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Show HN: Ask Cryptography, a platform to discuss cryptography research papers
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Running a hobby project on Oracle Cloud (that or a provider like DigitalOcean/Linode are the only ways it is profitable due to bandwith expenses) that I may try to turn into a business eventually and worried about that same scenario happening.
The joke reveals a deeper understanding of the world than the people raging against it.
Ok lets spin up the ca and create a cert for this service. Validity 15 years.

<15 years later>

Why did this thingy break? How do I get a new cert? CA was on a Virtul Machine? The old server? What is ESXi?
Ok we will just spin up this docker container, create a new cert and make it last 20 years...
What do you think we should be doing?
> So, in a conventional reactor, you use nuclear fission to heat/pressurize water and then use your hot, slightly radioactive steam turn a turbine.

I was under the impression that there was a heat exchanger in the path - that is the reactor turns water into slightly radioacive steam, which is sent through a heat exchanger to turn different water into non (or way less anyway)- radioactive steam for the turbines. So both are indirect.

(This is just a nit comment, I think your main points about efficiency still hold, and your materials questions are good!)
I think there’s a second order effect here you’re not seeing. Social acceptance makes imbibing orders of magnitude less stressful and you can still call yourself a “normal” person while doing it. I think that makes a huge difference.
If a post-mortem follow-up task is not picked up within a week, it's unlikely to be completed at all.

This one is literally a law of physics.

People give talks at conferences not to convince others that their work is awesome and totally worth the time and effort they put in, but themselves.

I would add: "If you see a big name company give a talk about some cool thing they made, it's probably already been abandoned by that company."

Turning things off permanently is surprisingly difficult.

If you don't have a plan to sunset whatever you're building, you're basically telling your future self to go fuck himself. Unless you plan to quit first, in which case you're telling your successor to go fuck himself.

The source you're looking at is not the code running in production.

((cries))

Mandatory code reviews do not automatically improve code quality nor reduce the frequency of incidents.

The primary purpose of mandatory code reviews - without a sensible plan of who, when, why or how - is just for people to nitpick your code.
> You can though. Many old phones are hackable.

Many != All. For example, up-to-date custom ROMs of LineageOS do not exist for all phones.

> Also doesn't seem to be true. You can still buy second hand parts and whole phones for old models for almost nothing.

Chances are more likely that you'll find damaged used phones with drained batteries, or low quality Chinese replacement parts. Sorry, but it does seem to be true unless you're willing gamble money on questionable eBay listings.

Personally, I've attempted to keep old phones from 2012 usable for my parents and older relatives, but it seems less and less viable as time goes by for the reasons I've already listed. Unfortunately, it's simply not as easy as you make it out to be.

I use a newer phone (Pixel 5) that lacks a 3.5mm audio jack and removable battery. I accept that I may be on the fringe for wanting that audio jack (although I'm not sure what survey to look at to prove this), but I disagree that we as consumers are better off without it, or that it makes the phone more reliable/performant/worse.
"Extremely saturated" as in extremely de-saturated and then highlighted? Looks just awful. Even worse in 4K. That incorrect shallow focus range that does not exist outside N is also a pain.

The screenshot in the article pretty much sums it up. Looks terrible.
Alcohol suppresses anxiety. Up until the hangover, when it exacerbates it.
How to Solve the Cold Start Problem for Reading Research Papers
Sounds like someone could make a lot of money by funding women-founded startups (especially those founded by women with four children) that the majority of other VCs are ignoring.

In fact it says so in the article:

> “Investors are missing out on making a lot of money”, eye-rolls Sofie Blakstad, founder of humanitarian blockchain, HiveOnline. Blakstad has worked for eight major banks, built five core banking systems, written two books, and founded one hell of a fintech. She’s also the person the UN calls when they need a consultant. That SHE struggles to secure funding blows my mind.
As a former alcoholic, ethanol is the worst garbage there is. You might as well hit your toes/whatever with a hammer - there's the pain, the near instant release of morphine and the (very long) hangover :D

It is in our nature to disassociate with reality/consciousness imo, for many of us it's too much to handle.

There are much better alternatives out there and I wish they weren't so demonized.
Funny coincidence, our (Carnegie Mellon's) IT department recently re-encoded lectures by John Reynolds on Separation Logic, you can view the entire course here:

https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.a...

This special topics course was held shortly before John Reynolds passed away.

(If you're bored, you can also see other things we have hosted on the same platform, including Deep Reinforcement Learning, Intro to ML, and the Computer Science Department holiday party :)
Working Less and Living Longer: Long-Term Trends (1995)
In the UK national insurance is 13.5% from the employee and 15.5% from the employer…

And all you get is £170 a week pension if you are lucky.

So the social security equivalent in the UK comes to about 28% of the salary of most UK workers.

