skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This same argument could ostensibly be extended to anyone. There are armed criminals everywhere, why aren’t you carrying ${armory} on you at all times?

It seems to me like a police station, as well as select trained officers could be stocked with lethal weapons, while regular patrol officers carry nonlethals. Cops generally do not need a gun to pull someone over for speeding. If they are pursing someone known to be armed, it makes sense to do so.

Much like I don’t carry my laptop at all times, there are appropriate tools for appropriate situations and I’d like to see that extended to police.
It is absolutely mad how Roadside Picnic and derived works basically created a fictional setting and subculture that, decades later, was brought wholesale into reality.

Never seen anything like it, and I doubt anything like it will ever happen again.
Pegasus was also used by Saudi Arabia to hack Jeff Bezos’ phone and it was MBS (the crown prince) himself that sent the iMessage to him.
Crime, including violent crime, has been on a long downward trend since 1994.

> But remote fire control on non-lethal weapons?

Non-lethal weapons are used for compliance, and are often abused, sometimes with fatal consequences. Turning it into a video game for the police drone operators and detaching them from it will breed more abuse.

I particularly don't want to live in a world where can you get tased if you don't do what a drone tells you to do.
Point taken. I may have reached for too extreme an example, but AFAIK there were other issues with the WEP construction besides just RC4 being weak.

I think the point still stands though. When I read about breaks (and when I saw them back when I did infosec) it was phishing most of the time. Someone would be tricked into running malware. That’s how most organizational compromises happen. The rest were memory errors like buffer overflows in non-security application code and bugs in bespoke code exposed to the Internet.

My point was that people are afraid of the things that are sexy to be afraid of, and tend to ignore the more mundane but more commonly attacked vectors.

The same applies to firewall obsession in netsec. People will obsess over the firewall and then type “npm install” on production systems. It’s not sexy to worry about that.

Package managers scare the shit out of me…
> You continued on to imply that, in fact, you are in a position to sort out what's true unlike those other, inferior people who fall for conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.

You missed that I was drawing a distinction between what is commonly thought of as the market place of ideas - in which rational discourse and honest debate enables people to learn, compare, agree and disagree, find greater truths, learn, etc etc - and the spread of misinformation based on falsehood, often perpetuated for profit.

We absolutely can, as a society, say that (for example) misinformation about vaccines, where we are dealing with matters of fact, is not on a level with actual vaccine science. This is not really up for honest debate. We can debate until the cows come home about what it means, whether any opinions should be drawn or any action taken, but motivated lies are just not on the same footing as factual information.

> "Improving access to good information" is usually a euphemism for some kind of censorship.

You assume bad faith here, again. I think there’s a lot can be done by way of giving access to scientific information in accessible ways.

> I'm vaccinated and I voted for Biden but I do not understand why peope care that others decide not to get vaccinated

Well firstly Because that decision affects more than just those individuals, and puts others (including the already vaccinated and those who cannot be vaccinated) at risk. And secondly because some of those making the decision not to vaccinate, and putting themselves at risk, have done so armed with bad information.

The nature of the problems may not be new, but the scale and severity seem to be.
Sharing checklists/presets/a checklist community is definitely something I am considering :)

I'm going to make an update soon to make the entire item tappable.
Bell supports VoLTE on Lucky, but not WiFi Calling. They only offer it on the Bell and Virgin brands.

It’s likely done purposefully so that customers in rural areas cannot use the flanker brand, and must instead stay with the more expensive alternative.
React wasn't always popular...

I remember using jQuery, Backbone/underscore, handlebars, knockout, Angular 1, Enyo, Ember, and probably a couple others. Angular in particular had like 70% market share among major frameworks and almost all the libraries didn't support React.

React took over because it was head and shoulders better than everything that went before and taking days to learn instead of weeks or even months.

The reason nothing has taken over since is because we've reached the point where they aren't good enough to justify throwing away all the existing library support.
> This has some notoriously odd results (known as the “paradoxes of material implication”)

> You’ll still get weird results (known as the “paradoxes of strict implication”)

This is obviously building up to the concept of relevance logic (called "relevant logic" in the UK and Australia) – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-relevance/ – and no doubt Feser knows about it, but isn't taking the reader there. It seems to me an odd omission.

A lot of his argument is actually against classical logic, not formal logic. Many philosophers and logicians agree that classical formal logic is deeply flawed, and have proposed various non-classical formal logics in response (relevance logic, constructivist/intuitionistic logic, paraconsistent logic, among others). But in this blog post he doesn't interact with or mention any of that work.

