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Do you have an argument other than that I've called bad things bad? Rent seeking is discouraged in economic policy for a reason (a reason I mentioned above), not because economists dislike how the word "rent" sounds or some other arbitrary reason.

> It's untenable

It's quite tenable.
> The back button is a different height than the search bar

If you right click the top bar, click Customize, click the "Density" menu on the bottom, and use "Compact", the back button is the same height.
I'm refering to not being able to rely on encryption in the long term.
While it might seem like a nitpick - they're not equal IMO. Putting a 13" MBA next to the T470 (I actually own one, funny enough - A1369) is not remotely the same end user experience. Also, Macbook Air is not in the same target market as Macbook Pro. What I'd ideally want is a compact machine with tech specs that align with the MBP line. CPU and RAM that the Air line will never see. I will agree that the keyboard on the MBA was pretty good. Apple truly messed that up.

In my T470 I have 32GB of RAM (user upgradeable) a dual core i7 @ 2.8GHz and an M.2 NVME slot which leaves me the flexibility for upgrade beyond the 500GB drive I bought it with. As it stands right now it's also got an open slot for a 2.5" SATA drive as well. It also has two batteries - a 3 cell 24Wh internal battery (field replaceable) and a 6 cell 72Wh external swappable battery. My one gripe is it only has one USB-C (it is Thunderbolt). I bought it in 2017 and it's still like brand new. Keyboard is still fantastic, screen hinge shows no sign of failing, I've never used a case to protect it and it continues to take a daily beating. If something fails, it's likely I can buy the parts and replace them with little to no fanfare. Honestly, if Apple sold something like this - it would sell like crazy. Lenovo now even supports Linux like a (mostly) first class citizen with regard to firmware and drivers.

For fun I just measured both and was looking at the screens side by side - the T470 has a bit more width, which is probably what I like since I do a lot of side by side comparison, and the additional pixels on the screen are at just the right scaling for how I like to work (which is probably why the higher resolution MBP I have feels jarring when switching).

For reference - what I measured...
MBA: 11 5/16w x 7 1/8h (13.3" diag)
T470: 12 3/16w x 6 7/8h (14" diag)
Its not so much as zero-sum but essentially schizophrenic.

On one side we have a culture of extreme sexual liberation, with the media, hookup culture, and the porn industry, and on the other side we have the yes-means-yes, firings for touching a women's back (Garrison Keillor), special legal proceedings for sexual assault accusers, ect.

How is anyone supposed to navigate a culture as complex as this?
I know, I just don't feel we should stick with this process in modern times.
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As someone with a seminary background, this hits too close to home

"Cusins. Excuse me: is there any place in your religion for honor, justice, truth, love, mercy and so forth?

Undershaft. Yes: they are the graces and luxuries of a rich, strong, and safe life."
All of these are using Bing results, right?
Just reading up on it now. Seems interesting, might give it a shot next time.
Off-topic for HN, but disgusting that any "leader" would ever recommend such.
I worked in the nuclear power in the past. The massive volumes of red tape involved is not conjecture, I experienced it firsthand. Activists will stonewall any new construction, full stop, and the NRC requirements for existing plants only go up over time.
Except 401(k)s are crazy underfunded: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-average-401k-s... (look at the median)
> SHA-1 has been broken for 15 years, so there is no good reason to use this hash function in modern security software.

Why are cryptographers always exaggerating things and so out of touch with reality? The first actual collision was like 3 years ago. It's not like the world has been on fire in the meantime, and it's not like SHA-1 is broken for every single possible usage even now. And why the nonsense with "no good reason"? Obviously performance is one significant consideration for the unbroken use cases. Do they think painting a different reality than the one we live in somehow makes their case more compelling?
Some of this work was even funded by DARPA...
they'll just bomb sites with innocent human beings instead. phew, i was worried for a second they'd commit war crimes!
I've been saying for awhile that we need to work against the stigma of crying. Sure, sobbing because your idea isn't chosen at the office probably isn't going to get you anywhere but that's not what I'm talking about. When we're sad, we should allow ourselves and each other the space to be sad and if that means crying then we should do so.

Replace "crying" with "pooping" and see how senseless the stigma becomes. You don't need to do it in public but only bad things happen when you try to prevent it. It's a perfectly normal physiological process.

