skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the same way they are stopped now: infiltration, investigation, and waiting for them to make a mistake
You just saved me a ton of time. I wanted to investigate if I should try Nix but this is not going to fly. Thanks for the detailed comment.
Or go the browser way and make the filepicker system-level and granting access as you select.
There is no requirement to buy things on a loan. Many people do it because sometimes it is cheaper. Businesses tend to require it for ease of processing or because it's legitimate and secure. Like say a guy wants 6k car from your dealership and will pay in cash. For all you know it could've been stolen as part of a crime. That cashed he paid can be seized, potentially even with the vehicle. If it was done through a bank, the headache and loss is now on the bank instead.

In my experience as an american, to survive and have wealth, you need to be an accountant with your budget. Almost like treating your personal lifestyle as a business enterprise. Including all the wants and toys for yourself. It's a very simple thing to do even but many people forgo it it and just look at their bank account number, often forgetting the oncoming loan payment, things payed with a check, ach's, etc.

A good one people forget is student loans or cash out refinancing. That money in your bank account isn't equity. It is an asset offset by a liability. If you have 6k in cash but a 5k loan, your net worth is 1k. Most Americans just see the 6k, forget the 5k, and think that aforementioned 6k is free to be spent as they see fit.

Most Americans are just brained spendathon morons with money. Look at the money people donate to streamers! It still floors me people just make absurd donations...for what? Someone to play videogames on the internet? Not to mention juggling social status with finances, most Americans tend to opt for the status symbol as opposed to the cash in the bank. This is why you see college kids with escalades or camaros when they don't even have a reasonable job to afford a payment on them.
Putting someone in prison is an external imposition of retribution, not an internal act of contrition. It's completely inadequate, especially when discussing micro-aggressions, or cultural acts of bigotry which dehumanize at-a-distance.
Should we say that no building is really locked, since the fire department is alway able to force entry?
As a non-white person that also actually lives in the US, your comment couldn't be further from the truth.

America, the land of opportunity, is an incredible place for all cultures, and the best of its kind in the world. If you're looking for utopia, you won't find it anywhere, but this is nowhere near the hell you claim it to be. I would advise you experience what racism really is like when it's the entire nation and government like in the Middle East or even countries like Japan. Maybe that perspective would help.
You can look up who won in the last EU election in your country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_European_Parlia...

Just drop them a letter or call their office (both works fine).
Actually, that's an interesting question: does https://bellard.org/jslinux/ work in iOS's browser?
One theory why that happens:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement
We love all of you unconditionally. You just need to learn to love each other too
I know GCC supports generating multiple versions of a function, compiled for different instruction set extensions. And this can also be done manually when you have hand-optimized implementations: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-10.2.0/gcc/Common-Functio... It's based on a GNU extension to the ELF format, not preprocessor directives.

I don't think any of that would conflict with using bitcode for everything you don't have a hand-optimized machine-specific implementation of.
> the current home secretary appears to be Priti Patel.

Ah, Priti Patel, the minister that was forced to resign by the May government for having had several secret meetings with Israeli officials during her tenure. Enjoy the UK!
Maybe, but none of that has much to do with this article.

Right now "ready access to quantum computation" is more dependent on experimental physics than complexity theory and the kind of work that complexity theorists do that might be relevant to practical quantum computations (like improved error correction schemes) doesn't appear to have much to do with oracle results.

One place oracle results have proven useful theoretically is in excluding many approaches to proving P != NP. It's possible that a result like this one might one day contribute to a proof separating BQP from P but we still seem to be very far away from that and I doubt this result will advance the arrival of practical quantum computers in any meaningful way.
Carrington Event 1859
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

Interesting how perceptions of what was happening were so different then compared to this earlier event
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To me it felt like the R numbers was all over the place.
Yes.

1. Encrypt as normal.

2. Given a language model which can generate a choice of multiple possible next-symbols given what has already been written, use bytes from the cypher text to choose between the available options.

For example, using the predictive text options on my iPhone, and treating 0=left 1=right, the cypher text 011100 and the starting symbol “Hi”, I get:

“Hi I have heard from the other”

(Note: I’m fairly sure the iPhone predictive text system is personalised and therefore time-variable, but the general idea still applies if you are in full control of the system).

3. If the other party knows the model and the initial word, they can use an equivalent process to recover the cypher text and put that into the normal decryption routine.
> The pressure waves from both the unwanted exterior noise and manufactured anti-noise reach occupants’ eardrums at exactly the same time and cancel each other out.

What happens if your ears are not exactly where the system thinks they should be? If you are taller or shorter than they expect? If you are not sitting in the drivers seat? If you lean over?

