skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Factoring by Quantum computers able to implement Shor's algorithm (which is the proposed apocalypse for the family of public key algorithms used today) so far isn't just short of "dangerous" it's short of what you'd expect school children to achieve. 21 is 7 times 3. Really, I'm not exagerrating, that's what they've achieved.

As with the work done to try to figure out how we should handle a big rock coming our way, work on post-quantum cryptography is justifiable because it's something we would really regret not working on if it suddenly becomes necessary and it's not _that_ expensive. But just because the threat justifies relatively modest research expenditure doesn't make it worth a newspaper article that will invariably distort the facts and confuse more than it illuminates.
Do you know the history of the "allowed seeds" law? I assume greed is in there somewhere, but there's usually some other bizarre or novel justification for that sort of law.
There's a reason why my cat doesn't need two-factor authentication
Can someone explain why this comment is being downvoted?

Perhaps the topic is complex and nuanced but the advise in the comment seems fairly good in the general healthy spectrum.

Besides some opinion being thrown in, what do you disagree with?
:)

Please note the bit about my father.

But yours a very good point! So what do I mean? It depends on the word 'better' and 'stable'.

'stable' is easily covered - chinese society has existed in a stable form for thousands of years. There's no evidence that any democracy has, because democracy as I know it is a relatively recent thing. Yeah, greeks and democracy, but they also kept slaves so no.

'better'? Well, what do you mean by that. I suppose on reflection I was equating that with stable, so if you accept that then I've already covered it, and feudalism/totalitarianism/authoritarianism is perhaps 'better'. A stable society at the cost of individual happiness.

You define 'better' as equivalent to human rights, which I agree with, however my point is, be clear with your definitions of pivotal words! That's all. And I should have been so as well.

To be clear I'm not advocating nor would wish to live under, such regimes.

(and the brexit shite is a train wreck, and I am losing some faith in people who voted for brexit based on xenophobia and ignorance. I've met both sorts so I know they exist).
The Workplace Powered by AI Has Arrived, and Its Impact on Productivity
In the UK, I think universities have to track attendance if only to make the immigration authorities happy.
An ethicist discusses what makes a good friend
When I see articles like this I can almost predict the steps of the big, bad independent cowboys of the world showing up in a related thread. I fully expect them to be the first to come on their knees to the people forming collectives to more efficiently produce the same resources too.

I mean in and of themselves your steps aren't wrong per-se. It's just that things don't work out like you think and the people that call themselves confederates and encourage each other to be baby machines I imagine won't be very workable as a post-apocalyptic relationship. With outside groups or each other.

Meanwhile, these population centers tend to spring up around a social pillar for a reason and don't simply lose that robustness when the public works begin failing. People are way too quick to assume they're the only rational one surrounded by rabid beasts.

But keep on preppin', california cowboy (sorry couldn't resist, this sounds city boy af and you have it in your username).
It's this generations fusion power.

I think many are seriously underestimating the engineering breakthroughs needed for a computer that can break 2048 bit RSA. Hopefully I'm proven wrong.
I used Habito recently to get a quote on remortgage. I don't get the disruption tag, they are simply a mortgage broker with some nice forms. Trussle is another one in the UK.

In the end found a cheaper deal through my own research. A broker is only as good as the percentage of market they cover.
I really don't get this POV. If it was just about a random Chinese company, sure, whatever, but Huawei though is 99% likely passing to the Chinese state, which is a geo-political entity that has more than a passing resemblance to some Hitler/Mao/Stalin hybrid that is fairly terrifying.

It is rapidly scaling its military technology and reach, threatening neighbors over competing claims in the South China Sea, re-creating its own version of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere via the Belt and Road initiative and China 2025, interning its own citizens by the millions into re-education camps, forcing spying by its own citizens overseas by threatening family members, introducing a 'social credit' system to force not only self-censorship, but active promotion of its policies by its citizenry in order to not lose 'privileges' like taking the train.

I understand that the Trumpian version of the US is annoying in many ways, but the idea that we let China and Chinese companies dominated by it's government (they literally have to pay Party minders to keep them in line) have unconstrained access to its geopolitical foes infrastructure beggars belief.
Why? Could you explain the difference?
The reason you don't see Intel chipsets in routers is because they don't have as cheap and plentiful integrated offerings like Broadcom and Atheros (ARM based SoCs).
And the security of a system can be completely undermined if nobody uses it because of poor user experience.
> they just haven't yet been able to factor large enough numbers to be dangerous.

According to [1], the current highest factorization using Schor's algorithm is 21=3 * 7 published in 2012, up from the 15=3 * 5 that was demonstrated in 2001. This pace is not all that promising.

