skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thinking is that Apple will try to gradually replace password-oriented access control with a mix of PKI and key redundancy.

Based on the company's movements towards public-key based two-factor authentication, I think they can reasonably get away with phasing out password-based account recovery by relying on two methods:

1) The user has more than one trusted device authenticated to the iCloud account; account recovery can take place using the other trusted device and passwords are not required

2) The user only has one trusted device; the user has a primary public/private key pair that encrypts all data on the client, but in addition there are 9 backup keys which are generated on the client, never transferred to Apple and (hopefully) written down by the user

In the second scenario, Apple bypasses the obstacle to full PKI-based access control by implementing authenticating key redundancy instead of authenticating device redundancy. User data can be end-to-end encrypted by each key, transferred to iCloud, and if the user loses access to the device they can recover their account data using one of the recovery keys.
"this shouldn't impact you"

"should" is a word InfoSec professionals chuckle at.
I find the description confusing: "snek is a simple data structure for working with vertices and edges"

If I hear data structure lisp code is not on my mind, so it's rather an API or a drawing library?

What am I manipulating exactly?

; context start
(with-snek (snk)

What's in `snk`? Sorry, I never used lisp before

Do you plan to write an API documentation?
Having issues with the Seedbox, torrents are down temporarily.

The main page contains links to Mega.NZ alternative downloads.
Will be fixed shortly, apologies for the inconvenience.
lol no we sell everything

these privacy obsessed liberal types can cry all they want about something never had but I'm still making money and they are still wrong

also what have they ever done for me other than get in the way?

it's survival of the fittest

if i wasn't making money selling their information I'd probably be in the gutter like the homeless they ignore and neglect everyday (see san francisco)
So this isn't snark: explain to me what Uber's done that's "great"? They burn VC money in a trash bin in pursuit of a business model that looks totally nonviable unless one achieves a monopolistic position or pays below-minimum-wage rates (as that seems to be what the race to the bottom is for drivers).

I'd bet that the overwhelming majority of those board members were rich before Uber and will be rich after Uber dissipates.
Semantics is syntax.

All semantics has ever been about is not causing parse errors during the decoding step of the sentence, and the constraints imposed on that.

'Syntax' is usually confined to "low level" concerns, while 'semantics' to those above, but the distinction is arbitrary and artificial.

There is no meaning but usage.
Uh, I explicitly want to be tracked and actively try to make sure my data is clean and plentiful. I've only ever seen positive outcomes to more tracking.
Combed Guids are normally only partly sequential​.

It means they go be generated on any machine, returned to the user, and the request placed on a queue.

Without completely messing up a clustered index.
Thyroid test is the first thing psychiatrist look at when dealing with mood disorder. Wouldn't this kind of problem be diagnose and treated immediately? Or are the "standard" tests not accurate enough? What kind of "non-standard" tests should one be asking for?
Would you guys be open to receive an application directly in an email with an intro?
I don't track people in the first place on my websites, but third party content is a good point. I generally will self host all of my assets, but occasionally embed a YouTube video or something. I should probably put it behind a click-to-enable thing. I removed Disqus comments from my blog a while ago, too, because a platform for flamewars isn't worth tracking visitors over.
It rings true to me. I have a math PhD, and taught at various levels. Something I can say is that while I'm not sure that everyone is capable of groking advanced math, a person who can do that could actually come from anywhere, at least. And our system isn't really all that great at seeking that capability out. Unless you are in a fairly privileged group.
Universal Mathematics: All Life on Earth Is Bound by One Spooky Algorithm
i heard this question raised on a podcast and my understanding is that the gains from analog computing do not in favt yield orders of magnitude more efficiency, so digitization is not as much of a loss as one might think
I realized in my math undergraduate studies that mathematicians have merely "sat" with the material longer. Sure, some people seem to click with certain topics reliably faster than average (even than their apparent peers). But ultimately solving a problem comes easier the more problems you have solved. If a geometry problem obscurely relies on some trick involving a right triangle then someone who knows more about triangles will solve it faster.

There's also a caustic societal problem involved. People will declare themselves bad at math and stop trying. There is no bad or good at math. There is only persistence.
An introduction to Wayland
First read "more is different". Solid state physicists were first to pioneer in this field: http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72mo...

There's a very light book by some modern author that's not terrible: Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684868768/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_3Wxp...

If you want to really dig in though you need some math: Emergence of Dynamical Order: Synchronization Phenomena in Complex Systems (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems, Vol. 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/9812388036/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_.Yxp...

