skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, I don't believe you at all because this pattern has happened before: insiders claim that surveillance is responsible for preventing tons of harm, but when those claims are closely examined (even by other aspects of government) a whole lot of nothing is found.

https://www.propublica.org/article/whats-the-evidence-mass-s...

> In 2013, the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies analyzed terrorism cases from 2001 on, and determined that the NSA’s bulk collection of phone records “was not essential to preventing attacks.”

> The NSA has publicly discussed four cases, and just one in which surveillance made a significant difference. That case involved a San Diego taxi driver named Basaaly Moalin, who sent $8,500 to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab. But even the details of that case are murky. From the Washington Post:

> In 2009, an FBI field intelligence group assessed that Moalin’s support for al-Shabab was not ideological. Rather, according to an FBI document provided to his defense team, Moalin probably sent money to an al-Shabab leader out of “tribal affiliation” and to “promote his own status” with tribal elders.

It's been long enough that if this shit actually worked, there'd be plenty of success stories that could be disclosed without harming confidential interests. They'd be trumpeting them to the heavens to attempt to justify reauthorization. Instead, we get taxi driver man and a whole lot of "just trust us".

I do acknowledge that ProPublica article is dated, but AFAIK no counterexamples have emerged since - which is kind of the whole problem.
> custom roms cannot pass hardware attestation.

So this is going to be the interesting question, because obviously they can, they just have to extract the keys from something first. Devices are made by all kinds of vendors and it only takes one vulnerability before you have a market for keys. There are <$200 phones, those cheap phones are more likely to have a vulnerability, and when one of them gets a cracked screen the market value drops to near-zero which makes it cheap to buy one to extract the key.

Which is also why remote attestation is totally worthless. An attacker can do the same thing, so relying on the attestation is completely insecure because in practice anyone with a couple bucks will be able to spoof it.

But if extracting a key is mildly inconvenient or legally questionable, it will be enough to deter honest casual users but not profit-motivated attackers, and you get the worst of both worlds.

So we need to do everything to make sure that doesn't happen. One way is to make extracting keys as easy as possible, of course.

Another is to make sure that everybody understands the perversity of this nonsense. It's snake oil the likes of export-grade encryption or EV certificates. Anyone caught using it should be mocked mercilessly and added to a list of disfavored vendors with uninformed security staff. Anything in a position to do so should warn if anything attempts to use it, or disable it to make it more difficult for anything else to rely on its availability. Warnings should emphasize that using it is a security risk that can enable hard to detect malware and is an indication of malice or incompetence.

It needs to go away.
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This. I use Tiny11 for this reason. The UI is still super inconsistent, but otherwise it’s fine. Mac bothered me by likewise becoming inconsistent, but also soldering everything so the machine is bricked when an SSD or battery dies. In the Linux world the UI has never been consistent, but what really bothers me is that everything is constantly changing unless one uses enterprise Linux, but then I don’t get hardware support so… Winders it is.
Even then you are yellow booting and that is another security issue.

What dumbphones you looking at? Everything retail I am seeing is a stripped down version of Android.
A bystander reported that a firefighter said the Cruise car lurched forward, if that's true then definitely the Cruise's fault.
"They say that old content does actually affect a site in terms of it’s average ranking" -- We didn't say this. We said the exact opposite.
It doesn't help with being stranded on any normal car. Better off walking.
Yeah, a lot of love went into this. Could be made into a book, i would buy.
> people are just rightfully exercising their right not to be associated with him.

No, they are harassing a person who is exercising their right to associate with whomever they want.

To associate with, that is the part that matters. Not "to be associated with", which is what people in a mob think is what matters, even though it does not, certainly not enough to give them license.
They say they support typing but I was weary as soon as they had a class field which defined actions. Python severely disappoints in its type system when compared to flow or typescript which are turning complete.
I only have the perspective from the edges of the organization, and from years ago, but I can’t recall investigating anything other than support tickets that came from account representatives. So you probably need a paid account. That said, these are as little as $1.99/month.

I am certain that if you have a case that reproduces even one in a million times the relevant teams will be highly attentive.
I'm sure that'll work well in a polytheistic world. Oh wait, we've already tried that.
Both the Soviet apparatchiks running the gulags sincerely believed they were acting for the greater good. The same goes for the torturers at Guantanamo. Idealism doesn't preclude evil.
I've never felt quite that comfortable that I'd ask. Our token black family is a pair of lawyers who seem plenty affluent and comfortable, and they certainly socialize with the rest of the neighborhood as much as anyone else. Are they consciously aware of their minority status? I imagine so. I feel the same way when I'm the only white person in a black neighborhood. It's a pretty laid back neighborhood, and I've seen zero indication that anyone here is racist.

