skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking you're not understanding the problem correctly. Backdoors mean that people with that access can read things without having the shared keys. You and I exchange keys so we can communicate privately. Because only you and I have those keys, nobody else can read those messages. However, because the TLAs have backdoor access, you and I and the TLAs can read the messages. However, you and I don't know that or at least we're unaware when it is occurring (because we read things like HN and are at least aware of backdoors). Now, bad actor #1 discovers the backdoor and jimmies the lock, and now they can read our "private" messages. Then bad actor #2 comes along and releases to the public how to use the backdoor on anyone's private messages, and now nothing is private and the crypto is a waste of energy. Then the TLAs come along and make it illegal to distrubte code that allows access to the backdoors and someone releases a new t-shirt.

The rest of the world sits back and says "I told you so".
To be clear, signed integer overflow is undefined. Unsigned integer overflow is well defined.

This is why some C programmers dictate that all code must use signed integers to avoid unexpected bugs, but many others (including myself) disagree that's a good way of going about it since, as you said, it's not guaranteed to trap or do anything to help the programmer.
Seems like very reasonable advice to me.
I agree that's there's lots of work that fits into a simple Kanban view well.

I do, though, often see stuff managed using Kanban when it's pretty clear that there are dependencies making the work out of sequence and inefficient. It seems there are fewer and fewer people that can break out a Gantt or Pert chart and identify stuff like "the critical path".
What if the result is everything is a rental / SaaS?

That's the paper's conclusion. They see the beginning of the piracy-friendly period as the release of BitTorrent in 2001, and the beginning of the end in 2013 when Microsoft Office 365 came out.

Now everything is tied to central control, who can turn off your service any time they want to.
There's Cairo (haven't evaluated it) and then there's Vyper, which is basically Solidity but Python

Vyper powers some big projects like Yearn
I have an HP Microserver N54L and it's been incredible. I use XigmaNAS (similar to FreeNAS) and it's been rock solid for many years.
The WHO lists Mu as a Variant of Interest
The politics of land distribution are even worse, with the added problem of being much more permanent.
> I've written elsewhere about the dubiousness of software patents, so I don't need to explain how they have nothing to do with "innovation."

Nothing to do with innovation? I'm not convinced. If filing more patents and spending more on R&D is not a sign of (at least a desire for) innovation, what is?

I think the biggest challenge with studying this is that how to innovate is going to be wildly different from one firm to the next. Did this study use the best general measures they could? I would say so.
The on-device CSAM scan must be canceled, not delayed. It is a dangerous payload, future backdoor if you will, bundled with more friendly offline opt-in features and wrapped in "think of the children" paper
I like provably better than properly. Now I feel warm and fuzzy.
Declarative X – A Composable approach to handle exception and conditions in Java
My Open source project to handle exceptions in Java on a declarative way

https://github.com/muthuishere/declarativex
Growing grass in the Midwest is easy compared to the transition zone, which Georgia is a part of. I’m not used to the difficulty here in Virginia, having come from Ohio.
Calling out for the common folk or small business to pay for the fonts they used is doomed to fail. (Not saying the article does that, just pointing it out.) Calling out to fight insane legal practices is even less likely to ever succeed as well.

IMO a good solution to both licensing plus compensating the hard-working people who make fonts would be:

1. Integrate those fonts in the mainstream browsers;

2. Have the browser vendors pay a flat fee to the font creators, annually. I think something like $20_000 per font per year is quite fair and definitely won't even register in the balance sheets of Google, Apple and Mozilla.

There's no way this whole thing can be solved by making small customers pay. Even if some do most will not so such a business strategy simply doesn't scale. Even if I make $10_000 a month from a small business of mine I'd still not consider paying something like $500 for a font unless I am sure I am going to use it for 4-5 years. In my eyes it's an insanely high cost for just one tiny part of my online business.

But one thing I don't know and would love to learn more about is this: are the professional fonts usually paid per month or only once for a lifetime? If the latter then I guess many smaller business could still bear the cost.
I highly recommend Synology. QNAP and FreeNAS seem really great in a lot of ways, but Synology is the solution for people who want something solid that takes up as little of their time as possible. Avoid Drobo and Seagate.

I would make your first / boot drive a SSD, and put WD Reds in the rest, 2 drive redundancy if you want to be super safe.

In addition, I recommend using the built-in cloud backup software to backup high-value data to Blackblaze B2.

Happy to answer any other questions.
Scaling inherently changes a platform's userbase, focus, core problems (growth vs. maintenance, legal requests, "trust & safety" issues --- "hygiene" generally).

