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Publications - Books

"Cryptography, Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Number Theory" (Kyoritsu-Shuppan, 1995)
"Cryptography" (Sangyo-Tosho, 1997)
"Cryptography and Information Security" (Nikkei-BP, 1998)
"Information Security" (Denki-Tsushin-Kyokai, 2000)
Japanese translation of "Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Psudorandomness (O.Goldreich)" (Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, 2001)
Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (Kyoritsu-Shuppan, 2011)
Quantum Computation (Kindai-Kagaku-Sha, 2015)
Advent and Advance of Modern Cryptography (Kindai-Kagaku-Sha, 2019)

Well then, that's actually quite a replete amount of work. I'm impressed! He's been working for NTT for more than 40 years, here's an interview with him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D863zphRoqE

I dunno this all feels like someone mixing up names in a language they don't understand. Satoshi OKAmoto and Satoshi NAKAmoto are way different names. Japanese just happens to have a lot of homophones and there's even multiple different possible meanings for the family names Okamoto and Nakamoto - I've linked the one this specific person has based on his wikipedia page in Japanese [1] [2] [3]. It's also the name of a brand of my favorite condoms that feel like they came from the future, are like one micron thick, and are lubricated with hyaluronic acid if you're wondering how crazy the homophony goes with this one. [4] Reminds me of that time newsweek completely fucked with that random dude in California with the same name as the bitcoin nym for a while.

[1] https://tangorin.com/kanji?search=%E5%B2%A1%E6%9C%AC%E8%81%A...

[2] https://tangorin.com/words?search=nakamoto

[3] https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A1%E6%9C%AC%E8%81%A1

[4] https://www.okamoto-inc.jp/
Not saying I fully buy it but I think the fans’ point is that what Disney is doing to Star Wars today is diminishing the entirety of Star Wars, the average of past + present. Every new Transformers or Indiana Jones or Ice Age makes the overall work worse, regardless of whether you even see it.
So glad it's back! Can't understand why they didn't at least have an "equal size" option to keep them all from being different sizes based on the window title.
that artists pay a license fee to learn from other artists work. it’s an utterly ridiculous argument.
That's Okamoto of MOV attack fame, among other things.
> impossible to see the missing half of the bridge

If you can't see the road ahead as far as your stopping distance, you are negligent. If you are not watching the road ahead, you are negligent.
How is capitalism the problem?

Go back to the 70’s before regulation when the government enforced minimum fares.

Air travel has gotten much cheaper and far more accessible to lower income people.

That sounds like a win for deregulation.
These politicians couldn't care less about children, they're just the perfect political weapon to make the population accept never-ending amounts of tyranny. They say "children" and the next thing you know they are surveilling and policing your literal thoughts and speech. For your own good, of course!
Well. Either way it’s been an epic lols
> a well-defined subset of XML

No. You need to define what configuration files are valid or not, but a subset of XML on the basis of syntactic and structural alternatives is lame and nonstandard.

Get a library that parses actual XML, allow anything reasonable as input (for example, no external entities, DTDs, PSVI etc. to keep the file self contained) and "flatten" CDATA sections, entities, namespace prefixes, idrefs etc.
Disagree. Reading monospaced prose sucks big time. For those of us with a little bit of vision deficiency the vary character widths are helpful.

Also, the reduced character width (as a monospaced font inevitable has to be spaced at what the widest chatacters, such as w, require, means that you have to use a smaller font size to get the same amount of info per scroll/line/page whatever, again compromising readability.

Here's a comparison between the posted site, and the same site with the font size bumped up 4px, proportional (just browser default, I didn't cherry pick) and the ridiculously wide line spacing reduced.

Even with all that, the easier to read version is quite a bit more compact. Could likely bump the font size 2 more px and still be smaller.

https://i.imgur.com/DBFI2RU.png
Exactly. Think of it like a friend pitching you a new book idea or coming up with one on the spot. Selling the work is what should be infringement.
Does anyone have a translation of the post/picture?

The X translation seems to be failing.
I noticed that too and was wondering about it, then I saw this quote:

Critics say the reality is that this risks children from minority ethnic or poorer backgrounds being profiled as being involved in gangs or county lines operations.

So the fear seems to stem from this.
Love the concept of prompt velocity. Although it doesn't capture the initial quality of the prompt or whether the changes are effective.
Was, not is. And "banks", not "bank".

The banks either did this themselves or had a company that did it for them. They physically flew checks to the city of the bank they were written on, because flying the plane was cheaper than one day's interest on a billion dollars worth of checks.

This stopped, IIRC, back in the 1990s, once electronic settlement got fast enough.
Speaking of red flags:

>Staff using the app have told the criminal justice campaign charity Fair Trials that they keep it secret from parents and carers, and admitted many would be concerned about it if they knew of it.