But this is the PNW, and while our history is far from crystal clean, we mostly don't have anything like the tension that is normal in areas of the country farther south.
Because the team is absurdly talented. Dan once wrote his own Node debugger for emacs, and some features were way nicer than even Chrome devtools provides today.

https://github.com/gruseom/numen

There are also very few moving parts. In arc you have access to the entire stack from http request to http response, at the raw text level. The goal is simply to generate the text as quickly as possible. And racket turned out to be a good long term bet; people underestimate how optimized it is.
Start moving toward public transit? Public transit is not some new discovery that’s been put on hold because of self-driving attempts.

You say this as if it’s cheap or easy to make any kind of significant public transit improvement in an already established city.
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In my view DNA privacy is already defeated, enough people have already submitted that the intersection of distant relatives really narrows down who a given sample could be. When I submitted my own I had a long list of distant relatives on both sides come up and I suspect that is pretty typical for Europeans.
You don’t remember MapQuest?
Breadth is learned overtime in subsequent projects.
I agree. I think it’s just laziness or being asked to square a circle. During the post-9/11 period there was immense political will and pressure to stop terrorism, and it’s really fucking hard to stop that while abiding by the constitution, so they chose to break the constitution to stop terrorism.

Is it theoretically possible to stop terrorism/catch and guys to the same extent without breaking the constitution? I think so, but it would probably require a lot more boots on the ground, and a lot of creativity and smart thinking from individuals to be able to get as good outcomes as you’d get from just looking at data when you aren’t supposed to.
One of those talk pages that makes you appreciate the thicket of bureaucratic brambles standing between the angry and the consensus version of Wikipedia pages on controversial topics. It's not perfect, but it's clearly better than nothing.
Have you had much experience with trains? Would replacing flights with trains alleviate your dread (if somehow the world is connected with trains)?
That won't happen until Americans can get past the 'Bigger is Better' mindset.

In most of the world, small nippy sporty cars are more desirable than lumbering 'Yank Tanks'.

That's the difference between https://carsales.pxcrush.net/carsales//cars/private/at3q087e... and this https://www.speednik.com/files/2023/04/that-was-then-this-is...
Great point, the feeling of community has slowly faded from many parts of the country. Not all, of course. Hard to do it completely. But the loss of "third places" -- places you can exist with others in a non-vocational or business context -- is probably a big part of it.

Many places still sort of exist through stuff like farmer's markets, some clubs, libraries, swap meets, etc, but they seem less generalized for socializing.

I haven't met with my neighbors or sat down to chat with them. It does feel kind of alien and, dare I say it, rude to intrude on someone's life that way. Maybe it's not really an intrusion, and an atmosphere of fear and distrust has trained us to separate. I remember my parents meeting people and scheduling times to hang out all the time. Children from different families would mingle while the adults mingled, everyone got some dose of community.

I couldn't tell you where programming hobbyists meet up in my area. I might have to go up to Tacoma before I find any no-or-low-cost hacker groups. But, don't many communities also have common places they go routinely? I'm thinking gaming and TTRPG, TCG shops might be a good start to build a third place, despite being a business themselves.
Calvin & Hobbes man thats all you need. No better example of the
smallest of dots and sqiggles having magical effects on people. Bill Watersom didnt go to a fine arts school. He just found Beauty in the simplest of things.
That's what they want you to think. KAL007 didn't down itself. They have/had military posts out there (and on Kamchatka).
It was a risk free venture.
This recumbent electric bike [1] with solar panels as roof takes 11.8Wh/km (plus human pedaling) to go at a speed of 26.5 km/h. So, one hour of biking, covering 26.5 km will consume 312 Wh. So within optimization distance, you can perpetually run this bike on clear sunny days on the Sun's power alone.

So, yeah, solar panels on vehicle works as a concept for for bikes, not for cars.

[1] https://www.recumbent.news/2021/05/23/the-ultimate-tilting-s...
Can you really separate the two? For something like NP-completeness, I'm having trouble conceptualizing how a proof for existence would not require demonstration.
From a sales point of view though, if your operating system can run one of the most popular games at the time, it means people won't just keep using the existing one.

It had to be a step forward, not a step back. I mean I don't know what you're using at the moment, but if your favorite application didn't work on the next version, would you upgrade?

This is why Apple spent so much on Rosetta, first when going from PowerPC or whatever to x86/64, then from that to ARM / M1, while in the meantime building a developer and application ecosystem that allows for easier transition between CPU architectures and environments.
> In my country, Sweden, such actions at a state-funded institute fall under the umbrella of “kränkande särbehandling” (victimization) and are unlawful.

