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Everything in this comment is wrong. Forgive me for not addressing all of it.

The point about the layman is that the actual substance of my argument should be considered rather than my credentials. You think that your knowledge of ML (credentials) gives you the authority to win a debate without actually debating.

I have never called for a ban on the specific research that is currently ongoing in ML. I have called for a ban on all AI research — not because it’s easy or makes a lot of sense but because it seems to be the only solution. I am receptive to new solutions, the absence of which is quite conspicuous in your comments. You are stuck on credentials and nit-picking.

“So according to you, ML is tangential so therefore listen to you”

I literally spelled this out for you in my comment. Are you blind? The fact that ML is not a direct path to AGI is just an asside. Perhaps I should have focused exclusively on your main error so as to not confuse you. Like I said, the impact of AI on the world is an economics question in essence. You don’t need to know anything about how an AGI might work to reason about the economic, strategic, and existential changes that AI as a concept will bring about. It is absolutely true that no amount of knowledge about ML or even AGI will help in any way with that line of inquiry.

“We haven’t made robot rats yet”

This just a permutation of people saying AGI is far off. You don’t appear to be in the camp that thinks AGI is impossible. Therefore this comment is irrelevant because it will come at some point and my argument is primarily about what that will look like, not when it will happen.

It should, by now, be thoroughly clear to anyone who stumbles upon this thread in the future that I am correct. If you want to continue, you can contact me at brian.pat.mahoney - gmail.com
Thanks - that's pretty much exactly it. If someone needs end-to-end encryption, it's only safe from intermediate third parties if they aren't trusting software which is updated by those third parties.

So we use effective methods to protect the privacy of our users while performing our civic duty of assisting law enforcement when bad actors use or abuse our platform, and we never pretend to use the bulk of our customers as human shields to protect bad actors trying to hide among them.
As someone asked earlier in a different thread... dissolve into what?
It's more cost effective if your choices are to use the two vintages of imagery, sure. I understand why imagery can be stale.

My point was that OSM data can be much more accurate than the imagery. Or not, depending on location.
As a vegetarian (by ethical choice, not medical necessity), I do my best not to lose sight of the simple fact that I'm the problem here. When I walk into a steakhouse with my carnivorous wife, they're helping me out by finding something to put in my stomach. If I'm on a camping trip, I'm bringing my own food, or doing my best to make it fair to folks who are helping me out. And if I'm visiting for dinner, I try to make it clear that I'm happy to scavenge sides, you don't need to do something special for me. Because, again, my self-made diet choices are not your problem, but mine.

Celiac is real, folks who have it should be cut a break, and in my experience, folks who actually cannot eat gluten are just trying to make things work, rather than being a dick about it.

But deeply screw people like this lady who make a voluntary diet choice who use it as an excuse to bully others and make people cater to them. They trivialize people's actual medical needs, breed a culture of "Yeah, sure lady, there's no gluten", work against whatever cause they're in favor of, and largely, they're why we can't have nice things.
So hemp products such as protein powder weren't legal in the U.S. before?
Right, I have a hard time faulting people for deciding that they want to use voice assistants. That's more or less their choice. I am a lot more ambivalent about people who leave the voice assistants running when they have guests, because at that point they are making that choice for the guests too...

I think there's a lot of unexplored "how should/will society work" ground here, or at least explored only in science fiction, and it will be interesting to see how things shake out in the future. Maybe we will move to an "assume everyone is recorded all the time and put 0 weight on these recordings in anything that matters" world, for example... Hard to tell.
That's not surprising at all. According to this link, a large fishing net can weigh up to 10,000 pounds. 20,000 pounds is just two nets. I'm sure fishing vessels lose many more than two nets every year.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/thousands-miles-ghost-f...
If I was an evil CEO, I would purposely start an anonymous messaging platform just to collect compromising statements.
This just seems like a sneaky ad. How did this get this high up on HN. Seems fishy.
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There’s just no end to the abuse of our data is there? Sorry, no Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant for me.
Some of us don't particularly want the "herd". The Internet was a better place before Eternal September. And it arguably would have become a far better place, without commercialization.

Maybe those "powerful actors" could prevent decentralization from becoming mainstream, but they can't kill it. Consider marijuana, for example. Use has been demonized for decades by the US and its allies. But that didn't stop an appreciable fraction of the US population from using (or at least, trying). And now it's becoming legal in more and more states.

For Internet decentralization, the driving factors will almost certainly be porn, gambling and prostitution. To the extent that they're driven off the clearnet, demand for them will fuel growth of alternatives. Freedom of expression is essential, of course, but it will be just a side benefit.

