skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, I can't follow this argument at all.

Suppose I give you a moderate sized number like 163123711. What are your choices of a and c? How do you proceed using the "Factorisation with Rectangles" method?

Don't pick magic numbers, don't roll everything into one, I'd like to see a complete step-by-step example.

So with vanilla Fermat we say:

a = ceil(sqrt(N)) = 12772
b2 = a^2 - N = 273 <- Not a square
Add 1 to a.
a = 12773
b2 = a^2 - N = 25818 <- Not a square
Add 1 to a.
a = 12774
b2 = a^2 - N = 51365 <- Not a square

And so on.

So, how does your algorithm proceed?
Usually digraphs or special keyboard maps are used.
If you want to work with APL, you probably want to install the free APL fonts and keyboard mappings from Dyalog at https://www.dyalog.com/apl-font-keyboard.htm

If you just want to play around with it, you might try https://tryapl.org/
Not without massive loss of users. Both Microsoft and Apple would love to lock down their platforms, but they have to do it in tandem or users will flock to the other. So we will see a slow lock-in creep until they look like current day smartphones.

Only way to stop this is to react strongly, so if most users are apathetic like you then it is inevitable. Of course I believe that you are right and most are this apathetic, so from my perspective this is inevitable. When they roll out the enforced appstore you will say something along the lines of "but this appstore is secure and I can get all the programs I wanted from it anyway, and even if I couldn't would I really want an insecure program?".
Specially pervasive is "learn to grow your audience on Twitter like I did" teaching people how to grow an audience on Twitter
Oh piss off, nonsense like this is why we still don't have any Linux distros shipping reasonable FDE implementations.

I sure hate to be able to kind of trust my computer http://0pointer.net/blog/authenticated-boot-and-disk-encrypt...
Not at all - you've badly misread what I said.

You and one other person in this thread are saying:

- the super rich shouldn't be around because they employ people to do the wrong jobs; those people should do other jobs, and removing the super rich is how we achieve this important aim

- the super rich aren't required to keep those people employed; the same demand will magically appear if we remove the super rich

You are particularly distinguished because you say both at different points, which is funny. But I am commenting at one time or another on either of those points above.
What can we as people in top 1% with 1) information about big tech abuses 2) skills to fix this do?

Individually we can use browsers like firefox or brave and probably donate time or money to them, but I think it's not enough.

I think we would need something like a movement against those abuses, but probably the biggest win would be a business model that could win with them in the free market.

Is this possible? Has anyone tried something like this?
That’s awesome, it was clear for everyone involved what your situation is so things can be planned around.

Out of curiosity, was there ever any situation that your manager would reach out and ask for you to put additional time because of an urgent requirement / situation?
Might, would… look, I don’t want to come up with a True Scotsman counter argument, but it does sound like one: blaming this mess on the single one restriction that seemed to exist.

Are we going to blame driving time restrictions next?
How Puerto Rico became the most vaccinated place in America
Lost marketshare isn't a criticism. It's an indication that every minute of the day, more current firefox are annoyed and leave than non-firefox users are attracted to install.

CEO pay also isn't a criticism of the browser, its an indication that the organization either rewards failure, or sees its current situation as success. Either way, it doesn't bode well for the future.
Can we also start denying hospitals to smokers and drunk drivers and along the way stop treating kidney and liver issues for alcoholics. I'm not a fan of anti vaxxers, but this is a slippery slope that can truly create a hunger games outcome.
Linux has a built-in keyboard that's easy enough to configure in your DE or with an X keyboard toggle.

Dyalog has some introductory documentation on how to set up the mappings. https://www.dyalog.com/apl-font-keyboard.htm

If you want to type something very small, you could also go to tryapl.org and use the on-screen keyboard and copy and paste.
>who uses the tool and their motives, not on the tool itself. The tool is powerful but it's totally neutral.

What if we had computer control like gun control?
I do not appreciate you calling my criticism silly, it certainly is sign of comparative decline if people don't want to use their software anymore on that scale. (of-course there are other factors; e.g. other browsers being the OS default but that's hardly new) And that wasn't even my argument, I was saying that they won't have many options for revenue (or raising funds) with declining market share.

I haven't been really using Firefox recently, so there may have been some improvements I have missed. But they have made mistakes and missed opportunities. They probably should have made ad-blocking the default (same as Brave does), but can they do that if they are funded by Google? They probably should't have ended support for legacy add-ons. They probably shouldn't have freaked out their privacy-conscious part of their user-base by that Mr. Robot promo...
I fully endorse the outsourcing of labor. The mess foreign companies leave after they complete a contract leaves American workers with years of work to do.

