skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto, lengthy trial with a hung jury. Judge instructed us that we were permitted but not required to talk after we left, although there might have been an admonition about personal information of other jurors.

I tried to give useful feedback to both of the lawyers, since I suspect neither of them were really happy with the mistrial outcome.
one can be directionally accurate for the wrong reasons and that's what happened here. there's no need to salvage anything. he was wrong.
Not at all. My first sentence was in reference to the Israel/Palestine conflict.

It's completely possible, perhaps even likely, that Israel is justified in the conflict, but doesn't change my feelings that they have too much control of our own government, mostly via AIPAC.
In our lifetimes when have we ever had a president that didn't seek to expand the power of the presidency and federal government in general...
I'd imagine it runs the gamut. ROS for some older places; those starting fresh are probably doing ROS 2.
> I think anyone who says democracy is good and the will of the people should be respected is implicitly saying that is not true. Implicitly saying voters are individual agents and not a mob.

I think that is a pretty hardline interpretation, but there's another way of thinking about it:

democracy has worked pretty well up to now and there hasn't been a better replacement.

That doesn't mean it will continue being a good solution as technology and society change.
Hi, I'm the author of the post. Thanks for your questions here.

> -Complete overkill requiring the use of a YubiKey for key storage and external RNG source - what problems does this solve? For a Yubikey to act as a poor man's HSM you have to store the PIN in plaintext on the disk. So if the device is compromised, they can just issue their own certs. If it's to protect against physical theft of the keys, they'll just put the entire Raspberry Pi in their pocket.

Yep, it's overkill. Homelabs are learning environments. People want tutorials when trying new things. It's a poor man's HSM because not many people will buy an HSM for their homelab, but almost everyone already has a YubiKey they can play with.

The project solves the problem of people wanting to learn and play with new technology.

And it's a way to kickstart a decently solid local PKI, if that's something you're interested in.

The RNG is completely unnecessary flair that just adds to the fun.

> -Creates a two-tier PKI... on the same device. This completely defeats the purpose so you can't revoke anything in case of key compromise.
> -They're generating the private key on disk then importing into the YubiKey. Which defeats having an external key storage device because you have left traces of the key on disk.

The tutorial shows how to generate and store the private key offline on a USB stick, not on the device or the YubiKey. The key material never touches the disk of the Raspberry Pi.

Why store a copy of the CA keys offline? Because YubiKeys don't have the key-wrapped backup and restore feature of HSMs. So, if the YubiKey ever fails, you need a way to restore your CA. Storing the root on a USB stick is the backup. Put the USB stick in a safe.

If you want active revocation, you can set it up so that the intermediate is revocable—in case physical theft of the key is important to you. (We have instructions to do that in our docs.)

> -All this digital duct taping the windows and doors yet the article instructs you to download and run random binaries off GitHub with no verification whatsoever.

It's open source software downloaded from GitHub. The only non-smallstep code is the RNG driver (GitHub is the distribution point for that project). Was there a kind of verification that you expected to see?

> -Why do you need ACME in a homelab and can't just hand issue long lived certificates?
-OpenSC and the crypto libraries are notoriously difficult to set up and working properly. A tiny CA this is not.

Most people don't need ACME in their homelab, they just want to learn stuff. That said, we have homelabbers in our community issuing certs to dozens of endpoints in their homelab.

Whether you issue long-lived or short-lived certs is a philosophical issue. If a short-lived cert is compromised, it's simply less valuable to the attacker. Short-lived certs encourage automation. Long-lived certs can be easier to manage and you can just manually renew them. But unplanned expiry of long-lived certs has caused a lot of multi-million dollar outages.

I hope this helps clarify things.
Freedom of speech is a fundamental right. The people involved in Citizens United could have done exactly what they did as individuals with some contractual money sharing agreements, and both sides of the case acknowledged that. Signing one little extra piece of paper makes the whole thing illegal corruption?

The actual case of Citizens United had exceptionally bad facts for the camp that thinks it's a bad ruling. The DNC should never have pushed it as far as they did, because it came right back at them like a ton of bricks.

In contrast, bringing it back to this case, communication over the internet involves many different business agreements to get internet service, rent computing, etc. Those relationships are within the US's power to regulate and legislate, especially when they cross its borders.
Both parties have been bankrolled by corporate interests for longer than I've been alive for.

Sure, but this is quite a different scale. Apparently the net worth of Trumps (official) cabinet, so excluding Musk, is 7 billion. For comparison, the net worth of Biden's cabinet was 118 million dollar.

Source: https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/amerikaanse-ambtenaren-...

(Sorry for the Dutch source, searching the numbers gives English sources as well.)

