skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd support encrypted traffic if it was specifically restricted to certain bands in the bandplan. I don't think it should be allowed generally because part of the joy of amateur radio is the fact that other people's messages can be listened to and learnt from.
"le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." is wrongly translated into "perfect is the enemy of good". The correct translation is "the better is the enemy of good". Totally different meaning IMO. I understand it as the new "better" will eventually replace the existing "good".
Thank you.

It would be interesting to see how they manage the different returns and approaches to each.

We've seen companies struggle with say a traditional business who is reliable but don't bring in massive jumps in income where another business does, and then the obvious conflicts that come with that.
It was probably the computer security course, assuming we took many of the same courses.

It had students exploit a setuid binary to get root for an assignment. Done on UML so we could run the thing as our regular users.
…assuming there aren't any false negatives as well
> Developers have even used e = 1, which doesn’t actually encrypt the plaintext

Ouch
More production quality than JS itself?
> When you have a power source it needs two wires to make a current flow: a wire "out" and a wire "back". You're only part of the circuit if you're connected to both sides.

Wait, does this apply to AC too? I always believed AC can create current even if the loop isn't closed. Say you have an exposed AC wire and touch it; I'd expect you to get a burn at the place you're touching, as the electrons from your finger at the contact point are pulled into the wire and pushed back to the finger, at 50 or 60 Hz. In general, isn't this how RF burns work?
This is so good!

For years other automated Instagram posting tools don't give you any help for the caption.

I've asked those service providers to open up their API so I could have a bot create a caption and add it to an entry on their calendar, before THEY post it to Instagram

There isn't much competition in this space, and their clientele is not that sophisticated. Companies will gladly pay an endless supply of cheap "social media managers" aka random Gen-Z "youngster gud with the compooters"

This would be a perfect alternative
I think his point is that evergreening isn't a feature of the patent system; there's no mechanism to extend a patent, and "extension" patents of minor modifications don't extend the legal monopoly on a drug, but rather function as a marketing mechanism that preys on the industry's willingness to prescribe whatever the newest iteration of a drug is, regardless of evidence.
All the usual signs have been pointing toward a US recession for quite a while. (US recessions generally result in a global recession.) However, the bottom has yet to fall out. Nobody is sure why, but based on historical record, I wouldn't bet against the bottom not falling out.

Lack of inflation seems to play a role. It allows the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates relatively low. However, it also means that interest rates may no longer be a good tool to regulate the economy in terms of smoothing booms and busts. That could be a problem after a crash because other stimulus tools are weakened due to the deficit. The next slump will be interesting...
https://github.com/mozilla/mattermost-heroku/

Go hit this “Deploy to Heroku” button.

Alternatively, Mattermost also has a Docker container: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-docker
The argument is the Play Store is unsafe/untrustworthy because developers get spam emails. Is that it? Is there anything to discuss here?
I've always wondered if it would actually constitute fraud if you made a fake utility bill with your real address on it.
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By what set of mechanisms is it possible for the app to access data that you've denied the app access to? It seems the flaw is in Android allowing this to happen.

The example given (app accessing photo with embedded gps coords) seems very specific and doesn't deal with the general notion of data harvesting.

And wrt mac address lookups - for this reason it's not possible to list the available wifi access points on android without requiring the location permission. It's pretty absurd that "list the access points that I have recently received wifi beacons for" is equal to "locate where I am on earth", but that's the world we live in now.

Whether it's just location data or a larger set of data is unclear from the article.
Airflow Simulation: Opensource?
Is there any opensource airflow simulator? I want to test my duct and i want to put a blower there with some specific parameters like CFM and size etc..
That article was good. Good length, informative, interesting. Most articles these days try to be excessively wordy and long - and end up with too much filler.

Also, good color on how someone's early experiences help shape their future. In this case Eisenhower got his highway system 37 years later with the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Basically it took another World War to get this going: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
Interesting; on the one hand, one could dismiss this as an 'in other news, water is wet'-type of study, but such evidence is probably very helpful in the overall debate around healthcare funding.

Another factor not mentioned here but which might be relevant, is that as long as nursing is undervalued (particularly economically, but in less tangible ways too) to the extent that the system is short of nurses, it is unlikely that employers would able to choose pick and choose better nurses from those available, and/or remove bad ones. It seems obvious from an organisational perspective that nurse > no nurse, but there's a direct link (in my experience) between the quality of care patients receive, and the attitude/experience/quality of the individual nursing staff.
What's the TLDR for a non cryptographer that simply wants to encrypt messages for sending? The post was over my head
The spirit of "everything open" does not jive with the modern world and may be an issue with some emergency communications, yet it has a role with amateur radio.