But seriously, even outsourcing to American companies becomes labor-intensive and frustrating. Everyone overpromises, underdelivers, and you spend as much time managing external entities as it would take to do the work yourselves. It is useful and necessary because of the shortage / intractability of senior engineering talent, but it's always better to hire that senior talent than outsource imo.
Well, if Starcom and Omnicom actually represented their clients, they would both sue and file criminal charges for fraud.

They don’t. So they won’t. I wonder, to what degree the big agencies are complicit?

If I spent any dollars at all on ads on either Facebook or google I would be filing criminal charges.
> Mozilla also fires people who donate to Christian charities for the beliefs they have (and yes, abortion is a belief, whichever side you are).

You can believe whatever you want about abortion. What you cannot do is force other people to change their behaviour to accommodate your beliefs.
Microsoft shouldn't rely on this too much honestly. They still have mass, money and maybe an edge but the rest of the world changed, and is potentially ready to pick up the pieces if need be.

I thought recent efforts of MS were a sign of wisdom somehow.
I think more whistleblowers and legal ramifications for C-level execs (prison time preferably since they can happily pay any fine thrown at them) is the only real way to do it at this point.
I suspect the following is a big factor.

Quantitative easing has found its way in property and crypto asset price rises, in addition to inflated startup funding.

The latter is finally trickling into higher wage competition. People then move jobs as way to hop salary.
I'm not saying those things aren't important, but they don't warrant the outright dismissal that I was replying to.

Linux has an obvious lack of contribution from designers, designers are employed for products, noone is making money selling desktop Linux as a product. Also, most designers aren't tinkering with open source software alternatives in their free time like developers do.

I also feel like I'm missing something because my experience on desktop Linux is way better than anything I've ever had on Windows or Mac, meanwhile everyone's saying it's unusable. Can't be easy for the handful of people working on desktop environments and the like.
Theoretically (I have no idea about the Pi specifically) it's entirely possible for the bootloader to speak USB, load the kernel + initramfs from the device into memory and then then boot a kernel which knows nothing about USB.

This can be done with (for instance) u-boot.
exactly the same here!

i thought i was gonna just croak at some point, with doctors just saying "i need to de-stress" or "eat better"

do you know what virus you had originally that did that to you?
Sure, although most of the measures proposed are about a massive mobilization subsidized by government.

One could also argue that it’s still a brittle, overly lean organization if a landscape regulation tipped it into service disruption.
If you have a feed for Archive on 4, I would be glad to have it. I can‘t seem to find one.
You also don't gain any vertical space, because Firefox decided that its built-in tabs shouldn't be hidden.
How many business partnerships fall apart due to interpersonal differences? Families?

I don’t think you even need to hit the Dunbar number for it to fail.
Your example is valid in ISO 8601-1:2019.

There are only two possible representations for which "T" is required: hh or hhmm in 'basic' format (i.e. no ":" separator). The former could be confused with a two-digit century, the latter could be confused with a four-digit year. Adding "T" to hh or hhmm solves this.

Any of the following eliminates the "risk of confusion":

- 'extended' format (hh:mm)
- decimal fraction (hhmm,m or hh,h; see 5.3.1.4);
- UTC designator (hhmmZ or hhZ; see 5.3.3), or;
- time shift (hhmm±hhmm, hhmm±hh, hh±hhmm, or hh±hh; see 5.3.4).

Also worth noting: hhmmss in 'basic' format (i.e. no ":" separator) does not pose a risk of confusion, as YYYYMM in 'basic' format (i.e. no "-" separator) is not permitted by the spec.
Correct. It's one thing that the general population doesn't know what a TPM is but I just can't fathom how do governments deal with the fact that their entire nation's computing is about to be run under lock and key controlled by an american company. You could make the argument that up until this point it was possible to coexist with window's BS because despite it's closed nature, it was extensively documented and had workarounds to all to all treachorous functionality. But it's about to get a LOT worse with 11.
> And so... Firefox should cater to your use case and drop support for others'? Is that really what you're arguing?

The last sentence reads to me like "Are you for freaking real right now?!", incredulity mixed with anger.
What popular end-user software cannot be installed and run with a mouse in e.g. Ubuntu?
Second: https://klinikum-darmstadt.de/aktuelles-news/ungeimpfte-coro...

Fourth: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/corona-fast-nur-ungeimp...
Most people aren't aiming for the jackpot. I make less than that from the things I do, but it was enough to pursue a bunch of long-deferred hobbies to the point that I could close off or change the paths I had in mind for them, for years. Now that little bit can go toward becoming more since I was able to explore the full space of possibilities and get a better sense for what I wanted to do.
That's good to hear then! So will most computers having a TPM chip lead to easier integration of secure boot with i.e. linux distros as well?
There are two sides to this coin. Firstly there's the hardware vendors who make firmware, who decided to incorporate UEFI presumably because intel pushed it hard (original efi booted itanium and is also found in older Macs).

