skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Fully expecting this comment to be destroyed.)

If you give E2EE to the masses, then the endpoints will need to remain vulnerable by design, or LE/IC won't be able to do their jobs fighting criminals.

If the endpoints are designed to be as free of vulnerabilities as possible (which isn't the case anyway - consumer phones and computers are still Mickey Mouse by design), and provide E2EE at scale, criminals will be able to operate with impunity at scale. This isn't a desirable solution.

I'd rather see a trend towards locking down endpoints, but allowing Exceptional Access for communications at scale. Allow the math to exist (code for encrypted comms can exist on GitHub, for instance) but disallow it to be distributed at scale (walled garden App Stores, large Social Networks for instance). Reduce the (growth of) entropy.

Guns aren't sold via the App Store, and Signal shouldn't be given to the masses.

The community here seems more or less unified in the belief that essentially unbreakable E2EE at scale, distributed by GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, and APPLE, is always a good idea. I don't agree with this at all.

Few people in this neck of the woods are willing to argue the counterpoint - the risks of E2EE at scale.

Somewhat related: I'd personally rather see a move towards better cooperation between social network service providers, internet service providers, government agencies, and device manufacturers. Apple, for instance, won't get involved at all if your device is hacked. Rather, it would be nice to see a trend towards designing devices to have automatic cooperation between the various parties to both prevent and investigate hacks.
Those are WiFi though, no? Not exactly the same thing. Personally, I prefer a hub/bridge and then a mesh network for Home Automation. I’ve got Hue, Z-Wave, and WeMo. I much prefer the experience with the first two now.
Sorry it did not work for you as an individual, but turning that around to say that anyone else with a more positive experience is just placebo is a bit of a logical fallacy. Why do you think your own personal experience should be the one source of truth for the whole universe? Don't you know the 7 billion people alive all have unique bodies that respond to things differently?

Have you tried anything else health-wise (diets, medicine, exercise plan etc)after Keto? And is it working? If it is, its most likely just a placebo and not really beneficial in of itself. Thats according to the crux of your argument: if something works, its very likely just a placebo.
I guess you just have to make a machine that manages two turns per electron.

(I know you did - but any chance to introduce Eddington’s number is fun)
We lost drives all the time. In fact we moved so much data we needed checksums to avoid the 1e-13 undetected data errors.

We seriously did do the calculations (done by serious PhDs) and we seriously did not lose data.

I’m sure you are imagining a system that doesn’t work. But that doesn’t mean only a raidlike setup can work.

And by the way, could you explain how to calculate chance of data loss without taking recovery time into account?
That's an interesting idea, that women are required to meet a higher bar for trust than men. I've always thought trust was the most valuable currency there is.

Do you think that being trusted or not trusted has a predictable effect on whether a person is trustworthy?
They'd never hire him. Too old.
Staggered spin-up is a thing. That motherboard doesn't have it most likely, but they also can't plug 32 HDDs into it either. They'd need an HBA card of some kind, which is more likely to have staggered spin-up.
Yep. I imagine Home Assistant will still work just fine with it.
The silver lining here is that this dramatic drop in production and travel is exactly what the environment needed.

Yeah, everyone will be so happy the environment is cleaner. They won’t care that they are laid off, lose their house and the economy spirals in a recession.

Silver linings!!
market your product better, steal better companies people, lie, play political games, leverage relationships, kill

so many options
No, you're misunderstanding that number. That's the crude case mortality rate, of deaths per confirmed cases. They say the infection mortality rate, which is deaths per infection, will be lower.

edit: see, e.g. here https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
Animal farming is a moral atrocity
A "Linux distribution" is not a distribution of a kernel.
Shameless FBI shill.

“hacker”news.com
That sort of segues into my counter to Machiavelli's 'end justifies the means'. Which is what if the means are the ends? You want to live in a world where you get tortured if the cops think you aren't being helpful enough? Or maybe they do it as a matter of policy?

Yeah no.
How do studies like this purport to quantify creativity?
It's reasonable because police forces simply don't have enough resources to abuse this system. As a result, innocent people are generally left alone and don't live in constant anxiety that their homes could be randomly searched by armed operators. That's exactly how things should work.

Compare that to remote backdoor access to everyone's encrypted communications. All they have to do is push a button in order to instantly get access to someone's mail, calls, instant messages, social media, phone location history, etc. Abusing this power is a trivial matter and there is little if any oversight. The Five Eyes intercept, decrypt and store even their own citizen's communications as a matter of course and will tip off law enforcement so they can parallel construct a case using means of investigation that are actually legal. Intelligence employees have been known to abuse their powers to spy on their significant others, a practice that became known as LOVEINT. People who are a threat to those in power -- political opposition, whistle blowers, journalists, dissidents -- will probably be targeted despite their rights to privacy.

