skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been discussed in many ways before but I'd like to try to phrase it my own way.

When police get a warrant to search your home, after they are done you can get a new lock and recover anything taken as evidence eventually.

When an investigation gets permission to surveil you, it's a temporary affair and records can be stripped of irrelevant personal data before any sort of release or duplication.

Even in the best case scenario, encryption is used in cases where incidental damage cannot be recovered from like above. Encryption is an attempt to restrict an easily accessible, indefinite lifetime, and infinitely duplicatable piece of information to only be meaningful to intended owners.

Let's imagine a very generous scenario, a chat program has encrypted chat such that every message can be unlocked with either the participants' keys or a unique key per message stored and kept safe by the service owner. Law enforcement can request chat logs and the service can return them the keys needed to read the requested logs from the interval specified.

Similar to the second scenario above it is possible after the investigation to cleanse the records law enforcement has, but in this case they are not the primary or secondary source of that information and cannot ensure that all records are permanently safe from outside parties. Anyone can easily get copies of the encrypted versions of communication done over the internet with minimal effort, this means someone can hold on to encrypted information in massive dumps and await inevitable breaches in company security that retroactively reveal all previous communication.

This is the best case scenario, it completely ignores things such as how any investigation is one day inevitably going to be a malicious actor. I don't mean whatever group of people are in charge right now going bad, I mean how all countries/groups inevitably change over time for better or worse. If a bad actor is in a position of power for even a moment, they can retroactively spy on you at all points in the past you use a weakened encryption. Imagine an extreme vegan political group making eating meat a crime punishable by death even if in the past. Your chat logs about going for burgers are easily accessible. Or similarly a retroactive law against abortion.

In the case of well encrypted chat, only the participants have control over the keys and if you want to be sure something is gone you can discard the key. This is no longer the case for encryption with a backdoor.
To be fair, the 9-5 workers are paid for their hours, the multiple board positioned folks are often paid in equity, sometimes nothing, and have minimal 9-5 obligations. In having fewer 9-5 obligations, often none, it’s less immoral to have multiple board positions. Fwiw, I’m not on a board, just writing it how I see it.
... Or images? I suppose one might enforce a draconian same-origin policy.. But that would no longer be "the web" I think.
Is the previous plan for adding effects in OCaml 5.1 still in place?

I am very excited not only for the native parallelism that's coming in 5.0 but also about the effect handlers! I am sure many others are looking to start creating very interesting things with them, e.g. Rust-alike async capabilities or Erlang's preemptive green threads / actors runtime.
I do need internet if i want to tell my heating to turn on 1hr-30 mins before i come home though.

Or to respond to the weather (e.g. start warming the house earlier coz it's a particularly cold day).

If your life is very strictly regimented maybe it's less useful.

This doesnt mean I want a cloud connected thermostat. I want something that talks to homeassistant.
And one of the points of maximizing that strength-building effect in your body is to increase your body's capacity to effect change in the external world (with or without tools), is it not?
I just don't get GP's point. If the workings of the system compromise its entire premise, of course they upgrade the system so that it matches the original intentions. It's like they shouldn't have deprecated old SSL and TLS versions, because some web services still only use those. I can't imagine an active community having trouble with this.
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You don't have to send a doctor's note to your granny to skip holiday luncheon? That's just anarchical.
> I am sure that he was was not consciously doing any product placement

But it reads like product placement. You said yourself that product placement is huge.

From the article...

> "And if there's anything you feel it can't yet do, it's only because you haven't spent enough time building it yourself yet. There's no stopping you."

There's no stopping me? That reads like marketing spin.

> "it happens to be the best CMS."

Says the guy who works there.

> "incredibly generous free tier"

So not just regular generosity, "incredible" generosity!
The multicore team has done an excellent job of communicating their plans and progress over the past few years. Innovative research, solid engineering, and a top-notch communications game. Whether or not you care about Ocaml, many other SE projects could learn a lot from studying this team.
God, but why Alegria? I hope it's some kind of Facebook reference
I think there's nuance to that. As in I think the truth lies in the middle.

I am someone that wants to know 'enough' about how stuff works underneath. I don't like too many magic tools. I need to understand enough about it to be able to diagnose and work around failures.

I have no qualms about using the tools though. I definitely want the jackhammer and the power armor! I want auto completion. It's awesome. It makes me so much more capable to quickly be productive in an unfamiliar code base or framework (if naming is sane ;)). If I don't have it? Sure I'll read the API docs and swear under my breath. Happens every time I gotta work on our python code. Could I do it better by having it in my working memory? Sure but I don't work with that code often enough for it to make sense to keep in memory (or learn in the first place).
Currently we are paying for women joining economy as land/house competition ia still same and rich just make more for claims to land. Fuck em, 0 empathy on my end.
Archaeologists Find 2K-Year-Old Lesson on Sea Level Changes Destroying Societies
The goal of most work is not to make you, the human performing the work, more capable - even when you're performing it for yourself.

