skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought WhatsApp is end to end encrypted, no?!

The article is written confusingly. It looked as if Facebook has private keys, and WhatsApp is not end to end encrypted.

But considering this:

>> Those contractors, which Facebook acknowledges, reportedly spend their days sifting through content that WhatsApp users and the service's own algorithms flag.

Does Facebook use automated tools and perform “Client-side Scanning” ?

That also defeats the purpose of end to end encryption.
This is awesome! I did a similar barebones emulator for x86 ELF binaries but I took a few shortcuts. I shimmed _start in the emulator and just jumped to main. Then I called exit back in the emulator when main returned.

I haven't yet gotten to implementing syscalls but the simple ones (write, exit, etc.) aren't terribly hard once you have the general infrastructure.

https://notes.eatonphil.com/emulating-amd64-starting-with-el...
We spend a ton of time locking down OS API/ABIs to prevent sandbox violations and I wouldn't trust a shared server with sensitive data unless I had an IT team working on it. JS seems to be a lot better with sandboxing though. You still have to really worry about CSRF though. I use multiple profiles to ensure sketchy sites can't get at my data.

I think JS gets a bad name when people use it to make crazy modal popups or inline video ads or change the way the page scrolls. Beyond that it's cool that devs can get really creative with a website and I love coding in JS. But also you're adding a lot of complexity for that. HTML/css are fine for creating a website that communicates information and maybe even looks nice. And they aren't actually a programming language, they're just data. JS is a full programming language and gives you enough rope you hang yourself and I think developers kinda go off the rails messing with their sites and ruin the user experience.

It is cool that I can have whoever execute code on my machine without worrying if it will get privileged access to it. That is a pretty amazing feature of JS/browsers.
What every engineer should know about real-time data unifying abstraction (2013)
A Brief History of the Single-Chip DSP, Part I
Solarpunk Is Not About Pretty Aesthetics. It's About the End of Capitalism
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Beyond the headline, it does only...

> ...when a user reports abuse, unencrypted versions of the message are sent to WhatsApp's moderation contractors, ProPublica reports.

So in the end, it is possible to abuse this on to anyone and the messages can be sent to Facebook unencrypted.

Did WhatsApp (Facebook) disclose this anywhere? If not then, Oh dear.
Eating half the bag of candy is a loss though. You'd have to sell the other half for twice the price just to break even and if you promised the other kid that he gets back more than he spent then it is pretty damn close to a security.
I agree with the other comment about there being a lot of predecessors to IEEE floating point numbers. What happened was that when people designed other, non-IEEE floating point arithmetic, they sometimes got things wrong. Not wrong in that the hardware produced incorrect results, but that it was hard for people to write code that did what they wanted. The dominance of IEEE floating-point numbers (in part due to the fairly logical way it's designed, and at the time they took into account what they knew, about 40 years ago now) means that we have all forgotten how annoying things can be if you don't have IEEE numbers.

One of the well-known people in this research area is Bill Kahan, and on his webpage (http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/) he has a bunch of, uhm, rants about floating-point arithmetic. If you read some of them, you can find clear explicit examples of arithmetic that's not IEEE-compliant, and does weird hard-to-understand confusing things that don't really happen any more. (For example, p.4 of http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mind1ess.pdf, and you can dig around his page for more examples; none of these were done out of malice by programmers, they just didn't think things through, which is what Kahan is writing about)
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
I don't think that's a similar situation, really; those allowed injured parties to sue the manufacturers who made the dangerous device. In the US gun manufacturers are generally special-cased here; they have unusual protections that you wouldn't have if you, say, manufactured a defective water heater.

In this case totally _unrelated_ parties can sue, which seems entirely different.
So your problem is branding related. You dont like the logo or theme music?

We dont call it 'Long Cancer' meme is a really fascinating one. You are right, we don't call it exactly that. The long term effects of cancer, which really would span such an enormous range of things collectively are known, to use the technical term, as 'The long term effects of cancer'.

When you get diagnosed with cancer, you 'have Cancer'. When you are 100% free from cancer you are still a cancer patient but its said to be 'in remission', and would likely not be considered 'Cured' of your cancer for many years. But why do we use that language, when I have the sniffles and they go away I am 'cured'. It is almost like the english language has room for more than one adjective,

What other language is in use - conditions can be called 'Chronic illnesses'. It turns out sometimes it is useful to bundle things together into 'Syndromes', a bit like that Gulf War Syndrome.

Now personally I believe that how 'scary' or 'special' a sequence of words are, which is your main argument against the word 'Long', is subjective. Personally 'long' doesnt instill me with fear in particular, but lets try on some alternative brandings that are more in line with other illnesses are you helpfully suggest size shall we.

Chronic Covid, In remission Covid, Covid Syndrome, Post Covid Lung Failure.