Sure, there are other quantum factorizations, but they are either stunts (work only for very narrow classes), or are based on a different algorithm than Schor, which does not show hope to scale up.

[1] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/59795/largest-int...
I believe a company has a right to support backwards compatibility for file formats. If they propose a standard and the outcome of the standards work prevents their supporting backwards compatibility (in both directions), I’d rather they support their customers (and their data/files), document their extension use, even at the expense of pure standards implementations not being able to read those files.
Stop calling these territories Polish ones. They belonged to Belarus and Ukraine before. Poland took these territories after 1918-1921 Soviet Polish war.
These territories were Part of Big Belarusian- Lithevian country. This country was in Union with Poland.
why is this approximate and not exact?
Blender Is Free Software
Any quantum experts able to share a technical article on (a) what are the main obstacles to a universal quantum decryptor, and (b) what is the current progress curve on those obstacles?

With this much on the line, someone has to have a detailed model they keep up to date...
It was worth a try but I hated the model. I want to pay a Netflix/Spotify ballpark figure per month and be able read all newspapers. Until then I am very happy to pay the €5 a month I currently pay for one good paper (way less than the rate they show on their site btw)
I completely disagree, see my comment above. I was doing asynchronous distributed data replication and compute over a grid in 2001 using Jini and Javaspaces, and I was the one late to the party.
> If you consider the price of a full subscription to a quality newspaper

Newspaper subscription prices are extremely inflated when you compare what they would’ve earning from ads (and they were happy with ads until blockers came around).

If they actually priced the subscriptions for the same amount ads would bring them from an average reader (excluding ad blockers) they would be much more affordable.

Sadly, just like the movie industry, the publishers are being greedy and shot themselves in the foot.
I use PiHole and firewall to manage adblocking at home, and uBlock on every device that supports it. uBlock is a far more effective solution than DNS based ones which is why I prefer to install Firefox+uBlock on Android than use hosts file.

I'll give DNSCloak for iOS a try, thanks for the recommendation.
I really loved SCons and used it for most of my personal projects, but beyond a certain project size it really starts to show performance issues. At work we used to use SCons for a major code base and even running it without any source changes took a good 30s.

We eventually switched to Blueprint.
So to summarize, the Facebook plan might look like this: (IANAL, so please correct me)

- Create a global currency that can only be used by FB users and through FB apps.

- Invest a billion in pegging the currency to make it stable and position it as the unchallenged WorldMoney™, but it will eventually carry its own weight in the long term.

- Collect direct purchase information like crazy, their ultimate wet dream (I know GDPR is not circumvented by the taxes thing, but it's as simple as asking "Can I track your purchases?" and people will simply say yes.)

- Implement this scheme as a blockchain to dodge antitrust laws (or whatever applies when you become a worldwide financial entity) by distributing the operation/management/governance among interested parties.

- Even receive some millions from said companies to hold that power in the first place.

- Still hold the real power over the implementation at the end of the day, but not the accountability.

- Dodge taxes like crazy wherever you can, charge fees whenever you want, etc.

- Make users comply to whatever conditions you want because at some point it will become mandatory to have a FB account.

Am I missing something?

EDIT: - Pay their employees and finance their worldwide operation with monopoly money.
OnePlus 7 Pro is selling like crazy, so notch is probably something people want to get rid of if they have a choice, which isn't something iPhone users really have.

iPhone is no longer a trend setter in smartphone business for some time now.
> iMessage lock-in
> SMS from desktop solution
> Animojis is probably the biggest one

Every so often I am reminded people still use SMS, and by extension, iMessage. I think a combination of being in South East Asia for a long time, and also moving around so much, and both me (and almost everyone I know) uses various messaging apps not tied to a phone number (WhatsApp, Messenger, LINE). I have a British VOIP number where SMS goes through to my email.

I wonder how much longer phone numbers, and, by association, SMS have to live.
We're all living off the corpse of our ancestors.
There are no hurricanes on the equator, mind.
This is how it traditionally works. My mom and my wife’s mom would also agree.
Source / citation?
How many chemistry studies are funded by chemical companies?

Studies are usually not answers to public concern questions, but a way people working in a domain figure things out about that domain.
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I don't think it is certain to stay, as they seem to avoid commiting to the extension capability in their future Versions of Firefox for Android.

So AFAIK it might be that they want to get rid of it.
In the race between arms and armor, arms have always won. I wonder if the reverse is true in crypto. Will crypto always evolve to be one step ahead, or make a massive leap such that it will be multiple steps ahead.
ROT26 is 2x as secure.
It's tough to find people willing to talk about anything substantial, because doing so gives away information that is otherwise giving them an edge over you ...