The Elon thing is way more brazen, yes. I also think many people would rather have than instead of two dozen faceless lobbyists sitting behind superPACs,

The super PACs will continue to exist as well. I am pretty sure this will give some of the PACs only more influence/power.

at least you can point to the guy when he pushes for policy

In the same way you can point to the guy when he tries to interrupts peaceful transition?

Which brings me back me to my original point, the majority of Americans voted for a crook (interrupting peaceful transition amongst other things) and oligarchs. We'll see where it ends.
Whether you think it’s ridiculous or not, restrictions on distribution of software being a violation of US free speech rights has been an established part of US case law for around three decades now: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
> it's that there is ni precident set in court and they don't be the ones needing to do it.

Ah yes, "ni precident". I would suggest people instead get advice from someone who has some idea what they're talking about and a good grasp of the English language to communicate it.
It's worse than that. The platform is now beholden to the president for its survival.

If you're wondering how Russia slipped from a flawed democracy into an aurocracy, it was because Yeltsin fixed the 1996 election, by holding an axe over the head of the press. He made it very clear that anybody who wants to keep their broadcast licenses will need to shill for him.

It's how a drunken autocrat with an 8% approval rating, credited for both hyperinflation and mass unemployment, who launched a coup (that killed a few hundred people and caused a constitutional crisis) ended up getting re-elected.

And then at the eleventh hour, after firing his cabinet, again, he declares Putin his successor and resigns over a $10,000 bribery scandal.
Generally, no. Specifically, yes.

https://news.usni.org/category/fleet-tracker

The more valuable signal from app data would likely be op tempo and what phase of a deployment / mission a ship is in.

Aside from inferred reasons for changes in patterns of behavior, one going emcon and suddenly dropping all users off an app means something.

Also, modern satellites are great, but even carrier battle groups are really small in the Pacific.
Games workshop makes money from video games and books not just selling plastic.

Disney is a more direct comparison, but again not as favorable.
> You still can't exfiltrate the key material

And? What actual problem does this solve or realistic threat does this prevent? They are not decryption keys they are used to digitally sign certificates.

What the DigiNotar hack taught us years ago is if your CA is compromised you are already 0wned doesn't matter if the key is stored in an HSM or not.

All they can do with a stolen key is issue more certificates. Which they can do anyway if they have root access to the CA.

You can put 12 locks on your door but if they're all keyed to the same key you've stored under the plant on the porch, it doesn't really matter.

> The interesting thing about this article is that it adds a few 9's that are covered, and it's both easy and cheap.

Hard to say if those extra 9's need an external RNG for extra entropy.
Debugging C++ is a UI nightmare
Does TFA stand for "the f...ine article"?
I've struggled to buy into this hypothesis. It's always felt so clumsy as a strategy.

How would that not make top performers want to jump ship? The employees who would struggle in a tight job market are the ones who will end up returning to the office.

So to mitigate that you create exceptions for some employees which means everyone is going into the office yet still conducting all those meetings on Zoom.

My theory is RTO is about satiating a certain type of controlling personality.
And after you pay for ESPN+ if the match you are interested in is actually broadcast you have commercials interrupt game play. I paid for this once, never again.
No '+'.

Noon UTC is "12:00Z".
“It's annoying how many people started posting their political hot takes…” ftfy
Hugely bullish on the domain.
There are already bash replacements and cli tools doing this. The main thing here is how acerbic the anti-AI luddites that prevent the knowledge of this stuff from propagating
Whether you support trump or not, the level of patronage that corporations seem to think is needed is disturbing. I've never seen companies stoking a presidents ego so publicly.

If there comes a day in the future where the header of every major website starts says "Long Live Donald Trump", we will all be worse off for it.

I've been extremely surprised how eagerly people have accepted this as a new normal. I can't imagine it's in the long term interest of billionaires to be labeled as oligarchs by half the country.
I don't understand why it wants access to my webcam.
Elon Musk is everyone?
What happened to the tech industry's 'perk culture?'
<< They need a solution to be allowed to operate.

You are assuming a lot in that one sentence seemingly without realizing it.
One thing to bear in mind, if anyone feels like trying out this old stuff, is that modems relied on the latency being absolutely fixed; as was guaranteed in the POTS network - and of course an analogue connection. Modern VoIP calling does not guarantee this at all, and even if you have a landline it will almost certainly have been converted to run on VoIP by now. There were compatibility fixes (such as V.150.1) but given the limited usage it would not be surprising if they have bitrotted at this point.
I think it's obvious that US lawmakers were somehow convinced ByteDance would absolutely divest from TikTok if threatened with an ultimatum. They were never prepared for an actual ban and the resulting fallout. Now that it's obvious they won't divest (which should have been obvious the entire time), they flipped
If that is truly your primary concern, you should be more worried about Instagram. TikTok is much better in that regard. It has parental controls, a restricted mode, screen time limits, etc.
> X is the only corporate social media platform that offers this

Threads and BlueSky both offer this.

