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The world is moving towards cashless/mobile payments (albeit with the U.S. strangely behind), so why do you feel physical cryptocurrency is a step in the right direction? Do you expect Kong to face greater challenges for adoption (compared to other cryptocurrencies) since it needs a higher critical mass of users?
If Google had any motive besides research and responsible disclosure, it would more likely be to persuade us that ITP is not viable. But I think their issue was fair and submitted in good faith.
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"General welfare" appears in the preamble. The preamble does not grant any powers at all.

Congress is only granted powers in Article I. Redistributing wealth (like Social Security) is not one of those powers.
You do realize people do not run through their luggage like yoga pants or sneakers.

Most people use the same luggage for years, I use mine for atleast 10 years. Where is the logic in your reply?
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Yeah I did this - no white carbs at all and no bread.

Like I say, I did get quite skinny at least!
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Radios aren't that.
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Embrace it?

Less cheekily, I think Kong like instruments when properly adapted could capture the best parts of local currencies (like the Bristol Pound), the messy parts of multi-governmental currencies (like the Scottish Pound), and the nice bits of computer validation.

In your example specifically, the Royal Bank of Scotland can still mint Scottish Pounds but back them on chain by UK pounds.

I'm of course hand-waiving the problems here - we've made a programmable monetary instrument. One can program things well or badly to support this kind of interoperability.
Break-ins yes. But hibernating laptops being discovered via bluetooth? Cameras?

Thieves break into cars when they know there will be valuables inside the car. Now, are they running Bluetooth scanners to determine that, or is the fact that they're parking in an Apple parking lot enough?

From the article:

>San Francisco saw a 24 percent increase in vehicle break-ins between 2016 and 2017

Is that increase due to Bluetooth tracking? Or just all break-ins? This is exactly what I'm talking about... just because break-ins are happening more often and also unrelatedly Bluetooth can be discovered wireless, does not mean the two things are in any way connected.

Possible, yes. Actually happening in the real world? Well, we have an anecdote that the author promises us "isn’t just some crazy theory Joe and I have" and an anecdote from a police representative surrounded by statistics on all break-ins regardless of if Bluetooth was involved.

I mean... the story is about a thief who broke a window and stole a backpack that was in plain sight for anyone passing by the car. Absolutely nothing to do with Bluetooth at all.
I immediately thought of the currency "Kongbucks" from "Snow Crash". I was hoping this was partially a tip-of-the-hat to Neal Stephenson.
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Neonto Studio does let you connect to backend logic. There's a plugin API which covers the basic CRUD operations as well as login/auth.

I think it ships with a couple of basic ones like Google Sheets and Generic JSON, but the general idea is that customers write their own.

Source: I was the original author of Neonto Studio years ago :)

There's a free version of the same product for React only at https://reactstudio.com
Is that actually better in this case? Intel found the issue internally. Nobody knows what it is. The advisory isn't sufficient information to figure it out. People can patch at their leisure, fairly sure that nobody is about to pop up with a 1-day exploit for it.

That's pretty bad, actually. It means a determined adversary can simply look at the patch to figure out how to exploit vulnerable systems. (Presumably there exists a way to look at the actual unencrypted bytes being modified; if so, you can work out what it's doing.)

And since people can patch at their leisure, a determined adversary will have lots of targets to choose from after they analyze the patch.

To be fair, I don't know much about CPU microcode. But while it's true that lonewolf hackers are less likely to be a threat here, a threat does exist: governments are increasingly turning to industrial espionage-type practices (apparently even the NSA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...) and this type of exploit seems, at a glance, pretty lucrative: unauthenticated users can achieve privilege escalation.

It's easy to imagine some facility somewhere of industrious Chinese reverse engineers who are pretty darn good at this, and that it's their full-time job to find and weaponize such exploits. In fact, swap out "Chinese" with "American" and you get the NSA.

EDIT: It turns out that I am mistaken: Intel microcode updates are encrypted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Microcode#Microcode_upda...

> With the Pentium there are two layers of encryption and the precise details explicitly not documented Intel, instead being only known to less than ten employees.

I guess I'll leave the comment up, since... well, I was formerly a pentester, and it seemed like a logical sequence of arguments. That's where I learned about the technique of looking at binary diffs to work out what security patches were doing.

It's very strange to me that this is possible to encrypt, though. Isn't it "just" a matter of getting your hands on a processor + the update? Why is it impossible to dump the microcode as it's being decrypted? Sure, you won't be able to analyze the patch before it's decrypted, but are we just relying on the idea that it's too much work for someone to figure out how to listen in on the decrypting process?