Final suggestion is most of the stuff is online at different professors websites. Warning: the field is full of meaningless fluff too, and there's a lot of qucks mixed in with genuinely interesting science.
It's an interesting concept but I think the application would be troubling. Corporate responsibility is a system that's not particularity well suited a tool for spiritual or emotional guidance at an automated level. You can argue it is the very culprit for increased anxiety in the face of an automated workforce, and an escalating competitive workforce intellect amongst the population at large.

tl'dr You recharge you batteries in life a number of healthy and natural ways.
Setting a High Bar and Holding People Accountable
As I understand it, the theory is not balf of the issue, but the ammount of data processed and generated in training is too much to verify to comprehend manually. So research is currently adding printf debugging, to let the NN explain what it sees, instead of blindly trusting the results.
There are some nice features of the UI in OpenShift that I'm missing in the kube dashboard, such as the terminal.

Also the ability to split up access to workspaces in OpenShift could be useful, though I don't know if that's accomplished with actual API objects or whether it would map onto kube.
How long until I can buy an Adruino or Raspberry Pi sort of development board that has a chip implementing the RISC-V ISA?

Is anything like that available today? Anything planned?
Apache RocketMQ - open source distributed messaging and streaming data platform
No service that uses a third party server can guarantee privacy unless they let you see the servers.

For common users the question is if you trust the server operator, and if not, to consider your communications insecure. What they do about that is up to them. And it is up to these providers to earn trust.
> do people still use the App Store

Yes people spend billions of dollars a month on the App Store.
This is typical propaganda that's been used for decades to smear nuclear energy, which is by far the safest and cleanest large scale energy source currently available to mankind. There have been zero causalties from civilian reactors - ever. Furthermore, the fuel rods (which are not recycled but should be) used for the past 40 YEARS could fit in a volume of a football field dug 8 yards deep. The idea that this is too hard to deal with, is the biggest lie of the entire anti-nuclear conspiracy.

https://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/On-S...
Not really, if you block the domains of the trackers or prevent their scripts or remote content from running altogether there's no fingerprint for them to get. That does only apply to 3rd parties though, but they are often the main concern.
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I think Tharkun mean "lead" as in leaded gasoline and lead paint.
> but people use C++ for the times when they do.

Nope; people use C++ for all the times ... when what they know best is C++. Which is all the time for a lot of C++ developers, I suspect.

Then, for a whole bunch of other times not covered by that case, they choose C++ because of tooling and surrounding code into which that code must integrate. If you need a parser, and it has to integrate into a C++ program, you probably choose C++ for that reason, and then write the parser in whatever way you are able while trying to keep it understandable and maintainable, which may not be the most efficient approach. You do that even if you can write the parser in six other languages.

The idea that C++ is always selected for speed and used accordingly rings fallacious to me. It's not even the way it should be; choosing the ideal language (and ideal way of using that language) for every little subtask in a large project is going to be harmfully counterproductive. Unless the language count can be kept to no more than two or three.
Because in larger clusters, the cluster can fix any issues if one hosts goes offline (load balancing) or a database gets corrupted.

In a single cluster configuration, anything going wrong can destroy your cluster's capability. Think of it as RAID, the more drives, the more you can do for high availability.
Hey, I was thinking recently about porting something to RISC-V. After short research looks like there is qemu fork[0] that could be a good start if I don't want to spend money (probably horribly slow, but better than nothing). Unfortunately I couldn't find any Linux distro to run on it. Would be grateful for any advice.

[0] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-qemu
I'm hoping for the success of RISC-V, an open ISA would solve many binary compatibility issues and free chip makers to compete on the merits of their microarchitecture and not their ISA lock in ( cough cough Intel).

That being said, I doubt it's going to happen. Chip makers have a strong incentive to have a proprietary USA that they can use for lock in a la x86.
My first point was that newspapers have not changed their reporting in any substantive ways over the past decades, so any perceived or measured increase of anxiety cannot have been directly caused by their reporting. Selectively picking news or overexposure to news sources could be part of the problem, though. Nytimes is not a major pusher of crisis.

My second point was that the OP did not differentiate between newspapers and TV channels, but that their reporting is substantially different. I have no doubt that exposure to an abundance of 'news' TV channels such as Fox News or CNN, and their online services, can increase anxiety and maybe even distort people's views of the world. For example, the overall conditions for mankind is continuously improving in terms of standards of living, hygienic and medical standards, equality, absence of wars and major conflicts, etc., conditions have generally even improved in the worst regions of the world, but this is not commonly perceived that way.

But the claim is that this effect is mostly due to TV, not due to newspapers and other news sources. Of course, I could be wrong about that, just wanted to clarify what I've meant.

Finally, neither this nor any other statement I have made has anything to do with politics.
Interesting details vs kafka

https://rocketmq.incubator.apache.org/rocketmq/how-to-suppor...
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The statements in the article, even if true, in no way motivate the claim in the title (and the text).

