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Learning how to deal with emotions is literally what my teenage years were about.
This comment is worth discussing about because it actually criticizes the macroeconomic effects of unions, not just another "well I don't need a union and I don't want to be stuck paying dues" personal complaint. It's an interesting point for union proponents to debate, and perhaps a next-gen tech union should try to address the concerns.

Another solution to add to the ones you mentioned can be the promotion of founding tech companies run as worker cooperatives, similar to Mondragon in Spain. If tech companies leadership will flirt with anti-hierarchial management fads like flat organizations and holocracy, why not putting their equity where their mouth is and allowing the workers themselves to own the means of production?
> I'm not saying [...] that anyone should be empowered to arbitrate.

> I think those providing speech platforms [...] should probably take more responsibility for what they propagate.

Hmm... It seems like that's exactly what you said earlier. Walking it back now?
That's a problem with incorrect installation / code. In a proper TN-C-S system the combined PEN will be split up at the main panel, and PE will be local ground and pipework is typically connected to that.
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They're about as similar as the majority of recent European heads of state, so I don't think that by itself proves that the US is more culturally homogeneous.
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From my point of view, RSA has been damaged by too many bad implementations and standards, eventhough it is a legitimate cryptographic algorithm. I even co-authored a paper[1] with Shamir himself that ended on recommending not to use RSA in 2019.

I'm currently writing a book targetted to developers[2] and I'm wondering how much I should write about RSA.

There are two cryptographic primitives (types of algorithm) exposed by RSA:

* Encryption

* Signature

The signature algorithm has two adopted standards usually named RSA PKCS#1v1.5 and RSA-PSS. The latter one is more recent and provides a proof of security but everyone still use the former. The former hasn't been broken and is still pretty solid. Most internet certificates are signed using RSA PKCS#1v1.5 I believe.

The encryption algorithm is the problem (also used to perform key exchanges). It also has two adopted standards usually called RSA PKCS#1v1.5 (same name as the signature scheme I know...) and OAEP. OAEP is more recent and quite secure, but nobody seems to use it. Instead the former is still largely used in applications, and is often the default algorithm you use when you write RSA in many cryptographic libraries. Unfortunately it has been broken by Bleichenbacher in 1998 and it is practical to attack it. There's been many attempts to "fix" it and they have been repeatidly broken as well. So don't expect the library you use to implement it correctly.

[1]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1173
[2]: https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography
I think Europeans have always felt close in a cultural way(more or less) but that alone doesn't make us united and part of a bigger thing(i.e like the Americans feel in the US). Of course you can talk about a common cultural transnational pride but how much does it help?

Without a close political union there is no reason to be more proud to be European than is for any random Asian citizen to be proud of being part of Asia or for an African to be proud of being part of the African continent.

History shows us that this cultural pride / union is weak and pretty useless when money/business/power is involved.
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Boredom leads to inspiration, which leads to exploration which leads to passion which leads to disillusion which leads back to boredom.

Rinse and repeat until dead.
New construction in the US will (or already has, depending on your state) require receptacles with shutters as well:

https://www.esfi.org/resource/what-is-a-tamper-resistant-rec...
On a related note: I was recently reviewing the web crypto API and I was surprised to see that only RSA works for encrypting/decrypting data. They do offer support for ECDSA to sign and verify messages, but not encrypt data using public keys with elliptic curves. Is there a reason for this?

For example: encryption: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypt...

Note that ECDSA is missing.

But, for signing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypt...

Here, ECDSA is an option.

Why the difference?

It means you cannot use your web browser crypto to interact with the majority of blockchains (like Ethereum).

Is there a good reason why support inside your browser for signing is available with ECDSA but not encryption?

Is this a patent or IP issue, or perhaps a political issue.

I always thought one reason for not using RSA was that you never know if there are backdoors the US government has installed, but this article makes it sound technically poor as well.
Why does it need to be addressed? Why can't switching employers every few years be seen as a good (or at least normal) thing?
I personally never got on; life is fine without. Do yourself a favor and just get rid of it all. You can communicate personally with people fine over other methods; the idea of "broadcasting" your thoughts is better accomplished by a blog (where you have freedom to express your thoughts rather than cramming them into small snippets); the idea of sharing every moment of your life (e.g. what you had for breakfast, accompanied by a photo) is unnecessary and psychologically unhealthy.

