skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Says the rhetoritician; cleverly trying to blur the issue. Opinion or no, the principle is consistent through much of the intellectual environ's of the time. If both statememt's are read as opinion's neither wins. If both are construed as statements of fact, Franklin's still holds the more portentous conclusion. Namely that the being willing to sacrifice his capacity to guide himself to live longer , will inevitably result in neither goal being attained. Everyone dies.

So that's really a bit of a non-starter. I would say that Franklin has more credibility however; if only because of the man's legendary common sense.

I'll also point out, Franklin's sentiment can be traced back to the principle that "Vigilia aeterna est pretium libertatis". A consequence of which is, sorry Mr. Barr. Tell your police to do some actual investigative work. It is not the job of the populace to relinquish essential liberty to make tyranny in the making that much further realized.

It is what we do with our Liberty that elevates us as angels, or drops us to the level of daemonic debasement.

Law enforcement needs to understand their job should never be made trivial as their very existence in and of itself is as the sole means to rescension of that which culturally we value most; hich should absolutely be as burdensome a process as possible in the light of what is being taken.

Never mind that making unbackdoored encryption illegal just adds a token charge to a long list of other charges, which to me is an absolute anti-pattern, of the same level as most firearm regulation in light of the second amendment; which I'll admit to being a bit of a hard-liner on.

My 2 cents.
I lost it at Sheldon-Norris primes.
I would suggest that manned attack craft are as important to the Air Force as the Carrier is to the Navy. Neither will let go until circumstances outside of their control over Congress forces it.
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Yeah that’s true, Plex doesn’t need ECC. I’d like the NAS that serves the media to have ECC though.
Wow, just wow. Did you really just say that? Can you just not. I can't even.
Mitchell Feigenbaum has, for the last ~17 years, been my vote for the next Nobel Laureate in Physics. It is a rare thing to derive an irrational fundamental mathematical constant that appears in nature. The Feigenbaum constants are as fundamental as e and \pi, and they are readily observed experimentally (though, necessarily, not to full precision :) ).

Godspeed, Dr. Feigenbaum. Thank you.
In theory you could run the decryption and rendering in the GPU (as is done for video), which would re-encrypt for display.
> Steam

Granted, that would be nice. I avoid anything requiring an reinstall like the plague for this very reason.
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Just to continue the discussion about the book, he dislikes basic income because it makes everybody fully dependent on the government for their wellbeing. He prefers a system where people have the dignity of having a way to earn their money :)

I'm not whether sure I agree or not, but the book was interesting
So the same attorney general that believes the FBI was infected by the "deep state" and is vulnerable to widescale corruption also thinks that same group should be able to remove encryption from anything?

How can a man even hold both of those viewpoints?
<codename> is Apple was the worst kept secret at my last company. Even our contractors knew who it was.
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I think these are fair assessments. I don't treat either or as gospel, and I'm always quick to invoke "all models are wrong, but some are useful". However, they both have some interesting insights that have helped my personal journey.

Rich Dad Poor Dad (Kiyosaki) helped me see debt differently. I grew up with the mindset that all debt is bad, it's slavery, and it should be paid off... and that money is meant to be saved. I now realize that money is meant to be deployed. Also RDPD has helped push me along to realize that debt is a tool, and like all tools there are ways to use it that can be advantageous.
I've been making something very similar to this while I've been looking for a job. A node-graph editor 'framework' in react. It's not as far along as yours, and looks a little different.

My github has hitherto been empty, but my plan is to open source it in a few days when it's at MVP status. Maybe that'll make me look more attractive to perspective employers. Over a decade of experience hasn't kept my resume out of the void it seems.
I really want someone who is testifying in congress to put this in terms that affect the congressmen personally, explaining to them that it will make it easier for state actors to gain compromising information from their email addresses and personal devices.
Definitely. A visible difference.

Tighter abs, more defined pecs and deltoids. Also a lot of soreness, but it comes/goes in cycles.
They should have used Mongo, I hear it's webscale.
> when someone pays you more, they respect you more

I can't stress this enough. The more I charged as a consultant, the more my clients would shut up and heed my advice.
But, "Only the Sith deal in absolutes." - Obi-Wan Kenobi

I don't think opinions of people who were born before telegraphs matter much in today's political discourse. Basically, it boils down to, "I found a quote I agree with, and when I attach $(some famous dead person)'s name on to it, it sounds really great and authoritative."
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They say that this is possible, but they're cagey about what they expect the default to be.
Have you ever seen a women's frat house?
Microsoft looks to 'do for data sharing what open source did for code'
"Visual programming tools are as old as computer monitors."