What makes the stigma even more odd is that we accept it when we see a strong male character crying in a movie or on TV. On the surface it was absurd when Tom Hanks was crying over losing "Wilson" yet we understood it, and related to it. In his isolation-induced mental state, he had lost a loved one. There was no shame in that. Would we think the same if our co-worker choked up when describing how his cat had just died?
I do wonder how much could be saved on energy bills for one of the most common uses of the net (watching videos), especially for folk in developing nations.
Tapping the solar system’s resources would be better than building new ICBMs
A Victim’s Account Fuels a Reckoning over Abuse of Children in France
That this is even a thing that needs to be said is a ghastly reflection of where we are as a species and a country.
The thing is that pensions aren't magic money trees. They're invested in the market just like anything else. So if there's a major economic decline close to your retirement, they may well become insolvent. Maybe they'll be bailed out (with basically other people's money) or maybe they won't be. (Pensions also don't really protect you if inflation spikes.)

Individual investors do have the option of investing in things like treasuries and annuities. Of course, in an economic collapse, all bets are off. But if you're willing to put up with low returns (maybe 3%), you can invest your money pretty safely.
I don't know how related this is to the article, but your point is true. As an example: it's been posited that a portion of the gender wage gap is due to the average height difference between men and women. Why? Because there's also a "height wage gap" between tall and short men, to the tune of thousands of dollars a year comparing either side of 1SD from the the mean. By not taking wage gaps seriously (because they're largely spoken of in terms of gender and race), short men are robbing themselves of a payday, and tall men lose out on the social stability that more equitable pay would bring.

Inequity doesn't just affect any particular group; its mere existence changes the way we think about what's fair and tolerable.
That's perfect. I'm glad you're not going through a centralized server. My email is at the bottom of my about page: zeph.co/about

About Dribbble – a Pro plan might help you get featured more often, but I'm not sure. I think it's basically a numbers game.
They won't be wasting CO2, they will be replenishing it.
People who misunderstand feminism tend not to realize or understand all of the ways patriarchy hurts men (this article showing a prime example).
At least in our case problem can be solved by re-encryption. Yes, we have to keep up to date with developments before everything is completely broken, but it is not bad as discovering a bridge needs to be rebuilt. Speaking of which, it is common to have to retrofit for earthquakes which probably wasn’t the rule when they built the original bridge
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That we already have many useful ideas doesn't seem like a particularly good reason to not continue looking for others, or just looking to see if anything interesting is going on in the world, like the majority of the public seemingly becoming more irrational as time progresses.

> The problem is that the people with really good ideas lack the power and influence to implement them.

I wonder if anything could be done about that. I guess it would require at least some new kinds of thinking and likely cooperation, so perhaps not.
Perhaps it spreads because that’s what workers want?

No one regrets working too little when they die, only that they didn’t spend more time with loved ones. The point of life is not to work.
The most prominent feature on that page is labelled with "become a member starting at $8/month".

It's reminiscent of an MLM page, and MLMs are arguably (hell, demonstrably) cult-like.
A few more details: The microcast channel of ykyz lets you record episodes of up to 90 seconds long, and automatically generates an iTunes compatible RSS feed from those episodes. Only episodes posted to the special microcast channel (https://ykyz.com/c/microcast/) are syndicated. Note you need to post a short introductory “Bleat” to c/intros before you can record microcast episodes.
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Ugh. That really is something you can't forget after learning about it.

I never knew the name of the band was that dark. For a dark band, there's a certain logic, but yeah... will definitely be using 'ridgeline' from now on.

Thanks for the info. Genuinely appreciated.
The GP was likely hinting at SHA1 being an hashing function, non an encryption function, so just applying sha* wouldn't produce a working backup
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Zen and Zen+ mobile chips had really crappy idle power usage, so they're not that suitable for ultraportables. It may change with this generation.
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I think intent is pretty important to the concept of "manipulation": you don't often hear the sun being accused of manipulating the weather, despite the overwhelming influence it has over it.
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There was a time when some people thought that it was just fine to use MD5 and SHA1. Yarrow-160, a random number generator devised by Kelsey, Schineier, and Ferguson, used SHA1.

Entropy tracking was used in the original versions of PGP because there were those people who had a very healthy (for that time) lack of confidence in "strong cryptographic algorithms" actually being strong.

As PBS Space Time once said, discussing Pilot Wave Theory and why it's considered unorthodox when compared to the Many Worlds interpretation of Quantuum Theory, "Orthrodoxy == Radicalism plus Time". There was a time when the Many Worlds interpretation was considered out there.