One notable exception I'm considering making: a read-only twitter account to follow security professionals. I have seen most people with lists of recommended security pros to follow, and I figure it could serve as a sort of free, meta-bulletin for security. Haven't done it yet, but considering.
Well that's not true. Europe and Japan powered through the late 40s through 60s with emphasis on rebuilding and exports. In good part that's how Japan built the place they had in the 80s with electronics and cars - through post war restructuring and Deming et al, sustained boom, and exporting. 1960s and 1970s globalisation was the four Asian tigers: Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan producing the cheap goods we now associate with China.

Even the UK, in the seventies often referred to as "sick man of Europe", had built an unprecedented period of growth, falling inequality, and extreme exporting. The immediate post-war saw "export or die" as the political catchphrase.

The marked difference is, unlike the US who had profited hugely from WW2, those economies started from near bankruptcy in 1945 so took a little longer to reach boom.

Could we reproduce similar conditions? No. Could we have an economy that benefits a far wider proportion of citizens and makes it feel like a boom or expansion for them? Most certainly.
At the end of ephemeral DH Bob has successfully agreed a random session key with _somebody_. Maybe Bob hopes it's Alice. No-one else can snoop on their conversation, but the trouble is that neither Bob, nor the other party (which might be Alice) are sure who they're talking to. In particular Mallory might be in the middle having conducted two separate DH agreements one with Alice and one with Bob.

So very likely unless Bob is comfortable with this situation he stills need a mechanism to find out who he's talking to. On the upside he does now have an encrypted channel on which to continue the work.

At scale that only practical answer is an Authority, a Trusted Third Party, people _so_ trustworthy that Alice, Bob and maybe even Mallory agree that they know who is who. In one sense this is so hard it might be impossible. But then again maybe it works anyway?

If you don't need scale, for example maybe you're a conspiracy of a few dozen people trying to bring down the Authority, then you have lots of other options depending on your circumstances including Out of Band verification and the Socialist Millionaires Protocol.

If you are a college kid and convinced that everybody on your Facebook friends list, and everybody on their Facebook friends lists, is a fundamentally good person - but that the Authority is a shadowy conspiracy against you all, you can use the Web of Trust, right up until the guy who once lived with a friend of your cousin's housemate steals your life savings and leaves you in a bathtub filled with ice with a hole where one kidney used to be.
You're free to describe all of that as 'asking for heads,' but that really doesn't seem to be the case here.

It's a staple of the Far Left in 2019, to vilify purely through association. For example, every time I've asked for proof that Tim Pool is "Alt-Right," I've only ever received vilification through association as "proof." The same pseudo logic is used to claim that Ben Shapiro (a devout yamaka wearing adherent of Judaism and arguably a top target of the Alt Right) is "Alt-Right."

In fact, the thrust of the NYT article is that YouTube's recommendations take folks from moderate content, and send them on a spiral to more extreme content.

As far as I can tell, this is just more of the tactic of moving the Overton Window left, by re-labeling the center as "Far Right." It's dishonest and manipulative. I say this as a lifelong Democratic voter and someone who tests center-left on the Political Compass test.
Reacting solely to the headline, no.

"We're never going to find an energy better than coal, so just go down in those mines and go earn your living like a real man!"

Critical thinking is an extremely important skill, always, forever. Not impulsivity.
MIT’s CS50 is great!
Facebook serves similar functions in my area, and is the best way you can find out if paving/waterline work/etc are causing street closures, or if wrecks or similar are causing a closure.
Hah same here. Half the time I ask someone to pair with me it’s because I simply cannot muster the motivation to do anything for whatever reason. I find I go through a couple of weeks of this a couple of times a year, I guess you’d call it mild burnout.
I'd say I trust more companies that already are earning money and open source something, it's less likely that they will bait and switch to a proprietary. Or some like mattermost or mariadb are clean about a possible business plan. Way better than a non standard open source license and vague prospects of VC money.
There's nothing wrong with digital modes. It really is the next evolution for ham. But there is something wrong with proprietary, blackbox encoders that only allow people with specific radios or licensed software to use it.

The world got onboard with 802.11g (and even 802.11b but that sucked). That was a massive movement towards the proliferation of wireless devices. While the standard costs $178 from IEEE, you can find copies of it scattered all over the internet. I don't know why hams have adopted these closed standards, I'm guessing it's because at one point the hobby was dominated by elmers too old to figure out anything but the newest expensive shiny thing from Icom or Yaesu (too much money, not enough sense...) Nowadays you can pull up GNU Radio and start using any sort of open standard mode you want because of how accessible everything is.
I'm curious if you have come across (and recommend) any framework which lie in between Photon (Cairo) and Dear ImGui.

