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Given the extent of military intelligence docs stolen, and given that the domestic programs deployed were lawful at the time, whistleblower is a disingenuious title for Mr. Snowden.

Putting aside domestic disclosures, it is difficult to see how the scope of stolen materials merits praise or euphemistic titles. Snowden is a fugitive. As it pertains to the majority of what was stolen, he is not a whistleblower, but a thief.

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1 points by ios14 10 days ago | parent [–] | on: DOJ – International Statement: End-to-End Encrypti...

What are the odds that big tech and big brother are in bed creating a huge dog and pony show to counter the post-Snowden “going dark” reality?
Given: The public knows about mass surveillance. Big tech deploys supposedly unbreakable end to end encryption. The public feels more safe and protected from Big Brother yet again.
Theory: Meanwhile, behind the scenes, government and big tech have, in secret, the ability to recover such encrypted comms. The DOJ initiative would then be part of an elaborate psyop to further deceive people into believing that FB “has their back”.
I’m going to guess that third parties have extensively reverse engineered apps such as fb messenger to ensure that it is essentially impossible for the above to be the case, since E2EE occurs at the endpoints.
Can an encryption expert weigh in here?
Edit: this also raises general concerns I have about trusting an App Store to install what is supposed to be installed, and not a backdoor’ed version of an app. Something like: Let the reverse engineers have an unmodified app, while distributing alternate versions to other unsuspecting users.
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Also, odds that the govt has secret radically advanced quantum computing tech and does have a QC to recover using Shor’s? (Yea, probably unlikely as it would takes millions of qubits to achieve this..)
How long before lattice based crypto is sufficiently vetted for wide deployment?
To be fair, I don't think they get much value from encrypted content. This doesn't mean they can't log every single thing you do with a timestamp attached to it. Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing.
Maybe my PL history is wrong, but weren't interfaces made popular by java as a way to avoid C++ - style problems with multiple inheritance?

> When people talk about how similar are OOP and FP languages they miss the elephant in the room - immutability.

>> What elixir doesn't have is pass-by-reference

But immutability is not INHERENT to the FP style. In the strictest sense BEAM languages are not immutable, because message-passing is not state-safe, and there's also the Process library (and NIFs), but practically they are. Julia is also a very powerful FP language that isn't immutable by default, and Swift is an OO-ish? is it OO? language that is pass-by-value by default.
I honestly think discussing search quality with relation to Google these days is almost irrelevant: Nobody is looking at the organic results. Nobody.

On a given Google search, you have one to four ads, maybe an AMP carousel, and a knowledge graph box. Somewhere is the end of what fits on your device screen. Past that is the first real search result.

Google is making money because everyone thinks the first ad is the first search result (They're nearly indistinguishable, visually, and studies have demonstrated non-technical users can't tell them apart) and then everything below the ads that fits on screen is packed with links to other Google properties.

We are at the point where organic search results are nearly the "page three" of Google Search: Somewhere nobody goes anymore.
I stand corrected...pardon me.
Sorry, my reply, like throwaway's missed the main point of your original comment of "why not a GP programming language"

A configuration file is uniquely suited to a pure and lazy language.

Pure, because the all the advantages of a pure language remain, while none of the downsides; the result of evaluating the function is your configuration data. You don't need to do arbitrary I/O and ordering for generating configuration files.

Lazy because configuration files are naturally declarative, but you don't want to evaluate tons of things you have declared but then never used.
Yes and by no means am I stating that we take all traditions or techniques for granted; otherwise we'd still be sticking leeches on people. The point is that in n=1 studies (ie. self experimentation) one can learn a lot more and a lot faster than by waiting for a double-blind study to be conducted on the subject matter.

The same is true in strength training, where coaches like Charles Poliquin used techniques that weren't "scientifically validated" till decades later.

Meditation and mindfulness has pre-dated Calm, Headspace and the SV bubble by a couple of millennia so it's important to have an open mind to practices that don't yet have papers in PubMed. Just because a doctor can't prescribe it to you doesn't make it bogus.
I microdosed LSD every now and then for a while before I had been diagnosed with ADHD and my experience with microdosing and adderall are very similar. I feel more alert and my moods are improved. I'm sure LSD was also doing similar work to the adderall, but my ability to do work and focus with clarity is basically the same.
Pretty sure every child on the planet has been told to “take a breath” in the middle of a temper tantrum. The assertion that people have dismissed this particular idea is obviously not true, but is also a hard thing to prove in the general case as well.
Because it can run in the background and you might write some code which uses it in the background
I built an Alexa app a few years ago for an Amazon-sponsored hackathon. Apparently it has a bit of a user base still, and for some reason Amazon sends me about $50/quarter. I don't know how the app is being monetized, it certainly wasn't something I did.

