skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And, as I mention, pointing that out was a contribution of the paper.

Maybe I didn't make it clear. The open question prior to this paper was not "precisely how did the algorithm implement a specific level of security", the question was: what is that specific level of security? This was totally unknown and not specified by the designers.

Notice that the specification doesn't define the desired security, in the same way that it defines, say, the key size. It just handwaves towards 'should be exportable'. I can't find a copy of the requirements document anymore, but the quote given in the spec doesn't specify anything more than that statement.

>I think this 40 bit limit is well documented for other encryption algorithms. I couldn't find it in any (old) US regulation text though after a cursory search.

In the United States (note: GEA-1 was not a US standard) some expedited licenses were granted to systems that used effective 40 bit keys. In practice (for symmetric ciphers) this usually meant RC2 and RC4 with explicitly truncated keys. GEA-1 does not have a 40-bit key size -- a point I made in the previous post. It has a 64-bit key size. Nowhere does anyone say "the requirement for this design is effective 40-bit security": they don't say anything at all. It could have had 24 bit security, 40 bit security, 56 bit security or even 64-bit security.

ETA: Moreover, there is more to this result than 40-bit effective keysize. A critical aspect of this result is that the attackers are able to recover keys using 65 bits of known keystream. The uncompromised GPRS algorithms require several hundred (or over 1000) bits. Note that these known plaintext requirements are somewhat orthogonal to keysize: capturing 65 bits of known keystream is possible in protocols like GPRS/IP due to the existence of structured, predictable packet headers -- as the authors point out. Capturing >1000 bits may not be feasible at all. That's really significant and interesting, and not the result one would expect if the design goal was simply "effective 40-bit key size". One has to wonder if "ability to perform passive decryption using small amounts of known plaintext" is also included in the (missing) security design requirements document. I bet it isn't.
> Everyone at the SEC is keenly aware that bagging a high-ranking financier is a ticket to higher office.

Just speculating here, but I imagine everyone at the SEC is also aware that going after someone with 9-figures-and-higher wealth may not be cut and dry. At those levels, the person you are going after can wreck your [and all your colleagues] lives in new and interesting ways that aren't apparent.
It's efficient collateral reducing killing of people who "need to be killed" when it's the West doing it, but uncivilized brutish terrorism when the Other does it.
Besides paid advertisements, what other uses are there? Like propaganda? Let's say your totalitarian regime wanted everyone to love the dear leader even more. What are you going to do about it when you accidentally discover that the smart speaker is subversive? Or maybe a group of hackers wants to convince millions of people that buying the latest bitcoin fad/WSB meme/NFT is a sound financial decision? Are we one vulnerability in Alexa away from this?
The price of groceries going up is a good thing?
No. Not in the least.

The argument is that normal people (not Adichie, not celebrities) see the bigotry of celebrities in the media, and see it as justifying their own bigotry. Some of those non-celebrities might be violent.
the point is that the US is the only super-power. so comparing BadThings done by the US with BadThings done by Russia or Nigeria or some other place would be nothing but whataboutism.

if a country is nr. 1 and runs the biggest propaganda operation the world has ever seen (Hollywood, Netflix, but also US based social media companies inventing algorithms that influence and steer behavior) then they need to be treated with large amount of pressure and critic to everything they do (justified or not).

The problem in all of this is that the emperor has no clothes. E.g. the emperor being the polarized US public that doesn't see that their country didn't have any form of coherent foreign policy that wasn't a racist, war-mongering and hypocrite "America first" (since at least Reagan).
look at her work. Her work is what brought her to the forefront. Automatically assuming being overly ideal just by way of being young is whist at best and dumb at worst.
That is, indeed, a good response and question. Like you can't have a cellphone without giving money to China, for example.

The only way I see is to avoid consumerism, being conscious about it and voting on politicians with that kind of ideal and then, only then, someday, there should be a little bit of a chance for change.
Read her paper on Amazon.
Nice username for it :) Is this your first sabbatical?
It's even worse: after the Plague there was a big economic growth due to the shrinking of the population.
Wages are part of inflation. That's why the same CEO's complaining about inflation are complaining that they "can't" hire staff.
This is sad to read, as Felleisen has done some great research (I'm thinking of A-Normal Form). However, this doesn't excuse the conduct outlined here.
The histrionic name-calling makes it difficult to take seriously. The standard criticisms of DDG are nestled in a sticky ooze of weird accusations like "Tor Project accepted a $25k “contribution” (read: bribe) from DDG", or "DDG consumed a room at FOSDEM 2018 to deliver a sales pitch".
Postmortem: Ensemble's Age of Empires (1998)
Academic history is storytelling rather than a recollection of facts. This is why there are different analysis modes and multiple views of the same events can all be valid work.

