skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The admonition runs through my mind all the time, too. I'm not qualified to implement Curve25519 entirely from scratch.

But, the good news is that this accelerates certain primitives within a Rust crate that was written by a cryptographer I personally know and trust; I think she's done a good job with the validation and test vectors, and she's been meticulous on documentation.

The theory is that as long as I don't break her tests, I'm probably OK. I did bump into some corner cases for correctness that might be extremely hard to catch in a random vector test bench, which I've noted in the post, but I do have some synthetic vectors that try to make sure I don't have a problem. I also tried hard to make sure I didn't introduce any new timing side channels; since all the ops are constant-time, hopefully I'm safe there.

So, I'm fully aware that I'm not perhaps the best qualified person in the world to build this. However, as I had mentioned elsewhere, my attempt to get source code from several research groups who have built such blocks met with no success. And also knowing how the silicon industry works, any "secure microcontroller" group peddling you some secret sauce closed source cryptoblocks likely were not designed to any level of scrutiny I would be satisfied with. Given the options of no acceleration, dubious closed source blocks, or trying to roll my own, I went with the latter, but with copious amount of documentation so that hopefully people smarter than me will have an easy time to review it for errors.

As a side note, in terms of things that I did implement for this system that should be cause for worry, I'd personally say the TRNG is the most worrisome, because TRNGs are full of scary footguns that are very exploitable. Then I'd worry about the AES instructions in the RISC-V core, the Curve25519 engine, and the SHA hardware accelerator in that order. I didn't write the AES instructions or the SHA accelerator, but I also haven't done a thorough review of them for things like timing side channels. I only rank the AES instructions as slightly more worrisome because I know those were implemented by a CPU architect without much input from cryptographers, whereas the SHA block comes from Google's OpenTitan project, which I would /hope/ was thoroughly reviewed but then again I'm just relying on the G-brand.

There is something comforting, though, to be able to know the provenance of your crypto primitives.
The largest crime against humanity in human history (the cultural revolution) is associated with the anti-intellectual position you're advocating. So I don't think that's any kind of convincing argument to stop doing our best to figure out the facts and follow where they lead.
The best situation to be in is wealthy when nobody knows about it. The latter requires privacy. Those those who seek privacy carry a signal as a result.
A complain by three people wouldn't make much but if it is just three people in an entire country then the issue doesn't matter much in the first place.

On the other hand, a complain by all the customers of the service over the entire country who understand the issue could make a difference.
I'm not sure if it would help, but maybe a way to import financial data from something like personalcapital or mint?

It'd save on some of the starting questions, but I don't know if that's even possible.
That is the way, unlike AlphaFold, to publish everything in open source. Kudos to the research team!
I assume this is a commentary on the desirability of dark modes.
The forced labour didn’t bother you?

A man shot and killed for trying to leave didn’t bother you?
> 1 is non-prime by definition.

This made me sad :(
It was the prosecutor, not a judge. He later became the Labor secretary in Trump's cabinet.
I'm quite sure I do. The Leaf is the best seller where I live and a lot of them are getting old : https://elbilstatistikk.no/

People don't drive that many km everyday and an old Leaf is an okay second car to quite a lot of people. Anyway, it's just an example because the first gen Leaf is an old car with a low range and a battery with a high degradation. If you think about newer leafs and other cars with more range, it's not really a huge difference if the car has lost some range over time.
You’d need to ask a cardiologist of course, but I think for all intents and purposes, the science is in fact settled. The heart pumps blood.

In any field you see people using weak evidence to question strongly evidenced positions like in the linked article. I worked as a physicist for 7 years or so, and you frequently saw people using small deviations in experimental results to try and question general relativity, or parts of the standard model. Of course, when you see the few outliers lined up it seems convincing, but if you work professionally in the field you realize that that’s what they are - outliers. Just a handful of strange results in a literal flood of results that fit within and support the status quo.

And, fortunately or unfortunately, if you’ve seen it happen to someone, I think the evidence that the heart pumps blood is extremely convincing, having witnessed it first hand - if your heart stops, blood stops flowing. And we know that that is the correct order of causation, because to fix it, you shock the heart into pumping again.

You’d need FAR stronger evidence than failed drug trials (the vast majority of drug trials fail) or failed device trials (the vast majority of device trials fail) to seriously weaken that position, as far as I’m aware.
Really really expensive servers that sit at 10% load most of the time is one of the points.
It’s interesting that they demarcate affordability as a single minimum wage earner needing a two bedroom apartment.
> If wages don’t keep pace with the rise in housing prices, upward mobility for low wage workers decreases.

