skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> any munition that can damage an aircraft carrier will be that cheap

It's all about targeting smarts and precision! This has been well demonstrated in Ukraine, where GPS-guided missile artillery can simply "reach out and touch someone" 50 miles away.

Even tiny drones could do fantastic damage if precisely targetted using on-board AI. They could target personnel, fuel, electrical equipment, optics.

Don't think about a 50kg bomb dropped on the deck. Think of a swarm of 500g drones with 100g shaped charges making a beeline for the control tower, and the engine intake of every parked plane.
no keyboard, bigger size :(
>The mothers and fathers of the German Grundgesetz (~ constitution) learned that the hard way.

Well, now we can counter "Think of the children" with "Think of the Ukrainians"
Yeah, he is an incredibile story teller and his attention to detail is great. I feel he should do a youtube series with the same content.
https://www.timer-tab.com/
> and one separate to this EU regulation.

no, not separated at all

laws have to take the implicit effects they have into account they could have added a clause to require providers to not close the account until the police investigation finishes. They didn't. Which means they are implicitly partial responsible for such abuse.
I use a Firefox extension to turn off all suggestions. It's just a search bar, so when I go to Youtube and search for something the results are always intentional.
hmm would this apply to steam as well? people buying up weird fake cards and on sell for less but cleaner money?
Encrytion was used since forever and birds as a fast transportation too. Nothing changed. And btw if i where a terrorist i would use birds to communicate. What do we learn? Criminals will always find a way, instantly.
I may. I wrote a book once. Hard work. I think you may need an editor, rather than a co-author. Someone who'd proofread and rearrange every sentence of every paragraph of every page of every chapter. And do it 10 or more times for each of those sentences, paragraphs, pages and chapters - before it can be published even as beta. Furthermore, as we all know, senior engineers disagree vastly on so many tiny little things: preferences, practices, routines, while simultaneously agreeing on some deeper inherent truths. But keeping that in mind, co-authoring may work out kinda like Rustin Cohle and Marty Hart worked out in True Detective - in the end. Question is, what kind of journey are you up for. And where am I.

Drop me a line, the email is on my website orion3.space
A pocket calculator, lambdatalk vs. Python
Give me access to yours and your childrens' phones, I suspect that you or one of them may be a pedophile. Don't want to? Too bad, here is the law that says that I can get it all anyway. Don't worry, I'm a good programmer, I won't see it myself, I'll let one of my algorithms do it for me (I can't tell you how it works though, since you may use that information to hide something from me)! I pinky promise that neither I nor the other strangers viewing your or your childrens photos are pedophiles!

Is that the world you want to live in?

Why should everyone suddenly have to trust the discretion of complete strangers?
Put it this way. The German leadership is corrupt, their populace are naive green zealots, and Trump is a random number generator. Why is it that of these three facts youre fixated on the last one? There's lot of random number generators out there.
What do you mean "flagged as criminal"? In EU we have the principle of innocent until proven guilty. No-one is criminal unless they have been through the process of justice.

The scenario you are describing just isn't going to happen.

I'm glad that the EU are proposing sensible and proportionate solutions to the thorny issue of paedophiles concealing their depraved activities online. The privacy activists have cried wolf for so long on this one, I think people just aren't buying their arguments any more.
If it has the heavy power-supply, consider replacing or repairing it. It fails over time by increasing the 5V rail until some chip or other fries in the C64.
Can't the authorities do what they've always done since time immemorial: monitor these activities from afar (without needing to know specifically what was said), and plant people in these organizations.

Compromising everyone's security to target a few seems backwards.
Seems to be an unsolved problem to train the algorithms for recognizing different situations. One recommendation for all roles the user has. Though, thinking about, it's probably unsolvable as long as the interfaces remain simple and focused on satisfying only the one user, not the different roles, which would complicated the interfaces.
Actually 10% false positive rate is not that bad if the system really has a 90% chance of detecting child abuse. Keep in mind that it only raises a flag, it doesn't automatically results in a false conviction.

I don't have the numbers but I think that during an investigation, way more than 10% of suspects did nothing wrong. In fact, some people estimate that 10% of convictions are wrong (though I think that's an overestimate). A 90% effective system may actually end up preventing false arrests, search warrants, etc... a win for privacy!

The real concern is the potential for abuse, not that 90% bar that is, I think, completely reasonable.
VPN + using services in a country that doesn't care is enough. This will be a sales point for VPN providers.
Frankly, if you have to ask, just use a (system) CSPRNG.

