skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SSB comes to mind, except, yacht-themed

I think this is a reference to Secure Scuttlebutt: http://scuttlebutt.nz/
So basically the offline-first approach
Insect protein is surprisingly expensive: https://blog.plover.com/2018/04/19#maggots
Keybase does something similar with their file system kbfs(which is encrypted), they use fuse too.

Local caching is limited to 10% of your disk space (if I remember correctly).

Cool project though. Will definitely keep it in my radar.
Art is literally an investment asset class, with preferential tax rules in many jurisdictions. It's also used to avoid money laundering regulations.

But not all pieces appreciate in value. There have been many cases of forgery and other fraud perpetrated by high profile galleries.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/th...
You are very uninformed at the potential for being bullied and pressure being a public figure on YT may entail.

It's the same with actors/actresses, I'd say it could be even worse.

Open Source developers suffer some of this as well, no wonder Linus has to "bang on the table" once in a while. It is to cut on the BS
Would this be able to be used as a fuelless space propulsion method?
So when Indians believe propaganda and kill a group of travelers, that's a lack of education.

What is it when white Americans invade an Italian restaurant in search of child abuse or harass firefighters and grieving parents while accusing them of being "crisis actors"?
> A society where only 16% of men mate has 84% angry young men with nothing to lose.

Is it so crazy to think that a man with no partner could live a socially responsible life? The choice isn't a binary "Happy with wife and kids" vs "Flame, looting, violence and plague".

I'm basing my experience on Australian law here, but our 'modern state-sanctioned monogamy' is a comprehensive system to stop fathers from having children then walking away when the going gets tough.
Here is a template:

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Hello,

I'm writing to oppose the 2018 Assistance & Access Bill. Although I recognize the difficulties encryption poses to law enforcement & counter-terrorism, it is not a strong enough reason to compromise the safety, security & privacy of 24 million Australian citizens.

Every Australian has a right to reliable, mathematically guaranteed privacy & security, not compromised/undermined by oppressive legislature.

Neither domestic nor international companies should be required to assist anyone in breaking privacy protections, nor should warrants allow access to protected devices, and nor should existing legislature be strengthened.

Would these changes help law enforcement catch a few criminals? Probably. Will it weaken the safety, security & privacy of millions of respectable, law-abiding Australians? Definitely.

Cheers,

<Name>

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I really hope this doesn't pass.
We've come not as far as you'd expect since SHRDLU (1968): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
Instead of focusing on a flawed paper, why not look for evidence that there is more variability in one of the sexes in the real world?
I am sorry, but how is any political ideology is in any way relevant to the article? There was no political intention nor any minority/majority religion behind these lynchings.
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Surprise. It's just a new face on an ancient profession: Entertainment. And it comes with similar challenges.
Us Hindus also believe that one of those monkeys could fly, namely Hanuman. That doesn't mean it can be possible. A lot of Hindu mythology is pure myth. Do not even try to link it to science.

Supporting myth and superstition with pseudo-science has become popular these days in India, thanks to our PM and the rest of the ruling party indulging in such practice.
Don't see why the math should be serving your taste.

Nowhere in my message I am applying mathematics to a domain. I'm just stating that such math exists. Applying, or not applying, them to any real society is left as an exercise for a reader.
Oh no, a casino that allows drugs for wealthy people, how dare them, I will stay elsewhere! Said no one ever.

I know several people who worked in palaces in several places and drug is NOT a problem to get. Either it is supplied directly by employees with a reasonably high commission, or the employees just answers something like "oh no we can't do that here. I heard however that there is a guy outside that can fix that for you".

Prostitutes are not a big deal either but you have to keep it classy and do not make scandal (so no screaming or too weird stuff and no cheap prostitute or underage girl, and they should look like fancy ladies most of the time).

Overall it's not really a big deal as long as it's not a client openly asking for drugs in the lobby.
Isn't there an issue with biomagnification ? I mean the waste probably went into contact or already contain toxic molecules. How can it be a good idea to feed it to chicken again ?
Intelligence and counterintelligence among the allies of NATO is a complex business. It can't be stopped entirely and it's too lucrative to renounce, but at the same time there have to be invisible barriers of "norms" that prevent it getting out of hand. Especially now there's a president who wouldn't recognize a norm if he fell over it in the street.

