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From my experience, most academic cryptographers are quite bad at building real-world cryptographic protocols or systems as they often lack the practical knowledge of software engineering / industry standards. Designing cryptographic systems rarely involves coming up with novel cryptographic mechanisms and mostly revolves around carefully implementing and combining established methods. For example, in an audit of an E2EE system I built, the auditor (who had a PhD and PostDoc in cryptography) had never even heard of the term ECIES (elliptic curve integrated encryption scheme) so I had to point him to the IETF doc and explain that it's a standardized system.

The failures you see like the recent vulnerabilities in the MEGA cryptography could have been avoided if MEGA had simply followed established best practices, no cryptographer needed. So I'd argue we need many more people with applied cryptography experience, and a university PhD in cryptography will not necessarily provide such experience.
Yeah sure it's always an option. I just think as mobile has gotten more complicated, the whole development pipeline gets wider. So in other words, having to support so many different targets means more work for designers, more work for developers and more work for QA. So to justify going above and beyond in an aspect which is going to increase the workload for all of those people, you had better have a really good reason.
look at the reaction
Too sad to watch more than once.
Previous discussions:

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245270 (103 comments)

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206116 (131 comments)
It also sounds like good questions to ask students who come to you with ideas for term projects, if your school does those.
Most of the time it’s software in my /downloads folder. Since software is always getting updated I delete the copy and I can reliably get the latest release when I need it. Software that I suspect will not be updated and not have an online download link in the near future is kept. I have a small library of abandonware you can’t even download anymore.
Yes, this option was there since it came out of beta
Well, the authors example of good design on Linux is Unity.

One literally could not pick up a better example of something going in the wrong direction that simply accumulates more tech debt.
My ASUS “Republic of Gamers” laptop had some issues which were promptly fixed when I sent the machine in for repairs; this was in early 2018. No issues after that for several years until I spilled a drink all over it. Even then, it still basically worked though I had to use an external keyboard/mouse.
> Fermentation is a easy way to create your own fuel.

Not that easy. The problem is the crop growing and processing you must do beforehand, to get your feedstock for fermentation. I'm from Brazil. Here we have a large industry built around ethanol production from sugarcane. To this day problems like boiler explosions and people falling in sugarcane crushers are not entirely unheard off, and also poor working conditions in sugarcane fields. Not that easy.
Schedule a time where everyone agrees to not use screens. Dinner is a good starting point but ultimately, whatever works.

Practice conversing and talking.

Socialising is a muscle, and smartphones (and other devices) are a crutch that lets us avoid using that muscle.
> Even the M1, which is praised for it's power efficiency can hit 40-50W under load

I've sometimes seen high draws thanks to the small display on the cable, but I rarely do very intensive task at a coffeeshop.

The small charger is mostly for the peace of mind.

At home, I've got the chubby 65W if needed.
I mean yes, the nerd deep in his field, is mainly focused on getting it to work and ethics would only be a potential hurdle, so they are clearly biased and the decision should not be left to them.

But I am not sure if it helps, when people talk about it, who do not have a clue at all. Which is sadly most people. (computers are a black box to them)

This will lead to situations, when activists and politicians lobby for automatic AI image control to fight child porn, not understanding false positives and that this means that lots of legitimate and very private pictures would be send of away for some human to check.
Well if we look at everything we do in this way there's no way to make a decision on principle, we must always consider outcomes only.

I don't think there's a state that would outlaw regular birth control. Maybe 40 years ago, but today, probably not.

And really, why is it that we can vote at the federal government based on the policies we want, but saying that you should do that for certain issues in your state is undemocratic all of a sudden? What's wrong with states, constituted by their citizens, deciding how to govern themselves?
I follow one of my 1990s Amiga coding heroes on LinkedIn, and he said the same thing only a few days ago and it really hit me. Let's keep it professional people!

No more of this nonsense about tangentially work related fluff to get likes, it probably won't land you a job!
I agree that it's not strictly necessary. I've read a book that didn't use the word "is", and the book Gadsby is written without using the letter "e".

So it not being necessary is not evidence that part of a language shouldn't be used, or that it isn't easier to communicate with that part of language.

Sometimes curse words help express emotions.
Time to generate thousands of public repos filled with copilot-generated code!
sqlite_db_name docs say:

"Applications that need to remember the string long-term should make their own copy. Applications that are accessing the same database connection simultaneously on multiple threads should mutex-protect calls to this API and should make their own private copy of the result prior to releasing the mutex."

