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Is it so easy for GPG to buffer the cleartext while validating the MDC? As the cleartext may not fit in RAM, this means that GPG could need to write it to a temporary file, right? But then, if decryption is aborted messily (e.g., the machine loses power), then this means that GPG would be leaving a file with part of the cleartext behind, which has obvious security implications.

You could also imagine a two-pass approach where you first verify and then decrypt, but then what about a timing attack where a process would be modifying the encrypted file between the two passes?

It doesn't look so easy to solve this problem -- arguably the right way would be to change the design of the OpenPGP protocol, cf https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/06/27/streamingencryptio...
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And cattle: https://xkcd.com/1338/
dep was always written with the intention that it would be merged into or replace to go tool. And it's still not settled that the underlying principles of vgo are valid -- which this article begins to unpack.
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We don’t even know if any of it was true at all, it could all be a work of fiction. But we know at least he considered it not much of a problem to call a woman a whore for not having sex with him because he bought her a sandwich.

There are other allegations [1]. But that isn’t the central point really, the point is, why idolize someone who did some good work in one area and expect everything they do to be a work of genius? He was imperfect (or are you arguing otherwise?) his work in Biology is not very interesting...

[1] https://galileospendulum.org/2014/07/13/the-problem-of-richa...
A milliennial wrote the article.
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Sanitary? Are you sticking uncovered pieces of raw meat into the bag? Everything in the store already comes in a package, except possibly produce, which I'd hope you're washing before you eat it anyway.
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Thx didn't know about the * keyword will use this from now on. (I disabled the search and justed used the open tabs, history and bookmark suggestion function from the awesomebar)
any source for this? tried to look up but failed
“Convenience” or getting the player to get the next dopa hit, is not the way the real world is built.

The real world has slow periods and other issues which are usually where the various other aspects of humanity play out.

By definition, games and social media optimize for whatever measurables are measurable AND accretive to the bottom line.

On top of it, most of this current tech world is built on American sensibilities in terms of optimization and business models.

The rest of the human part of existence is.... not optimized for in this universe.

Also do note, people still figure out a way to make friends.

People end up recognizing each other even through random match making, or due to local lobbies.

It’s not all doom and gloom.
In addition to that, I think it’s generally not a good teaching technique to belittle your students, even if they show a bit of immaturity.
There is little rote memorisation required in physics because we have formulated it based on logical ideas, intuition, and fundamental principles. You can understand, not memorise.

Biology is immeasurably harder than physics, the systems so much more complex and opaque and non amenable to fundamental explanation. Rote memorisation is a must.
Do you supply it power? Then you it could induce feedback over the cable which triggers new programming in nearby electronics.

Does it have any means of creating sparks/heat would could be used to make a hole in the faraday cage?

What about neutrinos or gravity waves? How would you stop those?
I agree completely, altough there will always be people like me who think if we manage to complete an AI more capable than a human we should release it without limits.
Yes, which is 53.6%, not 5.36%.
"Corporations invest tens of millions in offshore tax havens", no shock there.
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A question. It says:

>OpenAI conducts fundamental, long-term research toward the creation of safe AGI.

What does "safe AGI" mean?

Obviously most readers would immediately think of this: "AGI that won't enslave humanity, kill millions of people as part of its optimization process, crash planes, order drones attacks on civilian sectors, etc", and escape its "cage" (whatever it was supposed to be doing)?

But that seems like a strange and poorly-defined explicit goal. And kind of early to be putting into an announcement like this. Does it really mean that - or does it mean something else, more specific - and if so, what?

I would be interested in knowing what the person who wrote that word had in mind, since I think most people would think of the Terminator series - Skynet - or The Matrix, etc, when it comes to AGI.

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EDIT: To elaborate on why we should define safe! I know what "safe" means when we say "A memory-safe programming language".[1] It's very specific. In that sentence it doesn't have anything to do with enslaving humanity, nor does anyone think it does. Here's are some articles on this exact subject: https://www.google.com/search?q=memory+safety

Further, it's pretty obvious what we mean when we say "a safe autonomous vehicle" because whether an accident occurs is pretty cut-and-dried. We have gray areas, for example is a vehicle "safe" if it's driving under the speed limit and gets into an accident through no fault of it's own, however if it had had advanced knowledge of all other vehicles heading toward the same intersection (regardless of visibility) it would not have been in that accident? Clearly a car that slows down through knowledge a human driver wouldn't have can be safer than another kind of car. But we still understand this idea of "safety" when it comes to cars.