People massively overblow the impact of the speed difference for most scenarios.
Yes, A simulation running on a large scale etc. will probably need a statistically good RNG w/o any security properties but (say) a game generating a seed occasionally will not be bottlenecked by using a CSPRNG. I would say it is worth it just to not have any mental load and slightest change of misuse.

Also, if the salt part is for salting and hashing passwords, forget about the whole idea and use a proper password hash be it Argon2id, scrypt, PBKDF2, whatever. It doesn't really matter which one and ideally a library should have chosen one of the algorithms with good parameters and nonce generation.

(I know Argon2 calls its nonce a salt too but that is irrelevant. It should come from a CSPRNG)
> It specifically prohibits discrimination and welcomes people from other nations, both of which the average German does not actually like

That’s an absolutely wild claim and I’d like to know where you got this impression from.
Something that I would find useful along these lines is: how does a team with a legacy codebase which may not be nice for human in many places pay down the tech debt?

Most companies have tightly couple code, only partial test coverage and slow build times (builds bloat until the pain is too painful and it is reigned in but that is too far)

There is a technical and a social aspect to this. Telling the boss we will ship fewer features etc. as we are doing stuff for future maintainers and better on boarding.
Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies
Are you saying the OP's observation is not true?

Otherwise, I am not sure how your comment is relevant.
That being said, for scraping purposes, you can almost always build the scraper with HTTP requests only. Sometimes it might be hard but theoretically it is always possible (it is what the browser itself does right).
Coach robbery has reduced dramatically though, after inventing the internet.
Whatsapp seems to be best, they have end to end encryption for every chat. As long as you don't use an Iphone (where your phone itself can turn against you[1]), you will be fine.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
This reminds me of a program I wrote whose entire input comes from a blockchain. Everything that the program does is in response to some complex sequences of events which occurred on a blockchain.

This means that my program is deterministic since I can replay any part of the blockchain history and it will produce exactly the same results/output on each run. If a bug happens, I can replay the bug as many times as I like, exactly as it happened until I understood the cause of the issue and fixed the code - I can even go back and re-process the entire blockchain history to make sure that the new code changes didn't break any previously supported functionality.

That makes for a great debugging experience, I'm almost hoping that my project will hit a bug so that I can have fun debugging it. I only had to debug it once in the last 12 months because of a usability/UX issue.

This approach of writing deterministic code seems to produce much more robust code too. It requires a fair amount of work to weed out non-determinism from the code though (I.e. async logic running in parallel is the main challenge).
Rather a lot of them were young and naive left-wing supporters who looked at USSR through rose glasses.

Wouldn't you want to be bureaucrat in late USSR? No threat of purges above you, only endless opportunity to play with your minions as you see fit.
They might want to add some motivation for this, I have no clue why they are obsessing over how copying works, aren't there more important things to focus on?
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> Dell has decided to put a capacitive escape key

Not only that - the touchbar is dynamic and adapts to the program that has the focus. This is a set of almost fixed-function spots. This is beyond stupid.
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However, I hardly doubt that they will actually adapt their recall to actually ensure a 90% precision based on court evaluation. I think this is all handwaving and throwing around numbers which as described won't be part of any legal act.
It offers the benefits of bitcoin (as a money transfer mechanism) without it's downsides.

For example it reduces the costs of international transfers as well as the ease of doing them. Swift transfers are not fun and easy to get wrong and fairly expensive.

And with Bitcoin you'd end up with the currency exchange twice and then the gas or transfer fees.

Also payment in bitcoin fluctuates so you'd have to write the invoices in BTC, which is not that useful. But companies writing invoices in USD are common enough.
Caveat: Once the contract has been modified for your specific case, all ambiguous clauses (and there are many that laymen cannot identify as ambiguous) are no longer considered unfavourable towards the employer by default. This is because that one simple change renders the contract as longer being a Standard Form Contract.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract
Yes that sounds fine to me. We have specially trained police in this category of crimes, for good reason. I trust them to investigate fairly and proportionately.

If we cast aside the hyperbole and look at the actual details of what is being proposed in this regulation, it's clear they're taking a decent and reasonable approach here.
So 10% of Google accounts are now banned?

https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/google-bans-dad-for-sending-pi...
Thanks for taking time to share your experience!

I'm using Firefox Focus on Android over cellular internet in the US.

IIRC I may have fat fingered an invalid password once.

Motivation to grab the auth cookie for future-proofing, I guess.
This is detailed pretty will in the book Scarcity, which highlights similar psychological effects among people who have not enough money, not enought time, not enough prestige, not enough room for caloric intake (dieters), etc.

