skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be very visible. E.g. on some Androids (and I think Chromebooks too), unlocking the boot loader adds a large exclamation mark or other warning to the boot screen.
On a related note, can someone tell me why scientific/technical papers do not have the publication date listed prominently in the title area? -- usually this info is nowhere to do found in the paper. When I find a PDF of a paper I want to look at the date along with the abstract as a first-pass heuristic as the whether the paper is relevant to me.
The Epic store thing would be analogous if Epic made Windows, which they don't - there isn't a contradiction in Sweeney's position here whatever one might think of the merits of the Epic store.
This is the most Japanese thing I've ever heard of!
Join comma.ai live product announcement October 9, 2019 at 3:00 PM PST
But where's the innocent until proven guilty for the sysadmin and the woman accused of falsely accusing the guy who was fired?

HR doesn't fire on a whim. I'd default to saying this guy got due process.
Yup, macOS dynamically allocates swap files on disk when they're needed - that's why you may see 0 swap space in htop, which doesn't mean that it doesn't use swap.
The Obama admin did exactly what this administration has done. You just didn't care because of identity politics.
That doesn't explain the fertilizer usage very well, and from what I understand the story with ag is improvements in efficiency.
Previous discussions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21203651

I worked on this project; my comment is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21205504
The bay area has a lot of grass and pollen producing trees. And also mold spores in the rainy season. South bay has a lot of grass. Berkeley has a lot of tree pollen. San Francisco tends to have issues with mold spores.

I'm allergic to grass but not tree pollen or mold spores.
The mailing list software automatically archives them. There are also provisions for spam blocking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Mailman
Quotients are not purely constructive, but they are present in Lean as an extension (this is covered in Chapter 1 of the book[1]).

[1]: https://leanprover.github.io/theorem_proving_in_lean/theorem...
CCP == Chinese Communist Party in this context.
I think there's more to it than that. If you have some time, give this a read: https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an...

Since it's quite long, I'll summarize. An 18-year-old woman, "Marie", whose had been in foster homes since the age of 6 or 7, reported having been raped. Her two previous foster mothers, both of whom she was still friends with and whom she told about the rape, suspected she was fabricating the report and, after discussing the matter with each other, said so to the police. Despite the significant forensic evidence, the police persuaded her to recant and ultimately charged her with filing a false report. A couple of years later, a serial rapist with a penchant for photographing his victims was caught. Among his effects was a photograph of Marie.

What does this story tell us? First, that even someone who has just been raped may have difficulty relating the event in a coherent and consistent way, and may not seem to be feeling the emotions one would expect of someone to whom that had happened. (The implications for the Brett Kavanaugh affair are obvious.) Second, that even female friends of the victim might be led by such inconsistencies to doubt the veracity of the report — a sobering observation. And third, that the slogan "Believe Women", though it cannot be taken as an absolute, is still important to repeat, because it's still far more likely that a true report will be doubted than that a false one will be believed.
And my answer to them: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2019-...
>But how do they justify this when their personal economic well-being requires trampling the freedom of other people?

There are 3 great evils in China: terrorism, separatism and extremism. HK/Tibet/XinJiang/Taiwan are not economic issues but security ones. People balance prosperity for security everywhere. The west sees HK as a large pro democracy movement, the Chinese see's this as fringe separatist violence by 0.001% of the population. They see HK as Chinese alt-right getting bold undermining domestic serenity: disenfranchised, social media savvy, economically anxious youth who see their culture being displaced and their privileged being eroded by mainland immigrants. They're acting accordingly.
This doesn’t answer my question. The question pertains to the FISA court’s rubber stamp nature.
"Superintelligent" AI is so far away that we are wasting our time thinking about it. In the meantime the economy is being completely turned over by very narrow AI which should be our major focus.
I belive it when other people say they like it, but I agree with you.

(That said I really didn't like Java either, and it later became my favorite language for a decade or so.)
Hubbies?
> Anything done with a computer could have been done by hand, manually.

No, that's not true at all. It was true in ~ 1945... sort of. By 1950, there were plenty of calculations happening which, even if you harnessed the entire planet's educated population and gave them marchant calculators, they couldn't have produced the answer. That's a category difference. It also planted the seeds for the present day when it is obvious you're not going to get your 3-d porn videos via heliograph and human marchant calculator computer.

A similar category difference is the atom bomb. If the entire industrial output of the world were dedicated to making TNT for decades, it couldn't compare to the power of nuclear weapons in existence today. Categorical difference.

>My point is that you are making up categories to fit your argument, but you think the categorical differences are obvious. That makes it a weak argument.

