens are inevitably caught in the crossfire.

Of course we always knew about propaganda, but targeted harms, extortion, psyops campaigns are something that genuinely scares me. Because no society is really ready to defend against them, it seems.

I wonder whether Bruce Schneier would have an optimistic answer.
I've seen flashing lights to warn of speed traps used all over the south east and mid west.

Oddly though, no one in Southern California holds Arizona drivers in high regard. Quite the opposite. Best I can tell they're the western equivalent of Florida drivers.
Incredible how everything we try to do as part of modern web development like no layout shifts, less JS and many more were the default of those times.

I have this opinion that the more constrained we are, the more useful things we produce.
Mathjax has server-side rendering now, which could be used for this purpose.
Its almost like different people have different opinions or something.
This guy has never heard of attorney fees: "The worst case isn't that awful If you are sued, try everything you can, lose anyway, and can't afford to pay the judgment, your wages can be garnished, but only up to 25% (in some states less, in Texas nothing at all)."
Copyright was a reasonable bargain when printing a book involved a large up-front investment of typesetting it and then printing all the copies that would ever be printed from that setup. It didn't affect most people, just printers. And it enabled authors to make a living from writing.

It became fairly dubious in the age of photocopiers, but fortunately was little enforced, except in the USSR. A photocopier was useless without typeset or handwritten text to copy, and the copies degraded every generation, so publishing houses were still needed.

Now every computer is a book-copying machine more powerful than the entire publishing industry a few decades ago: it can transmit a gigabit per second, and for a one-megabyte book, that's 125 copies a second, 10 million copies a day, 3 billion copies a year, so copyright is a constant danger to everyone. Fanfic sites are full of people sharing stories they wrote with no expectation of making money. The age of the rich celebrity authors like Isaac Asimov or Ernest Hemingway ended decades ago, not due to xeroxes but due to TV. The best software is free software, as copyright makes proprietary software untrustworthy, creating incentives to stuff it with malware. And, even if Elsevier were paying researchers instead of vice versa, the idea that copyright on research papers could fund research is as ludicrous as the idea that people would stop singing songs and telling stories without monopoly profits.

Apps, videos, and websites constantly disappear due to (often groundless) accusations of copyright violations. Police evade accountability by playing copyrighted music, rendering any recordings of their abuses copyright violations. A friend of mine committed suicide after being prosecuted for copyright violations that might have been fair use; we'll never know.

So, I would set the copyright term at zero years. Legal monopolies on preserving and sharing knowledge are not only useless in today's world, they are harmful, a monstrous menace to the integrity of the historical record and to private communication.
I definitely have spent too long learning and fiddling with SSG’s.

Going to give this a try!
Selective quotes from the first few pages to show what this is about:

> The “Xinjiang Papers” are a cache of government documents from the People’s Republic of China
(PRC), most of them classified, that were originally leaked to the New York Times by a “member of
the Chinese political establishment” and published on November 16, 2019

> In September 2021, a set of digital files was leaked to the Uyghur Tribunal based in London during
their second set of hearings (September 10th to 13th), by a person who wishes to remain anonymous. [...] A careful comparison of the files [shows they are the same].

> The files contain highly sensitive and permanent material in relation to Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang.
Nearly all the material is classified as confidential. One document containing three speeches by
Chinese President (more accurately: General Secretary) Xi Jinping is classified as “top secret”.

> The material provides substantial evidence linking numerous aspects of Beijing’s crackdown in Xinjiang to explicit statements and demands made by central government figures in 2014, including:

• Mass internment in re-education camps

• Poverty alleviation through coercive labor transfers

• “Optimizing” the ethnic population distribution by increasing Han population shares

• Criminalizing customary religious practices

• Forcing hundreds of thousands Han officials to “become family” with ethnic populations

• Implementing Chinese language-focused education in centralized boarding schools."

Wow.

I have met some academic China Studies researchers. They're a very interesting bunch -- not at all what you'd perhaps expect, and in my case either madly interested in history, or the development of the language, or the interaction of the society with the rest of the world. I'd never met someone in a China Studies department who was interested in Chinese politics. Eventually, one academic got drunk and told me the reason: criticising The Party was a career-ending move, not just for you but often for your department as well. Those archeological digs you wanted to go on? Those students you wished to go on an exchange, in order to improve their mandarin? Your ability to enter the country without fear? All gone in an instant, systematically recorded in a database of "bad things" and never regained. [(S)he was highly critical of the regime after a few glasses of wine, naturally, especially the way in which much archeology had apparently been concreted-over with little regards for history – not to mention the treatment of the Chinese peoples.].
> Also the article seems to plug unrelated scientists with vague affiliations to the University.

The only other scientists I noticed were her supervisor and the coauthors of the paper on her research. Did I miss someone?

> a weird political spin to the whole thing regarding the author's home country's relationship with the US... despite it not being a US university

That was in the short biographical section at the end, describing where she got her undergraduate degree and how she ended up McMasters. It is hardly a "weird political spin" to note that she considered US universities but could not get a visa.
Go read all those papers, none of them support the claims that the vaccination accelerates or causes mutation.

It's unfortunate scientists love to stake a claim on trying to win a huge argument when they can't see the forrest from the trees and they exclude as much evidence as they cherry pick.

We've defeated things before with immunization. No one ran around saying get the whooping caugh because if you get a shot it will mutate...
An example, measuring traffic flow in a city.

You can do it with cameras and ID plate detection tools, which allows tracking where anyone is at any time.

You can also put magnetic loops into the roads, which just tells you how many drive over a certain area of the road, without any individualized tracking.