It does only kick in if you are paid more than £240 a week for the employee part and £170 for the employer part, and does taper off for the employee to 3.5% for income above £4300 a month but for all intents and purposes this hold true for most workers.
But the company is incorporated in Delaware?

https://www.nowala.io/terms-and-conditions
> but we should be able to at least acknowledge that any alcohol in any amount is self destructive.

Is driving in any amount self-destructive? Eating bacon?
If we're going to call mildly (or moderately) unhealthy things "self-destructive", what term should we use for... well, truly self-destructive things?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KwkpTUbkg is 2+ hours of talking heads; watch at at least 1.5x
I find these sorts of things fascinating ito the economics. If there is a large section of the population that creates companies but is underserved in funding by VCs (which I think is the case), then you've essentially got a market inefficiency. This means that the VCs that do fund these startups will actually end up becoming more profitable, because they're "stealing" edge from VCs that won't.
Where do you get these numbers?
To flip the question, why would you like a long and healthy life? Are you happy about the world you're sending your kids into? What do you tell them about the world?
yes: https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption
Workplace surveillance is bad even if it "measures the right thing" and makes us all super-efficient, over-surveilled workers.
I have a different problem: I hate everything shot in Canada as a stand-in for american cities. Everything looks wrong: the streets are clean, there's almost no cars, and everybody is well-dressed. Even the people who are dressed up to look homeless look well-dressed.

I can really annoy my wife by shouting out where something was filmed -- "that's obviously toronto!" and "that's obviously british columbia" but you could easily train an ML to do the same thing.
You are not answering my question. The fact that x is a buffer is irrelevant. Here, I'll rephrase:

Otherwise, whether you write:

{
auto x = fopen("someFile");
int err = foo(x);
if(err) {
fclose(x);
return err;
}
//do something with x
fclose(x);
return 0;
}

or you write

{
auto x = std::ifstream("someFile.txt");
foo(x);
//do something with x
}

What is the fundamental difference?
*only if you're a dumbass who thinks illegal drugs are all bad.
I'd really like to know if menstrual synchronization is real, because there's a straightforward explanation: temporal herding. In the ancestral environment, it drew predators, so under the normal dynamics of prey and predators it pays to herd together. Herding in space is easy to see; herding in time, as of oak trees tending to produce acorns in the same year, is also easy to note after awhile. So if our ancestors evolved to all menstruate at the same time as a defense against predation, it seems perfectly straightforward. But all I hear is anecdotes that are promptly attacked, so, is this a real physical phenomenon?
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> should I just log it as an error and let the program continue execution anyway?

How can you even get to such a conclusion? These kind of attitude is what makes programs buggy.

Plant an error tracker, so thrown errors are automatically logged, so you can debug later but don't make the situation worse by continuing on.
One thing to note (without commenting if this applies in this case or not) is that sometimes a bad starting point is worse than no starting point
The reason the similarly sized open source models aren’t as good is because gpt-3 has had a 2 year head start of additional development and improvement. The gpt-3 that is available today is Much better than what was initially produced in 2020.
My somewhat naive view is that Jeff's work is not like DL or much else in the ML field; it's like a fork in the road
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> DuckDuckGo uses Bing search under the hood, and they're not making nearly enough money to do R&D on things like making the next BeRT. If only DuckDuckGo existed, search algorithm quality would stagnate and then get worse (which is bad because SEO is by definition adversarially optimizing against the ranking algorithm in order to get a page to rank higher than it naturally would, thereby imputing noise into the natural relevance signal. Google is aggressively innovating on this front and still struggling.)

If you couldn't make money from ads like now, there'd be way less SEO. Most SEO just drags people onto ad spam sites with vapid auto content.

Your argument about DDG is equivalent to saying "look at this natural cyclist, he's not making any prize money compared to his doped rivals". Yeah, duh. You have to remove the doping to see how he really fares against the others.
Easy things include installing M.2 drives, RAM, hard drives. (Just read the motherboard manual to ensure you use the right slots/ports for optimal performance.)

Medium difficulty might be installing the motherboard into the case (getting the rear I/O ports aligned just right) or installing the CPU with thermal paste into that motherboard, along with the heatsink.

Hard difficulty is just getting all the wires run without obstructing airflow (or just looking "ugly"), and the little wires from the case to the motherboard in all the right places. Also if you install AIO (all-in-one cooling), you may have to try a few things to make sure everything lines up and it all fits nicely in your case.

None of the above are difficult if you're experienced, but on your first run it might be tricky. And this doesn't include setting up the OS, tweaking and optimizing things... or knowing what to do if something doesn't work as expected. Sometimes you'll get a bad stick of RAM, but that usually gives off symptoms of half a dozen other issues, though with experience you start to default to that assumption, and find ways to rule it out earlier.

