skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article makes it sound like the EAC is the only agency in charge of election infosec.

Normally, a move like this might not be a big deal, but given the current administration's refusal to acknowledge prior election interference despite the IC's unanimous claim of said interference, this seems worrying.
Pity they had to do it fraudulently. This is not exactly a bespoke product though. 4 years in jail/7 months house arrest is not a great thing to have on your record either but I guess the payday made it worth it for them.
A bit unrelated, but since, Bron, you are obviously reading this: I love your blog, the only thing that drives me crazy: I can’t see the scroll bar in your blog posts on my mobile. I guess it’s because it’s rendered in white. Scroll bars, however, are great to have an indication how much of a page I’ve read already, like a download bar. Not having it drives me nuts :-)
Also - if it has a DKIM signature on it (or ARC chain), then you can't modify your copy and still have the signature pass. And that signature was probably made with a private key that you don't control.
Unions? Government employees? They aren't even on the top ten of 'most powerful organizations in the country.' Not for the past four decades - Ronald Reagan fixed that glitch.

What's going to happen is that paid shills will start publishing op-eds citing a handfull of executives and upper managers who gamed the pension payments system with overtime, resulting in massive payouts for themselves, drum up public outrage about lazy government workers, and pass an across-the-board haircut. It will, as always, be turned into a red vs blue issue - and half the time, red's in charge.
I mean, a serious FPGA lab would simply keep their FPGA techniques secret until they build a sizable advantage. There's a lot of tech that would be built up: a custom memory controller, an implementation of various Cryptocoin PoW systems, and of course, the Bill of Materials for the ideal power-efficiency for various designs, etc. etc.

Something like an FPGA + Interposer to HMC would be a huge R&D effort, and just as centralizing.

BTW: None of the designs I've talked about are strictly speaking commodity. They'd require at a minimum, custom PCBs. Maybe more advanced techniques for the best technology (again: Custom Interposer to HMC + FPGA interface + all the Verilog / VHDL code to make it happen).

As long as an FPGA-based shop kept their FPGA PCB secret, as well as their code secret, and their Device Drivers secret (You'd probably run Linux / Windows to talk to the FPGA over PCIe) then they're basically going to be ahead of the rest of the competition. Eventually, the competition would catch up, but a constant R&D effort into newer designs (ie: testing HBM2 vs HMC vs RLDRAM3 vs QDRIV, building relationships with suppliers, etc. etc.) could lead into a sustainable business edge.

Heck, early on in Monero's life, some dude got to like 40%+ of the entire network's Hash Rate by simply writing better CPU code and keeping it for himself, and then spending hundreds-of-thousands of dollars on AWS: https://da-data.blogspot.com/2014/08/minting-money-with-mone...

> By the 14th of May, we were 45% of the total hashing power on the coin. Things started to get a little exciting

FPGAs would be that on steroids. There are way fewer Verilog / FPGA engineers. It also would require custom PCBs and hardware engineers to make it all happen. I wouldn't even know who to ask to design an Hybrid Memory Cube interposer and to fit it on an FPGA for example.
Two minutes or less, but that's the basic idea.

GTD also recommends sorting next actions into contexts where, for example, you don't even think about computer tasks when a computer is not around. By the time an action hits a list, it should be reasonably small yet well defined, similar to Scrum backlog refinement.

Perhaps playing to the crowd, he also wrote[0]

The biggest procrastinators are usually the most sophisticated, sensitive, creative, and intelligent people.

Nailed you, did I? Well, I assume you’re in the sophisticated, creative, and intelligent category. That probably means you have large numbers of things stuck in your mind, in your briefcase, and on your desk about which things are not moving forward quite as consistently as they could be.

