skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OTP algorithm can be seen as a form of stream cipher (where the key is the stream), but what you actually said was "a lot of encryption algorithms are various ways of creating a one-time pad". This is false since a one-time pad must be truly random and the stream produced by the other algorithms is only pseudo-random; you can't "create" a one-time pad using a pseudo-random number generator. This is a qualitative difference in security because a pseudo-random stream is subject to brute-force searches to locate the seed which decodes the ciphertext to a meaningful message (the number of possible seeds is much smaller than the number of possible messages, so you can generally determine when you've found the right key) whereas with a properly implemented OTP for any message of size equal to or smaller than the ciphertext there exists a key which will decode the ciphertext into that message (possibly with some padding), so brute-force search is impossible.

I wouldn't call OTP "fragile" or "hard to use", but you're correct about the key distribution difficulties.
In practice a good phone amp and DAC such as those in the LG V series is the best audio quality you can get without massive boondoggles.

A good amp/DAC combo in the phone is much cheaper than an external amp/DAC of similar quality.
This bill won't affect bulk purchases, but for consumer-sized purchases salad greens don't require CO2 in packaging if you're expecting to use them in a reasonable amount of time. Our penchant for produce that doesn't go bad for very long periods of time is new, historically weird, and probably not great, yeah?

Also, if you absolutely need greens that are more robust and last longer, there are options like cabbage that will last quite a while just sitting in the fridge.
If you click into the support chat agent eventually you get this notice:

"Issues with 'Payment failed notification' is fully resolved
On September 22, 2021, you may have received a ‘payment failed notification’ indicating that your payment information was invalid and required updating.

"This issue has now been mitigated and there is no action required from you."

And a link to this page:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/11187364?hl=en
Not just the company, but other researchers and peers as well. This seems kinda like the point of including it with the publication, doesn't it? What's the value of the study of it can't be evaluated or peer-reviewed with the data present?
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I thought about suggsting this, but that's too risky. False positives are unacceptable here because of the potential repercussions.

Now, reporting those people to the authorities for investigation might be ok, but that assumes the authorites object to the behaviors.
Today human traffic tomorrow posts critical of these top tech companies.

Let's Perma-ban as many people as possible so these sites look like a disney movie.

Let's perma-ban political figures I don't support.

Let's perma-ban all.. and move to free platforms.
Does anyone in Norway drive a minivan?
Not in logic: follow actions for clip launching.

Not in live: logic's environment (you could do this in an M4L object, but not live itself)
Perhaps 'ultimate' in the name is more aspirational than objective, but thank you for the helpful "see also" links.
> Nobody forces you to buy a consumer-unfriendly product that also happens to be arbitrarily expensive.

If anything, Apple's Lightning port (and the 30-pin connector before that) are significantly more consumer-friendly than USB. Where consumers are consumers of Apple products, but still.

In the span of time when Apple only had two connectors, USB went through 3 or 4. USB didn't even have a charging standard until 2012 (the year Lightning was introduced).

And even with USB-C it's still a hodge-podge of standards with multiple optional and non-optional parts, and it's not getting better: https://old.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/mjz2pu/usb4_a...
Why would that happen?
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The last three examples in the guide don’t work on my iOS Safari. “Options” and “Keyframes” don’t respond, and “Stagger” shows the boxes instantly teleporting. Also, the home page hey animation shows 2 boxes and an empty space for the 3rd until it pops in at the start of each loop.
I’m not surprised though, at least once a week I come across some cool website that doesn’t work on iOS. I’m constantly disappointed by how terrible Apples browser implementation is.
It's not banning packaging, it's banning plastic packaging.
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> Here's a protip: The intersection of (people who are capable of building a SaaS application) and (people who need or want cookie cutter programming templates) is the empty set.

Why? Considering the mess that is JS development, it's nice to have projects like that to quickly evaluate some options.

> Also.. SaaS with next? If you're building a SaaS application, you're probably building an API first and an application second. You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.

That sounds like a very specific vision of SaaS, one mainly aimed at programmers. That's not the only kind of SaaS out there.
I find it interesting that our main hope for forcing the big tech to follow ethical/environment_friendly/user_friendly procedures is not the US, but the EU.

I'm not European, but can anyone tell me how does the political system in the EU let (or even motivate) law-makers and governments to support such mandates and laws that are in favor of consumers?
Statement without justification, then a non sequitor. If you have a point, make it.

I am aware of the existence of Russians, what about them?
USB-A to USB-C cables are a thing.
...what is Global Church?
So it's everybody else's fault BUT that of the actual people who created rules?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYHTzqHIngk had me pretty convinced land use was the key to breaking through a bad food waste vs shelf-stable food trade-off.
Yeah, PC gaming will be dead for a few years at least.

