skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>any system that is designed to allow law enforcement agencies all across the country to expeditiously decrypt devices pursuant to court order will be enormously complex, raising the likelihood of serious flaws in implementation.

Generally I agree with the EFF but I always find this particular argument specious.

If someone were to design such a system but without flaws in its implementation, would EFF be OK with that? I don't think so, because those agencies are rife with bad actors. A perfect system, in the hands of bad actors, is already a problem.

The problem at the outset is with the context of use. Yes there are other problems that would follow on because the system would not be technically perfect, but even before that, the flawed context of giving these tools to bad actors should not be overlooked. Setting up such a system, perfect or not is a bad idea, period. Yes it will be imperfect but even if you buy into the mistaken idea that it can be made perfect, the context of use, in agencies with bad actors, is already broken even before the imperfections allow exploits by agency outsiders.

No, we don't have to assume that the agencies are staffed with only good people. Not even for the sake of argument, and not even for the sake of a polite white paper from the EFF.
That looks great, and my local library has a copy, thanks for the pointer!
The court case which created the so-called 'right to be forgotten' was about someone who wanted his poor credit erased from the historical record. One would imagine that there's a public interest in knowing if someone is a poor credit risk: anyone he asks for money has a need to know.
I have such a thing in Haskell: https://github.com/shapr/sporkle/blob/master/app/Main.hs

It's not Rust, but it is a really crappy exercise tracking app I wrote for teaching a class.

Thing different about my code: I build the HTML in the source itself, and I don't use React
I think your interpretation of "internet troll" is way too narrow and therefore not correct.

IMO troll is someone on the internet who just want's to trigger some emotional response from other peers (usually negative). That's it.
I love these things. I made my resume page by piping together two small rust pograms and a bash script to get a single html, from a json in firebase, a handlebars template and several static assets.
If you only have static files, might as well go with Netlify. Can’t beat them for simplicity.
Love the API, is it ok if I use it directly from private script ?
I doubt it has literally nothing on it. You can eat nothing but fiber, but bowel mucous is still dirty.
You can't get licensed as a pilot without being able to read METARS. They will not let you fly. Find me a comparable licensure requirement for marine captains.
>This was also the case with TV's. Where one family in the street would own a TV and all the neighbourhood kids would come and gather to watch. Well before my time though :)

I am old enough to remember as a child (my grandmother had the only TV in the building, 4 apartments) how every thursday evening all the people from the other apartments came to watch TV (there was a very, very popular quiz show on thursdays in Italy), and after the show we all had some biscuits/cakes (and the adults a glass of wine) together.

My father used to tell me how when he was a kid his father was often asked by the neighbours to put his radio (the only device in several buildings) on the window sill in the evening so that people assembled in the common court could hear the news during the WWII.
I mean, if you want to go back far enough, many major results in optimization theory and operations research started in one form or another as a project to aid with military logistics. Now those are fundamental tools inside and outside SV.
No, saying that we are still an order of magnitude away from dealing with individual atoms. The current slowdown is more about light than about atoms; the move to EUV lithography [1] has proved to be very challenging [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph...

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/nanotechnology/euv-...
Pretty sure we've remembered 9/11 and Pearl harbor for more than two news cycles.
Is there evidence for your better driver claim?
https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/the-rich-drive-d...

I do see some sources that claim rich divers get better insurance rates, but it is unclear to me if that is due to driving skill or a number of other factors that increase rates like liklyhood of being stolen or miles driven.
PCI compliance requires, among other things, that a credit card not be used to correlate purchases through time - that’s the main reason loyalty clubs exist; that’s your tracking identifier.

Whether or not this Requirement is observed, audited or enforced I have no idea.
I watch plenty of movies and TV series from sources with no ads.
In the courts, an admission against the witness's own interest is considered more reliable than other testimony.
A lot of leaders in high stress situations, from Phil Jackson to Ray Dalio incorporate some form of mindfulness into their lives. It can even be going for a run, and really just focusing on that and nothing else for fifteen minutes.

Giving the executive areas of the brain (the prefrontal cortex) a rest is important. It can even be a few minutes in nature, a walk, etc. I prefer meditating, but it’s really just about calming your conscious mind for a bit, focusing on your breathing, being in the moment.

I’m reading “Incognito” right now. It’s about contemporary neuroscience. It’s amazing how much our unconscious mind plays a role in finding insight and making decisions. We have a tendency to want to consciously figure everything out. Sometimes letting go can be incredibly productive. Think hard about a problem, then let it go. Meditation can make it easier to do that.

