skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> isn't the NSA the agency that published the weak Elliptic Curve Cryptography constant that allowed a backdoor into SSL encryption?

Assuming what you meant is closer to "Don't I remember something to do with elliptic curves, and the NSA and an SSL backdoor?" then sure, you do remember that confluence of topics.

The NSA proposed Dual_EC_DRBG which is a cryptographically secure random number generator with weird properties, it successfully had Dual_EC_DRBG included in the NIST standard and in RSA (the company not the cryptography) BSAFE around 2004 or so.

Dual_EC_DRBG is clearly worse than the existing state of the art as a random number generator - the numbers aren't as random as you'd like, but it also possesses a potential backdoor. If the designers chose to do so they could pick values such that they know a secret they can use to find out your seed values from your output. The NSA's Dual_EC_DRBG does not explain how it picked the values used. In cryptography it's usual to pick "Nothing Up My Sleeve" numbers, such as decimal digits from Pi when constants are necessary and you want to show that you have no nefarious motive for picking the ones used. This was not done for Dual_EC_DRBG. The New York Times claims to have (but has never shown anybody) smoking gun evidence that the NSA deliberately picked values allowing them a backdoor.

Even without that evidence, we know this type of algorithm would be vulnerable to such things and we know it's not otherwise better than what we have, so it's weird they wanted people to use it.

If participants used Dual_EC_DRBG as their only or main source of randomness, then yes it's likely that the NSA knows the backdoor and could get back their seed values and thus get back the ephemeral secret keys they are using for SSL/TLS.
How do the recruiters find you on the internet?
yesterday I was trying to figure out how to look up the nameservers of a domain including the vanity/parent nameservers using a tool like nslookup or host, it took me a good 10 rephrasings before i found a stackoverflow post answering the question, and not just a tutorial on how to set up vanity nameservers at X registrar/hosting company
This has potential to cost them a lot.

Isn't the plan to have everyone offered a vaccine this year?

In which case nobody will be buying any doughnuts?

And the number of free ones they have to hand out might bankrupt them...
When the Chinese GOVT says "stay at home", you-better-stay-at-home.
That's the difference with the EU, and don't let me start on the US.
Exactly. Whoever came up with that design couldn’t be more ignorant.
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I uh, don’t see anything in this article except fluff? It basically says ‘researchers were in wuhan’.

The original I read had such helpful statements as ‘the chinese government insisted that every outside researcher was accompanies by a chinese partner’, ‘the government took days to procure the data, and when they finally did, a lot was missing’ and ‘a visit to x was denied for unclear reasons’.

I’m sorry, I’m vaguely remembering these, so they may not be 100% accurate.

Then the western researchers made one gloriously ambiguous statement while still in China, and turned about after they left the country.
I was quite fond of the Swatch internet time or Beat time [0]. It divided the day into 1000 beats, discarded daylight saving and time zones. The only quirk is that the time source is derived from CET / Biel Mean Time (BMT) as opposed to UTC due to the Swatch corporation being headquartered in Beal Switzerland.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
AZ sells at cost
Even if people just go from 5 office days per week to 4, that’s a reduction in office use by say 20% (in reality slightly less because at 4 days/week in office I’d want a personal desk which I wouldn’t at 1-2 days/week, but on the other hand a few days a week I’d be fine with sitting in a shared space as I can focus when I’m at home).

The question isn’t how many companies will “go remote”, it’s what fraction of the week people will be remote on average. What happens to the market for office space of demand drops 20% in a year?

I think the idea of 100% in office for no other reason than “managers like the idea of seeing people work” is dead. Some companies will keep this policy but those companies will be at a huge disadvantage in recruiting.
Exactly same experience here. I made it. Changed my workplace for the first time after 2 years. It's something really nervous but if you think you need it, go for it. Your path is your responsibility. :)
> though it makes me anxious if I look at it longer than 3 seconds

I've read that people with Trypophobia can often have similar reactions to these GAN type generated images. You may want to look into seeing if you have a mild case of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia
Path to be super rich using Nikola Tesla’s middle name
You have to be careful not to damage the square part when crimping. Some have a little tab that give a guide how far you can push it in to the tool without damaging it.
If your business’s success depends on charging people money they’ll regret spending once they see a payment confirmation one second later, you should find a new business idea asap.
Did anyone try to set -100 Dollar? ;-)
You just confirmed my point. The EU -in contrast to the US and the UK- did not want any exclusivity. They wanted collaboration and a fair distribution of vaccines. They negotiated on a EU level exactly to avoid any nationalistic competition. I am not saying that the US/UK strategy is bad in any objective way. I am just saying that it is the same strategy.
That’s what he originally had. ...Then he had a rough patch and asked his investors to switch to 2/20, so that he could keep operations running also during bad years. His investors agreed and 2/20 was born...
Use Rider.
A lot of links are on Reddit, which I can't access. But have a look at [1] and more specifically [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+censoring+messages

[2] https://linustechtips.com/topic/912936-facebook-private-chat...
> I can't offer a general solution, but if password managers simply refused to autofill to any field other than the one with the matching standard autocomplete attribute, web developers might start doing the right thing.