The article we are addressing is not about minimum wage failing to keep pace with housing inflation, or general inflation, both of which are reasonable things to complain about. So, while the above observation is correct, it is not germane to the article under discussion, which makes no historical comparisons of the adequacy of the minimum wage to the standard it complains it does not currently reach anywhere in the US.
> In the military you spend a lot of your time pissed off because someone, somewhere is doing something stupid, and it will probably get you killed.

This very succinctly sums up almost every conversation I've had with ex-military.
Oh man, COVID-19 was a huge wake up call. I thought the response to Hurricane Katrina was bad, but the response to COVID-19 has been much worse. Scientists did a great job with rolling a vaccine out, but now every family's weird uncle refuses to get a vaccine. It just blows my mind.
US Supreme Court.

And there's a very good chance the entire world look different if Gore won. There may have not been a 9/11, for one. There would have certainly not been an Iraq war.
Are bureaucrats really that blind to the concept of “foreign websites” that will continue existing without having to follow any of your rules?

You ask Facebook to ID me, fine, but my-pretty-face.ws will continue existing unchecked and there’s nothing you can do unless you want to start blocking 80% of the internet.

The solution is simple: Move the damn check to the device or network. Block content at schools and lock down your own children’s devices.
I look forward to trustless biometrics storage/processing
Well,

Supply chains are adjusting... for now.

But overall, the most notable thing is that when the fragility and/or decay of a system is revealed, nothing fundamentally changes. The giant ship that got stuck in the Suez? No indication measures are being taken to make the world economy more resilient. California's fire problem is still being met with piecemeal measures, etc.

The Tainter reference in the article is especially. Fundamentally fragility comes when elites based their power on particular social forms and social forms gradually become maladaptive.
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You know I used to really freak out and have panic attacks about the possible world ending catastrophes from the collapse of the Eurozone to missing Soviet Smallpox.

I eventually realized I can't change anything about it my worrying about it doesn't do anything, and realistically there is nothing I can really do to prepare for the total collapse of civilization so I try and just have 2-3 months of food and water on hand, grow a garden, try and find a way to get solar and a diesel backup generator, try and stockpile medicine when I can, etc. My goal is just 2-3 months of each thing in case there was a natural disaster or I lost my job and I put the rest of it in the hands of God.

If civilizations burns to the ground then I'll do my best to survive while also doing my best to help other people. After all to quote Brandon Sanderson "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination."I'll die one way or another, so why stress about all the ways that can happen, especially when I can't do anything about it. I just live my life the best I can and hope things work out.
They specifically mentioned technological leaps, so that's what I went on, for better or worse.

I think clean energy will not by itself solve much. We need to reduce and reorganize at the same time as bringing on clean energy production, but that won't happen. Look at China, who is the world leader in clean energy production. I worry if fusion ever happens, people will just be like "great, electrical energy is free now", which won't be good.

I agree we need leaders thinking more than a few years ahead.
That's not new in these sorts of studies, it flows from the realization that people have children.
Is it a requisite that all games must run on the Clausewitz engine, for a converter to be technically feasible ?
You might be right about that concern, however, a lot of this work is done through public funding. Seems a little bit like double-dipping to get the public to pay for you to make IP that you then later sell to the highest bidder, with no obligation to share to the public.

Of course, if the professor was say, the NXP chair for crypto core excellence and they endowed her department with the understanding that all IP would belong exclusively to NXP, then sure, that would make more sense. I did not see anything like that, though, in the research groups' bio.
Putting business logic into stored procedures is an old idea, and very widely used from what I can tell. Especially with Oracle's PL/SQL and SQL Server's T-SQL.

One huge advantage is that the DB has a cache that is automatically utilized, instead of having to build your own cache in an application layer.

The PostgreSQL userbase seems to be behind when it comes to utilizing stored procedures, it seems that they were not a priority for the dev team for a long time.
I think minimum wage is supposed to enable you to move up and not a wage where you can lead a comfortable life. It's expected that a single person on minimum wage can't get a two bedroom house.
These two things are correlated because they stem from a single factor called general intelligence. People have tried for decades to come up with different kinds of intelligences and it never holds up to scrutiny. So, yeah, the general predisposition to learn and generalize ideas seems to be a one dimensional thing.

This article also seems to not be very attentive to the literature regarding intelligence. There is no threshold after which intelligence stops being beneficial to things like income and wealth. So we can confidently declare that the more intelligent someone is, the better the actions they take (at least the actions that lead them to acquire more resources).