But it sounds like they should advise to mutex-protect all operations that can change the schema then, not just calls to that particular function.
I think that's fair. I more saw it as the 20+ comptia certs.
(2021)

Here's the relevant part of the Rome Statute:

> "Forced pregnancy" means the unlawful confinement of a woman forcibly made pregnant, with the
intent of affecting the ethnic composition of any population or carrying out other grave violations
of international law. This definition shall not in any way be interpreted as affecting national laws
relating to pregnancy;

In particular, note "forcibly made pregnant". So this isn't about abortion.
This seems like a good place to mention that I had a co-worker who thought that git only allows 50-character commit messages. Why? Because the IDE was programmed to guide the user to the 50/72 rule[1] and would put up a warning when the first line went over 50 characters. It never occurred to my co-worker that he could simply hit the return key and create a multi-line commit message.

So not only are they leaky abstractions, when they do hide abstractions they can conceal important information.

1. https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-mess...
it's still GPL infringing
If they are swearing regularly then they either are having trouble regulating their emotions, or may not have a verbal alternative to release before a physical escalation.

Both are perfectly reasonable to feel uncomfortable around.
Toastmasters have a certificate? I didn’t know about that. But how this will be measured and standardised considering it is a community run?
This stories reminds me of the times before tech dominance, when programmers and innovators needed to get permission to do almost anything. Tech people were not allowed to run companies, or even manage people -- you needed MBAs for that.

Anything "disruptive" would be immediately shut down and threatened from the dominant industry. Anti-societal violence in video games were under constant protest (like the original Grand Theft Auto, or Mortal Kombat), and don't even think about trying to start a business like Uber or Spotify.

New file formats could be immediately crushed by IP concerns. Even web pages posting content about circumventing current systems or linking to sites like that were targeted. If you weren't a big player, you didn't have any way to accept money (besides asking people to mail you checks).

While tech is seen as too powerful now, I think it's at least nice that we no longer have the anxiety that plagued any idea or project in the past. You don't have to worry about going to jail for programming crypto code, or be unable to find a hosting provider for your website that shows scraped public data.
Most of the world’s grain is not eaten by humans
It is efficient in neither. No 3+ lines bash code will be without a bug, I assure you. That “language” should be buried deep.
VQF was indeed better. Smaller files, same fidelity.

I cannot remember all of them now, but there was a few like that.
Nope. None of those are new concepts.
It is a high bar, when you are seriously drawing on a tablet, you want really low latency.

But yes, there are devices which are quite good. But ideally I also would want a linux one.
The article is needlessly contrarian and negative. The book is useful to get students or anyone playing a trade writing from 3/10 to a 7/10. A lot of critics lose sight of this.

It's a great book to use for guidelines to start with when building out your own style. If youre an editor and want to use it to compell others to write with a style, it's less useful.
Git for ages 4 and up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4
Redeeming that token for goods or services looks a lot like commerce.
> The biggest difficulty with a standard desktop GNU+Linux on a tablet is that most distributions are not optimized for easy tablet use - KDE Neon User Edition e.g. does not come with a virtual keyboard preinstalled.

Ubuntu 22 on a Lenovo X1 Fold gave me the OSK without installing anything - though the touchscreen was not supported by default, the driver is under work cf https://github.com/quo/ithc-linux
So true! New Balance Vibrims from ~2014 I think they were called minimus. They were super thin soles for running and were useful for lifting too (crossfit). They event came in double extra wide. Nothing like it exists on the market today. All the new models are nothing like it :-(
Our number of clients is still growing with current product value, and we manage to make existing client spend more on our platform. Our product is more attractive during recession, especially as it helps reduce/manage cost.
But our growth/revenue is nothing near to reach revenue stability regarding our cash burn.

We still have some feature/product that we are almost ready to launch, and we hope are going to help boost our revenues.
The republicans manage to pass things without a supermajority.
The aurochs[1] has sadly been hunted to extinction. The last one was killed in Poland during the 17th century.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I think 80% of it boils down to "do not release refrigerant gas into the atmosphere"
>I've been explaining why an abortifacient (as birth control) is different from getting an abortion knowing your pregnant. Homicide? Yes. Murder? I don't think so. I don't even think these should be illegal. There are wrongs we commit all the time that logically can only go on our conscience.

Your stance is a zygote is a person, yet you believe that killing one should not be prosecuted in the same manner as killing a born human it seems. Manslaughter does not require intent and is still a crime, either you believe the zygote is a person or you don't, if a person then the laws regarding killing a person should be the same. If you are ok with different laws between a zygote and born human then you must believe the zygote is less than human.

>This is good, the exceptions mentioned are just and necessary.

Something as serious as homicide should be codified at the federal level right? Why would you leave something like that for interpretations between states?

>Christians believe that all human beings are corrupt to the core.