I'm trying to follow all thr efforts in native desktop GUI tools and am currently using Dear ImGui for something which will only be used internally.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted - but I really like the idea of public libraries hosting community social networks. Librarians have traditionally been fiercely privacy conscious and they could provide an archived platform for local government as well.
(SF Bay Area here) I personally enjoy watching almost every ND convo degrade into which person is the biggest victim (race, class, and so on). Bothered me at first, but now it is sheer entertainment
Ha, in the time since I posted the parent comment, I got a typical email from Poshmark:

Subject: 'Score DISCOUNTS on your likes TODAY'

Email says "These discounts won’t last long, so snag items before they’re gone."

Call to Action (big button): 'View Offers Now'

Result: Takes me to poshmark.com/offer/my_offers and says "No active offers". They must be sending millions of these irrelevant emails to their members.
Given how many people hate cyclists, this might not be the best analogy.
I love that guy, but I think the best use of this level of awareness into the mechanics of your procrastination — the elaborate story — is to realize it’s just a story. The moment you really realize this, the story changes.
2 issues have to be solved to get this to work. The app and idea itself is trivial.

First I need a full updated roster of employees of a company to confirm that an anonymous user is actually an employee of said company. Not sure how to do this in a fully secure and updated way.

Second user engagement. If I can figure out how to get one full company to use this as aggressively as they use slack, we'd be good to go to launch this in other companies.

Both are hard questions that I'm not sure how to answer or execute.
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The irony is only there if you look at the tree instead of the whole forest. That's like looking at one human in a deserted island and criticizing humanity for being useless. That same human, working in cooperation with other humans could be capable of walking on the moon. But even then, there would be some snarky comment on HN criticizing the un-productiveness of humans walking on the moon.

This is a cool project that shows how far we've come. The Bitcoin network (wasteful or not) is currently capable of calculating 74.5 exahashes per second. You would need 10x74.5x10^18 Apollo Guidance Computers for that, you would probably need to build the equivalent of the Death Star to fit them all in the same place.
There is no help needed. People are perfectly happy switching employers, and companies are perfectly happy paying to get or retain talent. This ecosystem has made Silicon Valley what it is today.
Cannot possibly be worse than the way people act on Facebook.
> It feels a bit like a mild addiction since it's not totally rational to care about these tiny updates in the lives of people I'm unlikely to ever meet again

You might be interested to read an article⁰ where Sean Parker stated that they consciously designed Facebook to be addictive, by exploiting "dopamine-driven feedback loops".

⓪ - https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-was-designed-to-e...
I'm curious why you think it's not an option? And what makes you think it's a luxury? A cleantech job is just like any other job.
I would do the same but I have a board games club which is organized via Facebook....and I have one or two friends who still organize events through FB. Otherwise I would certainly shut my account.

I do not post photos or interact with others except occasionally through messenger. I have started unfollowing everyone although I do enjoy Humans of NYC.
I think the main thing to note is your young one is 4 months old, and that's probably just not the time for hobbies or learning outside of baby caring right now.

I have a 1 year-old now and I remember the time when she was 4 months old. Even right now, we have little free time outside of the 2 hours after she sleeps, before we sleep. This is after 9:30pm and by that time of the day we're so tired that I find it hard to do anything productive outside of some light reading. And on most days, those are also the 2 hours we get to discuss family and household stuff (what things have come up, what things need repairs, etc.) that we don't have time to talk about throughout the day, so actual light reading time is maybe 30 minutes a day, and during the most tired part of my day too so it's not like I can hope to write any code during it.

From what I've heard from friends, everyone is saying things get a lot easier when their kids reach 4+ years old, that's when they actually see themselves being able to have time to work on anything outside of work and kids.

So overall perhaps the advice is, life is long, and just spend time with the kids in the next 4 years, and you'll have time to learn and code for hobby projects again after that.
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+1 for Wand, been following them for a while. Their music has evolved quite a bit from earlier albums but they are still one of my favorites.
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leisure suit larry, for one.

being a child at the time of its release, the boss key made absolutely no sense to me. neither did any of the humor in the game.
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I feel like this is a pretty terrible analogy.

The voting population of Alaska is comprised of adults. Not children to be parented.

The structure of power between federal gov and states is explicitly designed to give states the freedom to experiment with different policies (the whole "Laboratories of democracy" thing).

You think this cut will do lots of damage. The voting population in Alaska (or their duly elected representatives) believe otherwise.

Given that there's no magic ball to tell you how this will work out, it's blatantly un-democratic to claim you know better than the voters.

Instead we get to watch what happens to a university system when you cut the operating budget in half with little warning and no planning.

