skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
cryptsetup supports using AEAD modes for encryption, primarily using AEGIS-128 as algorithm.

Some background information https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00309

There is also old presentation, which explicitly refers to protecting against "returned disk" scenario: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cryptsetup/at...
He was a demonstrating adult level math ability even at the age of 5. Also, he was genius level at other subjects too. How would it not be genetic. Think of how hard parents push their kids in today's super-competitive economy and high-stakes higher ed system, how many turn out even close to as talented as him?
AROSE for me. 5 of the top 6 most-frequent letters. But hard mode, so next depends.
> You indeed need to practice retrieving information under the particular circumstances to build the confidence to not freeze up like that.

Is that part of the job description now?

What are these characteristics that:

1. Are present in the day-to-day work of a great many impactful software engineers that employers want to hire?

and

2. Do not discriminate against gender, gender identity, race, national origin, faith, sexual orientation, veteran status, age, and any and all other characteristics that employers are forbidden from discriminating against?

and

3. Are present and can be easily recognized in a leetcode-style interview keeping in mind that the number of similarities/amount of overlap between leetcode-style and day-to-day software engineering work is very close to zero if not zero?
It might be, but, honestly: would you happily agree to store it under your house for nothing?
They depend on the banks to enforce policy. If you get rid of the banks, there's very little they can do. That's what cryptocurrency was supposed to be all about. In practice we ended up with pseudobanks called exchanges running this space.

There were people who saw it coming and withdrew their funds before the president ordered accounts frozen. Everyone thought they were insane because interest rates were sky high. They became richer overnight.
It's not that great an analogy actually.

It's not about the main thing an infrastructure enables, it's about what the infrastructure is designed for. Tunnels under the border are specifically there to smuggle. Highways are there to do move anything you want, including illegal activity, which is policed separately.

And the asylum seekers and Bolivian marching powder examples are good to address the main point here as well. Does the cokehead share any blame in using coke? Is that victim blaming? Should asylum seeking be illegal?

Was bitcoin created to break the law? In some ways. But it was designed to facilitate commerce without regard for legality. It's not like a smuggling tunnel, it's like a highway. And it's like that because sometimes you want to smuggle something, like asylum seekers, but you want it to serve legitimate purposes also. So not a very good analogy at all.
"Who are you to determine what are/are not lies and what is/isn't truth?" is an important question to philosophers but it's irrelevant here.

From what I can tell, your fundamental point is that truth is subjective, and governments that censor trivial things slide down a slippery slope to totalitarianism, so we should avoid that by allowing unrestricted free speech, which will protect us if the government turns out to be technically wrong. There's another point about the media but it is fairly close to conspiracy theory (for example, top pharma company boards don't overlap with mainstream media).

Another issue is that some sides don't have experts. For example, the pro-ivermectin side doesn't have experts. It has a small number of confused doctors and a large number of ignorant people, and a teeny-tiny number of people who have the ability to run a large-scale controlled clinical trial, but aren't getting involved.

Let's bring it down to a simple situation. The nation faces an existential risk. scientists convince the government they understand the cause and have a solution that will eliminate the risk. the process will involve temporary suspension of civil liberties that can be suspended when the risk is gone. However, Joe Rogan has an expert on his show that says the scientists are wrong.

At that point, I literally just trust that I made the right decision electing a person who will make the right decision (in the case of an existential threat, it's OK to suspend civil liberties temporarily). What do you do? Listen to the expert as the world dies?
Giving Negative Feedback Can Make Empathetic Leaders Less Effective
http://web.archive.org/web/20220127221912/https://politiken....
In what sense is this article new, aside from tagging it with the name of a recent movie (which isn't really about asteroids at all, but an allegory about climate change). We know all that; the DART mission is already on its way to go test the theory.

I get the impression that they're doing something novel here; there's something about "bolide fragmentation". But that takes up about half a sentence in the abstract; everything else seems to be telling us what we already knew about the dangers of asteroids.

Can somebody give me a better abstract of their paper?
My HP-15c feels pretty great. I just bought one of the swissmicros calculators (the DM42) and it has something like an e-ink display with Corning gorilla glass and uses RPN of course. You can get an HP-11c clone too. They aren't cheap garbage either, but feel very solid and have the HP bugs fixed.

These aren't the kind of computer the author is talking about though. They're more concerned about writing and sharing information than performing mathematical calculations.
Seems like motivation porn more than education. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just knowing which one is which is useful.
Monopoly can be unintentionally abused, simple things like not providing a compiler in the box or trying to add security can be seen to crush competition (like in secureboot, and the current apple App Store distribution issues)

It also goes without saying that the law trails ethics and morality; not the inverse.
Ask HN: Any good SPAM email reporting services?
I often get spam at my work email - no floods (just a few a week) because I've been very careful with my address, just the annoying, persistent spammers that I never signed up for (either directly or via related 'services'). I suspect most either just do dictionary guesses of email addresses, or (more likely) simply try addresses based on scraped LinkedIn data. Given how careful I've been with my address, and that it's my work address, I kinda take these spams as a personal invasion of my inbox (not to mention that it violates local laws).