Might try to get a Steam Deck.
Yet I threw away many such throwaway-grade chargers, and use the one that came with my Pixel phone, because it delivers a much faster charge.

If we all shift the buying the wall charger separately, hopefully something can be done about the wide variety of incompatible fast-ish charging systems. Rather than everyone revert to the lowest common standard of a very slow charge.
How do Epic's games benefit users in meaningful ways over any of the other non-exploitative games on the App Store?
“Second-Hand” Psychological Stress Can Lead to Depression in Mice, Finds Study
EVs are likely better for C-Stores like 7/11. People will have to wait longer more likely to shop, pick up food or some smokes.
There's a balance here but it really is important to consider how much less effective those shadowy places would be without free use of tools built by billions of dollars of developer and SRE time. Facebook and Google give them platforms they could never afford on their own and there's a big question of access when it comes to things like recruiting being more effective when it can happen on a legitimate mainstream platform.

Now, there is some question about the value of cooperation with international authorities but that is undercut by the long history of not working with those organizations and concealing problems rather than reporting them. I'm not sure that can happen without something like a regulatory requirement with personal liability for senior management in the event of non-compliance — they need to fear this at least as much as, say, a financial firm fears lying to the SEC.
Short explainer video for those who don’t want to read the whole thing:

https://youtu.be/eCYkzciF28E
This is silly. Apple's just going to add a $5 converter to their boxes that no one is going to use. They will also sell the converter for $75 just in case you do use it and lose it.
Is it OK to mandate non-plastic packaging or paper straws?
So you are a communist thieve of IP !!11!! Who will ever design a plug again, if it can be stolen from them by the government?!?!? /s

Honestly, this is the result of dialogue between consumers, authorities, and manufacturers, including Apple. It tries to do the right thing under the circumstances. Apple could have avoided this sort of thing entirely if they were only a bit less greedy than they are.
> They will have another excuse to increase the prices further.

This sounds like a very poorly thought out slippery slope argument, specially taking into account that iPhones' manufacturing cost is already a fraction of the huge price they sell it to consumers (i.e., $200 vs $1200)
That's the case with pretty much every gas station. The station operator's margin on the gasoline itself is pretty close to zero.
I don't think it's an ad hominem, because this is a viable attack vector. What better way to get access to countless systems than by compromising the supply chain?
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I am sick of Epic honestly, these companies always feeling entitled to someone else's work. With this fake "level playing field" nonsense. No one is forcing you to use iOS as your delivery platform. Epic is extremely disingenuous in this case, if they don't like it they have all the resources to create their own mobile device and platform.
So is Tor. Is there any other reason to suspect foul play?
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Imagine how great it would be if everything was USB-C

Need a cable? Grab one. Sorted
Reading this gave me a similar "beginning-of-the-end" vibe. Just last night I complained to my SO for hours about how B2B sales are going to destroy our current notion of the individual developer. I shudder to imagine what "development" will look like in 10 years: you pay Github $0.25 for access to your online dev environment, then $0.05 for each debug build and $0.50 for each release build? It sounds insane to frame things like that, but both Apple and Google have made it clear that they intend to move app compilation off-device.

So yeah, I have a hard time seeing anything other than dystopia when I look at this. It's certainly not poorly made or developed in bad faith, but the optics and rhetoric around it really make me sick.
Where do you keep your sales kit for salespeople?
Any cloud storage (Google Drive or Dropbox, for example) is not very convenient, there are many different files and unstructured descriptions, and so on.
What did you choose instead?
Consider trying Rimworld--it's a more approachable (and in turn, shallower, though not as shallow as you'd expect) riff on the "story generator"/ant-farm approach to game design.
Covid Related Relationships Between NGOs, Companies, Documents and People [pdf]
I'm submitting TEA here because A) it's an interesting and unique text editor (Ctrl-f Voynich) and B) it can now autosave unsaved documents and load them with the next session. A lot of us who have used BBEdit like to be notified when this feature is available :-)
Why would they bury you as a survivor?
It's common sense, isn't it? SSDs fail from overheating, NVMe SSDs even more so. Always use a heatsink and better yet, have good airflow.
The idea is to give you the plausible deniability, you can tell the cops you wiped it with random data, there is no password.

Your flash drive can't then be used as evidence that you haven't wiped it yet.

The initrd on the drive would be evidence you haven't wiped the drive.