"In other words, all my experience in mathematics tells me I do not have an absolute ability limit. Nor, I am sure, do you. Mathematical proficiency is indeed a spectrum."

Of course it's a spectrum, and sure practice helps anyone. But that in no way implies that there is no such thing as a "math gift". In fact, the spectrum presupposes that some people are on the most advanced part of it. They are the ones with the gift. The ones on the other end don't have the gift. They may have other gifts, and they may be productive members of society nonetheless, but they don't have the math gift.
Even the best advisors charge 1%, which seems insanely high to me, considering what one can do with a discount brokerage, some index funds, and bit of research on rebalancing and taxes each year.
I wonder why this hasn't received more comments in the last 3 days.
A non-tracking, embeddable comments widget would be a Good Thing. I wonder if anyone would pay $12 a year for that service, and whether that would be enough to support it.
Would you guys consider accepting an intro email? I feel your submission form is not enough for a good introduction.
This resonates with me. I would like to add age element. When I was younger learning to a ride a bike was an all consuming objective and a big achievement. I didn't need an alarm to wake up to go try riding again. This was followed by the different big schools, football matches against what always seemed were bigger boys ... Each one all consuming.

Being a middle class grown up is not inspiring. Work, code, moderate exercise (no more football), meetings, dinner, pay bond, repeat. Its been pretty much the same for the last 15 years in my case.
Your parents didn't have to search for very long, and you happened to be available. Both of these circumstances are quite unusual.
I have this book, I recommend it especially if you like math and you are a teenager.
Helping the power user is the whole point imo: let those who know what they're doing see and run the code themselves. As such, it doesn't matter whether Apple is in some business or not, it's simply a security measure.
> _Google hopes prove ..._

I am guessing that was meant to be "hopes _to_ prove", or else we're at the point now where for Google, merely hoping for something to be true makes it true.

Or are we using the mechanism of "hope" to delineate between classical computers and quantum computers, one of which we now consider Google to be?
>If you're buying a tablet and consuming "apps", then why do you care about compatibility with old Windows desktop applications?

Because you operate some piece of enterprise software that was built in the 90s and is working just fine up until now.

Average end-users (and to a certain degree cloud customers) aren't that picky about backwards compatibility, but enterprise customers certainly are.
Why? A 12 line open source JavaScript library would do the same thing and wouldn't have to hit up external services in the first place.
I'm surprised that you live in France and say the fruit is tasteless. Whenever I visit France from the UK, I am always impressed by the French people's willingness to go taste over convenience. Visit a French supermarket and the fruit will give the impression that they were ripened in the field - they'll be on the verge of being over-ripe, luscious and sticky. They supermarket will smell of ripening fruit

Typically, when I travel to the US, I find the produce look gorgeous but taste of very little. The UK seems to straddle the middle.
I too am curious & wonder how this compares with Electron.
Laws operating in a grotesque and unfair way is hardly confined to intellectual property law.
But they often do.
Paywalled link
Cool, thanks. I was trying to run the tool on one of Packet.net's ThunderX servers, which have no 32-bit support in the CPU itself. I'm grateful for your kudos, but it might be misplaced - I wouldn't have engaged my shell-foo if it had run :)

Will take a look at CEF, though my dev skills have atrophied in recent years.
I'd like to try this method with a nix package.
Really it's the other way around: peek is complex so the compiler didn't inline it. In essence, you do a virtual call which I think winds you up in

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/1cb6c2eb3b8361d850be8...

which itself redirects to a whole bunch of stuff.

The virtual call alone is a lot more expensive than a simple pointer dereference, and though it's possible proper inlining might have alleviated some of this problem, you're not particularly likely to see it come close to something that's efficient by design.
Slapbot?
Dualism and Mind
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You're right, MAOIs and tricyclics are usually more effective than any of the newer classes. They also have drastically worse side effects, especially when you look at discontinuation rates. We're talking about the difference between making eating cheese extremely dangerous and possibly fatal (some MAOIs) and sexual dysfunction (most SSRIs).

That also wasn't what they said: the claim was that antidepressants weren't really effective, not that they haven't really gotten better in the 21st century.
their drivers are the training set for their self driving cars.

thats how they want to become profitable.
you manipulate a data structure that contains vertices and edges. there is more about it here http://inconvergent.net/snek-is-not-an-acronym/.

snk is an instance of snek, so it contains a realisation of the structure and its current state.
Data structures and algorithms problems collection in C/C++
Open sourcing helps everybody. Power users make sure its save for them, if it is, it is save for 'normal' users as well.

I don't need to read Signal code to have confidence in its working.
I have to wonder if English is really the best language for NLP research. Things like the Winograd schemas which have attracted a lot of attention simply aren't possibilities in other languages.