Major reason: the precise next physical visible activity (next action) has probably not been decided on the to-do’s. The bright people usually have some sort of reminders about their projects and things to do on lists, in piles, or lying around, so they won’t forget to think about their commitments. Bully. But every time they catch the briefest glimpse of any of them, they instantly race forward in their mind, rapidly and intelligently creating images of all the possible pieces that have to fit together and all the things that might have to be involved in getting them to happen and all the possible negative consequences if any one of them slips (and all the things that they might be forgetting in all this). Whew! Freaked themselves right out. I’d quit, too.

[0]: https://gettingthingsdone.com/2016/06/who-are-the-biggest-pr...
reevaluate what they're being paid and promote them from junior to senior and pay them.
High-end cycling kit is absurdly expensive. A pro-level jersey from Assos, Rapha or Giordana retails for well over $200. The market isn't huge, but the margins are tremendous.
Your profile also says
> Greetings from Russia! #Bitcoin

Might be another reason ( or two ;) ) as to why you choose to use Yandex mail.
The real crazy is that Microsoft, who you would have thought would have known better given their long Windows on desktop history, dropped all support for an established platform (PocketPC) to focus on the Phone7/8/10 stuff.

This more than anything was perhaps what allowed Apple and Google to take over, as it signaled to companies that Microsoft was not committed to support them for the long haul.

Not long after we started to see abominations like iPhones fitted with barcode scanner cases to handle warehouse inventorying!
Ironic that the plan to keep mining decentralized requires centralization itself. Same thing happened with SIA earlier when another company beat SIA's founders to the market with an ASIC.
Considering that the name literally means little rice, they wouldn't be necessarily wrong. (at least it isn't 小蜜, which has a different meaning...)
New Silicon Chip-Based Quantum Computer Passes Major Test
I've noticed this as well. The personal project that netted me my first job was really just a LAMP CRUD site for torrents. Not a single person would be impressed by that today.
Any recommendations for a fairly inexpensive HF CW rig? Happy to build it myself
Look, obviously we don't have sales data - I'm not oblivious to that fact, and I know it's early - the product just launched last week. The only thing we can have a conversation around is the general sentiment among the audio community and the general excitement about the product by people in the press, and various market analysts' proxies.

The perspective I'm trying to give you is just one of the product landscape in the market. If you're in the market for this type of device, there aren't many out there and the ones that are out there have significant flaws at any price point. Look at how successful Sonos is - there is clearly a market for this kind of device - at the very least you must see that. Then look at how large Apple's consumer base is and look at the recently reported numbers for the growth of Apple Music - their paid subscriber rate is about to eclipse Spotify's.

Right now, we can only have a conversation around proxies for reasons you pointed out, but all proxies indicate a high probability of at least moderate success.
That's a great example of why unit testing is mostly useless.

Having an expected/input output set when writing something like a parser is standard practice. Turning that set into unit tests is worthless for a few reasons.

1: You will design your code to make them all pass. A unit test is useless if it always passes. When your test framework comes back saying x/x (100%) of tests have passed, you are receiving ZERO information as to the validity of your system.

2: You wrote the unit tests with the same assumptions, biases, and limitations as the code they're testing. If you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the system should do, it will manifest in both the code and the test. This is true of most unit tests - they are tautological.

3: While doing all of the above and achieving almost zero additional utility, you had to fragment your logic in a way that easily yields itself to unit testing. More than likely, that's not the most readable or understandable way said code could have been written. You sacrificed clarity for unit testability. Metrics like test code coverage unintentionally steer developers to writing unreadable tangled code.

The only use case for unit testing here would be if this parser was a component that gets frequently updated by many people or a component that gets implemented anew for different configurations. But at this point i'm just talking about regression testing, and there are many ways to do that other than unit testing.
A megabyte saved is still a megabyte saved. An mp3 sourced from a FLAC at 320kbps is ususally indistinguishable from 128kbps Opus to me, but I can often tell the difference between that and a 128kbps mp3. I encode all my music in 128kbps Opus on my storage constrained devices for that reason.
The cities/municipals do get federal money proportional to the number of peope registered there, and technically it's illegal not to register yourself when you move cities, but students still do the "I live at my parents'" thing.
This is one of many reasons why GitHub is my only social network.