That said, it is definitely the case that academic history is written for other academics and is often terribly dry for people outside of the field. There are exceptions, but little about a book itself will tell you whether it is one of the ones that are well suited for amateur readers.
The Art of Being Right - Schopenhauer
Traditionally whenever anyone pointed out that it was the just priest speaking and not actually the word of god(s), they were horrifically tortured to death. I guess this is progress.
The Richest Man In Babylon was a really good and quick read.
I think it's exceedingly rare for an outstanding technical contributor like Matthew Butterick to also be a pathological liar, especially in ways that would hurt their own career.
They set monetary policy based on their forecasts of the economy. In principle, they could set their monetary policy target at whatever level they choose, but in practice they're just responding to the economy, so they have a great deal of uncertainty about their own decisions.[1]

[1] There's also the matter of changes in the voting members of the FOMC over time.
Postmortem: Ensemble Studio's Age of Empires II: Age of Kings (2000)
I suggest changing the title to "Maintaining a Stable Protobuf API with Buf" as the answer to all the questions raised is essentially "use Buf".
"Projects" because nobody knows what's going to happen between now and 2023. If things develop the way the Fed currently projects that they will, then they will raise rates in 2023.
The US government could tax the population at 100% of GDP and it wouldn't make a dent in the national debt. Also the US government can print it's own money.
> kids are in so much danger we need to pass otherwise ridiculous laws just to protect them

Also: "kids are in so much danger, you must elect me to keep them safe!" or "kids are in so much danger, tune in at 6 O'Clock to find out why!"
I imagine an interstellar civilization would have this to say about planets:

“A nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there”
It's not like the banks and lenders aren't wise to the idea of mortgage's getting reduced by inflation. They calculate and compensate for inflation and make offers accordingly.
IMO the only thing the everyday person can do about pretty much anything big nowadays is to vote and hope for slow change during decades.
Maybe you missed it, that’s fair value at future cash flows at about an 8% discount rate.
I think it's silly for them to announce what they're going to do in 2023. There will be a new Fed chair by then. The economic situation is impossible to predict in 2 years. The inflation / employment numbers are impossible to know precisely.
That's not what "revisionist" means in the context of history. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism
I do not read something like that out of that quote.

Vaccines, emergency medicine, construction or farming equipment, all these things that make life easier, healthier and longer are not what GPs comment was about.

It talked about technology that was needed to fix problems created by earlier technology (think: someone has to write an ad-blocker because someone else optimized distributing advertisements).
Anyone want to buy a barely, used mint condition Oculus Quest?
It's so inspiring what can be done with just the HTML5 canvas and (a lot of) time. That is one creative dude.
There's this weird dichotomy in Economics where what's good for "The Economy" is often bad for you, the individual. And vice versa. This isn't true for everything, of course, but I've definitely noticed it whenever you hear stories about inflation, the price of gas, wages going up, the dollar being 'strong', etc.
> a couple neighbors stop by to warn us that they'd seen our kids several streets over, thinking they'd gotten away from us

Like dogs?!
I would have upvoted this article except for the fact that it popped up not one but two pop-up windows asking for my email address.
But Ms. Adichie says that she was telling people to pick up machetes and attack her. Is she lying?
You can reduce false positives by trying to identify base64-seeming strings that are 11 characters long. Above a certain amount of entropy and uppercase/lowercase/digit distribution, etc. You might risk false negatives, but different flags for different levels of sensitivity could help with that.
I am seeing this, too. Oftentimes, ostensibly in the interest of protecting children from harm, we try to control their behavior with increasingly disproportionate ultimatums, to the point where the authority's response is vastly more harmful than the situation itself.

It seems that nowadays we have an extremely interventionist culture, and it leaves us ill-equipped to recognize situations where the best thing to do is nothing at all.

It's not just around child-rearing. I have chronic pain from a decades-old sports injury, and well-meaning people frequently advise me to get surgery to fix it. There's a tacit assumption that, by choosing to live with it, I'm simply being complacent. (There's also, for that matter, a tacit assumption that an appropriate procedure exists in the first place.) If I point out that the surgery for my sort of thing tends to have much worse long-term outcomes than choosing not to pick at it, then I'm generally told that I just haven't found the right surgeon. Similar for my nearsightedness - I have one family member who thinks I'm crazy for not getting LASIK surgery. My take is myopia can be effectively treated with an inexpensive and non-invasive device, while LASIK comes with significant risk of causing different kinds of visual impairments that cannot be treated, so the risk/reward balance just isn't right for me. But that's not how they see it. What they see is that I'm just being weak-willed, because I'm opting not to do something when there's something that could be done.