Similarly, there was a time when not trusting crypto algorithms as being Forever Strong was normal, and designing a network protocol like Wireguard without algorithm agility would have been considered highly radical. Today, trusting "strong cryptographic primitives" is considered an axiom. But remember that an axiom is something that you assume to be true and use as the basis of further proofs. Just as a Voodoo practitioner assumes that their belief system is true....
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How the Pentagon plan to control what crimes their thugs commit overseas, so far away from home?
Generally, yeah. I would take meat over a vegetable most of the time. I'm not in the minority either.
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Yep - Walmart the largest buyer of milk now owns their own farms and uses milk as a loss leader. Dean Foods former CEO was an alleged crook. Their packaging and advertising looks like it came out of the 1970s. Here we are in the Keto / Intermittent fasting era - and they failed to provide a cream. These folks gave up long ago. Expect a nice bounce back.
This is anecdotal, but I experienced a tectonic shift in both my personal success and happiness when I refocused my attention on the "eulogy" virtues. In my experience if you live those honestly the others fall into place rather organically.
This is probably a good reminder for everyone to ask how their customer data is backed up. Obvious your code is checked in to many git repos. Is your customer data on a server that automation can tamper with? If so, is a copy periodically written to a write-only destination that only a small number of people can manage, and then backed up to another location that a different group of people can manage? It probably also would not hurt to have a signed copy of a manifest that has checksums of all the files.
TBH I'm super happy to live in a world where someone is crying based on things unrelated to basic survival. I want to actively work to a world where everyone's lowest low point of life is something I would consider just a minor inconvenience.
The argument that Google deserves punishment because they didn't buy another company is not one I'm even remotely sympathetic to.

The entire industry would be worse off today if our legal policy on APIs was, "they're copyrighted, but don't worry, you can just buy out companies you want to interop with." Imagine how much smaller and how much more uninteresting the tech world would be.

Any company that wasn't the size of Google couldn't have bought Sun, and any company, even companies smaller than Google, should be free to interop with the Java APIs the same way that Google did. Discussions about whether or not Google could have bought Sun are meaningless to me, I don't think they have anything of value to add to the current case, and I don't think they have anything to do with Oracle buying Sun with the sole intention of suing someone else.

You're replying to a thread where someone complains about Google excessively filing patents as a defensive/offensive measure, and your argument is that Google should also be excessively buying companies as a defensive measure against lawsuits?
That must be a recent change.

$ ls -F /dev/*random*
/dev/arandom /dev/random /dev/srandom /dev/urandom
$
I've edited my parent comment to consistently use hyphens.

There are six SHA-2 family hash functions:

* SHA-224
* SHA-256
* SHA-384
* SHA-512
* SHA-512/224
* SHA-512/256

Hope that helps. (I know it's still confusing.)
The power differential is often not nearly as pronounced as you think (this definitely becomes much more noticeable as you become more senior).

Also, when I say that you should be talking about your concerns and being proactive, I mean that, with my manager, 1:1s revolve around topics like me expressing concern that, as upper management pushes for senior ICs to spend more time working on company-level (as opposed to team-level) work, the more junior members of the team are getting less support from me than they should, and we talk about how to manage that, by reprioritising hiring or by pushing back on some less-important initiatives. We talk about how much babysitting our intern will require over the next few weeks and who'll handle it, and about him asking for my opinion/advice on technical topics his other teams are dealing with that smell weird and he wants a second opinion, or me asking his opinion/advice on whether I'm striking the right balance between individual contributions and supporting others. That sort of thing.
Can at this point SoftBank Vision 1 fund chance to be even a modest success?

A lot of failures at late stage. Most of VCs can afford many failures as they invest early and one home run can make the fund, though investing late at high valuation limit the payoff.
> James Gosling leaves Oracle for reasons that were not quite clear at the time, but soon become clear.

Java Creator James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle (2010): https://www.eweek.com/development/java-creator-james-gosling...
In case anybody is curious about DH it is a cryptographic algorithm for key exchange: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie–Hellman_key_exchange

The basic idea is that public keys need to be exchanged to perform encryption from one end and decryption at another end. An example is encrypting with the remote users public key and they decrypt with their stored private key. It’s complicated though because you don’t want to exchange the public keys without restrictions where they can be obtained by unauthorized parties or disseminated without your consent. You also may not trust the distant end. That is why you have stuff like DH and key escrow.
Besides being coercive and wrong, this law is unenforceable when applied to work such as programming that can be done at home. If a 4-day workweek law were passed, it's likely that salaries would fall and that many people would do unpaid work on their day off.
I think GP was taking about the general nature of “previously assumed to be unbreakable” methods being broken. Not sure if he has implying using a checksum also for encryption
WOW... $300 mil to deliver pizza.