Phil Knight, founder of Nike, said in his book, “Shoe Dog”, that “if all you’re seeing is problems, you’re not thinking clearly.”
When father or other relative holds the baby?
From a personal privacy point of view it seems significantly worse to me, but I guess the positive spin would be that there isn't a single party that can simultaneously blackmail / breach the privacy of a billion people. Although my counter spin would be that in the event of one of these decentralized things going mainstream, a large player would end up being what gmail is for email.
I think it's a matter of luck and/or scale.

On tiny projects it seems fine but we're huuuuge.
Given that every day more people browse the web on relatively weaker handheld devices running on batteries I have a hard time believing that most people will be fine with having websites drain their batteries and if it becomes commonplace I expect that many people will block them.

And remember that mining is effectively a zero-sum game, the more people mine the harder it becomes to mine. It effectively means that every new websites who switches to mining for monetization makes it less valuable for all the other websites already doing it since you're all sharing the same cake.
But he did find out since you told him. That's the whole reason you don't need to read news because if something in the news is actually important you will find out from people talking about it.
Modern Distributed Application Deployment with Kubernetes and MongoDB Atlas
I really like this guide to get started.

Its a bit short though. I would really like to see the setup of a simple uni- or even bi-directional rpc or value binding mechanism between react and rust.
Thank You Google: How to Mine Bitcoin on Google’s BigQuery
They should make the touchbar have tactile feedback so you can feel where the areas begin and end.

Then tbh they could just fix the areas to make it cheaper, so it's always say 15 equally sized tactile button areas.

And further, they could really just skip the dynamic display bit and just put fixed labels on them such as F1...F12 and let the user remember what button does what.

Oh wait
On the internet ive used an ad blocker since the ads started showing up on the internet.
"The cornerstone of democracy is an informed public."

Absolutely agree with this. We have to elect our representatives based off of the knowledge we have of their actions and the policies they hold. Covering your ears and closing your eyes just makes you a less informed voter when the time comes. I think the need to shut out the news from one's life is perfectly acceptable, but at the very least, one should read some headlines at least once a week to get an idea of whats going on outside of their own personal world.
I used to charge my phone overnight on my bedside table. Recently I moved it into another room so I'm not tempted to use it first-thing in the morning.
Almost as if a bug bounty program should show the effect of the bug before explaining how it works. Then, Google will be more inclined to pay more if it wants the info on how the bug works.
That's because Jobs built computers, not computers for the military, just computers. If they did wind up being used by the military, it was incidental, not because they were purpose-built for that.

Like Tim Cook, he wouldn't have let himself be in that position.
Not exactly what I was talking about. And yet I fail to see how a Golf Course is a weapon. Waste of resources, yes. Unsustainable, yes. But weapon?

Actually I was talking about this:
http://www.naturalbuildingblog.com/sand-soil-7-hrs-biggest-s...

Regarding the original statement I was criticizing: Of course one can construct an argument of technology itself not having an ethical bias and the notion that everything can be used as a weapon. Sure, beat someone to death with flowers, go on!

The point I'm trying to make is that I consider this tactic a distraction. Nothing more than look! a three headed monkey behind you!
The whole discussion started about buying diapers in bulk to save a ton. Nobody is saying that $90/mo for diapers is reasonable. But $30 for 2 months worth of diapers (as OP claimed) is kinda reasonable. And if she is getting 180/mo allowance, she definitely has that $30 on hand to buy in bulk.
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I see how that is intuitively true, but it isn't really true in practice. Post crash fires with ICE are unusual, but not extremely rare. Similarly, post-repair car fires (leaky fuel lines) are not as unusual as most people think.

So far, experiential evidence with Tesla seems to be showing a lower than average risk of fires, though the breadth and nature of the battery leads to challenges in managing the fire itself.

All cases that I'm aware of proceeded at a slow enough pace to allow evacuation of the vehicle.
Seems like your first two paragraphs are amenable to analysis. Surely there is data out there that splits traffic accident statistics on income, or some proxy for income. Is a Tesla on autopilot more accident-prone than a BMW or Lexus? The numbers as they stand certainly seem to imply "no", but I'd be willing to read a paper.

The third paragraph though is just you flinging opinion around. You assert without evidence that a Tesla is likely to "do something irrational from an error and kill us both" (has any such crash even happened? Seems like Tesla's are great at avoiding other vehicles and where they fall down it tends to be in recognizing static/slow things like medians, bikers and turning semis and not turning to avoid them). I mean, sure. You be you and "stay the hell away" from Teslas. But that doesn't really have much bearing on public policy.
I don't think you can make SSL work on AWS without Route53, though. Which is (for better or worse) about to become a big problem when Google starts penalising non-SSL sites.
You also can't make a AAAA record, so no IPv6.
They called those "loaded" snowballs
No, Elon has tweeted a few times that it would be too extensive of an upgrade process.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/789007996038721536?lang=...
Some googling found this informative (and entirely SFW) "bum gun" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V32m3FZbjg
How does go look more like C than Rust?
Look up the definition of ethnicity.