Good telemetry is like the magnetic loops. But nowadays very few implementations are that privacy respecting
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Data is written to disk but requests are batched and executed as a single transaction. It is very fast. Partner systems know that the request may fail and business processes are organized accordingly. In practice it never really happens. The overall performance is insane (hundreds of times better) comparatively to some Python scripts fishing in database for every request.
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> People who post these stickers should go to prison

Doing things with intent to harm others is illegal, even if you use a sticker to do it.

> Tesla should be civilly liable for cases where preventing such an incident was possible with known technology.

This is currently likely the case, but is not proven until a lawsuit happens.
The current system (as noted above) is dependent upon fossil fuel inputs, and it may be a driver of a future decline as you note. Unfortunately we've boxed ourselves in -- we don't have the industrial capacity / biology for something as basic as cover cropping to meet estimated demand should everyone want/need to be sustainable/regenerative:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-1022-1?proof=t
https://onewheel.com/products/onewheel-gt

imho - the Tesla of skateboards
In what world is a comparison "nonsensical"? They both displays pixels. Each can be substituted for the other with a modest amount of non-panel-related effort. They compete. We can compare them.

> the same "tech", just to different specifications to fit their desired purpose/niche

Clearly not. I am using a TV as a monitor right now, because 4k + OLED + HDR + 120hz was just not available for $1100 in the monitor space six months ago (I think there was a $6000 offering, lol). Looks like it still isn't. This situation has been going on for years. Before OLED it was HDR, before HDR it was 4k, and so on. TVs are always far ahead, monitors are always far behind.

I'd rather not use a TV as a monitor because it's a PITA. I have to put up with substantial non-panel-related silliness to make this happen (turn the TV off/on with a remote, deactivate the laggy filters, tolerate the "smart" BS, etc). If monitors are so well tailored to their own niche, why are they losing so badly to a competitor who isn't even trying?

> to capture the maximum possible value from that market

That's the only explanation I can come up with: monitors are a backwater that the industry just doesn't care much about because volume is lower. Tech has to trickle down, and that takes years.
Same as https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21161271/apple-settlement-...
I've never understood why DRL are only in the front.
I think the Vietnam war played a particularly strong role in damaging trust in government in the U.S., and we've never really come back from that.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/05/17/public-trust...
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I think this is an interesting conversation, but as normative feedback it seems pretty pedantic.

The "AAD" in "AEAD" is message metadata; canonically, it's stuff like sequence numbers and metadata that appear in headers that need to be in cleartext to make transports work. Another example: Chapoly AAD is used to incorporate the transcript hash into every AEAD invocation of the WireGuard handshake.

It seems like the obvious way you'd get AAD into generically-composed ChaCha+Blake is simply to include it in the Blake KMAC along with the ciphertext. In other words: the obvious way. Is there a footgun here that doesn't have an equivalent in GCM? I don't see it.

The KDF point doesn't really have anything to do with AAD, right --- all you're saying here is that you need to KDF the ChaCha and Blake keys. I guess you're pointing out that GCM and Chapoly effectively do this for you in library implementations. Which, sure.
>" For a farmer, at least those who own the farmland, the sustainability of their land is far more important than the yield this year."

Sustainability only matters if they can make the mortgage payments this year.
if people think GPT-3 is a scam all they need to do is to install the github copilot and give it a try.

That seriously blew my mind. I had very low expectations from it and now I can't code without it.

Everytime it autocompletes, I am like "how?"!!
Yes, there are policy-focused epidemiologists and informatics-focused epidemiologists. My partner is the latter, so I'm much more familiar with that world, and that's what I associate with "epidemiology". There is overlap, of course, but I take your point that you can't necessarily know someone's quantitative analysis skills from knowing they are an epidemiologist.

I would just note that "a data scientist with working professional competence in say, R and Pandas" describes a good number of epidemiologists, who also have infectious disease, toxicology, and study design knowledge on top of this.
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> but we are on the path

This isn't actually clear; with things like this we are on a path but it may not lead anywhere that fundamental (at least when we are talking "AI", especially general AI).
It doesn't mean "something I don't like". It means an outright lie, or a statement made in order to mislead or bait people into useless or malicious behavior.

Trolling, lying, saying stupid and libelous things with the intent to anger. Bad faith is about intent.

I also look forward to the day that "censorship" is allowed nuance. If you think Twitter deciding it won't be a party to disinformation campaigns is "censorship", we have bigger issues.
Thanks! Glad you like it.

It's funny - we've heard the "I don't trust myself" sentiment often. We want to make you believe that your choices are great (and, most of the time, they are). We've thought about offering to have a designer take a glance at what you've chosen, but don't yet feel confident that it would solve the problem.

And great point! We don't yet have a dark mode setting, but it's something we want to build.
At time of previous post, the author was trying to rewrite in racket before releasing the code... did this get anywhere?

I have no entitlement at all to see it, but damn i still want to play with this!
From another article[1] on the topic by an archaeologist:

"Even worse, these public latrines were notorious for terrifying customers when flames exploded from their seat openings. These were caused by gas explosions of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and methane (CH4) that were rank as well as frightening. Customers also had to worry about rats and other small vermin threatening to bite their bottoms. And then there was the perceived threat of demons that the Romans believed inhabited these black holes leading to the mysterious underbelly of the city."

Sounds like it was far better if you could hold it until you got home to your own private toilet, which was probably in the kitchen right next to where your slaves were preparing your next meal[2].

[1] https://phys.org/news/2015-11-toilets-sewers-ancient-roman-s...

[2] https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2015/564dcb76b9497.jpe...