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It's pretty obvious that this person has essentially lied: they have not implemented the complex features they claim while they hype benefits like compile time and lack of non-zero cost features that will have to disappear when they have implemented what they promised. But I think what's more interesting, more telling, is the level of vitriol over 12k/year in patreon subscriptions. Funding in open source is so absurdly unequal that people are outraged over someone earning table scraps.

EDIT: No idea why this was flagged, I don't understand the norms of this strange website.
Yes, exactly. None of that information has ever been secret or secure. It's ludicrous that it's used to establish identity.
Bunnie seems to fear this type of IP restriction but with regard to closed source chipset designs and proprietary hardware, which he views as key to continued innovation in China.

I have met Bunnie, and he has a bit of a warped view of the world. I think it caused him to gloss over things like https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/28/hcsec_huawei_oversi... where Huawei did not give a single shit about security in their cellular basestation codebase.

Sure, Huawei will read CVEs and sometimes deal with them, but really basic things like updating OpenSSL libraries seem near impossible for Huawei. Their hardware is thus vulnerable to exploitation by any ill intentioned person wandering by :c

Part of this is the whole stolen codebase problem, where Huawei (as Nortel's Chinese manufacturing partner) took their designs and code, without fully understanding them. They've been able to tack on a lot of neat stuff, but the underlying architecture is still not understood by their engineers.
But there's one thing about this story: "It happened 33,295 times last year."

So, while it happened to this journalist and he reported on it, the 32k other people did not report on it.

So, maybe turn this around a bit: maybe the CBP should understand if they do it to a journalist, he might report on it.

Also, maybe CPB is just doing their jobs and journalists shouldn't get better treatment, but remember they ARE one of the checks and balances on unchecked power/authority/corruption in any government. Other governments know this and journalists are ruthlessly hunted in other countries.
> Q: I got an error: PERMISSION_DENIED: Permission denied.

> A: Try picking a different team name, the team name you inserted is already taken.

A: How to tell your software was built by security people.
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(Or, if you repent, SANTA.)

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Conspicuously missing from the entire libra story is how they are actually going to manage the peg. How will they handle the custodian counter-party risk?

What I mean by that is: for libra to actually be a stablecoin, for every libra unit in circulation, FB and their merry band of friends will need to stash a frozen combo of {dollar, euro, yen} somewhere.

That "somewhere" is actually not easy at all to design from a financial infrastructure point of view: any institution (other than central banks) who will actually store that stash will have to:

- be regularly audited by independent auditors

- be risk-free (and there is no such a thing) or the peg will drift.

Worse, these custodians of what is already essentially virtual money are going to be sitting on a huge pile of currency and to guarantee the peg, won't be allowed to do anything with it.

I give it 6 months before that money is re-invested somewhere through some smart financial engineering.
Sorry, you are right. I glossed over the parent writing about L4 and L5
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Just because you don't see people and you think the neighbor kids are at school doesn't mean there aren't people around that could be hit by a stray bullet. Maybe even people actively trying to not be seen, though they aren't thieves casing the house or whatever. They are just extremely poor.

I spent nearly six years homeless. I used to see drones above my tent at night when camped at the foot of some bluffs below expensive housing. I don't believe the people in the expensive housing had any idea I was there. I did my best to have tree cover, to come in under cover of darkness and remain quiet and so forth.

I was trying to avoid telling that personal anecdote because I'm routinely given shit for telling my personal anecdotes to explain what I mean.
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You literally said that I need to put the blame where it lies and that it lies with the banks.

A third party I’ve never interacted with gives out my private information without first asking for my permission. This is a crucial step in a common pattern of fraud. If they asked me for permission before they gave out my private info, it would shut down this entire type of fraud. They are fully aware of all of this, and continue with business as usual anyway. How is any of this ok?
I've had them catch mistakes before, like an item being double-scanned. I was actually pretty impressed that they looked at the total count on the receipt and cross-checked it against the contents of the cart.
Game programmers and also people who seem to think that Garbage Collection involves burning babies and the hundreds of academics and engineers working on it are somehow doing it out of spite.

There are reasons not to use a Garbage Collector but 99% of the time they are absolutely fine if you understand what your particular GC does and does not do
At the height they cruise the drone at, it's possible they piggyback onto a couple of dozen cell towers at a time using directional antennae.
Have they ever actually checked you that closely? Every time I leave Costco, it’s a cursory glance, a swipe of a marker (which prevents receipt reuse), and that’s it.
And so is so much other US-produced or maintained hardware. Do we now ban outdated corporate websites which can be hacked and used to launch attacks on other servers?