Suppose, as a thought experiment, you could create the ideal, perfect, social network or discussion board. Say, with 40 of the smartest, most creative, quirkiest, considerate people you knew. Hell: the 40 top exemplars of this on the whole planet. It would be a pretty awesome network.

(I know this because I accidentally created something like this, just by creating a small group with smart and interesting people in it. It really was surprisingly good.)

It can only get worse.

Because if you've already got the best, then anyone else you can add will be less smart, less creative, less quirky, less considerate, than who's already in the group.

And at some point you'll notice. Maybe at 50 people, or 500, or 5,000, or 50k, or 500k, or 5m, or ....

For a few reasons.

- Gradation of capabilities. These are ordinalities, not cardinalities.

- Limits to common experience and interest.

- Differences of opinion. Or morals. Or philosophy.

- Just plain scale.

See: https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/1058991

Ultimately, the original founding cohort starts looking for a fresh platform / greenfield with smaller scale, fewer problems, and a higher S/N ratio --- this is classical "clue flight" (or brain drain in an earlier metaphor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_drain).

Reddit started off as a quirky, self-selected, geek-heavy crowd. It's anything but that now. At small scale, a free-speech free-for-all was tolerable. At large, it's harmful at international scale.

A key problem is what I call Woozle's Epistemic Paradox:

Our present epistemic systems are undergoing kind of the same shock that the online community underwent when transitioning from BBSs and Usenet to the commercial web to social media.

We were used to a very high content-to-BS ratio because it took a certain amount of intelligence and intense domain-interest for people to be there in the first place -- and we've now transitioned to a situation where many people are there more or less accidentally and (the worst part), because of a high percentage of the population being present, there is now substantial power to be had by influencing the discussions that take place.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5wg0hp/when_ep...

This is why the "it's just the Internet" or "just delete your Facebook" is not only an inadequate response, it's false. It fails to recognise that even for those not actively participating or engaging with those platforms, their lives are profoundly affected. The Arab Spring, genocide in Myanmar, the Hong Kong democracy protests, and the January 6 insurrection being four specific cases in point.
>you defrost your freezer and it freezes your apartment

You had 20 years to promote your broken models. Its sad that its devolved down into such anti-science.

I guess just keep goal-post moving?
This assuming most people using copilot are going to properly read generated code.
I'm so sorry to see you've taken the ad down! I lead a creative team and teach marketing/advertising classes, and would love to use it as an example of thought-provoking creativity. I understand it may have been controversial but personally thought it was brilliant. Is there someplace I can still find the ad? The fact it was taken down just adds to the discussion value, IMO.
> I am not very experienced with home servers and such and was really disheartened by how much of my disk got eaten up by RAID. I was using the Synology Hybrid RAID which I think is similar to RAID 5.

SHR1/2 is basically RAID 5/6 but with a mechanism for handling disks that have different sizes. Basically it breaks the disks up into partitions such that any "extra" space on other disks becomes part of another array which is only redundant within the disks that have that space.

Anyways, SHR1 is 1 disk redundancy so you should see (disk_count * space_per_disk) - space_per_disk for an array where all the disks are the same size. SHR2 has 2 disk redundancy and I'm sure you can figure out the math for that. Are you not seeing the expected amount?

For the record, I like synology. They keep updating old hardware for an incredibly long time. My parents have my old DS212j (release 11/2011) and it can run the latest DSM 6.
fyi http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Saving-a-Core-Image
What do you mean "were"..?
You're describing the Diffie-Hellman story I mentioned (in a somewhat confusing way; forward secrecy isn't involved here, this isn't about breaking RSA TLS keys, and in fact DH is used in connections with forward secrecy). Again, that only works for 1024 bit DH schemes. The NSA can't factor 2048 bit keys, and they definitely can't factor 4096 bit keys. These aren't unknown capabilities; it's pretty easy to get an order of magnitude estimate on how much compute power the NSA has (spoiler alert: Google has more).
What if you don't want to hack/tinker and want a Drobo-level solution that isn't Drobo? (My Drobo is very old and I don't want to upgrade to a new Drobo.)
They haven't had a release in over a year.

https://github.com/vernemq/docker-vernemq/issues/238
> unlike the masses of developers, this is a single system that can improve over time

I’d say the exact opposite. Unlike this algorithm, developers can continue to learn. There will likely be future algorithms that are improvements, but this isn’t that.
Running a 2-drive Synology DiskStation, because MacOS backs up literally every hour, and shingle storage on NAS drives requires data relocation after write, the NAS-type hard drives are noisy and LOUD. It will be loud as long as your Macbook or iMac is on and is used. On the contrary Windows backs up weekly so its never a noise problem when my wife with Macbook is away. This has to be hidden somewhere where it won't overheat and also will not bother you with clicking/crunching the data.