But it upsets me more when it's child-rearing, because then it's adults choosing to screw up the life of another person who doesn't have any say in the matter. Ostensibly for their own good, but, more accurately, I think, because the adult feels like this is how they need to perform their role.
I mean, surely if one isn't absolutely clueless it would be pretty obvious what is being developed. Sure, she didn't code the active part of the malware, but the types of information being passed & displayed would almost certainly tip off what her employer was up to. I'm sure they know what a front-end dev does, none of that sounds like something beyond the job description.

It does seem shitty that all the other suspects had their names redacted except her, she likely wasnt high level in the organization, so singling her out like this is shitty. If the other suspects are still under investigation, react all the names until they can be made public. But that's a legal, not technical, issue.
I don't understand what difference you're trying to make between utility and predictive power. If you can give information on what approach in general will be better to approach office politics that is just a prediction. It doesn't mean that these predictions have to be always right, but if they don't have predictive power and are no better than a coinflip, that "understanding" is just a post-rationalization that doesn't provide any utility at all.

At the very least, it seems to me like the person I originally responded to would also disagree with judging social sciences for its "utility" - the article they linked specifically contrasted it with the natural sciences that "solve problems".
The world is a much less friendly place than most kindergartens. Saying sorry both acknowledges culpability and results in losing face. An adult issuing a true apology to another adult is very rare.
Inflation is good for anyone with debt, which includes most of the US population. (Assuming that wages rise to match inflation, of course)
Felleisen is an academic, and his behaviour is very common in academia. It's trivial for college professors to get away with bullying people. In comparison, the software industry is relatively friendly and rewarding.
I haven't read the author. Is it necessary to establish yourself as a critical, independent thinker to be a novelist? Tolstoy's ideas were often silly, but he was a tremendous novelist.

As for uncancelable, what does that even mean? That the idle and excitable will quit barking at you on Twitter? If it just means you won't care, why bother with the establishment bit.
Does Prime make the fees for grocery delivery get much smaller/go away?

If you have a Prime membership the Whole Foods delivery is free, though it's nice to tip the delivery person.
This presupposes two questionable assumptions: that you have any choice in the matter, and that technology itself isn't the thing that is making your life nasty, brutish, and short.
Maybe even just an Air Tag?
Actually, because of legacy support issues and quality of service requirements, a lot of Emergency services are still using it instead of newer tech. Also, a lot of low data consumption IoT devices use older, but also cheaper, chipsets that use this for their telemetry backbone.
you don’t need to say thank you to the cashier. there are self checkouts. the cashier is a pointless job and should be abolished. I should not be forced to talk to them because some company isn’t willing to upgrade their infrastructure.
This story at face value is so far beyond what is necessary for a code of conduct to address. From the author's description, nobody is defending Felleisen, the project has just decided that they are better off with him regardless of his assholeness than they are without him. Whether that is true or not is up for debate.

This is not a CoC issue, this is an issue of enforcement, and in the absence of enforcement a CoC isn't worth the paper its written on.
Insane that they don't use Google authentication to allow you to sign into the phone beforehand.
I've heard somewhat mixed things from my historian friends.

But you'll be happy to hear that "sometimes uses outdated sources or oversimplifies stuff" is a common criticism of basically all academic history written outside of the last 20 years, so he is in decent company.
wages rarely keep up with inflation, real inflation, most companies are till running on 1-2% COLA annually, that is far far lower than actual inflation was, and much lower than inflation is now

This is on the back of many companies having a wage freeze in 2020 due to the pandemic

This is also why you will see alot of companies having a turn over crisis as switching employers will not be more profitable for employee's than every before. I see every limited signs that the HR dept's at most companies even recognize this problem currently, and the few that due are powerless to stop it because it seems many companies just refuse to give large annual raises to current staff but will happily replace them at high rates.

This is with out even getting started on the Time bomb of SocSec, as they also have not kept payments up to meet inflation largely because they can not. there is no money to fund it. So if your retired depending on SocSec income for your survival you are screwed, better hope you have family you can live with

>If you hold a mortgage, it can potentially be good...

Hold debt is only good if you wages go up more than inflation. While sure you may pay less for the home itself, you repair and maintenance expenses are going up... Right now, some repair and maintenance cost for home ownership are leading inflation by ALOT
For those who have not read the piece yet, the starting paragraphs of Part 3 are especially good:

> In certain young people today like these two from my writing workshop, I notice what I find increasingly troubling: a cold-blooded grasping, a hunger to take and take and take, but never give; a massive sense of entitlement; an inability to show gratitude; an ease with dishonesty and pretension and selfishness that is couched in the language of self-care; an expectation always to be helped and rewarded no matter whether deserving or not; language that is slick and sleek but with little emotional intelligence; an astonishing level of self-absorption; an unrealistic expectation of puritanism from others; an over-inflated sense of ability, or of talent where there is any at all; an inability to apologize, truly and fully, without justifications; a passionate performance of virtue that is well executed in the public space of Twitter but not in the intimate space of friendship.