France spy on Boeing and pass it to Airbus, while the NSA do the same for Boeing, but would France tolerate CIA interference in its elections? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32542140
Fixing an old hack – why we are bumping the IPv6 MTU
That change only affects the latest version of the app. Only a single phone among those surveyed in the village by BuzzFeed was running the latest version. I'm not sure what Facebook can do about it technically, but the change won't be effective any time soon.
Irritating and parochial post.

It doesn't look random at all. There is thought behind it. Hence the code.
It's also a problem in 7 Billion Humans or Human Resource Machine (I forgot which - they are both great anyway), fun programming games that also use a kind of assembly language.
You are right, but goods represented by money can be destroyed. Maybe we should all break some windows [1] from time to time, to stimulate economy? This will transfer some money to the other people. Or buy some lemons and dump them in volcano. This will be very good for all lemon farmers and if we do this often enough, prices for lemons will increase, so farmers will have even more money...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
I've always wondered why something like this doesn't yet exist.

Something like a Wikipedia of man pages, programming language documentation (and official tutorials), answered/archived Stack Overflow questions, etc. A central (but maybe decentralised) collection of manuals and reference sheets and all the rest.

So often you go to find something and the site has expired because they gave up on the project (but it's still being used), or the forum posts have been deleted, or it's impossible to find because Google has decided you actually wanted to find <insert something unrelated> and they know better than you do.

An Archive.org for tech info, with machine readable formatting so we can have a comprehensive search function.

Then throw in a Wikipedia-style packaged archive you can download for Internet-free local searching and working while traveling or whatever.
I like top maps, but they are less useful in cities. Compare:

http://www.tobyeglesfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DRC...

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-45.0344/168.6630&laye...

Topo maps miss bridges too.
We, the USA, is not going to have any friends left... Seems like Trump is pissing off Canada, Mexico, NATO, and EU.
This is actually really impressive and well done. Kudos to the creators. Really simple and intuitive for the end user whilst at the same time providing detailed info. Makes the oftentimes very untransparent EU administrative process easily accessible to Citizens.

Here's their Github I found on the about section: https://github.com/GreatBritishHackOff

I only wish the EU itself tried to present their actions, roadmaps and intentions in a more clear and accessible way. I think many of the problems people have with them stem from the fact that it is not entirely clear to them what role the EU plays and how it affects them.
Although when you get successful the amount of effort devoted to breaking your pseudonym increases. We lost several UK police bloggers to this and there was a nasty campaign by the press against Brooke Magnanti.
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Actually if you check out more of his work it looks quite different from what was chosen for this article. I think the article wants to portray a logical progression from modern art to generative art, or just to show that an algorithm is capable of generating images that are similar to those of highly creative human artists.

https://www.behance.net/manoloide

https://www.google.com/search?q=Manolo+Gamboa+Naon&num=100&h...

He also is a young guy with plenty of time ahead to develop his own style. As someone who also experiments with generative art and music I am absolutely impressed by what he's done so far.
The justification is playing on people who don't know why encryption is necessary. It's nothing more than "but think of the children" crap.
But this is not spending of $36M/hour. House edge is something like 1% so you're expected to lose "just" $360K.
The need for a search engine seems, imho, to be the major argument versus (full) decentralization.
Another formulation for that: there is a (valid) need for (some kind of) centralization.
(and from there, you all go back to full centralization, first because of search, then because of convenience, at last because of laziness).
Thanks for linking this, it's a fantastic insight.
Because for the left, as long as they “work”, reality isn’t as valuable as narratives. They will pretend they honor reality until the arguments get cornered. Then they’ll fallback to their Postmodern anti-realist and anti-rational philosophy and find the next way to use victimhood to try to control the behavior of everybody else. All that with other’s people money, of course.
OMG, seriously, I am a Hindu and I don't believe apes did talk or we were flying around in pushpak vimanas. Anything that is described in mythology is mythology. Please enjoy reading it and read it to our kids, but tell them that it's a story. On the other hand if you want to do some solid work on bringing credibility to these mythical stuff mentioned in the stories, please do scientific research and try to back it with solid proof. Otherwise we will become a laughing stock in front of the scientific community.

p.s. There is a dark side version to the Vanara mythology, it was once told by my father and I have come to accept it as one possibility of how the name would have sticked. Here is one version: Vanara in sanskrit means Va-Nara? (question). It's like asking "Are you human"? So when Rama who was from north and when in excile came to contact with people in the south, he is said to have asked are you human? Va-Nara?