But what does "safe" mean when we say "creation of safe AGI"?

It must mean something to be in that sentence. So why and how can you apply the word "safe" to AGI? What does it mean?

[1] even has a complete Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_safety
I readily agree that old school WoW was much more social and fun, but personally, most of the enjoyment of the game for me was only possible because I was a 20-something with no spouse, no kids, and no real responsibilities outside of showing up to work during the day.

Now that I'm a practicing Adult®, I still kinda dream of WoW Classic being what we all remember the original game being, but I also know that if I got that involved in planning and running raids now, people who rely on me to be responsible would suffer. I'm content with being part of the 95% that don't have that kind of free time to commit to planning before actually playing a game.
> the paper has been in circulation for close to a 175 years

The NY Post has been in circulation for over 200 years. Not sure what your point is.

> is ranked as the most trusted journalistic publication

That isn't a good thing. Think about it.

> do yourself a favor, get the print edition convince yourself. I've been a reader for years and highly recommend it.

Does it seem like I've never read the economist to you? It's information pollution. You are dumber and more misinformed for having read it. The economist along with every other media publication should come with a warning like cigarettes.
How/why is a tooltip (that can only contain a few words / one or two sentences with the same info already written above as i describe it) better than a link to the full webpage?
For further portability you can convert bash shell to C and compile it into binaries.

https://github.com/neurobin/shc
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Honestly, Russ Cox published his first post about vgo on February 20 (https://research.swtch.com/vgo). It's been almost 3 months then. It's not fair to ask the community to wait any longer. If Sam Boyer has good reasons to oppose vgo, then he should publish them now.
> they stretch even that to cover prostitution.

Considering the current president's habits, that can have serious national security repercussions.
No one ever thinks of interoperability between people. Bash is known, to a variable depth, by pretty much every sysadmin (and a big part of being a sysadmin is being able to write shell scripts).

So I might prefer the fish, and who came before me might have had a preference for zsh. So now I have to deal with three different shells: bash (default), fish (for the scripts i'll be writing from now on) and zsh (because of compatibility). Congrats.

> I know a guy who used vim with default config for that reason. Utterly nonsense.

I started using less and less emacs/vi(m) customization and learn more and more of the defaults for the same reason: whenever I log on a client system I am instantly proficient with the editor without stupid complaints like "but on my box is different..." .

Anecdotal: I have seen people losing their editing speed/proficiency because all of a sudden they were in a clean vim session and had no one of their shiny and colorful plugins.
No, it's more an alternative term for "being an asshole", or maybe a "shit stirrer".

I've got friends who say things I disagree with, they're not assholes. They're nice people with different views.
Some people say things I agree with, but at the end of the day, they're still assholes, even though we share some opinions.

Any group large enough is going to have some assholes.

If you get called toxic a lot, it's not just because people disagree with what you say, it's probably how you're saying it.

Further, maybe you're not an asshole in every group, maybe your (and I'm using the word "your" here in a general term, I'm not talking about anyone specifically) personality just doesn't jive with the rest of the group, making you the asshole when you just have a personality which doesn't fit with the group which makes you toxic.

Take for example a subreddit like /r/aww which is just idk, cute photos. Someone who comes to that community and points out flaws, or seems to need to point out problems with the posts, content of posts, etc, well maybe they're toxic to that community, since it's just one of feelgood-ness. It's not that they're a bad person, or have bad opinions, they're just not behaving in a way which seems appropriate for the group.
An acquaintance of mine has a PhD in gender studies, doesn't mean it's a serious academic discipline.
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I don't recognize any of these.
That was a fantastic read. Spinoza was well ahead of his time. People like him paved (and continue to pave) the way to a saner society.
Absolutely.

The internet has made it so easy to share negativity or whatever opinion you're able to belt out from the hip that people mistake that for the need to do it. "What, I can't have an opinion, now?" It's almost comical how toxic Youtube and Facebook comments are for this reason.

But I also think there's some element of human nature where you see someone having fun and feel the need to snipe them with something negative. I remember a lot of that from my childhood.

I'll never forget in Boy Scouts when we were climbing down some boulders and one of my mates decided to jump down each boulder instead of climbing down. He was soon sniped with "Quit trying to be cool, Jacob" which put him in line, climbing down like the rest of us.

Not to double down so hard on a fellow HNer, but it reminds me of that:

- Person A: "Here's a link to their free video course."