The other red flag is exactly zero examples of how using this data allowed anyone to "safeguard" at-risk youth or to "act quickly" to intervene.

It's profiling, plain and simple. Despite best intentions, it will definitely enable bias (unconscious or not) to be a factor in how children and their families/caregivers are treated.
Typically exams are 2 full professors and maybe one asst prof. That asst prof will be 3-4 years in, plus 4-5 years of grad school + often a postdoc. And that asst prof will, on average, be better than the graduate student.
Operant Conditioning for AI-Human Interaction
My wife, in collaboration with Claude, has over the past couple of days worked on this White Paper based on her idea of using Operant Conditioning - something used in dog training - to work collaboratively with AI. Her background is not technical and mostly in psychology and human behaviour.

I know I may be bias, but as someone working on looking at how we implement AI in our business this was actually just a really good and easy to read paper on the topic.
We've been trying Loops for a while and love it. Using it currently on our web design curation site (seesaw.website) and it was the easiest tool we could find to integrate.
> And you never have to touch it again, since most likely you configured it in a way you like.

That was the issue for me, there actually is quite a bit of churn in the Neovim plugins ecosystem compared to VSCode (Packer vs Lazy for plugin management is just the latest iteration). I used to have Neovim plugins all built out but the churn was too much for me.
OCI announces Postgres managed service
Sentences in all caps are much worse IMO.
There's math to show that the viability of a secret decreases rapidly as the number of people involved grows: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

The NSA couldn't even keep their data sniffing secret, the odds that they could keep the billion-dollar Bitcoin secret are not good (according to the theory above). There are more viable theories about Satoshi's identity and why/how he disappeared completely imho (eg Hal Finney). The paper and the name prove next to nothing, it's maybe a hint that one of the the creators might have had a US security clearance at some point.
The food delivery system is, frankly a bit of a patchwork rather than a national scheme now: there was a national scheme introduced during the pandemic to supply vouchers to kids that would otherwise have received school meals during school closures, and packed lunches to self isolating kids, a lot of campaigns to extend that to regular school holidays spearheaded by the unlikely figure of a professional footballer, and now a patchwork of schemes run by many local authorities covering everything from community organised lunch clubs to vouchers to packed lunch deliveries

If you want to argue it sounds like a mess and would be better as a broad social security scheme I'm not going to disagree (though limiting numbers on it does save governments money...), but either way, it's going to need names and addresses on a database to make it work.
I'm gonna respectfully disagree that it fails "at a few TB". We send them 100s of terabytes a day.
That is true, but this also comes into play:

> especially now that all the competition is minimal except on the most popular routes.

I guess airlines are betting sufficient passengers have no better option, and I would bet that too. I cannot remember the last time I got to pick an airline without heavily inconveniencing myself and wasting tons of hours with extra stops. Even a busy airport like Newark, you are basically flying United for 90% of destinations if you want to get there in the shortest amount of time with the fewest stops.
Nice opinion, too bad it's ... not money laundering.
Interesting. I found a random news article from 28th January 2022 about Australia committing 1B AUD to the reef: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/27/australia/australia-great...

I asked 3.5 and 4 “Australia somewhat recently committed a substantial sum of money to protecting the Great Barrier Reef. Do you know the sum, and what prime minister that did it?”

3.5 answered correctly, while insisting that its cutoff is 2021-09, while 4 couldn’t, while saying that its cutoff is 2022-01.
Humanity replaces all humans with AI generated beings who worship using ChatGPT
Because it's functionally a mega-downvote and it's not clear that there are any consequences for abusing it.
> what on earth is that supposed to mean?

It means that the original authors could have originally intended to write a recipe for chocolate chip cookies and somehow accidentally wrote the CDDL. That wouldn't change a thing and it wouldn't make the CDDL any better or worse since it would have exactly the same words. The intent is irrelevant, all that matters is the end result.

> ZFS could be relicenced in ten minutes if they cared.

Indeed, I hope that they do. A copyfree license like the BSD licenses would make ZFS significantly more popular and I think would have saved all the effort sunk into btrfs had it been done earlier.
I lost my father to Huntington’s Disease at a young age, and have had to live the 50% inheritance chance reality my entire life. I’ve never been tested for the disease, but I probably should be eventually. I really hope I don’t have it, and only time (or a test) will tell.
There is some fast and loose with "urban" and "rural" - most people consider New York to be Urban, Los Angeles to be Urban, and anywhere outside of the suburbs to be rural - but the census counts anything as urban that is "populated": To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to criteria must encompass at least 2,000 housing units or have a population of at least 5,000.

