skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is the difference between theoretical and practical.

Yes, there is a difference. It's always possible that the telephone traffic is being intercepted by some entities, like Room 641A.

On the other hand, a proper random number generator or a public-key encryption algorithm shouldn't even have the theoretical possibility of introducing a backdoor to start with. When cryptographers have published papers that give strong proof that an algorithm is designed to be able to theoretically contain a backdoor, you know something is seriously wrong.

> they have earned their reflexive blind distrust.

Of course, after Snowden has presented his evidence, everybody now understands that everything that designed to be backdoored, will be backdoored. If NIST is purposing a new standard, it will be definitely taken with a grain of salt.

I think I've made the points clear,

> yes, the final standard may be backdoored, yes, the NSA may manipulate the industry to adopt problematic standards, and yes, sometimes there are reasons to distrust standards and their commercial products. But no, there is no reason to believe that the studies and findings from a public competition itself is harmful or backdoorod. The raw research during the competition is valid and valuable.

The vast majority of research is taking place OUTSIDE of the NIST, until the late stage, NIST is merely a forum for everyone, including the NIST people, to submit their comments and attacks. Once we have reached to the final round, the NIST will pick a winner and standardize it. And perhaps add a backdoor.

The point is, if something looks fishy, you don't have to use the one NIST standardized. You can simply choose other finalist, or even create your own, based on the knowledge of secure construction which is shown during the competition. Normally, at this point, the competition has already given enough information about what is secure and what is not.

To summarize, NIST standards may be bad, but the knowledge obtained during the research for the competition is always good.

In 2022, if NIST starts standardize something, then your comment makes perfect sense. But it's largely off-topic for the current moment.
And that reminds me of the monkey and banana problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_and_banana_problem
This argument makes no sense at all. What does lock in have to do with Amazon dog fooding its services? They're... trying to lock themselves in? What?
Lisbeth Salander sure can.
Keeping them on the phone tends to work less these days (not for lack of trying, some youtuber managed to keep them on the line for 5 hours at one point); they scam centers are starting to have limits on call time, after 1 hour the call simply disconnects.
Maybe because casual users go to greath lengths to avoid paying for any kind of software tools, which leaves enterprise market as the only viable option for anyone wanting to sell tooling to developers.
You're right. Classical measure theory lives in a model divorced from physical reality. You can show that all of the fancy counterexamples which necessitate the complicated constructions of measure theory are artificial (e.g., the characteristic function of a non-measurable set is uncomputable).

There are better approaches to measure theory which live in different "foundations". For example, you can build measure and probability theory based on the locale of valuations on a locale instead of a sigma-algebra on a topological space. You can do even better by starting in a constructive metatheory and adding some anti-classical assumptions which are modeled by all computable functions.

The reason we are teaching classical measure theory as the foundation of probability theory is historical and because there are no good expositions available for most alternative approaches. It is really not the most straightforward approach.

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Before you accuse me of being overly negative: classical measure theory offers a consistent approach to probability theory which is well understood and for which carefully written textbooks are available. If you really need to go back to the definitions to derive something then you need to know at least one consistent set of definitions. So it is useful to teach measure theory, even if it is more complicated than it has to be...
How do we get Bryan his own TV/Netflix show? There hasn’t been a video from him that I did not watch all the way to the end.
You might want to look up the EU requirement for proportionality in penalties, and the ECJ cases where a regulation or penalty was found not to be proportionate, before claiming there is no law that stops them from doing that. It applies to everything EU wide.

That's quite apart from it already being well established in national laws of many member states.

https://www.europeanlawmonitor.org/eu-legal-principles/eu-la...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_principles_of_European...
I agree, this topic needs to be decomposed much further for people to have a productive discussion on it.

Some extra decompositions:

> So considering that, I feel quite OK about eating animals. The alternative of not eating them means that they would not have lived at all or that they would have died a nasty "natural" death. So, I'm not saving them from some terrible fate by not eating them.

That works out for small-scale farming, but most of our meat is factory-farmed. While the death itself may be quick, their lives are living hell. Nature doesn't get that cruel, on that scale. So we need to separate out death from life and suffering here.

> If we stop eating meat, there are entire species of farm animals that will likely go extinct because they only exist because we breed them.

The question is, why do we care about that? Evolutionary speaking, individuals rarely care about species; it's hard enough to get humans to recognize the concept of their species, and I sincerely doubt a cow or a pig is aware or interested in the fate of their own kind in general. Survival of animal species is something we value, for reasons ranging from emotional (nature is prettier with more stuff in it) to practical (genetic diversity). But I can't imagine a chicken being grateful for living in a cage on farm, because it lets chickens exist at all.

