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> Furthermore, many corporate systems do not integrate well with password managers, such as when first logging in to your system in the morning.

...are there any desktop OS's which do integrate well with password managers, for your login password?

By definition, you can't open the password manager until you've logged into the machine. So you'd need to open the password manager on a separate device.

The one exception I can think of is if you're using the password manager built into the system, like Apple's keychain, in which case your login password is basically also your master password. Unfortunately, you then lose the ability to access your passwords on any other company's platform...
Cyc has a few ways of dealing with fallibility.

Cyc doesn't do anything Bayesian like assigning specific probabilities to individual beliefs - IIRC they tried something like that and it had the problem where nobody felt very confident about attaching any particular precise number to priors and also the inference chains can be so long and involve so many assertions that anything less than 1 probability for most assertions would result in conclusions with very low confidence levels.

As to what they actually do, there are a few approaches.

I know that for one thing, there are coarse grained epistemic levels of belief built into the representation system - some predicates have "HighLikelihoodOf___" or "LowLikelihoodOf___" versions that enable very rough probabilistic reasoning that (it's argued - I have no position on this) is actually closer to the kind of folk-probabilistic thinking that humans actually do.

Also Cyc can use non-monotonic logic, which I think is relatively unique for commercial inference engines. I'm not going to give the best explanation here, but effectively, Cyc can assume that some assertions are "generally" true but may have certain exceptions, which makes it easy to express a lot of facts in a way that's similar to human reasoning. In general, mammals don't lay eggs. So you can assert that mammals don't lay eggs. But you can also assert that statement is non-monotonic and has exceptions (e.g. Platypuses).

Finally, and this isn't actually strictly about probabilistic reasoning, but helps represent different kinds of non-absolute reasoning: knowledge in Cyc is always contextualized. The knowledge base is divided up into "microtheories" of contexts where assertions are given to hold as if they're both true and relevant - very little is assumed to be always true across the board. This allows them to represent a lot of different topics, conflicting theories or even fictional worlds - there are various microtheories used for reasoning events in about popular media franchises, where the same laws of physics might not apply.
That makes sense, but that license surely wouldn’t include independent artists that do not have a publisher. Then again, independent artists most likely do not have the means to take legal action, or at least the outcome wouldn’t justify the expense, so I suppose that point is moot.
Ah, that explains some of the odd posts from you I’ve seen recently. Must be the “other guy” :)
How can you validate that it was properly signed without comparing it to the entity's public key?
So, is this suggesting that humans, as an animal species, are basically "engineered" by evolution to have a 38-year flat part of their MTBF bathtub-curve?

Where I mean "engineered" in the sense that evolution only can only really steer toward adaptive fitness of an organism up until a certain point in its lifetime, that being the point when the organism has done all the breeding they're going to do. Past that point, most things the organism does won't impact the evolutionary cohort of its species, so, turning that around, there will be no adaptations in its genome to help it survive past that point (since, where would they be sourced from?)

That time coming at 38 years for humans would explain a lot, I think. (It makes sense; that's about the oldest average age that humans are willing to continue to have children at.)
All that DNA info you voluntarily mailed in is one subpoena away from government's hands. Probably already is in their hands.
If I make content publicly available on my website, should you be able to scrape it wholesale, AND commercialize it, AND tell me to piss off when I raise a complaint?

If so, why?
For the first watermark mechanism, it's described in the complaint in paragraph #60:

> This watermark (“Watermark #1”) involved replacing the apostrophes in a selection of newly released songs with a distinctive pattern of curly (’) and straight apostrophes (').6 Genius set the 2nd, 5th, 13th, 14th, 16th and 20th apostrophes of each watermarked song as curly apostrophes, and all the other apostrophes straight. If the straight apostrophes are interpreted as dots and the curly apostrophes are interpreted as dashes, the pattern spells out “REDHANDED” in Morse code, as shown below. Genius designed Watermark #1 to be woven into the text of the lyrics of the watermarked songs so that, if the apostrophe pattern were to be found outside of Genius’s website, there would be no explanation other than that the lyrics were copied from Genius’s website, e.g., by using the copy/paste functionality or a computer program.
This supply-side opacity is definitely a problem. There seems to be a corresponding demand-side problem, that clients often don't know quite what they want. If there was an easy way of generating hard tests with clear-cut answers, maybe there would be an easy way for a winner to distinguish themselves.
> you are an academian in an ivory tower, and have no connection to your users in the real world