The more decentralization is suppressed by "powerful actors", the more it will be dominated by other "powerful actors". That is, by organized crime.
This is exactly how they're marketed - they're not DDoS services, they're "stress testing" services you can use to make sure your server can withstand a real DDoS. Obviously nobody (including the FBI) believes that.
This is a good illustration of why the top-level DNS naming structure should have been aligned with legal jurisdictions (basically the two-letter country codes) and not some quasi-global-legally-ambiguous-originally-american global namespace.
There's no need to distinguish between selective breeding versus modern generic engineering. What matters is the output, not the technique.
First time for me too. The relationships section was shocking to me. I'm a physicist, and thought I knew nerds well, but the lack of spousal empathy directly trending towards divorce on the top end of that page made me... sad.
Why isn't this the way docker works?
In my case, I found that giving talks at local meetup groups helped very much. It gets you used to talking about code in front of people.
Switzerland probably is too expensive.
> I keep hearing about Indian tech talents but I haven't met one in real life yet.

Then you need to work at a better place :) Unfortunately, its very easy to form a bad opinion about Indian tech talent by working at places which hire the cheap talent. When companies offshore or hire contractors, they forget a key principle which applies everywhere in life, 'you get what you pay for'.
So the article's tl;dr is basically: "We're advocating for privacy, but we aren't going to try to offer you any. We never did, and we certainly won't now that this law passed. You're on your own."

Is this supposed to be a PR-positive announcement from FastMail, because I can't quite tell?!
As for my personal projects, I have a lot of interests that I like to explore: programming, physics, language learning and linguistics, art, literature, game development, etc.. The main reason I don't feel like there is a way to monetize these projects effectively is that I feel I'm extremely picky about what exactly I want to do and how I go about it. I also find the pressure that that would entail to be self-defeating. It's important to me that I reserve the freedom to be picky about my projects and to pursue them in solitude and under no pressure.

That's an interesting idea though. I have been thinking a lot about the benefits of collaboration in order minimize the amount of work necessary to satisfy the individual costs of living. I feel like it's easier to find work that pays for more than you actually need than it is to find lesser work that pays for only what you need (not to mention finding only what you need without extras or extra cost to begin with).
this make zero sense. are they going to let anyone mine the coins? probably not. if its just them mining it, then its totally pointless.
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> No one is bumping into us, hardly anyone is in our way ... My guess is that someone's WF is different than the one I go to.

I'm not sure how I can shop at Whole Foods Shangri-La, but my nearest is on the Upper West Side and it is crowded at all times of day.
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FreshDirect has been reliable for years. My only gripe is that their selection can be strangely thin, they are often out of stock of various things and so on. But for a lot of fundamentals they are, in my experience, very reliable.
In addition to what everyone else said, registering your copyright in the US gives you the option of recovering statutory damages instead of actual damages from an infringer, which is real useful if, say, the work is FOSS and you'll have trouble demonstrating you lost more than $0 profit because of the infringement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_damages_for_copyrigh...
Scuba divers are clearing some lost nets in the Ghost Fishing project, although they can only recover a tiny fraction.

https://www.ghostfishing.org/
It's pathetic, you see some of the most depraved, narcissistic members of the tech society there. The quality of the discourse you can guess is shockingly bad, and most people are from the Bay area. Is this an accurate representation of people in the Bay? Or is it just a platform for toxic folk to hang out?
Why does it need access to my mailbox?
Yeah, I think you are correct here. I think I would also be happy if someone else was selling me the hardware and I controlled it more, and it just was a hardware pipe to the voice service provider.
I think you might be reading Young's Market a little too broadly. And in any case, it's questionable whether Young's Market is still good law after Granholm v. Heald, 544 U.S. 460 (2005).

"If a State chooses to allow direct shipment of wine, it must do so on evenhanded terms. Without demonstrating the need for discrimination, New York and Michigan have enacted regulations that disadvantage out-of-state wine producers. Under our Commerce Clause jurisprudence, these regulations cannot stand." Id. at 493.

So yeah, Amd. 21, §2 gives states Constitutional force behind some of their alcohol laws, but it doesn't usurp the Commerce power entirely.
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Im hoping to resolve this using a "searchable encryption" scheme leveraging homomorphic encryption and elliptic curve based el-gamal. This would allow law enforcement to search for key words on encrypted data sets. This prevents leakage for both parties.

THe use case for emails is a tad clunky as the bag of words would require precomputing, however, it is privacy preserving for both parties.