And don't forget all the gods then were Kings, which was so convenient isn't it? Rama was king but also is a god. Krishna is a king but also is a god, but oh wait Krishna is dark skinned, as he captured power from Kamsa and not of royal lineage, but in the story it was given a twist (even though he belonged to Yadav caste) that he was indeed of the royal lineage and of Brahmanical descent. Krishna wouldn't have minded that story himself.. So in all possibilities there were wars between two kingdoms (Sinhala and India) and the story is used to build the mythical story that we read now. Just enjoy reading it, but don't take it was written history or anything without solid backing.

p.p.s A comparable mythological story is Epic of Gilgamesh. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh). There are several elements in that story that is said to have inspired the Old Testament.
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The problem is that with physical telecoms providers, you can mandate these LEI implementations. If the provider doesn't comply you ban the sale of the device. Yes, you can get a few black market devices to get around this but you can't head into your local shop to obtain it.

With the current scale of open source software, you can mandate a law for backdoors but countries that do not have such laws would be able to remove these backdoors from the open source software if they are ever put in. Simply banning OSS won't help either since many countries that have banned encryption still see widespread use of encryption software as the internet has no borders. Firewalls don't count because that is equivalent to trying to stop a million tunnel diggers from digging over the border all at the same time with a million more diggers ready to go. Ask China with their great firewall full of holes.

Backdooring or banning major providers like WhatsApp, etc will only push more and more people to an open solution that is globally distributed.

The only solution to gaining encryption access is the simple option. The option that if you are an interesting enough person, will get to play catch with a wrench while your hands are tied.
I've been somewhat surprised for a long time that the EU hasn't done more to foster local tech companies and seemed content to rely on foreign suppliers.

Dependence on other countries will always leave a risk that they can leverage that against you, either by allowing for spying or backdoors, or by threatening to withold supply.

Obviously for smaller countries it wouldn't be practical to use homegrown technology, but the EU should have sufficiently deep pockets to do so, at least in strategically sensitive areas.
> except maybe if you are really big, like the US or China

Or, potentially, the EU...
While the suggestions are definitely interesting, and the fact that compilation times are given proper attention is positive, it does seem to me that this is still pushing in the wrong direction, overall, of fully automatic optimization.

We now have machines that are fast enough for many/most activities, as evidenced by production code that's written in Ruby, Python, JS, etc. For these we don't really need optimizations.

On the other hand, performance critical routines tend to require human attention, and for these the approach of having the optimizations fully automated is generally less than helpful.

As Knuth put it, in 1974 nonetheless:

"For some reason we all (especially me) had a mental block about optimization, namely that we always regarded it a behind-the-scenes activity, to be done in the machine language, which the programmer isn’t supposed to know. This veil was first lifted from my eyes in the Fall of 1973. when I ran across a remark by Hoare [42] that, ideally, a language should be designed so that an optimizing compiler can describe its optimizations in the source language. Of course! Why hadn’t I ever thought of it?

Once we have a suitable language, we will be able to have what seems to be emerging as the programming system of the future: an interactive program-manipulation system ..." -- http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/CS185C/KnuthStructuredProgrammin...

So let's have systems/languages that allow us to express performance constraints and performance-oriented transformations, and let the compiler/language assist us in doing this.
Do you live in India?

WhatsApp is produced by Facebook, an American company. It has to obey the US government. If WhatsApp wishes to operate in India, it should provide a mechanism for the Indian government to administer it.