Does this mean that Sweden is a good place for people who are, like the author, critical of the wokeness and "cancel culture"? I used to think they're the ones setting the trend there. I don't understand anything now.
There are people whose main job it is to shoot feral cats on San Clemente island in the USA, too, to protect the native shrikes and other birds.
There used to be a lot of goats there, too, and many were airlifted off rather than killed on the island, due to public outcry (how many of those complaining were willing to adopt feral goats, I wonder?).
Cats are wonderfully interesting creatures, and also dreadfully ferocious slaughter-bots of the local songbirds around my house. I would rather have the birds and a few more rodents. Please keep your cat(s) inside, take them outside on a leash, or don't adopt them in the first place.
Is that kind of the Star Trek universe?
Consider what drawing means to you, or what style really is important.

Sketching is very much vibrant, alive, well and creative. With many, many books dedicated to that direction.

Life drawing same things.

Which "drawing" direction attracts you?

This is pushing it a bit but there are lists like:

https://webneel.com/different-types-of-drawing-styles-techni...

https://finearttutorials.com/guide/drawing-styles

A more likely approach is to consider which artists you like and what they do. If it is perspective in travel sketches that interests you, then don't waste time on classical anatomy.
I knew there was another one: flakka. Totally a moral panic
Zero days exist almost every day and there there’s nothing you can do about it. So make sure that what they steal if they do steal anything is a bunch of encrypted envelopes instead of raw pictures.
Read The White Plague by Frank Herbert. Scared the heck out of me as a teen. Considering how humanity still hasn't escaped tribalism even after two hundred millennia, just the thought of genealogically targeted viruses are a wonderful thought.
A solution that was rarely implemented was batch keys, where your secrets installed by the OEM were diversified somehow so when attackers eventually extracted your TPM secrets from one device, it would not compromise all devices. It still has a terrible and unacceptable failure mode when peoples lives depend on it, but for infrastructure, I think the risk is more managable.
> Well, you could listen on a socket for subscribers ...
> (Basically a decentralized approach vs a centralized approach)

But who is going to listen on that socket for subscribers? When there's no owner of the resource, just some programs may want to send to it, and some may want to listen to it, you need someone to own all of that; and that's dbus, as I understand it.

> Yes, and what I find mysterious is that dbus was conceived by the freedesktop.org project. How could they have missed this important requirement?

My personal impression is that the freedesktop people have effectively abandoned network computing as X11 used to provide. Clearly, I haven't stepped up to do the work either, but both the single host / multiple user and single user / multiple host use cases are at best neglected, if not abandoned. It used to be feasible and useful to run a host with multiple X servers for multiple simultaneous users, and those sessions may have had a mix of local and remote X clients; but for various reasons, that doesn't work so well anymore.

Some of the lack of support is because addressing the full scope of everything is actually pretty hard. If you run networkmanager over remote X, which network is it expected to manage? If you have multiple users on a single machine with bluetooth and someone sends a file to the host, which user gets a notification?

That said, I think for many things where dbus fits, there's a connection to a graphical user session, and so IMHO, it would fit to coordinate in a way that all participants in the session could use, which for me would be through the X server (which already allows for communication between clients). And for things where it's really a connection to the host hardware, that should probably be through the host filesystem. And so some applications might need to connect to a message bus in both ways, and maybe sometimes tunneling --- an application may legitimately need to contact a system daemon on the host that controls the user's keyboard, but that might not be possible through X, or the host filesystem where the application is running. But that's super complex and weird, so it goes into the later pile, never to be solved.
I've found Rectangle to be a good substitute / in-place replacement.
Ok, we'll change the URL to that from https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mister-rogers-had-a-point-ro..., which points to this and seems a little spammy.

I guess we'll keep its title though because the top comment ("Mr. Rogers was my actual neighbor") won't make sense without it.
This is nonsense. This isn't about idiomatic Go or not, there is only one way to do things in Go, so a function doing things in that one way doesn't communicate anything to the caller. If you try to open a file, and the file doesn't exist, you have to return a useless nil pointer alongside the error and there is no way to magic up a "useful" T. Usually err != nil means T == nil, so trying to blindly use T assuming it's "useful" will panic and crash your program.

The idiomatic Go way to work around this is to write comments saying "sometimes T is non-nil even if err is non-nil, you need to handle this" and hoping your callers read your comments.

Funnily enough, your philosophy is far more true in a language with proper sum types. In Haskell/Ocaml/Rust, returning a tuple of (T, error) does mean that both T and error should both be "useful", because if they weren't the function would have chosen to return one or the other but not both. You're reading meaning into Go code where meaning can't be present, because there's no choice to be made, and ignoring languages where you actually can have the semantics you want Go to have.
I hear that a lot. And I always ask the same thing in return: Show me a riff, within the context of a song, that you came up with entirely on your own, and demonstrates the benefits you have obtained by not being held back by learning music theory.