The goal of work is to achieve a goal. Whatever achieves that goal most efficiently while not creating problematic "debt" is always to be preferred.

Your example of "writing code on paper" is a perfect example of a non-problem. When you write code on paper, the name of the function doesn't matter, since this is not executable code. So, whether you call it "sort" or "order" is fully irrelevant. Even if you "call" a function that doesn't exist, as long as the intention is well captured, it's not a problem. Say, if I'm writing "C" on paper and I write `arr.Sort()`, that will not affect anyone: it's simply a way to express what I want to do. If I'm ever going to write this as a program, I may use qsort(), or implement an actual sort function, or whatever makes sense.

Overall, memorizing things that don't need to be memorized "just in case" is more a circus trick than an actual useful skill.
I suppose if you took Nakamoto's coins, you'd either get away with it or learn who Nakamoto is REAL quick
You are 100% right. I will now throw out all of my work because despite being easy to generate, I could accidentally generate an image that does something bad (do you even halt bro?) and I don't want to do that. So I will throw out my simple well tested native solutions and replace them with a solution that needs to be compiled to a native solution.
I have cycled 12km everyday to school when I was young, but it was on flat roads. In winter it was sometimes -5 to -15 and around those temps, sometimes I would fetch a ride, because I agree, in winter it can be harsh, but other then that, it was biking every day.

Rain is even worse than snow by the way. Wind is also killing. But if it was a snowy day with not much wind, cycling is actually fun.
> Intentionally delay certification of a pipeline from one of your main suppliers.

The pipeline is not certified because it breaks existing legislation. It is up to pipeline developers/owners to fix this issue.
That's one big question I have. Instead of inheritance tree it's more like curved space tissue where anything that lives in a similar pit will evolve similar trait.
I definitely agree that I need to work up my ability to stick to things, that 'routine' is something I'm looking for.

A part of me knows that I would get there if only I stuck to something, but another part fights hard to move on to the next 'greener' thing. Likely, like you said, I need to judge myself more kindly. Thank you! I suppose I should look at 'sticking to things' as a skill that can be learned, and one I should get better at.
A 1,300 sq/ft house in Sunnyvale, Calif. has sold for $823,000 over asking
Nobody cares man. Lock yourself down if you're so panicked and leave the rest of us alone.
For me it's Meteor for the last five years with the Mongo database subscribed in real time and Blaze as the default html template engine.
Some people think it's a broken solution, but I love to code with it ^_^
I use to be a PHP lover, but in the end you'll write javascript.
Writing JS all the way from database to server to clients just rocks IMHO.
>> goes to the last page
U.S. population growth falls to record low
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/why-do-covid-rapi...

> More than a year ago, Abbott said it would sell BinaxNOW in bulk for $5 a test to health care providers, but that option isn't available over the counter to the public. Even with the anticipated price decrease, a two-pack will be more than $15. Abbott didn't comment further.

https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-why-rapid-covid-tes...

> Asked why its rapid tests are abundant and cheap in Europe and scarce in the U.S., Abbott spokesperson John Koval chalked it up to Europe’s public support, both in its regulatory system and through government funding.

Part of the problem is the approval process. Abbott doesn't have much competition; they've had upwards of 90% of the US market for much of the pandemic. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/why-you-cant-find-cheap-...

> Some experts say the FDA’s approach to clearing rapid tests has been onerous and overly focused on exceptional accuracy to detect positive results, rather than on what would really benefit people en masse: speedy results. The main use of rapid tests is to screen people so they can safely attend work, school, meetings or gatherings. This screening can then be followed up with a more sensitive, lab-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for diagnosis.

edit: "In the US, even PCR tests are free with insurance" is only true if symptomatic. They are not free for precautionary testing you might take before something like a family holiday dinner.
Never heard of the .example TLD, so thanks for that. However, an issue I see with it is that it doesn’t look like a domain name. Things that end in ‘.com’ are synonymous with domain names, regardless of how accurate that assumption really is. I think people are just starting to get familiar with these new alternative TLD names, but I can easily see business people not understanding ‘myco.example’, while they would understand ’example.com’.
Do number stations still a thing? Here in Europe there are just some beacons that broadcast the same message daily but no other activity whatsoever.
I'm surprised to see no mentions of AGI here. Imagine automatic, AI directed scientific research and study. The combined written intelligence of all of us on every project. It could solve every problem that we face today, and that's not hyperbole.
Get real. You're not getting anyone's property if you discover a private key by accident that that a distributed blockchain with no owner accepts to transfer a token in a virtual wallet like that. We're talking about something non-fungible and not scarce.