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My hypothesis is that it's going to go badly, but I'm not sure by any means. It could be that these drastic cuts force the university system to trim real administrative fat, it could force them to be creative with purchasing and contracting to cut costs. It could have no real impact whatsoever.
IBM since 2000. HP since Fiorina.
“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. “

Where is this if I may ask? And how many sheep do you get to see? I wouldn’t mind doing that and take my camera.
That just means that a person inclined to downvote your comment saw it within seconds after posting. It’s not like there’s a shot clock for posts.
I hate Schuko plugs. They're circular, but there's only two correct orientations you can plug them in, which results in a lot of finagling if you don't have a good visual lock on the outlet. I wish they were rectagular.
I'm curious, what component could you replace in this instance to recover the iPhone and not lose data?

One could argue that every single component on a device could be replaced to bring it back from the dead, but I would argue it isn't the same device at that point.

Bricked is a term that is, and always has been, defined as hardware that is rendered useless by bad software. Replacing hardware components to get a device working is not un-bricking it.
What a bizarre comment. Couldn’t you say your salary is also not yours by the same logic? After all, it’s just being paid to the “warm body” in your position rather than “you”.
Additional land and power, shorter transit time, a closer connection between Europe and Africa. Maybe the latter slightly increases the immigration rate from Africa, lifting millions out of poverty over a few decades. Maybe it decreases the risk of war in these places you list. Maybe the carbon-free hydropower averts a catastrophic negative feedback loop from climate change.

Neither of us have any idea, and listing the first thing that comes to our head hardly gets us closer.
The anti-vax movement and climate change deniers are better examples of this

The Anti-Vax movement is a prime example of the Free Marketplace of Ideas working!

https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/measles-outbreak-anti-v...

Nazis and similar shitheads are in the same boat. I would agree that Climate Change Deniers are an example of the Free Marketplace of Ideas not having worked yet. However, suppressing them just gives them ammunition. Best to just keep debunking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugwqXKHLrGk

(Re: The potholer54 video: If you dislike Steven Crowder, you should be glad he's a Climate Change Denier. That's just about the biggest hole in his hull!)
The problem with the headline is that if you think ‘it’ isn’t good enough, then ‘just getting ‘it’ done’ will send you into a vicious loop that will spin out of control as the pressure to over-achieve builds up.

You really have to reframe your view of ‘enoughness’ in a more positive light, so instead of something being perfect (not enough until then), it’s finding a way to see what is good enough for the time being, that allows you to move on. Then you can go and do what you need (or do nothing if what you have is adequate) and take the weight off your shoulders.

The startup lingo for this is MVP. There’s no getting it done with that until you’ve reduced the scope of ‘it’.
Just like Google owns V8.

Yes you can fork it, but good luck getting the money that Google pours into it.
Indeed, any problems spawning from using NVIDIA can be considered self-inflicted, which is why I left that dumpsterfire.
> Amateur Radio is a lot like STEM. One of it's goals is to encourage people to get "into" thinking and planning for the situations where amateur radio is a useful public service.

A few years ago I tried to convince my kids that it would be fun for all of us to get our license for amateur radio. They asked what we could do with it and I told them we could talk to people anywhere in the world! They looked at me like I was nuts because they do that all day everyday online.
Zen launched without any APUs or mobile. When Zen+ came out, the mobile and APU chips were based on Zen. With the Zen 2 launch, it looks to be the same. The APUs and mobile will use Zen+.

Zen 3 is supposedly coming early next year using TSMC 7nm+. I suspect we'll see Zen 2 APUs and mobile at that time. Meanwhile, AMD mobile is a decently priced chip for mobile, but not really competitive IMO.
I often have this weird fear that I wont accomplish anything in my life like it is some sort of personal failure.

Meanwhile I'm able to write about game ideas, code them, create some characters and story and background, even though it doesn't lead to anything since it's more of a hobby, but I fail to make it into a job. I love to think, create, try to design little things, and honestly that's the best pleasure I have.

In the end, I don't think I'm really unhappy. Nihilism is a good way to cope with my own reality. I don't think people who fill their time with a job to kill the boredom are doing themselves a favor. The philosophy of contributing to society to gain money, quality holidays and entertainment seems weird to me.

I always wonder: when their week is over, where do people find refuge? Sports, hobbies, entertainment? I just don't understand how people can think about leaving this world without having something that is really their own. How do you live when you're just a consumer? What happens if you lose friends? In my own conception of life, I just don't understand how people can not feel lost if they don't create something that stems from their own selves.