Also, because my app uses API Gateway and Lambda as a backend, Amazon gives me a $100 credit on my AWS account every month to cover the costs. My costs for the app are about $10/month, so the other $90 are used for various other activities.
It’s an easy PR win. The US behaves like a petulant child, and Russia can come off like the benevolent country protecting freedom. That seems like an extremely easy decision to make.
It's also often quite distributed, which many small IT groups of 1-5 staff members that may or may not coordinate with each other or with the central IT group(s).
What kills about shows like Battlestar Gallactica is that they have no sense of how tactics would evolve in new environment, and instead transpose modern era fighter and air craft carrier tactics in a total new environment. For instance, If you have an FTL, and know a targets location, why wouldn't you jump, shoot everything you have, then jump away? The entire game changes with FTL, and it would be really cool to see that explored in Hard-sci.
It really bugs me when I hear of institutions paying these ransoms.

Regardless of the damage, I'd just take the bullet, fix my security, and not pay. Be consistent in this, and keep it up for a while. Long term: no more extortion for anyone.
Yes. An employer must also take into account the average sick time per employee and year, since it pays for sick pay day 2 - 14 when the employee is sick. That is an another contribution to the 2x ballpark number.
How many compiler bugs have you hit so far :) ?
Interesting that one volcano eruption can fluctuate weather patterns so much.
The English coverage is not up to date, but the TL;DR is that someone is demanding 40 BTC, from a large Finnish psychotherapy provider, in ransom to not release patient records. They claim to have 40,000 records and have released over 200 records, which seem genuine.

The records include names, addresses, social security numbers and, of course, highly intimate details of the patients' personal lives and mental health.
Isn't this the same problem that money laundering laws have to solve? It's hard, but its not insurmountable.
I don’t remember if the course says spaced repetition exactly, but active recall testing is featured a lot, and active recall testing is very much an ajacent concept to that.
Something to be thankful. I am sure he would rather come home; but I don't see the that changing with Biden as he hasn't said anything.
some ramsomeware like Netwalker has public forums with announces, so the tip may come from anybody not involved with any of the 2 parties.
My sister used to hold her breath and pass out whenever she didn't get her way. She took stubbornness to the next level!
"Mr. Trump’s account got extra protection after past incidents, according to a senior administration official and a Twitter employee, who would speak only anonymously because the security measures were private."

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/technology/twitter-hack-i...
I hear you. I am a successful backend engineer, but boy I have been struggling with CSS too for many years. It helped that this year I took up a full time role which needs me to do CSS and I have a mentor guiding me. You should also find a mentor for it.

What we really need is some kind of "logger" for how the browser interpreted CSS and made its decisions.

For example, if two boxes are overlapping even if you said margin is 10px, the browser should say something like "calculated box a to 500px wide. Box b is set to width of fixed width of 300px and is aligned to right. Hence its placement will be 0px from the right. Ignoring margin 30p,' Then you can reason that since screen is only 700px wide, there will be overlap. (I am making this is open obviously).

My point is, the browser almost never gives any feedback like a compiler would. It makes us think/guess based on "inspector".
Oh sorry didn't notice. The Flipboard version was open
Do border walls have anything to do with civil liberties? https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1318242920416366593
Well they (The Guardian) did the same baseless reporting on the 'death of Kim Jong Un' and nearly all of them and Twitter falsly reported it and some users believed it (with little to no evidence.) Now, this time it's a single screenshot used as substantial 'proof' to support this Twitter hack. However, it is not good enough to suggest that it is genuine as it can be easily faked.

So it seems some choose to believe claims without the actual facts and evidence unfolding over time but what's clear on Twitter and in this comments section is the number of users having symptoms of TDS. At least wait a bit until this fully develops rather than believing unverified reports or claims. We're much better than this.
It's not bad for Go either. The only issue is that gopls is still considered alpha, so it's not the most stable thing out there, but that's not Emacs's problem.
I fully agree with you. When it comes to technical problems, I find the conscious mind is useful for absorbing the facts of the matter, but the subconscious seems to do most of the heavy lifting. It does the heavy lifting better when it's given space to work.

& thank you. It's far from a dream job but it will buy some time.
You realize literacy in India is still < 80% ? This is true even in the state of Karnataka, which possesses the so-called 'Silicon Valley' of India, BLR, which ironically is located in the midst of a vast plateau.

In comparison, China which started out it a much worse economic position (WWII, CCP..), and with a far more difficult writing system, has ended up today a >95% literacy rate.

I realize people like to downvote these pessimistic comments, just because 'India is the next superpower', the 'great hope of democracies' that will take PRC', but how this can happen without any groundwork is something I can't comprehend.

It takes a whole 20-25 years for a generation to grow up. The tiny sliver that is being reared are very good at servicing people by emigrating to other countries and this is how India (like Phillipines) earns much of its forex. How they can turn into a 'superpower' by turning themselves into a country of glorified serfs is beyond my understanding.