The Huawei ban is very clearly a political anti-China move, not one based on technical reasons.
yes, I wasn't sure of the tesla cable either, because they all have buttons on them. You press the button and charging comes to a stop and the cable unlocks. I don't know if the car key has to be in range for this to happen, or if it works for anyone who presses the button.
Yes, our program ran at half speed.
I consider this a bad faith argument so I’ll just leave you with this. Just yesterday the Supreme Court ruled against a prosecutor who repeatedly ruled out black people from jury selection, it was found this prosecutor on average asked white jurors 11 questions and black jurors ~25, this is just one of the many examples of unequal treatment under the law that criminal justice reformers are advocating against. It sounds like you need to do some reading, so I’ll recommend The Color of Law.
From a 2011 Globe and Mail article:

> Ever notice that Canadian contests keep barring the poor residents of Quebec from entering? It's not that contests are illegal in Quebec – it's just that the government makes it especially difficult to run one.

> For one thing, contest runners have to pay tax on the value of the prize. For another thing, contests with prizes over $2,000 have to register their rules with a government agency, the Régie des alcools des courses et des jeux – which is usually just referred to as the "Régie."

> To top it off, contests with prizes worth more than $5,000 actually have to deposit an amount as a security with the Régie, as a means of protecting consumers should the contest runner fold or renege.

> When compounded with the complexities of working in two languages at once, many contest runners simply disqualify entrants from the province.
Remove the food, but also clean away the formic acid pheromone trail that each ant leaves, and they will
forage elsewhere instead of following their path to
where the food was.
Can please someone explain to me how a page cache can be “far, far slower than direct I/O” in any application on any hardware?

In my understanding RAM latency and bandwidth are couple orders of magnitude faster than any storage device out there, so cache check can not be slower than a storage device access.

What am I missing?
>I was unnecessarily rude on some which I apologize for, but deleting them and calling me a troll was uncalled for.

I wouldn't say troll, but you still come out as rude-ish in this comment.

"- Some things use CLI curl or mkdir, this is /INCREDIBLY/ insecure."

Not anymore than tons of established projects that use the same...
Hey, kind of off topic, but does anyone here know anything about dealing with imported fire ants?
All the code I write at the moment is GC-free (By circumstance), but it's clear that not using a garbage collector is a tradeoff between runtime nondeterminism and the complexity of the code (How many of Herb Sutter's talks on smart pointers could have been eliminated if C++ had a garbage collector available, for example) or compiler/language complexity
Considering that they’re shipping a lot of desktop improvements in 19, that seems objectively untrue.
So, what are the correct instructions?

I followed the instructions on the GitHub and yes, I'm getting segfaults.
In all fairness. How many non Mac folks or even Mac folks that don’t listen to ATP would know colloquial terms like the “MacBook One” and the “MacBook Escape”?

The G4 iMac was discontinued in 2004 - over 15 years ago. I’m very much an Apple nerd but I haven’t heard it call that before today.
Also, Garbage Collection can be extremely fast when done properly: The Decision to use a garbage collector could be done on performance grounds as well but Garbage Collectors are generally harder to tune than reference counting.
FOSS developers like those sponsored by Google/FB/MS to make React/etc.? Sure. But FOSS developers making useful applications and sharing them with the community (think Gnome/KDE, cmus, calcurse, WINE, VLC)? From my experience there is a lot of diversity there, and also a lot of representation from Europe.
Atmosphere doesn't mean high altitude, it's all the gas around our planet, including what you are breathing right now.

Also, the CO2 concentration is pretty much constant (as a function of height) below the turbopause, because of mixing, so it doesn't matter at which altitude you extract it.
Better question: why is under-18 banned?
Best Buy stations people near the exits to check receipts, as does Wal-Mart with greeters, and on busy shopping days Best Buy has been known to post signs saying all receipts will be checked and bags provided at the exits. I don’t see it as that much of an inconvenience to stand in a line with everyone else as the receipt and items are checked one last time.

I can’t say it’s effective at catching problems but it probably acts as a good deterrent on a very busy, crowded day... presumably they’re trying to prevent someone from skipping the cash registers on their way out...

Canadian Tire, now there’s a terrible shopping experience, security gates make it nearly impossible to leave without buying something and they still check your receipts as you leave.
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The point your parent is making is that in the US this information can be used to impersonate people.

In countries with modern identity solutions, this is not possible.
> In general, the developers are wherever the corporate sponsorship is these days. i.e most development on key packages these days isn't done as a labor of love by most developers anymore. Also, at least a significant fraction, if not the majority, of those doing FOSS development here in the U.S. weren't born here. Linus being a perfect example. So it's not like we have any magic pixie dust that makes U.S.-born developers special.

