skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but, under what pretext would you torture someone who has complied with all of your requests?

~"Do you have any encrypted data we can't see?"

"Yes. The entire drive is encrypted"

~"What is the key?"

"iloveapplesauce6969"

~"Well, that worked and I see your data here. What a lovely family.. is that Disney world?"

"Yes it was Timmy's 5th birthday"

~"I'm going to waterboard you"
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To me that's twisted logic.

"I don't want to have to trust my cloud provider."

"Ok, we'll absolutely pinky-swear by this API you can access that our machines are running a trusted setup."

"Ok! I'll just trust the API you provide."

Even if the API is an x86 instruction, even if you do timing checks and side-channel checks in your code, you're still just in an arms race with your cloud provider while they hold all the power.
Yep, we gotta do what we can starting with where we're at.
> I want to be able to secure my computer (an ATM, say) against people with physical access to it. A root of trust (that the original purchaser of the device controls) allows for that.

Unless you're running something like a Raptor Talos II, You don't really have the root of trust. You have a branch off of the manufacturer's root.

That may be better for some enterprises, but in this modern age is that really enough? Consider how the PLA was involved in the hacking of Experian/Equifax.

Until you can review the code yourself and verify the binaries, you don't really have the root of trust. Someone else does. (I'm barring other types of shenanigans here, but it's the next logical step.)
Ah great, this has controls (pause!) :-).
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5pm 344/1401. 3,012/52,045

China not updating numbers

Very high death/recovery ratio outside of China
No it won’t, the title asked a question, it didn’t make a matter-of-fact statement.

If you aren’t personally offended by the term, i would argue that it’s unproductive to claim that someone somewhere else under different conditions would get offended.

And besides - we’re talking about a technological standard, not someone’s grandmother. On my give-a-fuck scale, a person being offended by their favourite technology standard being called “dead” is somewhere between a rat’s ass and Donald trump’s morning dump.
But there is no such thing as "permanent UBI", though.

UBI is a political decision which is renewed with every government.

The perspective of the participants makes sense. Whether they believe their access to UBI will continue or not, it makes sense to up-skill.

Besides, we do know how people behave when they are born with a million dollar bank account, and it's relatively very rare that they are criticised for how they choose to live.
And in a monarchy, businesses exist at the behest of a writ from the monarch saying they can. That doesn't mean that the business doesn't "own" stuff. It just means that the king can capriciously revoke their asset-ownership, in much the same way that a tornado can capriciously revoke their building. It's a rare natural disaster that you insure against.
Like I said, I cannot merge because we cannot push from our computer to Github(It's locked).

The only way to get code into branch is by doing a PR, and click merge button on Github UI. But a PR cannot be merged twice.

And If I open two PRs two master/develop then I will see this kind of error on Github: "This branch is 1 commit behind. 1 commit ahead of develop"
I like BMW, but I’ve always hated their logo. It’s ugly and looks terrible on a car. This new logo is even worse.
It'd be interesting to hear about some example integrations / extensions / thins people might create in the future?

E.g. a Disqus alternative? Or maybe an Excel spreadsheet (sort of embedded in the main page?) ?

(PS. Minor: This image is 3.8 MB, took a while to load: https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/011fa185757dd5ea3e9e9f... — if it's smaller, the whole page will look faster, giving a better impression of the website & integration software.)
How to Hack Your Brain with Sound
I don't know, where's the list of people who are healthy without disease-causing bacteria? (Have you washed your hands today?)
A kernel would not be something that you would run in a trusted enclave. It's way too big of a surface area (containing your entire operating system and application layer, after all), so what would be the point of attesting that to anyone?

This is the "old" way of using a TPM, and I agree, it does not make sense at all. After all, it never came to be, and that's not only because of the vocal protests against it. It simply does not make sense!

But I would encourage you to read up on how, for example, the Signal foundation is thinking about using something like SGX.
That's tragic--but let's keep it in context. It happened before WWII. Some of these young boys were wearing shorts and sandals (without hats) in a blizzard, climbing up a mountain slope with a 70% gradient (black diamond ski slopes start at 40%), without any sort of topological or detailed map, no lights, no ability to communicate with the outside world and one adult to supervise 27 students. I can't imagine any of those things are true for Gumby's trip.
Education does not equate to a successful job. I know a few career students that acquire one useless degree after another because every time they try to get a job they find no one is hiring.
Sidecar Containers
I think parent was saying the projects using IPFS are relatively unknown, so where are the millions come from?

I have the same question.

In contrast, GUN, has 20M+ downloads/month from known sources: Internet Archive, HackerNoon, etc. (https://github.com/amark/gun see jsdelivr download stats).
Them: "You're still hiding something"

You: "This was everything!"

Them: "We don't believe you" -rubber hose-

You: "Stop it! I planned to blow up the world trade center!"