Following that Wikipedia citation, the quote about it being in the heads of less than 10 employees is from 1997, so it's ancient information. I'm curious what the current state of the art is.
I think that goes along with what the parent mentioned. If someone can prove how they voted, then Person A can buy Person B's vote and request proof that Person B voted that way. However, if Person B can't prove which way they voted and it is just based off trust then Person B can lie and still vote however they'd like.
What’s the need? For better or worse, app bundles tend to be huge these days; there’s no obstacle to embedding a few megabytes’ worth of GUI libraries in your app bundle, or just statically linking them into your executable. Heck, a lot of apps embed a 120MB+ Electron framework; that’s pushing it, but Qt is “only” <20MB of DLLs, or less if you statically link it. (A more focused GUI library could be much smaller.)

I’d love to see better cross-platform desktop apps. But I think the missing piece is for someone to write a good library that uses native widgets – not figuring out how to distribute that library.

For the record, I think Qt is reasonably good, but not native enough. On macOS, even QWidget often imitates native widgets (poorly) instead of using them; on top of that, QWidget as a whole has unfortunately been semi-deprecated, in favor of newer QML stuff that doesn’t even try to look native.
Would be nice on the Pano G2 (100k/150k Spartan 6), which is a lot more affordable than this board ;-)

Mentally adds the ZedRipper right after Leon and RiscV
I think the only title that would satisfy site guidelines is the name of the app. They should have written a blog post with the story if they wanted to use this title.
It also has application-specific magic hidden deep in the source. Example: https://github.com/docker-slim/docker-slim/blob/master/inter...
It’s more like selling stock to buy a sandwich.

If you bought the stock for $100, and now it’s worth $200, and you sell $10 worth to buy a sandwich, you have $5 of income to be reported.
It seems like every couple of weeks we see a founder or professional locked out of their accounts on some platform they depend on to make a living. Until that problem is solved I don't think we want to make it harder than it is to unban someone.

Likely the bad actors would still find a way around it, too. What's a little criminal collusion amongst coworkers for profit.
I got enough of that reminder and upgraded to catalina.

after this was done I could not ise microsoft office, to which I have a license key. An "update" to office 365 was promted, to which I also accepted .... turns out office 365 is a subscription based product.

as a user with some knowledge of open source alternatives I dont see why these two corporations are lowering the incentive for me to keep using their products, at one point it will just be easier to boot something like manjaro or ubuntu from the hardware and get rid of reminders and subscription offers.

I am actually open for HN users suggestions for an OS replacement for an MBP from late 2013
Given Scottish notes are defacto legal tender, and have been since forever, yes, I do think it's fair to call it a technicality - there literally isn't a bank in the whole of the UK that would decline Scottish notes.

Also, while I do sometimes have problems with them abroad too, it's 50/50 - I've had them accepted in all sorts of places, including India, Nepal and China
IMO this breaks the entire security model of cryptocurrency. If these bills are intended to be spent hand-to-hand in meatspace without cryptographic validation on a computer, then it is no longer a cryptocurrency. It is another paper currency like the U.S. Treasury's.

The innovation of Bitcoin was money as a purely digital artifact that cannot be double spent. As a merchant accepting Kong bucks, I have no idea how many duplicates of a particular Kong note there could be out there. I could find myself in a race between many other people to move the Ether out of that private key. To rely on embedded chips and watermarks to prevent counterfeiting and double-spending seems like a huge step backward, like you're trying to make a better $100 Benjamin instead of a better cryptocurrency.

I get the idea of quick, zero-fee transactions. But there needs to be some finality or pseudo-finality. The Lightning Network uses a similar model as yours, but it has collateral. Analogously, in the way Lightning solved this problem, the merchant has 5 actual Ether on file for a customer that the customer sacrifices if they ever double spend a Kong buck at the store.
I’m not very knowledgeable about Dual Channel operations, so maybe you can enlighten me. Intuitively I’d have said that using all slots with sticks of half the size would be the faster configuration, as they could then be used in parallel. Why do you say the configuration with half the slots open would be faster?
Ok, I guess I have to read up on WebGL's capabilities one of these days. Curious, how did you implement the "flood fill" operation?
It certainly beats a kidsexchange (which was some kind of daycare website back in the day, if memory serves).
> Funny part is that all these extra administrators don’t actually help out the faculty much.

For the most part, it's not part of their job descriptions.

Some things which have grown: student services; "Student Success" centers and the like; advising; IT; compliance with various grant agency and accreditation requirements (which seem to be growing); institutional efforts to further diversity and inclusion.

As an example, my understanding is that universities are doing much more to identify, and try to help, at-risk students than they were before. The new administrators hired into these roles will cheerfully work with faculty as appropriate, but it's a much more student-facing than faculty-facing role.
So can we all finally agree, that Huawei stating it has no ties to the Chinese government, was a lie after all?