Whether that gets you out of a jam and not in trouble for destroying evidence is another question.
Genuinely curious what one has to do with the other. An0m served a very specific purpose which I don't think generalizes well to the dark market "problem."
Direct bans are not optimal way to remove CO2.

Norway is part of EU Emissions Trading System that is becoming very effective. The best way to cut CO2 emissions would be to make coal expensive.

This can be done by requiring that all cars must be 100% carbon neutral. To be able to sell gas, companies have to buy carbon permits and hurt coal production. (100% carbon neutral might not be the endpoint. Requirement can grow to 200% or to any arbitrary number). Those who need gas cars could still use them.
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Aw. I am bummed to hear that. Best fast-food chain I've ever seen.
There are apps to buy servants (i.e. slaves) in the Middle East in Play Store.
Buying himself a new laptop every year was his motivation for quitting smoking, as he realized 17 years ago he spent about two laptops worth on cigarettes every year. It’s in the article, near the end.
Well yes, alcohol is legal and people seem surprisingly okay with how much slavery goes into the cobalt of the average mobile phone as well as the Qatar football stadium.

The biggest ally of slavery is of course an œconomic dependence thereupon. — The knight in the shining armor standing for the downtrodden remains awfully silent when he depends on said downtrodden for the polish to keep his armor so shiny.
Existing iPhone owners (and there are a lot of them!) throwing away their Lightning cables/chargers when purchasing a new phone?
Mastering Access Control Lists (ACLs) Once and for All
It really is appalling. It’s caused me the most headaches with this project. I’m on iOS too though and not seeing any issues though (apart from the typical 30fps in battery saving mode) - which version of iOS?
Propshaft: An asset pipeline library for Rails
If Apple thought they could charge more they would be already doing it, based on their considerable margins. If this makes you understand Brexit I doubt you really understand Brexit.
Not in Norway, but my wife and I have the Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid (our only car). We average about 1 in 6 miles on gasoline power. With more widely distributed charging infrastructure and a bigger battery we could easily make that 0 in 6. This is living in the suburbs of Chicago.
Facebook is the park and the council that controls it.
> And gas stations will begin to dry up

Will they though? I was under the impression "gas stations" make very little from the gas itself, and instead make most from the store (food/drinks etc.)

Recently they replaced a very simple and old gas station in my town with a completely new station featuring a robust store. The volume of business to that station has probably increased 10x.
And soon there will be USB4... https://old.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/mjz2pu/usb4_a... and https://old.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/mjz2pu/usb4_a...
Ah ok, I was aware of that usage back in those days (fidonet), but I didn't realise it was still used as such. I haven't seen that function in any modern app, and most have their own spoiler tag implementation (like black on black so you only see the content after highlighting)

In cryptography circles it seems to be kind of a running joke ("just use ROT13 encryption and you'll be set!" is something I've seen several times) ;) I know it was never intended to be secure.

But it makes sense then.

Of course if you work with ROT13 a lot, you will probably gain the ability to read it just by viewing the ROT'd code, defeating its purpose :) The structure of words also gives away a lot, since it doesn't affect spaces, capitalisation or punctuation. I still don't think it's very good at this usecase either.
That's bullshit. You can carry 240W over USB-C. Physical size limits current, not voltage, and you can increase voltage.
> EU is all about fair markets.

If you really believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

The EU, just like any political entity that has grown beyond the original intended responsibilities, has become the stage for cronies and the elites to play their power games.

If the EU was really for "fair markets", Dieselgate alone would have been enough to wipe the German auto industry off the Earth. That is certainly something that has caused more environmental damage and stopped healthier market competition than a fucking power connector.

And don't even get me started on the subsidies given to French farmers and the market quotas for eastern countries that kill any chance for them to develop their industries.

But, hey, at least the EU is giving Apple fans another way to greenwash their consumer behavior, so that counts for something...
>The packaging is to reduce food waste

I doubt it. In my supermarket, all the fruits in plastics bags/boxes are damaged more or earlier, because as soon as one of the fruit is in bad shape, no one buys the box and all fruits get ruined.

The irony is that the organic fruits are put into a container (because they're more expensive and the store don't want people checking out expensive food as cheap) so if you want to buy organic for the environment, you're the one paying for plastics and for good waste.
Not officially right now (the game's sold on Epic, which has no Linux support) but the game works perfectly with Proton, it's easiest to just run it with Lutris or the Heroic Launcher.