I wish this book were more popular.
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I get a 2.86% percentage point decrease in work year on year, or a 2.95% increase in productivity. Seems okay either way.
>Conservatives see it as the state taking over corporations.

But this is false. Corporations are and always will be exclusively answerable to their shareholders. Whereas the state can have any loyalty depending on who is controlling it
Silly fear of communism/socialism? :) Why would we be afraid of the thing that messed up with us for 50 years? :) It's funny when Westerners who have no practical experience talk down to us how we should throw away our practical experience...
This ends up being quite a hairy conversation, normally.
Even 1% false positive rate would be beyond ridiculous and completely unusable.
Have you ever seen a poll of a European country where people wanted more immigration (from the 3rd world)?
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Thanks.

I'm a brit, and can't get fresh chillies from the USA or Mexico. I have a stash of dried Mexican chillies, and I can buy fresh chillies from the Netherlands, but they don't say what the variety is.

There are quite a few UK growers that produce fresh chillies, but they're usually Habanero, Ghost or Reaper; they mainly sell them bulk to makers of hot sauce, not retail. And some middle-eastern shops sell ultra-mild large green fresh chillies, that I think are used in shawarma wraps and greek salads. They have no heat at all.
> Does someone have recommendations for US based E-Mail providers which are reliable and "not free"?

Buy a refurbished server rack and mount it anywhere in US, install and configure email software with everything else that you need.

> The situation changes somewhat if you pay with money for service instead with data

Yeah, now company is profiting not only from your data, but from your bank account aswell, that's the difference.
You sure you want to deprive anybody who has ever been allocated the tag "criminal" the right to private communications? You might want to think long and hard about the members of that class, and what fate they are subject to when they are laid bound at the feet of their prosecutors in the state, who were also the party responsible for defining who they are, sometimes for no offense more complex or voluntary than being born.

And then if that still doesn't dissuade you, you want to think again even from a position of pure self interest, because you are very likely technically a criminal yourself. (https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...)

Be very, very careful about handing power to the state, there's a reason they're the largest cause of non natural death in the past century, and it's not their innate benevolence.
Books about the internet, for sale (only) by email/phone/mail order, brilliant.
U.N. Faces Record Humanitarian Aid Shortfall – But Not for Ukrainians
They learned from Apple. Then they shut up and implemented the idea.

But people are still happy to use their products and, in the end, that's what it counts.
The problem is this project already in pipeline for a good decade :)

As the old drunktard Juncker said... We'll keep pushing unpopular solutions over and over again till it slips through once. And then nobody can get rid of it :)
> The mothers and fathers of the German Grundgesetz (~ constitution) learned that the hard way

repetita iuvant: secrecy is not privacy.

encryption makes conversation private but not totally secret, WhatsApp knows if I write to the person named "dentist" on my address book only when the phone number connected to "wife" is out of town.

Or if I dial the number of a tow truck service at 4 am after my phone has been for hours inside a club and my CC was used to pay for half a dozen alcoholic drinks.

that's more than enough to imply what everyone is implying by reading this.

no need to know the content.

on that matter cheating was easier and safer before encryption was a common thing, nobody actually listened to our calls, and we did not leave around clues strong enough to rebuild our entire life in exchange for a messaging platform.

Secondly, that article clearly states, as any other deliberation of the EU, that the law can override the right to secrecy and that's what happens all the time: the authorities ask the permission to a judge that can grant it or deny it.

It's not like the CIA that breaks your SSL certs and wiretaps on your communications without asking anyone if they can or cannot.
Criticism is detrimental to the originator if it is not valid. My reminder was pointing out the invalidity of the "criticism". It is not a criticism to point out totally normal behaviour of a company. It is like saying "American Airlines kicked out two people not following the crew's instructions from their flight, even though they had paid for tickets!".

It's their company, their plane, their website, their platform. Obey the rules or GTFO.
You made a claim that patents are blocking progress in the display industry. When I asked you for evidence of that, you've become hostile and turned the thread into an unproductive interaction. That's my genuine observation of this thread.
That's scary. Where to even begin to convince them?
Think they’re using a monorepo?
1. the vote buyer can lock the eID in the vault until the end of the elections

2. the vote seller can be paid only after the end of the elections, given s/he didn't voted on paper (it it all possible to authenticate wuthout eID on the voting station).
Anecdotal experience, torturing preferred conclusions out of the data.

Potato, potahto
That is a broader consumer rights issue which, I agree, the EU should do something about too.