I think you mean "race."
I actually agree. I extracted this tutorial from a project I'm working on developing an RTS game for school. I'm experimenting with having the game loop run in Rust and seeing if I can send render updates fast enough to smoothly run the UI in JS. It's working pretty well so far. I'm using Protobuf 3. I'd love to get capnproto or flatbuffers working eventually, but neither of them seem to have both JS and Rust support mature yet. I think the next obvious evolution from this tutorial would be to connect a sqlite db. Not sure how easy statically linking with it is though.
Optimize your FontAwesome
Would it be valuable if these rules were open-source?
Growing up in the 80's in S. Florida, Service Merchandise and Best were a staple for me, and many fond memories...
Wow! I'm glad you pointed that out. It was subtle enough I didn't catch it. But perhaps we should consider this type of wording a fallacy, because with that level of weasel-wording, almost anything is possible! The catch is that it presupposes a non-existent piece of information, the software. And we don't know if that software will ever - or can ever - exist.

Misleading examples of the genre:

My cell phone has the right hardware to cure cancer! I just don't have the right app.

The dumbest student in my class has a good enough brain to verify the Higgs-Boson particle. He just doesn't know how.

This mill and pile of steel can make the safest bridge in the world. It just hasn't been designed yet.

Your shopping cart full of food could be used to make a healthy, delicious meal. All you need is a recipe that no one knows.

Baby, I can satisfy your needs up and down as well as any other person. I just have to... well... learn how to satisfy your needs!
Great to see ML "governance" work being done on the training-part of the pipeline. Seems like this provides a Domino Data Labs based dashboards but without the walled garden environment.

I've yet to see similar great initiatives also tackling the deployment-part. E.g. something similar you can stick on top of your model's API (or scheduled batch predictive outputs), as well as incoming instances, to monitor usage patterns, population shifts through time, probability distributions, newly popping up missing values or categorical levels, logs, etc, in order to provide warning lights to indicate that a retraining might be in order, for instance.

Google's "What's your ML test score" paper provides some great insights, but I hope someone will tackle this with a turnkey solution as well.
> (Meaning, I'd be willing to lose my job if my employer uses Monocypher on my watch, and data gets leaked because of that choice.)

Would you be willing to be personally liable for that data leak?

(Put aside the philosophical question of whether or not it's reasonably for developers to be personally liable for their software failures - I'm interested in how far your confidence in your cryptography goes).
I can see not using PaaS, but strictly going in-house or colo seems odd. Not saying that there aren't reasons for this, but IaaS, rented servers, ... all are options with more flexibility and little lock-in.
Ah,

I would have been very interested in that. Too bad there was not enough interest for you to continue.
> async/await is still slower in 8.10 than promises though, isn't it?

No, it's not. Async/await is basically just syntactic sugar around promises.
interesting... can you provide a link?
Well I don’t know if it lost (Google) revenue (interested in understanding how if actually so? maybe missing something), but yeah it was definitely worth a lot of money to anyone who knew of it as a 0-day, and would have been lost traffic/revenue for the serps being bumped down.

This is a pretty cool exploit.
I agree with the EFF's position regarding backdoors, but this article isn't convincing.

- There really isn't anything nefarious in trying to find a good case to set precedent. That's actually the EFF's (and ACLU, etc.) business model: find the most sympathetic plaintiff for the issue you want to litigate to improve your chances in court (and the court of public opinion).

- A method that is "90% ready" just isn't ready. Not only are such numbers meaningless in such a project. It just doesn't matter, legally, if you gain such capabilities in the future. A good faith interpretation of the FBI's motivation must also accept that if(!) the FBI had any interest in the phone's content, that interest was urgent.

I also consider the EFF's and tech community's technical arguments to be rather weak and transparent attempts to skirt the core issue: we don't want backdoors for governments, period.

By suggesting technical difficulties they are trying to shift the debate from the political sphere to the technology. That's probably good for the cause, but it circumvents the mechanism we have established for policy debates, namely democracy.

The difficulties also seem to be far exaggerated: a 1-of-2 encryption scheme should be possible. There are several such schemes (like 2-of-3) working flawlessly for Bitcoin already.

Safekeeping of master decryption keys also seems to be a solved problem. Certificate Authorities, as just one example, seem to do so mostly without any hitches.
Mainstream media in my part of the world - north-western Europe in general, Sweden and the Netherlands to be more specific - seems to have forgotten that it is the fiduciary duty of the news media to keep watch over those in power, instead turning their gaze on those who oppose the government position. While some critical journalism still exists in the main stream media, especially in Sweden this has mostly moved to what for some reason is called 'alternative media'

Given this lack of critical opinions in main stream media it is rather pointless to rely on them to keep informed. The 'alternative' media often offers a more critical voice but that voice often comes with an agenda and an accompanying myopic view which makes it as unwise to rely on any single 'alternative' source as it is to rely on main stream sources.

