skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built something like this with 500k urls in the db, then sqlite shit the bed and now I can't use it.
MysteryTwisterC3 is an excellent way to learn RSA, ECC, and so on through the process of cryptanalysis. https://mysterytwister.org/home/welcome/
To learn how to implement stuff correctly, I recommend trying to work through an algorithm (say SHA-1 for example), and try to find people that explain it. Once you're ready to implement it yourself, go through the list of flaws in common implementations (side-channel, power analysis, diff, linear, etc) and try to prove whether your implementation is vulnerable or not vulnerable. Once you've done this more than once, you can do it for a lot of things.

It turns out one of the best books on cryptography is in a bundle if you like to read, Applied Cryptography:
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cybersecurity-2022-wiley-...

Schneier has answered this question also: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1999/1015.html...
My wyze cam pan was compromised apparently by someone in my neighborhood who worked their way onto my home network router.

I had always been skeptical of the security on them. Thank goodness I had put up a rear-view blocking shield so that only the desired outside camera zone could be observed. The camera would frequently pan around to look into my living room and it would cut out any time that one particular person was on my doorstep with their mobile phone. IOT devices are overall unreliable revenue collection devices to which subscription pricing can be changed and instituted at any time. At least with the wyze cams, they are not particularly as expensive, but it does worry me about environmental pollution as these devices all get bricked. There should be better governance and probably service expiration dates posted on the boxes of each of them if this is to continue in any effective way.
There is at least one large elk herd here in the Seattle suburbs. Elk are so big close up that they feel like an alien species. And these would be much larger. Nothing wrong with a dose of humility here and there.
Justice is justice, and is required for a functioning society. We see where being overly lenient and not enforcing justice has caused us to end up.
I hereby award you five internet points. As part of your prize you Al's get to name this currency.
https://cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com
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Probably not the article you want, but has a little tidbits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399039
exactly even a 10gbps line would only be a fraction of what AWS would charge you at a smaller outfit.
Interestingly, we had the Big Short on TV yesterday, and there is a section of the plot where the subprime mortgage defaults were shooting up, but the subprime mortgage bonds prices themselves were also going up.
That’s right, but BLAT uses a similar algorithm. I have edited my post accordingly.
It's a bait and switch. They give the search engines full text to crawl, and then nothing when a user clicks that link from their search. They got the tangible monetary benefits of having a high Google search ranking, without giving access to the actual content, which is how the web is supposed to work.

It's not my fault that news websites have continually debased their users with horrible advertising and tracking, to the point where ad-supported news is pretty much no longer viable. There are plenty of examples of smaller content offerings like podcasts which do quite well being ad-supported, because they have the trust of their audience, and they only accept quality advertisers so they can charge a premium for their ad space.

Books are different, they are not the web. I find things like Google Books very helpful, even for things like when I'm reading a physical book and want to look up which page I read something, even though I can't read the full book through it.
Metabase is fantastic for this use case.

Create a read replica, deploy metabase, connect it, start building visualizations. Or use the X-ray auto analysis feature to generate a bunch of mostly useful visualizations with a single click.
I was published in the journal Genome Research (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25792610/) mainly because I wrote a collection of Perl scripts that helped a PhD student with Genomic search. Perl is still a secret weapon that I use to automate tasks and transmogrify data.
Chances are even if google crawled 12ft.io it wouldn't show in the results because it'd be duplicate content.
I'd rather encourage people to post useful things on their own sites. Maybe, hopefully, one day, both google and other search engines might start penalizing content farms and have personal blogs and websites surface again.

> Reddit is almost the only useful site left to find actual things written by humans.

The one, most important thing (the way I see it), is never actually mentioned. I'm gonna call it: "organic advertising". I will never, consciously, take any advice I see on reddit/hn.

Last time It was obvious for me, I was browsing/procrastinating throgh r/all, and somebody, a "real human" with an actual "real" account (I checked his history) posted a drawing made by his kid. Second-most upvoted comment is blatant Crayola advert (checked that guys history, every 10-15th comment he was praising $random_top_us_brand). Rest of the thread, at least another dozen Crayola mentions, by real people, who religiously believe in Crayola...

Take a lot of top threads, there's always a swarm of seemingly "real" accounts religiously promoting most American top brands. Funnily enough, usually 1 brand per thread. Somehow fans of X never see the Y threads, and vice-versa...