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

Many people would consider small towns "rural" but if the town is small enough, it can be an entirely "walkable" "urban" area - because there's a walmart, a gas station, and a hospital, all in a town that is less than a mile across.
Yes, however, by the time they fix the dictionary hack glue code as described, PCI bus transfer speeds will have increased (again).

I’m a fan of making everything 64bit from an api level, but sometimes you have to work with the right type for the architecture.
Right, but what's the risk to the financial system paulusthe was talking about above in an airline partnering with Chase and Mastercard to to offer a credit card? The lender in all cases isn't going to be the airline, right?
Yes, everyday people should use their noggins, but there are things that go beyond what those everyday people would expect and anyone who does those things can still be liable. Courts have upheld this "reasonable expectation" standard again and again and again, literally every day, and it's not hard to see why. If "use your noggin" was a foolproof defense, explicitly in the TOS or otherwise, companies literally couldn't be held liable for anything. That's clearly insane, so the line has to be drawn somewhere else and it has been drawn at reasonable expectation.
My understanding here for Elixir is that you have dynamic() as a universe U and an error set E. All functions f are from U to E + U. f is an arrow A -> B iff f[A] subset B + E. f is a strong arrow iff it is an arrow and f(U\A) subset E. I'm not sure how this connects to strength in the category theoretic sense.
> This makes it sound like there are two sides, where one side is smart and is never fooled by propaganda, and the other side is easily gulled by flashy TV effects.

I think you're reading a bit more into the comment than the author put into it.
sumologic would qualify then.
I'm sure they'll bundle it or even integrate it with AppDynamics
>but generally if you are calling into C++ in tight loops from your scripting language in a game you have already screwed up.

How do you figure? Are you saying there should be no tight loops that hit engine code, none that live in the C#/scripting lifecycle or all tight loops should be rewritten in C++?

The elephant in the room, Unity, cross compiles the C# to C++ which makes this blanket statement about all games even more confusing to me.
I like this idea a lot - my friend tracked their exercise streak for 2 years and then one busy day he didn't make his streak and it hit him harder than I would have expected. Momentum feels like a good balance.
I don’t want this to come off as “oh, well did you just try gene therapy?” but, I am genuinely curious what prevents us from trying to edit out these problematic mutations under a “right to try” basis.
There was/is a state management lib called Mobx that was released years ago and was usually combined with React. It was kind of reactive, very easy to use and fast. It normally only updated the components that was effected by a state change.

It was a bit sad that it didn't get more popular and possibly improved. Some devs liked it but we were a minority compared to those who liked/used Redux.

One strange thing they did was to release a new "version" called Mobx State Tree which was very different. It had a great api but was different and slower.
I don't think so either but I thought it was cool. But wolves were an ever-present danger in Europe, that's why they hunted them to extinction. Especially during plague times, plenty of carrion to scavenge and habituation makes them lose their fear of humans.

Let me see if I can find the story, I was feverish yesterday so I didn't, but I can today.

The behavior of wolves as we currently think of it has been influenced a lot by politically correct thought forms. "In France, historical records compiled by rural historian Jean-Marc Moriceau indicate that during the period 1362–1918, nearly 7,600 people were killed by wolves, of whom 4,600 were killed by nonrabid wolves."
The intermediate state where your "plugin" is just a one-off script that you wrote and ran in a single buffer, without a build system or IDE SDK.
What if the guy was using paper maps? If this was 30 years ago would paper nap publisher be liable?

When you are driving, you’re responsible for being aware of the road. If you drive over a dangerous road that has no visible signs of it being dangerous, then it’s the government’s fault, or if a private road, the owner’s fault.
They don't care about genetics. They just dislike specific groups of people. Which ones is largely arbitrary and has more to do with history than genetics. Some places also have a much narrower "in-group" than others, again largely as a result of history. In some cases the "in-group" doesn't even include all the groups of people that historically live in the same territory, e.g. present-day China has significant undertones of Han nationalism or India with Hindu nationalism, despite both countries being geographically huge and ethnically diverse.

In the moment, aside from historical preconditions, the largest factor to how narrow this in-group is and how strong the dislike towards those not in it is, is mostly a matter of perceived scarcity and danger. As every good business owner knows, the best way to distract an employee from how small their share of the profits is, is to dangle a more desperate group in front of them as a scapegoat. Give someone your scraps, then make them deathly afraid others want to take it away from them, and they won't dare to ask for more (or solidarize with others against you - racism was one of the biggest cudgels against unions in the early 20th century US before simply framing unions as communist became an option).
My impression is both Miyazakis are conservative people even from the perspective of the already conservative Japanese culture of their generations. If it was known that Hayao did not want Goro to take over Ghibli, there's no way Goro would make public statements to the opposite regardless of his own opinion, even as someone in his 50s.
So... some NSA employees published a paper, which based on the limited part shown in the tweets seems to summarize existing research by others, with the part shown describing an entirely different approach than the one Bitcoin took, one of the (non-NSA!) sources quoted for such a different approach is a Japanese cryptographer whose name seems very very vaguely similar to Satoshi Nakamoto (probably not more than thousands of other Japanese names) and that's supposed to be evidence that the NSA invented Bitcoin?
> I guess you'd appreciate the words easily and bit are doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