Christians also believe god created everything including designing humans and their corruption correct? Where did evil come from? Did god create evil or is evil bigger than god and was not created by him? Again where did evil come from?
Oooh. This article taught me that in India of 1400 someone figured out how to calculate pi more accurately than had ever been done before and it took until 1600 in Europe that these methods were independently rediscovered.
it would be pointless. Most people don't recognize their deep internal biological drivers, and by its nature the

>darwinian strategy fantasies

are effects emerging at biological species [sub]population levels, not at an individual level.

For example, you may have noticed that statistically speaking prochoice people and their children are more educated while having less children than the prolifers. That is a typical manifestation of K- vs r-selection differences. The opening of "Idiocracy" is a nice funny commentary on that.
I read it as not a clearance problem, but that the lawyer didn't know who Lou Reed and Debbie Harry were and didn't want to release music from some randos the developers had found.
Every time I've seen a journalist report on a topic that I have in-depth knowledge of, the article was misleading and usually flat out wrong. This is even when the journalist has no bias. When the journalist does have a bias, it's just worse.

Over time this has made me suspicious of all reporting by journalists.

The reporting on the 737MAX is a stellar example of this. The only reasonably accurate reporting I've seen on it is by Aviation Week.
Decoupling IP from web services and sockets for addressing agility at CDN-scale
>the computer's "entire reason for existing" is to look up ip addresses,

This is trivially true, a computer's entire reason for existence is to be used by a user, and looking up DNS servers is a crucial part of what makes that happens.

Similarly, a living organism entire reason for existence is to manufacture copies of itself, and, for female mammals, that means carrying babies.

>People don't have an "evolutionary purpose,"

This is just semantic hair-splitting. Planets don't have a 'purpose' either, but every single one of them finds a star and goes around it, and the ones that don't just can't find a star close enough. It's fair to say that, in a very real sense, planets only exist to revolve around stars, their very being necessitates it. This doesn't mean they are "aware" of it.

People are similarly machines made and remade by evolution to do a single thing : spread copies of themselves. It doesn't matter that evolution "didn't mean" to make them that way, they are that way anyhow. And they will behave that way.

>there's some magical driving force to persist a species

It's not magical, it's all the hormones and electricity flowing inside every part of you. You can see it on a screen and measure its concentration.

>Thus, it is not their sole purpose.

Yes it is, Evolution doesn't care that you founded a startup or worked for SpaceX, unless those things increase your genetic copies somehow.

You can write something like "if we look at it from a lens other than biology" before your statement to make it more correct, but I was replying to a person who compared pregnancy to a parasitic relationship, therefore they were invoking biology. Biology, in no uncertain terms, makes it quite clear that this is bullshit. Every living organism, in biology's book, is a self replicating machine made for nothing but spreading copies of itself.
I don't know if I'm young or old, I'm in my 30s and from that narrow slice of America that was too young to fly commercial prior the eternal September 11th that was post 9/11 security theater.

I still remember my first transatlantic flight:, some ancient (by my standards) woman (probably more like 60s or 70s) was tearing apart the first class crew to CDG that they weren't serving tea, just bags of... she stopped overdoing the posh accent and just did some some kind of weird British hand gesture to indicate the plant matter in bags steeping in front of her did not fit her definition of tea. She didn't have a cognitive impairment, she was just posh by Pittsburgh standards and didn't seem to understand you can just bring tea onto the plane and ask for hot water if you're that OCD and/or Oxbridge.

I walked my fat Appalachian ass to the back of the plane, and promptly became sad that I hadn't threat modeled that my heavily encrypted laptop full of softcore pornography and pirated episodes of Dexter[1] was too large for the economy seatbacks if the geriatric in front of me reclined their seat, so I promptly and promptly started downing tiny bottles of wine I'd filled my TSA approved quart bag with rather than shampoo or conditioner to get in touch with my Catholic heritage and nudge myself to sleep, having given up on reading my copy of "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" I'd removed the cover from lest I look like some kind of weird Nazi rather than merely a dark, brooding intellectual, since it was... massive, and thus had all the issues of the laptop plus nearly broke the seatback when I placed it daintily upon to distract myself as we prepped for takeoff rather than risk blowing up the plane by texting about how I was annoyed I was seated next to a 9/11 truther.

(You haven't lived until you have to whip out a copy of popular mechanics and start circling shit in it in the middle of the boarding area to some future Q-anon)

Anyways, walls of gonzo written... on the fly... aside, I agree age is more of a feeling, but sadly some people abuse the spirit of that idea, hence ten-ish years later us having what seems like seven different podcasts about Jeffrey Epstein, smaller seats, and pretty much the same people "up front" ;-)

TL;DR: Yes it's a good article, and yes, age is more of a feeling... but don't abuse the spirit of the rule.