> To show that the eternalist conclusion really follows, and does not merely falsely appear to do so, would require independent metaphysical argumentation

I've never understood how Feser manages to believe in both presentism and divine eternity. In my mind they are mutually exclusive propositions. Atheism and process theism / open theism both go well with presentism. But the eternal God of classical theism, who knows all of time as one single moment, seems to me to have an eternalist approach to time as an inevitable consequence.
The Big Law Cartel: How Antitrust Lawyers Help Their Clients Break the Law
"Stalker" is my favorite film of all time and I highly recommend it.
> Scott says he thinks there should be legal or regulatory requirements on companies that give people the option to retrieve their data, for a certain period – say, five years – after an online service is due to shut down.

I get the motivation here, but in addition to keeping the stored data, this means one must keep account and authentication systems, maintain a service and UI for people to request this data, etc for years. That seems like an excessive obligation, depending on what the product was which took in the data to begin with. What data should be eligible? If I ordered delivery from a service which folded, should I really be able to request my order records years later?
I think that shitty camera and audio justify price difference (I have Xiaomi)
Same here (although it’s more like 200 open tabs across 10 virtual desktops). It still feels slower than my cheap Atom netbook, but the battery life and hardware quality more than makes up for it.

This might be an opportunity to tweak my browsing habits.
I chose S-expressions over REST and GraphQL (2019)
yeah. It's Octavian https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/Octavia... It can beat MKL convincingly up to 100x100 and remains slightly ahead up to 1000x1000 (and performance is still improving).
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> really? You're the guy we seized these from

Ok, let them buy it again and seize it from them again if they use it unlawfully. Double profit.

> seizing a big load of cocaine, goes about trying to figure out how they can unload it to someone else

Because there is an internationally agreed war on drugs. Cocaine (unlike meth which can be officially prescribed as Desoxyn in the US and heroine which also is used medically in some cases e.g. in the UK) is officially considered pure evil with no legitimate medical use (it can be used for good but in practice 99.9% of its use is abuse and even the 0.1% who use it for good also do that illegally).

AFAIK there is no international agreement on fighting cryptocurrencies mining so far, the mining equipment (let alone the power supply units) are perfectly legal to manufacture, sell, buy, own and use (unless you actually steal electricity to power them) in many countries.

Even such a totalitarian and unreasonably conservative country as Iran officially allowed (and taxed) mining until they found out they are running low on electricity.
Web 3.0 and blockchain technology[1] is doing a great job getting people into dweb. If we remove the "get rich fast" part of it, dApps are doing a great work bringing users to distributed platforms.

1. https://ipfs.io/
Yes, there’s a big marker for good checklists. My wife is a nurse and they need to use checklists when working g with patients in the OR and PACU, and since she uses them so much at work she now makes lists for everything at home. Something like this would be a good idea.
I actually came here to say that funnily enough, my parents did the opposite. Santa even had a damn budget...
I think the approach may be too radical for most users. Perhaps an approach like "embrace, extend, extinguish" might work better.
Those who say they want a future without police are often told to "move to Somalia," or some such place where local warlords provide the only semblance of law.

Those who say they want to increase authoritarian influence are told the same thing.

This makes me think we are probably close to the optimum solution. The police just need to be held accountable for their actions. Right now, that seems to be the biggest weakness in the system. It's unrealistic to expect perfection from the police or from members of any other profession, but when things do go wrong, it takes negative feedback to correct it, and the police unions have proven exceptionally skilled at breaking the corrective feedback loop in multiple places.
Sourcery is about a power beyond the world taking itself off the world. Literally someone realising: "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" and taking themselves outside the universe for a good telling off. The sourceror turned out to be a girl but whatevs (7th son of a 7th son etc). She nearly caused a bit of a wobble in a universe already a Rizzla paper thickness away from some distressing oddness. However, the potential cause never wanted and eventually averts things going totally Pete.

Good Omens is a damn fine spin on the Christian apocalypse as described in quite some detail in John. There is the full on Angel vs Demon thing with a bloody great Hell Hound. Anyone who knows Jack Russells knows that they have a roughly 50/50 chance vs anything up to and including a nuclear weapon (which will either be shaken to death or sha ..... fzzzzt.) The Dog is almost certainly a JR.

Anyway, I digress. There are clear similarities but distinct differences between the two books.

Sourcery: One individual nearly caused armageddon but took themself away to avoid it

Good Omens: The universe's squishy contents tried to destroy the whole material plane and tripped over its own shoelaces
Hi! Basically the data is stored in iCloud in the same way your Apple reminders and notes are. I never have access to the data as it is stored on your local device and Apples server.