- Person B: "Those videos are terrible, Jacob. Edit: What, I have opinions, too."
Doesn't this change the meaning of the sentence, though? I learned this in school as the 'active voice' and the 'passive voice'. My understanding is that when you change nouns to verbs and vice versa you are also changing the meaning of the sentence.

How can this research be done, then? Since the two sentences mean entirely different things, obviously people will react differently to them - they are not interchangeable, they have specific and different meanings!

"I support the division..."

and

"I support dividing..."

mean entirely different things. The first one is passive and indicates that the speaker/author is outside of the decision to divide\ and possible outside of the area itself.

The second one is active and implies that the speaker is going to be involved in the dividing activity itself.

Obviously the words will get different reactions from people because they mean different things. Without additional tests to query what the population understood the sentence to mean, along with how they feel about it, would make sense.

But as it is, this is like finding out that people react differently to "let's use fire" vs "lets use a blanket". They are totally different things.
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The HBO film "Conspiracy" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(2001_film) ) is a great example of (domestic) diplomacy, diplomatic language, persuasion vs force, using language to steer actions that will have terrible consequences. There is no "action" ... it revolves around the preparation and execution of an elaborate meal and conference at a Third Reich mansion ... and yet it's one of the most gripping movies I've ever seen.
"always verify". Well that's obviously not a true statement but (not singling you out) I wonder why there is such a compulsion to defend the honor, as it were, of medical doctors.

It's not exactly the same as pharma, but in the medical device field salespeople are commonly in operating theatres. Clearly the surgeons doing this do not have time to "verify" what they are being told.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-i...

Americans would do well to stop idolizing doctors and realize that huge numbers of them are lazy, incompetent shills who routinely do a lot of preventable damage.
I'm not a fan of this website design, it strikes me as as an attempt to look extra fancy. AI is more human than that.
The internet changing the world, and all of the technology companies offering jobs that attract the best technical resources with better compensation packages, and unicorn dreams.

Contrast this with what used to be the 20th century version of the tech industry’s unicorn narrative: becoming a super star on old media, appearing on TV, in movies, on the cover of magazines, or maybe making it big in music, or being a mogul thereof.

These things still happen, but it’s obvious that fluffy celebrity stardom, or becoming the star maker, is shakier ground than it used to be, and technology-oriented success is an alternate path to fame and wealth. Because of the new things that have emerged over the past 20 years, the brain drain began some time ago, when alternate paths to success became evident, and old media suffered for it.
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That’s about the going rate for cheap expat tax prep.

US tax is insanely complex as an expat, and if you get it wrong - even unintentionally- the penalties are massive (look up FBAR).

This is why so many are expatriating.
"...they suspected that employing nouns (“I am in favour of the removal of settlers”), rather than verbs (“I am in favour of removing settlers”), to convey support for policy positions would have a calming effect."

This article is pretty frustrating. Another reason for this effect, and one I've always thought true, is that using nouns in English is often more circuitous, using more "fillers" like prepositions to convey the same idea, thus softening or obfuscating the harshness of the meaning communicated.

In other words, they don't seem to prove that nouns cause this effect, but that English's use of nouns causes this effect.
Their actual business model is dependent on mining data from your transactions - by linking your credit card they can track every swipe at Chipotle...
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I just built a Hackintosh on what perhaps might be the closest modern equivalent to an old-style MacBook Pro not made by Apple, the HP Spectre x360, and while the process of getting it up and running requires some technical knowledge, it was something I was able to do, start to finish, in less than a week. (Even the touchscreen works!)

I've used Macs for 15 years, and I wanted to keep using Macs, but I had a real problem with the fact that Apple has let its upgrade cycle become so lax, has fostered a lack of upgradability, and hasn't done enough to support an ecosystem of creatives that have been very passionate about their products over the years. That speaks to a company not listening to customer needs—one that is trying to translate a mobile business model to desktop users. It speaks to a company that walked away from its users, not the other way around.

If Apple's not going to make its machines more upgradeable, it should at least, for the love of God, upgrade its processor architectures without having to have a keynote every single time. They do so few keynotes in 2018 that it's messing up their ability to release products.
What is this supposed to do? On OSX 'alt' is swallowed up as a character palette key, to it just types '˛'.
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TLDR: This is click bait. These endowments wouldn't have any tax liability on their investments whatsoever other than because of the manner in which hedge funds are structured.