Also wasn't there a company on SV that PP bought that had a similar idea?
We distribute binaries of the compiler for a bunch of 32 bit targets. It will of course be slower on slower machines, but that’s just physics.

mrustc is "rust to C", though it's not quite ready for the general case yet. It's primarily for translating the compiler, to ease bootstrapping.
> There is no known and likely no feasible process to read all the "bits" out of /dev/random and tell me the resulting internal state

That's fine if you trust the PRNG. Linux used to at least attempt to provide a source of true randomness. You and Hendrikto are essentially asserting that everyone ought to accept the PRNG output in lieu of true randomness. Given various compromises in RNG primitives over the years, I'm not so sure it's a good idea to completely close off the true entropy estimation to userspace. I prefer punting that choice to applications, which can use urandom or random today at their choice.

Maybe everyone should be happy with the PRNG output. T'so goes further and argues, however, that if you provide any mechanism to block on entropy (even to root only), applications will block on it (due to a perception of superiority) and so the interface must be removed from the kernel. I see this change as an imposition of policy on userspace.
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This was very interesting to read. I wonder what it will teach us as time goes on.
Same here. But I think there are two levels to this. I often feel energized in challenging situations if I can go back to a secure life afterwards. Even if the situation is life threatening . But being fundamentally insecure as in serious long term health problems or being broke and not able to find a job or being homeless is just never ending misery without escape.
> 2. The adversary has unlimited computing power: in this case, you need hardware that can generate truly random bits and can only return randomness at the rate the hardware gives you the bits

What would you need those bits for in that case? Literally the only things that comes to my mind is generating one time pads, as standard cryptography is useless in such scenario.
I'm the same way, but what I've found is that as I've gotten more experienced I'm good enough that people remember me, and I've grown a network from that as a result.

I actually do my best to stay relatively anonymous online. I do things like use fake middle initials everywhere so if someone does google for my name specifically, if something pops up they may not realize it's me. I vastly prefer the relative anonymity of the internet.

To the point that I had a direct manager once tell me he couldn't find anything about me online, but I got hired due to the strength of my references. A VP was in the room at the time and she made a comment that was roughly "good, it means we'll keep him".

About 1-2 months after that this same VP told my direct manager to write me up over questions I asked to on an email chain to a department that was using the software I was working on. I had work w/i 3 days, put in my 2 week notice, and basically told them in no uncertain terms that they're not going to keep good talent treating them like that.

Just be really good at what you do, treat people well, and maintain the relationships you DO create.
> but 256 bits is already extremely strong

The strength of hashes like SHA-256 doesn't just come from the number of output bits.

The 256 bits there is relevant for brute force attacks, but not more sophisticated attacks that take into account the internal structure of the hash algorithm, and in some cases "weak" values.

SHA-512 performs more "rounds" of computation than SHA-256.

Although it's impossible to compare two different hashes on rounds alone, in general a large number of rounds of the same type of hash decreases the likelihood of non-brute-force attacks finding a collision.

If you look at the literature for attacks on hashes, they will often say they could do it for a certain number of rounds, and that number increases over time as new methods are discovered.

The number of rounds in the hash design is chosen with this in mind, trying to balance being more than sufficient for future attacks yet not too slow.
That GC a pretty big caveat! Combined with the fact that unreferenced objects are never pushed.

reflog is like undelete in filesystems, it's a probabilistic accident recovery mechanism for an individual computer (repo checkout in this case) that you can try to use if you don't have backups.
> I’ve heard that grocery stores sell milk for less than they buy it for just to get you into the store, because they know you will buy other things.

I wonder if this is why they always put it in the back of the store? That way you have to walk through a vast array of higher margin things that you might suddenly decide you need on the way to and from picking up a gallon of milk.
Git already has layers on top of it like git porcelain or the various GUI tools that attempt to handle things smoothly.

> significant time and energy

All someone needs is to read through https://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/, and learn a few commands.

Are we seriously going to refer to “reading the manual” as “significant time and energy”? In this case you don’t even have to read the manual, just a primer on how git works. You know, on how the tool that you’re using works. Why are people so allergic to spending even a modicum of time on learning a tool that massively simplifies their life and makes their work possible?

Do plumbers complain about having to read manuals for the equipment that they use? Electricians?

As programmers our tools are easier to learn and use, yet we complain about having to any work at all.

Why even be a programmer? If reading about git is so hard, what about the rest of the field that doesn’t even have documentation?

How about we don’t make tools that cater to the lowest common denominator, in this case people who basically can’t be assed to do anything? RTFM.
Big companies don't necessarily want to compete.

- they buy companies to augment their portfolio

- Google Cloud Partner Program is seeking companies to support first/last mile for software and products on their platform.
I completely agree. As silly as it sounds because it ended up being a false alarm I was in Hawaii during the ballistic missile scare. That sort of fear and then coming out on the other side, followed by having a kid 2 years later, has given me a totally different and much better perspective on life. I try and remember every day what really matters and it usually isn't what many of us usually give our time to.