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by dataflow 3mo ago
> Think about why do governments want to ban encryption? Because they want to know everything about you all the time. Or, say, because they want a judicial warrant to be sufficient for obtaining someone's information without their c
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by dataflow 3mo ago
I still don't understand what that has to do with encryption. Are these two separate policy proposals, one for GPS tracking and one for encryption, that this person is supporting?
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by dataflow 3mo ago
I'm confused reading this. How in the world is GPS-tracking someone's car supposed to show hypocrisy with respect to encryption?
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by dataflow 3mo ago
I'm confused; did you reply on the wrong thread, or am I misunderstanding something? I was merely suggesting it'd be good to mention Boost on your website and how well it works with Fil-C. This suggestion was not specifically rega
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China is having another AI moment(economist.com)
5 points by dataflow 3mo ago|2 comments
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by dataflow 3mo ago
Thanks! If you don't mind a suggestion: I would probably list it in [1], given how many programs depend on it. [1] https://fil-c.org/programs_that_work
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by dataflow 3mo ago
You're confusing "idempotent" with "pure", I think.
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by dataflow 3mo ago
Unrelated question but since you're here: what's the state of support for Boost?
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by dataflow 3mo ago
Did AI write this?
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by dataflow 3mo ago
I'm not disputing that it's fair to investigate that. What I'm asking is if it's fair to then call it a vulnerability without establishing that the thing is, in fact, vulnerable as a result. I would say it's like ca
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by dataflow 3mo ago
At the risk of sounding extremely dumb, I have a question for you: if the hardware is susceptible to something that you can't actually reproduce with the software everyone runs on it, who should care, and why? Is it even really fair to
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by dataflow 3mo ago
The risk of getting caught doing business illegally? You really don't give a damn about the illegal part, just getting caught?
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by dataflow 3mo ago
And before anyone calls this crazy, note that jail time costs you your time, whatever that's worth. This is the same idea without the physical incarceration.
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by dataflow 3mo ago
>> Makes me wonder what the value of a PhD is. > I would say to push frontier of human knowledge forwards. Not sure if this is what you meant, but to be clear: pushing human knowledge forward is a practical prerequisite of a PhD
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by dataflow 3mo ago
> Props to them for making it this far into the crisis without raising prices. Yeah, it's a laudable miracle that this $4T+ company could survive this long without raising prices on such razor-thin margins.
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Inside FIFA's Race to Move Natural Grass to All 16 World Cup Stadiums [video](youtube.com)
2 points by dataflow 3mo ago|0 comments
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by dataflow 3mo ago
Just shared a relevant video for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565808
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The reason some American roundabouts are so dangerous [video](youtube.com)
1 points by dataflow 3mo ago|0 comments
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Wait, How Do You Pronounce Turkey? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by dataflow 3mo ago|0 comments
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by dataflow 3mo ago
I imagine they don't want to end up where the US is now. Edit: is reality too upsetting for folks? Hopefully nobody was asleep when American candidates ran on immigration policy, their constituents voted based on that, and we ended up
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by dataflow 3mo ago
>> How exactly have you seen people use exceptions to "report errors" that is not for the purpose of indicating that "a contract cannot be fulfilled"? > Reporting normal errors to the caller, as opposed to excep
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by dataflow 3mo ago
Mostly off-topic, but I've wondered, is there a measure of wealth that involves first liquidating everything? And what is that for Musk? I don't find it meaningful to say someone has a net worth of $X if they can't actually l
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by dataflow 3mo ago
> Functions aborting is not something I’ve ever really had to think about. There are certainly a lot of programs for which it matters a whole lot. In a lot of applications you absolutely don't want your program to crash. I'm no
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by dataflow 3mo ago
Okay, but if I may offer a suggestion: in the future, I would probably phrase what you said differently. I think it caused you trouble here not just with me but with other readers. Instead of "when the function cannot fulfill its contr
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by dataflow 3mo ago
> Saying throw an exception and bubble up to main provides just about zero value. Might as well just call std::abort. Which is also something I would never do. I'm sorry but this is where you're clearly wrong. The whole point i
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by dataflow 3mo ago
I think you missed my point. I was referring to the fact that some of these standard exceptions are very much a part of the contracts of their respective functions. In fact, that's their entire point. This directly contradicts what you
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by dataflow 3mo ago
> Ask an American LLM (really any LLM, since Chinese models are trained on the same publicly-available English text) who the first Black man in space was. You'll likely get the name of the first African-American in space, rather tha
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by dataflow 3mo ago
This is neither KYC nor would that be relevant even if it were. The whole point is you could get traceability without a credit check just fine.
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by dataflow 3mo ago
> Exceptions aren't meant to report errors, just in general. That's a misuse of them. Exceptions are meant to be thrown when a contract cannot be fulfilled. Yes, you're unable to know what exceptions a function may throw.
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by dataflow 3mo ago
> One of the problems with exceptions is it’s utterly impossible to know if a given function call can return exceptions and if so what they are. Could you please explain how exactly you know if a function might abort? And how you figure

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