In order to obtain encrypted communications, police forces should have to get a warrant and obtain the physical storage media that contains the messages they want.
Funny thing about Rice's theorem. It says that semantic properties (such as halting) are undecidable in general. That says nothing about specific programs. It's easy to prove that certain programs halt; it's easy to prove that others never halt. In fact, there are whole classes of programs for which it is trivial to prove halting (e.g. bf programs that do not contain [ or ]), or non-halting (e.g. bf programs that contain a single + and the remaining instructions are [ or ]).

One need not waste their time proving an impossible generality along the path to proving a specific possibility.
I think you may have a short memory. The international situation has never been very different qualitatively than it is today. Iran has been a mess for 50 years, much of that time far worse than now. We have been at war with north korea for 70 years, some of that with actual armies marching and shooting each other. In the 70s and 80s planes were being hijacked and bombed every week. Hundreds of thousands of people died from AIDS. All the while the economy was up, down, or indifferent to these things. The world is constantly in turmoil, listen to a billy joel song for more details.
Just because two people use the same argument does not mean they have both the same validity.

Almost all democracies gives the government an exclusive right to violence. The government can order the army and police to shot people, while every citizen are forbidden to make a similar decision. The exception that exist are narrow defined and up to the legal system to decide per case if a decision to kill by a citizen can be forgiven based on circumstances.

Almost no democracies gives the government an exclusive right to private communication and private secrets. Countries which governments does claim an exclusivity in this area are called totalitarian and is seen by many as the contradicting in terms to the definition of democracy.
CNN is unfortunately known to cry wolf. I'll believe when some news service with a spine agrees with them. And no, bloomberg doesn't count either.
Unlike the flu, nobody has prior immunity to the disease, so everyone is susceptible to getting the disease. Without containment, nearly everyone will get the disease. You have also undercounted the US population by 10%.
Why the heck would one want to store data in a non highly reliable anything run by a team who is building around cutting corners???

Wtf am i missing here?

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So, I assume you’re quite young. ~31 or so...

I say this because youre not speaking with a level of professionalism one would ostensibly have when talking about storing (and providing access to) another’s data...

And if your actual business model is focused on cutting corners to save costs in exchange for reliability - then the obvious is that you seek to cut corners and costs in all other aspects of your business and are telling people “STAY THE FUCK AWAY” from your business... unless your customers are of similar ilk, and if not - then their data isn't even important enough to persist, your systems or theirs...
Gotcha, makes sense.

I suppose subscription model makes more sense for apps that basically reside online or at least interact with a web server.

How you make lots of small products solving a single problem well is cool though! I could see some of these kinds of concepts evolving into a decent subscription business.
It's unfortunate that this actually useful blockchain project will tainted by the malevolent... sadface
> criminals will be able to operate with impunity at scale.

This isn't even remotely true. At some point criminals have to go actually commit crimes that leave a detectable impact in the real world. That is where they can be caught. There is no need to surveil the communication of everyone on the plant just to catch the small minority of people who commit crimes. The cost is not remotely worth the benefit.
https://www.cdw.com/search/?key=hospitality%20tv&searchscope...

These are TVs with the smart stuff removed for use in enterprise/hotels that don't want it. Pick your favorite!
It is not immoral to depict torture, though. It is, however, immoral to tell people that it works, because that could lead people to try it out.
This is insane. My OCD is tempered and my love for all things mechanical has been re-ignited.

I am curious how this ratio is calculated though, I didn't drill into the relative ratios.. If anyone has a link I would love to see!
The problem you can't really compare them, as you can't compare a bicycle, a bus, and a car. Sometimes you need one sometimes you need another.

I used Airbnb a lot in the early days. My bookings were all over the place. Sometimes I needed an entire house, sometimes the cheapest place in the area that I can afford. A cheap place can be great as a Toyota Corolla is, but if you compare that to a Bugatti it seems less great.
I would Stop reading mainstream newspapers then there will be no impact left

On the other hand I might realize that what is at stake

Davos , US election , Brexit , climate change hoax , 5 G

The mechanism is Problem Reaction Solution
I think we will finally get inflation! Corporations will move productions out of China. I expect at least 20% will come out of China and into higher cost locations. This will drive up costs. We had it too good for too long.
Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape in Ancient Egypt
As long as the fed is printing fake money, money is essentially free to those with good credit, and it makes sense to do all the things described by the OP. Someone will bite, and you may as well make the money.

One day, I hope for a society where money is a real measure of productivity and all the things the OP said will be 100% valid. This is not that day.
Logical fallacies don't have to be directly stated (unless you're talking to people who can think like adults).