Not judging any positions here; I just wish this topic was debated in a more structured way, with all the important aspects stated in isolation, and then related to each other.
Why the world’s flight paths are such a messs
> You would get some additional gifted children, but it's a question of cost vs returns. I agree that programs like that would be cool to have for kids, but I'm not entirely sold on whether they would help.

What you say is true. As much as some don't want to admit it not everybody has the same potential (at least academically) and that's okay. With regards to the programs I don't think the aim should be solely to unearth some hidden geniuses. I think it should be to give every kid a rich and broad learning experience as an aim in itself. And secondly to enable to fulfill whatever potential they might.
Are you sure? On the page it says:

Current Assignee: Juniper Networks Inc

Was it owned by Google at some point in the past?
This is specifically exempted in the law: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/3/section/3/enacted

> The cases in which a person has a reasonable excuse for the purposes of subsection (3) include (but are not limited to) those in which—

> (a)at the time of the person’s action or possession the person did not know, and had no reason to believe, that the document or record in question contained, or was likely to contain, information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, or

tl;dr this is precisely why the register is fucking shit. THey use stupid clickbait titles and they choose to mangle the truth
How Are Borg and Kubernetes Different?
I can use SQLite for prototyping without db server.

It's a file or some in-memory buffer, I don't need docker or anything else to run some very simple unit/integration tests with the DB.
You could probably watch dmesg and lock instantly. Probably along those lines:

while IFS= read -r line; do
if printf '%s\n' "$line" | grep [something here]; then
# lock screen
elif printf '%s\n' "$line" | grep [something else here]; then
# unlock screen
fi
done <<< "$(dmesg -w)"
Jewish people.
Japan is usually a Boeing backyard.

Case in point with JAL (not sure if they fly the routes you talked about but it's as good as an example):
https://www.jal.com/en/outline/aircraft.html

231 aircrafts, not a single Airbus.
Just to say there is "Project:M36 Relational Algebra Engine" [1], which says about itself:

Introduction

Project:M36 implements a relational algebra engine as inspired by the writings of Chris Date.

Description
Unlike most database management systems (DBMS), Project:M36 is opinionated software which
adheres strictly to the mathematics of the relational algebra. The purpose of this adherence is
to prove that software which implements mathematically-sound design principles reaps benefits
in the form of code clarity, consistency, performance, and future-proofing.

Project:M36 can be used as an in-process or remote DBMS.

1: https://github.com/agentm/project-m36
AFAIK in Germany doing a Robocall is illegal if you didn't get clear consent from the called party first (300'000€ per call, additional 10'000€ if the number was hidden).

The german telcos have to my knowledge also started to block large lists of numbers used by the scammers if they are incoming calls. Some stuff still works like callback scams (They ring you for a few seconds, then hang up, calling back is expensive).

There is also the difference that the US is 300 million people that basically all speak english, which is a cheap option to hire for in Indian callcenters. Europe is much more diverse and the languages are more expensive to hire for, so it's less profitable.
Lets say you've built a house in lego. But the computer do not know it's actually a house. Something called a compiler has to take apart the lego house, then package the parts in groups of 8,16,32 or 64 (dissembles the house into stacks with 8 lego bit's in each). Then the compILer have to tell the compUter what to do with the stacks, and what each stack is. For example take this stack with red pieces and this stack with green pieces and build a wall, then take these bits, and combine with these bits to build a roof, etc. The computer is dumb, but it's very fast.
I'd definitely recommend trying the flare-on RE challenges - they do a new compo every year, and the previous compos, with helpful hints / solutions, are available.

http://www.flare-on.com/
The Billion Dollar Airline Routes
yes if you look at busiest routes you will find the top few dominated by short domestic routes less than 1000-1500 km. you run a short range plane like the a320 or the 737 and fly the route 100s of times a day. it's much cheaper than running a few a380s.

the a380s are almost only used for long range flights with 1 or 2 flights a day: sydney-dubai-heathrow, singapore-london, singapore-frankfurt-new york etc.
I think that the AssemblyScript project is halfway there. It compiles a stricter subset of Typescript to webassembly format, which can be then translated to CPU-specific machine code.
People are soft as hell these days. Humans are not sensitive to climate any more than most animals are. We dont need to cook our food either. Physically we are not weak, we are the only animal that can throw a stone and also climb a tree. I agree with you about the infant mortality though.
No, it's politics: the House changed party control.
It may be slower, but I'd give up speed if this would result in less memory usage.
Can you sit in a natural hot spring while doing so, though?
I'm certainly not disagreeing with you!
As a counter weight, communities are built on the assuming of good faith. If we assume a psuedo-anonymous stranger is a bad actor then it is impossible to have functional open community online.