I refuse to believe actual people will go out of their way to defend/promote/etc their $favorite_brand. Only on reddit/hn.
Moreover, every Python installation with Tkinter has Tcl built in. You can directly interact with that Tcl interpreter from the Python side.
That's how I started learning. I was researching online anonymity and Monero was the 'gateway drug' (yeah, not Doge or even Bitcoin) into the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem. There's a lot to learn just setting up an account on an exchange, and in respect to anonymity, many on-ramp gaps have been closed fairly recently (as a result of the explosion in popularity in early 2021) so those seeking such things are increasingly pushed to less-trustworthy fringe services (no judgement on the right- or wrong-ness of any aspect of this) where you may just be kissing your fiat goodbye - but then those seeking anonymity are probably OK with a certain level of risk.
I guess this made it to the front page of HN because the mods are sleeping?
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23144380 (1224 points | 2 years ago | 200 comments)
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in the short-term while proof-of-work phases out (limiting transaction fees) and the volume of unmined Bitcoin continues to diminish (hopefully bringing price stability to BTC and the market as a whole)

Neither of these are correct BTW. PoW/PoS has nothing to do with transaction throughput and BTC will never be stable.

Getting burnt by scammers is as good a reason as any to avoid crypto altogether. Even if testnet currencies aren’t material and don’t represent real losses, getting scammed or worse (i.e. having your identity exposed) will disincentivise users in the onboarding process from continuing their dive down the rabbit hole.

If real crypto can't be made secure (see earlier "almost got scammed" article) then it's unrealistic to give people a secure learning environment. Arguably the testnet should be even scammier than the real cryptoverse so that people can either toughen up or give up before real money is involved.
Innovative wind turbine blade design
cryptopals is a good way to learn about practical crypto exploits
I was inspired by your comment and took a look at Daniel's work.

Forked it and spent the day upgrade to Aesara (the maintained Theano fork) and python3.

Haven't fully trained/tested the model, but feel free to take a look: https://github.com/kpister/biaxial-rnn-music-composition
but what if I do all of the above?
> it's completely okay IMO to wonder what it would be like working a trade.

That's not the issue. The issue is assuming it's something you could "just do" to remove the stress in your life, as though the job is trivial.
Out of curiosity— can you think of any high-risk ways to learn to write crypto code? Do it while driving? Start throwing untested ideas into production in a large database of personal information? Do it for an international drug cartel?
It is homoiconic without parenthesis soup. It also supports removing commands to the point of being non-Turing complete. That makes it useful as a configuration language for non-trusted input that can be extended as needed.
Its making a point about embodied learning, curiousity, and work as a healthy part of life. Imo, the framing is a hell of a lot more interesting than the implementation details of port binding.
Pink sheets and movie Wolf of Wall Street, seen either?
It would be a lot more useful if it stayed at the same position on the screen. It keeps moving to the left or right with every comment, depending on the length of the username of the person who posted the comment.

You could just keep clicking next without searching for it if it was at the same place above or beside a comment all the time.
so do we need to know code to use this? Say, how to automate the grinding of a MMOs if I only go to a fixed place and farm fixed mobs?
Perl was my first language in the 90s....got good at it over the next 10 years...then it sort of fell off the map.
With Reddit you can either read half the comments, the top three comments, or sometimes nothing, because "this community is available in the app" or "log in to read the rest of the discussion" or whatever other flavour of user hostile design the company put out this week.

For some obscure reason it's also terribly slow on my desktop even if I'm logged in. It's a terrible experience all around. And no, I don't want to manually change the URL or install some third party add-on to fix their intentionally broken website.
I feel like you keep missing the point. Why are there still outbreaks 6 years later? (Answer: Because we keep causing the outbreaks.)

Is the plan to just keep vaccinating forever? Doesn't that mean that eradication failed? Wild type 2 is extinct, so why are we still fighting it? (Answer: Because we are fighting our own actions.)

> We know how to do it even with our existing vaccines.

You sure? Because it sure doesn't look like success from here.

> they happen in places with inadequate vaccination

If that were true why the switch to bivalent? How can you have "adequate" vaccination when we are not even vaccinating in the first place?

> and are eliminated using a proven playbook.

That's exactly the problem - they do not get eliminated. All we are doing is keeping outbreaks from getting huge, by creating small outbreaks.

This new vaccine is a complete game changer, not the incremental step you think it is.
I looked into this, apparently it is a legal requirement in the US for contacts.

That said, for normal eyeglasses, there are many sites that offer eyeglasses without proof of prescription. I've been buying eyeglasses from Zenni Optical for almost a decade for my whole family. Most recently in 2021. I have never once even been asked for proof of prescription, I just punch in my numbers and hit order.
Literally a few bucks doesn't buy a single transaction fee now. The article mentions that sacrificing gas fees of up to US$100 to buy a $221 image of a bee or having to purchase a minimum amount of governance tokens to properly participate in a DAO of your choosing isn't a good experience for newcomers. If you think fees will never be fixed, fine, but otherwise it's giving people a false impression of crypto.
Couple of tools not yet mentioned:

PopSql - https://popsql.com

Trevor - https://trevor.io
Ah, agree to disagree on that one. That view seems exploitive to me. Moderation, OSS maintainers, etc are all doing those jobs for free and providing them to us for free but there is a large opportunity cost.