Covid Syndrome seems the obvious choice really. It is the most consistent with medical language used to date, as such could not possibly be described as being thrown around for PR purpopses or just out right fear mongering.
You took the words right out of my mouth.

Would also add there is an miles travelled does not equate to time on the road (highway vs local driving) and state funding has biases as well (highway vs local roads, urban vs rural infrastructure)
We talk about cancer not as cured but as in remission when we can't detect it and we view it as a big deal. We probably do talk about long flu because any attempt to separate fibromyalgia causes in frequently occuring life events is a debate and we certainly argue about long Lyme aka chronic Lyme. The reason this is a big deal is because we know roughly what percentage of people at any given time have all of those other long problems while the future of pandemic recovery is unknown.
A good resource is https://www.nand2tetris.org/, there is a book and two parts course on Coursera.
So Coke pioneered the democratization of soda.
>This means that we would have to continue them indefinitely, forever, without fail.

This kind of all or nothing rhetoric is damaging to actual progress. Solutions are not mutually exclusive. We can do both. One treats the symptom and buys us a few decades without having to suffer a 4C air temperature rise (and the billions of needlessly lost lives and indeterminate human suffering). The other fixes it in the long term.
Have you found that any web crawlers have tried accessing your subdomain?

Wondering if services like Google or Shodan may have tried querying it and causing your server to turn on?
> How can they offer that for free!?

Opinion: They're losing badly in the Cloud Wars and need to scrape together some sort of customer base in any way they can, even if it means burning money.
I agree. They are not a bank. That's all there is to it really...
Looking forward to the annual QaaStr conference!
Early History and Development of NASA
I made a service like this on Observable

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/minecraft-servers-be

it never really took off so I mothballed it, however, I do use it at home for our personal server and it has saved me a ton of money! It makes perfect sense as you can have quite a good spec machine when you are paying by the hour. you just disconnect the disk from the VM and pay for disk storage which is very cheap.

It was based on the following terraform recipe (which I wrote)

https://github.com/futurice/terraform-examples/blob/master/g...
I don’t have much to say about the article, I’m just glad it wasn’t a headline joke about Steve Jobs.
IoM has MPs, just not UK MPs. The OP almost certainly meant an MP from the Manx Tynwald parliament.
This reminds me of my (now dead) open source Dropbox alternative Syncany [1] and all the different storage plugins I made for it [2]. Long story short, a storage plugin only had to implement the API methods upload, download, list and delete, so you could literally use anything as a storage backend (FTP, SFTP, S3, WebDAV, ..).

I made a few fun plugins that would encode data (after deduping, compressing and encrypting them) into PNG or BMP and store them on Flickr (which gave you 1TB of free storage for images) or Picasa (now Google Photos). It was actually relatively efficient and not slower than the other methods, and it looked super cool to have albums full of what looked like images of static. It was a blatant violation of their ToC, so obviously not serious.

The code is still online, it's from 2014/2015. The Flickr plugin with the PNG encoder is here [3], and I'm not entirely sure if I ever published the Picasa one.

[1] https://www.syncany.org/

[2] https://github.com/syncany?q=plugin

[3] https://github.com/syncany/syncany-plugin-flickr/tree/develo...
Turns out, my spider-sense wasn't off. Here is an interesting comment from YT by "stephen wallin":

As so many query whether the Lyrics were understood in the 1920's I got a friend to check BBC archive and the record was never broadcast on the radio, indicting deep problems, and a note still exists that it was banned for sexual innuendo. So the double entendre was fully noticed as soon as the disk came out. It however sold well!! There was a market for such disks, many dance bands did them, notably Bill Cotton.
Harry Roy was noted as having a wicked sense of fun, he loved playing prank versions of songs. You have to appreciate that the English audiences loved such lyrics and jokes, Max Miller made a whole career on such comic material.
> (...) but this whole story demonstrates that I went to extreme lengths to never break any laws,

No, not really. It shows that you went to great lengths to find ways to exploit a loophole where, even though you are clearly breaking the spirit of the law, you argue that it doesn't break the letter of the law.

I get it that you have a vested interest in keeping up the plausible deniability thing, but you know it and everyone knows it that you went through great lengths to put up a tech infrastructure which meets absolutely no requirement other than exploiting a loophole.