That's an interesting statement. I always assumed they were much older -- and that the current detour into 'lines of ASCII text' were a mere implementation detail, driven by historical accident.

This[1] sure looks like a simple dataflow program to me, even if Gauss never intended it to be implemented on a von Neumann machine.

I hate writing programs as text, but unfortunately, "text is the universal interface" right now. It's easy to save, and diff and patch, and edit. There isn't a general-purpose format for saving graphs, diffing/patching them, or a decent selection of editors for them.

In 50 years, I'm sure we'll look back on today's programming the same way we now look back on the pre-visual-editor era. You had the technology to create general-purpose graph editors, but you didn't have or use any? Why not?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooley–Tukey_FFT_algorithm#/me...
Yea, it seems like there are so many now! We've also stopped hiking. Our dogs would just be covered if they went at all off the trail.
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Ask HN: Do you use a virtual assistant provider that you love? If so, which?
I'm looking for a virtual assistant provider.

If you use one that you love, what's the company? Ideally seeking low minimums so I can get started, see how they go, and ramp up my usage over time as I grow to trust them.
Sounds like a good business model for alt-health practitioners!
When you're ordering in Apple like volumes it has to be very difficult to hide.
In all probability, some sort of 9/11 will happen again and this is the question that will be asked.
I wonder what the other 495MB of code does.
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As we Russians bitterly say in such situations, "why shouldn't we trust our comrade major?" ("Нет причин не доверять товарищу майору").
UPI is world-class and it’s time to take it international
How to set the right budget for your project in 2019?
That second link is a 404, although I love your 404 page GIF =)

Checkly looks like a great product!
Do you want Apple to get into the business of manufacturing specialized screws? They could but it's not their core competency. So spend money?
Or you can inspect AOSP itself and bring your device to AOSP-like state.

Sure, you won't know whether the vendor of your device didn't modify the firmware itself, but what motivation is there for Samsung, Sony or Huawei to help Google to get user data?
There's another thread that recently rose to prominence about ascertaining the quality of clothing and something along the same lines popped up: expensive clothes are not always high quality, but high quality clothes are generally more expensive -- the cost is a signalling mechanism aka heuristic and like any heuristic it can be gamed
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Can you call it that though?

One is a person with a well-earned a reputation, the other.. well you get the point.
Here's a tunnel built by El Chapo's people instead. Hope it helps scratch that itch.

https://viceland-assets-cdn.vice.com/viceblog/64645854tunnel...
Thanks! Hadn't seen that one. We'll merge those comments hither as this is the original source.
Cryptography and secure messaging systems are not all under US jurisdiction. If access to backdoors alone has kept multiple massive criminal activities from being executed, then surely we should see some being successfully executed by the groups not using backdoored encryption.

The fact that we don't suggests either that (1) backdoors aren't that essential to thwart them or (2) there are no such regular massive attacks.

Further, as people like the US Attorney General helps to publicize those backdoors, more criminals will choose alternative messaging systems (fewer of which are backdoored), making the US less safe.
Q: Can you solve a problem by deconstructing it into smaller, easier problems and solving them?

A: Yes.

Q: Cool. Coolcoolcool. Now... can you do that without violating a bunch of arbitrary constraints?

A: ...As long as they don't restrict Turing-completeness.

Q: I didn't hear a "yes" there.

A: Yes.

Q: So how much experience do you have with our specific set of arbitrary constraints?

A: Uhhh... I never worked here before, so none?

Q: Oof. Well, thanks for coming in. We'll be in touch. Or not. Sometimes we just ghost people. Not to be dicks or anything, it's just that they're no longer worth acknowledging their existence to us.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20507251, which has the original source.
What statistics am I ignoring? I'm talking about the ones from the OP's post.
Me too! I just picked off a couple of ticks this evening after woodland mushroom picking. My region is endemic for Lyme disease. I'm not concerned because the tick must be attached for 36-48 hours for Lyme disease to vector. Wash clothes immediately after being outdoors and have a shower check. Having a willing partner makes it more effective and fun.
Makes sense, thanks dang :)
Right. I use Mozilla's location services, OpenStreetMap, and ZaNavi with locally stored maps.