Worse yet, Indians themselves are sucked up to this drunken madness instead of focusing on real problems that have remained unsolved over the past ~80 years either due to political incompetence, or worse conscious decision-making.
Oh yes, I see there's a theme entry down in the Customize Emacs submenu at the bottom of the Options menu. Logical though that may be, I had no idea.

It's not as if I even have a complicated custom theme in my .emacs - I have a couple of lines, but mainly I just don't change the colours from their defaults any more. I care a great deal about what my editor looks like, but it turns out that the default colours - black text, white background, pleasantly dark font-lock colours - are perfect for me already. (I waste my time on fonts instead)
Ok, ip mode seems usable if you don't have a lot of connections per NLB/instance pair, but kind of meh.

Does the instance port have to match the service port? In instance mode, you could setup so us-east1 is like 441, us-east2 is 442, us-west1 is 451 etc. And then you wouldn't have tcp 4-tuple collisions on the instance.

Similarly for ip mode, you could put the same host in for ports 440-449 and get 10x 55,000 connections, or however many ports you need to hit your numbers.

(Port numbers chosen for example only, check /etc/services if you don't want to stomp on allocations for services you're probably not using)

Thanks!
I'm definitely not the best at it. I'm in the middle of job applications right now so I'm not going to push all my chips in on marketing myself in case a hiring manager finds it distasteful. And it's almost certainly not the best way to get FP content: there are definitely monetized youtube channels that have a lower barrier to entry for viewers. And of course there are pornographers producing more and better content. But I'm having fun. Kinda at a weird midlife crisis point so I might as well take my shot right?
You can but accepting a pardon is admission of guilt.
But it would remove public institutions from the target list. Also, in the case of private institutions, if it were a criminal offense to use such a proxy, an investigator could discover this. The threat of prison for any officer of a corporation who arranged such a payment would be a powerful deterrent.
There are similar sayings around number of heartbeats. It's fun to imagine, but it's not particularly scientific.
Cambridge game ‘pre-bunks’ Covid-19 conspiracies in fight against fake news
This seems contrary to my experience. Splashing water on my face wakes me up, ie increases perceived mental 'arousal'.

I assumed it was a 'avoid drowning' response. Like if you fall into water, you don't want to stay asleep, you need to wake up really quickly!
Ask HN: Good executive summary resources for modern cloud computing?
What is taken for granted by many here continues to allude some industry higher-ups. What are some resources today (literature or other media) that conveys, in many but not all cases, cloud-based products offer a strategic advantage?

There is a lot of marketing material and executive summaries that span two pages with headers taking the majority of the space leaving people grasping at abstract words rather than bottom-line understanding.
ESR is a little grandiose. Note he doesn't give much detail, just say that it will bite you and you should listen to his assertions because he has done it more than anyone in the world.
Not yet but planning and executing towards it.

To add to others points and your own which may not be as obvious to some but my background stems from the financial world and security has always been a problem, breach du jour. The way things are done now are nothing short of broken, PCI and more, and all the glue holding the shattered "window" panes together certainly doesn't lead to anything secure or even a "window" you can see through. I'm certain there are millions that will disagree, job security of course, but when one has maintained critical uptime services on M$ as long as I have one begins to question there must be a better way. Solve your own problems first I always say as I am currently architecting that path, the sixth time of my career actually but this occurrence is different entirely.
Whether he will "talk" is independent of whether torture works. With sufficient torture, I would tell you anything you want to hear. Want to know where the diamonds are? Sure, I can make up a dozen locations if it means those pliers stay away from me, even if I have no idea what diamonds you are talking about. Torture will always get answers. What it can't get is truth, or any way to distinguish truth from pleas.

And that is even independent of torture being inherently immoral.
This might be a bit relevant or maybe not but I find this freediving exercise very peaceful [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqZbF546JNo
You don't really have to be in those bubbles to know about it - there was a much publicized shooting in a pizza shop circa 2017, motivated by baseless fears about a pedophile ring - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/pizzagate-attack-sente...

Full stop, child trafficking is wrong. But then, so is baselessly accusing people of something as heinous as child trafficking.
Hope you find a better job with better co-workers. Exercise during work, within reason, should be encouraged imo since it leads to healthier employees as well as breakthroughs in problem solving usually comes to me when exercising or in the shower.
Love this, definitely have uses for it in the future.
You only need 200kWh if you empty your battery every day. Few people drive 300 miles every day. A normal power plug can provide 3.6kW or so, so around 40kWh in a night. That's probably already enough for most drivers. I assume people who can afford this car can also afford a 48A circuit for charging.
Is it allowed to paste the entire article here?
By granting Snowden asylum, Russia paints the USA as anti-free speech and pro-surveillance.
Yes it's call a "cover story".

