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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages(james-iry.blogspot.com)
2 points by maxfan8 6y ago|0 comments
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Good idea! The base images are probably not in danger of being deleted though. The other issue is that (to my knowledge) the amount of papers on IA isn't terribly impressive. I think maybe indexing and going through SciHub will be bett
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Yeah, good idea — I’m not in these fields so it’s difficult for me to judge. Also, it sounds like we should be prioritizing niche images that only a handful of papers use rather than images that people rely upon regularly.
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Yep, just mentioned it to the Archive Team IRC. We're probably going to selectively archive particular Docker images, although that's a lot of manual labor. If you have any ideas wrt to selecting important images, that'd be g
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by maxfan8 6y ago
This is only a benefit during cold seasons or in colder regions of the world.
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by maxfan8 6y ago
These would have to be pretty large and updated regularly. Why not use as k-anonymity scheme? A decent amount of password managers use that to see if the password a user generated is unique.
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Here is the WBM archive of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20200708064647/https://www.howeq... (for those who can't access the original site due to it being hugged to death)
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by maxfan8 6y ago
I can’t seem to load this page (getting infinite redirects from https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/07/15/how-obje... <-> https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/202
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by maxfan8 6y ago
My point is that there is no reason why you wouldn’t used fixed-size symmetric keys which are more performant, prevent leaking message size, and have all the other security properties that you’d get if you just used SSSS.
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Alright, Fine, I’ll Add a Disclaimer to My Emails(mcsweeneys.net)
4 points by maxfan8 6y ago|0 comments
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by maxfan8 6y ago
> While SSSS provides information theoretic security, there are a couple of security gotchas. One example is that it leaks the length of a secret unless padding is used. In practice this isn’t usually an issue, since many applications (l
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Proof of work algorithm in Monero based on random code execution(github.com)
65 points by maxfan8 6y ago|88 comments
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Shouldn’t the title of this have a “Show HN: “ prepended?
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by maxfan8 6y ago
I would be interested - I’ve been thinking of turning google docs into a solid cms backend for static site generation.
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Sure, medical professionals get paid a lot. They also have a lot of tuitions/student loans to pay. Training and educating medical professionals is not a cheap task.
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Is this open source?
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Is there a timeline for adding math support to GH markdown? I've had to resort to human-side rendering to put LaTeX/math in a GitHub flavored markdown file.
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Extradition of Huawei Executive Clears a Major Legal Hurdle in Canada(nytimes.com)
4 points by maxfan8 6y ago|0 comments
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Awesome idea! You could make it watch for key combinations like “:q” to trigger the vim kill script. Makes life much easier.
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by maxfan8 6y ago
That’s interesting. Maybe it’s considered hyper correct? Which style manual are you referring to?
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by maxfan8 6y ago
This a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955606
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Nice job! Try editing the title to Show HN: (more appropriate).
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by maxfan8 6y ago
For all the cynical comments here, 3M has published guidance on sanitizing and disinfecting half and full facepiece respirators: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1793959O/cleaning-and-di... Note that TCID
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by maxfan8 7y ago
Perhaps initially, citation indexes were useful (i.e. they were a good metric to solve certain productivity issues), but lost their usefulness since people started to optimize and target that specific metric (along the lines of Goodhart&#x2
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by maxfan8 7y ago
I was referring to the comment to which I replied, not the trilemma.
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by maxfan8 7y ago
This argument is a classic example of the vicious circle principle [1]. The self-referential nature of this interesting argument makes it somewhat meaningless (from a logical perspective). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by maxfan8 7y ago
Here is the archive link to get around the paywall: http://archive.vn/NW0Vy
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Coronavirus lockdown ignites an old Italian debate. It’s about pasta, of course(qz.com)
3 points by maxfan8 7y ago|2 comments
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by maxfan8 7y ago
It sounded like dataflow was doing a Fermi estimate, which usually need to be within one order of magnitude of the real answer to be considered decent. I think the reason why they didn’t like the headline was because it seemed like it was s
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by maxfan8 7y ago
This is similar to how QubesOS converts “untrusted PDFs” in a disposable VM. Quite nifty, particularly if you use OCR afterwards. See: https://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2013/02/converting-u...

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