If you feel this is something interesting that you would like to contribute to please msg me. I have working code in javascript (so it may soon be a plugin) and the architecture is decentralized but requires a a single message interaction between the actor querying and the data source.
The title made sense in the context of Iranians being banned. But once we know that it's a far broader issue, it's misleading and inflammatory.
Great work, I really like this.
Hopefully we'll see some studies about the effectiveness about CBD come soon. I've heard a lot of anecdotes about it's usefulness for things such anxiety and minor inflammation, it would be good to learn more.
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Yeah I was just going to ask this too! Crazy. And yeah good for them. All everyone talks about is photoshop these days. So for them to still be around means they have to be doing something right.
It's closer to Apple TV territory maybe, that custom CPU inside costs a pretty penny to design and manufacture.
This is an extremely misleading headline for people to read and the mods should change it. Hemp has been legal for a long time and the DEA has stated that CBD products produced solely from hemp plants are federally legal.

It is still illegal to produce or own cannabidiol derived from Marijuana. Emphatically, this statement from the FDA does not mean that cannabidiol as a chemical is legal.

(2016, usdoj.gov) https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/marijuana/m_ext...

Nothing has changed here except that the FDA is claiming authority to regulate the small subset of CBD products that are legally produced from hemp. The above DOJ article goes somewhat into the science of how these products, if they exist and are produced legally, contain such trace amounts of CBD that they're surely ineffective. Point being: either it's produced from real flowers and it's still illegal, or it's produced from hemp and present in such small amounts that it's of absolutely no benefit. The FDA is merely saying that they want to regulate the latter case.
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So close to understanding the cause...

"Historically, central banks have needed to slash official rates as much as 4-5 percent in order to offset the effects of a financial crisis or an economic slowdown. That’s why former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen talked about the need to raise rates in good times — to provide room to cut when necessary. Yet, even after recent U.S. interest rate hikes, the Fed has nowhere near enough room to cut rates that much without going negative."

Um yeah. The Fed hiked the rates and thus crashed the economy. Some are speculating that they crashed it on purpose, to make Trump look bad or to punish him for taking a stand against 1-sided tariffs that have been hurting the USA for decades.

It is interesting to think about the Fed having such tremendous and unaccountable power. This is deeply troubling. It's a bit like the Supreme Court, powerful yet unelected, except that it isn't a constitutionally defined branch of our government.
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Their "Actions we are taking" section is almost entirely composed of a political lobbying strategy. Given the outcome of the vote, 44 votes for and only 12 against, their plan doesn't exude much confidence. I would have expected plans to move data and key technologists out of Australia at the very least.

The company I work for uses Fastmail but our CEO has already decided to switch mail providers sometime in 2019. I don't know what other service they'll choose.
I largely agree with the first half of the article -- the global economy is showing cracks at the same time that Western politics is in disarray.

But towards the end he seems to be saying he thinks this might end in the downfall of civilization as we know it, which, come on. A little overdramatic, and about a dozen steps over the horizon of what you can even speculate about.
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Hence the "remain friendly". They need to believe you are just an annoying dude, not think you are trying to win a battle of wills.
Well I have experience using it on the west coast too, and I think it's a decent alternative if you aren't so pressed for time. Travelling from Los Angeles to San Jose by train costs about the same as flying economy, but takes about 8x more time, and in return you get roomy seats, less hassle due to security screening, nice views outside the window, the freedom to walk around and stand up basically any time. It's totally not a no-brainer.
I've had good luck with TriNet

https://www.trinet.com/company/
Christ let's talk about "who really did 9/11" next.
I have Celiac disease. I try very hard to not be a burden to people, but in some cases I cannot avoid it. Sometimes I have to skip a meal like when a meeting includes box lunch of a sandwich. I’ve also learned about non-perishables I can store in my work bag for when I get into a pinch. It’s not that big a deal any more for me. Even skipping a meal completely is not something to care about. It’s one meal! I’ll live. Short fasts even have health benefits.

People like this woman irritate me because I get automatically associated with her.
Funny :)

But we're all running around with flamethrowers. And we can't imagine life without them. That's the hard part.
Exactly. There is virtually a zero-chance that Facebook (or any other company) will develop and release something they have no control over.
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it's just DIY culture. the $5 thing was very much a Fugazi rule though, definitely after minor threat (most of those shows wouldn't have been much more than $5, save when they opened for Trouble Funk at UMD)
For what it's worth, it seems this woman had specific dietary requirements, though it's not specified if it was celiac or something else.