But it was certainly possible for a Linux vendor to have got a key into the kek and dB lists: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html

That's from Matthew Garrett, who along with Peter Jones, were responsible for the first shim.

A central authority like the Linux foundation could have stepped up here and could have since, actually. I understand why fedora/redhat preferred not to be in a privileged position but I can't help but feel someone ought to have stepped up.

The other side of the coin is the windows logo program, that requires secure boot be turned on by default. For x86 I'm fairly sure it also requires that the user can take control of the platform key and therefore evict Microsoft keys from the firmware. It also requires that secure boot should be disabled. I'm fairly sure Microsoft did this because they realised there would be objections otherwise

Microsoft's ARM hardware _is_ locked down with no such options and I object to that wholeheartedly. But then I also don't buy Apple kit for daily driver use for the same reason. Also luckily Microsoft are currently irrelevant in the arm space, although that might change with the serverready profiles.

I am sure the process was onerous, but someone could have done it. Linux is big business in the server hardware space and intel for example contributed the thunderbolt code to the kernel. I am fairly sure they could between them organise a foundation and throw a few 100ks per year at maintaining a signing key for other distros independently to Microsoft.

I don't believe any entirely locked down firmware ever made it into any x86 board.
It was also a reply to an opinion. And you're replying to a reply to an opinion, reiterating the original opinion.
Cosmetic adblocking shouldn't be included in browsers, no. It doesn't scale and is easy to break. It just puts a gigantic target on your back.

Firefox already blocks a lot of ads by blocking tracking scripts. Including a cosmetic adblocker like Brave would lead to worse compat and broken experiences.

> They probably should't have ended support for legacy add-ons.

They should've actually. Firefox was a single-process mess for years with poor sandboxing, because Mozilla was scared of breaking everyones add-ons. The move to WebExtensions was the right one, if a bit late. If the whiners got their way, every extension would be breaking right now because of Fission. The old model also had no permission system.
The World of Cricket Fighting
Tell that to every iPhone app developer.

It's worse than not having the right to execute. You can't even build the program you want. You have to use Apple pay, Apple subscriptions, Apple login. And you don't even get a relationship with your customer.

Truly draconian.
In Lieu of D&O Insurance, Musk Agrees to Provide Tesla with “Coverage”
Working remote made my disability less of a problem. There are still weeks I can’t work full time but they are less frequent now that I don’t need to go to an office and pretend to work on bad days. Without a commute or having to be around people, I have more energy available to work and I recover faster.

Pretending to not be depressed or manic behind a camera once a day is so much easier than doing so a full day in person. I’m never going back to an office if I can avoid it.
What Lavabit did should be followed as an example imho.
It takes two things for programs like "Jedi Blue" to happen.

First, you need sociopaths in leadership positions who champion this 'great idea' they've figured out. These people often rise up in large companies because they are willing to do this sort of thing without any remorse.

But second, you need developers to build it. A large number of them, usually, for a big project like this.

Dozens of people like us knew they were building a piece of software that was obviously illegal. Oh sure, management had probably told them some version of "but you see, it's legal because...". At a company that spent decades claiming they only hire the smartest people in the world, that doesn't pass the test for me- they had to know.

Which means that the people who built this fall into two categories, in my mind. Those who understand they're doing something illegal, but don't care- future sociopath leaders themselves. And those who know it's illegal but are too cowardly to walk away, to whistle blow, to do something about it.
I love Mega Drive! The earlier works are really great too. A favorite:

https://youtu.be/a0Q7e9Q6DlI
Perhaps these are just fundamentals of human experience. Jung for example held that experiencing synchronicity was normal and healthy. What is real and not is a question that has occupied thinkers for literal millennia; some degree of solipsism seems like a natural outcome of considering critically how knowledge can be obtained by someone limited by her senses and beliefs. It's just sound ontology if it doesn't manifest as debilitating illness.
> Citing that plain text is readable before proton mail encryption is.... unfair.

Firstly it wasn’t me that made that observation but..

I don’t think fairness comes into it. If you’re concerned with that risk, use something else. All security comes with a set of trade offs and knowing which risks you’re protected from and which you are not, helps you make that choice.

ProtonMail are also very good at publishing their threat model, architecture and technical implementation as well as large parts being open-source.

> What protonmail tries to solve is your mail being encrypted at rest.

Actually it does better than that. It uses message-level encryption using PGP keys to provide that encryption at rest. Which in theory gives them zero access. Lots of services which tout encryption at rest are actually encrypting the block storage which mitigates against fewer and less likely threats.
This seems really great, housing 230 people on land that cost $400k 25 years ago, but I suspect it would be illegal to do this in almost all of the Western world where people want to live.

