MFogleman · HackerTrans

il y a 5 ansdiscuss

This article echos the common complaint I've seen from people hesitant to adopt TS.

"I always used to get some compilation errors which were hard to understand initially, and I scratched my head trying to figure out the problem. "

Which is like saying, "I got rid of my carbon monoxide detector because it kept beeping at me"

MFogleman

il y a 5 ansdiscuss

The data wasn't to prove a point. The data was there as an example that you can construe different results from the same data. Given that data, you can make claims of "safety" quoting a lower murder rate, disregarding other factors such as improvements in emergency medical services and treatment of major wounds.

I'm not asserting whether things are safer or not. Im asserting that judging "safer" cannot be accurately done with metrics such as "murder rate".

MFogleman

il y a 5 ansdiscuss

If Adam shoots Bill with the intent to kill him, leaves the scene, and paramedics rush Bill to the hospital, and he lives, Bill is not murdered. Bill was the victim of an aggravated assault

I can't vouch for the reliability of this source[1], but it will serve for my example here. The murder rate in the US was 5 and 5.1 in 1960 and 2019 respectively. The aggravated assault rate was shot from 86 to 250.

Life didn't get safer, we just got better at saving lives.

Then again, this looks like its probably based on UCR data, which is sent to the FBI from local/state law enforcement. I imagine there are certain demographics, especially in 1960s America, that didn't get crimes against them reported with full accuracy.

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Especially regarding crime. "Gun violence" can include suicide in some reporting systems, and not in others. Some will put a shooting at a bank robbery in with the same category as a single mother shooting an intruder in her home, and some wont.

My point is that the subject of safety is far more complicated than "See, less people are dead, it's safer". Imagine a special forces team of 20 conducts 100 hostage rescues in a year, gets in a firefight in every one, takes multiple injuries, but no one dies. Now imagine the logistics unit of 20 that performs maintenance, paperwork, administrative functions, etc, at a forward operating base has one of their members crushed by a vending machine.

1 in 20 people in logistics died, 0 in 20 in the special ops team died. Most people would not reasonably argue that the logistics team was more dangerous.

[1]http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

Just wanna make sure I got this right. "ASS", automatic instant suspension with 0 human review.

"King's Throne: Game of Lust.", with advertised gameplay content such as "I, [the King], shall interrogate this female prisoner privately in my bed chambers", is one of the top advertised games on google play.

Got it.

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

I dont have citations on hand, but my understanding is that this claim is largely attributed to a single/small amount of studies of dubious validity funded by US Beef industry, and that when you look at populations that have much higher soy intake, their estrogen levels are not elevated/are lower than similar US populations.

Grain of salt and all that, just offering a lead for those curious of the counter argument

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

Readers may also find the Copiale cipher[1] interesting. It has been around since the 1700s, unsolved, until 2011 when a team figured out (with the help of a computer or 2) it was a homophonic german cipher, and decoded the whole thing.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copiale_cipher [2]https://www.wired.com/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

There are a few. I am using VSCodeVim[1] with the default settings (besides the typical `jj` command)

I love it, and using anything else feels weird. I remember having some problems with it before as well, but I haven't bothered looking at the settings or anything for months. I had to go back just now to see if I had any weird configs set up, (I don't)

[1]https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim.git

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

I'm not from Europe, but if I saw "BBC converts night images to perfect daylight in ~1 second", I would assume it meant the British Broadcasting Corporation. CNN is just as big of a name. His point is absolutely relevant.

Said differently: The percentage of people who are not from the US - but are aware of CNN as the Cable News Network, is higher than the percentage of people who are not machine learning experts - but are aware of CNN as a Convolutional Neural Network

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

I 100% believe every anecdote you just presented. I'm sorry that those things happened, especially when unpunished. As you said, cops are just people. Most people are okay. Some are heros, some are monsters. Weeding out the monsters is notoriously difficult, especially when a profession like law enforcement has definite appeal to them. It also appeals to the heros.

I can give anecdotes about friends who are cops that risked their lives to save strangers, even the bad guys. I know more than 1 cop who arrested a guy, and had the suspects family thank them for how they saved their life in the process.

I can also bring up anecdotes about how people who were so passionate about security were also criminals hiding criminal deeds. I could assume, and assert, that since I've personally seen people use their phones' security to hide evidence of murder, and infant rape, that all people who care about their phones' security are the same.

But that'd be a disservice. It'd be a disservice to those who legitimately care about security for legitimate reasons, because freedom is important, and fragile. It'd be a disservice to others who aren't sold on either side of the discussion. And it'd be a disservice to myself in that it makes me seem very narrow minded and narrow viewed. Its letting fear overcome observation.