That's the thing, though. The physical location of the developers and the legal nexus of the companies are different things. Any sovereign government can exert power over the actions of companies that operate elsewhere, so long as they have anything in their own jurisdiction that can be gripped and squeezed -- a "nexus". Sometimes sovereign nations will even create laws that are "extra-territorial", laws they expect to be obeyed beyond their own borders, even if only enforceable once you are within those borders.

If all your developers live in Europe, but you sell to US companies too, guess what? The US can push you around. Do you want to do business with a bank with any US footprint whatsoever, guess what? The US can push you around. Do your executives travel to the US? Guess what? etc etc etc.

The US is not a special case here: the use of local and international legal and financial pressure to achieve policy goals outside one's own borders is common. However the US is a superpower, has far more levers to push on, far more heft to push them with and far lesser immediate consequences for doing so. The EU and China are probably its only rivals in this kind of economic realpolitik.

But if Bhutan tried to do this? We wouldn't even hear about it.
super interesting. Is there a blog post somewhere?

how much better is the performance due to rust/wasm compared to implementing the physics in JS?
It’s relevant because that membership, which is the one thing that sets Costco apart, is also their only remedy.

They don’t get to chase you down. They don’t get to hold you. They can’t call the police. (Well, they can, but the police won’t give a shit.) All they can do is refuse to let you buy more stuff from them.

Everybody gets to do what they want. Costco can ask to check your stuff. You can refuse. Costco can cancel your membership. None of these things are problematic.
Couldn't you host it on a github.io site on a markdown table, and have your script poll a csv file that is ready for PR action?

Or just emulate the awesome* lists that are quite popular already.
Oregon Republicans are on the lam to avoid voting on a major climate change bill
the laws were probably written with lotteries and gambling originally in mind, and made overly broad to prevent people from finding loopholes. (like, say, a poker tournament where the chips aren't worth real money, but there is a cash prize at the end.)
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If this works. You will have a mainstream cryptocurrency that you can directly access. No middle-man.
In the US, they can ask, but they can’t stop you from walking out the door if you say no.
In the United states this has been an issue at Frys electronics and circuit city, but it really boils down to these two facts:

- once you pay, and have a receipt, it is your property.

- guards can only do one of two things: 1. wave you by and tell you to have a nice day or 2. Detain you for shoplifting.

number 2 gets pretty ugly. If the "loss prevention officer" as theyre called has video evidence of you stealing, or can prove from witness that you are in possession of stolen property, they will detain you in standard police style handcuffs and march you to the office. only the police can legally remove the handcuffs at this point.

now, if you havent stolen anything, and you are detained, this is unlawful imprisonment. You hire a lawyer, you go to court, and you count your settlement cash or push the company to do the unthinkable...not issue a public apology, but admit wrongdoing.

most companies have shied away from this kind of strongman tactic of inspecting bags for one reason. its not because customers dont like it, its because it can put the business at enormous financial and shareholder risk if it backfires for any reason.
Advion ant gel bait is pretty amazing against most ants. Gel baits in general are at least 10x better than raid and are what professionals recommend (I've solved 10+ ant, roach and flea issues for friends).
You shouldn't be manually allocating memory anywhere if you malloc and free. I feel quite strongly about the use of C in modern systems code: The "C" way of doing things can often be very unsafe or at least prone to being unsafe (No fault of the programmer, but if you don't provide RAII and things like that by default it becomes too easy to double free or leave bounds unchecked)

A kernel doesn't really need a garbage collector, but keep in mind that some modern GCs can literally be tuned to have ms pause times on absolutely enormous heaps which given that reference counting can have unbounded pause times too can make them an enticing option.

The real reason to avoid garbage collection is typically memory usage in my experience
We're mostly on the same page, but here's my quibble: you hold Equifax responsible "for the damage they caused" but not for their role in corrupting the regulatory regime.

Regulators should answer to the people, but because corporations are extremely motivated, fabulously wealthy, and privileged by the court system, the people have to compete for the regulators' attentions. I think it makes sense to acknowledge that Equifax is acting against the common good, even if that's just incidental to Equifax acting in its own interests.
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I've only read the white paper, but finance is one of my biggest hobbies, so I'm going to take a stab at addressing the concerns you mention.

It's not entirely a currency peg - it's an asset peg. The assets will be Treasurys, bunds, etc. that are _representative_ of currencies, but are not direct currencies.