This false claim by Huawei, is one of the most important reasons why Huawei isn‘t already banned here in Germany.[1]

And while we are at it, we should also ban US companies from providing critical infrastructure like this in Germany (and Europe). After Snowden, its clear that hardware from US vendors like Cisco should be seen as potentially compromised.[2]

1) https://www.businessinsider.de/trumps-huawei-verbot-ist-rein...
2) https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-p...
are freelancers typically fully employed? you have lots of downtime and chasing the next client, writing RFPs.

IOW, yes $150/hr full-time == $300k, but $150/hr as a freelancer != $300k.
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I'm not sure what houses look like in Hanoi but if they are kind of like the 3-5 storey houses in some parts of East Asia those are not great designs. They’re like twenty feet wide and forty feet long with steep stairs connecting the floors. To me the layout is awful.
It wouldn’t be bad for one off where the lot was oddly shaped but to have that as a default for attached homes isn’t great.
Super neat, will check it out, thanks!
> US considering purchasing Greenland

Trump considered this.

US and Danish governments were not seriously engaged to look at the possibility of such a purchase.
Ach, while I might agree with some of your sentiment, I can't help but feel it's unrealistic; yet I accept that attitude is part of the problem.
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There is no such thing as "defacto" legal tender. By definition only legal tender must be accepted as a form of payment - you can choose to accept something else but you don't have to.
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Serious question: Who is going to accept Kong as a valid form of payment? What incentive is there to accept Kong and what guarantees its value?

One of the biggest issues plaguing cryptocurrency as a transactional currency is the volatility of decentralized assets.

What problem is Kong fixing? “We made a physical crypto asset” isn’t connecting the dots for me.
Native support for WebAuthn and FIDO is finally here on iPhones and iPads
It's not unfounded.

It's a fact that (a) Chinese government is dictatorial and lacks any sort of independent oversight via judiciary or media, (b) Chinese governments are heavily intertwined with companies and (c) China has a recent history of unprecedented surveillance.
Slight topic derail, I recently handed a thinkpad to a person who had grown up using tablets and laptops with "modern" touchpad pointing devices.

It's my older thinkpad I keep around to ssh into things. They were completely and utterly surprised by the presence of the trackpoint and found it to be extremely unusual.
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Those are both pretty well-known and well-regarded sources in the community.

Unsurprisingly, knowledge is lost when moving to the mass media
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I think you have to travel outside the US for examples in the second paragraph. I immediately thought of Shinjuku.
Flood fill is one of those that's not ideal for GL so they are implemented with canvas 2d.
We built Stadia Maps to save you the trouble and the expense.

https://stadiamaps.com

Happy to answer any questions! (I’m a cofounder.)
> Alpine uses musl instead of glibc. That works well for most things, but not all things.

It works well until it doesn't. And screws up your whole deployment pipeline.
Yes; DAI is a bit of an odd one since it's largely just a more expensive dollar bill, but there definitely some cases where this could be interesting. ETH would easily work too.
Talk to most any climate scientist that has a decent to good overall grip on what is happening (including the actual actions of humanity to correct the issue), and they are (often) well past the “stark raving terrified” stage, and well into the “whelp, this is the end of modern civilization” stage.

Even the IPCC is quietly and unofficially gearing up for a major collapse in the global human population by 2050. And not a blip, either, but - by their _conservative_ estimates - a whopping 20+% _at minimum_.

Fear can motivate a lot of people. Massive changes in culture and in history have arisen out of mass (and often unjustified) fear. I say we _need_ this fear, and a lot more of it, too. We just need to impart it more accurately, and less bombastically (which is great for clicks and eyeballs, but often gives the wrong impression).
Is there a page on how to use it? Thanks for the link!
> Local governments are widely acknowledge by political scientists to be be lower quality than national governments

Since you're invoking authority here, I'm gonna say [Citation Needed].

> But if all the local governments are, e.g., setting high minimum plot sizes, this is not them responding nimbly to local details; it's just a way to keep out poor people.

Or, it could be as simple as a locality copying what seems to have been successful in other nearby localities, with not enough people speaking up with compelling evidence to the contrary.

Believe it or not, not everything bad that happens to poor people happens out of malice directed their way. Sometimes, bad shit happens to poor people, because, being poor, attempting to change conditions to make less bad shit happen would further strain their already stretched-to-the-limit resources. And there's one resource that anyone who wants to participate in local policy making must spend without exception, one which those struggling to make ends meet will tend to have the least of: Time.

There is no Machiavellian mustache-twisting involved in keeping the poor out; the poor never show up to give their input on the policies that might adversely affect them. It's kinda hard to even know about the 90 day advance notice postings in town hall when you're working 2.5 jobs to keep food on the table and the heat on during the coldest winter months so you don't freeze, and the public bus routes you rely on don't even go near city hall. Never mind having the time to think about the Nth order effects of such proposed policies to figure out if they'd adversely affect you, or then getting down to city hall for the planning meeting to give the council or committee your 2 cents. I mean, some localities are better than others about giving all of their local socioeconomic strata sufficient advance notice and a fair chance to provide input, but there's a limit to what's reasonable. Eventually, time for input and comment will have to be ended so a decision can be made, otherwise nothing would ever get done.