They always play a variation of something you can trace back to one of their favourite songs. A blind copy. No doubt by someone who actually does understand the theory.

So, "theory holds you back" should be followed by "from copying your heroes and knowing why they make the musical choices they make."
Yeah we will be opensourcing this in the coming week. Happy to answer questions. Feel free to join our Slack we can discuss this there or shoot me an email at harshith[@]poozle.dev
I assure you, this isn’t the reason. And I’m saying that as someone who once put all their effort into maintaining a clone of HN, mostly out of curiosity.

HN is the most responsive message board in the world. And by responsive I mean you feel the effect of upvotes and downvotes instantly. There is caching, but almost none of it is at the expense of the feel of the site. This is unlike Reddit, where although votes do have a quick effect, the algorithm is much simpler and less sensitive to sudden shifts in public opinion. On HN you can win and lose debates in a matter of minutes, and it’s thanks to the responsiveness that large websites seem not to have.
I’d love to see a similar analysis for non-founders. I.e., the other N-2 people at the startup. Like, how many hundred-millions or even billions will exit have to be before you get $500k as the Nth employee of a typical Series A/B/C/D?
> Idealism doesn't preclude evil.

Unchallenged idealism is the root of many evils. If you are convinced of your own righteousness, its very easy to “ends justify the means” almost anything. Its the danger of even a well-motivated person ending up with a cultivation or otherwise in an ideological echo chamber.
technical skill matters, and using that technique skillfully for realist interpretations is one of the easier bridges for neophytes to understand the technique

abstract interpretation within the confines of a particular medium is harder to appreciate if you haven't seen manifestations you can readily understand
The keys would just be revoked and the cheap phones you got the keys from would no longer pass attestation either.
The American south has a very distinct attitude towards guests. Very hospitable. That’s the difference in his case.
Very much so! Another artist who couldn't draw :-)

If playing at home: Picasso learned some classical drawing, and could do it, and moved on from it by age 12 or something (I kid. By a year or two.) Watterson, erm, less so - and it turns out did very well with a different kind of expression.
There is a difference that I can see in the work of artists who have spent time learning to draw, and those that haven't. I can't explain it, but I can see it.

I think it's because classical drawing teaches you some basic perceptual skills that are very hard to pick up any other way. It gets you out of your head and gets you to see what's actually there, not what you think is there. It's kind of a subtle difference, but it's important.

Not learning to perceive things in that manner is a big handicap for many artists. They don't even need to produce work in a classic or representational style. But it's still aparent if they are lacking those skills.

Another thing is that drawing, via rough sketches and prep work, provides a way to work out the bugs in your finished work. It provides a way to actually think out what you're doing, in the same way that writing about something is actually thinking about it [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36560254
Well, the organizations that employ and empower them would be a good place to start.
The etymological history of the group name is interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_(computing)

The term wheel was first applied to computer user privilege levels after the introduction of the TENEX operating system, later distributed under the name TOPS-20 in the 1960s and early 1970s. The term was derived from the slang phrase big wheel, referring to a person with great power or influence.

In the 1980s, the term was imported into Unix culture due to the migration of operating system developers and users from TENEX/TOPS-20 to Unix.
He doesn't have the right to plead the 5th to avoid testifying against anyone but himself or his spouse, so his attempts to plead the 5th were just nonsense. Making an issue now seems to me like the "justice" connected criminals he was protecting by his contempt are somehow more worthy of rights than everyone they have used this tool on.
people make games have a deep dive on the subject and boy howdy is it a mess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGIGA8taN-M
For your definition of "art", most likely yes.
In Norway, Latvia, Belgium and probably others, the card is issued by the government. So there is no cost to the bank to re-issue a lost card.
HN is usable without JS, but is served with JS scripts by default.
I gave it a cold, I gave it a virus, a computer virus. (Independance Day, 1996)
Yes, proofs don't have to be constructive.

Consider proofs by contradiction, you could potentially show that if such an algorithm does not exist some important true statement would be rendered false.
For orphaned devices, this is impossible, because Apple has already decided to abandon them. I think they can be still be useful for non-critical information browsing within a closed network of safe websites.

I think the accessibility necessity of supporting older devices is often underrated severely, while the need for security is overstated. New, currently supported devices people use day-to-day are also exploitable.
Super ironic:

"If you’re doing something you wouldn’t want blasted on the front page of the
New York Times, Moore said, you should probably rethink what you’re doing."

Then proceeds to deliberately search the DNA of people who explicitly opted out of sharing genetic information with police.
Actually Griffin's COTS government contract was awarded in 2005 (with half money up front), three years before Thiel first invested.
Sure. There is definitely a googolth digit of pi. Computing what the digit is, however, is not necessary to prove that such a digit exists.