Quantopian has some forums, there's groups on LinkedIn, but there's very little discussion of actual techniques, even for fairly basic stuff.
I remember back in the 1980s that the Japanese researchers, whose population has (had?) very low cholesterol, were arguing with the US researchers, saying that cholesterol too low was bad as it led to (perhaps allowed for) strokes- which was one of their young-people-killers.
One benefit to having a gay guy from Alabama in charge is a company that understands you don't want everyone else knowing your business.
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Sure, except that’s not always how reality works. My mom and my mother-in-law were both stay at home mothers who got divorced. They have few employment options in the private sector after 20 years of raising children. Turns out the market doesn’t pay much for those skills. Now we have to help support them.
Raw fruit is fine, veggies not really. Many contain substances that should deter animals from eating them. The digestibility of veggies usually increases when they are cooked.

wheat contains Phytic acid for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytic_acid
which can be reduced with the correct dough process.

The beta-carotene in carrots is fat soluble and the cells are pretty robust, so you get more out of them if you cook them in fat.

Champignons contain a mild poison, which is not deadly for humans but destroyed when heated, digestibility increases too.
When will consumer robotics reach the “iPhone Moment”
I guess I haven't reached that size (not surprising given what I use it for; mostly LaTeX compilation and PDF postprocessing). How many lines/files did you find to be a problem?
I wonder how well it would work to do that with JSON-LD micro-format markup.

Google don't care about HTML as they are way too clever for that. If I had more time I would like to see how they would rank two identical pages, one done properly and one that was a JPG image with a dangleberry of JSON-LD tacked on. I bet they latter would fare better!
Barely a difference . Race realism is the same thing, sugar-coated to avoid openly admitting your racism and belief that some races are inherently superior .
Why? Can you please explain with some reasons?
For better or worse, a name like "Blueprint" is virtually useless without a link. Even googling is worthless, since it collides with...everything.
I'm sure they are and the results are pretty impressive.
The concept of micro transactions isn't the problem imo. The lack of automation is.

If there was a browser plugin that automatically paid up to x$ if an authorized website asks for it, but never more than y$ per month that would be a good compromise between subscription model and single article purchases. There would be the initial authorization, but after that no further interactions. The news website, instead of displaying a paywall, could talk to the plugin to facilitate the payment.

As long as you'd be fine of loosing up to y$ in case of a bug/hack/whatever this should work fine. If publishers were to increase prices they had to fear to cross the yolo-line of x$ and the user being explicitly asked for consent, that should keep them in check too.
The maintainers of SCons have long argued perceived performance and scalability issues do not exist (https://github.com/scons/scons/wiki/WhySconsIsNotSlow).

I've long been really excited about SCons but eventually decided to move away because it became unbearably sluggish for a large-ish codebase with >180K lines of C++ code split into many files. Another issue are cross-platform builds. SCons breaks every time there is a new version of Visual Studio, and it takes many months until an updated version restores compatibility.
> It's true a lot of the negative stuff here isn't technically incorrect

Then it's correct, yes?

> China serves some kind of convenient narrative

I have to agree. If china were an economically unimportant tiddler or have lotsa oil, the west wouldn't care nearly as much.

> the so-called West has exploited for the last few centuries

And china had a pretty repressive feudal government for a very long time. That is, the pyramid's peak freely and often brutally exploited the pyramid's broad base. For a very long time. And Uighurs - like to comment on them? Perhaps you'd like to list some chinese atrocities here?

Seriously, list some.

I'm aware and not proud of the opium wars. That shit should be taught in school, as well as the way brits treated the irish, the welsh, the scottish... Not as a guilt thing but as a way of saying, let this not happen again.
Correct, believing some races are inherently superior does get you labeled a white supremacist because there's functionally not much of a difference between the two.
Because Schrödinger's cat uses SAASPASS Authenticator & Password Manager for all 2FA needs
The over-emphasis of "being vegan is HARD".

It's not, it's mildly tricky, and there's not much evidence that people following a vegan diet are nutritionally worse off than the people who don't think about their food at all, many of whom don't eat any fresh fruit or veg across a week.
> I mean take Coke ads which show happy healthy people having fun while the reality is similar drinks are a major cause of obesity and tooth decay. But how do you ban that?

Simple: ban the appearance of people in ads.

It is less drastic than you might think. In many countries, naked people are not allowed in public ads. So it is only a small step to ban people altogether.
(caveat:I'm not an expert)

Why would you need to account for it? Trying to understand the logic here.

The study goes to showing the association between high cholesterol and all-cause mortality (which is what we really care about right?) is weak.