The important things to realize are that amateur radio has a multitude of roles and those roles are not unique to the service. For example: amateur radio is not intended for emergency communications, you have things like aviation and nautical bands for that, yet emergency communications are central to amateur radio since the bands are available when all else fails. Likewise for experimentation, you can frequently work below a certain power levels or obtain a license to develop new technologies. An amateur license offers more leeway and less bureaucracy to hobbiests, arguably cutting down on interference to critical services. The list goes on.

The problem is creating a self-regulating environment. This is difficult to do when communications are "effectively encrypted", which I take to mean that the mode is not publicly documented, it is encrypted, or it is otherwise obfuscated. At best, this encourages use that violates radio regulations. A more cynical interpretation is that it's a prelude to taking over amateur bands.
The most remarkable part of that is that they were willing to risk breaking bridges then broke them then fixed them on their own without being sued into doing so by the municipalities that owned the bridges. It truly was a different time.
That's not unique to iOS, though. It seems a lot of display drivers on a lot of platforms were developed without ever considering hostile shaders coming in over the network, in an era where mostly only game developers would catch crashes during development? For example https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/gpu/+/master/...
The problem I have with most similar articles/comments is that the only two options for Code Review now seem to be:

- point out strict violations of the team's enshrined code style guidelines

- accept any and all code as-is, so long as there are no "bugs" or performance issues

Which, at that point, why are we even doing PRs? Unit test and lint...

When I receive a Code Review I want to know about the function that reduces my 10 lines to 1. I want someone to notice that my git mistake introduced a bunch of unneeded diff noise. I want to change variable names that are confusing to the first reviewer, because that means they'll be confusing to me when I read the code again next month.

Give me the development "human factors" in the code review. Some of that will be subjective and that's ok.
Not sure where the icons are showing up. I had removed all such links. (forgot to mention its a 3 person team. me, cto and an entry level coder)

>Maybe you can flesh out that scenario on the website to explain the process to a prospect. Putting a video out there so you don't have to do the operation with each client (one video that shows how the product can solve the problem).

Maybe its an Indian thing but folks dont seem to read anything. They prefer to call me directly and then see a demo. I also like the call first, because I can quickly decide who will convert and who will not.

> What's the need for signing the word file? Why do they need to sign it?
Thats the contract. If there's no ink on paper we dont setup dedicated accounts. Most of the work is manual for setting up accounts, linking numbers, setting up template messages etc. So unless its a customer who is ready to commit for a year, the coders dont even hear about them.

> Can I as a prospect directly click on an icon on your website or scan a QR Code and start a WhatsApp/FB messenger with you?
Not self serve right now. Once you sign a contract, you get a demo account (still shared with other clients). you get an email with access information so that you can start playing with a shared demo account and also play with the API, while we setup the accounts.
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I used to work at a large industrial company where at a few of the plants you were expected to carefully park your car parking away from the plant just in case a quick exit was required.
Yeah... Bitcoin mining? :P
Second Mike Holt as excellent learning source.

Would refer to NEC 250.21 for discussion of "ground detector" as it relates to the detection accidental first ground connections in ungrounded systems.
Blindsided by a Devastating Veto, Alaska University System Pleads for Lifeline
In a theater I worked at, I discovered that one outlet was accidentally built using the two live wires instead of neutral and hot. Unfortunately, I discovered it while testing a lighting instrument, promptly blowing out its $30 lamp. (And like a proper scientist, checked to see if it did that every time, blowing out another $30 lamp.)

Once I stopped destroying expensive equipment, it did amazing things for my circular saw. (Probably not good for that, either, and fortunately we promptly moved out.)
How would you design it otherwise? An interventional study would presumably be ideal, but probably impossible to achieve.
I don't know, but it wouldn't be too hard. Or expensive, in relation to bleeding edge semiconductors.

Fun thing: I remember a 40 MHz 286 desktop at one point. Wikipedia tells me they only went to 25 MHz. That's some overclocking...

Fun fact #2: with a feature size of 1.5 µm, one could fit an entire 6502 done in 7 nm process on top of a single 80286 transistor.
In China, they use humans with little brushes.

No, really: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/humans-bees-china_n_570404b3e...
Agreed. My preference would be smaller gov, no subsidies, no tariffs (tied to subsidies), worker co-ops (democracy in the workplace solves class gap).
Photon Micro GUI
Here are six AV1 software encoders I'm aware of:

1. Alliance for Open Media's libaom: https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/

2. Intel's SVT-AV1. A highly scalable AV1 encoder. It will use as many cores as you can give it. Netflix is also working on it: https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-AV1

3. Mozilla's rav1e encoder. Implemented in Rust. Vimeo is also contributing to it: https://github.com/xiph/rav1e

4. Cisco AV1. Closed source. It's the best live encoder yet shown. Only takes it about one and a half cores on a recent laptop to do a live AV1 video call at 1080p30, both encoding and decoding: https://vimeo.com/344366650

5. EVE-AV1. Closed source from Two Orioles (https://www.twoorioles.com/). It's aiming to be the best quality AV1 encoder available: https://vimeo.com/344663992

6. Visionular Aurora (https://www.visionular.com/). Closed source. Aims to be better than libaom on both speed and quality: https://vimeo.com/344633364

Pick the one you like and don't feel misled.
Imagine a hypothetical private company with a radio system that is used 5% of the time for important messages in major emergencies, and 95% of the time for billionaires' yachts.

