skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If abortion is made federally illegal and the state demands that your company turns over and unencrypts data/communications/medical records etc in order to find and prosecute people who had abortions. What exactly do you think will happen to those encryption laws? What do you think happens to a person's privacy?
Which both mean that you cannot really trust Azure. Although the latter is an easy mistake to make for hosting providers and thus indeed a valid threat model.

The theft scenario is exactly the reason why you wouldn't want to trust Azure to do the encryption for you, since they can just extract the plain text data from the virtual machine.
Unless you are saying you don't trust Azure datacenter techs only?

And for preventing the leakage from old storage devices very non-fancy and simplistic encryption setups are good enough (most of the complexity comes from trying to prevent/detect MITM or manipulation by the hosting provider).
Whatsup used, still uses? Mnesia.
But as I mentioned, there are many tools that wrap Git's low-level command line interface, some of which build entirely new UI paradigms on top of it (e.g. Legit).
How often would this kind of report writing, which may involve many reporters, happen in an org like that? I don't think someone would like to invest in training and tooling for something that might happen once a year.
In the short term, I think a mobile phone with an offline copy would probably be fine. You can buy something with a large amount of storage (you need 100 gig or so for offline wiki with images), is fully waterproof, more portable and can be EMP shielded in a metal box easily. Charging is also easy with a small panel and a power bank.

You can also store offline open street map (OSMand) and you have GPS built in, though in the apocalypse that would stop working eventually too. I think they would actually keep transmitting (it'd make sense from a military perspective) but eventually they'd lose station-keeping ability if they don't get orbital corrections from a ground station.

The main problem you'll have is that mobile apps and OSs tend to do weird things if they're offline for an appreciable length of time. Lots of things randomly stop working because caches become invalidated. Anything that requires a login or an app that tries to update (and fails to connect) is liable to break eventually.
It is true, not sure why there are downvotes.

US immigration is a mess and Canada's is delightful even if it's pissing off the locals a bit these days.

I've been saying for a while that US and Canada have been playing a zero sum game for Dev jobs. US' loss is Canada's gain.
There is such a thing as a FOSS lunch, though :) And I think its allowed to discuss the fact that todays lunch seems salty.
Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building lifestyle trackers outright?
The article is missing a very important part of the topic what I call "reasoning".

Clean code is easier to reason about.

The easier to reason about the code the cleaner it is and the less context one need to understand the problem the better. State is the real enemy - field variables, mutable objects, lots of incoming parameters, context holding objects all makes it incredibly hard to understand the edge cases and general mechanism of the code.

Thankfully goto statements, global variables and singletons already has stigma attached to them...
Yeah I posted this to r/battlestations last month. I can't pass up a chance to evangelize the reclined lifestyle :)
It's also hard to watch people I agree with repeatedly make the same nonsensical arguments for a position I hold, and then repeatedly get surprised when they don't work out.

This isn't a privacy issue any more than the legality of anything else is a privacy issue. Things don't become legal just because they're done in secret. It's not even a controlling-women issue.

The abortion debate is, and has always been, a question of whether fetuses are alive enough for the term "murder" to apply to them. The longer we refuse to meet the opponent on those grounds, the longer every single thing we say will continue to sound like "it's okay to murder people because I'm doing so privately".

This isn't to say the loss of those rights is okay. But our side did just get called out on some obvious bullshit, and if we want to get those rights back, we really need to do better than tenuous strawman arguments.

Unless, of course, our goal isn't to win, but to just be eternally aggrieved. I am increasingly convinced that is the case.
Article says 26% met the criteria already, so it's not that out there to expect to see an effect
I believe in God. I believe that Jesus will return and take his followers home. If Jesus did not rise from the dead I am to be pitied. If he did rise from the dead, I look forward to meeting him. My beliefs are simple and profound. I am not confused.
"There is a kind of serendipity in a library that never happens online."

Perhaps that was true in 2014, but I recognized that and created this: https://www.locserendipity.com
Sure, but this was an insane decade+ long bullrun? For a whole generation of founders, VCs and employees, they’ve never seen anything different.
The "paradox" is the incredible, insane 20-th century population explosion.
I haven’t seen any other country that tries new things and willing to spent than the US. That includes Europe and Asia. It’s quite disappointing really because the world is so much bigger than the US alone.
Right to privacy. That's how we have abortion rights rn
Yes like that
For those who don't know, the heart-warmed commenter above, iangilman, is the creator of the original app 25 years ago as well as the new mobile app version! Incredible work Ian!!
Git IS heavily used outside of software engineering.

Marketers and documentation writers use markdown and git for building websites and books.

Data scientists use git for their notebooks.

Operations use git for their deployment scripts.

Git isn't the best for office documents. Revision marking (aka, change tracking), document comparisons, and merging are all available in Office suites. Git isn't really used here because there features predate Git, operated on binary files or complex XML documents (neither of which are conducive to diffs).