And so there is no literally zero reason now why anyone should stay on X.
> I think this is a bit daft from a marketing POV.

I agree. It's dumb and seemingly incomprehensible but I finally understood why it happens after seeing it occur inside a large company with a long-successful product line with well-known signature traits. When a product and it's major features are successful enough to last literally decades, they outlive the careers of product managers, designers and marketers. Over time new people come in and work their up into positions of influence. Many times they are there because they appreciate (or even revere) the product, but they're also anxious to put their own mark on the legacy. This isn't just self-centered, they often view their role as bearing the responsibility to guide the legendary product's journey into the future.

At the same time, they didn't inherit complete knowledge of all the reasons why things got the way they are or all the things which were tried in the past. There's also the ever-present ambient need in any organization to "do things" significant enough to justify their, now senior, role along with promotions and bonuses. It's ultimately just a combination of common human behavior in the context of large, long-lasting organizations. I see it so many places in the tech I use daily - Windows is a good example as is Firefox. The current product managers and designers seem to always be removing or fucking up some lower profile but essential feature a subset of users rely on that had been good for a decade or more.

Of course, understanding it doesn't excuse that it's dumb and shouldn't happen.
https://archive.ph/alzTA
Would you give the same freedom to an opponent in a hot war? I.e. if there had been widespread TVs during WW2, would you allow NaziTV to televise their content to your population totally uncontrolled?

Would you allow an unfriendly adversary to buy up your ports, critical infrastructure, and food/water supply, or would you block certain transactions in the name of national security?
> I never understood why "foreign influence" was supposed to be a bad thing. Free speech is grounded in the idea that people are capable of reasoning and forming their own opinions.

You should invest a minute thinking about the problem. Pay attention to your own opinion: people are capable of reasoning and forming their own opinions. Focus on that. Now, consider that propaganda feeds false and deceiving information to the public. In some cases, the decision-maker is only exposed to propaganda. Even if that decision-maker is the most rational of actors, what kind of decisions can he do if they are only exposed to false and deceiving information?

There are plenty of reasons why libel and slander are punishable by law. Why do you think they are?
I'm not clear how Trump's assurances mean much in the face of a law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. I guess we're already in an autocracy controlled by a person not even formally in power yet?
Yes, I agree. While data collection is an issue it feels like a red herring sometimes. I've received a wide variety of populist and anti-capitalist ideas from a wide spectrum of users on TikTok, and that feels like a greater threat to the powers that be than data collection.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42759336
> People one go where the technologically literate tell them go.

No they don't. If this was true, my wife's family would be on Telegram or Discord, haha. We actually did go into Telegram briefly, but they all dropped out. What got them to switch from SMS to WhatsApp was her parents temporarily moving to Austria.
... and it's also missing AI, blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs and emojis.
You know what? Lets agree to disagree. I am sure we will see the exciting conclusion of this saga 90 days from now.
You could still have "X Germany" or whatever, that cross-syndicates content with other "X $COUNTRY" companies. But it would be a local company, under the jurisdiction of local laws -- and that seems to be the point.
Yeah, I'm not holding my breath.
Sure, like how Central and South America has a role in the drug trade.

The key driver remains the demand.
Maybe he meant dekaseconds? Still weird though..
Okay, but why is Chinese influence any worse than that of some Australian billionaire who owns the biggest right-wing media conglomerate that broadcasts an absolute firehouse of damaging, divisive, and self-serving lies?

If TikTok is harmful to democracy, Fox News is more than an order of magnitude worse. A large portion of the electorate watches its insanity like a full-time job.

Most enemies of democracy, when measured by impact are 'domestic' and 'western', not some Chinese boogieman.
But was initially started internally by Twitter with millions of dollars of funding and since being split out has taken several million dollars in outside funding from VCs. Which does help grease the wheels somewhat, no?
The paper specifically deals with the *transatlantic* slave trade presumably because it's better documented. There's no reason to mention the other types just to placate those offended by anything that hints at the spectre of Western historical guilt.
But also scary how much people are willing to swallow

Edit: wanted to elaborate but wasn't sure how to put it best. Then two comments down there is exactly what I'm looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42759761 So many people (in absolute numbers at least, maybe not in relative numbers) seem to just eat it up like kids eat candy
Clearly US lawmakers were convinced they could easily force ByteDance to divest by issuing an ultimatum. They were never prepared to actually see a ban of TikTok
Actually, foreign companies are banned from owning more than 25% ownership of a tv and radio broadcast licenses in the US. And that law exists for this exact same reason, to avoid a situation where another country has the ability to control media consumed by the US.
Wiki2Timeline
The bill was cosponsored by 54, 32 of them were Republicans. I think the primary author was a Republican.
Would that make them sick?
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113851478440207324

GrapheneOS dev account seems to disagree about the scalability issue being limited to very large instances. Due to the way how Matrix works, even activity on other servers can generate events at your server, particularly when you have joined busy channels.