Unlikely. The password managers would just lose users.

I've even caught myself being annoyed at 1Password when it doesn't work while the cause is obviously the website doing some stupid thing.

I wonder how 1Password works on this problem though, do they just accept the crap and keep working on their guessing magic or do they also invest in standardization?
I have to wonder if the upvoters realize I'm talking about the US State department...
The problem is that there is even a counter movement to it, praising C with Classes kind of code, Orthodox C++.
China did a harder lockdown than any other country has done. Right from the beginning. Took an immense toll to its economy, right from the beginning. A WHO team was there investigating and gathering information on public health from the beginning.

I'm sorry, but in this case, China is the country who told the rest of the world what to do and the west, with its superiority mentality over the east, ignored it and got a while year economy down the drain.

In my book, conspiracies will always make their way to those who want to believe them.
There's two fallacies I think you've touched on here, one is that there is an "objectively best" music. Music is so tightly coupled to cultural movements, very subjective, and extremely broad in scope, it just can't be the case.

The second I feel is that people would still be interested in AI music in a meaningful way. I think AI music has a following now because it's interesting and novel, and that gives it a story, but once it's mainstream, that story is boring and people will go back to seeking real culturally relevant music.

Sure the music on TikTok/IG and friends could be generated, but I am not sure I care too much. Those platforms are almost entirely vapid, void of authenticity already, the music being fake too doesn't detract that much.
The lab leak theory originally came from netizens in China, and then it gained traction in the West. There was some sketchy stuff going on at the WIV, personnel disappearing from their website, etc.
Regarding the accusations of racism, it's really annoying to be someone somewhat in the know after living in China having my firsthand experience discounted because it doesn't line up with the SJW perspective. I really like China. However, if I say that sanitary conditions there are abhorrent, it seems like pointing that out here gets me in trouble. It's just really frustrating seeing lots of people regurgitate what they've read or seen on tv from shoddy or biased reporting.
Not sure if it's a counterpoint or an agreement, but Communication softwares are already not interoperable with themselves:

* In discord, you need to install the "native" client to be able to share your screen or see other peoples' shared screen. The web client cannot.

* Microsoft Teams in Firefox does not do Calls; "Native" Microsoft Teams in Linux cannot "raise hand"; Microsoft Teams in Chromium on Linux cannot do the background thing.

Some of those may have evolved, I have only used Teams in chromium recently.
It happens in the comments here still, and not necessarily a malice. A kneejerk reaction to any claim amplified by the former administration, even if it's "the sky is blue". Same reason many otherwise sane folks mourned Soleimani.
Didn't see anything in the article - has anyone come across sources for more details on the actual network architectures/algorithms they used? That they prefaced one of the algo names with Alpha is probably a good clue...
I have tyro-phobia and yeah those Gan images freak me out, any solution for tyro-phobia?
They are offensive munitions, yes.
> Simply put because AI is way too stupid for that kind of stuff. When we talk about AI today most of what we talk about is actually just processing sensory input at a low level.

This is a very narrow view of AI. In fact, the limitations you are talking about apply only to deep learning (which is frequently and mistakenly confused for AI nowadays). Other well-studied branches of artificial intelligence include planning [1] and reasoning [2].

By far the biggest problem is to formalize the real world and build a realistic simulation which the AI system can play with. After that, a decent system would blow most humans out of the water.

> Even Deepmind's starcaft bot was stupid in this sense. It didn't understand starcraft strategy at all (which was visible in it's nonsensical unit combinations it was building) but simply out-microed its opponent, it just had better mechanics.

Maybe, what about go and chess? The feeling there was that humans did not understand the game very well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_planning_and_schedul...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_reasoning
Impira? The tiny startup led by a bushy-tailed twenty-something CEO? Why would the author apply there?! Did Impira even exist in 2013?