These endowments are tax-exempt entities. They invest small portions of their money in hedge funds which are traditionally structured as partnerships for US tax purposes. In a partnership, the partners pay taxes directly on the income at the partnership level. That's as opposed to, say, AAPL which is taxed as a corporation. Corporations pay their own taxes, and the shareholders pay taxes on distributions from the corporation. Because of an obscure tax law preventing tax-exempts from engaging in "unrelated businesses", investing in a vehicle that doesn't pay its own taxes (such as a partnership) risks these endowments actually incurring a tax they otherwise shouldn't. Instead, the hedge funds pick an offshore income tax-free jurisdiction (most commonly Cayman) and invest in the hedge fund through a "feeder fund" that is taxed as a corporation and "blocks" the unrelated business income tax. To make it clear: if a US person were to make the same investment, it would generally have a better tax result by investing directly in the partnership than the tax-exempt entities would. This is just a legal mechanism to resolve that unintended consequence.
I agree with you.

Although I love Asimov and all of his stories, I found stories like Robot Dreams always slightly disturbing. Why is it never discussed anywhere (both within the stories as well as outside them) that's it's pretty fucked up that Elvex was killed (destroyed, whatever) just for dreaming.
Hell, sometimes they fasted on beer alone: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/25/my-take-what-i-lear...
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Russ waited over a year and a half before engaging meaningfully with the community on package management, and waited another nine months before coming up with this greenfield proposal. There's no reason to rush things now.
Sapience (intelligence) doesn't imply sentience.

AI could very well just be a tool, not a sentient being.
Proof that "graceful" degradation is a lie.
Sounds like a potential use case for flow batteries.
Can you keep the original article headline ("This New Model Could Be Replacing Corporate Innovation Consultants")? The article doesn't say sinking or dying or even asks a question to the reader so I'd see that as misleading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In the past I saw "Sales AI: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help You Sell to Humans" got submitted as "Robots are trying to take our job. Let's acknowledge they're already here"
No OS/2? ::sad_face::
Oh no what will the poor most valuable company in the world do if we violate their made-up rules? It's an existential crisis, isn't it?

Why should software have a EULA and not a screwdriver or a tractor or a pair of socks? "I bought it and I'll do what I want with it", why is software the only thing that isn't sold?

Just because rich software dudes made up some rules doesn't mean they can make us follow them. lol.

Isn't this place called hacker news, don't hackers bend and break rules all the time, in the pursuit of knowledge and better technology? Even the founders of YCombinator (one of em) made the most infamous worm in computer history, that's hardly "following the rules".

And then Apple decided you couldn't install any software on your own computer (aka phone) unless they both approved it and you give them a 30% tithe on top of what the author makes. Fuck 'em. Build more Hackintoshes; do whatever you want. I'll keep on using open source since it's no-effort, free, and non-patronizing w/r/t my software sources.

The internet only stops being the wild west when you turn in your guns and buy a plow (that can only be used on Apple-approved sharecropping projects).
I'd like that too.

Thing is, how does Apple prevent something like that from cannibalizing their other sales?

The most obvious choice would be pricing them high enough (think: nearly as much as full Mac) so that nobody could profitably build and sell Mac clones.

The second most obvious choice would be to release them in such low quantities that nobody could base a Mac clone business upon them. But that would just result in them going for a billion bucks on eBay and you'd probably wind up paying more for one than if they just picked the first strategy.

The third most obvious strategy would be to cripple them in some obnoxious way so that they couldn't compete with Macs and were useful only as hobbyist devices... limiting them to 1GB RAM or something.

All those strategies would suck for, well, you and me.

One posssssssssible option would be to release a hobbyist iOS board. Sort of like all those hobbyist Android boards from China. It's a lot less likely that you'd be able to craft a "hobbyist iOS board" into something that could possibly compete with an iPhone.
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I was actually expecting this to be some kind of commercial implementation of libfuse or something like a marketplace for fuse filesystems. Sounds far fetched but seemed more likely to me than what turned out to be a React alternative..
Given that many universities are either directly or indirectly receiving tax dollars, if they get a bigger return from “tax havens,” then doesn’t that actually benefit the taxpayer since their taxes are going further? If we are worried about taxes not being paid, then it gets circular: universities need money, some of it comes via taxpayers, yet we aren’t happy about them using tax “havens.” Which because of tax havens, they won’t need as much tax revenue since they’re earning a higher return in the tax haven.

Exhausting! So what am I missing here?
We know that AI won't behave because we know that software is not perfect... it's just a matter of time before a bad bug gets introduced or discovered by the AI...
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