Not from fanaticism. It's just less hassle. Google is always getting in your face, wanting something or pushing an "upgrade" or or advertising something. Don't need that.
The best part of this basic article is that probably cost 250k to EUR taxpayers and provided 0 insight, keeping the wheel of fraud spinning.
Can we all take a moment to appreciate how freaking awesome Chris Burgess's job title was for this mission? Harpoon Lead Engineer
How is it fixed in Python 3.3+?
A few points in response:

1. The knowledge is created by people working for the company. Both the people and the company are part of a broader society, and all (people, company, society) have an interest in keeping the ability to manufacture alive.

2. Reinventing everything from scratch while risking submarine patents is wasteful, especially for processes that are obsolete from the view of the original company.

3. The same secrets that go into making an iPhone go into making everything else. I'm not interested in exact dimensions and features being public before release, but I am interested in the general know-how of precision design and assembly being preserved in a way that can outlive the original company.

4. We have lost significant manufacturing capability before. Nobody knows how to recreate the Saturn V rocket. SpaceX, NASA, and others have to recreate that knowledge at high cost. Society at large has a greater interest in preventing this kind of technological regress than in preserving the secrets of one company indefinitely.
I took care not to say that you were anti-unikernel; I was articulating the anti-unikernel position. I'm not sure what you actually meant, so I'll take you at your word that you weren't moving goal posts--in whatever case, the OP is correct that unikernels aren't inherently less debugable even though mature debug tooling may not exist for them today.
Projects like these highlight that as ML becomes more and more complex, a gap grows larger and larger which must be filled by manual or semi-manual labor. If it isn't a team of volunteers combing the rendered results for errors, it's users who have succumbed to those errors and leave feedback in the hopes the system improves.

That gets me wondering - is the future of AI really just a semi-autonomous twilight zone where cheap / free labor augments an already faulty system? If not, what possible application is there for an expensive and closed automated system which works 100% requiring no human input, when other options are cheaper and leave clear directions for improvement?
This is 100% true, but I would blame stockholders/capital over management. If Tim Cook attempted anything altruistic at the cost of margin, he'd be replaced in a heartbeat
Would a recorder even capture a sound above or below human hearing?
Once you are an executive, you often have contractual obligations. You are the key decision maker people escalate to. If time sensitive things that need a decision to be made the buck stops with you, no matter where you are.

To give an extreme example, the President (of the US) is never truly unplugged. In the cases where the president is truly unplugged, SoP is for that person to temporarily stop being the President.
I highly doubt that any president has any authority over the storage medium of nuclear launch codes.
True, but "server overwhelmed" is not usually one of the first tests written.
You can checksum backup data. Might be more difficult with high speed data like databases, but if it's just backups a cryptographic checksum is really reasonable.
I don't know anyone that hasn't worked in a disorganized workplace then.
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Sure, but that’s anecdotal vs statistical data.
Benjamin Franklin did say (or rather write) this, but it meant something else than you think: https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said#.U...
For sure, I have absolutely no problem accusing Obama of similar behavior
Is there a dark side to this? A lot of the "not invented here" and chasing the latest tech could be caused by workplaces not realizing that there are less breaking ways to learn new things. Agile is great at this, by encouraging self-review at all levels. Then there's getting from sufficient to masterful at all sorts of general skills such as testing, version control, refactoring, requirements gathering, presenting etc. But to advance quickly in any of these you need mentors rather than self-study, because it's easier to learn directly from someone who has done it before and who can show you examples in the work context you already know.
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Lack of transparency is indeed what make people second guess their intentions. And I have to agree that "being lied to" is the number one reason why people do not trust them.

I mildly prefer the "neither confirm nor deny" responses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response

I am not an expert but I think the general feeling most of people have is we are hearing a lot of constructed lies. Is there a list of stories told to the public that were proven to be lies? Did they even come out and say "Yes, we lied and this is why..." ?
The lesson every consultant, including me, seems to have to learn on their own.

When I went out on my own a few years back, it was a rush to sign any client at an hourly rate not that much higher than my previous salary rate. Those first clients were rough.