Having done it dozens of times, I find it quite easy, but I also know that when things go wrong, they can be scary, and occasionally expensive. (A friend once dropped a CPU and bent the pins irrecoverably!)
I've been using an old Lanboy 2 case for years, I just update the MB and CPU. Swapping out parts is really easy IF you have some instruction materials to help out. (I don't need instructs anymore because I'm done it so many times now.) Adding memory, as mentioned by others is easy. Buying pre-built computers is both expensive and frustrating because they become outdated, parts wise, fairly quickly. When my computer becomes slower or new tech comes along I just do the updating myself and save a ton of money, not to mention learning something new.
"Does any of this actually matter?"

Yes. If we want others to respect open source licenses, we need to honor them ourselves. We can't assume that source-available is "available for all uses".
Probably not for the CDN stuff

From https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq:

> The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection ... the Google Fonts API does not set or log cookies ... resource-specific domains...don't contain any credentials ... IP addresses are not logged.

From https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/terms

> Google Hosted Libraries uses resource-specific domains... Requests unauthenticated ... Google Hosted Libraries only uses cookies as necessary for security and to prevent abuse ... Our systems are designed to remove HTTP referer information before logging

But analytics is a totally different story. https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

> when you visit a website that uses...Google Analytics...your web browser automatically sends certain information to Google. This includes the URL of the page you’re visiting and your IP address. We may also set cookies on your browser or read cookies that are already there. Apps that use Google advertising services also share information with Google, such as the name of the app and a unique identifier for advertising
> Google uses the information shared by sites and apps to ... personalize content and ads you see on Google and on our partners’ sites and apps

So Google's policies do let them use 3rd party Google Analytics data to target ads.
What is the vulnerability here? An admin user can do admin stuff. Shocking.
Regulation would help punish the variations of this that aren't already illegal spam industries. People are already taking it upon themselves to take spam texters to small-claims court, due to texting regulations.
I'm not doubting it can be done poorly

I'm just curious why an org would do that when they have a domain controller/login infrastructure providing a CA, or one of the many secret-storing-engines backing the vast majority of their sensitive data (eg: Vault)?

Policies can be defined and enforced to serve as guard rails -- we choose the nightmares we accept
Vulnerability in the enforcement of group permissions in Linux containers
Not entirely. There are many ways to optimize models for deployment both at the software and hardware levels: some are public such as quantization/fusing, others are not.
The so-called "open" in their name is an oxymoron. The whole thing is a trap. We need to work on our own, possibly publicly founded but really open solutions rather than depend on proprietary ones.
> Something is seriously wrong with humanity if poisoning ourselves regularly to dissociate with reality remains this popular as a core social component. People will point to all of the supposed "social lubricant" benefits etc... of drinking culture, but I'm not convinced it's anything but a band-aid on some combination of social anxiety and existential dread.

Incas drank alcohol regularly and I doubt they were stressed for their 9 to 5 job.
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I feel very similar about Disney Plus. The shows are all very safe and bland. Even the hyped ones, at the end, I kind of feel like I just watched the adult version of Airbud, you know?
Economies of scale and years of optimization, some of which likely have not been publicly shared.
How is there only one picture in this article discussing visual features?
I have Keychron K1 and one of the keys failed (I carry around the world as a digital nomad). I took it to a hacker space in Sofia and unsoldered a working less important key and switched it for the broken 'T' key.

Repairable hardware is vital.
I am developing a web/JavaScript database for several years now [1]. What I do not understand is, how graph based databases, (like surrealDB or gundb) plan to have great performance when they run in the browser. The thing is that you are always limited to store your data inside of the browsers IndexedDB. So as soon as you do not work with the same document-based model similar to the IndexedDB API, you will have big troubles when it comes to performance. For example how can you store and query graph based data in IndexedDB without heavily overfetching either on read or on writes? IndexedDB is already way too slow.

[1] https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb
Exactly. In other variants of reactors the inner contour could circulate molten slightly radioactive sodium instead.
Maybe you're right, maybe not.

https://talbottcampus.com/crack-statistics/

> And the National Drug Intelligence Center reports, “an estimated 6,222,000 U.S. residents aged 12 and older used crack at least once in their lifetime.” A lot of people have used crack, and a lot of those people do not fit the stereotypes about who uses or why.

There are all kinds of people in this world, and we all live very different lives.
I love drugs that directly affect the brain. It's incredible what you can do, they give you direct control over your own brain/body.

I hope in the future biochemical augmentation will be just as accepted as electromechanical.
yup, the QoL is amazing. I can understand non-sporty people not liking it though.
Better drugs.
Not strictly true in this case - an essential factor in the success of a venture-backed startup is the ability to secure a next round of funding.