He visited the Russian consulate in HK (for a birthday party no less) before he left and his main legal advisor was the lawyer from Wikileaks , a Russian intel cutout.

All just coincidence I guess.
We are actually allowed to have opinions on past organizations. Both in terms of ethics and in terms of whether this would be practical idea to follow. Also, we are allowed to judge past people.

Also, people are more likely to knee jerkly defend everything for by past important people and see them as unaware victims of circumstances them to judge them. Maybe except Hitler and Stalin.

Sometimes people do superimpose own values inappropriately, but other times those making judgements just know more about actual acts of those people - even including historical context.

Narcissists and sociopaths and what not are not modern phenomenon never heard about before. And their contemporaties for expressed a lot about them.
You can't retroactively fix your security.

It can take a lot money (well spent, so that's fine) and time (which can be devastating) to recover the compromised system.
Using two digits for years is not a language issue. You can migrate your systems from 2 to 4 digits without having to rewrite your code in Java 1.2.

This was, in fact, how most of it was done.
The more unfaltering facts uncovered about US the better for Russia. They also like to point to US to justify actions within the country: COPM is justified by NSA surveillance. They see Snowden as their guy and protect him.
That article should be required reading before one delves into Anki, it's like a 'best practice' guide for a fairly open-ended tool. Great stuff
Your counter-claim of 2-3M US deaths from COVID is questionable. This is 0.7-1.0% of total population. Sweden, which had no forced quarantines and for which the ministry of health web site explicitly recommends not wearing a mask for people with no symptoms, has effectively zero COVID deaths from late July (from Wikipedia; deaths per week show a classic curve for an infectious disease). No second waves that are starting to hit other countries. Sweden's total COVID deaths are reported as a bit under 6000 as of today -- less than 0.06% and well under the 0.7-1.0% you estimate.

This does not mean that the total estimates of 2-3M for the US are proven wrong. But it is a strong counterargument to that estimate that should be addressed if we base our response on the estimate of 2-3M of COVID deaths with no strict measures. My 2c.

I will also push back on your "compliment" to me of not meeting the high standards of HN (you note you are being charitable; I wonder what the "objective" characterization). You lecture me to re-read my post and think about my mistakes (at least that is how I understood it; if I understood it wrongly, sorry). I did re-read it and still see my questions as valid. If the answers to them are obvious, great; but this does not make asking them unethical. Sorry for this rant, I will take the downvotes for it if they come.
You will find in any rev-share agreement, a requirement that the Co. actually make "best efforts" or the like towards actually generating revenue or they lose the license rights. Best efforts is not some fluffy term, but basically requires the company to move heaven and earth if necessary otherwise they are in violation of the agreement.
Well, I can't comment on the exact psychological and physiological effects. It definitely wakes me up if I'm sleepy too. But it can be helpful if you're anxious.

At the end of the day we all react differently to different stimuli so try things out and do what works best for you.
I mean they clearly want to pay the ransom, because they care about their data and/or the privacy of their data.

Making it illegal for them to pay just means that they can't look after that interest. Why would that be a good thing to do?
But that's still an L2 system, except that it's more capable. We can only guess whether this is 1 year or 20 years away from L3 or L4.
I’ve heard something similar in the past, and there are at least a couple studies that support the idea [0][1]

“...humans have on average a heart rate of around 60 to 70 beats per minute, give or take. We live roughly 70 or so years, giving us just over 2 billion beats all up.”[2]

Other animals follow a similar trend, according to [2], and I find that to be much more interesting.

[0] https://heart.bmj.com/content/99/12/882

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/174182671039427...

[2] https://www.sciencealert.com/relationship-between-heart-beat...
It costs them nothing, yeah just PR.

I doubt there's anything they 'get' from permanent residency vs not. Beyond PR, I doubt they've been waiting to get whatever they want from him up until today ;)

Whatever discussions with him they wanted to have likely concluded LONG ago.
I'm pretty sure the average amount of friends is more like 15-20 than 300.
There's always a loophole, I suppose.

By very loose analogy, either when playing chicken, or when you and a person walking towards you both repeatedly veer in the same direction to avoid collision, one tactic is to very conspicuously cover your eyes. The other person can then see that you will not re-correct based on their behavior. Though I know this option exists, I have never successfully used it. It's always difficult to truly intentionally commit to limit your options to respond to future circumstance.
Meh. I liked Emacs better when RMS still led the project than afterwards. Fewer changes that annoyed me.

RMS was definitely opinionated, but he was consistent about it, so that once you are familiar with some of his decisions, you could guess how he would decide other things.
He was planning to go to Ecuador, wasn't he? Which at the time was pretty friendly to those viewpoints. And then Ola Bini got arrested and detained so I don't think it's that friendly anymore.