If by "making up categories" you mean "using real world examples and assuming people can tell that the use of antibiotics is more important to humanity than cell phones" -I guess I agree with you. Seriously man: people used to routinely die like flies of infection. What compares to that change? Name one thing invented after 1959 which compares to this! My use of this example isn't making up a category: it's stating the obvious. If you really think cell phones or the fast fourier transform are more important than antibiotics, well, "that's just, like, your opinion, man." Billions of people who would otherwise be dead disagree with you.

You can nitpick about flying (which is not an example I actually used, FWIIW; people were flying in 1919) if it makes you feel better. I suppose taking the train is equivalent to the ICBM and having artificial satellites around the earth?

>My point is that we can't measure the rate of progress by only looking at the past 50 years. Something feels slower, sure.

This doesn't make any sense. OK, don't use 50 year intervals. Use 10 year increments. I am naming the somethings which make things "feel slower" -I don't know how you could possibly disagree with any of them. If the substance of your disagreement is "Scott is a dick and I don't like his tone" -that's OK; many people agree with you.

> I bet in 1969 something felt slower than the previous 50 years too, to some people.

You're on. Find an example. Peter Thiel and Tyler Cowen are examples from more or less current year who have written books and essays more or less saying what I just said above (FWIIW, both after my essay). Elon Musk is someone who has made it his life's mission to reverse this trend. There were links to IEEE spectrum in the original article arguing against "the singularity" more or less making my argument for me as well; I could track them down somehow. There are no examples from 1969, because in 1969, unlike today: it simply was not true.
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One guy actually got fired for his password. He was already being super creepy and making the girl who sat across from him uncomfortable, but she never told anyone. Then we cracked his password, which was a very naughty phrase about the girl who sat across from him. I reported it to HR, who asked the girl, who then said he was creepy, and so they acted swiftly on the reports and got him out of there.*

So, he never did anything specific to call for, but just "was creepy" (which can often mean he was not very pretty and/or awkward socially / in expressing his feelings, as opposed to someone who would assault or anything close). And he had a password (in private) that was lewd or whatever, which he did not intend to share with anybody.

Yeah, let's fire the guy...
MD5 is vulnerable to collision attacks, which allows the attacker to control both messages, m and m', and find a case where h(m) == h(m').

But if a hash, h(m), is given, finding m' where h(m) == h(m') is much more difficult, it's known as a second-preimage attack. "Image" basically means "output", "preimage" means "input", "second-preimage attack" means "find another input that has the same output already given here".

Wikipedia says a preimage attack against full MD5 still requires 2^123.4 steps (2009), only a theoretical possibility. Second-preimage should be much harder.

I don't know if there are improvements, but it's still extremely difficult. Well, of course it's not to say that you should use MD5.
> violent protesters

> whataboutism

Now is not the time to shill for China.
Shot PLANNING – How to add Entertainment value to your shots
I don't remember people outraged when companies worked with ICE when Obama was president. Obama did the same thing as Trump is doing. It feels so fake to me.
I felt the same, but...

When it comes to politics, there are no hard and fast rules. On the one hand, a lot of people look to games for escape from life's problems. It might be reasonable to agree with Blizzard that political speech during a gaming competition isn't appropriate for that reason. On the other hand, entertainment is a form of art, and players are human, through which expression of all forms is interwoven. You can't walk a step in the world of games without stumbling into political expression of some kind.

And sports also fall prey to geopolitics ... in pretty much every match ever held.

Even the "dumbest" action movies made purely for entertainment find a foundation on some good versus evil morality, at least to establish a reason for the ensuing hour and half of thrilling gunfire and explosions. Not many people want to watch their action hero shoot up hundreds of people for no reason at all. We want a "good" hero to shoot up "bad" guys.

So it's all messy. Life is messy. Life is art. Sometimes life/art does something outside of the rules, and it's okay, for no other reason than because it moves people.

So like you I don't feel that Blizzard committed some heinous crime here. But they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. That happens; life is messy. What's happening in HK is more important than hard and fast rules.
To me there's an apt comparison between data-sucking, attention-sucking technology and sugar.

It's healthy to minimise consumption of them, and harder to do when your decision-making brain reserves are taxed by anxiety, social pressure, and lack of good available alternatives.
Ah, I can relate. While not as old as these, all the interactive stations at my parents museum still run on ancient win nt 4 boxes connected via bnc. Guess who they call when one breaks again...
Samsung Issues Critical Galaxy and Note Warning for 40M Users
This is exactly my problem with gesture based interaction, especially on the iPhone (I don't know if it's better on Android). The gestures are almost always not obvious. There's simply no hints that their are available or what swiping the screen in circles and flicking the home button might do. It may get you one step back in your browser history, it may do nothing.