And... Kite? The Python refactoring plugin that's always mired in low-grade controversy and barely has any funding? Sure, interviews are a crapshoot, but... why?!
It may not be a pleasant message, but it's not asinine: if a random user can think of it, you can be sure someone is or was working on it.
As an avid StarCraft player I still think AlphaStar is one of the most impressive AI programs ever made. While it didn't get everything quite right, it exhibited planning and creativity in it's builds, and didn't just do the same exact thing every time; it scouted and reacted to the opponent's moves with professional-level proficiency.
It REALLY helps with self control. Whenever a customer wants a new WP theme, I must resist the urge to beat them viciously.
This has somewhat opened my eyes.

Looking in at the US from abroad, most people I know locally have been highly upset by US 'cancel culture'. Why? The lack of courts, the fact that people's lives, careers, and works have been ruined with "mob like" mentality, is horrifying.

Couple that with what you've just said, that the 'cancel culture' is a 'left' thing in the US, and this becomes more and more clear. As a Canuck, US / Canadian politics often do not align, and we have no political divide on these lines, so I did not even realise that 'cancel culture' was a 'left' thing until now.

It can often be difficult to decipher things from afar.

We also do things differently. Note, I'm not saying "better", just "differently". I honestly have no idea if this sort of behaviour is literally required, for change in the US, but it isn't well tolerated here by any one I know. Note that, fortunately, we have many political parties. And as a result, this ends up with people not aligning themselves with "just this or that party", as a general rule.

Sure, people will pick a party during an election, but even then people generally think 'this mostly matches with me, but that other party kinda does too, but I'll vote for $x...'. Further, we don't even elect our Prime Minister directly.. which also helps.

My point in all this rambling, is just to give a bit of insight into 'things are different', and how it seems to dull the sharp edges on 'us versus them'. And also because I know this next bit is somewhat sensitive, however?

Most people here, see little difference between US 'cancel culture', and 'what your prior US president did'.

Both? Decided to appeal to mob mentality. Both, decided to disregard courts. Both, claim there is 'no other way', but to take direct action.

The concept of people massing in DC, and storming political buildings, like some banana republic, or alternatively, hearing rumours and using it to destroy people's lives -- without trial, evidence, or all that 'nonsense', are two sides of a coin.

It's all the same method. It's casting aside process, rule of law, belief in the system, and more.

So I'd urge anyone, anywhere, with whatever politics in the US to think hard on this.

There's no case, ever, no matter what, where throwing out the concept of due process is right and correct. Ever.
Nice use of imaging technology. Newcastle got off lightly.
of course not, that's why I was wondering about the effectivity of this life saving spray.
In an alternative universe, where we only had AZ maybe it would be considered awesome, but in our dimension, we have vaccines which offer better protection and fewer side-effects than AZ.

AZ's always been clouded in controversy from the botched trials, to the reduced effectiveness against variants up to the significant discomfort after vaccination in a non-negligible amount of people. And then there was the rare form of thrombosis, which is not 100% elucidated yet.

Why would anyone with a choice want AZ when there's Pfizer? And this is exactly what was happening all over Europe, but also in the US and Israel - people choose Pfizer in spite of the costs and complicated distribution.

It's particularly telling that the US prefers keeping tens of millions of doses of the super-awesome AZ on ice and continues with Pfizer.
lolz get sold :Ð
> Pretty sure the DoD is trying to use AI technology absolutely everywhere they can.

Exactly. This reminds me of the following quote:

"AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." -Larry Teslar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

AI is used all over the place in the military, but we sort of ignore the boring AI used e.g. in logistics in most conversations.
Shouldn't Amazon also be bidding on Discord? Discord and Twitch are already a perfect marriage and any chance of losing that could seriously stunt Twitch.
a reduction in office use by say 20%

Only if people stagger their off days equally across the week. If instead everybody takes Friday off, you still need the same office capacity Monday-Thursday.
So both China's government and 1.4B populace have their shit together, fully solved at ~0 infections pre-vaccine for one full year now, but the US, the EU, the newly non-EU UK, and (to a lesser extent) Japan all failed miserably?
Gen Z is getting screwed by remote work, Microsoft survey finds
No, it's the botched trials, reports about reduced effectiveness from politicians and specialists and reports about side-effects.
Wow, confusing language in there. But NOLO makes it clear that the service member limitation relates to both clauses, not just the last one. [1] Good catch!

Seems the limit for non-service members is still 2 months, or 3 for furnished. Landlords can add 1/2 month for a water bed, curiously.

1: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-security-...
Even if they are on a Million of Server with $10 per Chip it is still only $10M. Compared to R&D and other cost of designing, Fabbing, and testing, other Tools Set provided by ARM ecosystem this is a rounding error in TCO.
From 2002! Almost twenty years old
Perhaps this is because land is over-valued.
Yep. There's a growing desire of even open source projects to shove updates down your throat without any recourse for you as user. I see such software as trojan horse. Developers argue that you need much needed updates with security fixes, etc. Which is of course true. But there's no justification for denying user the freedom of controlling when to update.