I mean, you explicitly expressed your personal concerns in this very discussion regarding what you personally chose to describe as testing "legally grey areas". Who do you expect to fool?
I'm personally willing to throw a couple of 9's on that figure to avoid dying the mushroom death.
This Is How Long It Takes for a Startup to Become an 'Overnight Success'
That was a summer project after my last semester of undergrad, posted at the beginning of my first semester in a PhD program in AI (lucky timing there). Graduated in 2017 and have been working in the field since.
Same here. I think so too. It was validated by OpenWhisper systems.
I don't know whether the standard guarantees you can index into arrays with large unsigned ints (it says "integer type”. I don’t know whether that means it will support both without silently converting them, or whether that means an implementation can pick one)

Also, I don’t know whether it (¿still?) is valid C, but I’ve used negative indexes in the past in graphics applications, where it is convenient to have an 'array' with indices that dont start at zero. One-dimensional example:

#define N 100
char a[2 * N + 1];
char * b = a + 100;
...
for(int x = -N; x <= N; ++x) b[x] = 42;
For sure! Thank you for the pointer to it.
Very much agree with the 5km rule and curfew. If there is strong evidence to suggest that they are necessary than so be it but after months and months of restricting basic freedoms 'we follow the health advice' just doesn't cut it anymore.
If you already understood that the quarantine is what is limiting people’s choice and not the app then why did you bring it up as an issue with the app?
It seems to me that since cheaters are already modifying or supplementing the software, it should be possible for them to replace the TPM functionality with software that just pretends to be a different PC with a different key.
Whose fault is that? The one who disables the JavaScript not actually needed to submit a POST request, or the one who implements a web service which requires client code execution to receive a POST request (or worse, who uses GET for POST)?
If OpenAI made the weights and the NN configuration freely available,I am sure that several organizations would offer cheap (or even free with strict rate limits) API access. And users would also be able to run the model locally, if they can afford the hardware.
OK, let’s jack up prices for everything from food to infrastructure but in a magical way that doesn’t harm low-income people. Great plan bro
100%.

But do you take into account how much road use is consumed, and what type of roads, and where they are?
This is like saying my computer's performance in a game is limited by CPU, GPU, and RAM while my CPU is maxed out 90% of the time.
I'll just say that the word democratize does not appear in Cohere's website
The Ethics of Sending Humans to Mars
Howard University cancels classes after ransomware attack
> Remember... governments NEVER give up these powers readily.

The West had massively draconian laws during the last similar protracted existential problem, WW2, and gave them up just fine when it finished.
I’m clearly missing something.

I see NFTs a way to sign your digital work - which was previously impossible.

Or a way to speculate, aka create (art)work which can have arbitrarily any value, from O to infinite, depending on how powerful the person / network is who sets the price.
Security Risks of Relying on a Single Smartphone
Inflation and growth was higher back then. My guess is that most of the growth is simply happening outside the developed world.

It's somehow in human nature to not share work. The bean counters will tell you how stupid it is to manufacture in the US and that you should move absolutely everything to Asia.
15k is getting very blue in terms of temperature. Maybe bitrates? Those would also fit.
> It is at best a policy that buys time to get people vaccinated

This is exactly the strategy in Australia, from all states and territories. We're last in the OECD in population vaccinations and so COVID-zero via lockdowns are our only strategy until jab rates get to 80% (of people above 16).
Yea financial things are “very simple”. Coinbase is in the wrong and got called out, “very simple”.
Compound isn’t subject to impermanent loss. It’s a lending protocol, not an exchange protocol.
Ergonomics were much, much worse before. I had my Commodore 64 hooked up to the TV in the living room. It was not easy to program using an old tube TV displaying text with 320x200 resolution graphics.
He flies 747s at the moment. Those have 4 engines. But he has logged a lot of 2-engine airliner time.

Yes, there is a checklist to pull out if all the engines fail. But, as I already said, the airline allows him exactly zero minutes of simulator time for it. I questioned him very closely about this.

People flying single-engine light aircraft have to think about engine failure all the time; but there are no single-engine airliners.
I realize this might simply put me into the "not target demographic" group, but what makes this so useful as a terminal, that a laptop won't do?

I could understand the no-distraction writing i.e. word processor use-case that some people think E-Ink would be good for, but that doesn't appear in your list of possible applications either.
It would be a riot if the Margot Robbie examples were her Harley Quinn character.
I still don't agree this should be the way people are treated for having a virus. It's over the top.

No where else in the world is cracking down like this (AFAIK, maybe China?)

This is totally abusing a crisis to gain handover people and using "safety" as justification.
Man, I used 000webhost a lot! Thanks for the reminder.
From https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

> No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_cam...

One could possibly argue additional articles, particularly around fair tribunals also apply to the above situation above.
I don't agree. If humans needed to eat animals to survive then it might be reasonable to argue that killing animals for any reason other than food is wrong. Because then you could argue that you are inflicting the minimal possible amount of suffering.

