skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you still understand what the conversation is about. It's not about things like AES, where there might be some hidden flaw in the crypto scheme. It's about basic, glaringly visible issues. Eg, from https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/

"The PGP MDC can be stripped off messages –– it was encoded in such a way that you can simply chop off the last 22 bytes of the ciphertext to do that. To retain backwards compatibility with insecure older messages, PGP introduced a new packet type to signal that the MDC needs to be validated; if you use the wrong type, the MDC doesn’t get checked. Even if you do, the new SEIP packet format is close enough to the insecure SE format that you can potentially trick readers into downgrading; Trevor Perrin worked the SEIP out to 16 whole bits of security .

And, finally, even if everything goes right, the reference PGP implementation will (wait for it) release unauthenticated plaintext to callers, even if the MDC doesn’t match."

TL;DR, the packet format has "${DATA}${SIGNATURE}", in such a way that you can strip $SIGNATURE, do whatever you like with $DATA, and it'll go through because this is a backwards compatibility mechanism. Former versions didn't have $SIGNATURE, so any attacker can just get rid of it, and problem solved.

This is I repeat not a case of "maybe there's some PHD level math we're unaware of", but absolutely glaring issues.

You don't need a genius to write a formal proof of why allowing people to strip signatures is a bad thing.

And it's a problem solvable by throwing out the compatibility scheme and adding a hard requirement.
Sounds nice…

I just don’t use search enough to want to pay. Perhaps that is because it is not so great though.
Why would drug manufacturers do that (instead of just using a limited corp per drug, for example)? Why would insurers take on some massive tail risk (and how would they get the capital for that)?
Not as dead as Mastodon.
No, they were comparing the difference in precautions between 12/48v accessory battery and the 400/800V traction battery.
We've lived for thousands of years without the National Transportation Safety Board. Why do we need it? What it do? Planes not falling out of the sky? Meh. Boring.

This libertarian "burn the government down" bullshit is exhausting. REALLY itching to eat some bad meat and croak? Because this is what happened before. Then the responsible people said "maybe we should have someone checking that so that our citizens don't get sick and die".

It's called a Civilization. Welcome.

Maybe the answer is to fix it, not destroy it? Is the FDA a revolving door? Yes. Many regulatory agencies are.

The politicians who complain the most are the ones most ok with the government being a corrupt dumpster fire. Helps the narrative, and the rubes are eating it all up.
Thanks for the example. I'm not sure that this is the same, as I don't think the gut microbiome introduced via a fecal transplant is likely to spread throughout a population without further intervention, though (i.e. more transplants).
Maybe, I find that people are still surprised when they need my email and it's just <firstname>@<lastname>.net and not @hotmail.com / @gmail.com or something like that.
I don't get this either. My OnePlus 7 also has a glass back. These thin, fragile phones all require a case (making it thicker and hiding the sleek looks) to protect them, and my glass back still broke despite the case. What's the point?

I'd rather have a sturdy phone that doesn't require a separate case. In fact, the replaceable body of my old Fairphone 2 is a much better idea.
Overlord? No, you see - this is the _good_ AI that is doing this. The argument is that this threat is supposed to ensure that the good AI gets created as quickly as possible, thereby saving trillions of lives.

No, I don't know why I am supposed to care what happens to a simulation of me in thousands of years.

Much like religious cults, once people get into this it's very complicated to get them out.

Edit: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk is a somewhat thorough summary of the insanity
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How do you know it fell to zero? Are you personally overseing the testing of all drug batches and ensuring all equipment is calibrated at all times?
While I cannot know which problems you are referring to, I'm afraid problems of this nature are not resolved just by reading a book :)
I mean, by default this is true. They are federal and state agencies, after all.
I can confirm there are no school buses in Amsterdam. School kids do use the extensive public transport network to get to school on occasion.
DeX still exists! I think the lack of USB monitors and dongles in the real world makes it so that very few people use it, but if you've got a higher end Samsung device andd access to a dongle, more people should definitely give it a go.
What do you mean by "now"? RTS and 4X as terms are basically the same age (92 and 93) and both are older then StarCraft(98). Both of those are subcategories of "strategy games". Also, first strategy video games were not games that anybody would call 4X games so saying that "strategy games" were renamed into 4X is nonsense.
Effectuation - I felt comforted knowing that I wasn't the only one struggling.

Purple Cow - It's classic but seems quite relevant to AI era.
Pretty close, maybe more like mid-19th century as far as the "chemistry side" is concerned.
So far i haven’t been able to blacklist pinterest from image results, however — has that been added?
Elves "fade" because they live so long their spirits gradually "wear out" their bodies due to the fallen nature of the material world (thanks to Morgoth), which the power of the Valar can repair - the Valar also literally reincarnate them when they die, because Elves are not supposed to be without bodies in Valinor period (unless they've been bad.) They are quite capable of living for many, many thousands of years without any "source of magic".