Quite the opposite, actually. My responsibility is to my users. And that responsibility is to keep the software as stable as possible. So the only time I will consider upgrading my dependencies is when reliability requires it. If libfoo fixes some critical bug that affects my project, yes, maybe I should upgrade (although I am running the risk of introducing other regressions). If libfoo authors officially pronounce end of life for the version of libfoo I am using, maybe I should consider upgrading, even though it is safer to fork libfoo and maintain the well tested version myself. But it is irresponsible to introduce risk simply to keep up with the version drift. So if my project is used for anything important, I should strive to never upgrade anything unless I absolutely must.
while I had some idea of what some of my rare cd's were when I started to liquidate my own collection, I was quite surprised by how many I didn't expect to be rare actually were. so, I'm not sure how many people who were willing to send off their cd's themselves would do the due diligence to find out the rareness of their own collection.
If they quit but keep quiet about suspected criminal activity or negligence then at least in my country they could still be prosecuted.
Option 1 doesn't do a good job of aligning incentives because you are taking a small percentage of a small percentage. The article says Wealthfront charges 0.25%. Let's use 5% as the difference between a good and bad investment (this is an arbitrary but I believe realistic number). This means the difference between Wealthfront doing a good job and a bad job for the customer is the equivalent of them increasing their fee 0.0125%. That is a $1.25 increase per $10,000 invested. So what is the better bath to increase profits, doing a fantastic job of investing, which likely comes with increased expenses, or increase your fee some tiny percentage that will almost surely go unnoticed by the customer?

Option 2 is moot for the authors example since they suggest these companies manage everything and therefore a customer can't give the advisor more to manage.
Right but the end result of competition is that one company wins and eats the other, or they divide the market geographically, either way you end up back in the same place.
If you could find that, I would absolutely love to see it. Doug is my favorite stand up and that sounds hysterical.
And quite possibly -told- LyricFind about the watermarking method Genius was using so that LyricFind could strip it and continue unabated.
The search term you are looking for is Shannon Entropy [0]. That should set you in the right direction.

Put in layman terms - your best possible entropy is a case where every allowed character appears with roughly the same chance (i.e. there is no super common or super rare characters). The most extreme low entropy case is where only one character appears all the time so the password is completely predictable if you know how long it is.

I would recommend you run two tests. One with the same video over and over video and one with 5 or so videos filmed under similar conditions to measure how much of the randomness actually comes from different videos vs. your algorithm. For your videos genererate 100k+ passwords and count the number of times each character appears to get the probability of each character. Then use what you learned about Shannon Entropy (using the probability of each letter) to determine how much entropy your passwords have.

[0] https://planetcalc.com/2476/
He launched the Macbook Air gen2. It was arguably the world's best laptop for a few years, at a very low cost (was it $899 or $999 at the base config cost?). This was around 2010-2012 or so.

College kids were using the exact same SKU as highly-paid developers or execs. I loved that. During these years, you literally couldn't buy a better compact laptop just by paying more.

Also: the low cost allowed us to treat them with less reverence. I went through 2-3 of them over 5 years or so. Nowadays I really hate feeling like like I need to protect that MBP as jewel.

A $1k hit never really felt that bad. A $3k hit feels bad.
Maybe because there’s a comic strip character with a similar name.
> It's surprising to me that there is still no iTunes-like service that just sells CD-quality audio.

Isn't that Tidal's thing?
Once upon a time I worked on a mobile app that was to be used by the VA to help with the management of medical trainees. I thought it was routine stuff (time logging, policy directories, etc)...

They actually wanted a system that would do that stuff too, but behind the scenes it would track the location of each user down to the room they were in. The administrators were suspicious that residents/trainees were sneaking off premises to "work from Starbucks" and they wanted ammunition to use against the sponsoring institutions to revoke payments (which go to resident salaries)... They weren't the slightest bit worried about the legal, moral, or safety implications. It never crossed their minds at all. (They never got what they wanted, at least not from me.)
It's true that infant mortality has decreased faster than other mortality in the past century. Even people who survived past infancy had significantly higher mortality rates at the beginning of the 20th century, though.