This would seem to diminish the benefits of statin use, all other things being equal.
Godot is a relatively big project, and it seems to work well for them.
A while ago the notch was a status symbol, now not having it is.
I'm fairly certain that you don't have to identify in any way at least where I live (Germany). You need to register your Apple account with a valid E-Mail address, which can be as fake as you want it to be. Store credits can be bought anonymously with cash at gas stations or other brick and mortar stores.
Search for "Blueprint build tool"

https://opensource.google.com/projects/blueprint

https://github.com/google/blueprint
Absolutely. In fact, because statins have such a powerful effect on cholesterol, there is a good chance that a bunch of the people in the low cholesterol strata are taking statins. So, at the risk of being a broken record in this thread, these results are likely to be confounded by indication. That is, the low-cholesterol groups are enriched for people who have low cholesterol because they are taking statins. And they are taking statins because a physician has deemed them to be at elevated risk of disease (or already have disease), and are thus more likely to die.
Apple won't move to under screen.

There is way too much going on in their notch compared to their Android counterparts:

https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/976228
Duckduckgo for [blueprint build system] returns https://github.com/google/blueprint as the first hit, so I think it's that.

Edit: Google, for me, doesn't return that on the first page, but the first result is https://opensource.google.com/projects/blueprint which links to it.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4ngemodell
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettenlinie_(Mathematik)

NB, the line taken by the cables of a suspension bridge with a deck of uniform weight is a parabola. I think this is what causes the popular confusion.
> That said however we do have QC resistant key exchange and signature algorithms so I don’t think there is that much reason to panic.

We don't have QC resistant key exchange. Not yet. There are a couple of proposals, and there is a competition going on on, but it hasn't concluded yet: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography
And the New York times
In the tweet that I linked to, we noted that failure to account for statin use can invert the causal relationship between cholesterol and mortality.

With regard to the point of the study, they start by saying, "It is unclear whether associations between total cholesterol (TC) levels and all-cause mortality and the optimal TC ranges for lowest mortality vary by sex and age."

So, interpreting their statement, I would say that their goal with this study was to investigate whether the relationship between total cholesterol and mortality was consistent across age and sex. That is a different point from assessing the strength of the relationship between cholesterol and mortality.

I do agree, however, that there is no single biomarker aside from age that is a particularly powerful predictor of mortality in the general population.
The problem with this method is that it requires a side channel. This is the real beauty of public key cryptography, you can negotiate a secure channel over an open channel. (*Authentication sold separately)
The best thing about SCons is the build cache. I wish more build tools had that.
- studies != audits

- most of those studies are used to demonstrate if something is doable. Few are targeting safety, even fewer are long enough or on a large scale enough to answer the previously raised concerned, and almost none are by independent entities.

- GMO have been planted and sold for consumption way before we had proof of short term and scale safety through independent studies. I have zero trust in the will to do the right thing of their manufacturers, either to fund objective studies for long term and large scale or to act humanly if those reveals something bad.

- the terminator gene is just an image I use, really, for the kind of modifications that we can think of, but that would not evolve out of a living system
What do you mean by on demand style? German automotive factories build to order. Wvery car in the factory floor has its specific configuration and the companies have invested decades of effort into production processes that allow them to have the properly customized parts and subassemblies arrive on time and in the proper order at the production lane.

What could be better than this?
Like most things which your body needs (or produces from other materials), moderation is likely better than an outright deficit or abstinence.
While I agree with your general sentiment, I fail to see why 'national security' would trump 'destruction of habitat'. When my house is burning down I don't give diddly quak whether the doors are locked.
I mean, sure, but how are you going to protect the one time key?

What might make more sense is if they gave you a usb drive that was good for a thousand transactions or whatever. Then you could get it replaced in person after the pad was used it.

I didn’t read the article (paywall), but unless they are talking about quantum computers, the computation required to break the key and encrypt the data has a exponential difference. If we all started using keys that were, say, 2^32 bits long, we would be fine for the forseeable future.
I worked for Xerox 25 years ago.

The difference between the 18 page/min and the 45 page/min copier was a DIP switch and $10k.
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Right, it's very similar to things i've said too, but clearly and succinctly put!

I see a similar problem with the common preference for unit tests over integration tests. The mistakes in a system tend to be in the interactions between parts, not in the parts themselves, and by construction, unit tests can't test those.
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Looks nice, but hopefully someone that has owned an E-bike can explain something for me: should you remove that battery when you park the bike (for fear of theft) or just for charging?
Would you mind explaining what about my comment was either rude or a flame, given the context in which rationality was named as a sign of being unwise?