Them: "We knew you were a liar."

To themselves: "Wow, torture works."

Rinse, repeat.
Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections (2008)
Facebook cannot "get a warrant", only law enforcement officials can do that.
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They way null strings are dealt with under default functions and operators has been a huge industrial mistake. It creates code bloat and mistakes that otherwise would be rare. Oracle mostly got it right.

And in general, "x <> 5" should be "true" if x is null, and not return null.

The justifications are mostly theoretical, not practical. I'd rather have 10 bugs from misuse of theory than 100 from real world. Theorists seem to magnify the "sin" value of theory-related bugs compared to actual bugs. I count them the SAME, and under that scoring formula, we are doing it wrong.
I would agree if I worked at company where a majority of the users saw all of the above as a problem. In my experience (three tech companies with a 4 to 10 times larger non-tech crowd) people who care about asynchronous written communication just leave or ignore the noisy groups and their concern are ignored.

Once CEO stormed our open space and yelled at the entire tech team for having muted the main channel. We’ve had to make a presentation to the whole company about why. That was kind of an eye-opening moment.

> Encouraging limited usage of @channel and @here (only use when very important)

I’ve through about it slightly differently:

* use those only if everyone or a majority of people in the channel will need to change their day-to-day habits because of what you are saying (say, the channel is about an internal tool and that tool is undergoing maintenance);

* do not use those if you are asking for help and want the attention of one person in the group (specific or not); people who have the time will answer. If you use those too often, people who can help you will ignore the channel.

We’ve had to implement a bot in a key internal chanel that, unless you were an admin/support team, would remind people of those rules. We also displayed a ratio of who among the support group had chosen to ignore those signals to convey the point.
No, that's not what I meant and I apologize if it came across that way. What I meant was, it's easy to think of an idealized world where a everything has test suites with 100% branch coverage, complete e2e tests, automated screenshot tests of the UI, etc. But, in the real world, that most often isn't true. I've been on a lot of teams. Lots of legacy code has no automated tests at all. Lots of modern code has decent unit test coverage, but nothing for the UI.

These are cases necessitating a manual testing step before releasing to prod, and manual testing will often uncover bugs that need fixed. Thus, you need to be able to fix these and continue testing, all the while having as little impact as possible on other Devs working on things unrelated to this release.

Having either a single long-lived release/QA branch or shorter-lived release-specific branches accomplishes this in a reasonably simple way.

That's what I meant by real-world software development. If you work at a shop with an amazing test suite and don't need these steps, good for you. But, in my 15 years of development, I've never seen a shop like that.
A lawsuit is exactly that process.
Well, I used RSS to find this comment....
we tend to say that your value is what you earn

People who say that aren’t expressing a basic understanding of economics: the reason people have jobs is so that employers can capture the surplus value produced by their workers.

Stay at home parents produce incredible surplus value. It’s just not captured by an employer, it’s captured by the children. That’s the reason we don’t pay them: children don’t have any money to pay their parents.

It’s also why I think a lot of people get offended when the topic of parenting is brought up as unpaid labour. Money is a vulgar thing. If you were enjoying a delicious meal at your in-laws’ house and at the end you said “that was wonderful” and handed your mother-in-law a twenty dollar bill, you would really offend her.

Anyway, instead of paying the parents for raising their kids, we pay the kids when they get old enough to work. If we were to start paying parents for the contributions their kids make to society, wouldn’t we have to pay the kids less? Don’t young people have it hard enough as it is right now?

The real reason people are struggling now is because the cost of housing, education, and medical care have gone through the roof. It used to be that a single-earner household, with the husband working in a factory and the wife at home with 4 kids, could support a nice house in the suburbs with two cars in the garage and a white picket fence. Now we’ve got both parents with university degrees working white-collar jobs and they can barely afford to raise 2 kids.

If we want to help new parents, we should find ways to make housing, education, and medical care affordable.
Is the issue with staying on an old version security, or lack of new features?

Because if it's just features, then maybe the features actually aren't worth the cost of an upgrade, if no one feels incentivized to do so.

Your anecdote about Jira tooling feels like the company not doing adequate research before hiring a time. (In other words, they should have considered all options—what is the cost of upgrading versus building tooling?)
You don't trust the cloud provider, you trust the hardware vendor. They are the root of trust in this scenario.

Of course, if that trust, due to malice or implementation defects, is misplaced, you're not better (but also not worse) off than without something like SGX.
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I absolutely agree. I naturally wake up at 9:30am. And go to sleep at 1:30am. That does not work for a normal 8-5 type job. I know I perform so much better with sleep.

If I was CEO, I would absolutely organized working hours around sleep.
Education does correlate with a more successful job and it also correlates with a better functioning society. I believe that there is plenty of evidence to suggest that there is some causal relationship (note: this does not say that higher education leads to a successful job, but rather says that higher education increases the chances of you getting a more successful job).
It's not a misnomer. When you define trust you need to define who you trust.