See "Table 6 - Period Life Tables for the Social Security Area by Calendar Year and Sex" for detailed information from the United States:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_studies/study120.pdf

In the table series for 1900, male life expectancy at birth was 46.4 years and female life expectancy was 49 years. For the survivors of infant mortality, additional life expectancy at age 6 was 53.2 years and 54.3 years respectively. Most children could not expect to reach their 60th birthday even if they had survived infancy.

At age 18, remaining life expectancy was 41.7 and 42.9 years, for total expected age at death of 59.7 and 60.9 years respectively; weighted by sex distribution at age 18, these young adults had an average life expectancy of 60.3 years.
I'm not saying it's not scientifically answerable, just that hiring people specifically to answer it is not practical.

This type of thing usually comes through unplanned breakthroughs. You can't discover that the earth revolves around the sun just by paying tons of money to researchers and asking them to figure out astronomy. All that would get you would be some extremely sophisticated Copernican cycle-based models.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-08-09
> Free speech means unlimited freedom to lie, right?

This has never been, and will never be true. Free speech has always had legal limitations. It’s illegal to defame someone, for example.

Who really wants to live in a world where it’s so much easier and effective to lie than to tell the truth? Where the burden of seeking the truth becomes finding a needle in a haystack, do you want to live in that world?

History has shown us when societies fail to recognize the truth, and it has only ever brought death and destruction.

If the freedom to spread lies far and wide without repercussions overpowers our society’s ability to function, we’re in for some deep trouble.
Some inteersting things that stood out for me:

* For Sony, catalog provides 50% of the revenue and 200% of the profits of recorded music

* more than 50,000 pieces of artwork are stolen each year, amounting to annual losses of around $6 to $8 billion globally

* The self storage industry is growing fast, and has grown into a $38 billion industry

* Gail.com It gets 5,000 views a day and millions of emails because people mistype Gmail.com.
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Because the VC money, the board is tied. In the end that's the way with all the SV startups that gives them insane advantage. Too many vested interests.
for the original

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...
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Here is an example within the world of chess:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess#Strategy_and_tactics

They are very well understood and delineated within that context.
We call this the plus one rule at work.

I kid you not, those of us subject to rolling our passwords do just that. Add one. One system had a restriction of not the same password within 32 changes so inventive users were simply do that in one try until changes got limited to once per 24 hours
Some probably find it to be an interesting challenge.
Presumably not every integration requires browser automation, so they might not all be going at once. But they have a $25k monthly EC2 bill, so it's not out of the ballpark.

FWIW, I reliably have 6 puppeteer/chrome instances (headful, even) going on a single box and it's not even at half capacity.
There is something called "Here maps" that's a pretty good alternative to Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Bing Maps for mobile phones. Obviously that's not what Nukemap is talking about, but for those who are frustrated with the shortcomings of those 3 apps, "Here WeGo" is a free Android/iOS app. It was developed by Nokia and then sold off.

I like it because I can download an entire state with just a few clicks. And the UI isn't cluttered by "explore your neighborhood" nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_WeGo
After donating (wrong order, perhaps :-) ) I was wondering where my money would actually go to. On the website, they give no figures or statistics, which I find weird. How much does running the site actually cost and how much is spent on development of new features? I have not been able to find that among the documentation. All it says[1] about the goal of your donation is:

- Preserving and storing websites

- Projects like archiving floppy disks and the Decentralized Web Summit

- 150 staff members

But how much goes where is unknown. It's even unknown how many employees are essential for running and maintaining the archive (sysadmins, developers, administrative) and how many do other useful things.

So instead I turned to the only other public sources, as linked above. What I find there is that:

- Of an $18M budget

- $10M goes to salaries (11 volunteers, thus 10e6/(150-11)=72k gross on average, almost twice what I earn on my own and what I consider quite luxurious for a two-person household where both work)

- The top ten people make 1.5 million (so 150k gross on average)

- 6.5 million "expenses", of which a few million for scanning, 1.5 million for "computer expenses" of which only 500k is actual hardware (the rest is shipping, administrative, and other).

Are these good stats? It seems odd to me that more than half the income ends up in the pockets of employees, though I'm no guru on what a typical non-profit's margins are. I would like some insight.

I'm just picking a few things out that seem like the largest expenses, I'm not saying the money is all wasted (far from it!). I've donated in the past and plan to do so again. At the same time, I would be curious to hear from someone who knows more about this topic (for non-profits in general, though IA-specific info is also welcome).