If the above sounds sucky and unfair, well, you're right. It does suck and it is unfair. But if you want the conditions of the poor to suck less and become more fair, you're going to have a hard time being effective if you are too quick to ascribe results to malice.
> I wonder what happens if you fine-tune more layers

Generally it improves some, but most of the gains are in the final layer retraining.

But it's a lot more data hungry.

> They do something like this, in section 4.3 by splitting ObjectNet in half.... here's still a gap, but it can be plausibly argued that the gap would close up if we scaled things up by one or two orders of magnitude

This is interesting. It's worth noting that this training is on only 64 images per class, and it is unclear if they augment this in anyway.

Before retraining, the paper itself notes:

Classes such as plunger, safety pin and drill have 60-80% accuracy, while French press, pitcher, and plate have accuracies under 5%

It is worth noting that the plunger, safety pin and drill classes are ones that have multiple orientations already in ImageNet, while French press, pitcher, and plate are almost all the "right" way up.

To me this indicates this is simply a data problem - the model has never seen what an upside-down French press looks like so it gets it wrong.
The employment of children as tools of propaganda is a fresh low. Yet I suspect that the 'ends justify the means' types as regards Saint Greta would be screaming blue murder about the amorality of it all if children were being used in support of a cause they disagreed with.
Find someone that looks like they do repetitive work a lot and sell them on reducing their workload through automation.
Ted Wheeler... mayor of portland
He is awful: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/10/travesty-...
"Isn't it time to consider writing a new Constitution then?"

The Bill of Rights would never pass today. It's too radical.

So, no thanks. I'll keep the scraps of the Constitution that I can hang onto rather than subjecting it to whatever our modern political system comes up with.

The Constitution was built on solid philosophical ground, truly advancing the state of the art for governments and freedom. It was written and ratified by people who risked everything for what they believed, and they had the humility and restraint to do a good job. And they actually relinquished their own power for the greater good.

I'm not betting on that happening again today.
And yet friction alone wouldn't do it, either. Consider balloons.

Same goes for everything underwater. Which follows from viewing air as a medium you are traveling through.

Are there bad teachers that need to more honestly cover some of the assumptions? Yes. They are a useful tool, though.
What do you do when you need to debug an issue and the container contains no utils?

I expect someone will leave a comment saying "But you shouldn't be entering containers, you should be using Ansible/Kubernetes". Yes, that is how I manage changes but sometimes you just have to log in and see what is going on with htop/etc
Fair enough. My point however is that risk taking is common in all walks of life. A facebook worker who accepts a $5k bribe doesn't think he's going to get caught and the cyclist thinks he won't hit his head.
I can't tell you if learning CS concepts will pay off. But I can guarantee you it will benefit you more than spending 3-4 hours on HN or r/dankmemes.
Maybe silver? I mean even a tiny 1/10 oz gold coin is worth $140
My brother and I got on a sleeper bus in China. I'm 6'3, he's 6'9. Everyone saw us look wide-eyed at the small beds and they cracked up laughing. We got swapped to the wider 4-5-wide bed at the very back. Phew!
Marking a safety code as trusted in signal is not different in any way to adding a self-signed TLS certificate to the trust store on your computer. You can perform exactly the same out of band verification of the self-signed cert. Signal does not have a single feature that verifies the identity of your contacts, they don’t pretend to have such a feature, and frankly I’d say it’s dangerous to assert that they do. How you do that is 100% your own problem to solve. The only thing it does is provide you with a trust store to use to keep track of which contacts you have personally decided to trust.
I live in one currently in Los Angeles and it's amazing. One of the best living situations I've had in a long time. I get to have a semi-private yard without the huge additional cost.
Why would I want to do that? I don't want to bother anyone. And I don't know how to automate shit, either. I just want normal, boring work to do.
Whether it’s a light or not, the end of the tunnel is in sight, it’s the ads becoming the content.
Sorry, but (at best) this is pure pedantry.

Literally every bank in the UK will accept Scottish bank notes - if that's not a defacto legal tender, I don't know what is.
Ask HN: How do you document your code at work?
This has been different at literally every company I've worked at, and it's never been good.

Specifically curious about how internal technical/code/product documentation is written and maintained.

If you like the internal documentation at your company: what's so great about it?
Am I the only one that finds it weird that a document like this, that basically shouldn't care about layout, and is very unlikely to be printed by anyone (except maybe the author himself), would be distributed as a .pdf?
I think you meant increase the volume.
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> as long as data are suitably anonymized

Pretty sure I read some articles that claimed that de-anonymization is pretty easy.
Cliff Mass _is_ a prominent climate scientist, in case you didn't know.