I've used SpamCop[1] in the past, though I have my doubts of it having any real benefit; and lately I've found that some reports are being sent to a 'nulled' address that ends up being used only for their internal statistics (so those reports go effectively nowhere)

Are there any other (good) alternative services to SpamCop? The idea is for upstream services that provide emailing/hosting to be made aware of abusers of their systems/service/TOS.

P.S. Yes, I could "unsubscribe" from their spam, but I have 2 issues with that:

1. It confirms to them the email is real, which I don't want to do, and...

2. I never subscribed to their spam in the first place, so I don't see why I should now be bothered with having to unsubscribe. Plus if they were able to add my address to their spam list without me providing it, they should just as easily be able to remove it without it being provided - hence me using SpamCop instead.

[1] https://www.spamcop.net

Edit: a bit more context as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30108710
>It tells us to stop rotating passwords

Finally! Maybe the places I've worked will finally listen. But I stopped reading TFA to praise this, so back to TFA.
I'm not sure I'd trust a slingshot either :)
>you didn't mention 3-dose stats with show the opposite pattern:

I didn't. Boosted do show more protection than unvaccinated, at least for a period of time. I don't dispute that.
Those CDC claims are now demonstrably wrong in the same post-Delta world you’re judging her claims by. When the CDC recommended that vaccinated people no longer needed to wear masks, exactly what do you think they were claiming that is different from Gandhi?

It’s fine if you want to ignore people who’ve made predictions about Covid that turned out to be wrong, but it just means you have to ignore everyone.
> If this were combined with a static site generator or CMS it could be a real powerhouse

What do you find lacking about existing offerings?

(Serious question; not a statement masquerading as rhetorical snark.)
They had an exodus of top engineers lately. I suspect the hardware gap will shrink in a few years and the software is, as you say, not rosy.

The decline for pro users will continue, I think. Of course a behemoth of 2 T$ won't fail tomorrow
That's not how vaccines had been referred in the US before 2021.
Thank you for owning that and the edit.
Selenium is slow and based on webdriver. I think most consider it legacy at this point. Most new projects tend to use Playwright, Cypress, or Puppeteer for E2E tests. All three options are much more performant and reliable.
From the wiki:

> Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age, attending university-level mathematics courses at the age of 9. He is one of only two children in the history of the Johns Hopkins' Study of Exceptional Talent program to have achieved a score of 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just eight years old; Tao scored a 760

I think genetics have more to do with this level of achievement than encouragement from an engaged father. Tao has 2 brothers - why aren't they mathematical supergeniuses too? Either he was born with a brain that has extraordinary analytical ability, or he was born with an insane work ethic not commonly associated with young kids. But even then, are there reports of him having to work super hard to understand things? If you can do advanced algebra at age 5, I'd say your brain is something extraordinary. Whether the underlying reason for that extraordinary brain is due to genes or some other trigger, it likely was not mainly due to an "encouraging father", IMO.
After reading Dune and also being an engineering leader, I’ve come to view power as multivariate. In some ways you have less power when you’re in charge. To go with your example, many other countries didn’t see a choice in getting involved in WW1.
I'd be down for 60 years of good health, I think of the amount of work that I could do. I think the problem is that they have to keep throwing the work away and the pointlessness of it all would kill me.
Why are the only deaths we seem to care about those that are Covid related?

If we are worried about killing people worldwide, far more people die of hunger-related causes each day, but we aren't rebuilding our entire society to save those people. But I can't see a reason why deaths from Covid are more of a tragedy than those we left to starve.

Or take smoking for instance - more people die each year from smoking than have died from Covid, but we seem more willing to ban human contact than to ban cigarettes? Seems backwards to me (especially considering c10% of smoking related deaths are from secondhand smoke in the USA!).

I know these might seem like a silly point, but why are we so focused on one single cause of death right now? We lock down our entire society to 'protect unvaccinated people worldwide', but then have continually cut foreign aid?

IMO - I think we have totally lost the plot and lost sight of what is important, but that's just my view.
The notion of a permanent repository for nuclear waste always seemed misguided to me. There are too many uncertainties and unknown unknowns even in the relative short term. It’s like assuming a piece of software is "finished", no new bugs will ever be found and no new requirements will ever come up. I believe it would make more sense to treat the waste as something that will have to be maintained over its lifetime, and changes to the storage will have to be expected, anticipated and accommodated over time.
Both, it's the mix that makes the perfect society, but 1984 is the better book ;)
Watching the trailer, makes me think that people who may enjoy this series will also enjoy a book called "Aha" by Martin Gardner (from probably 40 years ago)[0].