My guess would be that the system makes things worse more often than it makes things better, if it relies on your ears being in the correct position.

The wavelength of middle C is something like 2 feet, so if your ears move by 1 foot will you be getting double noise, rather than zero noise?
a name is just a name. In the US there are two parties so leftists fall in either one or the other. Frankly the tactics and motivations taken by the democrat party is exactly leftist: authoritarian, pro-censorship, trying to justify authoritarian takeover by claiming social progress.
If you let fear be your guide you would never even leave the house.
Don't do bad things and there won't be terrorists.
Attack other countries, incite wars and you'll have them.

It's simple. Don't be a douche and no one will slap your face.
So that's a good argument to use when you call your MEP. The EC would be hoisting themselves on their own petard indeed!
If some bank tells me I have to use certain app to make business with them, it's my choice to do it or not, but they are not violating my freedom. And I find saying this is an "extreme violation of your freedom" insulting for those who are actually seeing their freedom violated.
You do run into a bit of a problem though: Amazon wants their cut, Apple wants their cut, the credit card company wants their cut, the publisher wants their cut, and there are likely others in the chain as well. That's not to say that each party doesn't deserve payment for their services, but there does have to be some limitations on how much they can take.
RMS was right and the community is afraid to admit it
If terrorism doesn't work there's always child pornography.
Do you do these sort of things often in production?
This is comically naive in the light of recent events. Trade wars will be over by the end of 2021, and _all_ of the US manufacturing capacity will move there now, unimpeded. The only thing that's stopping that now and forcing US companies to diversify are trade tensions.
Thanks for reading my posts carefully :-)

First off, the government needs revenue to function. It has to tax something to get it. Taxing pollution "internalizes the externalities" and serves two goals - providing revenue for the government, and discouraging pollution.

Isn't that better than discouraging productive behavior?
Looks interesting.

The times are pretty confusing, as they're in some other time zone. If you can't display them in the viewer's time zone, maybe do relative times like "5 hours ago"?
I was wondering the same thing.

Found this related question on Crypto Stackexchange: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/32767/how-to-disg...
It would probably be a different larger nation that's geopolitically opposed to China.
While I don't necessarily disagree with the conclusion (quit watching the polls so much if you're not a campaign manager), I feel obliged to point out that, for the second presidential campaign in a row, Rasmussen nailed it to within less than a single percentage point. Not that they're always perfect or anything, but...
Luckily, you can't 3D print an encryption key that would be useful in any way. Although, now I wish the guy from Lavabits had handed in his SSL cert as 3D printed letters and numbers like a puzzle.
Oh go on, it's worse than that.

She wanted to fund Israeli Army hospitals in the Golan Heights out of the UK foreign aid budget. Off her own back, without telling anyone.
And of course, government officials will be exempt from that backdoor. I would like to see CIA agreeing that FBI has "lawful" backdoor access to all their secrets.
How do we stop terrorism and criminals if we can't use encryption technology for ourselves?

There's only hundreds of bad guys (maybe), but there's millions of us. Where do you think the balance should be here? Who should be stronger?
"Zig 0.5.0 introduced async functions. This feature has no dependency on a host operating system or even heap-allocated memory. That means async functions are available for the freestanding target.

Zig infers whether a function is async, and allows async/await on non-async functions, which means that Zig libraries are agnostic of blocking vs async I/O. Zig avoids function colors."

Nice! I had the impression that Zig wasn't so simple as I've imagined it due to features like this, but this actually sounds like a lot of thought was put into this to adhere to Zig's principles. Looks cool!
I found the phoronix summary better than the sourceware email. The email proposed a feature and had “it could look like …” bikedshedding discussions back in July — the original phoronix page summaried the conclusion of adding the feature, including what the names are now called.

It’s useful to know where something started, but the original reference was better at explaining the current situation.
Worked for Amazon and Netflix.
first we need to establish an operable definition of what is considered 'extreme'.
were those of us who participated in the occupy movement extremists? many of the people involved had very strong anti government leanings, there were regular clashes with law enforcement, activists were subjected to surveillance efforts. is greenpeace extremist? what about animal rights activists? both have certainly engaged in far more concerted, adversarial and questionably legal efforts for their causes than a bunch of cringey and belligerent migapedes who offend the cultural sensibilities of coastal bloggers.

this becomes a problem as well, proud boys have been involved in violence... against other groups who were also actively seeking to enforce street violence. is this the result of a concerted campaign or does a group founded around crudity and bravado attract absolute knuckledragging choads who are likely to get into fistfights?
That seems like such a gross oversimplification I don’t even know where to start. There will always be those in society who want to do harm for one reason or another, utopia does not exist. These people are what we call criminals.
Your link is the medias factoid about mask wearing. And this is the problem, no one is explaining first principals to you.