That would be fine, if gestures where complementary to on screen navigation, but often the gestures are the primary "UI".
The latter really. It's a side project within a side project.
I like the relative "x hours ago" because it spares me computing the difference, but I want to have the absolute too.
CBP != ICE. I'm very wary of this recent push to vilify anyone who enforces immigration laws or the integrity of our borders. It seems to be a very emotional, knee-jerk reaction that completely ignores the inevitably serious consequences that would result from lack of border and immigration enforcement.
"The password is not found in any known data breaches. It should be safe to use". Ok...
https://imgur.com/a/TTWME6G
Globalism itself is fine, but China has declared itself hostile to the rest of the world. I'm fine with companies seeking growth in countries that are willing to play by the rules. I'm not fine with companies worshipping growth at the expense of all other priorities.

Let Chinese companies have the China market; let the rest of the world cut it off like the tumor it is.
Just a hypothesis but I would guess it's because services and productivity improvements are driving economic growth rather than products.
Yes, and I've seen people (obnoxious drunks) get escorted out. This is also a pre-season game.
> What is the article suggesting, that we sit on our chair doing nothing?

no, it's suggesting that just because something is new it is not automatically an improvement, and progress exists both on the technological plane and also the moral/ethical/societal one.
the more i think about it the more i notice that a lot of 'security' is actually used to verify or 'add value' to the data that gets mined
meaning 'verified' traffic holds more value than non verified traffic so that might explain a reason why security protocols on routers
and other common devices are not as secure as they could be. you could note that this is also a form of 'security against you' meaning
a 'proof' for a court.

i don't know what the answer is to this simply because of all the variables i consider, especially the emergence of drones. how will this
be secured to a degree that few can interfere with package deliveries, the abuse of surveillance and what space around a property is actually
protected. as example you can drive by in a vehicle collect AP information and the average geek can obtain access so it will be with drones.

if you really want to get interesting, think about the things drones can do, such as compromise crime scenes with planted evidence.
It doesn't seem like it should be obviously true to me. If the hash algorithm was rot13 it would be pretty easy to determine the password from the hash regardless of the strength of the password
China Says ‘Stay Tuned’ for Retaliation over U.S. Tech Blacklist
> In practice you could make it as obscure as you want,

If only that made it as secure as you want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
> The media then lied about RMS defending a pedophile.

Source? I saw an article by John Gruber[0] that retracted some specific allegations about him, saying that for these specific allegations RMS was being conflated with ESR, another known sexual predator who has some fame in the early world of FOSS.I saw nothing lying about him being a pedophile. That came a leaked email to the MIT CSAIL mailing list (which had been confirmed by multiple sources) and from his personal blog, on a widely circulated article. I'd link to the specific one (edit: [2]), but when searching Google for the query 'child pornography site:stallman.org'[1] there are far too many instances of him commenting on child pornography in the news and such — it's a topic he has spoken at lengths about, and advocating for it is not something new for him.

The article by John Gruber retracts a specific sexual assault allegation. I don't think that he should be tried or burned at the stake for something that he hasn't done, and I don't personally know any other specific allegations of sexual assault on his behalf either. But to say that the media saying RMS defending a pedophile is a lie is silly. The man's a known pedophile sympathizer, and clearly based on the dates published he doesn't intend to retract any of his own articles proving such any time soon.

Also, to be clear, the Vice article that you are thinking of[3] that said he defended a pedophile has an excerpt straight from the CSAIL mailing list that's been confirmed by multiple others.

Seriously, click that [1] link and try to say he's not a pedophile sympathizer…

[0]: https://daringfireball.net/2019/10/correction_regarding_an_e...

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=child+pornography+site%3Asta...

[2]: https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html

> I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.

[3]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci...

Edit: added [2] and [3].

It's not just Emacs that makes RMS a bad person.
Tomorrowland’s Empty Hope
On any loose gravel drive [or most surfaces where a slid, it's trivial for an untrained driver to out brake an ABS-equipped car 9 (or 10) out of 10 times.

Try it sometime.

Or read the NHTSA study on it: http://www.nhtsa.gov/DOT/NHTSA/NRD/Multimedia/PDFs/VRTC/ca/c...
Never had such issues in any laptop I bought over past 15 years. It's just a matter of choosing good hardware.
> May I ask why Backblaze doesn't offer client-side decryption?

Kind of a historical accident mostly.

When we built the very first product, we just thought we would build a web based restore process, and the ability to view your files online with a web browser, which means you have to hand us the private key ONLY FOR the web session to view your files, and it is only stored in RAM.

What followed (12 years ago) was that we immediately found out the maximum download size of many web browsers was only 2 GBytes (which was a complete shock to me personally). So I had to VERY QUICKLY write this hacky "bzdownloader" which could download arbitrarily large restores -> but again, I was just dealing with what we had built already so we never got around to decrypting on the client side.