So in terms of security and privacy, your essentially trusting Apple itself.
From the user perspective, they are implemented as various texture maps to define base color, roughness, metalness and specular. Base color map is as it sounds. Roughness map is a map that goes from full reflective to dull. In practice it can be calculated similar to and stored the same as Mip Map. Metallic map can go from mirror like to non mirror in degrees. The lesser used Specular map lets you control the specular light property in a non metallic surface. From non reflective to full reflective. Specular is called Cavity in the linked document and also explained as typically an Ambient Occlusion map with a very short distance. "Used for small-scale shadowing."

From the real-time light equation that runs in the GPU shaders, all the details can be found in the 2013 Siggraph talk by Brian Karis of Epic Games. https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/Resources/files/2013SiggraphPr...

The shader code is on Github, however you have to sign up first to get access.
‘Destino’: The Twisting Story of How Disney Embraced Surrealism
This Observer article from 2019 covers most of it: https://observer.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-spy-intelligenc...
What if people don't share your priorities and would rather smoke despite the health consequences. Where does this line of thinking end? Why should someone else get to tell us how to prioritize pleasurable activities vs health and longevity.

The argument about misleading advertising I understand, and if you'd said "advertising portraying smoking as safe would actually be banned" then I think there's a clearer argument (despite my being uncomfortable with the idea of "misinformation" being targeted, we have lots of reasonable precedents for statement you can make about products you sell). But legislating what people's health priorities should be is authoritarian and not a power government should ever have.
You have touched on the real problem: Most of our digital devices have way too many attack surfaces.

If you can secure a movie from being copied by the owner of the device showing the movie, you can hide spyware on that device. That's OK for a usb gizmo you plug into your TV, but why would supposedly security minded enterprises accept that in their computers?
Eg the Chomsky Hierarchy.

https://devopedia.org/chomsky-hierarchy
> I fully expect people to be huffing recreational Covid in 30 years’ time.

How much are you willing to bet on this? (Normally I'd try to argue, but…)
There is nothing to break when the cloud chats are a backdoor by design. Imagine a vendor selling bullet proof glass. They're arguing the glass itself is extremely durable. These jabs at Telegram protocol are like attempts to break the glass. Here's the problem, that glass has a three meter hole in the middle of it. That hole is called cloud encryption. Telegram leaks

* 100% of messages by default to server. This is the same as if Signal had a backdoor for all of its messages.

* 100% of group messages with no chance to opt out. This is the same as Signal had backdoor for all of its group messages.

* 100% of all messages for Windows/Linux desktop clients. This is the same if Signal desktop client for Windows / Linux had a backdoor that leaked all messages to Moxie.

Telegram's strategy is to exploit that three meter hole. They published a bounty for 100,000 dollars for anyone who could break the glass. But the competition didn't award any points for pointing at the massive hole in the glass.

So no, nobody's finding anything special in Telegram's encryption, because EVERYONE got bored of pointing at the hole back in 2013 when Telegram was released.

Telegram's backdoor is the front door. It's so absurdly obvious it's insane anyone would ever have to point it out. But it's right there, if you just bother to look.
>Like climate change...

The problem here is that there is not some clear-cut answer to "what is to be done" about climate change, and unless you restrict yourself to the benign observation that "the climate changes", everything else can be categorized as "misinformation" if you have a political objective. Agree that climate change is happening, but don't agree with a massive spending project to address it? Too bad, you've just committed misinformation.

>Nobody loves this solution, but the alternative is letting one third of the population doom the other two thirds by obstructing the kind of actions we need to survive.

I just don't get this at all. What doom? Are you implying the vaccine doesn't work and you can still catch COVID if a bunch of other people don't take it?
It might be poor opsec to elaborate too heavily about a time you witnessed organized criminals concealing a murder.
I'm eager to see what can be done with the desktop tower workstation post-M1. I don't think anyone actually wants to have a slim laptop and use "the cloud" to "download more memory" but here we are in 2021 where people are saying 16gb max ram is good.
There’s some deep dive articles on the way the input loop works. But OP is correct, and the reason iOS feels smoother. Android has a lot more UI lag.
Yes, these things make an enormous difference to lives on a grand scale and advance overall human capability both for the capabilities they provide directly and the research they enable. Orbital platforms are essential for modern standards of safety, logistics, utilities, communications, even healthcare. Tunnels are essential for mass transit. The civilisational value of infrastructure is incalculable, because it’s not linear, it’s a step change.

Complaining about ads seems wildly off topic.