This exacerbates biases significantly, because you're not only trying to select for success, but also for next-round fundability. So it makes perfect sense to say "I think you're a great founder with a great idea and fantastic prototype. _I'm_ not prejudiced, but I think other VCs are too biased for you to be successful, so I won't invest."

I've heard this multiple times personally, to the point that I've been advised to bring in a more traditional CTO and take a VPEng/CSO role.

Systemic inefficiencies like this one usually require regulatory or systemic assistance to reach a new, more profitable, equilibrium.
If 4 drinks per week allowed somebody to dissociate with reality I'd suggest them strongly an immediate liver check, not joking.
And you think that complaining about tech companies, companies owned by share holders who have no particular obligation to satiate the complaints of non-shareholders, is a more rational strategy to achieve the outcomes you want?

Let's be intellectually honest here; the only actual threat to tracking ads as a business is governmental legislation, something which we've already seen occur with the implementation of GDPR in the EU and the US. It's pretty obvious privacy advocates have enough teeth to impact the legislature if they're able to ram those bills though, so I wholesale reject the argument that privacy is a niche complaint and you're powerless to create change in the government.
That makes a lot of sense.

I think I was confused by news stories about situations where the reactor has failed in some way, and then there are stories of how radioactive water needs to be stored / disposed of somehow.
An AI-Enabled Drone Could Soon Become Every Rhino Poacher’s ... Horn Enemy
RF tracking would be better if you don't have access to a location with line-of-sight to the passing traffic. Also cheaper than OCR-ing camera footage, and can track vehicles going in both directions, trucks towing trailers, cars with no front plate, etc.

Plate tracking is better for determining direction, and is probably more reliable because TPMS aren't constantly transmitting. You could miss a car if it doesn't have any TPMS info transmitting while it passes your station.

Is phone tracking still possible for the latest iOS or Android phones? I thought my BLE and MAC addresses are randomized, but I don't know much about this beyond that headline. I'm guessing a Stingray type device would still work though.
And one of the unwritten things of this article: He's going from a "difficult, but probably doable" scenario when it comes to upgrading piecemeal to "hope you like what you get" scenario with the Alienware he had ordered.

It's not 100% non-upgradable, but there are a lot of bespoke oddball parts in them, notably the motherboard and power supply.

I do wish these companies were more upfront when it comes to how upgradable systems are. Some may not care, but I'm the go to tech support person for a bunch of people, and I hate having to tell them they can't upgrade their machine like they want to, despite being a desktop in principle.
Annoyingly, "molten salt reactor" is used to describe two different technologies. What you describe is a traditional reactor that uses molten salt to move heat. This typically leads to higher efficiencies, but does have corrosion issues. Other power generation systems can also benefit from molten salt loops - namely solar energy collectors.

In the research field, "molten salt reactors" (MSRs) usually means the other tech - a reactor where the fissile material is dissolved in a salt. This not only brings efficiency increases, but many safety improvements. Many designs also use a 2nd molten salt loop as a temperature step-down before steam power generation.
Please stop viewing everything through the political hammer of one ideology over another. That would fail to explain what constructed the 52% or why in part the vote was called.

Of course it was badly managed by a British govt but this is like saying rain will be wet. It's a given.

I'm not saying Brexit was a good financial, economical, social or societal motivator, but unfortunately the argument for a lot of people clearly became philosophical.
(Notice how I'm not saying all)

If this was all so good why did this get to a situation where half the country was displeased despite the blairite years? And the argument of "big red bus lied to us" only shows contempt for the ill educated either people are smart and educated enough to engage on this or they're not, there's no "take backs" in first past the post politics.
This reminds me of RFC-2549 in all the best ways.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549
Body Beautiful: Is it love or a fat fetish?
goog-prefixes.txt only contains IPv4 addresses, so if you have IPv6, it'll miss most of the traffic.
How much of a factor could lack of school uniforms or dress codes be?

Going from many TV series set in American high school environments, bullying seems to be a major problem, and that bullying seems to be usually rooted in physical appearance.
The authors list the scoring categories, but they don’t say how they came up with the categorical score for each drug.
Only because it's the most common tbf. If you could get heroin in any supermarket, that'd top the charts :D
The Finnish Florist Who Brings New Life to Faded Flowers
> Did you understand the meaning?

No, I didn't.
They're not official but I have made Windows 95 and Windows 98 images for UTM, if anyone would find that useful:

https://archive.org/details/@davidga
You can keep beer waaay longer usable than you can keep boiled water fresh.
this is what happens when you're making "content", as martin scorsese described it.

it's like every new show they make feels like the final season of a show that lost it's spark many seasons ago - just made out of obligation to a contract. conveyor belt tv.