She herself was complaining about people who 'became' gluten free after getting on the ship, and that this meant she had less food available to her.
Also on HN rn

> WhatsApp has an encrypted child porn problem (techcrunch.com)
>33 points by sahin-boydas 9 hours ago | hide | 57 comments

FML
Indian Government agencies now authorized to intercept electronic information
I got the exact same feeling from reading this.

It almost feels like it’s written for the Aussie Police and not really for the users.
1. Once a user identifies messages containing the search term, what are they supposed to do then? The message should still be un-decryptable to them.

2. Can't a user search all common words against a message and then rearrange those found to roughly match the message length. There are only so many ways the words "noon begins the tomorrow revolution at" can be arranged and make sense.
One of my colleagues is a vegetarian. He went on a business trip to Texas and his associates took him out for dinner at a steak house. After reading the menu he asked the waitress, "Do you have anything that isn't meat?" She thought for a moment and cheerfully replied "We have chicken!"
1) It's always listening for a keyword, and then it starts recording. It's a voice interface for a computer.

Show me the source code!

...all of it, including what's running the entire cloud behind it! Until then, fuck no, no hot mics in my house. And actually then, still no hot mics unless I've plugged my Les Paul into my amp, in which case I switched them on.
Protonmail is in Switzerland.
Super skeptical about this story. Why should they bother instead of just using regular banking or keeping their own ledger.
I think the important difference might be that Fortnite is making money off of them. Not necessarily agreeing with the lawsuits but that may be one reason why Fortnite is being sued but not the others.
The advantage of the fad is that they have created much more demand for gluten-free food. My son has an allergy to wheat so enjoys the fact that the supermarket shelves are now stacked with suitable food.
It really does!
I don’t think anonymity guarantees toxicity, but anonymity without any sort of rule enforcement sure seems to guarantee toxicity.
> The models have all been fit to the data and not vice versa.

How else could it work? This is a system that's vastly too complicated to actually model from fundamental principles. Or at least, in any simple way. As I understand it, the components are all based on fundamental principles. But they're tweaked as needed to fit historical data.
I agree, my above comment was aimed at this part of the parent comment:

> a huge and over-complicated xml-based system

It was an attempt to show that there are not 'umpteen different alternatives' and the ones that exist, do so for a reason. Though looking back, I should have worded it in a better way.
> some NSA pentesting didn't break during evaluation

Which ones? Are any open-source?
Maciej, thanks again for these stories; I never knew if you were going to circle back to lede and I really didn't care.

Was a fantastic read. I should figure out how to get notified of all your updates, it's some of the most fun I've had reading, and reminds me a lot of Douglas Adams' "Last Chance to See".
I find it interesting that people have been talking about secret societies and occult for many many decades, yet its still a taboo area for people to speak about in the main stream...

I knew a guy who went to Yale and was tapped by the 322...

But there is so much more to all of the secret societies, occult and other aspects of conspiracy which I find fascinating.

This is a talk given in 1958 regarding the Illuminati:
- Pawns in the Game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1uem-RXmJU
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We never offered, and never claimed to offer, a safe haven for people who have broken the law in both Australia and their own country to hide from the police. We don't place ourselves above law enforcement.

We don't have data trading agreements with anybody, and we don't sell or provide backdoor channels - we only provide data in response to lawful warrants.

That's the right amount of privacy and the right tradeoff with usability for just about everyone. Certainly storing your emails super encrypted in a concrete bunker on an island somewhere is theoretically safer along one axis - I wrote a whole series about Confidentiality, Availability and Integrity just over 4 years ago on this very topic: https://fastmail.blog/2014/12/02/security-confidentiality-in...

And the specific one on confidentiality here: https://fastmail.blog/2014/12/15/security-confidentiality/ (excuse the line wrapping, we moved to a new blog platform a while back and some of the older posts didn't import perfectly, but I don't want to look suspicious by editing it today!)
Hmm one team at work uses python and Alembic to do migrations. It stores a hash on a table in the database so you see clearly what version the database is on. It can get pretty advanced, too: you can state that some revision is dependent on another etc.

But the more involved process you describe above was done manually at the stateside healthcare company I worked for: they had a team of DBAs that would review migrations and design and such and approve them. The chansges would go to staging. QA would test doing integration and other tests. And if passed it would roll out to production and if it failed for whatever reason it would go back to the developers. And then back to the DBAs for review and then to QA etc etc.

Other noteworthy tools include Sqitch. It is a super flexible migration tool. https://sqitch.org
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