You are probably thinking of this factoid in China about air conditioners and this diagram, which is not what we are talking about at all. (The evidence is downward air is what you want)

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-restaurant-air-condit...
That doesn't mean much. An angel investor could have still liked the idea.
I'm not a Brexiteer (never was either), but frankly I'm disgusted at the EU for this. People elsewhere on this thread keep bringing up Priti Patel and how she's much worse than an encryption ban, but she's a useless wench who won't be able to do shit, and at least we can kick her out of Cabinet, unlike the faceless super-bureaucracy of the EU.
Yes, many. But not in an overt way. And a fake phone will be more of a huge risk than an asset.
"Fraud"? Sorry, going against Tim Cook's will is not a crime.
Last I checked it was possible to run Mac OS in a VM on linux and install via USB tether. This isn't quite the grade school level of difficulty, but if you're using linux as your daily driver you're already accustomed to doing things the hardest way.
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Well, one way: If you do make it illegal:

1. Police finds e.g. a 19 year criminal gang member doing something mildly illegal.

2. Police inspects their phone

3. Police finds illicit encrypted chat app

4. Criminal gang member refuses to cough up password

5. Criminal gang member gets sentenced and cannot hurt the public while they are contained.
Fair enough in general. But specifically the first few generations of _ARM_ computers happened to have orange keys.
Can anyone with more experience elaborate on the pros and cons of Zig Vs Rust for systems programming? For example are there any efforts to write an OS in Zig?
Sure, but if you're doing RPC and it does a security check, this isn't all that different from filling out a form and getting a response. It's not empowerment since you don't get to do anything more with the data than you could otherwise.

That's not much like playing with your own data in a sandbox.
Thanks!

Yes, displaying times better is near the top of my todo list :)
Yes. There's so much effort to avoiding bashisms and learning additional languages (sed, awk) and many destros (particularly RHL/Fedora/RHEL, then later Ubuntu) settled on python almost 20 years ago now.
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You're distracting away from the main issue that the EP has no rights to overrule the EC.
There are many, many ways to print (escrowed) keys with a 3d printer... from punched cards, to "engraved" letters, to chains of 3d numbers, etc.
Not if Apple stops signing your dev certificate.
Without Apple helping you, you cannot install apps you compiled yourself on your own Apple device.
It clearly doesn't even look like the X if you look at the screen, with huge bezels on the top or bottom. This is just a cheap android with iOS software template.
I don't have the release notes done yet but we're doing a live release party on twitch right now: https://www.twitch.tv/kristoff_it

Edit: it's over now. I'm still working on the tarballs and release notes.
Well, burnout is positively correlated with lots of conditions that are in turn linked to higher mortality rates.
Interesting work, but:

“We believe that these findings are particularly timely in light of contemporary conversations surrounding gendered labor practices and inequality,” he added. “Labor practices among recent hunter-gatherer societies are highly gendered, which might lead some to believe that sexist inequalities in things like pay or rank are somehow ‘natural.’ But it’s now clear that sexual division of labor was fundamentally different — likely more equitable — in our species’ deep hunter-gatherer past.”

...the conclusion they're wanting from this, is not the one that logically follows. If truly ancient societies did have women hunting big game, and more recent hunter-gatherer societies pretty much exclusively do not, that would point strongly in the direction of something bad happening when you have the child-bearing half of your small population hunting big game. Probably NOT the conclusion the researchers were looking for.

Regardless of which, a better conclusion would have been "Early big-game hunters of the Americas were not exclusively male", which is not what the headline says (although it may be what the researchers meant, rather than the reporter).
> So I take it being apolitical in a democracy is akin to saying you support the majority who voted.

I'm not sure that's true. After all, in a normal decade the majority political party changes at least once, in both the USA and the UK. With or without my action, I really don't know who would win an election that was called right this instant in the UK; I really don't know which side I'm supporting by not undertaking political activity right now. The default state of affairs without my action is not "continue as we currently are indefinitely"; the default is "every few years, change the government"!

I do vote; voting is the system we have collectively landed on for aggregating preferences across the population, and I do have preferences. But if I did not vote (and am therefore implicitly "voting for" the majority), I don't see how that could be reasonably viewed as a political act, because I don't know who I'm "voting" for as I do it!
For using Python packages that are avialable via pip I have been quite happy with [mach-nix](https://github.com/DavHau/mach-nix), which can pull prebuilt python wheels(?) from pip directly. You can also configure it to obtain those packages in other ways, like from source via pip or from nixpkgs. You can also feed it Python packages you have in source code form locally.
This is madness. Oh, of course, it's much easier to put a wrench into some gears to show that you are actually working at "solving the terrorism problem" than shaving the yaks, but that machine is actually important for other things.