Primarily, I just don’t like being a product.
Intelligence agencies generally avoid saying exactly why they suggest something and how they came to that conclusion. If agencies were fully open, adversaries would know what holes _they_ need to plug.
Regarding the "the sender" thing -- see my update above; sorry I was busy editing my comment before you posted this.

Regarding the secure message digest: if that's your claim, maybe clarify that "[DKIM-]signed messages are tamper-proof"? Because not all email messages are signed. Also, I think you can still upload messages with broken signatures (not sure?) in most mailboxes, and the user won't necessarily know either (who verifies DKIM signatures manually?)... but I'd have to double-check this.
> Are SpaceX going to breach the great firewall?

I don't know much of anything about international law, but I don't think that would ever work. Countries have sovereignty over their airwaves. If they require a permit to broadcast you need a permit to broadcast, even if the signal is coming from space. Countries have sovereignty over business conducted in their territory. China can just say that SpaceX's internet service is illegal. How should SpaceX get their illegal money out of China? What to they do with the (still illegal) money once it is out of China? How does SpaceX get ground stations for an illegal internet service into China?

Maybe SpaceX decides to give away free internet in China as a humanitarian publicity stunt, and flaunt the Chinese Government. They could publish the design for the base station and hope that sophisticated dissidents manufacture them. Now China uses every diplomatic avenue available to try to stop this: the UN, the ITU, espionage, treaties, whatever. Is the US going to cover for SpaceX? Will the state department decide to burn all of their bridges to the largest country on earth for the benefit of a publicity stunt? If China shot down SpaceX satellites, would they be justified in the eyes of the international community?
I love seeing posts like these where a company demonstrates what their core values really are, not just shallow slogans. I'm a happy Fastmail customer and just renewed for 5 more years.

Off-topic -: Do you plan to ever open source your Android app?
Xiaomi has almost zero presence in the US market, you can't get their phones here unless you go via a grey market importer.
> When you do so, you'll get the "enlightment" you were looking for.

Which is what? That the blockchain is a solution in search of a problem? There is very, very little reason to use a cumbersome data structure when better ones exist (eg: just a regular database, or something like git). Worse, the only way the blockchain gets all it's supposed valuable attributes is when you provide a financial incentive to mine. Aka -- bolt a "currency" on top of it and then go market it to tons of rubes so you can convert all of the generated tokens into cold, hard fiat to pay your bills. Without the "currency", who will pay miners to trustlessly verify all the transactions? The parties running the service? If so... since you seem to trust all them to pay the bills.... why not just use a database instead and save some substantial fiat?

The whole bitcoin/blockchain "movement" is just pure hype. It's people at the top of the pyramid hyping a worthless technology in order to cash out their tokens before the whole thing collapses in on itself...
I went through a phase a couple of years ago when I was with Fastmail and looked around for alternatives [1]. I ended up staying with Fastmail and have adjusted to some of it's UI quirks in the admin interface.

Posts like this remind me why I decided to stick with Fastmail. Do one job well. Fastmail do email really well for me.

(Disclosure: Fastmail user on paid plan, unsolicited review/pat-on-the-back)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11319298
Can you freeze or un-AMP emails? Have your servers pre-download stuff or even strip it (somewhat akin to a browser's reader mode)?
And in Loveland, Colorado.
I'd rather the patent system be abolished than have the current patent system. Same applies to Copyright.

The entire state of IP with the DMCA is just abysmal.
Apple's HomePod speakers leave white marks on wood
AMPHTML Email is designed to sit beside the text/plain and text/html parts as just another alternative, with type text/x-amp-html. So in theory, any senders of AMPHTML Email should also include a regular HTML part that is semantically equivalent, and any client that doesn’t support text/x-amp-html should simply get the less fancy version.