But since humans don't need to eat animals, I don't see much difference ethnically between killing them because they taste good vs for no reason. If anything, that seems to be more about welfare of the human psyche than welfare of the animals.
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yes - for example a US fluid Oz is different from everywhere else, as is a cup, a pint, a Venti (twenty what?) and many of the units used in cooking - using American recipes without translation can produce crap - Imperial fluid ounces are totally different largely due tax politics of the 1700/1800s
Panasonic RS-296US, 1972 Rotative audio cassette player
Jimmy and Bunk only need one word to solve a crime (season 1, episode 4).
Inspired by Mies van der Rohe: less is more.
FDIC was put in place after The Great Depression, in order to prevent another Great Depression. There is no opt out because when large numbers of people make risky investments without planning for the consequences, it affects the entire economy.
Are those ARM-based instances fast enough? Last I tried, Oracle Cloud's free tier "AMD" instances (with 1/8 vCPU) were so slow that I could not use them for any useful applications. Even their network speed was slow.
I can see why....

Three times i've tried using OCI to move Oracles own products from on-prem to cloud. All three times they told me not to bother as it wasn't supported.

Seriously if Oracle can't figure out how to run RDBMS, Weblogic and Opera what hope have i got?
I would argue the mass media has always been this way - events are always filtered through the dominant narrative before being reported. There is very little challenging of how events are described, at least in the major media companies and the smaller ones that do challenge come off as fringe and are easy to dismiss.
MIT project achieves advance toward fusion energy
I am so glad you have no responsibility for public safety.
How original, and timely. No one has ever thought to subvert art in order to deliver political messages before; certainly not anti-capitalist ones.

Can we have an "artistic movement" that's about something else for once? Does the dogma really have to soak into every facet of life?
Do you know what the lightning network is? It changes all of these relationships, and it is key to what we are talking about, but you didnt mention it in this comment.

Separately to the lightning network, the security (hashrate, energy usage) is still not directly linked to the number of on-chain transactions that are processed. You can compute "a practical energy/block" specifically for bitcoin but it does not translate to a meaningful energy/transaction value because the quantity of energy used is not directly caused by transactions. You can have a less-secure blockchain that does many more transactions than bitcoin with low energy usage (altcoins exist) - if these are low value transactions then people won't even be incentivised to attack it. The relationship is NOT just energy/transaction. Your estimated energy/transaction value will keep changing because that's not the relationship; the new coins in the block reward will eventually drop to zero, the value processed by the network will change, the ASIC development situation will change, etc. It's like finding a runner that eats icecream and computing icecream/kilometre.

>Again, if you don't believe this, you should ask yourself what stops the bitcoin blockchain from processing 1 billion transactions/second instead of the current pitiful ~2 hundred transactions.

Nothing is stopping it. Run your own lightning node and you can do more transactions than what you are erroneously claiming
so you can report a message thread to fb for abuse and then contractors check the messages to verify for said abuse.

how is this news? it's the equivalent of taking a screenshot of a whatsapp thread and reporting that, doesn't affect e2e encrpytion in any way.
On the Residual Generation
Setting IP whitelisting would help.
Which should be a choice for all US residents to participate in, residents who can also go lose their money at casinos if they wanted, but are literally barred from participating in positive expected value financial systems.

Just like Texas abortion laws, this is not enforced against the US resident, it is against the service providers, which has allowed this framework to persist for 70 years.
There is https://exaroton.com/:en/
They try to make it sound like they didn't expect Lend to be treated like an investment, but it's clear that's a load of bullshit. If they didn't think the lending program was a security, they wouldn't have gone to the SEC about it.
It's better than what happens in most of Europe where governments automatically track your vehicle's movements through cameras. At least you have a choice (for now).
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That is what they are called
If you have to resort to that degree of hyperbole to make the problem seem problematic, it only suggests that it isn't much of a problem in practical reality.
Big trucks use odometers to enforce driver regulations and there is a whole semi-hidden market for tools and fixes that disable the odometers, even electronic ones. Menaing, they are easy to interfere with.

I still agree with the other's posters that tracking is conveniently useful for other things.
No, that is not what open banking is about at all. It just means that your financial data is not held in a prison by your banking provider. It means you have control over who you share that data with so that you can get value added services using your data.
Funny note: one Polish publishing company contracted me to retype the entire translated text of the book and typeset it in LaTeX for publication.

They lost the original source of the translation, so I just got a stack of printed paper to work with and the original book in English for reference.

So I am a bit attached to this book -- this is the only one that I have ever just typed in its entirety (aside from another book that I have translated into Polish, but that is not as much typing as it is walking around and figuring how best to transfer it into Polish).
Which from that tweet thread from Brian Armstrong:

> Ok - seems strange, how can lending be a security?

I mean, in general, loans can definitely be considered securities sometimes, this is a thing? As you can easily find out googling? Either this is disingenuous, or the business has really bad legal/accounting advice.
Yes, but JavaScript has been a thing since the 90's and was widely used by web sites even back in the the days of GeoCities. So it's really a bit weird to complain about something that has been part of the web since almost its beginnings, and arguably has been one of the main drivers for the 'rise of the web' itself.