Git isn't good for databases or data lakes. The files are huge and typically aren't modified (CSV) or are binary/compressed (Parquet).
Fun fact: The rotating ball in the famous Amiga Boing Ball demo, is actually a single static image, with the rotation effect created using palette cycling.
The way State Senate leader Toni Atkins stated it - direct reference by the OP - "better decisions and businesses outperform the competition" means she believes that this is a 100% fact, and the competitive advantage is apparent to everyone but the foolish judges (quote: "legalities don’t match our realities"). She doesn't seem fazed by this assumption being problematic in a context of low prevalence.
Yes. I changed my email as one does on occasion and, even after confirming with them that I changed my email, they froze my account with the requirement that I mail a copy of my SS card to their fraud dept. I immediately cancelled the card instead of dealing with the hassle. Their card offerings are not competitive so I do not have much incentive to use their credit again.

The most frustrating part was the fraud dept told me they froze my account _because_ I changed my email. Nothing to do with strange charges on the account.
Not going to criticize the article much, because the author is right - sometimes I just don’t like the code/style, so it’s just harder to relate to, not that it is actually hard to understand.

But there is a single “case” I’d never agree on: the code whose complexity and/or composition ends with nothing. The more experience you get, the more high-level structure you are able to pick on, but sometimes structures are just there, serving nothing at all. Overzealous (or compelled) decomposition into 5-line chunks over tens of files. Pointless renaming, re-exporting and encapsulation. Higher-order code golf. All this done to a finished non-extensible project makes no sense and makes it harder to read, for no reason.

This is a lenghty article, but it is readable in one chunk, a good piece of read. Now imagine the author split it into a number of submodules, then in each they’d give a new name to every phenomenon. Then instead of using English they’d construct a new sub-language (also in modules) to express meaning in a shorter way. E.g. this:

I can’t read the code because I don’t have sufficient experience or expertise (with the language or domain).
I haven’t spent enough time trying to read and understand the code (“it’s not obvious” or “it’s not intuitive”).
I don’t have much interest in understanding this code, I prefer to rewrite it in my own style.
…

turns into this:

With code as object, let me as you negating:
frobnicate causality of read object over sufficient experience or expertise (with the language or domain).
frobnicate relation of enough time and attempt to read and understand object (“it’s obvious” or “it’s intuitive”).
have much interest in understanding object, no prefer to rewrite it in my own style. // “no” negates negation
include more items from [here|https://…].
See frobnicate in my frobnication article.
I think the term "mathematically" is used here broadly and metaphorically, and not literally meaning a symbolic formula. Perhaps "measurably" would have been a better term. No doubt you measure people on various skills during an engineering interview rather than the shape and color of their body, right? Board of Director positions also have measurable skills.
Scylla's main competitor in replacing C* with native code.

https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-server
All the time? Such institutes push out 300+ page reports on a regular basis. Do you think those are written by a single person?
This is true in a philosophical sense.

In a more practical sense (some) human opinion is influential enough to make that distinction useless

(Feel free to discuss the fundamental nature of laws with your cell mate)
People have been saying it will on this website for years now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182423

Currently at $0.9987

https://trade.kraken.com/charts/KRAKEN:USDT-USD
To add to your idea, social media shares a deep property with tobacco: people know it’s bad and keep consuming it. Part of the reason is soft social pressure: nobody wants to be the odd one out by quitting.
Thanks god someone sees it as clearly as I do. The whole article is pure madness, it even states "Law enforcement is a scourge on Americans’ personal safety".

I'm sure law enforcement in the US has a lot of problems, but this is pure nonsense. I'm really concerned about what it's going on in the US because if an article like this makes into HN, it means the situations is as bad as it seems.
The District of Columbia uses Git to track law changes as well.

https://github.com/DCCouncil/law-xml

Similarly, the entire German Federal law can be found on Github:

https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze
If such law is effective and useful then we should use it in a gender neutral way in all places where gender segregation exist. A good verification that a law is good is when the usefulness of the law remain the same regardless of whom it is targeted against or whom favors by it.

Few laws got removed faster then when one such law was tried in Sweden, and the argument was the exact same thing as in California. No one likes discrimination, and when the "wrong" demographic benefited the political support goes into negative. Sweden has a worse gender segregation than US, and at the extreme end you got profession and educational programs that are practically single-sex. Gender quotas would force a change of habits, but you won't find much political support for it. Would even you be a supporter if it was used as a general tool against gender segregation?
The point is that this is only the beginning of a deluge that will build over time.

For example, defense-in-depth was once an academic notion that nobody seriously considered due to the difficulty of implementing it. Far better if the operators would only be more vigilent or the perimeter were just made stronger. Then the threat model began to morph and the legal liability framework changed and suddenly nobody was laughing anymore.