That's where the saying "it's not worth my time" comes from. If I asked you why you don't maintain and moderate reddit for free (I'm sure they would be happy to have you there and pay you nothing) I would assume your answer would be I have better things to do with my time or I don't have enough time. i.e. I need to be paid for that to be worth it.
> A Look at Low-Risk Ways to Learn Crypto

1. Don't. There are no non-scam use-cases for blockchain that don't have better non-blockchain solutions.

2. If you must, focus on implementing a toy blockchain in $LANG_OF_CHOICE. At least that way you get programming practice.
Jay Powell?
There are a few recent studies that clearly indicate we have barely scratched the surface in understanding both the neurological nature of addiction as well as the mechanisms by which programs like 12-steps work.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26306329/

"We explore the impact that the molecular neurobiological basis of the 12 steps can have on Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) despite addiction risk gene polymorphisms... It begs the question as to whether "12 steps programs and fellowship" does induce neuroplasticity and continued dopamine D2 receptor proliferation despite carrying hypodopaminergic type polymorphisms"
I think the idea is that people who have had done their Computer Networks homework at the college coffee shop with their friends Tim and Liz can identify with the article. It's a niche audience but it's the only reason the author can imagine anyone would be interested in it. It's unappealing to me because despite having (re-)imagined this whole scene himself, the author can't really imagine why the reader would want to know, why I would want to know. If he could, then he would have motivated it that way instead.
You definitely have more interesting conversations than I have. I have known many people from Poland, many people from China, many from Mexico, and many people from Japan. Yet I was never smart enough to survey them systematically about their reactions to another country’s views on wolves.
i vividly remember as a kid i saw an ad /show for "the human genome project" on "the national geographic channel" what was later called "natgeo".

i must have been a small kid back then but i remember thinking "boy, i wish i had those so i could check mine". in hindsight, they must've done a pretty good job of explaining the project because kid me could understand what they were trying to say. kudos to them. i have never seen it in the last 15 odd years, maybe more but today i can recall "elephants" in the ad for some reason.
Are you sure its contents are human?

Here is a bot which summarises long text.
http://autotldr.io/

I think you will find most of the content on reddit is intelligence services phishing for info, invoking a bit of cognitive dissonance and complementing people's education to bring them up to date for what is acceptable and not in a global world.

Also surprised to see no mention of the fact that reddit is also structured so "humans" can train an AI, just like Google's I'm not a robot is an AI visual recognition training program, which everyone should be familiar with, more so if you are aware of Donald Rumsfeld's Known Knowns speech because you can apply this 4 compartment test to many things in life, including police detective work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
I had a similar response doing a mostly vegan calorie restricted low protein diet. I was blown away because I had always been told protein = recovery, calories = recovery, but I have been able to rock climb pretty hard 6 days a week for the past 4 months now. Keto, general healthy eating, tons of supplements and all the other things I have tried have resulted in maybe 3-4 hard sessions a week and achy joints.
I believe many are invested, and the fix is in.
> Is there a good derisive term for them?

I've heard a few, but they don't seem to stick: for a while, Social Justice Warrior was in vogue, and lately, I'm seeing a bunch of variants of woke, which I imagine are spoken italicized to signify vitriol and/or contempt.

Edit: I had forgotten cuck - though that's broader, and would be used as a derisive to all persona non grata not just the nerds.
Now that you mention it...yes exactly that.
Curious to hear your thoughts on the play date?
Ask HN: What are some things to do when visiting Mountain View?
I'm thinking of moving to Mountain View and I'm coming to stay for a few weeks to test the waters and check out the area before I make that larger decision.

A lot of the sites list what I assume are normal tourist traps but I'd like to maybe hear from some locals in terms of food and places to check out.

I like outdoors activities and basically anything food wise except seafood if that helps. Musically I enjoy basically any genre. Happy to check out art and theater as well even though I'm largely an idiot in that area.

Which is to say I'm largely open to most experiences if at least only once, so suggest away :)
I am a math graduate student with an undergrad degree in math. I think there is so much wrong with the original article, this response and math academia that I don't even know where to begin. I am already cringing when I get to the title. "Why won't anyone teach me math?" Really? Why don't you go to the math library and pick up a textbook? The course is only there to test your knowledge and give you a grade, you shouldn't need someone else to teach you information that can optimally be transferred through the medium of a textbook.

