skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I believe the implication that NIST or NSA somehow bribed one of the PQC researchers to weaken a submission is risible.

maybe you don't know what risible means, but it reads like you're saying that the NSA "somehow" coercing someone is unlikely, which i'm sure you can agree is a "very naive and trusting view"
The problem with addressing Alex Jones and the rest "censored" is that they don't believe ANYTHING they say. Or rather, their spoken beliefs are fluid to suit the argument. You can't convince people there's not a "Big Tech" conspiracy about all these companies being controlled by whatever minority is trendy to hate now... You can't logic someone out a position they didn't logic their way into.
Fortunately, Mike (Cutler) & Sean (Kamath) documented many things in the USENIX presentation cited by newman314 that I'm still under NDA about. I worked with both of them and they're extremely knowledgeable folks.

Now, switching gears to talk about that presentation. ;)

I'd call out a few things.

1) Note on slide 17 the call out to _multiple sites_. Yup. You got it. There is a single view of the file store. At a practical level to the end user the sync time between sites is trivial to non-existent.

2) automount, automount, automount (Slide 25). The automount configuration is stored in LDAP providing a convenient way to correlate and sync data which is already integrated with the name service switch/NSS (man 5 nss).

3) Caching (Slides 22-24). This is where a lot of the magic happens. It's this cache tier which _presents_ as if it's a single file store.

One conceit I will make (which is glossed over a bit) is that the use of DNS and suffix searching is critical in a situation like this. It allows each site to use configuration management to push out relevant config files (e.g. /etc/resolv.conf) which can then present a search order like "site1.us.example.com us.example.com example.com". Thus, when you do a query for the unqualified name "ldap" (or even better "IN SRV _ldap._tcp") NSS will hand that off to the resolver which will dutifully check for the following (in order) until it gets a positive match or fails: ldap.site1.us.example.com, ldap.us.example.com ldap.example.com. This allows for a DNS based fall back as well as the added benefit of always hitting the local system (instead of a remote site).

Also, make sure you check out the stats on Slide 28.... 4 PB... in 2008... before they had to render a movie for each eye... (3D animation!)
I think the term "doublethink" was invented specifically for government functionaries like the IC guy you describe.

Being consistently and perfectly dogmatic requires holding two contradictory beliefs in your head at once. It's a skill.
Seriously! Tons of people ranting about crypto visiting a non-TLs website!
How about foo -"bar" to search for foo without bar?
It's owned not by individuals employees, but by the employees' union ... which is entirely controlled by the communist party and not the employees. It's a very obvious fiction. The generated income may end up in the employees' hands, but the control is in fact with the dictatorship.
You might also be interested in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32363295
> face a new feudalism, as control of finance and the power that goes with it will be at the core of technological human enhancement, and democracy…will be dead in the water.”

While there's a significant risk of it to happen, it's not a given. Brain augmentation connecting people to each other might give a rise to the direct democracy when hundreds of the collective decisions take place every day: from desiding if your local road needs an upgrade between community members to voting for the national parliament members.
Sure and that’s all quite interesting but we’re not about to take a bite of your arm and romantically imagine the life and times of 16th century Cornish coal miners. Yet with a resurrected 400 y/o yeast derived from chicha used to brew the first European style beers in Quito combined with an old recipe, we can taste the drink that common laborers consumed in Quito 400 years ago at a time of great change. It’s romantic, it has a visceral appeal beyond the personal that may be evoked by genealogy. There’s the stuff of human heritage here.
Whoever sends the message. Remember, these cases get decided by human judges, not robots looking at e-mail headers.

I assume in your example a court would consider the employee to be the one sending the message.

Edit: And looking at the wording, this may mean no cybertrucks for anyone because the sender has to be a business (simplified) for the law to apply.
Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home
Adding a standard iterator interface to Go?
Rocket ride is the name of Stripe's API demo app. Might want to change the name, this is bad for your SEO.
Most other animals don’t sweat. Also they use smells to communicate and identify each other. We use words and faces.

That said, my bird spends half his day preening and making sure the feathers look good.
how is tax money used in a defamation case?
Poverty auto-responder:
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Most other animals? Well, most birds bathe. Elephants shower themselves with their trunks. Cats bathe themselves with their tongues, dogs get in the water and then shake themselves dry, and pigs wallow in the mud.

Seems like what makes humans different here is that we use soap.
Most of the elevator music I remember is designed to be memorable.

Riding the elevator in the LAX Theme Building, up to the dearly missed Encounter rotating restaurant, it sounded like you were going on a space trip to visit a 1960s starship. (Looked this up just now and I guess it was more of a Jetsons vibe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc9tdeLHFRI )
> the biggest issue: it doesn’t work well with tools (vscode, sublime merge, etc.) as you need to launch them within a nix shell and that doesnt work well (at least on mac).