Not a software engineer, but a server software that collapses at only 100 events per second on modern hardware sounds pretty bad to me.
> I think anyone who says democracy is good and the will of the people should be respected is implicitly saying that is not true. Implicitly saying voters are individual agents and not a mob.

Both are true. We are individual agents and a mob.

Democracy, as we all know, is the worst political system except for all the others. At scale people on average behave about average and make decisions perfectly aligned with their systemic incentives and available information.

You (and me) are not immune to propaganda.

Strong recommend watching/readingupon Manufacturing Consent and Chomsky’s life work in general.
This is not an outcome. The legal process is but still well underway. In the United States, we abide by the rule of law.[1] That's really what separates us from China.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law
On the broadest strokes it makes sense. We gave up the liberty of truly owning the land so the government can build houses on them. From there we more or less are rented the land and almost everyone pays a tax for it.

Homeowners have some power. But if the government really needs to (modern example includes building a new railway), They can elect to forcibly pay you and seize it (eminent domain).

>We all give up the liberty of driving on the wrong side of the road, and nobody seems to mind.

Auto transportation was never a right to begin with. As inconvenient as it is, you are free to walk wherever you want without trespassing. Even across a road. But there's a line when you start to simply endanger others by say, walking on a road at 5 mph.
The big protocol doing this is called "Model Context Protocol" and it should've been a widely read/discussed post except hn has taken a wide anti-ai stance
The other problem Intel has is that they are apparently a horrible factional mess of a company. The fact that the P and E cores are completely separate architectures that sometimes don't even agree on what instruction set they are supporting (e.g. avx-512) is kind of crazy.
They specifically write that this only supports UID based authentication. So, the card answers with the same unique ID every time.

UniFi has support for this, but seemingly not by default.

This solution also doesn’t allow you to clone an existing card. You actually need the admins to add the UID of your Chinese transport card to their system.
You got it, it's about playing by the rules. A robust culture of propriety is one line of defense against the bad times, and we're losing it.
First time I hear about it. And it's not surprising, because it's not in cron. It's in cronie, and was "only" added in 2016.
> By saying China's using Tik Tok to subvert "democracy," aren't we really saying voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda?

Well, we don't know what was said in the classified meetings, but yes, we know that propaganda works.
I'd be interested to know if any F1 drivers actually use git.
Can you recommend any of them?
Yea it’s banned in India, Afghanistan, China and a few others. It’s kind of an odd list, including democracies and autocratic governments.
I don't have a 12 year old (yet) but my 8 year old has mood swings when they're too cold, too hot, have a headache, the tv remote doesn't work, their tablet runs out of time, their tablet runs out of battery, when they're hungry, thirsty, and/or tired (the preceding is non-inclusive, sometimes they have a mood swing for no perceptible reason).

Kids are people. People have feelings.
> Can you talk about the Tiananmen Square massacre on TikTok and show the few videos of people who were disappeared?

Yes, see www.tiktok.com/channel/tiananmen-square . Or read https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/tiktok-us-ban-congress... . Or just go search for it.
Not to offend you, and you've already pointed out the better way to do it, but I don't think there is too much to gain from this approach. When I was learning Vulkan for example, the only thing this helped me learn was which functions they were calling from the API. Their variable names and ifdefs and wrapper functions were completely useless to me. I was able to get their 5000 lines down to just 1000-- and that was for a single untextured cube with direct memory management and simple surface handling. Imagine if it had been more complex? 20,000 lines of typing for little reason. My neck aches thinking about it :)
No, those aren't other words for the GP's statement.

The Constitution, its Amendments, and decisions of the Supreme Court are not 'federal laws'.
I'm not sure the Trump coin breaks any laws. It's a bit tacky, sure, but at the end of the day it's just money transfer from Trump fans to Trump and friends and they can do it if they want.
Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
The welcome back message was quite ominous. "Thanks to president Trump...". It's giving "Hitler's Rise to Power."
The root cause of this sort of comment is people often equate the outcome of democracy == good or desirable to them or even the majority, which is not necessarily the case. People can whine about the outcome of a democratic process all they want, which even if done perfectly could be a compromise that is distasteful to all parties but still democratic.
Excellent point.
Multi-methods are awesome.
No, in other words, states and local governments are also bound by the Constitution in many of the the same ways that the federal government is.

The major difference is the Tenth Amendment, which sets the states apart by specifying that any powers not "delegated to" the federal government are reserved exclusively for the states. (In practice courts have found many "implied powers" that are not explicitly enumerated).

Federal laws are distinct from the Constitution.