Talking in terms of "people should" and "people shouldn't" and "if only this group would" is avoiding reality. And reality doesn't care if you're ready for it.

Personal data is a liability. We can profit from it now because we're still in the heyday, but that's going to end.
Um...there's plenty of other things that are illegal that haven't led to encryption being outlawed.

It's also pretty easy to make sure your company doesn't possess the ability to produce the data in unencrypted form anyways.
Yeah you need to start over if you plan to continue using social media at all

You’re stuck in a filter bubble thats irrelevant to you

If you start over, dont follow the same people, dont import your contacts, dont give it the same phone number, even for one time passcodes, dont use the same email address
I think the problem in this scenario is law enforcement rather than math.
We still have vegetable oil shortages in German supermarkets, though we’ve at least gotten to the point where there’s always plenty of 750ml bottles of organic canola oil for 5-7 EUR, but store brand sunflower or canola oil for 3 EUR/liter gets cleared out pretty quickly, despite purchase limits.

Before Covid, store brand oil was about 1 EUR/liter.
Because it’s a lazy insubstantial dismissal and doesn’t stimulate interesting discussion
Appreciate the detailed response.

Given your use case the switch definitely makes sense. I wasn’t even aware node-red could interface with HomeBridge.

It sounds like HomeAssistant has made some significant quality of life improvements since I gave it a test drive. I’ll give it a second look.

And you’re lucky your wife shares your interest in home automation! “I saw this cool wall mounted HomeAssistant dashboard…” isn’t something I can imagine my wife saying, haha.
And an init system, surely
Oh nono, don't use the fuse-way for ext3/4, freebsd has builtin support for it...and it's muchmuchmuch better:

# Load the kernel module

kldload ext2fs

# mount

mount -t ext2fs -o ro /dev/<device/partition> <mountpoint>

# Exmaples:

mount -t ext2fs -o ro /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/

# Or on a different partition scheme (p vs s):

mount -t ext2fs -o ro /dev/ada0p1 /mnt/

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-mount-ext4-without-...
Dolphin Progress February, March, and April 2022
I wanted to get off social media for a long time (Facebook, mostly) but couldn't bring myself to close my account.
A few weeks ago I just uninstalled the app. I don't have any FOMO since I can always check on the computer,but I end up doing it less and less often. I think the behavioral hold they have on me is loosening, and it feels awesome.
The difference is that a blog post is presented as a whole, in long form. The author can construct context to have a debate informed by things harder to put into an individual tweet. Long form communication is where nuance lives. Twitter actively seeks to reduce and diminish that because any single tweet has to summarise its ideas in a single character-limited block. I personally think it’s a net negative for the world
Perhaps this is what you should do. Here's wonderful article about updating over HTTPS[1].

Do remember about important option to choose - when certificate is expired or invalid, action must be set to "Ignore" if you want to update over HTTPS.

Enterprise solutions always amaze me in unexpected ways.

1. https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000130533/dell-powe...
Well, good thing that the cryptoenthusiasts are not fond of regulation so what you are suggesting is totally normal and ok for the cryptospace, let the market self-regulate wink wink.
>The real question at the center of abortion rights legislation is "at what point does a fetus become a person

I think this is disproven by the fact that even extreme pro-life advocates generally carve out exceptions in case of rape or incest, which ought to be irrelevant if the personhood of the child was the factor that is actually in question.

This debate doesn't add much depth because killing is not automatically murder, and there are plenty of cases in which killing is justified to preserve autonomy, including of course of animals most of which have more claim to autonomy or protection from harm themselves than an early stage fetus.

>"Then, should we be allowed to kill braindead and comatose people arbitrarily"

Probably not arbitrarily, but if its in the interest of a person who still has a working brain then I would say it's hard to find a coherent argument to not answer that question with yes.
A TLDR explanation of Bloom filters
whole dump of English Wikipedia ZIM is around 95GB, which is fine to store on a laptop/phone nowadays
If they aren't sufficiently prevalent to demonstrate the advantage, then on what basis is the claim being made?
Ironically, "on prem" means you're one "strangely clean burglary" away from law enforcement getting all your data :D

Better yet, though, why "on prem" when virtually everyone has a supercomputer in their pocket all the time ?
Headline subtext: It's back to Q1 2022 levels
These sorts of responses always come up to these kinds of posts and, with respect, they always seem to come down to: "I don't have any issues with social media so I can't see why anyone else does"

But imagine saying to an alcoholic: "I can have a few beers on a Friday night and then stop, and so can the majority of my friends, so I dont see what the problem is."
Well damage caused by potholes is exponential. So efficiently repairing various kinds of potholes with various technologies requires knowing where and what type the potholes are.