At this point i have installed it and i stopped looking around for other solutions. It works for Windows, it works for Mac, i did not try Linux, but i don't really backup my Linux data, its all in Github anyway.

Is your data safe? Definitely as safe as 2 NAS-type drives can be. Did not experience data loss, but don't trust a comment on the internet, look for some research and statistics if you can find.
How about candidates rejected by the pre-screen?

Internal job transfers are always rife with politics.
I think people get upset that they are interacting with an algorithm so to speak. Actually that's not it either, people don't get upset when you start all your letters with "Dear X,". The upsetting thing is the violation of expectations. They thought you spontanously dropped the compliment but you didn't. So the best thing might be to go even further, make it actually obvious that it is formulaic. Just thinking out loud here.
Physical input always beats keyboard when it comes to sketching things out quickly. I don't want to spend an hour trying to get a diagram correct on a PC when I could spend 2 minutes drawing it on a tablet.
Off topic, but I got a good laugh when I learned that the French call French toast "Pain perdu Americain"
Exactly. When you present your employer with "I want to do something different" and they say "no," nothing has really changed. It's the same reason people leave within six months of accepting a counteroffer.
A distinction without a difference, my favorite.
Great news! Now let's see if we can also get Google to reverse course on backdooring every new Android app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27695486
Readers.
It's hard to even make the "this is what you signed up as an Insider" argument when they're supposedly releasing this thing next month. This launch is gonna be a mess.
I was surprised when I realized I had overlooked the performance non-goal considering how fast it has been in my limited experience.
Huh, insightful! I never thought of it that way.
I would expect the human review ("Swatting") to be transparent, unless it was actually CP or looked like CP, at which point the person would be taken for a ride... But this is a real threat with actual CP now.

And again, there is the whole fact that you received the email and there is a log that you received it.
> Unfortunately this clearly won't happen because of the staggering amount of people even on HN who see nothing wrong with having on-device scanners reporting back to HQ.

This is a mischaracterization of many of the arguments.

short_sells: My goal here is meta-goal: I am not trying to change your mind on this issue; rather I want you to acknowledge the strongest rational forms of disagreement.

This is a complex issue. It is non obvious how to trade off goals of protecting kids, protecting privacy, minimizing surveillance, catching predators, and dealing with the effects of false positives.

It is too simplistic (and self defeating) to think that just because people disagree with a particular conclusion that they are not allies with many of your goals.
> Basically, as others have said, there is an evolutionary reason plants do not naturally grow this big (they'd kill themselves off in a few generations).

We're very far away from the wild versions of crops at this point. Evolutionary arguments here seem pretty odd to me, most of these crops have had huge selective pressure towards whatever people value, not necessarily what is good for them in isolation, without the pressure from people most crop yields would drop dramatically. They are much higher than what is optimal without selective pressure from people.
... for a week or two.

Significant, yes. But not indefinitely, as just the headline might lead you to believe.
I think a lot of it depends on the rate of piracy -- and also the circumstances under which it is done. I've met people in Denmark who genuinely pay attention to, and don't skip, youtube ads because they want their content creators to get more financial support. At the same time, at least one of these people has told me that they pirate software to try it, before buying it. They tend not to like DRM but will happily "give things a go".

It's not hard to imagine that a small percentage of piracy actively helps spread a product, and if you get 1000%-fold growth and your piracy rate goes from say, 1.5% to 5%, you've still massively won overall. If you're a person like my Danish friend, it's not hard to imagine that if anything the "try before you buy" piracy then means that products are evaluated more on their features, if anything increasing competition to innovate between market leaders in their segment.

The company only goes bankrupt if literally everyone pirates everything -- or, more likely, transitions into a FOSS-style support+ business model. (Which, IMO, is far more preferable than software-as-service)
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And vulnerabilities are constantly discovered, so they can go back to the recorded internet and break it.
Agreed. A malicious terminal could do all that and more. And it won’t have to edit your bashrc, though it certainly could.
I've gotten answers to both of those (sometimes had them volunteered unprompted).

