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I have empathy for your situation if your dream was from the age of 12 to be in the tech career and only obtainable in USA. I had a dream that wasn't work-related and I wasn't able to obtain it. Yes, dreams are worth a lot and makes me find your situation exceptional compared to someone just in it for the money. Myself, I chose to move away from the USA because being a software engineer could be done in Canada and it had nothing to do for my dream. Heck, even if money would have financed my dream, I wouldn't have wanted to work in the US for financing my dream because I've seen too much dread before graduating that was rooted by how US culture only cares about themselves. Anyway I guess you're okay morally if your dream has good merits as well. Like whatever you're making isn't just some mindless product for socially conditioning certain demographics and into buying a product that has no real extension to life in a positive way.
Moderns trains are almost universally electric, for the simple reason that there's no need for a heavy battery: The rail mechanism itself can easily contain a power line, using technology that has existed since the 19th century.
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This is true, I backups for all my stuff and have scripts that auto configures my system according to my backed up configs.
Same here. WhatsApp attachements don’t work either. And I’m having trouble with Instagram.
My gitlab is now https://gitlab.com/a , so please go to that link instead if you're interested.
Do you mean “awful”?
From IP ID to Device ID and Kaslr Bypass [pdf]
It’s not the developers, do you actually think they want this?
Having a teacher in the room has the same "you're being watched" effect as a camera, it's just less efficient at watching.

I want to highlight the tension between liberty & socialization here, because I think it's getting glossed over. Public education is a huge infringement on individual liberty - it's basically mandatory brainwashing of kids for 6-8 hours/day, 180 days/year, for 12 years. Nobody would realistically suggest getting rid of it, because we all grew up with it.

Taking it back a step, parenting is also an infringement on individual liberty - a child is totally dependent upon a parent, and oftentimes exposed to nothing other than the parent's views, and is biologically hard-wired to pick up on a parent's emotions and mirror them. Can't really blame society for that, though, evolution did it.

People who worry about the slippery slope are right to worry. But it's been going on for centuries. We think that our particular point on it is natural and right because that's what we grew up with, just as our kids might think pervasive surveillance is natural and right because that's what they grew up with - which is exactly what we're justifiably afraid of. If we lived on individual farming homesteads and someone proposed taking our kids away from us for the majority of their waking childhood, we'd probably be even more upset.

Probably the endgame is like the Matrix, where humans are confined to individual pods with no agency of their own, except that instead of being tapped for bio-energy we'll end up being used to train machine-learning algorithms.
I did Beijing to Xi'an last September in about 4.5 hours on the regular 320kph trains. To be honest, when you take into account security checks, boarding etc I just don't think it could've been done quicker by plane.

Not to mention the train station being central and the experience just being all round more fun!
Facebook only knows what I put into my Facebook registration form. Did they verify anything? No. Email me for government identification? No.

Can Facebook comply with KYC/AML type regulations? Yes. But that I'm aware of, they currently don't do anything of the sort with all their users.
The author of this post is in academia, so Matlab outside of academia may be as rare as you think.
I have noticed that Apple Music seems to always play “we are the champions” after “we will rock you” despite them being different tracks. Not sure how that works!
Thankfully there's a third option of society itself controlling everything. This post is talking about whether government or Facebook controlling money but the third decentralized option of cryptocurrency is far more appealing to me.
After building a derivatives trading platform for Bitcoin and attempting to get it off the ground, I can categorically say that no one is interested in hedging their risk, not even payment processors.
I don't want to use the word "literally" too much but ... China is literally doing this.
I think for a lot of kids the 'having your own computer' factor is nice.

However, for our daughter we ended up buying (1) a Micro:Bit, which is much easier for kids to tinker with, especially with MakeCode [1]. Our 5yo daughter loves to draw 5x5 emoji + write words, associate them with buttons, to upload them to the Micro:bit. It makes her really proud. (2) An Intel NUC, which is much faster and less constrained than a Raspberry Pi. (Obviously, it is more expensive, but she has one of the low-end Celeron NUCs.)

[1] https://makecode.microbit.org/
Imagine if this meant not being able to send or receive currency.
Here are some independent benchmarks from on the Pi4 performance....
https://twitter.com/JonMcLoone/status/1146443778972180480
This comment breaks the site guidelines badly. So did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345024. We ban accounts that post like this. Would you mind reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? We'd be grateful.
Visit: https://d.tube/ and spread the word please, it's current content is crap. It even awards crypto to uploaders.
This is my view too. Projects like CA's HSR poison the well for public transport across the country. The process is so bloated, corrupt, and fundamentally broken it's easier to pin your hopes on future tech.
> What's the point of being declarative if common tasks require us to bend over backwards to design our schema/queries/indices/hints in exactly the right way,

Because 99% of the time you don't notice that it just works. 99% of the time you don't have to bend your query or schema to make it work.
No surprise here......
I think when the difference in age is less than 2% of the age of the project then you can’t claim one to be more trendy based on age.