[1] https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360002082351-Wher...
Unfortunately it never works out the way you hope it will, once the VC money shows up. ROI will become even more of a pattern for everything, which means you burn the existing platform to dust.

Or you hire a team of actual engineers to turn the PoC into an actual product.

My judgment tells me the management at Plaid doesn't know how to tell the difference, so it's sort of a determined outcome.
That it's relatively easy to do makes it more likely nation states are getting involved, not less.
Hard to not come away from this article with a sense that the FBI and other law enforcement organizations are simply incapable and unwilling to do their jobs.

For example, this sentence: "The FBI has a mandate to pursue only those crimes that violate a federal statute." Sorry, but how can a crime over the Internet like this NOT violate federal statutes? It's impossible. By definition all these crimes would be pursued at the federal level.

Then there's the description of the interview where they interviewed the husband and wife together despite the husband being the main suspect. That's like pulling the plug on your server and wondering why the website's down. Beyond incredibly stupid to the point where it's hard to believe that actually happened. Those agents should themselves be charged for facilitating that murder.

I won't bother to go into the failing of allowing the identification of the British guy who placed the hit either by not allowing his ex-gf to read his messages. How dumb are these fucking cops?

The whole piece reads like a story of police, FBI, and law enforcement failings at every level. It's practically guaranteed that hits are taking place online and this is law enforcement's response? Making things worse or at the very best, fucking up investigations with their extreme stupidity.
A lot questions about cost, but nobody is talking about speed. They said the frame was both fabricated and erected in 24 hours. That's a big one-up on prefab.
> why do you need stateless auth tokens?

So you aren't hitting some validation server on every HTTP request to validate a token. Said validation server adds a very nasty point of failure & potential for page latency.

Going mostly stateless via JWT lets you balance the desire for fast token revocation times and load on your auth server. Even if your revocation time is a minute, meaning your clients need to refresh their token once every sixty seconds, that can still substantially lighten the load on your auth server. High security stuff can always validate the token on every request but stuff that doesn't matter as much can have a much more policy.
That shouldn’t cause the child to re-render?
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You're right it's debunked, but even if you take survival rate at age 15 in the Paleolithic era life expectancy was 54 [1]. There were some aristocratic populations that last over 64 at age 21 [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
We give the police a monopoly on violence to fulfill its goal of to protect and serve. While there exists potential for misuse, this does not justify taking away that monopoly.

I am further under the impression that way more checks and balances are in place to make sure that government surveillance does not overstep its boundaries, where businesses don't really care, especially if the profit justifies the fines or stricter regulation.

Government surveillance is not a problem, it is a solution, and it helps save lives. Facebook tracking me without a profile and knowing that I am gay or religious is a problem, because the judge/courts is a room of unethical engineers drinking Red Bull.
> Bloomberg knew he would enter the race long before he announced.

Did he though?

Michael Bloomberg says he will not run for president in 2020

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-bloomberg-2020-bloomber...
Because the lyrics are not copyrighted by you, they are copyrighted by the Artist, whom Google and LyricsFind have a contract with to give them permission to use those lyrics?
If you haven't seen the advances made to the program in the last 20 years, I'd highly recommend looking up some youtube/twitch videos of gameplay from the 2019 season. A lot has changed!
By and large business magazines have always been nothing but puff pieces. Those cover-story interviews with execs are always puffery in the hope of getting "access" in future and of course advertising.

These fake sites simply cut out the middleman.

The Economist has been one of the rare exceptions, though it's not really a business magazine...and has a regular profile page that is indeed the same sort of puff piece.
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I say "possible" because our system observability was less mature even 12 months ago. Firefighting 10 different root causes of memory or event loop issues without the right tooling in place would be a nightmare. That's why we did a deep dive into the tooling that we considered to be a prerequisite for this project – hopefully it's helpful for others in our situation.

Different companies make different decisions when weighing ROI against architecture concerns. We're heavy on pragmatism and impact at Plaid, so it's quite intentional that we don't fall all the way on the latter end of the spectrum. I appreciate the discussion in the comments as to how effectively we are balancing these two concerns – certainly this is an area where reasonable people can disagree.
AT&T: "We don't want these plans included because they're obsolete and they're not the ones we are actively marketing".

Also AT&T: "But we are absolutely selling them, obsolete or not, and signing up new customers in areas where that's their option, because we've decided it's not viable to upgrade them. We just don't want them counted."