Open communities must balance the risk of bad actors with the health of the community, and most does so through a few selected moderators which job it is to screen for bad actors. This only work as long as the remaining members continue to assume good faith in each other, including the moderators.

I would say that wearing your allegiance on your sleeve kills open communities. Dissenting views are eliminated and thus we get echo chambers. Anything slightly dissenting is seen as bad actor, and we get a oppressive environment where the perceived risk of weaponized accounts becomes a tool for control.
How do we get points?
It is bad that you have to write a bunch of extra code in your application to retry on this failure. I guess potentially you could modify the rails framework to automatically retry transactions in this situation and aggressively purge the prepared statement cache but this is really a rails change and not an application change. i don't think it is possible to hook the transaction logic in rails to retry transactions safely from application code.

as you guessed restarting rails does fix the problem but the issue is no zero downtime migrations for migrations that should be trivially safe. ie adding a column
I remember a youtube video explaining why big airplanes like the A380, while technically impressive, do not make economic sense to airlines because it's all about stopovers: it's more efficient to "ship" people with several airplanes because it allows them to land to many more airports.

Of course there are still very busy destinations, for example Los Angeles - New York, New York - London, but that's not enough air traffic so they don't need as many A380 as we would think.
I once read something about flies exhibiting signs of consciousness. It made some sense to me; you try and swat them, they fly off in a direction of their choosing.

It crossed my mind recently in respect to AI consciousness, that all animals appear to be conscious at least to an extent - there aren't any that appear to be zombies I can think of, maybe they all got killed off. It made me wonder if consciousness as we know it, rather than requiring some step change for AI, is simply an inevitable outcome of sufficient processing, information storage, evolution and maybe some other factors. And therefore very much a continuum.

IDK.
UBank Launches AI Driven 'Digital Human'
Thanks for your correction.

I think it may be a viable alternative in the future. If everyone's having problems with NIST, perhaps we can have more non-governmental competitions organized by the academics and the industry in the future, just like Password Hashing Competition. I believe the CAESAR competition is also non-governmental, and has made great results as well.
Saving is very important. I live in Europe, it is kind of mandatory, saving and working until you are 65. Even though I don't own a car or anything of value, mostly save in a city with good disposable income. I'm quite well versed in economics, read it actively. The way you describe it, clearly displays a weakness either on your thought, or the American financial system. If a random guy from a Internet forum can do it, possibly, a lot of Americans can do as well. Now, who is going to work to keep society running while your frugal lifestyle supports you? Not to mention I would feel a bit like taking advantage of others, if I would just wake up everyday and enjoy life meanwhile I have a gardner, one person to clean my swimming pool, buy everything on the supermarket(which was made by somebody), just getting services, but not using my fully capability in order to help society thrive.

About the American thing. The US has been printing a lot of money lately and there are many signs that this party will be over in a very bad way. People will riot, go to the streets, question why some developer at FB makes 400k+ year not to mention the executives doing some bullshit work, burn down things and in the end they will possibly need to make America more socialist. The same type of mockery and abuse the US does to socialist countries, will be done to its own capitalist people. You really don't understand the dimension of power the US has been using(and losing) over the years with the Dollar. Nowadays to be honest, almost everything I buy is from China, not the US. I wonder how the US can survive running huge deficits and creating conflict with other countries.

America nowadays just export dollars. It is a product that more and more people are with their hands full. Instead of questioning me about that, I think you would be better off asking your government how to make anything that you earn
and save Today, will have ANY value at all in the future.

In summa, good luck with that.
I find this whole argument entirely specious. If one causes suffering to others merely by existing, clearly suicide or donation of ones body as food to the hungry predators is the quickest way to salvation..
A Simple Go Package to Query Over JSON/YAML/XML/CSV Data
For Slack? Not really.
If it's cold that's not so good because there will be so much steam.

(Another thing, you have to undress, sit in there and get dry and dressed again in the cold.. brr which is why I decided against it when faced with the decision. But then there was nothing but our car, a toilet hut, the hot springs, sea and mountains, and the sky (north of Iceland, that one). If you have a warm house, maybe the cold is less off-putting.)
Emojis sometimes make it a lot easier to convey sentiment than text. Also, "grown men" are allowed to have fun.
v8-style engines do not parse to optimized native code.

As described in the links, v8 parses to an AST, which then is compiled to bytecode. A bytecode VM then executes the JS, collecting runtime type information, which is input (along with the bytecode itself) into the next compilation tier; only at that point is machine code generated.