Haven't been offered (or asked for) some of the other ones mentioned, like size of employee-specific pool.
PM software basically reflects the level of disinterest and demoralization in an organization.
Appwrite Introduces Realtime API to Its Self Hosted Firebase Alternative
WhatsApp to add new Messaging Feature?
According to news reports, WhatsApp has begun chipping away at another message include that will permit clients to send responses to messages.
https://bestapk4u.com/blog/whatsapp-update/
Assuming you're through to the offer negotiation stage, the company should be willing to share the most recent valuation, fully diluted share count, and 409(a) val.
It sucks to say this on Hacker News, but you're being really naive. If I, as a power user, have trouble installing and even running Linux, how can you expect a normal user to do it?

I run into non-stop issues with Linux. I ran into a bug where I can't even boot into a Linux OS without artifacts if I have more than one monitor turned on. I ran into sound driver bugs where my microphone pitch is completely off on Discord and other apps. The Fedora installer didn't even open for me.

Linux is not accessible. If it was, you'd see hundreds of power users moving to it. You're doing the Linux community a disservice by writing it off as "people being impatient".
Only if you had a math teacher that harped on you to reduce your fractions.
> Yes, CAD software is a known issue in FOSS land, but you can still run them in wine on linux when you have to. It is getting better though, lots of consistent updates to some of the foss-cads.

And if you have any issue at all and need technical support, the company will say "That is not a supported configuration, sorry." and you're on your own.

> This is a blanket statement and not true. What about the fact that foss generally runs the vast majority of the internet that allows those non-free devices to function?

And non-free software runs the networking hardware that that internet runs over.

> Because the school system got locked into to proprietary software when it shouldn't have and thats all they train people on for the most part.

Because the school system trains people on what is actually being used, and not on what should, theoretically, be used, in a hypothetical scenario where everyone has weeks or months to relearn everything they know about computing (like how to install and use Linux, and then how to install and use Wine, and then how to install and use their proprietary business tools on Wine on Linux and solve any bugs that come up).
This also potentially gives rise to perverse incentives like the one described in this comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-01-12

Basically if there's an option to remove ads the platform hosting ads will be incentivized to pick _worse_ ads to get people to pay up the removal fee.

A lot F2P smartphone games are examples of this in action... they offer a way to remove ads by paying but then in return have some of the worst unskippable ads before you've paid.
So yeah, legit but niche use case. Thankfully I don't need to worry about it so don't give it a second thought.
When epistemic systems gain social and political significance (2017)
S. Korea gaming industry once suffered a lot from piracy in 90s. This was a main driver of their rapid transition toward online gaming. In fact, one of the earliest graphical MMORPG was invented by Nexon (a year before UO). Coincidentally, Nexon is also the inventor of loot box which becomes their dominant business model. And I think not many people prefer this over old fashioned game packages.

So yeah, piracy could corner industry to "innovate" their product and business model in order to survive. But it's not guaranteed to be in a societally beneficial way.
> some of that is simply that we haven't yet figured out how to make online objects as personal/accessible as files were;

Here you admit that files are inadequate.

> if there were more examples of online, connected software that had malleability, that had a file-like option, i'd be way more willing to negotiate what users want. right now that feels extremely premature. right now the technical gaps, to get as good as files were, are too high to begin to say.

I agree with this, but you are continuing to concede that files simply weren’t good enough to meet users needs, so they chose something else. From the options available, users have not chosen files.

It’s not unreasonable to speculate that users would choose something better than files that nobody has successfully engineered yet.

I would very much like to believe that is true.
Is very common, yes. Sterilization and clean working space are required.

The main problem here would be the economics of the system, but the man in the video knows what is doing. He has probably been trained in lab techniques. Can be seen in clever details like taking the second sample far away from the first triangle sampled (to avoid contamination never returning to a part visited yet).

Another smart trick is to avoid picking the spores from the lamella. Some fungus are parasitic of edible fungus and live over its host lamella.
There's so much censorship now worldwide, and it's increasing. Russia doesn't allow promotion of the gay agenda. Parts of the Islamic world view criticism of Islam as a killing offense.
China won't tolerate the flag of Taiwan, Falun Gong, or criticism of the Party. Afghanistan no longer allows music.

A decade ago, all those things were on the Internet worldwide.
A common quip is that most benchmarks are of the performance of humans who aren’t really paying attention (because while building datasets, they’re doing this repetitive task over and over and over). So better than the average human benchmark isn’t generally great.
> Moreover, they won't even announce it.

That's a terrible idea. Apple knows that researchers are going through every bit of assembly code on the phone.

If all of a sudden they say "Hey we found some code that scans all your photos and sends information up to the cloud" how bad would that look? It's better to explain upfront rather than get found, because they will get found.