> I find it obscene.

> There are many social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion, who can fluidly pontificate on Twitter about kindness but are unable to actually show kindness. People whose social media lives are case studies in emotional aridity. People for whom friendship, and its expectations of loyalty and compassion and support, no longer matter. People who claim to love literature – the messy stories of our humanity – but are also monomaniacally obsessed with whatever is the prevailing ideological orthodoxy. People who demand that you denounce your friends for flimsy reasons in order to remain a member of the chosen puritan class.

We have all met those people.

It reminds me of something that PG said: fanboys become your worst haters. That is, it's a small step from intense love to intense hate.

He also said somewhere that there is a higher incidence of bad actors/sociopaths among founders of non-profits than for-profits among the teams he's met.

The way I think about it is: ideology is dual use. The two uses are collective good and individual gain. Those are often hopelessly entangled, because a good way to get ahead is by presenting oneself as selflessly working toward the common good. Cue Ayn Rand...

What that means here is we can criticize both Chimananda and her critic as "playing the game". It's possible to see their actions as selfish or selfless or most likely both at once.

The lesson I draw from Chimananda's story, though, is that people who are out to fight dragons (i.e. defeat the forces of evil in society) are liable to turn you into their next dragon. The revolution eats its own. It happened to Basecamp, too.

That is one reason why startups that want to thrive should not hire activists for whom being woke is central to their identity. They will outwoke you, too, no matter how woke you thought you were.
You're using an ambiguous pronoun reference. Who's picking the fight? I don't think it was so obvious that war would be the consequence.

If I'm a tea smuggler beating the competition by avoiding taxes and my competitor is granted an even better tax-avoidance method (an exemption), then I'm going to pick a fight. I still might find a different business, but I'd see how far I could push it, first.
You've at least twice on this story borrowed from Hobbes to dismiss posts expressing what amounts to, "maybe our relationship with technology is a bit complex, and a mixed bag, and worth some examination and consideration", as if you were responding to posts advocating full-on anarcho-primitivism. Why?
I think the way people view pets is pretty inhumane. It just seems so thoroughly selfish to purchase an animal bred to be provide you joy.
Long ago I discovered that people don't get emotionally invested in your little perf- or platform-specific hacks if they don't have to look at them.

With function inlining, you can often move your little weirdo bit of code into a function that is off the main call path and if people don't like it, they don't have to look at it. Also the fact that your change is in a single commit means they can always revert it if they don't like it (a bluff almost nobody calls).

More importantly, when it comes time to port the code, the intent of your weird little code is both known and self-contained. They can decide what to do about it and have a path to do it.

When your clever tweaks are peppered throughout your data architecture and half of the code base, then porting is a costly affair. And in some cases just updating your tools is hampered as well.
Especially a secret judge, in a secret court.

I always consent to that.
This is a bunch of nonsense. The real reason Americans wanted to finish the war with Japan quickly (at any cost) is that they were afraid that Russia would invade Japan.
Before COVID I was remote but took a cab to an Amtrak for an 8 hour round trip once a month to the office. But yea I've been working from home for 18 months now..
I think she misunderstood what the person was saying, which is understandable because at minimum it was poorly phrased and inflammatory, and Adichie already had a negative personal history with them. It's possible that the person intended to advocate violence against Adichie personally, I just find that interpretation less likely given the context ("the harm transphobes like Adichie & Rowling seek to perpetuate") and my experience with how these people talk.
That’s what 20% social mobility means: that one in five actually move classes. The majority of immigrants do not change classes, just like the majority of Americans do not change classes. It’s still possible, it’s just not the average outcome.

> The article you linked in an opinion pieces of a single economist, who is critical of immigration.

What article? I linked to a section of Wikipedia, and that section alone has 9 different citations by as many authors.

> The good news is all level are getting higher year by year. The pie is growing for everybody.

Others in this thread have misunderstood my remarks as you have. The metric of moving from one class quintile to another during your lifetime is relative. It does not depend on standard of living at all. The pie can grow, and social mobility (as defined by changing class quintiles) can be stagnant, at the same time.
I was just starting to come around to the idea of buying a Quest 2 :(

I had a CV1, but sold it some years ago, I found the usb-attached lighthouses too messy for my setup. Ideally I would like to get rid of the headset cable as well. I pretty much only played Beat Saber so Quest 2 would have been perfect!

I guess it's time to order a Valve Index?