If X's trust in Intel to provide a platform where the code runs verified doesn't agree with your ethical view, that meant you likely don't trust X and Intel. That's all - there's no betrayal, or traitors, or other ethical dilemmas here.

Trust is not universal and you cannot trust everyone.

You're probably more interested in trustless computing, where those modules are irrelevant.
It's up to society to make this work for both groups. Doing what NY did and separating the bike lane from car lanes (ideally with parked cars in between) is what will keep people safe and both groups happy.

Also it should be mandatory for bikers to wear lights - not just reflectors - so as to be almost painfully visible. It's not difficult to put rear blinkers + front light on a bike.
“File a suit, leading to discovery and a warrant ordered by a judge” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.
Nobody says he has invented trial end error, but every single person that worked in aerospace would tell you that they simply don't work like the other companies in many ways.

And with the Starship, they have gone to an extreme that even for SpaceX seems crazy.

There are tons and tons of interviews and podcasts with experienced people who worked there. Listing to those that came over from NASA is specially interesting.
came here to say this!
> Webpages can still do as they like. That’s general purpose!

That's general-purpose for the third party. Not for the user! This is the whole thing the "war on general-purpose computing" is about - whether the software serves the user, or whether it serves its creator and third parties it trusts.

> let the browser catch up to already do what these extensions want in a more secure way. What’s wrong with that?

There's nothing wrong with that per se. I have the problem with the part involving removing user's ability to arbitrarily alter the behavior of a website.
I can't speak for other platforms, but if you've ever developed apps for iPhone, you'd know this is pretty much impossible for FB to do.
This new release comes with a new web interface, still improving, with a lot less JavaScript.
I am now maintaining this little side projects since 10 years. The first version was using CherryPy, SQLite (then MongoDB), and Whoosh.
It is now using Flask and SQLAlchemy.
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Got my PinePhone but it’ll be a while until it’s my daily driver. I’m on iOS for halfway decent privacy and security until real Linux phones are serviceable.

F(x)tec Pro looks amazing, though I am hesitant to buy any phone that ships with Android as the default. I don’t want to fund the Play Services system and I want to know it’ll be supported on the OS I want to use.
The proposed monthly amount was €2,300 in Switzerland when they had a referendum on the issue in 2016. That is enough to have a more than decent living.

Work ethic might be engrained into our culture, but someone who is brought up in a society where UBI is normal and they are just a few years away from becoming "rich", I think not-working-ever is a very enticing idea and many teens will fall into that trap.
As already mentioned the coreboot bit is false, but also:

the TPM is a PASSIVE component. It only responds to your requests and you can do cool things with it.

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10564-hacking_with_a_tpm
> Refactoring hard/impossible to understand 2000+ line methods (least favorite - so risky)

Maybe I'm just weird, but for me that's one of the most satisfying things to do.

Like reaching a big boss in a video game and having to slice pieces off him until he's no longer a problem.
Microsoft redefines terms to suit them, what a shocker.

5200.28-STD - DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria - August 15, 1983 - The Orange Book.
Back in late 2013 I picked up my Berndes 2 quart (4L) enamelled dutch oven for around GBP35 from Tesco. Tesco (UK) at the time had a whole range of their stuff for sale, and if you collected six tokens (you got a token for spending 50 quid on shopping) they knocked 50% off the retail price (GBP75). Regardless, I ended up with mine, discounted after the tokens, and it's been one of the best items of cookware I've ever purchased, I use it all the time. In fact having looked at their prices now I kinda feel a got a proper bargain. Sure it's not huge, but it's big enough to cook around 6-7 meals worth of stuff I can freeze. I'm not actually sure I'd know what to do with a 7 quart oven, and the weight and size of that thing must be quite something!

But anyway, another thing I came here to say was that one of the things I like about my enamelled pot is that I can easily see when a "fond" starts to build up, and then when I throw in some stock or wine, the fond releasing.

All in all they're fantastic general purpose cooking pots for less skilled cooks like myself. Finally, I worked as a pot washer at Gleneagles Hotel back in the 80's when I was a student, and saw some horrific and almost wilful destruction of expensive copper pots and pans by maniacal and psychopathic chefs, if only they were enamelled, my job might have been easier :).
In fact it's well known that disposable vs fixed income directly impacts the financial decisions people make
and it is also possible to store bookmarks (with import from Pinboard export).
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I'm confused by the first point. The USPS has a monopoly on sending packages and letters? I recognize the USPS is subsidized by the US government but that is exactly my point. They amount of real money I'm taxed that eventually ends up subsidizing the USPS seems to me to be less than the money I pay to ship using non-subsidized services. If the government is able use my tax dollars to "artificially" push prices lower than on the "free market" while ensuring that the service is available to nearly everyone in the country, that feels like a success.