We live in a dangerous world. We cannot control everything. I don't mind a slight risk of terrorist attack on myself or my family (caveat lector: I am young), if that means greater freedom.

In my book this is the first step towards authoritarianism: ensure that the state survives at all costs. And being able to spy on the whole population to track outlaws and dissidents is part of this. There is an invisible barrier between what's legal and what's not. Crossing it isn't hard, look at extinction rebellion and other civil disobedience protestors. Yet, on the other side, your trusted options are very limited, and encryption is one of those. I'd argue that letting citizens communicate and organize privately is a vital component of democracy, even allowing citizens to seize control of the state if they deem it necessary. More so than U.S.A.'s "Second amendment", encryption is an arm citizens should legally be able to bear.

Now, it is obviously hypocritical to offer such a thing, as politicians certainly wouldn't want their texts to be snooped on, would they? Any bill that requests backdoors should request them from everyone.

And don't get me started on how governments recommend their own to use Matrix and Signal, the very apps they aim to backdoor, because they are secure. You can't both have your cake and eat it, too.

A useful thing to explain encryption backdoors is the TSA master keys: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12177079

Their very existence made locks less secure (possibility of a key leak), and those are worthless against thieves now that master keys have leaked (you can 3D print them).
Even worse, if you mention the "telemetry" in VSCode, you get a PR barrage of downvotes and comments saying it's "optional" and Microsoft isn't like facebook and they don't depend on data. Nevermind that data is the direction nadella wants to take microsoft - free windows 10, linkedin, github, etc.

The "love" you see for microsoft, gates, etc here is bizarre.
This has been going on in the West for as long as encryption has been a technology. I remember an encryption ban being discussed in RIPA 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...

Security services always demand total access to communications. It requires constant democratic pushback.
Why not have an a-la-carte model instead? Assuming many people only listen to a couple hundred songs per months, at Spotify's per stream rate of .3-.5¢, they would pay a lot less if they only paid for the music they were listening to.

I think the "user centric" model has potential for problems because artists would feel cheated that they don't get paid proportional to how many listens they drive. And why shouldn't they feel cheated? If someone is listening to an artist for hours a day, everyday, then that person is getting a lot more value out of the artist than a measly 7 bucks(/euros) per month. So it's natural for the artist to demand to be paid more. The issue is basically that the more money comes not from the person who's driving more listens, but instead from other users who are using the service far less.

The pro-rata approach basically exists to hides this unfairness, since paying for a streaming subscription feels like paying a fixed cost for a fixed service (access to a massive library). But there's potential for disruption, I think, via a service that exposes this unfairness through a-la-carte rates.
> The free market has shown a total inability to capture externalities

Yeah, which is why I regularly propose taxes on pollution to "internalize the externalities".

Free market capitalism requires a functioning government, at the least to provide protection of our rights and enforcement of contracts. This requires police, a court system, and a military to defend it all.

Single payer health care is not a necessity for a functioning free market economy, any more than the government must run collective farms.

> Find a private company, and have them do it.

Government contracting is not free market, and suffers from most of the ills of the government doing it directly.

> I don't believe Biden will have "central economic planners"

Of course Biden will. You can't oversee $2 trillion in spending otherwise.
Do you want to make money building software, or do you want to see how far you can push Apple’s patience by building software that breaks clearly defined AppStore rules?

This is not hard.
Some developers have made half a trillion. Others have lost probably a lot more.

The problem with a closed ecosystem that capriciously removed apps isn't that you can't make money. It's effectively protectionism, with those allowed inside the walled garden having less competition and therefore an easier time taking profits.

The problem is the risk.
Relevant European activist group: https://edri.org/
It continues " There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law" [to ensure everyone's safety].

E2e encryption that is "safe from courts" isn't protected.
I bet nobody read the proposal...

EU commission chose signal as official chat app and has been pushing E2E encryption for everybody for a long time.

A law proposal has been presented to enforce mandatory E2E encryption in 2017

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/procedure/EN/2017_3

UK particularly opposed to it.

Also Germany.

This is another proposal, and that's just what it is, a proposal, it has no other value than that.
This is where privateering comes in... these issues existed in the past and are hard to solve. Privateers gave the state the ability to look the other way.
At the pleasure of Apple.
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts-on-...
I’ll have to check that out. The feasibility would depend on whether I have to buy a Mac OS license just to do this.