But adding a clause to this regulation would not solve that wider problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_chile

For better or worse it's more common than salt here; they are being roasted to make everything.
No. I have Bitwarden for that and prefer all the speed/indexing features I can get instead. If there are NO compromises, then of course encrypted notes are interesting.
That unfortunately doesn't solve it. There will always be moments where kids will want to ask for songs on your Spotify, like you're renting a car and have your phone hooked up.
Venture debt marketplace 8vdx to offer cross-border loans to startups
debt marketplace 8vdx is expanding operations to international markets like Singapore, the United Kingdom and Australia as demand for debt financing, especially in local currency, soars across the globe amid a “funding winter”.

The company aims to offer cross-border venture debt to startups through local entities in the new geographies.

“Startups are having trouble raising funding in the present economic climate due to the funding winter. This move will play a critical role in delivering founder-friendly finance,” founder Ravi Chachra told Moneycontrol.

Startups can easily obtain venture loans through an intuitive interface and choose to repay in their local currency including the British pound, the Singapore dollar and the Australian dollar, Chachra said.

To begin with, 8vdx plans to disburse around $1 million in cross-border venture debt to high-growth early-stage startups to bridge their Series A or Series B round of funding.

Founded in 2021 by Chachra and Vijay Lavhale, 8vdx was part of Y-Combinator's winter 2022 batch. Y-Combinator is Silicon Valley's prominent incubator and startup fund.

To offer debt in founder-friendly terms, 8vdX has the option of turning the debt into equity in case a startup is unable to pay the loan or continues to be a lender, therefore it does not seek personal guarantees from the founders or force startups to file for bankruptcy.

“We aim to offer cross-border venture debt solution to the startups in these countries so that the founders can spend more time on their businesses and less time on chasing small ticket investors. Startups do not require the flip process in order to raise cash,” Chachra said.

8vdX chooses startups for underwriting and funding approval using data-driven underwriting techniques that are driven by their KPIs' and growth metrics.

It has funded more than 20 early-stage startups, including three from India and four from Africa, since its inception, the company said.

The lender claims to have assets under management of US $10 million and is growing at the rate of 25 percent per week.

“By 2024, 8vdx aims to fund 100 startups in these countries with an AUM of $200 million…we invested in 21 companies but already signed up 3 companies through this cross-border financing,” Chachra said.

Lavhale said there are some regulatory barriers to offering cross-border debt like lending regulations, licensing issues, forex-related rules, which differ from country to country.

“Offshore debt is complicated, you need dedicated experts to handle this. The government and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently came up with this framework of lending to startups offshore through convertible notes…so we need experts and experience to know the nuances,” he said.

The lender recently launched a $75 million fund through which the cross-border debt will be offered, Chachra said.

8vdx in May raised $3 million in a seed round from Y Combinator along with GMO Venture Partners, Zillionize, Cathexis, Grant Park, Asymmetry Ventures, Earlsfield Capital Partners and Fox Ventures
Someone should ask the guy to publish on a blog and link his twitter to it.
> EU Commission wants to implement surveillance in Chat applications to "protect and combat sexual abuse of minors", because nobody is against "combating sexual abuse of minors", right?

> Sounds like the a lot of "paranoid people" were just right, i guess?

Yes they were. The privacy activists are yet to realise that they have lost the battle decades ago.

It is that dire that you have companies and governments pretending to care about privacy but it is always about mass surveillance in the end.
My personal guess would be that some manager successfully "reduced costs" and got a big promotion and bonus payments by outsourcing all of the development to the cheapest company they could find, meaning it was likely outsourced to college graduates with no practical experience somewhere in India.

Plus most low-level hardware components are built in China and nowadays also designed in China, so most likely the hardware design shop in Shenzhen sent them a firmware example with Chinese documentation.

But management and oversight is in Seoul, South Korea. Thanks to that 3-way language barrier, I'm pretty sure the supervisor on this project had no actual clue as to what the hardware and software were doing. But he didn't need to. The most important aspect of his job was to keep his mouth shut and not delay production roll-out.

In my imaginary set-up, is there any actor who has any incentive to produce a secure solution? I don't see one. I believe for everyone involved, the illusion of security was "good enough". So here we area with "good enough" in production.
It's never about the children.
Ah yes, the "Trump says everything and anything" argument, second only to the "Even a broken clock is right twice a day" perennial. You will be surely able to list the many times in which Trump advocated for

* less German/European NATO spending

* greater German/European dependence on Russian gas

?

Let me repeat:

>Trump was right and the Germans were wrong on the biggest German crisis of the past 75 years
Ah, another service that would benefit from being behind a CDN.
Murphy's Law covers it in a way, but I was thinking of something more specific to this exact case.

I think I will start calling it Pontificator's Law. Let's see if it sticks.