In practice, if something gets popular enough then the alternative that is supposed to work properly side-by-side gets neglected. (Some email senders cop out on text/plain these days, leaving it out, or worse, empty, as in Dropbox Paper’s document update notifications.)

But I don’t think AMPHTML Email is likely to be sufficiently broadly supported that this becomes a problem. (It’s only likely to happen at all if all the major providers and major email clients support it.) If at any point we do end up supporting AMPHTML Email, any remote content will be handled like remote images.
> Since most algorithms are more or less pure math, there’s mostly only one way to do things efficiently.

If that were true, there'd be no competition in the codec space. Besides, why can't the same argument be applied to machinery? There's "mostly only one way" to poke a thread through a sheet of fabric, so why should the sewing machine be patentable?
The government lost this argument with me, when they outsourced missile chips to be manufactured in the same country as where the missiles were pointed.
// Are we supposed to take their complaints seriously when Snowden leaks revealed the NSA hacked Huawei servers to find vulnerabilities they themselves could use to spy on people around the world.

Yes, you should. More than one entity has committed a sin does not make that sin a non-sin.
One of the great ironies of Bitcoin is that it was marketed as "the internet of money".... except one of the best way to secure it is to avoid exposing it to the internet and by printing its keys out on sheets of paper.
Memory is not required.

Since when? (Not just a joke. Also a serious question.)

In fact, if you think about what memory is, it's a current, internal experience that we associate with a concept called the past.

Uh, no. I can remember what I had for dinner last night without having a flashback where I re-experience last night as in some kind of dream.

Without memory, the contents of awareness would be very different, sure, but it's not a prerequisite for awareness itself.

How do you know? There are people who can't move short term memories into long term storage, but they can remember enough to be able to play Tic-Tac-Toe, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_memory

Do we have any verifiable examples of consciousness where there is absolutely no memory? I very much doubt it.
This is the first convincing argument I've read against AMP email.

On the other hand, if someone sends you a link to a web page, sure the link didn't change, but that's not very useful, since anything can happen to the web page that the link points to.

So it might just be about not confusing the user about what's immutable? Which is itself pretty important.
In the US transition to digital transmission, nobody was left high and dry. Perhaps mildly confused or inconvenienced by the need to get and setup a government subsidized converter box. Doubtful this would go any different for the above.
So Twitter found some $100k spent on ads from Russia during the campaign. Are you really suggesting that someone spending $100k could decide the outcome of an election as big as the U.S. one?

It's time to stop this "Russia hacked the Election" non-sense and just accept the fact that Hillary lost in a fair election.
Να κάνει βήμα πρόκρισης η ΑΕΚ με την Ντιναμό Κιέβου
How to get promoted at Google:

1. Build a product everybody hates and shove it down their throats.

2. Find an existing product people love and fuck it up or kill it.

How not to get promoted at Google (or anywhere else):

1. Build a product people hate and quietly let it die.

2. Do absolutely nothing to an existing product that works well that people love.
Germany doesn't export it's culture, it exports mostly its products. Contrary to the USA that exports its culture wherever it can. So it should not be a surprise that 'everyone else' thinks that they know what makes Americans tick, it's just that their picture is going to be centered on whatever Hollywood wants to radiate rather than actual reality.

That said - and having spent a good bit of time in the US - there are quite a few things that Hollywood unfortunately portrays quite accurately.
Anyone else excited for these systems to start driving cars?! It's gonna be faaaaaan-tastic.
> Don't roll your own crypto, and please, please, do not roll your own injectable medicine.

But some people must and did, right? Else we would neither have injectable medicine nor crypto.

Instead of simply ruling it out, I argue for pointing to risks and guidelines for when it is appropiate and when not.

We need people working in all areas, including cryptography and manufacturing of injectable medicine. That's why I oppose the strict, overly-simplified rule in this case.

I never argued and don't argue for a random web-store one-man-show to develop their own crypto, nor for them to craft their own injectable medicine.
There is no reason why the upcoming Monero hardfork couldn't cause a split.