You can simply use them as a shortcut to strategies that are likely to work. If someone is making a slippery slope argument, then you can use a standard slippery slop reply.
But those bridges are exactly that, aren't they?

They're locally running servers, doing all things on premises. My only issue with Philips is that I'd love to have an SDK to run my own code on the bridge (which is possible, though, but in unofficial way).

I guess if all this third-party stuff in the cloud (which are going to break because of the API shutdown = external connectivity/tunnel shutdown) would be apps, downloadable to the bridge instead, things would be better...
>That fact was stated in the last sentence of the article.

I know, that's what I was referring to you. Myself, I spell "X-Windows" as "X- Windows" to annoy anti- fanatics.

I'm confused about your point about web browsers. Web browsers do not handle any sort of graphics or display on my phone. There an app. They handled graphics and display within the app. It's the same thing for chrome OS. Some people seem to think that chromeOS is a giant web browser. It's not. It's essentially a regular Linux distribution.

I was using Linux for years before Facebook existed or apple was considered a legitimate computing company again.

I'm pretty confused about your comparisons to web browsers or Windows 93. I would consider those more in the realm of window managers, if even that.

It seems that this entire discussion has people confused about window systems and window managers. If you want to write direct to a frame buffer, go for it I guess.
The article is full of crackpotology. It has not even a single link to support the fantastic results. The only interesting link goes to the Casimir Effect, that is real, but it is not possible to use it to get "free energy". In particular because the Casimir effects is deduced from Quantum Electrodynamic that is a theory where energy is conserved.

Experiment or it didn't happen.
That argument kind of died when we found out we were being surveilled on mass, with all our communications being kept to be used against us at any point in a Stasi fantasy.

You can't claim trust when you've shown yourself to be totally and utterly untrustworthy.

Moreover if the public servants can get your communications so can organised crime.

Law enforcement can do their job without it. Because they've abused it so thoroughly they're going to have to.
MetLify really exploded when we several other static hosting services didn’t. Kind reader, what are your thoughts on why that was?
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/inside-the-magic-pock...

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1594206

http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw-discs17/slides/PDSW-DISCS-Google-Ke...
Now if on the slow end you connected an exactly reversed series of gears you could configure it such that the final gear moves at exactly the same speed as the first gear, but the middle gear moves at 1/googol the speed. Of course this is likely to break down at some point but it would be interesting to see exactly what the maximum recoverable ratio is for gear movement and what the limiting factors are.
How about Pytorch?
Glad to see more competition - but let's see these in production before saying they "top" anything else.
Throwing "microservices" in there seems like a reach. I'm not familiar with Netlify, other than the static content generator CMS thing, but I don't see how its more beneficial to a microservice design versus any other API backend.
To clarify, the assumptions I'm making for the calculation are:

1) a Fixed probability of a server failing

2) a fixed erasure coding scheme used for all files

3) uncorrelated server failures

4) an erasure fragment is stored on a random server
The two big hazards are you either get distracted or you overwork.

Have a nice spot just to work - don't do it on the dinner table or the sofa. Ideally a chair and table. Don't get too comfortable.

Take lunch breaks. Snack breaks. Bathroom breaks. Make sure to walk around at least once an hour.

Make sure your family members understand you're at work now. Not everyone does.

Sitting too long in a cramped room builds up carbon dioxide, making it harder to focus. Leave a door or window wide open. Don't work in a closet (this seems ridiculous but I've done this thrice because I like tight spaces).

If you've gone to college, whatever environment you used for study is probably ideal for work too.
Are you talking about the general case of attaching nerves or the specific case of the physiological changes here?

From the article they seemed to be describing well known phenomena regarding peripheral nerves. The myelin sheath can survive detachment, the nerve does not. With finger re-attachment, a very talented surgeon reattaches the sheathes, and new nerves grow down the channel, at a rate of about an inch a month (mentioned in passing in the article). So for a finger, with some luck you should be able to feel your fingertips in a few months. The arms would have taken a year or more. (I can't imagine what that feels like, emotionally).

There's also a lot of plasticity in the brain. I'd heard of cases where a badly seared finger has a patch of skin grafted from the side of another finger to restore tactile function. They move the skin patch with the nerves still attached, and at first your brain tells you that the side of your finger is being touched. With rehab your brain eventually believes that the sensation now happening to your thumb actually occured on your thumb.