In a genuine emergency where many lives were at stake, one might give them great leeway to break the law, just like fire trucks can speed and run red lights.

But when there's no emergency, should such rulebreaking be allowed for the billionaires' yachts?

Obviously, the e-mail-by-radio system at the heart of this argument isn't all about billionaires' yachts - but still, there's no reason loosened rules for emergencies should be extended to non-emergency use.
Suppose 8 billion people and 1 trillion trees. Each person should plant 125 trees. Neat law though.
At least in software "getting it done" is only half the problem. The real problem is knowing how to find a balance between good enough and catastrophic long term consequences. It's a balance between tactics and strategy.

The approach is different in other disciplines such as artistic creation where blind confidence in what you are doing is a better long term strategy and we give a lot more importance to tactics. The more you work the better you become.
See Rust for an example where you don't need to do the work manually, but there's no GC either.

The problem with GC is that it's a runtime solution, which has all sorts of annoying problems (like interacting with other languages and runtimes).
You don’t like 3 self indulgent paragraphs of what the author was thinking and doing before the actual story starts and before every new heading? Hey me neither

Journalists trying to be writers where they insert themselves into the story and who can actually pull it off are rare. And some have pulled it off successfully (which is why these people keep trying it). But so many journalists/bloggers are convinced they fit this category because they went to school for English literature, despite having little of their own literary success or a unique personality worthy of a story itself, and think they should do it for some random big story on a C list news platform. /rant
Steve Wozniak Says People Should Get Off Facebook Permanently
OK, so how do you use libsodium in ssh?
First off, I agree with your general message that getting an AGI is very very very hard and that we are no where close.

That said, however, we do already know quite a bit about how neural nets work, both biological and artificial. One of the things we know is that they are most certainly not a Turing machine -- they are associative memory machines. That is, memory and processing are one and the same.

Most (all?) current artificial neural nets have fixed interconnects between neurons. One thing we do know is that biological brains change which neurons connect to which other neurons. And as far as I'm aware, we don't know how that's done or what drives it except in the most general terms. This lack of plasticity (not sure if that's the appropriate term) in artificial neural nets is, IMO, a major blockage in the road to an AGI..

IMO, "intelligence" is an emergent of a complex, malleable, neural network that has been exposed to the right environment. I suspect both are necessary.

And finally, we don't need an AGI as "smart" as humans (we have plenty of humans, after all). But even one as "smart" as a bright dog would be very useful. I don't think most religious people think dogs have souls, so I don't see how souls are an issue.
Not sure why you're so shocked. This was standard practice back in the day for measuring & testing bridge capacity; you'd build the bridge then drive a bunch of heavy trucks over it until it breaks, then rebuild the bridge. That's just how things were done.

Reference:
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/26
Fix Windows 10 terminals, use a Linux terminal with WSL
It is a bit unusual, but ultimately it's similar to the quite common "you can have the code under AGPL or negotiate something else with us" plus something unusual, i.e. a MIT-licensed binary.

Ultimately if you're okay with running AGPL code you're okay with running Mattermost. Which means as long as you don't intend to fork it and not share your changes you should be fine.
It might very well just be the OS's recovery procedure when the display server crashes, rather than an uncontrolled crash. It's not the phone is of much use without it, so might as well have a single booting procedure rather than trying to reboot subcomponents individually.
I know the pain - but its no use reducing it to a dichotomy (All or Nothing).

The strong reactions are due to pedants who block the source base doorway and pick at everything going by. It can sink a project. So folks push back, say things like "Only comment if its a real bug!" and so on.

There's lots of middle ground in a company source process. For instance, point out real bugs if present. But for anything else, comment and approve, respecting the contributing Engineer to do what they can in the time available.
It's an update to Zen+, though a pretty big one. The last few "new" AMD designs were K10 in 2007, Bulldozer in 2011, Zen in 2017. Intel hasn't done a ground-up redesign in over a decade.
MSN Messenger did a similar thing.

I learned that you could evade their swear word filters in your screen name by using ASCII codes.