After a while, it became clear that we only lose like 1% - 2% of our business to people who wanted the other model (download the encrypted file and decrypt it on the client side), and so we kept prioritizing other features ahead of that. :-) For example, businesses had a very particular problem that prevented 20% of our sales from occurring. Businesses wanted to pay for many backups at once, but not necessarily have access to do the "restore", just pay for all their employees backups in a kind of "site license". So we created "Backblaze Groups" which allows you to pay for other people's backups, and our sales jumped up 20% after that. Then businesses wanted "Single Sign On" so that when they revoked their employee's ability to sign into their email account, it would automatically revoke the employee's ability to prepare a restore. Sales jumped up again, yay! :-)

It is absolutely a requested feature to add "client side restore" which combines several features - get rid of the clunky "zip" format which can cause some issues, and decrypt on the client side. I fully expect it will percolate up to the top of the requested features list and get done in 2020.

One of the fun, but challenging aspects of never raising any Venture Capital is we can only hire more software engineers when our sales rise to support their salaries. Currently the only voting board members at Backblaze are all 100% employees, and employees own 95% of the company. (We did raise a very small friends and family round more than a decade ago, which is where the other shares reside.) But sometimes our slow progress is frustrating to customers who are more used to massive software shops with millions or billions of dollars of funding. :-)
We have a high standard for guilt in court because someone's freedom and perhaps life is on the line. You as a private citizen have a right to make decisions on less than a drawn-out court case and a sequestered jury.

So, in the eyes of the criminal courts, yes, OJ is still innocent. But would you have him babysit your kids based only on a reasonable doubt he's a multiple murderer?
A shitty company who stole American intelligence based on a shadow company in the USA scammed out by a member.

Lets go ahead and close up shop in their Silicon valley based office too since this is an exclusive China Company. I am tired fo seeing that shitty building in Santa Clara.
It's good at moving bytes around. Turns out most networked applications are just moving bytes around. I've been using it for four years now and honestly would ask for an extra 10%-20% to be working in most other languages.
Happiness on a Scale from 1 to 72
Americans killed a million Iraqis in a war based on fabricated evidence of an Iraqi WMD program. We're all pretty much complicit. If there's any smaller group to be mad at, I'd say it's anybody who didn't oppose that course, but more likely, the U.S. military complex.

Ironically, she didn't catch flack for George being president of the Iraqi war, she caught flack for George's stance on LGBT issues when he was president.
If people could read your thoughts (or private messages) I'm pretty sure they could find at least 5 things to fire you and/or publicly whip you at a pillory in the central square of your city.

So don't be so arrogant about someone being "creepy" when they are not mentioned as doing anything specific in public...
South Park was HUGE in China in 2000s, counterfeit plushies and merchandise everywhere.
This might be a very naive question but I was wondering: are there mathematical proofs that fundamentally cannot be computed? And I don't mean that in the Ackermann function[0] sense of the words, I mean is there mathematics that is inherently beyond computation?

(still watching the video)

EDIT: follow-up, since the replies helpfully point out that yes, it is: does this limit this kind of software, or can theorem proving software get around this by human intervention?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_function
https://imgur.com/a/TTWME6G

Safe to use!
Nevermore, Amazon
The password is only the last 8 characters, everything before the colon is the password's hash.
There's usually something broken on my computer when I bump to a brand new release of NixOS, but I've never had rollbacks fail to recover from that. Then I just have to wait a few weeks before I try again :^)
CO2 has helped crop yields.
Maybe the management of it is amateur. The money and eyes on it are not.
I wonder what this will look like in a renewable energy world where the cost of energy on the margin drops to the the small operating cost + the principal/interest on the capital expenditure.

We might actually see a reduction in GDP in that case, especially if coupled with ever increasing production efficiency for energy consuming processes.

In that case, we might have to re-evaluate how we define "success" to be less weighted for GDP, or include the reduction in fossil fuel externalities in the definition.

Could be be best race-to-the-bottom ever.
Love too be friends with a war criminal and mass murderer.
This is a fine comment but is a little like saying "the best way to understand elliptic curves is not to study elliptic curves", which, sure, a first course in abstract algebra will be more profitable for designing entirely new constructions (or evaluating them from first principles) --- which most practitioners don't actually do.

Some people are just interested in curves themselves. That's the point of an article like this. If you want to learn how to build a signature scheme, there are good sources for that as well.
Why would employer require anyone to make a facebook account? Also if you make one but never post anything on it, how does it help the employer with whatever their goals may be?
I agree - the reason why companies do this is because creating a unified culture, which this falls under, makes it easier to manage your rank-and-file.

Personally I avoid companies that talk about "culture" ad nauseam.