In what sense?

In terms of "some nix shell provides some tools, and VSCode can't see those".. direnv is one way to work with this. e.g. direnv integrates with nix to integrate the nix shell at that path, and a direnv plugin for VSCode etc. can pick up the direnv file, so that it loads the nix shell appropriately.
Because doing the same shit gets boring after a year or two, and it's easy to get a big raise by switching companies. Feels normal because everyone does it. Majority of my coworkers at my last 5 companies (various startups) lasted two years on average.
I don't think there are several more ways to exploit terminals, although there are certainly several more ways to exploit terminal emulators. Maybe your definition of "exploit" is broader than mine, though.

> I discovered wall and write at some point and was amazed how stupid that was.

write(1) strips escape characters out, and wall(1) represents them as ^[; they protect your terminal against this particular vulnerability since last millennium. wall also escapes bytes above 126, which would be a pain if you weren't speaking English, and write seems to strip at least byte 0x9b, although I don't know if I have a terminal handy that responds to 0x9b.

> The most common concerning use case I think is SSHing into something. There's no way to tell if you got out.

The easiest way to be sure you got out is to close the terminal emulator, but an alternative is just closing ssh, using ^M~. It's possible to flub that by, say, accidentally typing ^M`. or ^M~,. I agree that better UI would help.

A different problem with ssh is that it leaks your keystroke timing to passive listeners who don't have the session key. This isn't a concern for using ssh with password authentication but it is a concern if you're running sudo or gpg on the server you sshed into.

I agree that unrestricted sudo isn't an effective defense against malware, just against accidentally hosing your system.
And many developers don't fully understand that he's a good salesman and can't see through the BS.
That clears up what you're referring to, but we're talking past each other here.

I'm not saying the information that he needed to disclose was protected, I'm saying the rest of the information on the phone that was leaked that wasn't relevant to the case was protected and can/should not be used in another investigation.
Near the end of the post – after 50 years of axe grinding – djb does eventually get to the point wrt pqcrypto. I find the below excerpt particularly damning. Why not wrap nascent pqcrypto in classical crypto? Suspect!

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The general view today is that of course post-quantum cryptography should be an extra layer on top of well-established pre-quantum cryptography. As the French government cybersecurity agency (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information, ANSSI) put it at the end of 2021:

Acknowledging the immaturity of PQC is important: ANSSI will not endorse any direct drop-in replacement of currently used algorithms in the short/medium term. However, this immaturity should not serve as an argument for postponing the first deployments. ANSSI encourages all industries to progress towards an initiation of a gradual overlap transition in order to progressively increase trust on the post-quantum algorithms and their implementations while ensuring no security regression as far as classical (pre-quantum) security is concerned. ...

Given that most post-quantum algorithms involve message sizes much larger than the current pre-quantum schemes, the extra performance cost of an hybrid scheme remains low in comparison with the cost of the underlying post-quantum scheme. ANSSI believes that this is a reasonable price to pay for guaranteeing an additional pre-quantum security at least equivalent to the one provided by current pre-quantum standardized algorithms.

But NSA has a different position: it says that it "does not expect to approve" hybrids. Publicly, NSA justifies this by

- pointing to a fringe case where a careless effort to add an extra security layer damaged security, and

- expressing "confidence in the NIST PQC process".

Does that mean the original NISTPQC process, or the current NISTPQC process in which NIST, evidently surprised by attacks, announced plans to call for new submissions?

Of course, if NSA/IDA have secretly developed an attack that works for a particular type of post-quantum cryptosystem, then it makes sense that they'd want people to start using that type of cryptosystem and turn off the existing pre-quantum cryptosystem.
My guess would be music licencing is why it's gone. Too risky.

It's one of the only places I've ever had to deal with, where if you play ANY music the big 3 consider it stolen (1 rift is enough according to them) and your legally guilty (USA), with no one ever winning a case against them. It's just pay to play, even with originals.
Are you text enabling businesses existing phone numbers, pushing businesses to go to a provider like Twilio, or porting out the main public facing number then call forwarding the number (and adding hundreds of milliseconds of latency to incoming calls) used for texting?

Also, any thoughts on The Campaign Registry and the recent changes they have made?
You are being a bit dense maybe?
I like the new Silca and own some of their stuff and I also own a couple legit Silca pumps, they are different organizations though.
> It emphatically does not lend support to any of this litigants concerns about the PQC process.