But she would have had to do this for the whole lower arm, twice.
Users of Sia are the customers. So your question reduces to: who uses Sia? It used to mostly be interesting for customers interested in reliable large-file data backup on the cheap, but now it has expanded to customers looking to do content distribution on the web, etc.
Your repo and tutorial are really cool! But do you have any sort of interactive "out-of-the-box" demo that doesn't require me to write code to call the library (online or downloadable)?
Half the population becoming infected this year is not that unlikely if no preventive measures are taken. The CDC and WHO stopped being reputable sites about a month ago.
Effectiveness and morality are independent, I think.
Personally, I prefer slowly sipping tea when thinking about how to solve a problem that I haven't figured out yet, and burning through Red Bull when I already know how to do it and it's time to put that solution down in code etc.
> understand exponential growth

Oh I know what exponential growth is, it is a basic mathematical concept and I'm quite good at math. The thing is, extrapolating the growth rate of new phenomena is not logical. If this isn't intuitive, think of it this way: I have $1 today. I earn $100 and by tomorrow I have $101. I sell my car and the day after tomorrow I have $10,101. Would it make sense to continue projecting my increased asset accumulation at the rate of 10,000% daily for the next 10 years? Of course not, it would mean I would have more assets than exist in the world. Growth rates are higher when numbers are lower and lower when numbers are higher. It's the nature of change in any finite data set.

> roughly 10x worse

According to the WHO Corona virus has a 3% mortality rate, your estimate of 'at least 10x' would mean 500,000 american dead by the end of year, which would require 150,000,000 to be infected this year, or basically, 48%~ of the population getting infected this year.

I'm not saying your wrong, but can you provide a link to a reputable site such as CDC/WHO that supports your claim?
Yes, thanks for clarifying it :)
The snark was perhaps a touch excessive, but this is indeed an excellent reason why the radical suggestion proffered shall remain radical.

(isn't this basically just a kernel module?)
It's 0.6% based on 42 deaths out of 6,284 confirmed cases out of 158,000 tests out of a population of 51 million. The flu is 0.1%, but COVID-19's mortality rate very easily could still be significantly overstated.
Using an adblocker won't stop an ad company from mining your search queries.
We use slack but there is no expectation that someone will respond after hours. Your time is your time. If you’re in a meeting or just working on something, I don’t expect you to respond. I’m just dropping a message to you. Respond when you have some free time. If we are both free and can chat interactively that great and we can resolve this right away.

If you are currently on-call, I would expect that you check for slack messages on a regular basis.

BTW I don’t have any notifications turned on for Slack. I periodically check for new message flags. For most channels, I keep them on mute unless it is a channel that I am personally active in.

I treat email the same way. Not notifications. It drives me crazed when I’m talking to someone at their desk and they are constantly getting pop ups telling that they got an email or a slack message. Stop that shit! Get it under control. Push back.
Growing Salad Greens in Space
Are you asking what’s most cost-effective?
Shady neckbeards.

Seriously, the type of people with the scruples which would piss you off both in their tactics and their profits.

Lest we forget where the fuck FB, Myspace, Friendster, HI5 all came from: unscrupulous spamsters etc.. many made lots of money, but they’re still douchey in their inceptions...
> some people believe your body needs to be whole during your last rites (Even though you cremate the body in the end if you're Hindu). This is pure superstition

It's not just superstition, it's easily defeated with reason: If this were true, then every innocent person who has to suffer an amputation due to an accident would be unjustly disadvantaged.

It's similar to people who argue against gay marriage since kids aren't produced: This implies every heterosexual marriage without children is worthless
Read the git diff docs, it can span multiple commits. Builds are tied to pushes, not commits. You will see the changes for both A and B. When you create a new branch, you add the latest hash in git history to a file. When you build, you compare the latest commit against X from the file.

Note, this is around branches, not commits. Generally people tie features to branches and build branches. You want to build all changes from the new work that is off of the main branch. Don't think about it at the commit level, that's just how the bookkeeping is done.

The hard / manual part is maintaining commit X. You end up with merge conflicts when two branches are in PR and one gets merged. Order doesn't matter.

I'll try to post something this weekend, I'll link it here and probably create a small repo
With anything, I don't care if 99% of reviews are positive, or even if they are all shills. As long as I can sort with lowest ratings first, then the reviews are useful. I know that there are always going to be nutcases, ex-employees, etc., so I always just am looking for a pattern of bad experiences that come from distinct people.

This is the way, the only way, to use online reviews. I would be pleasantly surprised if an academic figured this out.
It depends heavily on the programming domain. There was a reddit thread recently [0] describing how someone spent a bunch of time reinventing matrix multiplication. Certainly with some more background in math (and maybe MATLAB in particular) they could have saved a bunch of time.

Surely computer science research problems require some rigorous proofs and applications of theory. But your general web app or command line utility for wrangling data? Might not make much of a difference.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/matlab/comments/fbhq9c/a_friend_of_...
> I guess you just have to make a machine that manages two turns per electron.

But that just isn't going to be tractable.