The solution to this conundrum is most emphatically not to 'stick your head in the sand' (i.e. giving up on reading news) as that just makes you less informed and with that less prepared to make rational decisions. This goes from the small - missing the small article hidden on page 7 in the local paper where the council declares its intention to close down the school you planned to send your children to because they claim to need the building for other purposes (this happened where I live, those who did read the news gathered to protest leading to the decision to be suspended) - to the large ('brexit', 'Russia is the new/old enemy', etc).

Is there an easy solution? No, I don't think there is. Finding truth in the media is like finding a needle in a haystack full of pins. What I do is use a news reader (the News app for Nextcloud, think 'Google Reader' but under private regime) with a select list of subscriptions from both 'alternative' as well as main stream sources. Reading the headlines gives an idea of what is being reported, comparing how what is being reported between sources gives an impression of what really happens or happened.
The Chinese also let kids roam around diaper-less and just shit and piss wherever. I have a hard time buying into the idea that the Chinese have anything to teach anyone about anything at this point in history. The whole place is a falling down mess, and now it's a dictatorship besides.

And yes, I do/did have some very close friends from Mainland China, but always like the Taiwanese better.
It's just human nature, people are awful in general, and the internet allows them to bring it to the masses easily, with very few repercussions.
Some of my fondest memories involve sitting around a gameboy with a friend and a sibling, trying to beat Super Mario Land. It had no saves, and in the past we had been thwarted by the daily power outages and the fiddly power connector kept in place with a match (no batteries). We also did this with various NES games, which at least made it easier for everyone else to see the screen.

And then there were the arcades. My friend was a local celebrity and so good that some arcades had banned him, or set his favorite games to 'super difficult'. When he played, a crowd would watch, whether it was Dinosaurs VS Cadillacs, TMNT: Manhattan Project, or Street Fighter. Sometimes some clueless new guy would challenge him in the latter, and a significant portion of the arcade users would notice and come see the beatdown.

Sometimes we'd go to a new part of town because they had fancy new games, or because they hadn't banned him yet. We'd play co-op games, and he'd help me stay alive as long as possible.

I haven't thought about this in a long time, but this kind of social gaming was central to my youth, now that I think about it.

(and that's not even getting into the 90s/00s LAN parties!)
Hi laythea! That is an incredibly cynical take. Why are you so default cynical? Anyway, I’ll share my hidden motivations with you, if you like. It’s twofold:

1. I am intellectually curious about AI research. I enjoy talking to researchers. I do it in my spare time. For fun. I would like to do more of that.

2. I was accepted by YC when I was an uncredentialed 18 year old. It changed my life. I’ve since been fascinated by systems that find promising outsiders and bring them into the fold. YC does a great job at this for companies. I’m wondering if it would be useful to do it for research ideas as well.

Lastly, I completely disagree that GPU training time is “of variable value”. It’s a big deal for many researchers.
In a world where cold starts have a substantial impact on performance, the runtime cost of async/await is negligible. If your function takes even a second longer to execute because of await use, I'd be incredibly surprised.
> Even the Yupik belief that beluga whales were once land-dwelling creatures is rooted in reality: some 50 million years ago, the ancestor of modern-day whales walked on land. As if recalling this, whale fetuses briefly develop legs before losing them again.

Whales are mammals, who was doubting they had a land-walking ancestor?

In general this article is taking stuff that's obvious, scientifically proven, or at least possible, and mixes it with animals spirits and other obvious bullshit, and concludes "so maybe there's something there?".

It's weird.
Basically a https://jsonbin.io clone?
I get your point, but I don't see how it would be less safe. Right now they look up your records by name or health card number, and this would be a direct link to your health records that you could just tap. It's arguably safer even in the sense you're using it.
I imagine they're referring to the blades marketed for cutting up samples to put under a microscope. They're commonly sold in packs of 250.

Examples:

https://www.fishersci.com/shop/products/razor-blade-uncoated...

https://www.emsdiasum.com/microscopy/products/preparation/bl...
On youtube there are old black and white films produced to show the result of rail sabatouge. Even with a foot cut from the track the train did not derail. Quite impressive. I used to flatten coins as a kid all the time by leaving them on the tracks.
Why having separate systems for accounting and ecommerce is costing you money
Their wiki page on the comparison: https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent/wiki/Fluent-vs-gette...
Agree on IaaS. I missed that in there.