Ideally all potholes would be repaired when tiny, and easy to fix.
You model the key->value relationship, call it an association, and place associations in the set, where the equality/hash functions are performed on the association key.
Monthly [Employee] Churn Continues to Rise Throughout 2022
The use of the word ”agnostic” implies skepticism towards cloud solutions and that your stack knows nothing about any cloud provider. I don’t think that’s the way either is.
>I'm not really sure what you're basing this off of. I've worked in prominent universities teaching math classes and would definitely not make such a claim.

I think you're being deliberately obtuse here. Are you genuinely making the claim, based on your experience at prominent universities, that people graduating from STEM fields are incapable of thinking logically? Do you want us to believe that there is no strong relationship between the ability to acquire an undergraduate degree in fields that involve math and science and the capacity to think logically?

If that's the case, then so be it, but then I think most people will simply end the conversation at the point since you possibly have a very warped/skewed view of this topic that makes it hard for you to reason about it objectively.

>No it doesn't. What does STEM have to do with running a country anyway?

No one claimed that the two are connected, all that was claimed is that those in charge of the CCP have engineering backgrounds and hence are very likely to be capable of rational thinking.
Ironically we have had this discussion in tweet sized chunks. Guess I’m a hypocrite, eh.
Thanks to generics, assuming there is some stream/sequence like type

records := Stream.Limit(User, 10)
records.Select(func(user User) bool {return user.IsAdmin()}).Map{func(user User) string { return fmt.Sprintf("%d %s", user.id, user.name) }

Yes a bit more verbose, that is the price to pay for static typing without full type inference as in the ML language family.
Recent videos would have me believe you can get away with both in broad daylight.
> Secondly, on the topic of social media making people feel insecure about something (like their bodies). Isn’t that everywhere? At the beach? In magazines? On TV? At parties? In school?

The thought that I have overcome about this is that SM is different from the examples that you gave. In magazines or TV, you assume that is going to be filled with "non-real" people (esthetic surgeries...), but at the end of the day, you will be surrounded by people like you.

At parties, school, or at the beach, yes you can find some perfect people, but the vast majority are going to be just normal people like you.

SM is different for that, you are comparing every nuance of you with an adulterated version of normal people (just people like you, not famous people). Personally, SM makes me feel that everybody except me has an ideal life and I know that's not true.

I don't like the "social" aspect of social media, I like the "media" part though. I like to follow photographers, use to follow some type of hobby, but not to see people's life.

Edit: typo
The thieves would presumably steal it from someone's home and then load it onto a truck and steal the parts.
This “privacy” was clearly a made up argument. It doesn’t apply in any other case (e.g. “selling your kidney” is also privacy without interference of the state yet nevertheless illegal).

You can easily overturn Roe while leaving all other rights in place.
None. It's just hyperbole based in a lack of understanding of civics.
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Well if we assume that some states are going to treat abortion as murder, one could argue encrypted communications about getting such an medical procedure are under higher pressure than when they are not. Sadly a majority of the US right is not "small government" anymore, but "as long as it is our guys government should force people to do things". Authotarian movements are not known to be advocates for privacy.

I wouldn't trust a system that is this unreasonable when it comes to bodily autonomy to suddenly have it's ducks in a row when it comes to privacy (or for that matter: any other freedom US citizens currently enjoy).
> The lengths people will go to not use C++ is staggering.

Every C thread on every forum always has some C++ proponent jumping in to bemoan that people prefer one of the simplest languages over, literally, the most complex (from a programmer PoV) language in existence.

Is it really such a stretch to believe that people prefer readability and maintainability over expressive power?

The "lengths" in this case is small - a once of cost of a few days to implement vector and string functions gets you most of what most developers need and want.
I think it would be simpler to convert Python to Nim, which itself compiles to C. That's assuming this is for performance gains only.
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" For context, in 2020 Google reported that 70% of Chrome’s vulnerabilities were a result of memory management and safety issues, and 70% of Microsoft’s vulnerabilities between 2006 and 2018 resulted from memory safety issues"

Ok. So Google and Microsoft have problems and Linux shall fix them. I think i've seen this trend in some places.

And last i looked Chrome is (still) a web browser (although is trying hard to be an OS).
Do you ever think a project like Blender will end up like this. I don't think there is anything remotely similar to it online and I doubt there ever will be.
Toronto and Vancouver has basically the equivalent priced real estate as the Bay Area.
The last paragraph sums it all up: "encryption protects our privacy where the law falls short"
And good for getting rid of lean body mass...
>What Canada doesn’t have is a strong venture capital pool, a culture of risk taking, or a domestic market of 330 million people which stifles new businesses.

Replace Canada with EU and it's the same.
> gaining a conservative majority

Q: When would one say that happened? Is there somewhere one can track which side (although I hate to use that phrase) has had a majority over which period?
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