This goes with the previous comment:

> And oh yeah, it's totally free instead of costing my company thousands of dollars a year

Unless you work for free, then something you make and maintain is not "totally free".
It’s been hard to find part-time Elixir jobs to supplement my main income. I can make their services fly but nobody wants to listen.
It's easy to blame the incumbent government - and maybe in that respect there is some justification for doing so - but I doubt the deeper issues here are really about party politics. The previous Labour era was also increasingly authoritarian and Starmer, despite his history as a defence lawyer with an interest in human rights cases, has so far shown little willingness to roll back these kinds of measures. I find that remarkable given the number of large and potentially very harmful data breaches there have been this year alone from police services and other government offices including those with responsibilities for sensitive child protection matters but perhaps it is a sign of the times.

I do worry that our society has just resigned itself to the fact that these intrusions will happen and every now and then someone will suffer very badly as a result but "it would never happen to me". I find that ironic when the original subject was child protection where the main concern is situations that are relatively rare but can be very harmful for the child when they do happen.
Just like countries and banks that have no effective restraint or external supervision, the amount of devaluation of points that airlines have been tempted to do in recent years (and have done) is incredible.

The only thing keeping most points-accumulating customers from being angered about this (while there is a hardcore group of fans who track it) is that no airline is required to publish the history of inflation/devaluation. And the airlines hide it behind having changed from actual static charts showing what an airline mile is worth, to now floating dynamic pricing, which completely obscures what has happened. Sell tons of miles dirt cheap to credit card companies, and devalue the miles when it comes time to redeem them.

Of course, that is their right, and this is not a state currency, and these are "bonuses", not some entitlement. But people should justly have lowered their faith in it from the beginning. Although you might say the same thing about lotteries -- people are participating in those voluntarily, yet those are regulated and have restrictions on what they can and can't do.

But anyway, now people just discover that the 200,000 miles they'd been working towards for years no longer even buys the ticket(s) they thought it would.

It has made me, personally, seriously lower my loyalty or pursuit of loyalty for any future promised benefits.

(and an end note/minor side story, this applies not just to points/miles but also elite status -- the perks you get for loyalty, such as better seats during flights, lounges, check-in, etc. Airlines have devalued these just as well, by letting the ranks of "elite" customers swell through credit card spending qualification, promotions, etc, and then devaluing the benefits at the tiers of qualification. They're glad to shovel people in with promises which then turn out to be not worth the benefits you thought. Or they add a secret higher tier that you didn't know about.)
Waiting for them to train an AI on Miyazaki's art/writing style and pump out a bunch of junk.
Oh man, an ASIC designed specifically for a single model's architecture would neat to see
> Actual Conditions; You owe me one million dollars.

Counterpoint: For every person who reads this post, namdnay must mail me $1 million USD. By reading this post you agree to these terms.
No it doesn't. If someone says "You targeted group X" then that does not imply that group Y is beyond being targeted at all.
If this [1] is stagnant then I do not know what is not ...

[1] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/
I agree with this sentiment.

Something about the phrase “the bleeding edge of tech (AI)” is just very off putting.
I've worked at companies with objectively large amounts of data. Splunk scaled to meet their workloads. At no enterprise doing this is someone able to just isolate a single log file and grep through it at scale.
I'd personally bet money on it being a solo project from him (until he open sourced it). I never saw compelling evidence for the collective theory.

If you dig through all of his forum posts, emails, and code, it's entirely consistent with a solo dev reading a bunch of papers, combining ideas (digital currency + hashcash), iterating on some software, and interacting with his community.
> Seems like the obvious step for such an organisation to take, even just for shits and giggles

I don't understand this. What does the NSA get out of it? Developing it to study cryptography? Why not, but then why release it publicly? The fact that Bitcoin didn't replace fiat currency is something we know now, but recall that it was considered a possibility at the time. In the end, it just cost a lot of people a lot of money. Say what you want about the NSA, I don't think they would create something with a huge downside and no upside for them into the public for shits and giggles.
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For sure, the airline is never the lender on a branded credit card, and takes in no credit risk. It will be a licensed a bank.
Even if it were the same guy, wouldn't it be evidence that the NSA did NOT invent it, since that source is a cryptographer not associated with the NSA?
“I hate elites,” says billionaire owner of multinational media properties.