Postgres Initial release: 8 July 1996; 23 years ago

MySQL Initial release
23 May 1995; 24 years ago

1yr2mo difference. Not exactly earth shattering for a pair of projects two and a half decades old.
>I don’t see how that matters when cryptocurrency exchanges are able to print money and liquidate leveraged positions at will (Bitfinex/Binance/Bitmex + Tether)

If you start with a position as ridiculous as this then any further dialogue is futile. Goodbye.
> Somebody at the university implemented ^T to 4.2 BSD on the cs department's busy VAX 11/780, by modifying the tty driver.

macOS has this too!
I didn't catch the video: was it for a specific system they didn't own/have permission for, or was it their own device that launched fireworks?

I hope IppSec doesn't lose his uploads. And all of the computer security conference videos.
Rhetorical question: If a YouTube video can show how to bypass it, does it really count as a "secure" system?
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This is why decoupling RDBMS from the application is rarely ever useful, and why no app really changes databases anyway unless there's a massive cost or technical problem.
>Why shouldn't groups of individuals have self-determination including the power to limit who can enter their country?

Why shouldn't groups of individuals have self-determination including the power to marginalize any subgroup or wage wars to others? Because it is immoral no matter how many people agree with it. Not letting people fleeing other countries' misery, war or repressive regimes is immoral no matter how many ways one wants to spin it. There are all sorts of questions on the implementation of it but the basic question (should we abandon people to misery, war or political persecution) is pretty much answered from a moral point of view.

>Different groups make different decisions about how they want to run their government (which is a good thing).

Most 'groups' are run by a single dictator imposing theie view on the rest, and even modern democracies are subject to interferences such as disenfranchising, lobbying etc. There's little legitimizing to be had on 'self-determination' there.

>For example, if you didn't control who can live in your country, you'd never be able to have a generous social safety net.

Is there any evidence for this? I mean most rich countries have both open borders within the EU and their social safety nets seem to be doing pretty fine.
I don't think I'd hold the position I do if protecting was all that the guns were used for.
K80 is about as fast as 1080 in FP32 (8.2 vs 8.8TFlops) but vastly faster in FP64 (2.7 vs 0.28TFlops; FP64 supercomputers are still being built with it). It has also 3x the memory, so fitting BERT_large NLP model might be possible. 1080 is pretty much outdated at this point as not many state-of-art models can fit inside 8GB. Disadvantage of K80 are older CUDA kernels versions so customized kernels for new CUDA versions might not work, but most models don't touch CUDA directly anyway.
I know this might not be a popular opinion.

But showing people how to hack systems... that seems like an OK thing to ban. It's a crime. Teaching people how to commit a crime has always been not OK.
This was actually fun :), and it demonstrates in exaggerated form so many of the bad features of most websites.
What is your rationale for capping average life expectancy? I hope not some reasoning based on costs due to old age since that is not a logical consequence. Advances leading to increased life expectancy could also lead to healthier / more productive old age.
Well we have Uber/Lyft which are private transportation companies... but that's not what you were thinking of I suspect.

> Are there regulations that prevent this or is something more cultural (like only poor guys would use a bus or train).

Mostly this. Busses are seen as transport for the poor and American's hate to identify themselves with poverty.
Now _scalars_ not being distinct from 1x1 matrices I do agree is highly problematic. Not having a real 1-tensor, though, works surprisingly well.
Oh, maybe there is something of a model in Germany then.
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I think this is how old people feel using computers.
The median student loan payment is $220 per month, for the minority of young people who even have student loans. (Only a third of millennials have any student loans, and the median amount is less than $25,000.) People are killing them selves over a car payments worth of debt? Or are you trying to shoe horn these mortality statistics into a pre-constructed narrative?
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I find an opinion hard to credit when exact proof is sitting their on an open source repo everyone has access to and a closed source repo only you have access to.

You make a theoretically compelling argument like the "hack" you describe above and then leave out the only part that really matters where you prove it. It is entirely likely that you are simultaneously entirely correct and entirely unable to prove it due to company policy but this leads us to the next logical question.

If you knew you couldn't prove it why did you open your mouth? It seems the only result will be negative PR.
How about national sponsorship for one...
What does libra do for money laundering that other currencies like zcash and nano don't already do much better?
BigCo has silos. Water is wet. More breaking news at 11.