The peg is going to drift. The history of currency pegs is filled with struggles by institutions to maintain the peg at a fixed level, only to let go of the peg and convert to floating. I think the idea behind Libra is that, while the peg will drift, Libra will still be a drastically more stable store of value compared to almost every other crypto.

I would not be surprised to learn that the Libra Foundation's custodians are the people holding the assets and handling the counter-party risk. It explicitly says in the white paper that the interest earned on the reserves held by the custodians will be used to pay for expenses of maintaining the network. If I was Visa, I would be more than happy to hold a basket of bonds and take a cut in a play to try to expand my customer base, by moving more people into the transaction market space.

I understand why my answer wouldn't sit well - putting trust into thesee parties and buying into the ideas behind Libra require a huge leap of faith, one that I don't think I would even participate in. But I do think that the mechanics behind how Libra manages the peg are actually not as nefarious or difficult as you laid out.
Almost everything in Canada, every ad, promotion, service has some kind of special section for Quebec.

They insist on having completely different laws for every little thing. From a companies POV, its probably as legally onerous as operating in a different country altogether - not worth it.
So these things should prevent us from innovating? That’d be sad. It’s pretty cool that we can still work on projects like that and I would even say that thanks to the spotlight we already had, it puts even more pressure on us to do it right. Which is a win win imo.
Ethereum doesn't publish public keys at all, they are inferred from the signature and signed hash
It’s interesting to consider how mathematics was viewed in ancient times, often interwoven with other disciplines and seen as the mystical language of nature rather than the sterile way it is often taught today. The legacy of Pythagorus is as much about reincarnation, music, and philosophy as it is about geometry. Numerology and geometry has played a huge role in religious practices from the I Ching to Gothic cathederals. Most divinitory practices are essentially algorithms for generating randomness, not only granting the benefits you mention but also allowing the guide to tap into their intuition and semi/unconscious mind, which may produce insights not as easily accessible via analytical methods.
I wish the article discussed huge pages for executable text and their beneficial impact on the iTLB.
I just tried to create an online account with the IRS today and failed to do so because they couldn't verify that my phone number is registered under my name. (Why they can't deal with Google Fi but can with AT&T is a different problem). I was annoyed, but also positively surprised with the process. They even ask you for an anti phishing phrase.
She is an actual person, she posts a fair bit around here.

I'm 99% sure she wasn't trolling you. Maybe she was just frustrated.

I often appreciate her POV. It's good to have different perspectives in a discussion.
Re the "skywall": if it's legal for a private business to own these to protect against corporate espionage, it's surely legal for me to protect my house in the same way. Sort of like how if I discover a tracking device connected to my car, I'm not obliged to leave it attached. I can remove it, even if a three-letter agency might demand to have it back.
That is not in fact true, and was in fact litigated in front of the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, 3/4 of the Internet believes it to be true because the ACLU fundraises on that claim.
Containerizing / emulating OpenGL libraries (especially proprietary vendor drivers, like nVidia's) is difficult.
Not if the OS doesn't support 32 bit processes. Containers are fancy chroots, not simple VMs.
Valgrind (Which also has a bunch of other stuff like cachegrind, which can be a godsend if you are getting telltale cache/branch prediction issues but you can't find where etc.).

Clang/GCC both have suites of sanitizers which are usually excellent and easy to grok, these are also available in many language frontends based on LLVM (and maybe GCC?)

You can just throw every tool you can find at your CI if you're paranoid, too.
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Costco, however, is a membership organization, and this is a stated condition in the membership agreement.
A cryptocurrency on top of SGX right?
This is the actual paper this article was based on:

https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(13)00073-6

All very fascinating
That kind of assumes you have a main() function.
The official story is the the cart is compared with the receipt to catch errors more than shoplifting [1]. As far as I can remember ever seeing, Seattle Costcos just look in the cart, they don’t search personal bags.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Costco-exit-greeters-c...
"neophobia" on HN? That's hilarious.
Not a good thing and moving heavily in the wrong direction.
This is a conflict reporter in the Intercept, of all publications, that did not realize that his electronics would be subject to near-limitless search at the US border. As a result, he apparently potentially compromised sources. There is no responsible way to carry this kind of data over the border. There are no tricks to this. Encryption has nothing to say about it. Any computer or phone or tablet you bring through the border should be a burner, or at least something you can cheerfully part with if confiscated.
Clean clothes, daily showers, and breakfasts can be next to go. A kid living in the jungles of South America with his/her clan/village could be better off.
Most likely for any contracts accepted to be legally binding.