There are some ideas here that I think are worth investigating, though. The fact that smart people can hold confident opinions about very contentious topics (for example, republicans arguing that global warming is a scam) is a curious phenomenon. The interaction between intelligence and ideology can indeed be a very dangerous one.
Self-driving is a cursed problem, but the thorniest obstacles relate to optics and politics and not technology. AI can already replace some human drivers some of the time; but it doesn’t matter because each news story about a Tesla killing a passenger or driving into a parked fire truck sets back public acceptance of self-driving cars by years.
How to add a new WiFi PCI-e card (Ubuntu Server)
What's the price of the ST hard disk? Can we consumer grade hard disk with the same reliability nowadays?
It's not that silly to model as historically that has also happened. To use the "peak oil" example this work also influenced, the technology of fossil oil reserves was a response in part to "peak whale" (not a joke). The main source much commercial 'oil' for things like Street lamps in the 1800s was whale blubber. As whales got overfished fossilised oil reserves were developed and not only took over those markets but created many many new ones.

You can of course make the point fossilised oil is worse for global warming etc but from the point of view of the economy and population growth fossilised oil was much better than whale.
Doom scrolled about halfway down. I'm a bit flabbergasted by all the esoteric commentary when we have a real life example of this happening right now in South Africa.
One plausible explanation that is less damaging: Gates is a utilitarian and determined that the net benefits that could come from networking with Epstein outweighs the risks.

It can kind of be perceived as the trolly problem in real life. Do you pull the lever and get one person's blood on your hands, but result in 4 met lives saved? Or do you stay morally pure by refusing to kill someone... and let the 5 people die by your inaction?

Gates does strike me as an analytical, ends-justify-the-means kind of guy
> I believe that reductionist (materialistic) approaches to analyze human endeavor are misguided. There is a bit of hubris in thinking that a computer simulation can predict the entirety of human action. I am definitely not suscribed to the Austrian school of thought, however.

That sounds very much like what FA Hayek called “the presence of knowledge” and warned us of in his 1974 Nobel acceptance speech [1]. Maybe you are an Austrian after all. ;)

1. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hay...
There already is a standard for declaring a website safe for children, and no one uses it.

Also, the concept of what is "safe for children" differs between countries. One major way of oppressing LGBTQI+ people is to outlaw showing anything that promotes LGBTQI+ "lifestyles" to children.
There are multiple misconceptions and straw man arguments in your post.

First of all algorithmic censorship is real and has been exposed quite a few times with whistleblowers, undercover journalists and just banning people for things mainstream media organizations do routinely (like filming someone's house). The bar for repercussions is set lower for anti-establishment and "right-wing" content creators, although it is beginning to affect radical leftists too and they are beginning to wake up to this fact (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/anti-corbyn-blair-censors...)

And your post only mentions one specific aspect of the libertarian / fiscal side of conservatism while conservatism is much more broad and now due to the polarization of society other non-related issues have gifted themselves along partisan lines (most of which used to be populist left wing causes): Vaccines, masks, lock downs, Israel, free speech, 2nd amendment rights, anti-establishment stances, free speech, section 230, big pharma, etc. And even then for fiscal conservatism, which is the more benign and popular aspect of it, it is hard to find on front pages and default news feed of the major platforms anything related to it.

Talking about cutting social programs, which is the counterpart of cutting taxes, will draw criticism, especially if it affects the favored minority of the time in some way in some percentage, will get you demonetized and demonized which usually means lynch mobs, mass reporting and worse.
Pick a product/market that doesn't require such a level of support / contact.

Pick something also that doesn't need constant human hands/duck tape. E.g. if you are web scraping, and someone changes their site HTML structure on 3pm on a Wednesday, then you have to be hands on to fix it.

If you are running an app that is self sufficient - you put the hours in at the weekend to make it robust, it doesn't bother you during the week, most of the time.

In other words, build stuff that ... scales :-)
Sometimes there's nothing you can do to fix something and a piece of equipment has to be shipped off and repaired (in my line of work this has usually required cranes to take communication terminals off ships!). Usually the military will want to have spares though, so there are options if field repair isn't viable.

The manufacturer/contracting company will always have a contract with the customer limiting liability so no, you're not going to be tried for anything but the company might get sued for breech of contract if things go really wrong.

But my experience has been they they are pretty chill as long as you're respectful, make it obvious that you're competent and you know what you're talking about (which requires actually being competent, not something you can fake for long in that kind of situation!), and offer alternatives and solutions to get things going again.
probably GF have been bleeding for years.
The cancer of targted advertising has only been with us for like 20 years. Small companies have existed way before that. Blaming people who want to protect those who don't even know what a server or a company is from their data being harvested because you can't sell them dog food is just ridiculous.