[1] those SHOULD be two separate things, but I can't control what people do in their free time
Gnome developers actually appear to look at Linux as an operating system and an ecosystem.

Linux development and use had become unimaginably complicated and fragmented.

Choice in Linux is a good thing, so I’m not against the fragmentation. At the same time, choice also means I should be able to choose an OS that keeps things simple for both devs and users.

And that’s what Gnome (and others such as the Fedora devs) appear to be aiming for.

Ubuntu used to play this role, but Canonical has built a consistent reputation of creating an alternative, splitting the community, and then abandoning it a few years down the road.
This is a promising area of technology for agriculture. It's also, actually, a very promising area of technology for the production of CO2-neutral hydrocarbon fuels (hydrocarbon fuels where all of the carbon content comes from atmospheric CO2, thus producing no net atmospheric CO2 upon combustion).

This is not quite as far along as the headline suggests, but it's still super cool. What the lab actually did was build an electrolyzer to produce acetate from CO2 + water (+ electricity), and then find organisms that they could feed the acetate to. They had the most success growing yeast (1/18th the energy requirements of biological photosynthesis), but also had success with algae and fungal mycelium with lower efficiency gains.

That's not exactly the same as actually producing food -- the algae production in particular is likely quite useful for less-inefficient biofuel production, but not exactly for eating. They anticipate having success with a few actual food crops that they believe they can breed to thrive without sunlight but with their electrolyzed acetate -- in particular tomato, canola, and rice -- which, presuming the resulting plants were similarly productive and similarly nutritious would actually be progress on the food-production front.
A person that firmly believes that personhood starts at conception, would not want a rape exception for abortion. Carrying an unwanted child to term is the far lesser evil of murder. There’s no ambiguity there.

That said, my position is more nuanced. Personhood starts handful of months after conception as far as I’m concerned.
It depends more on the particular IO-behavior than the language. (How often does it flush for example)
How the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Became Law
This is an issue of HackerNews , not Safari or any browser. It’s not a website made for mobile in mind. It’s like being mad that a motorcycle can’t fit all the items a car can. It was not made with that use case.
One (wo)man's community is another's cult.

Crypto means zoology, real hackers pay cash.
I don’t think you have experienced the politics of high level executives in mega corporations. This is exactly the most plausible part of the story. Some legal executive likely jumped to some conclusion before talking to Rob to get all the facts, and didn’t want to walk back his position because he is so much more important than the tiny Unix group that it was easier to just kill it.

Remember Plan9 was not going to make money enough for any executive to care.
It’s easier to estimate word counts in printed documents when the font is consistent. You can’t assume all parties have access to a digital copy.
What's funny about economics is everybody decides they're an expert at age 15. But people don't do this for, say, physics.
It's no worse than sugar. Both are unnecessary for humans and can be extracted as needed from fats and proteins by the human body.
I don't know what's driving it but I've been observing sharp changes in insect populations that visit our balcony which has been completely taken over by some kind of huge black wasp/hornet monsters.

These bastards seem to hunt baby grasshoppers all day long and butcher all kinds of other wasps and bees, too. I used to find piles of chopped bodies but until competition got the message and show no more. I even found a stash of dead spiders they've managed to build inside a cupboard.

I am starting to get worried.

I do observe other changes in different species but this one is the wildest I've got. Haven't seen a big grasshopper in a decade. My cat used to hunt them all night. What changed? I don't know. Firebugs used to cover some trees in red 3 summers ago. Haven't seen one in months.

Edit: as to why I am replying to your post? I liked it so much, I decided to share my extremely limited experience.
Can you say more about workloads which suck for either of the two databases at their default settings?
Fun fact: Apple's CoreAudio to this day can't output MP3. It can read it fine just not write it. :)
Sri Lankan residents permitted to have maximum of USD 10k
> You cannot legislate something you cannot see

There’s nothing in the Constitution that comports with this philosophy. You can’t “see” gay conversion therapy or whatever physical characteristic such therapy aims to target, and yet it’s eminently reasonable (and most would agree Constitutional) for State legislatures to outlaw its practice.

I’m as pro-choice as anyone else, but it’s pretty clear that the Constitution has always been mum on the subject. Sometimes things can be good and important, but not currently a Constitutional right.
DALL-E 2, Imagen and Parti Architectures Differences
Yes, there is an account setting checkbox labeled "Allow GitHub to use my code snippets for product improvements" - https://github.com/settings/copilot

I'm a bit confused how this will work in practice, because I don't see how they can retrain their entire model every time someone toggles that setting.
"... according to one magazine"