Bitcoin's supposedly scarcity is a joke that doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
This is why the best thing I ever did for my software career was be a stay at home dad for three years. If you can make your gaggle of kids keep making forward motion towards some arbitrary goal, you can do the same with a gaggle of software engineers. Judging what people aren't saying but are feeling; assessing hunger and irritation that rule out rational conversation for the time being; framing things in a way designed to get "yes," etc. etc. The learnings are infinitely useful. Plus of course, even tho my gaggle has grown up to opinionated young adults, we still seem to enjoy a warm and fulfilling connection which I enjoy quite as much as a refactoring that shrinks the code base.

Also you learn the importance of self-mastery, of taking care to keep yourself in your rational side where you can provide the missing pieces, of support, creativity, steadfastness or flexibility, that the group needs for happy outcomes.
This is why I stuff everything into a top-level Makefile with `.PHONY` rules instead. Nearly every developer knows how to invoke `make` and already has tab completion for `make` rules, to boot. The CI in turn calls `make` as well, so there's no duplication.

For example: https://github.com/trailofbits/pip-audit/blob/main/Makefile
Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which was adopted with the Lisbon treaty, reads (in its entirety):

"Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications."

On the short term a change to the treaties of the Union is not realistic, in my opinion. So I am afraid we might be stuck with having "to fight over and over again", using the above as a foundation. I guess I think of it as educating the politicians.

Fortunately the pro-privacy voices in the EU seem loud enough. For example, in this case the Belgian national privacy authority had already complained about the proposed law. And Germany seems to have adopted the right to encryption in its latest coalition agreement.
what range? i feel you're joshin'
I want to say this looks interesting but it's so sparse on details it's hard to say. What modifications were made to base64? Is the only modification replacing "+" with "."? Is the rest of the table[1] unchanged? Can it be extended to only use URL-safe characters (like base64url)? How does this compare to other popular/optimized implementations of standard base64? What are its performance characteristics on different sizes of inputs? I've never had to decode 100 MB of base64 data, but I have had to decode a ton of 64-bit base64 strings, for example.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#Base64_table
By the time Adobe bought it they didn’t really care that much about the animation and app side of Flash. Seemed to mostly care about it being the video delivery mechanism for the web.
It is pretty great . I used it on a RN project a few months ago.

There is an amazing collection of animations to choose from here: https://lottiefiles.com/.

You can also buy after effects templates on many websites and use them for motion graphics.
Full Moon Calendar and Astronomical Events for iPhone / iCal / Google / ICS
this build always freeze on startup for me (pop os 21.10, wayland)

build 4119 works fine though
5.00 (the first release with multicore) will include effects!

More info: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-september-2021-e...
Because most voters think it’s a shitty take. It’s a hell of a lot easier to identify a vpn user or compel a vpn provider than to perform timing/throughput/correlation attacks on the tor network. Correlation based attacks can take months of consistent observation assuming you control exit and entry nodes the victim is using. Even then you will only identify your victim within some probability.

In places where your government is this hostile and you’re doing something subversive you’re probably using an onion service or i2p which vpns cannot access.
Understanding. The ability to look at the natural world and say "now just what the hell is going on here exactly". On that front we make progress, slowly.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/pet2004-fpd.pdf

Electromagnetic Eavesdropping Risks of Flat-Panel Displays
Science fiction revisited: Ramjet propulsion
I tell my thermostat my schedule once and how I want my house to be, and it makes sure to hit those temperatures when I want it to. I shouldn't have to "tell it" I'm coming home, it should just do it.

Respond to the weather? Its a thermostat. Even a decent bi-metallic strip thermostat will "respond to the weather". Its not like the thermostat needs to do anything different if its an especially cold day outside, it will keep the indoor environment as you programmed it. How do you think thermostats worked before the internet?

The only "respond to the weather" idea I'd like would be to account for especially humid days as sometimes the temperature is fine but its really humid in the house. But once again it doesn't need to reach out to an API to figure out the humidity outside at some airport 20mi away, it just needs a local humidity sensor.
We’ll according to the article the “CE” was NOT one of the options that came out of the focus group. Management looked at what the study reported, and then said “nah.”
Imagine thinking profit-seeking is just a Western thing. Lol.

TSMC did hike prices the moment they were able. If they can maintain and extend their lead, they will hike them further. Because they can.

I am sure they will frame this as a win-win. Victors always do.
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Great observation. I personally find such indirection extremely frustrating.