As for “what power grid”, that’s just another display of wilful ignorance.
like every marketplace, what matters is the entrenched interests in the market place and the amount of space needed for a new market.

when the "too big to fail" market is filled with entrenched interests and bloat themselves to take up most real estate, then ideas only compete if the existing ideas accomodate them.

this is where we derive the "Uber for X" marketting speak. as such, the market
I know what you mean. Pretty much any ADHD tool is actually going to be valuable to everyone.

From a marketing point of view, I had to start somewhere with an audience I knew to get my message across :)
I think the "if you're not using a tab background suspender" part was important there.

Not sure if Chrome is still this way, but it would allow background tabs to still run things like JS even after hours of not being focused.
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How are image parsing exploits still a thing in 2021? Can Apple not use Rust? I struggle to understand why Apple is still relying on C/C++ in such a well known security hotspot.
> Turning it into a video game for the police drone operators and detaching them from it will breed more abuse

Again, where is the evidence for this? We’re proposing a ban that puts people’s lives at risk. You’re willing to do that on a hunch?
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I’ve also seen it many times and love it but I wouldn’t recommend it to just anyone. Here’s a list with the top 1000 films of all time as voted by MUBI (a community of movie geeks that like arthouse films). Stalker is at sitting at no 5. https://mubi.com/lists/the-top-1000
When a man comes home and finds his wife in bed with another man whom he then murders, how will the courts find that man and bring them to justice?
Lost your iPhone, here’s how you can track it with Find My iPhone
The Brontë archive needs to be secured for public use and made accessible
Alexa, remind me in 30 years
Not a scientist or otherwise expert, but this seems like a silver lining in the climate change that will eventually lead to humans not being able to inhabit the planet and the impact people are having on the planet: plants get more food and grow more. Am I wrong in that thought?
Renters can’t become owners when multi billion investment firms are buying or own large percentages of the market. The market is incredibly distorted and inherently dysfunctional in its current state. Families should be living in housing they own our mortgage not paying someone else’s mortgage or profit to the investment class.
What’s wrong with giving people options?
Greening mitigates the impact of climate change to a point, but that we're seeing it so strongly take effect is alarming because it indicates how strong the underlying shifts are, and there comes a point that it ceases to mitigate the negative effects. As the equator becomes increasingly desertified polar regions shift from barren icescapes to being able to support more plant life. Also as photosynthesis increases due to greater CO2 in the atmosphere so too does plant respiration, where carbon dioxide is released back into the atmosphere overnight. One way to look at it - The entire plant biomass of the earth removes about as much carbon from the atmosphere each year as China alone emits in that same year. So the capacity here to mitigate climate change via global greening is quite limited.

Anything that acts as a damping mechanism on the impacts of climate change has to be taken as a good thing though - Our biggest addressable existential threat is the rate of change, and slowing that via any means is a good thing.

IMO this piece (similar to your link, more recent) summarises well: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates...
That’s why I specified “light web browsing”.
Considering Brexit, there's precedent: The Cod Wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfD3gevx48Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars
Ask HN: Seed investor wants 15% plus 15% esop for $2m. Thoughts?
Does this sound ok as a seed deal?

They also want single trigger acceleration.

I’m assuming there’s really no scope to negotiate any of this with the investor.
My strong impression over the last couple of decades is for journalists to take many things at face value and defer to "experts" without digging into things like potential conflicts of interests or motives etc. So if you have a set of experts saying "Epstein killed himself," even if those experts have conflicts of interest and/or were appointed by those with CoI, a lot of journalists will defer. I think a similar phenomenon was in play with the lab leak hypothesis, various things related to Erdogan in Turkey, Russian assassinations in the UK, reporting over the Mueller Report, and a host of other things.

I don't think all journalists are like this, and I understand where they're coming from, but increasingly reading between the lines and/or interpreting stated conclusions in the context of human motives seems lost on a lot of journalists and/or journalism outlets. It leads to these weird situations where something is very obviously off about a situation but you can't get someone to say something on the record, so things are just shrugged off, taken at face value, and you're led to doubt your own logic.

Often but not always eventually journalists can get someone to say something on the record, and then it's treated like some big revelation. Journalists getting intelligence experts to acknowledge "no it's not really likely someone could kill themselves and then afterwards stuff themselves into a black body bag and zip it up." Then everyone is like "oh ok I wasn't losing my sanity" and there's some correction. But sometimes it's just left to historians to pick up the threads.

I'm not saying anything about Epstein or anything in particular, and there's a need to avoid going down conspiracy rabbit holes. But I wish there was more nuance in coverage sometimes, to acknowledge that something weird or shady is going on while acknowledging there's no evidence for anything in particular.