I think RoP introduced this idea, but it is not in Tolkien.
I don't consider RF PCB layout basic engineering and I don't think it's lost. Plenty of us EEs have read Pozar and could make a competent RF layout given time and resources. I'd first guess that bad layouts are a management decision.
Given the fact that all-knowing AI would know that any recursive functional combination of randomness and deterministic laws / inputs doesn't lead to any meaningful conception of agency or free will and still decided to torture him/here.
37 and same here. I brush twice a day with an electric toothbrush. I also brush my tongue well and rinse and gargle vigorously with water afterwards. I find I need to an electric toothbrush or I can't brush my wisdom teeth properly.

Last time I went to the dentist they removed 4 teeth because my mouth was crowded. Then I had braces. They came out when I was 16 or so and haven't been since.

I also spit several times a day. I don't know if this is relevant, but it seems to me it might be. At some point in my life I developed a habit, whenever I go to the toilet, I spit. My mouth actually salivates to get ready for it. I feel like it might do something to keep my mouth fresh.

I don't eat fruit. Very little sugar. I only eat within an 8 hour window each day. Lots of cheese. Every meal is balanced (plenty of fat to accompany any carbs, protein is incidental, I don't think about it).
It's more interesting that Headscale is officially "encouraged": https://tailscale.com/opensource/#encouraging-headscale
I tried to use it for a screenshot in a README on GitHub, and raw.gitusercontent.com couldn't serve the right MIME type. I was surprised. PNG it is, then.

So not only browser support, but server support. (Which is really easy to support.)
Considering all Tesla imports come from Germany or China, I feel Sweden will be on the losing end of this.
until they jump out.
I think good riddance? Even before the covid hit the junior positions were oversaturated with applicants.

I would say ChatGPT is great at getting started, especially so as it can help overcome the barrier of setting up a boilerplate project in particular framework/library.

Other than that, Exercism seems great.
If the manufacturer did it, doesn't it still fit the definition? It's something like "deliberately causing something to fail", regardless of who does it.
Yes, but it comes from Norse mythology, not Latin: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Midgard

As a scholar of early medieval literature, Tolkien borrows tons of ideas from the Edda and other mythological sources. (To give him his due, he masterfully reinterprets and combines what he „borrows“.)
The study controls mileage (driving exposure) and zip-code (geographic region) but it does not specifically mention controlling for variables like efficiency or road use. So you're right, the vehicles could be moving more slowly or cautiously.

I do wonder whether a world of autonomous vehicles moving more slowly but safely is still a better world than ours — is there reason to the current speed/safety trade-off is optimal?
> When a domain was $200 to register in the 90’s people treated URLs like phone numbers were also treated at the time - to be written down, memorized and then typed precisely in (with slashes!) to find whatever Bob the builder was offering

This was the case well into the 2000s, if I recall correctly, and even into the mid-late 2010s, when URL shorteners proliferated to manage the complicated URLs generated by Google Forms etc.
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I've been enjoying using the headphone jack on my new android phone with the very nice headphones I have. There's nothing to "get over" if you don't want to. Headphone jacks won't be obsolete in my lifetime, even if they mostly disappear from phones.
Why do you, and your supposed cryptography engineers, talk shit about everything that is actually used instead of doing something useful like making those things better or providing alternatives?

It's getting really hard to take you seriously. You hate gpg, you hate pki and you always claim to know better than industry standards without providing any details whatsoever.
Surprise surprise. It did seem a bit too good to be true when I watched it.
> Companies sell products which literally kills their customers and you think without any control that would get better

The FDA is killing people on a daily basis by being so slow and bureaucratic to review life saving drugs. But its the dog that does not bark so people are completely oblivious to it.
Check out the official xfire review for it, the author was similarly unimpressed.
Are you sure? My girlfriend says one thing but I observe the daily unaccounted for consumption of fruit and sweets. Fair enough if you also consume lots of sweets, though.
That's not "wages", that's "average wages". I don't expect much but I at least expect a passing knowledge of statistics and intellectual honesty. If most people have nothing and one billionaire joins the group that doesn't make everyone rather wealthy even if it drastically raises the average.

Keep in mind that there was a massive rise in C-level and especially CEO compensation compared to most other wages. Arguably this can be traced back to a specific book being rather popular among wealthy investors and entrepreneurs that argued CEOs are underpaid, which many CEOs agreed with and convinced the investors to also agree with. But this does nothing for the wages of anyone outside this group because C-level compensation is orders of magnitude removed from that of anyone lower in the ladder.
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And perps WERE arrested and put in jail for the Benghazi attack.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack
But the Starfield feels quite finished. It is just poorly designed and written. Cyberpunk's gameplay design is not the best, but it is still better than Starfield's, and the story and characters are much better.
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Read literally, the word "clean" in a coding context is most naturally interpreted as "observing a consistent style at a basic syntactic level" (e.g. camel case vs snake case), or "having a minimum of irrelevant clutter" (e.g. variables and functions that are defined but never used). It's about the sort of things that a linter looks for.