The key idea is that v8 expects to execute the JS code before it can generate native code. It won't generate native code from parsing alone.
Personally, I would try very hard to avoid deleting things that I put up on my website, if that's what you were asking.
Its different when you are slaughtering animals endlessly as a job versus hunting for food. The former will make you a morbid psychopath. The latter will give you reverence for the animal and the hunt and your position in it.
SQLite is really great, but as a datastore for a web app or a web service, it lacks a few important things to my eyes:
- Cannot rename or drop column
- Cannot create an index concurrently (without blocking writes)
- No remote protocol (you have to use the CLI through SSH to run ad-hoc queries)
Problem solving with Unix commands
Agreed, not a big fan of industrial meat production. And not just because the quality is less.

I don't have a strong opinion on whether it is good or bad for farm animal species to exist at all but I do find the contradiction interesting.
What Happens If You Send Your Bitcoins to an Invalid Address?
I don't understand this. When I get the "I am not a Robot" box, in 95% percent of all cases I only have to click the checkmark. That's it. A robot certainly can do that, too.

In the remaining 5% I get a Captcha that is impossible to solve, e.g. it states "Please mark all cars" and once I've marked all cars it states "Please also mark all traffic signs" and when I've marked all traffic signs it states "Please also mark the following traffic signs" and so on, for as long as I bother to try.

I have never encountered a Google Chaptcha that worked in any other way, either it works trivially with one click or never.

My conclusion has always been that Google Captcha are simply broken for anyone who runs an ad-blocker, and I don't don't bother with services for which it doesn't work. Problem solved.
Theresa May concedes any Brexit will leave UK worse off
Not quite sure what you mean by "simple containers", but yes, they're native apps written in Objective-C and Java IIRC. And here's some more information on LibSlack: https://slack.engineering/libslack-the-c-library-at-the-foun...
> “I never really thought about it, but it doesn’t much affect my work day to day one way or the other”

In my experience, people won't come out and say it, but this seems to be what everyone is thinking. :)

The problem with this is that it is wrong.

Classical ZFC in particular is a very strong and specific set of assumptions* with a very tenuous link to any practical application. If you actually want to develop a useful bit of mathematics it makes sense to consider the "foundations" as a moving piece. It's a part of the design space for modeling your problem domain, not some god-given notion of truth.

You can translate between different logical theories by building a model of one in another, so it's not like you loose anything. But it's cooky to insist that we should start with ZFC of all things.

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*) I mean that second-order ZFC has basically no non-trivial models, so there is no real way of extending ZFC to talk about domain specific aspects of your problems.
Well, I better get myself to Toulouse this year, so I can take a tour of the Airbus factory while they're still building them.
Is taking notes on paper better than taking notes on a computer? Y- Maybe?
Yeah, no idea about the economics of these planes, but flying one with Emirates to Dubai was really pleasant. The regular economy class was more like premium economy on other planes.
I could imagine a use case: you want to include some Javascript code base into your own EXE, but you don't want to drag in node.js or something heavy like that.
They probably lost a huge chunk of money but in the long run, it will probably be worth the effort. When you design something new like that, you invent and invest in new technologies that you'll use along the way.

Concorde, while a commercial failure, was a good example:

- first commercial aircraft to have fly-by-wire

- carbon brakes

- anti skid (the first electronic system as far as I know)

- center of gravity adjustment through fuel pumping (no need to trim the aicraft hence less drag)

So lots of money thrown out of the window, sure, but they'll use what they've learned...
Next time you are at an airport, go up to the sanest looking person and threaten to blow the place up. See if they laugh.
I was going to say the same. I don't use Quora at the moment but when I did, I'd be more interested in subjective questions (history, geographical - ie. travel etc., and more philosophical questions) rather than objective and technical questions (and answers) as I've found many of them to be simply untrue.
Sure, that's what I am doing anyway. Just wanted to point out that nouveau is not really great option.
> The time required for coding in C++ is much more higher than javascript

I'm not convinced that this is true.

> The widget provided by the OS are basic.

Not really. I am yet to see an Electron widget that does drag-and-drop, accessibility, theming, keyboard control, etc. right. OS widgets are by no means "basic".

> Also a cross platform GUI is a promise that is never delivered properly. With Electron apps can deliver a consistent UI: Slack looks the same regardless of the platform. With native, the UI looks good on one OS

That's the whole point: I don't want my apps to look dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Each native app looks good and fits in on its platform.

> Just look at the React Native, it exists because it is a lot cheaper and faster than writing individual native iOS and Android apps.

React Native is much nicer than Electron in this respect, because it doesn't package then entire Chromium engine and uses native controls to a limited extent.
> Threads

Some folks would vehemently disagree with this being considered useful.
> Jimmy was an innovator but also an extremely sloppy player. I can play his parts note for note better than he ever could.

Hard to argue with that. Except to say that ultimately it's not always the virtuosity that captures people's affections. Some have postulated that soon we'll have music made by machines. Perfect pitch and tempo. But it would appear that the irregularities in human performances actually produce the music we all enjoy listening to.