I'm the Linux nerd on the team and try to keep an eye out on Linux-specific issues, and maintain a native Linux build as well, which isn't too hard because the game is built on Unity anyway, it has good cross-platform support.
The FAA approach to something like this would be to incorporate an industry-defined standard by reference (e.g. altimeters "shall meet the standards set forth in SAE Aeronautical Standard AS 392C") which has the benefit of requiring that there be a standard component while leaving it up to an industry group to figure out specifically what that component should be. It's not perfect but in cases like this I think it's a better approach than explicitly requiring a particular technology, and it gives industry the freedom (within the constraints of its standards body) to redefine the standard without overly onerous regulatory machinations. I'll note though that new revisions still have to be incorporated by the regulatory body; they aren't automatic.
How long you’ll need to work to afford an iPhone 13 around the world
Sounds like a good policy for report enemies, teachers and quasi-celebrities who you may more info on.
There are varying degrees of familiarity. I can technically read Japanese kana, for example. Only a few dozen to memorize, after all. But using a programming language with all its keywords in Japanese is a rather daunting prospect. I still tend to mix up some of the kana visually, for example. And I don't know much Japanese vocabulary so most or all of the terms would be opaque to me. It seems it would be a lot more mental heavy lifting than programming in my native English, especially at the start.
I'd add that a not insignificant part of that 1 in 6 is the car choosing to use gasoline power to keep the gas engine operable. It also likes to switch to gas power during the winter when we're running the heater.
Headline: Norway bans gas cars in 2025

Quotes from the article:
"This has led Norway to have the earliest target for the phaseout of new gas vehicle sales in the world – 2025"
...
"(which, to be clear, is not a legal requirement yet, more of a soft target agreed upon by Norway’s government)"
...
"Norway might even allow limited numbers of gas car sales to continue past 2025"

So Norway isn't banning gas cars in 2025. Norway also likely isn't banning sales of new gas cars in 2025, they're incentivizing people to buy electric. But Electrek's gotta get those clicks.
> Unbundling the sale of a charger from the sale of the electronic device: consumers will be able to purchase a new electronic device without a new charger.

Maybe not, depends how this gets interpreted.
I feel DS9 pulled off realism better - Picard seems to me to fly past realism and straight into dystopian stereotypes. And there was too much meaningless killing.

I'm also pissed about the Borg subplot - in the trailer and initial episodes, they set up the scene for some amazing drama and deep storytelling, and then they just literally crashed it into a planet and discarded like space trash. It was a huge letdown to me.
Some 7-11s are gas stations in the USA, but most aren’t, so I’m not sure how to judge this claim. I definitely wouldn’t consider 7-11 to be a popular place for gas like chevron or shell.
> How do Epic's games benefit users in meaningful ways over any of the other games on the App Store?

They benefit the users who want to play those games. Fortnite in particular is huge.
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Outside of business uses they are not particularly popular.
Even if you think of it as a gaming platform (which it isn't)... there's Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox, PC, Mac, Steam (also on PC and Mac, but separate to itself)... I might have missed some niche platforms. As opposed to mobile, which is Apple and Android.
Yay, I'm also in favor of heavily taxing the horrible packaging of consumer goods shipped from overseas. I don't have any illusions we can shift mass manufacturing back to the US, that doesn't make any sense, but I think we should force our suppliers to use more sustainable packaging, even if the prices go up.
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Curious to know what HN community makes of this approach towards intelligent machines and Opteran.
But you need more real estate for the same number of customers per day, so it's a trade off.
In my country (Eastern Europe) there are very generous subsidies now for buying an EV as a replacement for an older vehicle so I ended up going for that instead of buying a nice gas car. With gas prices (and the general economy) being the way they are I simply couldn't justify the increasing cost of gas alongside the lease. I'm looking forward to March/April when it arrives.
I disagree, timezones give you some pretty strong hints. I know for a fact that 1pm in India is in the middle of the day. I don't have to do a translation and realize "wait, that's actually equivalent to my 10:30pm". Those two are diametrically opposite.

And see what I just did there, that translation? It's timezones all over again! We have timezones because we realized that no matter what we do, we're going to want to convert back into a time that we understand. It's easier for everyone to have a common understanding of 1pm, rather than maintaining mental lookup tables of "1pm in NYC is mid-dayish" vs "1pm in India is midnight-ish". That's not maintainable.
I disagree. UEFI boot security is not that recent, and it hasn't changed so much as to render earliest approaches less secure.
Their accusations are bold and brash, but this is not an ad-hominem.
I just wanted to share my side-project of the last weekend.
I've made it for myself first.
It is a very opinionated template, made with the tools i like to use currently (Typescript, Prisma, Next.JS)
I'll be happy if it's useful to someone else.
I'm sad you found that it's garbage :(