Are you saying if the USPS didn't exist FedEx and UPS would be cheaper?
Nationalizing Social Security has led to very low administrative costs, around 2%.
In what way is it not payment? Money is an abstraction over goods. The toddler example is just silly for obvious reasons and neither here nor there. What I'm saying is that article tries to frame housework as something that should be paid for (by... someone?), but if those same women were working they wouldn't be doing nearly as much of it. In exchange they're receiving goods, even though they have no income. You can't have it both ways.
Why would I want my computer to make decisions against my will because of a very carefully defined version of "trust"? When the alternative is software freedom which gives me the power (and yes, the responsibility too) to direct my computer the way I want?

And yeah, that responsibility includes checking for updates and downloading security fixes.

"Trust" is always used in "Root of trust" and "Trustworthy computing" to mean "deny software freedom to the user."

That's not even close to what the dictionary says trust means.
Most site interactivity could be handled with forms (though some form inputs need improvement) or some sort of conditional view state (for menus and HN's collapse comment feature). For anything more complex I think the "click to enable" model that flash and applets eventually followed is compatible with anything that actually deserves custom code.
I really like that analogy, but I do have to point out that many countries have come to realize a monarchy robs people of their freedom, just as the untrustable trust module does.
My feed reader app is my go to app when I'm bored. I will say its becoming less prominent. Half the time I want to add a site I have to guess where rss feed is generated since its less common to link to it. Apple makes the experience worse on iOS since rss link open in the News app but it doesn't support rss.

Some new sites don't have it at all, when https://www.thefarside.com/ came to life I didn't have a way to follow it until someone made feed based on scraping.

Most sites seem to have a sitemap for search, I wish my reader app could fall back to that.
I really like my workspace even though it's open, although I suppose I could get five monitors for home. I'm interested to see if I get more productive with more focus time.
Sonos getting rid of controversial Recycle Mode that bricked older devices
Plus, Terminal.app feels much faster. Using terminal Emacs feels very different in the two terminals.

I recently switched back to Terminal from iTerm, and was amazed by the speed increase.

When entering commands, it is visibly a little "snappier." But where it really shines is in the output.

I have a few of batch processes that I have to run once a week, and they're all pretty heavy on the debug output, with lots of VT100 eye candy. One process that used to take close to six hours in iTerm got significantly shaved when I switched to Terminal.

Since I only run this once a week, I haven't had a chance to benchmark it, but my guess is that Terminal shaved 40 minutes off the job.

The only thing I miss from iTerm is having two sessions open in a single window. I suspect this is possible in Terminal, but I haven't figured it out yet. When I click the "Split Pane" button, I get two panes of the same session, instead of a new session in the new pane.
I addressed that when I said "x86 instruction."

An x86 core with SGX can be emulated...

(Edit: SGX can't be emulated. I stand corrected. Perhaps a better argument would have been arguing that verifiable builds give the user software freedom by granting them the ability to run the same code everywhere. But trusted computing != verifiable builds.)
Does anyone know if Anki or a similar app can handle importing from a text document or spreadsheet?

I have a ton of things I need to learn for my job, and I already have a text document full of notes and definitions. I'd like to assemble everything on my PC and then have flashcards on my phone. I also need to control the syncing because I'd be making cards with the company secret sauce and can't sync to anything but our corporate google drive/docs account.

Having an app that pulls the cards from a google sheets doc would be awesome.
If the registration information is falsified, + trademark dispute, FB has the inside track on getting ownership of these domains transferred to them. After all, the registered owners don't exist -- doesn't that make them up for grabs?
Not trolling, but curious - do quantum computers do anything useful yet?
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So yes that is need to be fixed so that we can speak openly even with open ID without the damage you mentioned. Thats the solution that we need to find.
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That is like saying that we have to find a solution to crime and fraud so that we will not have to rely on physical locks, spamfilters, etc.

It would be nice, but it will never happen.

Meanwhile anonymity can work well.

How about we first change the world so that everyone can speak freely without fear of anything. And when that is accomplished to everyones satisfaction then we can consider total transparancy.
Lawyers,

Would the registrar normally be sued here? I would have thought it'd be against a fictitious defendant, with a Doe subpoena used to find out their actual identity.
> At the end of the day it's the most direct and effective way of combating poverty and goes a long way towards closing the wealth gap.

Where do you think all this Income is going to come from? The middle class will shoulder the bulk of it which will widen the wealth gap. You will end up with 1k in UBI and 1500 in taxes to pay for it.
This is a valid concern. If you disagree, at least comment when you downvote.
So I guess this is how living in the 1960s felt like? :)
This complaint is an eloquent example of the sad result of neglecting the humanities and arts in modern education.
By Don Hopkins!

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DonHopkins