EDIT: But seeing this in Docker doesn't surprise me at all. It's this kind of project that knows better than you. Compare this with general purpose tools such as SSH, Git, gcc. There's nothing special about projects like Docker and Snap and they will get eventually replaced by projects that expose more knobs to fit (private) use cases of other users.
Curiously, flight is much better suited to automation than driving. It's an easier control problem. Which is why planes and space vehicles have been taking off, flying and landing on their own for the past four decades, while the equivalent isn't true for cars even today.
I've personally been in voice calls on discord with thousands of people. Obviously it's impossible to pick out anything discernable with that many people but discord handles it well.
What languages let the user do this?
That’s because they are forgeries, a good reproduction costs a lot of money, not as much as the original but it’s quite common to commission reproduction copies of famous paintings ones that will use period materials and techniques can cost a small fortune on their own.

This is also very common with statues that are even more expensive due to the materials and labor cost, a good copy of say David that isn’t a cast can cost high six figures easily.
Anecdote of a second one guy: you're not alone to feel like that.
What about Skype for Business?
Yes, but probably not in your computer. I'm sure that there are daily attempts to breach into government networks around the world.
Your conspiracy would have to go across multiple state-owned power companies, communist governments, and countries at economic war with each other.

Why hasn't Shenzhen rediscovered it? Everyone's rediscovered nuclear power and fusion bombs by now.
Dogfighting itself is obselete, and has been for decades. Modern missiles are simply too good.
The new 2019 MBP has a physical escape key. The touch bar is fantastic for my needs. I love being able to adjust applications with a touch panel slider. I do audio/video work from time to time.

I can see programmers hating it though.
Modern AI wins at games where the rules are known (like go, or even Dota), but war irl is a game where you need to invent and adapt to a changing set of rules.

As an example - if we had modern ai in ww2, it would help with the position of tanks and soldiers, but wouldn’t invent the idea of breaking Enigma, or the idea of making decoy tanks for the d-day.
Many companies do apply this proactively. It's just that you pay no notice to the 'lack' of incidents.
Reallity probably is that code was not optimized python which was writen as POC and not touched after initial write. Python is usually fast enough when using numpy,scipy etc.
Equity is only valuable if they turn it into something you can sell. Do they have any plans to go public?
Haha...this was a good one. We do have indexing robots in the form of Google maps Street view cars though.
Golang gotchas are fun :) Some of them are for beginners while others will trip you up even when you've done a lot (e.g., variable shadowing). Here's another golang gotchas post from a while back: http://devs.cloudimmunity.com/gotchas-and-common-mistakes-in...
Nerdctl: Docker-Compatible CLI for Containerd
Do it with Inform6 please :D
Right. There is a very reasonable explanation for the work they were doing. They were trying to modify existing non harmful viruses, to determine if it could evolve into a harmful virus. In order to do this, they created a harmful virus. As long as the biocontainment is perfect, this is potentially useful research.

Unfortunately, SARS-CoV-2 is a very contagious virus, so it's hard to contain. A lot of ink has been spilled about the Wuhan BSL-4 lab, but these viruses were only considered to be a BSL-3 pathogen, and were handled in Baric's lab at UNC in their BSL-3. I would assume that they would also have been handled at the WIV's BSL-3. There had been reports of biocontainment lapses at the WIV, and there have been a number of lab escapes of various pathogens including SARS at other Chinese labs.
I mostly agree with you, although I'd make one pedantic argument:

The 12" MacBook made a great set of compromises (other than keyboard reliability) for the goal it intended to achieve. I had one for several years and loved it.

The mistake was taking the compromises from the 12" and applying them to the rest of the lineup, where they made no sense at all.
Your whole argument is undermined by the massive orders the EU put for this vaccine and how it was and is fighting to get those orders delivered in spite of all the screw-ups by AZ. Seriously, how do you come up with these conspiracy theories about Brexit hatred and then write with a straight face about "propaganda"?
I sometimes find myself going to Google for some complex queries or obscure error messages as well, but I'll usually try an alternative query first.

In this case, DDG happens to have a bang shortcut for postgres which takes you directly to the search results on the PostgreSQL site if you query !postgres array_agg.

There's a surprisingly large number of these which end up making it more useful than the generic web search results page overall.
I re-upped my lease just after WFH and they didn't raise the rent. So I'm not going anywhere and it seems like we'll be back to normal-er by the time it comes up again.