Unfortunately, "clean" has been stretched and concept-creeped to the point of meaninglessness in software engineering, especially by the book of the same name. Now, "clean" has become an invitation to enforce ideology on complex questions we don't understand. Once something is declared not "clean", action must be taken to mitigate the primal fear of contamination, even though we don't really know what "clean" and "dirty" mean in a coding context.

We should stop using this vague crutch word for everything we approve and disapprove of in code, and find more accurate words to express our feelings. If we think code is repetitive, we can call it repetitive, and have a conversation about whether repetition is good or bad in this context.
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"represented by controllable 3D Gaussians"

They just assume everyone knows what they mean with "3D Gaussian".
It’s an extremely tiny place with no geographic features, like mountains, whatsoever.

This isn’t surprising and it isn’t something to extrapolate to anywhere that is even minutely dissimilar.
We effectively did.

Look around where you are. Unless you're in the middle of a forest, pretty much every single thing you see is the result of scientific and technological advancements of the last 150 years. Half of it probably owes its existence to the oft forgotten chemical and petrochemical revolutions that started about 100 years ago.

Before that? Before the tail end of 19th century, we knew fuck all about anything. Medicine, in particular, graduated from voodoo and aforementioned "ground up unicorn toe" into a proper science and profession, also about 100 years ago.

It's really hard to overstate how different 20th century science and technology is from anything that came before. We've crossed a qualitative threshold there.
Not sure how you jumped from "rumor" to "evidence". Prefixing it with "weak" does nothing when you are trying to link "evidence" with "rumor".

A rumor is a rumor. If you want to talk about it, have fun, you might be lucky and it's true, but more often than not when marketing is involved, it's far from being the truth.
Some people are incapable of understanding context and trade-offs. Every rule must be either “always” or “never”.

Always use inheritance! Oh, it caused fragile code in this instance. Lesson learned - never ever use inhertance! And so forth.

In this case, the author is confusing de-duplication with creating a particular abstraction, and when the abstraction turns out to be a bad fit for the problem, they decide code duplication is actually fine. This is the wrong lesson.
I think that there are two separate issues here:

1. train manufacturer bricking trains - malice and monopolism as you say

2. prosecutors failing to bring court cases and convictions for train manufacturers - incompetence or more likely corruption.
The Nordics, famously bankrupt for almost 100 years.
>Maybe emergency care is different (since I could be unconscious when buying it) but that's what insurance is for.

Hope the hospital your unconscious self is taken to happens to be in your insurance network, and that your insurance provider doesn't decide that what you went in for wasn't really an emergency.
> Sponsored by the autonomous car industry?

Fair, the litmus test would be whether Swiss Re charges less for (re)insuring autonomous vehicles vs regular drivers.

> But anyway, I have a feeling that in the long run they probably will be. In the meantime they share the road with human drivers and the real benefits won’t be seen until its just autonomous vehicles all carrying out the same rules.

Agree.
I guess this is sarcastic? But yes, things have gotten a lot better since we invented antibiotics, modern surgery, routine childbirth, and other lifesaving medical techniques...
Libertarianism is a two-part ideology that holds that first, despite all the clear signs around us, the world is simple. In a simple world, what is the point of regulation, policy, or any other collective action, for that matter? Why not abolish everything?

On its face, this isn't an insane point of view. It's natural to look at the scope and complexity of government and as yourself "is all this really necessary?" While it'll never achieve mainstream status, some tinges of libertarianism contribute meaningfully as a counterweight to the tendency of government to grow beyond the point of diminishing returns to society.

The problem is, the ideology has a second, usually unspoken tenet: anyone who suffers brought it upon themselves. Hacker stole your bitcoins? Should have used a hardware wallet. Hospital bills driving you to bankruptcy? This is what you get for not saving for a rainy day. Poisoned by shoddily produced medicine? Hey, you get what you pay for.

It's an ideology of arrogance. Both intellectual arrogance, as its dunning-kruger afflicted adherents look over the vast and complex world and say "how hard could it possibly be?" to every challenge they perceive, and also of moral arrogance, as those same people cast their eyes over the depth of human suffering and inexplicably think "I've got mine, you all are on your own."