I agree with most of what you're saying except for this. In my view, unlike some of the other organisations you mentioned, the _only value_ of NIST is in the quality and transparency of its processes. My reading of the DJB/NIST FOI dialogue is that there is reason to believe NIST has serious process problems that go far beyond simply handling an FOI well. From their own responses, it reads as if they aren't able to articulate themselves why they would choose one contestant's algorithm over another's. That kind of undermines the entire point of having an open contest.
> Evil pays quite well, apparently

Yes this is surprising considering … gestures broadly at all of human history..
2022 Stanford Commencement Address by Reed Hastings
When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on you side, pound the table.
I think it's incredibly silly how tied we are to the idea that something was invented once and then spread. Soap is literally just a fatty acid salt with some phytochemicals that have antimicrobial properties (extremely easy to come by considering most secondary metabolites of plants are specifically produced to keep them from succumbing to bacterial/fungal degradation).

Soap has probably been "invented" a million times in thousands of different cultures around the globe

Paper was invented in pre-Columbian Americas (look up amate). The earliest evidence of metallurgy (smelting, soldering, annealing, electroplating, sintering, alloying, etc) was by the Moche of the Andes who seem to eventually have went "meh" and got tired of it. Prior to Edison, there was at least 20 other inventors who "invented" incandescent lightbulbs.

We like to think of inventions as some strokes of genius that come along in a semi-random way. When in reality inventions are born to meet particular needs and those needs are caused by environmental conditions. Charles Babbage designed the first real computer (see "analytical engine") based on steam power back in 1837 but never built it out. We could've had steampunk computers back in the 19th century but it wasn't until WW1 provided a real need for it that we saw real advancements

Soap was likely "invented" and even forgotten over and over again by whoever needed and stopped needing it
The issue being that Twitter actually did (afaik) make various representations about bots, spam, paid actors, etc and the validity of those representations was later called into question. So the analogy as originally proposed at the top of this thread is a misrepresentation.
Why does most B2B marketing look like this?
Show HN: Free lunch Bash script; command history manager to optimize it
Good move Amazon... wonder what they will do with the data. I'm glad I don't have an iRobot...
At a minimum, Infowars is mentioned in the last paragraph, which has this link as the source, in which Alex Jones is mentioned.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/sandy-hook-ho...
Why would they need to change their mind?
Well, it's easier to be contrarian online.

Though I anticipate better discussion from "nix didn't suit me" than "nix works".

Looking at Nix's community survey, there's been a big growth in the community over the last year or two. I think most who try nix like it, and see it as so obviously a good technology.
This reminded me of how the rather stilted phrases of godzukes and zounds we might associate with old batman comics, were derived from older curses of God's hooks and His wounds.
"a written or spoken agreement, especially one concerning employment, sales, or tenancy, that is intended to be enforceable by law."
I'd hazard to guess the router was something like https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Rapture-Gaming-Router-GT-AXE1100... not your typical 2x2 wifi AP + gigabit router combo. I say this because I once returned such a top end ASUS model 3x (twice to swap, 3rd to refund) as they were all just some form of DoA. I felt like I was going crazy to the point I took the 3rd one to work to unbox it thinking. Based on the number of 1 star DoA reviews at the time vs the reviews now they seem to have figured it out.

Overall their support is a bit lacking for the high price point stuff if you turn out to need it, the low end or normal stuff I have no complaints on.
The Pong you could program, possibly: the MOS 7600/7601
No. You also need stable government and good infrastructure (electricity, water supply, transportation etc). Most importantly, you need highly educated human resource in this field. (Importing workers from other countries doesn't make sense as you would have to pay high wages, negating the cost advantage you are seeking). Note also that you need supportive government policies - fabs consume huge amount of water and the treated water released back still is unfit and polluting. Water is a really a tricky issue in many countries because you need it for agriculture and everyday use, and this can often become a contentious political issue. Most governments are not willing to standup to farmers and ordinary citizens if there is a water shortage as they know that's a battle they can't often win politically.
Refeeding Syndrome
What you're missing is that "One China" is now a mere diplomatic fiction. The only reason the US and Taiwan insist on it is to avoid unnecessary escalation with China. But, as a matter of fact, Taiwan is a completely independent, sovereign and autonomous state, over which China has absolutely no legal or practical control.
Their house, their rules. See 'Truth (sic) Social' for another example.
Do you have data for the comparison of profits from sales to service? I never get my vehicle serviced at a dealer. I don't know what percentage of people do, but that would play a big factor in this analysis.
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SQL server seems like an odd choice outside of the enterprise. Suggest running Postgres on Linux.
I think I'm in the right vintage for that, but did cassettes ever sound good? I could get nostalgic for the sound (especially fast forward/reverse, which is lovely), and I probably never had good equipment, but tapes were always kind of warbly for me. I had access to older records too, which could sound good when there wasn't too much hissing and popping and they weren't skipping. Some records were maybe off balance? and wouldn't play at consistent speed either. Again, I didn't have great equipment.
I think he’s looking for a more trustworthy source.
Sounds like Erlang from what I’ve heard about it
I am interpreting the parent as saying before we can say something is post-human, we have to define (understand) what "human" is. If we cannot agree on what it is to be human, how can anyone be post-human? I.e. you can't define a "noun with modifier" until you define the noun.
This reminds me there's a book, The Landmark Herodotus, that has lots of maps detailing the geography treated in the text, including the story of the Greco-Persian Wars; I've got another book in the series (the Thucydides one) and the maps are really nice.
Charity to the question, I think it is a good question why we bathe as much as we do. Water animals spend a ton of time bathing, no surprise. Many animals are fine with dust baths, though. And many are severely hampered by being wet. Look up a picture of a wet owl.
Android's app optimization process is AOT compilation of apps, not "a ploy to foist more unnecessary and unwanted apps"...
People do change jobs frequently, but yours isn’t a very good sample.

