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I think that tech people presume too much overlap between their own domain knowledge and war. The analysis isn't particularly bad, it's just wildly overconfident. Replacing F-35s w…

"Air supremacy" would be dominance of the air such that enemy cannot effectively interfere. "Air superiority" is the lesser level (enemy interference is not prohibitive). At least …

ign story from two days ago: https://www.ign.com/articles/avatar-aang-movie-footage-seems...

$1 for testing, not for rubber stamping/approval.

> without needing to modify your message Careful. I argue this is even worse. In this convention, you need to change the behavior of others. If I send a message to Alice with conte…

I think the question is: where should the information barrier exist? A web browser puts a barrier between your OS and the company, while an app (potentially) puts a barrier between…

Hmmm. I am more sympathetic to the author, since they might expect familiarity with their previous post on the topic. Still, am glad that I stopped reading after that quote because…

A huge part of that, for me, was this from Scott Aaronson: > Once you understand quantum fault-tolerance, asking “so when are you going to factor 35 with Shor’s algorithm?” becomes…

They use a magic number, rather than a digest derived from the schema[1], but otherwise they do as you suggest. The magic number is given to the signing function (sender side) and …

I asked about this on the PGP mailing list at one point, and I think I was told that the best solution is to start emails with "Hi ," which seems like a funny low-tech solution to …

You are, of course, right. And this distinction is important for this chain of comments. Though, in fairness, that is /kind of/ like transmitting it---in the sense that it impacts …

Hmmmm. I agree that an ad-hoc implementation with protobufs can go wrong. But presumably, 1 canonical encoding for the private key constitutes the Horton principle? It seems like H…

Despite my prior bias to agree with article, it includes this extraordinary line: > So, for example, it recently turned out to be possible for eavesdroppers to decrypt messages wit…

While I appreciate independent bloggers, I think that the HackerNews community should expect big claims, like a NASA cover up: > NASA’s initial instinct was to cover up the problem…

He invested in one company that fights cancer. That company later helped him fight his cancer. Afterwards, he founded new companies that fight cancer. The headline refers to the ne…

Love how you approached and presented this. The data vis on https://osteosarc.com/ is outstanding; such good explorability (is this some open source framework?) I do have concerns …

In university, a team member on a final project swore he fixed an input injection issue. I playfully typed `rm -rf /` on his machine and challenged him to press `RET` if he was con…

So, purely for example: When you run VS Code, it spins up a local language server that is capable of making code changes. That is how refactoring python works in many editors (incl…

Based on the :/ emoticon, I now understand that you were asking this question for yourself. In that case, I will express anger at the article. I believe that it was vague and leane…

This data is mandated by NYC law: https://intro.nyc/local-laws/2015-99 I've heard that releasing these sorts of data sets help competitors do market research, and thus mitigates "w…

I couldn't really follow the technical details of the malware from the article, so I found what seems to be the first major report on the topic: https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/kimwo…

Regular people don't need a "secure network". Phones and computers are, by default, secure against malicious networks. Just don't run code you download from the internet or put you…

That's such a strange interpretation that disagrees with my intuition. If the Yankees hit a practice ball out of their stadium and into my house, causing bodily harm to a loved one…

Pickle files are probably still useful saving exploratory work, collaborating inside a company, and use inside a pipeline. Safetensors is supposed to be the successor for distribut…