The reason why libertarians always lose is because anyone who isn't a billionaire would spend their entire existence looking over their shoulder in terror at the infinite ways life can screw you. And even then they would probably fail. Any reasonable person would gladly hand over the right to sell medicine they mixed in their own basement in exchange for knowing they won't be poisoned when they need help themselves.
The NYT is far from the first to publish on the topic of "induced demand". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

If you don't like them, try any of many other sources. Quoting "If you build it, they will drive: Measuring induced demand for vehicle travel in urban areas" (2018) at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09670... :

> There is little dispute among transportation researchers that expanding highway capacity increases vehicle use. This phenomenon is commonly known as induced demand, and it demonstrates a fundamental economic principle: individuals tend to consume more of a good as the price of the good falls. In other words, wider highways increase traffic speeds and reduce the time cost of driving, thereby inducing additional vehicle travel. In the short run, when residential and employment locations are fixed, faster peak period highway speeds attract drivers from alternate routes, modes, and times of day. Then, in the long-run, faster speeds encourage additional social and economic behavior in areas made more accessible by the new highway capacity, which further increases traffic volumes.

> Research studies since the 1960s have suggested that, because of induced demand, the hoped-for benefits from highway expansion tend to be short-lived and do not provide lasting relief to traffic congestion. Early studies by Downs (1962), Smeed (1968), and Thomson (1977) go so far as to argue that, over time and without any other offsetting deterrent, rush-hour traffic speeds tend to revert to their pre-expansion levels. The finding has even been dubbed the Fundamental Law of Road Congestion (Downs, 1962), which asserts that the elasticity of vehicle miles traveled with respect to lane mileage is equal to one, implying that driving increases in exact proportion to highway capacity additions.
Dieselgate isn't a good comparison because in Dieselgate the equipment functioned normally from the user's point of view.
> It would also be subject to SEO gaming, like meta tags.

Would be easy to mark a vector-providing site as a bad actor, though? Re-run a few of their pages, if you come up with different answers, don't trust them.
If you somehow manage to piss off an Amazon employee (a delivery driver for example), they can screw your entire account. ;)
I guess because if I sw that domain I would assume I was being phished.
There is a difference between being buggy and being poorly designed. This is something Bethesda used to understand.
You should try reading up on it then. Like how life expectancy absolutly sky rocketed from the end of the 19th century.
No, they assume their peers do.
What is limiting is, to rely on a smart phone to do computing. A vast majority of the phones is locked down and steering people away from general computing ability. Can you do whatever you want on your phone? No. Not with the usual OS on them. Need to root it, jailbreak it, whatever. Then you have a phone with a bad input device. Yes you can improve it with something like hacker keyboard and whatever, but it is far far from being productive like a normal computer.

I am aware more and more people only use smart phones and don't own a general computer any longer, but that is a really sad development. A smart phone will usually not encourage experimentation and getting into general computing. It is a dumbed down device.

Yes, one should be able to use a phone for computing, but generally that's not available out of the box and it takes effort to make it somewhat OK to use it for computing.
It's described in the article -- it wasn't a real time conversation, they simply took still images from videos and sent them to Gemini along with a text prompt, and then the resulting responses were trimmed for effect.
I think he meant he doesn't like when the peasants rise up against the lords.
A lot of what Musk says and does sounds ridiculous. That doesn't make it wise to dismiss out of hand.

I actually agree that a lot of unions reinforce an us-vs-them mentality that might be necessary in local disputes but certainly isn't as good as having everyone's incentives aligned. What I think Musk might be missing in this context is that European unions have a deep history in the guild system and are related not just to bargaining with employers but also disseminating best practices and standards, so they add a lot of value as well.
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I don’t like the letter “x” being used as a company name, I find it impractical and confusing.

I’d like to call it something different, and since many people say “x/twitter”, I guess others have similar thoughts.

I’m not unhappy that there are few other single letter domains, especially if they were to be claimed by corporations.
Doesn't the union have a vote to decide these things. So it is "workers decision" and that's actually very important as far as I can tell for the legal dispute. PostNord says it can't force it's workers to do something. So if it's not the workers decision it's PostNord's decision and that is very different.
The programmer appears to be programmed.
I'm replying to a post about ChatGPT?
More like; Unions give the peasants power when negotiating with the lords.

I guess he knows that and I guess that is the real reason he dislikes them.
I’m using my original iPhone SE (2016). I replaced the battery a couple of weeks ago, and I’m often at 80% by the end of the day. For regular phone use, I find this phone is perfect. So small you don’t feel it in your pocket, and still does the basic things really well.
> Oral probiotics function primarily through bacteriocins

What does this mean exactly?
Why do I have the feeling one of the main outcomes of this is PostNord loses business of deliverying the license plates and other courier gets the tender instead?
You are not the only one! Significant amount of people who like BG2 are not happy with "Divinity: Forgotten Realms" (renamed to BG3 for cash-grab reasons).

> The reddit-style humor (like the "poop knife") was just completely inappropriate.

Larian games tend to do this. Note that intersection of sets of people who worked on BGs 2 and 3 is most likely an empty set.