Why not start working with more structured agglutinative * languages like Japanese/Korean and Indic family (Sanskrit esp.) .

How about other European languages ? Are they better structured empirically ? I hear German is very grammatical, and that Hungarian is ... erm odd ?

( Note: I know occidental tradition likes to split Indic tongues, and Indo in Indo-European is not considered agglutinative. I don't subscribe to this view. I use agglutinative in the sense of Panini: "particles" sticking to stems/roots/words - phonetic modifications are irrelevant for grammar.)
To your first question: I'm interpreting you to mean a zero day of the form, "The NSA is aware of a cryptanalytic weakness in this encryption algorithm"; as opposed to a backdoor, e.g. "Microsoft provided a way for the NSA to bypass Skype's encryption without breaking it."

I don't recall any specific examples off the top of my head, but I believe it's probably happened and does happen. But backdoors are much more common; so much so in fact, that I'm led to believe the NSA doesn't have significantly greater cryptanalytic capabilities than academia and industry these days, given that their modus operandi is usually to demand a backdoor rather than breaking it. Their advantages probably stem from access to superior computing power or simply much more of it. I imagine a lot of the agency's research is in fundamental paradigm shifts that can broadly attack many algorithms (like quantum computing) - my edit at the bottom gives an example of this.

To your (implied) second question: it's probably not true that zero days are easier. When a company like Apple develops a novel cryptosystem, the NSA is not likely to break it for years (barring conspiracy-theoretic capabilities that we have no way of verifying). Zero days incur massive amounts of research and development time to go from identifying a useful cryptanalytic weakness (i.e. get an algorithm from exponential, to sub-exponential to quadratic time) to deploying an exploit. All the while, earnest cryptographers in industry and academia are attempting the same thing, except they'll publish their results. And if the NSA has a functional exploit, they will use it like you would a classified weapon: sparingly.

EDIT: Actually, your question reminded me of differential cryptanalysis. That's more of a paradigm of attacks against a variety of algorithms instead of a zero day against any one particular encryption algorithm; still, the NSA apparently developed differential cryptanalysis and maintained it as a classified capability before the public community independently came up with it. That probably qualifies for your question.
Uber's long-time chief business officer to resign Monday
This place is not a place of honor.
No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Nothing valued is here.
This place is a message and part of a system of messages.
Pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us.
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

Hard to imagine a circumstance in which such a statement is not a lie. In this case it's a real doozy; plutonium is the most valuable substance on Earth.

On the other hand, maybe such a confused people do not deserve it.
The market is punishing Uber for a lack of basic human decency. Good.
Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world role-playing game based on the 1990 PC title Cyberpunk 2020.

Kids today, completely forgotten that there was a time when role-playing games came in bound paper books rather than computers.
The board didn't ride his coattails -- the board's money is the reason the company still exists.

Your argument about "coattails," and your Steve Jobs example, make it seem like you believe that a company exists for the benefit of its founders. That's true if the entire company is the founders in a garage making things, but it all changes once the company takes outside investment -- after that, the company exists for the benefit of its shareholders.

The board has a right to make sure the company is run well -- they company gave the board that right in exchange for the board's money. If the CEO is hurting the company, its investors, and its employees, it is good for the board to step in and prevent him from doing so, even if he was the founder.
Uber’s board meets to discuss the ‘ugly’ Holder report
Uber Chief Business Officer Emil Michael to Resign
> No service that uses a third party server can guarantee privacy unless they let you see the servers.

And there are no services that do that. Since that doesn't seem to be possible. Open sourcing the backend doesn't help here since you still have to blindly trust the server operators.
SiFive released the HiFive1, which is Arduino-compatible. It is the fastest Arduino compatible board on the market, but on the down side it lacks ADCs.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530797
Oh off the top of my head:

- You have to persist comments right? 12 lines of JS?

- You generally want some sort of (cross-site) user management

- Spam

- Moderation

Seems a bit more complex than 12 lines of js.

[Edited to add 'cross-site']
You can say it's a great waste if you'd like. But it is huge. Ubiquitous. World-changing. Uber will be in history books, whether or not it pans out as a valuable company: we'll see. But it has already earned its greatness, even if said greatness was just burning billions of dollars to transform our world.
Because that 'waste' is fuel for 4th generation breeder reactors and will be used as such. The result of that process is low grade waste that you can dump a meter of topsoil on and build a park or kindergarten on top of. Guarapari beach is more radioactive. There is no such thing as nuclear waste.
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Do I smell another Oracle v. Google style bullshit lawsuit?
That's what I am trying to say, "Helping the power user" is not the business Apple is in.
Out of curiosity: Besides the Hololens, what are some amazing things their research has generated in the past 10 years?