I propose “aboutism” as a name — since such articles end up talking “about” things, rather than addressing them directly.
That's a biased sample. Children are more likely to lie/cheat/steal when they're from shitty circumstances; if you grow up knowing that adults will not help you when you need help (for instance, asking for food doesn't work, or that telling the truth will result in punishment), then once they're old enough to take care of their own needs/protect themselves, they do. They just have shit judgement because they're kids. Basically, it's what happens if you teach kids that the system/adults/authority only exist to punish and hurt them. (I'd also bet those kids have a decent amount of empathy for EACH OTHER. Just not you.)

Any school is going to have a population of those kids, and those kids are indeed a problem for nearby businesses, but that 10-20% can't be generalized to biological developmental stages.
For most people, it is certainly not. The vast majority of people who exercise do it for health and aesthetic reasons.

If we could have abs and a perfect heart while eating McDonald's and never moving more than 3 steps, the vast majority of gyms would close down.
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It is always easy to understand a nuke plant construction taking multiples of extra years and euros, when they are permitted at all: So long as it is not finished, the money can keep flowing. If it is ever done, the gravy train stops. Nobody actually involved wants that ever to happen. But if it looks like it will happen anyway, there is some advantage to actually delivering a working nuke plant before that. The trick is in identifying how late that can be.

If you get it too wrong, the money runs out without a working nuke constructed. That can be OK if enough money is extracted first, as in South Carolina, where they sucked out ?$30B without delivering a promised 2 GW plant. That ended up with criminal indictments, but only for a few people. Almost everybody got to keep the money, Carolina ratepayers of course excepted.

The same process is seen in metro transit projects. It is an interesting topic in governance design how to avoid starting the process. One essential component appears to be easily priced subunits, such as solar panels or wind turbines, and early production. It is not easy to do that, with a nuke, but we don't really need nukes. Sometimes we do need transit projects.
For the US driving at 16 is common especially in the rural states. We could also get our learners permit at 14 so I could drive with my parents in the car. Mostly for me it meant I was the one then doing the 5hr drive to my grandparents place.

Also several of my friends got mopeds at 14 and would drive them around town. Not good for driving on gravel roads but was great for the kids in town.

The farm kids out of town would drive their parents trucks/cars in and around their property starting around 13/14 but that was generally to haul feed and equipment around.
Last I checked almost all lateral flow tests could be faked with a drop of orange juice or coca cola. Was quite common here in schools with kids using them to get sent home and generally troll.
A month ago, I had no problem getting a flu shot. Walk in, got the shot and left. Like 5 minutes.

This past week, COVID-19 cases are triple what they used to be and flu cases are doubled in my county.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out the problem. Same clinic, same staff, just one month apart with a sudden COVID and Flu surge.

It was even the same nurse who administered the two shots.

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And the receptionist said, sorry for the wait, we've had an explosion of COVID-19 cases. EDIT: "Overrun" was the receptionist's word actually. But you get the gist.
Are adults who slack off on the clock lie-cheat-steal machines? It seems like adults are far worse and do it far more frequently than teens then.
My proctored test didn't even have a qr code, it had some 20 character unique id but I highly doubt anyone would take the time to call the phone number and verify, having gone out of the country a couple times and back in. For the US side these are the flight check in clerks checking, not even government agents.

It's honestly insulting how easy it would be to fake. As a law abiding citizen, we jump through all these hoops, but as a criminal, you spend 5 minutes at home in photoshop and your test is 99.99% guaranteed to work. Hell you edit the unique ID I was talking about to just be invalid, I bet even if they check they'll just force you to get tested again thinking it was a system error.
Thanks. So each of these potential private keys that show up on a page would only have one corresponding public key? I guess I forgot how basic private/public key encryption works (again).
> According to the article, what requires an import permit is the "foreign 'data encryption technology employing a key length greater than 256 bits'". In reality, the encryption standards (SM1, SM2, SM3, SM4, etc) in China allows strong encryption. I don't see any clues stating that China forbids encryption technology with a key greater than 256 bits.

I guess that's a nit against the post title, but I don't think it really clarifies much.

So they have domestic >256bit ciphers, and this restricts foreign equipment that uses >256bit ciphers. China also has an extensive domestic surveillance system, has lots of weird "national security" regulations (e.g. they use an obfuscated coordinate system for public maps, and IIRC it's illegal to use a GPS receiver for anything resembling mapping), and is also pretty protectionist.

What's the purpose of these regulations? Is it...

1. To further strengthen domestic surveillance by encouraging the use of (possibly compromised) domestic encryption equipment, or...

2. protect domestic industry by making certain technology imports difficult, or encourage foreign entities to buy Chinese technology for interoperability reasons, or...

3. discourage the domestic use of foreign equipment on national security grounds (e.g. foreign backdoors), or use interoperability or market-access concerns to weaken foreign equipment, or...

4. all of the above?