Sarcasm aside, I'm betting there's an organizational unit responsible for content policy and they have nearly zero contact with the organization unit that put on the CTF.
Ok, so unfriendly sovereign nations are trying to “hurt” us by making social media inaccessible? I’m half joking here, but perhaps we should all be out, about, and enjoying Independence Day in person rather than through our phone screens.

(Yes I realize WhatsApp is a different segment, an important way people communicate.)
There's nothing magic about individualism and "freedom" (mind the double quotes). Past a certain point, more is not automatically better.
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If you have a rare disease, which is common, as 6-7% of the general population has one, you will very likely get profoundly screwed, one way or another, even with the "best" HMO plan.

In my case, I have a very rare autoimmune neurological disease that affects my peripheral nervous system. Even being able to properly diagnose the illness, in my particular situation, would be confounding for some of the most talented doctors out there.

There is a very unique and esoteric board specialty within the field of neurology that a handful (~40 neurologists in the US currently are board certified in it) of neurologists will have, which makes them more likely to be equipped for dealing with situations like mine.

Even then, you may have to see at least a few of them to figure out what is going on, and then figure out the proper treatment--which is more like an art than a science. That is what happened, in my case.

Anyways, there is a near-zero chance that an HMO plan has a proper selection of in-network doctors equipped for dealing with rare disease, just in general.

So, for all of the praises that HMOs may get, they are structurally unequipped to deal with rare disease in general--and it is actually common to have a rare disease--whether you want to believe it or not. Remember that.
Does this mean that all the reverse engineering videos, con talks, prof of exploit demos, CTF walkthroughs', and fuzzing tutorials will be removed? What about videos showing me how to use tools like Twistlock? Will they be exempt, but videos about burp be banned?
What constitutes a "secure" computer system?

Side note, I guess its time to fire up youtube-dl. Are there any channels that need to be archived? I normally just watch what comes up in a search, not anyone in particular.
How are security professional supposed to learn how to secure systems? This is silly, and I'm not surprised that Google is leaning towards censorship again. Where are all the Google cloud employees when you need them commenting on threads?
The original business model for software is selling compiled binaries. This is a self-hosted PHP script with no server side functionality. It's similar to a product shipping with it's source code.
There are thousands of hours of excellent cybersecurity content hosted on YouTube. The possibility of losing this wealth of information and history is shocking to me.

Time to start the archive effort. And to finally appreciate what so many other communities have gone through when they've found themselves on the wrong side of one of the internet behemoths. I feel naive.
This might not be particularly relevant but what was the video actually about? Did it show how to remotely launch professional fireworks shows?
There's a fine line between pentesting education and "how to break into a computer", and it's sad that instructional videos are now being banned due to this policy.
No, whether it's a crime depends.

Is it a crime to teach people how to pick a lock?
Proof-of-Work initiated an arms race to do more work. Proof-of-Capacity would initiate an arms race to have more capacity. And you still need to do work to prepare the proof that you have the capacity. On face value it doesn't seem to offer many benefits.
If you've read Gibbon's The Decline and the Fall of the Roman Empire you will have wondered at the meaning of both sensible and insensible which both seem to alternate between opposites randomly throughout the book.
But don't you know, "government" is a bad word, and "socialism" is bad for you. /s
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That is fine if it would be the same, but your biometric data is stored in a database, I would be fine with scan the passport , scan the person, check if it matches, if all is fine delete the biometric data and not put it in a database.

If there is a good reason to keep this data in a database let me know.
> no tune was played twice until all of the tunes were played...

So…not random, then?
>not even payment processors.

what do they need to hedge? don't they immediately sell the coins after receiving them?
I suppose teaching people how to paint would also not be okay, as those people might now graffiti some wall and commit a crime!!
Not hard. My bank's had the occasional (twice in four years, IIRC) debit/credit swipe outage of a couple of hours. It happens.
Edit: I misunderstood how the system would work, sorry.
This reminds me of an episode (the pilot) of House, MD. The full script is here [1]. The excerpt:

> In a typical case, if you don't cook pork well enough, you digest live tapeworm larvae.
They've got these little hooks, they grab onto your bowel, they live, they grow up, they reproduce.
Reproduce? There's only one lesion, and it's nowhere near her bowel.
That's because this is not a typical case.

New professionals always expect things to be similar to what they studied. What they learn: the books and lectures often covered the "most common" situations, but all those edge cases and weird scenarios come up on a daily basis.

[1]: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_script...
Interestingly the EU also doesn't levy taxes. Unlike the US under the Articles of Confederation though, EU member states actually value central government, and so they do actually pay to run it (all EU governments pay in, but EU schemes have the effect that the poorer states get back more than they paid in various forms). That Congress wasn't able to get anything done because in practice the States didn't allow it to get anything done. A lot of the same thinking that's today popular on the US West Coast brought down that government.