As you’re saying, I’ve also seen first hand the more I charge the more people take my suggestions seriously, and overall the better the clients are for my business. Go figure.
There's no such thing as growth in the technology field. Most of the organizations just want a specific and narrow expertise in a particular technology. If you think your 7+ years of experience in certain technology is something then you are wrong. There'll be an 18 year old who has been programing in that technology since he was 12. You'll eventually get pushed over. Employers don't want a well-rounded person. They just want someone who know enough to do maintenance and their current products.
I have seen the opposite issue too, which is where if someone has sat in a chair in the company for X number of years and isn't terrible at their job, they are almost guaranteed advancement. And usually this is a bad recipe for stagnation and you end up with bad middle management (the Loser-Clueleess-Sociopath hierarchy comes to mind). Whereas if you force people to execute a project decently, at least you have the opportunity of those paying off even if most don't; for every 10 failures maybe you get a Google Maps or Google Docs.
I would call that second one a definition, not a conjecture. "Best" is an arbitrary value judgment. You can't prove what is or isn't best because it is not an objective question.

But yes, it is an open question.
That depends on the position, I believe it is easy for a software engineer in a big corp. For senior management or an engineer in a small corp with lots of domain knowledge: a lot harder.

The second set of people can try but when shit hits the fan they will have to explain what happened and why it couldn’t be prevented.
Whether they were a rip off or not, I won't argue (I use neither Samsung, nor Apple and I don't see such style aspects to be a required matter of exclusivity). But Apple didn't hesitate to attack using trivial (which means invalid) patents like that. The end doesn't justify the means. Just because they thought they were ripped off, doesn't excuse their abuse of the broken patent system.

Next thing they can imagine they are being ripped off by some competitor, because they don't like the color of some device or what not. So why should anyone trust them not to do abuse the patent system, just because they can.

I.e. I see any such abusive company arming themselves with even more patents like a very negative development.
You are over-simplifying. Almost all of the metrics Facebook will feed you when you setup an account are on a view-through attribution basis. Yes, there will be some clicks, but if you attribute revenue from Facebook by clicks only, it will look terrible. This is an old problem for anyone that has spent time with display ad platforms. So, you install a facebook pixel on your checkout, and if the person making a purchase saw your ad on Facebook, Facebook's reporting console will take credit for that. Thats view-through attribution and it highly overstates the credit Facebook should receive for making the sale, but there's not much you can do to measure it otherwise. So what do you do?
The answer is, you setup a holdout test. Facebook has a black-box solution for helping with this, but it is a huge conflict of interest to let Facebook handle your test. The thing to do then is set up the test on your own platform. That is a massive undertaking, and any business that doesn't have a significantly sized engineering and analytic team doesn't stand a chance.

So yea, people look at things like reach, and view through conversions, and it would be very hard not too or they might not have the means to do something more sophisticated. Fake accounts undeniably puff of numbers for these people, and they should be taken to court for not giving a shit about that fact.
> Is mapping the surface of the moon and detailing its composition more or less important than lifting 90 million people out of poverty?

This question assumes a lot. It's not an either / or. In fact, they may be mutually beneficial, where each effort boosts the other.

The efforts for both endeavors are also not completely interchangeable. We can't productively redirect all resources going into the space program towards poverty reduction. Perhaps some of it may be redirected productively, but most of it cannot.

I understand you may already get this, but I think it is worth repeating.
Feynman suggested shining polarized light through a solution of glucose and water. This will rotate the plane of the polarization clockwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose#History
Clear this up for me...your tip to avoid Lyme disease is to remove any found ticks ASAP, but you say you still get bit 100+ times a year. Is it not true that getting bitten by an infected tick is "game over in the threat model"?
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Passing over for a moment the (lack of) ability of the government to keep secret the means of using the backdoor...

Most encryption software (including crypto libraries) is open source. Is he proposing banning open source or just mandating that it only be distributed as binaries by compromised companies?

Does he, and does anyone else proposing this, have the slightest notion what banning good encryption would actually entail?
As long as you've observed the particular pickup truck before IDing it later is actually a very solved problem (like, the exact one, not just make and model). Back when I was an intern I worked on the "old boring currently deployed legacy tech" and it was quite good (probably scary good to some people) and it was using radar signatures. I suspect that the development of that technology combined with recent visual spectrum developments (i.e. cheap good cameras) has made the tech even better.

Having the good judgement to not obliterate the truck while it's yielding for a funeral procession is the hard part to do in software.

I agree he's underestimating the software complexity. Anyone can built that crap. It takes tons of R&D man hours to refine it into something that actually works and works consistently in the real world.
Luckily Lyme disease appears to be very rare in the Ozarks: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html
If you really think that we aren’t facing the same problems today, that didn’t exist 300 years ago; you need to take a far harder look at the problems.