So I looked up a table. Beep didn’t work, but NULL would boot everyone on your contact list out.
> Note also that the typical residential electric service in the US is actually 240V split-phase; the distribution transformer secondary winding is center-tapped, with the center tap grounded and brought in as the neutral.

Why is this the case historically? It's been a huge annoyance for me personally, as I want to use my arc welder in my garage that has only 120v circuits, as opposed to my cluttered shop that has a 240v circuit available.
I was so bored this past weekend, and it was great. Every year I volunteer to backpack into the desert mountains of Southern California, sit in one spot for 3 full days, and count all of the Bighorn Sheep that I see. There's typically a total of an hour of excitement each day, and the rest is just sitting, staring at a mountainside. No cell reception, no human made structures visible, just two other people there with me. I recommend that everyone find something similar in their own lives.
No worries! That paper is a great resource that we'll insert into the post somehow.
Elliptic curve cryptography (ECDSA) is what's used in Bitcoin (Secp256k1).
It could be argued that when all you had were AM/CW receivers, plain old SSB would have been an encryption scheme, if the definition of encryption is "there's someone who cannot demodulate it with the equipment they have".
Good observations.

'Getting' OTP, and especially how to structure an application the right way is definitely tough, because there's not a lot out there like it if you come from the world of C or scripting languages. It's not just code organization, but thinking about how to structure all the processes so that things fail in a 'good' way, and you have everything talking in the right way.

A big thanks to Fred for his book, and the many hours he has spent helping people on the mailing list, IRC and elsewhere.

I miss my time working with Erlang. I think it's still an indicator of an environment willing to try new things, but like he writes, you have to be wary of the places that are 'serial early adopters' too; I've encountered a few of those in my Erlang career.
My point is that if I say the £300K I'm using to buy a house with come from an inheritance, are they going to check further or are they going to take my word for it?
Some keygen is busted, but openssl RSA (as well as ssh-keygen) are probably fine. Part of the problem there is "probably": turns out RSA keygen is a lot harder than ECC keygen. (Since ROCA broke a bunch of RSA keygen, our confidence in e.g. openssl's keygen is increased.)

Using standard tools like PyPI RSA, however, does not necessarily save you. Not only will openssl's RSA happily generate a bad key for you if you ask it nicely, Because it's pure Python, there's a good chance it's vulnerable to side channel attacks. Also, it uses PKCSv15 padding for encryption, and is therefore definitely vulnerable to the Bleichenbacher attack mentioned in the article, for example.

Just use libsodium's box.
Perhaps, its all a trade off. Maybe you lucked out with your governments. Having your own currency is a tool that _can_ be used wisely to great effect. It’s just that the modern world is filled with examples of the opposite.

And it has been just a couple of decades. Over the long run, stable currencies usually outperform their capricious rivals. Mostly because investors want stability, and so they flock to places where it is present.

There are numerous examples of countries with their own currency doing well, or doing very very poorly. But there are few examples of countries doing very badly _because_ they adopted a union currency.

Imagine Alabama stating they’ll quit the US dollar and get their own alabamians or something - it might go great, it might go badly, but you sure know it would be risky. And investors by and large
wouldn’t like that.
Now we can rsync the entire internet and send it in isolinear chips like a subscription service. Goodbye ISPs!
Some AVs would monitor for certain IRC commands and kill the connection because it looked like your computer was talking to a c&c server.

But you could also write the same code into any IRC chat room and anyone running that AV would get booted.
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The article referred to specific insulin products and the specific practices of the manufacturers in those cases, not "insulin" in the generic sense. If you feel the article is in error then responding to the incorrect points would have been more useful than issuing a blanket defense of for-profit drug manufacturing.
To be fair, this project is so far beyond anything that’s been done that nobody is capable of doing an accurate cost-benefit analysis of it.
> I don't really know cryptography, but I'm sure there are libraries that implement RSA correctly and could be easily used instead.

In one sentence you admit you have limited knowledge of the field and then immediately make a definitive statement about the field. Bold.
It's not our fault, until we get involved. This faux crusade of democracy our politicians use as justification just reeks of imperialism, destablising these countries so they are no longer able to sustain any form of government without a puppet government backed by our nations.

In a democracy we as the electorate like to pretend we have no involvement in this decision making, yet we pride ourselves on the system of government that apparently represents 'the people' the most. "Don't blame us, it's just our government!"
Data collection for better insights in software licensing
Game Source Code Collection
> Mattermost is not really fully open source either, it its own confusing way.

Honestly curious: In which way is Mattermost not Open Source? As far as I can tell the code is under AGPL, which may not be the most popular FOSS license, but is generally accepted as being one.
Android does not ask for permission to read certain things like the clipboard. So an app can intercept anything added to the clipboard such as passwords copied in by password managers.
this reminds me of the Boeing 737 MAX8...