That being said, if you are concerned about monopolies, there are better ways to fight them. Unfortunately they have been neglected in the last few decades. Perhaps channeling your money/influence towards that instead of ads would be better for everyone.
Instead of bickering about wether the title is right or not, let's discuss solutions. To me the solution is very easy.
Let's provide a supplementary help to any mininum wage worker to allow him/her to rent a two bedroom apartment AND any business with a worker that needs this assistance shall be hit with an additional TAX on Gross Revenue (not profit, to keep silly games away) depending on the number of workers from that business requiring this kind of help. Businesses: Either pay a living wage to your workers or the Estate will garnish your revenues to pay it to them. But this silly game of gathering profits on the backs of the taxpayer shall end.
on the high end, Intel, Samsung and TSMC
I feel like the idea of privacy as a luxury is not limited to high-tech society. Do poor people in a primitive society have more privacy than poor people in a developed country?

We're always so concerned with machines recognizing us, but what about other people? If I live in a small village, the owner of the general store will surely remember my face just like an ML-laden camera or POS system. We get creeped out when machines suggest things related to our past behavior, but love it when the bartender already knows what we like. People who remember you can spread rumors just like your data can be sold to another company.

I'm not trying to say that privacy doesn't matter at all, of course. I'm just wondering how much things have actually changed, privacy-wise.
In this survey, most "Philosophers of mathematics" endorsed Platonism: https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl?affil=Target+facul...
Not even in most parts of sf, those are still the options everyone I know living in the city has.
Funnily enough, I feel like Gareth Davies, the presumably semi-amateur player in the video set, is the only one who really gets the piano, and focuses on those unusually melodic bass notes.
Sure there will be weather events, but none of us will live to see anything climate related that causes an entire country to whither.
> Just don't give your children internet access till they are old enough that they can be responsible enough to use it correctly? Why this is not an option?

Every media device in the house is connected to the internet. Every media device in kids' friends houses is connected to the internet. Everything at school is connected and now they need laptops with actual webcams at home.

They're immersed in it daily, and most of the use is unmonitored.
I think this a pedantic take on the headline. The intent behind the entire article is that privacy is a privilege for those who can afford it.
That is true, but basing a prediction model on the assumption that "technology will fix things, and someone will save us" is bad in my opinion.
The soil itself is depleted. This leads to a positive feedback cycle, and a hockey stick growth in the amount of industrial agriculture inputs required to keep a constant yield, right up to the point the farmer goes broke.

Then someone like Gabe Brown comes along, and uses regenerative farming, capturing about a ton of carbon/year as he builds new soil, and frees up the nutrients in the ground to be available to crops. It's a positive feedback cycle that makes the farm profitable again.

It's by no means a simple system, but it is profitable, so there is long term hope.
The difference is reciprocity.

“Everyone knows everyone” vs “I know you, but you don’t even know who I am”.
That was not the original intention of minimum wage. Also consider how long it would take a person to "move up" from minimum wage to a liveable one.
This was a little confusing to me too - I put in an estimate of salary increasing 2%/year and it showed my gross salary decreasing in dollars each year. That's apparently because the salary increase was in nominal terms and the gross salary was in real terms. Maybe make this clearer - anyone who wants this level of control and detail should know the difference between nominal and real.
Terrible paywalled source
I'm talking about situations in which kids share a bedroom with their parents. The kids need another bedroom.
There is more in the article that covers the 1bd scenario. Reading more than the headline would help.
I always wanted to experiment with one of these but fortunately I managed to avoid them so far.

I wonder what would happen if you limited their bandwidth to a couple of kbps. Just enough to get the pings across but make any ad download excruciatingly slow. Or write some kind of DPI rule that drops packets to the internet above a certain size.
That link appears to disagree with you regarding the Mayans and even points out that ecological issues can fuel and exacerbate social, political, and cultural problems. Of course these things are multifaceted but it seems obvious that a multidimensional domino effect can occur when kick started by ecological issues. Look at what happened with COVID. Gun and ammunition purchases were off the charts, increases of homicidal crime, civil unrest, unemployment, etc. Such a "simple" thing as a virus destabilized society in multiple ways. Just imagine if it was food and resource scarcity.
The Texas Medical Center is moving ahead on its Bivacor rotary pump artificial heart.[0] It does not appear that Bivacor is a bridge to a transplant, but rather an end point. They kept a cow alive for many months a few years ago. Since it is a continuous rotary pump, the patient will have no pulse with this device.

One of the inventors behind Bivacor is Dr. Billy Cohn, an elite heart surgeon with a strong bent toward innovation. He would have an idea, hit his garage to cut up some plastic mesh, seal it, sterilize it, and be trying it in a patient in a few days. He jokes about Home Depot being his best source of medical equipment. In fact, he tells a hilarious Home Depot story in the middle of his standard talk on medical innovation.[1]

[0] https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2021/05/19/bivacor-...

[1] https://youtu.be/iHTVTU8PPGk?t=623