Startup hopping has its own dynamics, where people sign up to catch the next orbital launch and then move on when they haven’t been seeing engines firing strongly enough.

In more mature companies, which do still turn over way faster than they used to, the dynamics are more traditional (pay/title/resume/perks/culture).
Not sure this is good veracity of truth. Most people also predicted Hillary Clinton would win. Given the nature of over/under there is incentives to bet on the incorrect side knowingly
The only reason our sweat even stinks is because of the way it's metabolized by our skin's microbiome. It turns out if you have AOB (ammonia oxidizing bacteria) they can oxidize our sweat and prevent us from stinking

AOBs are found in soils pretty much everywhere. But they're extremely sensitive and can easily be washed away. In contrast, the particular microbes that have closely evolved alongside us to adapt to our skin microbiome often live several layers deep in our skin. When we take a hot shower or soap up we kill them on the surface but, luckily for our skin's health, they can be replenished. However, the AOBs don't have this deep relationship with us because they are not anaerobic. Instead it's likely that we've evolved to expect a constant influx of soil-based bacteria on our skin

Indeed if you look at any other hairless mammals, one of their favorite things is mud baths. Elephant, pigs, rhinos, etc. We're still learning the full extent of how our skin microbiome plays into our health, but the recent research on the gut-brain-skin axis shows it's likely deeply integrated into our evolutionary past
This is one hell of a well written argument.
You didn't acknowledge your lack of understanding about search results. The algorithm suppresses results based on location data. Ranking is based on your prior search history. Censorship varies by country. There is no point in continuing discussion when you are ignoring my points entirely.
It's really weird reading some of these threads, because people say things with such authority which are demonstrably wrong.

1) Alex Jones was famous long before his Sandy Hook crap.

2) I don't know how you could call him "conservative" when, during the Bush years, he was a vocal anti war person who claimed that 9/11 was an inside job that was being used as a pretext for war.

3) Anti authoritarian, maybe?

4) Actually there are chemicals in the water that are disrupting hormones (turning the frogs "gay"): https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/ind...

5) He recanted the Sandy Hook claims as early as 2019.

Alex Jones is absolutely nuts. There should be punishment for what he has done to these Sandy Hook families.

That said: I hope people are just as happy when Kyle Rittenhouse receives a few 10s of millions of dollars from every news agency which slandered him (knowingly) as well. Otherwise this does feel like weaponizing the courts, which is concerning.
> First, stop saying C/C++. If you are talking about C, you are not talking about C++. If you are talking about C++, you are not talking about C.

I don't understand why people hate the "C/C++" term so much. C++ is (almost) a superset of C, you can mostly drop C code onto your C++ compiler and it will work.

So for OP question, C/C++ implies that he is using a C++ compiler, and an answer using C code would work perfectly fine with his C++ project (it might not be idiomatic C++, but in the world of C++ everybody does things their on way anyway).
It is indeed a claim here; in fact, it's probably the principle claim.
All technologies have their pros and cons. They have use cases where they make sense and use case where they don't. The job of an engineer to decide which tool fits which use-case. To dismiss a useful technology as "BS", especially one used by companies all over the world for over a decade without any backing data seems a bit disingenuous.
No part of what I said had anything to do with what NSA would or wouldn't attempt to do.

If you don't understand what I wrote, ask questions. What you did instead was leap to stupid conclusions.