It has a lot of amusingly illustrated insight problems that show you how thinking about a problem differently simplifies getting to the answer a lot. It's probably aimed at advanced teenagers, but in fact the lessons there are some that even many adults probably have not come across before. I mean, I haven't watched the Masterclass, but I imagine Terrence Tao isn't teaching multimanifold group theory or something anyway, so this is the kind of insightful more daily-math problems he's helping people to understand how to think about.

[0] search your favorite, ahem, LIBrary GENeric source of books to find it.
WTF business do emojis have in Unicode? The BMP is all there ever should have been. Standardize the actual writing systems of the world, so everyone can write in their language. And once that is done, the standard doesn't need to change for a hundred years.

What we need now is a standardized, sane subset of Unicode that implementations can support while rejecting the insane scope creep that got added on top of that. I guess the BMP is a good start, even though it already contains superfluous crap like "dingbats" and boxes.
Google just does that so they don't get broken up. But that doesn't mean Firefox is sending your data to Google.
WeTransfer Cancels IPO
This is basically ADD medicine for me...the ability to move from idea to idea and have a tool that automatically helps me tie those disparate threads together is incredibly exciting!
I will not touch remix with 10 foot pole. It is from react-router authors, it is only open source that bring my worst emotions.
People are generally told.. go to school, pass exams, go to college, pass exams, get a job, buy a house, etc. I surmise that the anti-work movement has pulled people out of that way of life.

It's not just about not working. It's about entrepreneurship, working for better companies, smaller companies/startups. It's about not getting so far in debt that you're a slave to a megacorp because you need to pay it off.

It's about not over working and burning out.
I've legally bought and sold quite a few things on craigslist using cryptocurrencies. I'm personally finding it easier and easier to use cryptocurrency as a payments system as time goes on. You really don't know what you're talking about.
Gandhi’s claim was wrong at the time. Right then and there. There was no indication the vaccines were sterilizing; she was just wishful thinking.
> This is one of the broadest definitions of censorship I’ve ever heard then.

It is the correct and commonly used definition of the word.

> I understand censorship to be the total suppression of content, not a partial restriction of it, or having to view it on one major (similarly priced, similar ease of use) platform instead of another.

You understand censorship incorrectly then. For example, every television network employs people called censors whose job it is to decide what content is allowed on the network. If you're making a prime time sitcom for NBC and you try to write in the word "Fuck", the censors will tell you you're not allowed to do that and they will refuse to air it. They will censor the word "Fuck". That is censorship. It doesn't mean that nobody anywhere is ever allowed to utter the word fuck, it means they don't allow it. You can go watch HBO and hear the word fuck, but NBC censors it.

> I haven’t seen any evidence or quotes from Young that request keeping Rogan’s content secret.

He said "You can have Rogan or me but not both". The other option there was "not have Rogan". What do you think that means except remove his programming from Spotify?

> I don’t think it counts as censorship if you say a platform no longer has content that’s available elsewhere.

Again, first of all yes it does mean that. Second of all, Rogan is exclusive with Spotify, so it's not available elsewhere.

In this case what Young is asking to be censored is any discussion of vaccines and Covid that doesn't agree with the official government narrative. This should be a huge red flag. Whenever you're not allowed to question the government that is a sign that something is wrong and a warning of totalitarianism. It doesn't necessarily mean that the government is wrong and that the people asking questions are right, but if you are right and have good intentions you should be able to welcome and address any questions to assuage people's fears and not try to silence them.
Totally get that. A friend of mine from Finland said compliance with mandates and safety advisories was a lot better back home than those in the US.

There's a lot of people in the US arguing that mask mandates and other medical precautions are "violating their freedom".
For the people suggesting paramotors as the actual jetpacks of our time (in terms of promise), there never has been a paramotor topic at the frontpage!

I found this submission quite fun [1, 2].

It was submitted to HN twice and only got 4 upvotes (I used the HN searchbar and typed: paramotor).

[1] https://www.justine-haupt.com/blimpdrive/index.html

[2] https://youtu.be/5pPJ-Z4vVyI
We do, there are people making web browsers that do unique things or work in unique ways. Note that innovation in my view is trying something new, I don't believe it needs to succeed necessarily.

https://bonsaibrowser.com

https://polypane.app

To some extent Vivaldi is one as well. https://vivaldi.com

The brave browser integrates a cryptocurrency as a first-class citizen.

There are also other types of innovation on the JavaScript, html and http end.