"Oh, I'd definitely _voluntarily_ pay for a central government, I just don't want mandatory taxes". "Oh did I say I'd definitely pay? I'm short right now, hit me up next month." "Actually I decided I don't want to contribute to anything I'm not totally in favour of, I need veto over all decisions or else I won't be paying". "Huh, funny, why did the government fail?"

And that's why the modern US government has tax raising powers. Just as the UK can rightly say it tried not having kings, hated it, so got a new king but now very clearly at the whim of the people; the US can say it has tried not having mandatory taxation and that didn't work so yes it now has taxes (with or without representation) and that won't be changing.
I would say yes, since "secure" is a spectrum and there's nothing about a YouTube video that means the information is lower quality or less valuable than any other source.
I love that website! I suggested we link it from the GitLab boring solutions sub-value.
>why shouldn’t it be in Sweden’s interest to one, either stop the flow or alternatively take control and annex Denmark in order to bring it into the fold?

Because Sweden is not ruled by a dictator? The moral thing to do would be for the government to ask "jeez, what are we doing so badly that half our population is telling us to fuck off?" and implement policies that give incentives for the population to stay there. The immoral thing to do is to go full iron curtain.

>In any case, I see it eventually resulting in a new colonialism where elites and businesses are the main ones deriving advantage and wealth from this new arrangement. Localities lose power to distant and disconnected power.

So would you advocate for the borders between US states to close down and all citizens to require a visa to change states within the US?
This gets into retention policy for shared data (as all messages are shared between the sender and recipient).

You could do it like Snapchat and let the author decide the retention policy, or like email where each recipient separately decides what they want to keep, or like a mailing list archive where you're basically out of luck. What makes sense for a chat app?
MySQL is used in some of the largest scaled workloads and Postgres is just as easy to install and run today, if not easier.

With the huge rise in ready to run container images and managed database services, database ops is no longer a serious problem for small users and multiple DB choices shouldn't really be a major design consideration for software providers.
Actually, a bank is obligated to report suspicious activity, no warrant is needed. If you walk into a bank in the USA and deposit irregular amounts of money or a large sum of cash, they can and will report you to the Treasury and banking regulators.
> The pests I don't like seem to be minimized

Really? I've had the opposite experience. Two pests I can't stand are mosquitos and cockroaches, and they both seem to thrive in lush, natural lawns. Whenever I mow, I notice an immediate and significant reduction in their numbers.
I'm not going to be able to take a look for a few days, but I'd be grateful if someone made sure that most of the Defcon talks were archived or mirrored somewhere.
Rhetorical answer: If you can secure a system through legislation, it is no longer necessary to secure it through engineering.
Too many to count.
Because it is relatively easy to develop new technology, hard to build things in the US where the government can not just decide to build something without lengthy procedures to appropriate funds and property.
Some guides for better battery life on FreeBSD recommend setting it to 100 Hz.
It's especially odd that the DRM was designed so that even free books had to be clawed back.
Does anyone know what the ligality of uploading MIT's OCW lecture videos here would be? Personally that's what got me into watching youtube in the first place.

Also: does that really need javascript? (I'm guessing you're doing something with IPFS?) is there any way to brows it with some command line tool if it does?
National sponsorship is not a requirement for a currency
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Most Constitution-respecting Americans will disagree. Committing a crime is not OK. Conveying information for learning is always OK.
It was announced in the major version of 12.0

I think we wanted to make it easy to upgrade to 12 before making the switch.
Is he totally confusing 100x with 10x? This is 10x cheaper, not 100x cheaper.
It's only because of events implementation and async rendering. Writting preact clone is super easy.
> if it exists.

It doesn't.
So only for computer systems? LockPickingLawyer is still safe for now?

That said, are they just going to push these people out to less annoying formats like a blog or a wiki instead of overly long video presentations?
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From an Individualistic perspective, as you loosely outlined, the US is unparalleled. However, from a collectivist perspective, which we are discussing in this thread, the US is empirically and emphatically bad.
Maybe it still re-paints your eyes, relative to the person's eyes. So you glance down at their mouth and it looks like you're looking at their mouth rather than... down at their chest or something, like it would without the adjustment. Finding eyes in an image is common/boring tech at this point, so I could see that being used to provide a relative adjustment.
Correct, see our see our ‘boring solutions’ subvalue https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#boring-solutions
Hey, come on. We don't want to ban you, but if you post like this what choice will we have? Every guideline we have points in the opposite direction: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.