It's basically an exercise in rezoning. If you were allowed to build that many housing units originally then they would have been outbid by a developer.
CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers
You can’t know this any more than you could tell the original Kirk was “real” so it really hasn’t added or subtracted anything from your knowledge. You can go through it yourself and decide afterwards if you’ll take the risk.
Yea I really wonder why they don't have competition. You'd think a search engine built with java in the mid 90s would be easy to replicate at least to it's 2005 era standard using modern tech.
Exactly, it's pretty well documented at this point that labor put in is not an indicator of payment earned. Especially, when that labor is tethered to a heavily stratified economy with big biz at the top.

I do feel that this changes when people act outside platforms and companies. For example, a surfboard maker, putting in a ton of labor should see some return on the time invested, but it won't necessarily be in money earned.

Which brings up another point entirely. These pieces that used money earned as a metric for success are dated af. Thanks for the advice, dad.
If you have spent money on google ads, contact your local attorney general.

They may have defrauded you.
What we found at a previous employer through extensive testing: advertising on Facebook works pretty well, but the highest return on ad spend was to not use any of the demographic tools at all. Also, weirdly, having an attractive product and displaying it well in photo and video ads did very well. Almost as if there is no real magic trick of effectiveness at all.
I will personally pay you twenty thousand US dollars (in the cryptocurrency of your choice, bank transfer, western union, whatever) if you can prove beyond reasonable doubt that Microsoft has ever secretly shipped a backdoor in their OS so government agencies could spy on their users.

Perhaps you will be the first person to actually prove the existence of the NSAKEY backdoor? (I doubt it.)
Yeah it was super annoying I had separate accounts for gmail/android and youtube. It is always a hassle to make sure im logged in with the correct account.
And they will get away with it. The generation that grew up with smartphones primarily, getting a computer only later on (if at all) will find this totally normal. Even Android is getting locked up more and more over the couple last releases too, even most Chinese vendors stopped letting you unlock the bootloader, and nobody complained.
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
…you think that I invented separate water fountains for white people and non-white people? Or forcing black people to the back of the bus? Are you that ignorant of US history?
> In related news - ever wondered why Windows 11 can't be installed on "older computers"?

Except of course some older Surface line hardware, because why even be subtle?
Yes, hammering in a nail with a screwdriver is particularly awful. I love using Clojure where it's appropriate, but I'm not in the least bit tempted to use it for game dev.
What you are saying is that morals and laws are the same thing, which they are not. Laws can very well be immoral, and sense of morality depends entirely on each one of us.
I'm not sure which facts you say are not facts. Perhaps it was just that I should have used the word "side" instead of "movement", since there are organizations/movements within both sides that call for or imply violence.

"Only one side controls a major political party, has controlled the White House, has multiple people in Congress advocating for them."

I think we have different definitions of "side". Based on the root comment this was about conservative/liberals sides, and Republican/Democrat parties. Both of them have the things mentioned above.

"Only one side attacked Congress, and has large movements such as QAnon (which has major political figures, of one side, appealing to it and even joining it)."

We could say the other side has rioted and burned down cities via BLM protests that got out of hand, including antifa instigated violence. I think both statements are a stretch and are a great example of my prior comment around using a minority to represent the group.

"Very few on the other side advocate open violence, and there is hardly an organization to speak of."

Off the top of my head, there is antifa, which advocates for violence openly. There are representatives who support them. I remember eco-terrorist movements, but maybe those are no longer a concern. There have been plenty of liberals calling for or implying violence individually too, including representatives and presidents.

About the FBI comment, do you have any stats on the ideological background of the perpetrators? I didn't see the FBI compiling that. And sure, the the number of hate crimes has gone up in the past few years, but is fairly consistent with the '08 timeframe, so it's not necessarily a new phenomenon to see them around this level and they will likely fall again.

Your last comment didn't really add anything substantial for me. It was more along the same lines of the previous ones, where you tell me I'm wrong or following a false narrative, yet offer no evidence to illustrate that. I'm going to disengage at this point since I don't see any value coming out of this (facts I've asked for) and I'm a little tired of it being implied that I'm somehow stupid (for not seeing things, things that you also won't provide facts/data to support).
I think the entire car industry can be shorted right now.

We'll see within a month.
':' was the traditional directory separator on Macintosh systems before OSX, therefore it can't be used on HFS+ either. I remember there being some FS funk when OSX came out since it was very common for people to put dates in their filenames using slashes, and well, UNIX doesn't like that. I don't know what APFS does.
Are you sure? My understanding is that in cases like this, copyright law within the EU allows you to make personal copies (often with software it's impossible not to). Distributing those copies is restricted, but I can back up a installer or install to my other machine without violating any statutes.