At this point almost a decade ago, Chrome was pushing to add support to run dart natively in web browsers. There is still a chromium fork available that does this: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk

As for internet protocols, people are definitely working on this as well. In the cryptocurrency world, we have ipfs:// and ens:// (ethereum name servers). I believe both of these have been implemented in the brave browser, but I'm not entirely certain about that.

Yesterday, there was an "alternative" to the HTTP protocol on the front-page of HN as well, gemini: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30072085

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I also really want to mention the recent work by a HN developer on marginalia.nu. It's not directly web-browser related, but creating a niche search engine is related enough!

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The reason for why no new engine is coming clear, rendering css and html correctly is a gargantuan task. The last successful attempt was Chromium. Mozilla tried this with servo, but it ended up failing due to what I believe was that Mozilla believed it was too big of a project and costed too much.

It's not impossible, it's just something that requires large resources and a lot of time, not dissimilar to developing a real-world operating system from scratch today.

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I believe there are plenty of people trying to innovate within the web browser space. I think the more important question is, why aren't we seeing that? Where are the super cool new browsers with genuinely innovative UIs?

I don't know! The space does seem fairly stagnant. Implementing a protocol or an engine is a massive task, but innovating in ui, features and the ways we browse the web and explore our history and things like that is something that is already achievable by a single hacker or potentially by small groups of people.

I personally think it's partially due to mindset, where we as users believe that fundamental software is given to us as-is and cannot be changed and should not be changed. The opposite of the hacker mindset. This is of course extra true for massive projects like web browsers, but many things are possible by just forking chromium or using electron or CEF, and that's what you're seeing in recent (albeit niche) innovations like poly pane or bonsai.
That's true. It isn't just webpack though, it is for engineers who know HTML or have a backend set up (Django, PHP, Flask, etc.) and just want to add some quick frontend functionality without diving into the JavaScript universe.
this is me but written by someone else ...let me know if you overcome this
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-...
I guess it depends on what you mean by vaccinated:
75.1% of total us population has had at least on dose (79.8% of eligible (>= 5 yr)
Fully vaccinated drops to 63.6/67.6%
And Boosted is at only 41% of the fully vaccinated, 86.5M.
I live in seattle. It's dark and cold. Hell the mask helps, it's great for keeping my face warm.

I don't consider myself locked up. I miss in person game nights the most, i miss dinner with friends (in a private home or restaurant) somewhat.

We do gamenights online using videochat and products like roll20 and boardgame arena. It's not super awesome but it works for us for now.

I leave the house, go on walks go shopping etc. But I take very reasonable precautions. I shop during low traffic times, get up early and hit the grocery store before work, I order food for pickup and wait outside for it. During the more temperate months we'd set up a few tables in the backyard and have friends over for meals, each 'pod' got their own table nicely distanced, we were probably a little louder than most dinner parties but it was nice just to have them around.

For a friends birthday we wanted to go see spiderman, we rented a theater (it was actually not especially expensive) invited about 20 people who we knew were supervaxxed and responsible enough not to come if they though they might be exposed and had a grand, masked and distanced, time.

I'm just trying to be responsible, I know several people that are immunocompromised and they can't even do half that stuff. I'm trying to be responsible so that they can. When some asshole declares that 'covid is over' I just realize how fucking narcissistic they are.
>Remote attestation really is killing practical software freedom.

Which will continue marching forward without pro-user legislation. Which is extraordinarly unlikely to happen since the government has vested interest in this development.
How long does your silly little electric paramotor fly before it runs out? Is it a one-prop, or a four- or six-prop model?
I tried downloading Dropbox's beta client (which switches to Apple's new APIs to get around this) and it's a disaster; the CPU usage of fileproviderd would stay at around 150% until I removed Dropbox altogether.

This is, of course, Apple's fault for getting their API wrong and then forcing everyone to switch to their broken solution.
"Nobody uses money for non money purposes."
Modulo syntax/keywords, I think the following query would work in any modern dialect:

SELECT num FROM
(SELECT num FROM nums ORDER BY num DESC LIMIT 2)
ORDER BY num ASC LIMIT 1;

which is actually nearly identical to the simplest Python solution in terms of the computation that's specified:

lambda xs: None if len(xs) == 0 else sorted(xs)[-2:][0]

I think the reason the question is tricky for some is because they either:

1) haven't used SQL in a long time and forgot all the syntax, or else

2) don't really "grok" SQL as a model of computation (as opposed to e.g. a data structuring language or something like that).

But both of those seem like good reasons to disqualify someone from a full stack role?
Guide wget command for linux
JSpecify User Guide
Did you mean to word that the other way around? It takes less energy to shoot it out of the solar system than towards the sun.
Neither. The dystopia I fear is Terry Gilliam's Brazil, though on some days, I think we're headed toward Idiocracy.
The potential for controversy inherent to all NFTs is a matter of perspective.