If it doesn't, India is well within their rights to sanction them. There's no shortage of skilled tech workers in India; Facebook needs India more than India needs Facebook.
In fact, he expresses pride in fighting for Israeli "independence". But anyway, it's pointless to debate the merits here. Whoever's "right", it's arguable that the Palestinians will become a stateless people, just as the Jews were for a couple thousand years. Maybe they'll make a comeback, or maybe they'll go the way of the Gypsies. But it's nothing to be proud of, in my opinion.
Animal taxonomy is also a social construct: phylum, class, order, family, genus, species are all labels that we have created and not an intrinsic property of animals.
As it isn't open-source, how can you trust this? What certify me that my data are safely stored and don't sold to commercial partners??
Remember when Audiogalaxy arrived in the P2P world. It was a (limited) form of centralization. But it made the P2P MUCH more usable.
A bunch of us at Atlassian are sending a group letter (not an official one from the company, just a bunch of us who think the bill is dangerous). Thanks for the info femto.

Edit - Here's the letter we wrote:

Hello, we are a collection of employees who work for Atlassian (a major Sydney based tech company) and we’d like to give our view of why we think this bill is dangerous.

First and foremost, it will damage the view of Australian tech companies. If a foreign company is deciding between our products or a non-Australian company, but knows that Australia may have required Atlassian to build a backdoor into their encryption, the objectively better choice would be to choose the non-Australian company. This isn't just Atlassian losing because of this; the entire Australian tech scene will be damaged.

Secondly, a master key to unlock encryption is a master key that’s available to steal. Time and time again in the tech world we’ve seen “security that can’t be beat” get beat. Equifax lost nearly every American Social Security number. Bitcoin gets stolen every day because someone’s private key gets compromised. Even as far back as World War II, we saw encryption get beat because a master key (the enigma machine) got stolen. History has shown us countless times that a master key leads to a non-secure product. Even if the this bill is only requiring companies to provide the capability to decrypt information, that only changes who controls the master key. It doesn’t remove the damage to security.

Thirdly, requiring companies to be able to break their own encryption will never be a game you can win. Even if every company in the world were compliant with this bill, the tools to make your unbreakable encryption are trivial to find and use. Any agent that was an actual threat to national security would have the resources available to them to create a non-breakable encrypted communication method. The only people who would be affected by this law would be petty criminals, but the dragnet of its implications would affect every Australian citizen in its wake.

Fourthly, this will damage the Australian startup scene. When choosing where to fund a company, the laws and world view of a country come heavily into play. If someone is creating the next messaging app but the public opinion of Australia is that their products are legally required to be insecure, that person will choose a more tech-friendly company to start their company in. Not only that, but if a company knows there are more requirements for compliance in Australia, then it makes a startup’s job harder to release a product. Startups are difficult enough as it is, and lowering the barrier to entry (not raising it) is how you make a tech industry blossom.

Lastly, even if one agrees that the damage to security is worth the tradeoff, the lack of judicial oversight in this bill is extremely worrying. Giving multiple people the ability to issue notices without judicial oversight is a power no person should be able to exercise alone. Overall we feel this bill will harm not only the tech industry, but Australia as a whole.
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I (a EU citizen) still hope that Trump - and his peers over here - isn't going to last long enough as a president to do permanent damage.
Nothing to do with politics. Everything to do with rationality. We need the likes of James Randi by the hordes here in India, especially when our own are getting bumped off frequently lately.

> I know you can link anything to a ideology

By the way I am not linking 'anything' tenuous, these are direct video quotes from the country's leadership -- the prime minister of India, and other ministers
Can you please add links for your pp. 1-4?

Otherwise it looks like you assume the result of this path without helping us actually walk it.
You can always throw a party.
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This problem is essentially solved by YaCy: http://yacy.net
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And afterwards they will still have thousands of times what regular people have.
Height contours of topographic maps have existed more than 100 years.
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I don’t think it’s really guaranteed.
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Author of Ghostwheel here – clojure.spec is certainly not a replacement for static typing, but it goes a long way to covering many of the same use cases, in fact longer than one might think at a cursory glance.

With Ghostwheel you write your function specs similar to how you'd write a type signature and you get automatic generative testing (including higher order function support) and side effect detection which – when combined with spec instrumentation (+ the upcoming evaluation tracing for the test execution) – can often tell you quite precisely where you screwed up in a much more immediate and granular manner than a simple unit test or mucking about in the REPL could. It really is a quite different experience from plain Clojure.

That being said, I'd love types in addition to this and I'm keeping a keen eye on ReasonML.