If a faction disagrees with the scheduled update, they very well could cause 2 different chains, in the exact same way that Ethereum, and Ethereum clasic happened.

There is no free lunch. A hard fork is a hard fork. It is perfectly possible that you will be incorrect in your prediction that the hardfork will be uncontroversial.
> The use of the term immutable here is not intended to suggest your inbox cannot be modified in any way by yourself.

Okay, but then, is this any different from cloud storage? Would you also say Google Drive is immutable for the same reason? Or for that matter, wouldn't the same go for files on your computer?
Not sure if you're accusing me of having an incorrect understanding of the word "general" or not, but when someone says "X is simply wrong in general", most people understand it as "Generally, X is simply wrong". Even using your claim of:

> When I say a rule is true in general, then that means for me that rule is always true no matter what

and interpreting the exact sentence you posted above:

> The "don't roll your own crypto" is simply wrong in general

I can't see how you can interpret it anything other than:

> The "don't roll your own crypto" is simply wrong no matter what.

If you wanted to say what you're claiming to have said, you should have said "'The don't roll your own crypto' is not always correct".

Since you said you teach math, I'm sure you understand inverse/converse/contrapositive relations.
My point is that Xiaomi phones are not popular in the US, at all. Xiaomi had zero official distribution in the US up until recently when they started selling directly on amazon. ZTE and Hauwei phones have been sold through official distribution channels for a while. ZTE phones are given away or nearly given away for free to every cricket wireless customer.
Dab on ’em Haterz is a game about the frustrations of engaging online
>and maybe the takeaway should be more that we should be cautious regarding these countries and how they might try to influence discourse on US campuses

Which I agree with, which is why I said I do think people should be aware of it. But beyond merely being aware of it, I'm not sure there's much else to do. When you say "we should be cautious", what do you mean? How can we be any more cautious?

Ultimately, the situation exists because the US has strong laws on free speech and freedom. It should be a given that various groups will exploit these laws. If they are using students for propaganda purposes, the only useful response I can think of is likely counter-propaganda. Personally, I am wary of just saying "Beware of Chinese propaganda". I've seen that tactic used in various times in my life and the result has always been the equivalent of "Let's not trust what this person is saying because he is Chinese and we should beware of the Chinese" (i.e. many people heed the warnings and then blanket distrust the whole group of people).

Which is why I complained about the article: It's mostly "Beware of the Chinese on campuses" and not "Look at all these (specific) problems that have arisen because of the Chinese on campuses".
They're treated with something called creosote which if it touches your clothes you must burn them. They'll last a good long time though.
Not all "own crypto" is "homemade".
Suggestion: use a read only medium, as has been used in vote-by-pencil system for ages, like: PAPER!

To make it easier to count, we can use machines to print votes on a piece of paper (something akin to a receipt-roll). These votes are printed when voter casts vote, and the machines shows the vote to the voter through a small hole in the machine (preventing the voter from seeing the preference of the previous voter).

Vote-rolls are distributed like ballots, and they are "sealed" in the machine before are sent back to the central counting places. OCR is used to read the votes from the rolls.

Machines can also keep track of votes digitally, for a quick count. The quick and slow count should match.

This way we can have quicker and cheaper voting, while not compromising (much) on security wrt to voting-by-pencil.
I feel like these artists just screwed over their own community. Sure they got some money, but at what cost?

The owner originally allowed these artists an opportunity and a venue to express themselves at no cost, and when he had decided it was time to move on, his kind gesture was met with hostility and greed on the part of the artists.

These artists may have gotten their payday, but in doing so now every building owner will think twice about allowing artists to paint, and their fellow artists and the general public who enjoy this kind of art will be the ones that suffer the consequences the most.
Thanks for the recommendation; that book looks amazing!

And there's a revised 2014 edition in print: http://industrial-landscape.com/#/buy