I don't side with the author of the response article either. I understand that math departments need to take the idea of math education seriously because it happens to be their primary source of income, but I personally don't actually believe in most of the underlying premises. I got into the subject because I wanted to be left alone to muck around with equations, books and fractals, but I ended up doing "math drills" I hated in a "math boot camp" for 3 years.

Math at the university level has become far detached from reality and deeply politicized. We need to fully embrace the "hands off" approach so that students can learn the skill of mathematical reading. Courses should be like "Here's the textbook. Here's the homework due in 1 week. I don't care if you use the internet. I won't bore you with the lecture. Exams will be the same format."
Even in that scenario, it'll still serve as a hedge.
This is where hosts blocking comes in handy with portable devices. It's a shame this requires root access, mostly because banks and other apps like it's a sin to have admin access on your personal device.
CVE-2021-23567
> I think there is something abut the manual labor that gives you a daily sense of accomplishment.

I think a good part of it is also the fact that manual labor involves physical activity, which in itself can help to improve mood.
Sure. Google returns what's out there, and people put stuff out there that reflects their biases.

But, the claim was that "techbro" was wrongly being conflated with "white man." In this case, we're talking precisely about these biases. These image search results seem to be evidence against that claim.
The commit that caused this: https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/commit/074a0f8ed0c31c35d1...
I've been writing a lot of lisp lately, and I don't know that homoiconicity is in and of itself a virtue. It's nice to have, I suppose, but I don't see what it really brings to the table other than a time-saving hack for reading configuration from disk.
Spectrum licenses are hardly the furnace. No more so than the DMV recognizing the revenue from car registrations or drivers license renewals.
If you don't want people "moving the goalposts", don't set them up at the 40-yard line, where they very apparently do not go.

You are bringing a lot of vitriol to the table, unprompted. A personal failing is that I can't help but respond, but I am able to leave it at that.
TCL is also used in a lot of bots
+1 for https://cryptopals.com/
Same for various GNU[0] test requirements (DejaGnu[1]). Tcl at its core[2].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/1.16.1/html_nod...

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/manual/index.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaGnu
Thanks for saying my comment doesn't matter, and writing it off. Very productive, and inquisitive.

Perhaps you do not have much experience here, but semantics matter, A LOT, when one makes accusations.

Were the blog framed more generously - for example, "Is YC's influence and impact crowding out other investors?", my response would be generous in kind.
Tableau is a webapp version of basically SAS JMP, especially the plotting engine. So easy to create plots - literally 100x faster than matplotlib. I can drag things faster than I can type.

Tableau is really amazing actually.
Interesting thing about the Trump tax cuts was that government tax revenue never declined. The year after they went into effect, Federal tax revenues were higher.

Was pretty shocked when I saw this because the corporate rate cut was huge. Perhaps offset by SALT changes
Seriously, why aren't more manpages like that.

It even looks good, and I say that as someone who has a strong distaste for plain text. It reminds me of the most impressive linguistic feat someone's ever seen (although this one actually uses extra spaces...): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28651093
Lincoln was definitely one of the behind-the-scenes heroes for many years. I haven't been watching the perl space for many years now. Did the GUI tools ever get any better? It's a shame that so many interesting languages end up in the same kinds of backwaters were it's nigh on impossible to create attractive (native-ish) GUI applications.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506170/

"In individuals who are vulnerable to addiction, repetitive exposure to the agent induces long-lasting neuroadaptative changes that further promote drug-seeking behaviors and ultimately lead to persistent and uncontrolled patterns of use that constitute addiction. These neuroadaptive changes are the bases for tolerance, craving, and withdrawal and lead to a motivational shift.3 Motivation to drug-seeking behavior is initially driven by impulsivity and positive reward. In contrast, compulsivity and negative affect dominate the terminal stages of the pathology. Addictions are in a sense “end-stage” diagnoses because at the time diagnosis is made potentially irreversible neuroadaptative change have occurred—changes that were preventable at an early point of the trajectory of the illness."

Two key things are pointed out here: 1. not everyone is vulnerable to addiction, and 2. "addiction" as understood behaviourally, is an "end-stage" diagnosis of possible irreversible neuroadaptative changes".
I think copypastas are a particularly good fit for an AI to create, since they follow a rigid structure with word substitutions based on a particular topic.
Sadly the article is not about Crypto like in RSA but Crypto like in BTC...
You got a source for this? I looked on google but wasn't able to find anything about selling our strategic helium reserve?
5 year CPI breakevens are still 2.8%. So the market is still pricing bonds expecting inflation to cool. If inflation persists at 5%+, then bond yields will almost certainly rise.
whoever downvoted me is proving my point
lmao wild. There are people dumb enough to believe this stuff?
human-readable-text-over-HTTP is planet scalable