There are 700,000 cops in America alone. Undoubtedly some are unqualified garbage. Some are malicious monsters. Some are believe the ends justify the means. Some are paragons of truth and justice. Some aren't malicious, or dumb, but only care about their careers and are shortsighted with all else. We can't make sweeping statements either way, it does nothing to help.

There have undoubtedly been cases of cops using rubber hose decryption. There have been warrants falsified intentionally and unintentionally.

But cops wanting to be able to execute search warrants on phones isn't as simple as "We want more power, more control". There are countless legitimate cases of human trafficking, murder, and sadly worse. We, as a society, have to figure this stuff out. We have to find the balance between "Give us all your secrets" and "Do whatever you want without question".

But we can't have this conversation to find the balance, until we admit that we are on a scale.

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

Do you have a citation that police are as _equally willing_ to beat a password out of someone as they are to use existing tool to image a phone in compliance with a lawfully obtained and executed search warrant?

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

I was a cellebrite certified operator/analyst. The answer is a combination of "The iPhone is that secure" and "Androids usually aren't".

The tools that Cellebrite sells will handle all but the most recent iPhones and maybe the most recent Androids. The newer the iPhone, the less likely a law enforcement officer is gonna have the tools to get into it. Cellebrite offers a service where you can ship them the phone and let their techs go at it. Whether it is because of legitimate limitations in their technology, or purely a marketing/commercial limitation, is unknown.

In general, any non-i{hone is Android. Most Androids are garbage phones that are sold by the dozen in the bottom of a bin at a gas station. Security isn't something its creator or buyer is really concerned about.

I have been out of the field for a few years, so things may have changed slightly in either direction, but I imagine its the same general concept. Newer is harder to break into, brand new iPhone model is probably impossible for now.

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

CSGO just broke their record # of players at one time, at around 900,000[1].

Steam alone regularly has over 10,000,000 people logged in at a time [2].

I think saying "Adults dont want a tower PC" is a pretty wide sweeping statement. I agree about Alyx. If they release a full length game that has the same level of quality that Half-life 2 had, with the same level of mod and customization support, that is going to be the tipping point. If VR is still a sub-niche in gaming/PCs, we won't see it takeoff for another 20+ years. But we may see it become the new standard.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/808630/csgo-number-playe....

[2]https://store.steampowered.com/stats/

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

Oh man, I'm glad i'm not the only one. Please let me know if you have a solution. It is really difficult to, in a kind way, tell my generous friends and family, "Please don't buy my kids anything. We have more clothes than we need, more toys than we need. They are just going to play with it today then throw it in front of the already overflowing toy box because we literally have no place to put it"

The closest solution we've gotten is to not do that, but instead use it as an opportunity to talk to the pre-schooler about charity and sharing with the less fortunate, eventually leading him to the "lets give our extra toys we don't play with very much to other kids" thought.

MFogleman

il y a 6 ansdiscuss

While googling for "combinators birds", I received an Angelfire.com page[1] as the #1 search result in google, which I thought was fairly impressive.

[1] http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/cus/combinator/birds.html

MFogleman

il y a 7 ansdiscuss

Proton is pretty great, but there are hardware limitations. Im running a pretty old video card. I can run games like Deep Rock Galactic on Windows, but it wont work on Linux as Proton needs newer linux drivers, which don't support my card, in order to run that game.

MFogleman

il y a 7 ansdiscuss

Rocket League's creator, Psyonix, was bought by Epic last year. The is concern/belief that this move is a precursor to making Rocket League an Epic Store exclusive, as the Epic store is Windows only.

Psyonix stated that they would offer refunds for Linux/ macOS users. In the first few days post announcement, everyones' refund was being denied. It appears that this has since been resolved. I received my refund yesterday.

MFogleman

il y a 7 ansdiscuss

For anyone looking at picking up Ramda, the docs at ramdajs.com are great API docs, but don't tell you a thing about how to actually use lenses, transducers, and point free data last functions with pipes. Randy Coulman has a great list of guides on how to actually use Ramda on his blog[1]. Start at the bottom with the introduction and work your way up.

https://randycoulman.com/blog/categories/thinking-in-ramda/

MFogleman

il y a 7 ansdiscuss

I mean, I think one of the big arguments against a pipeline operator is that you can easily roll your own with

  const pipe = (...fxs) => x => fxs.reduce((v, f) => f(v), x);

If you're going to pull in ramda for example, they have their own pipe, and a map function that takes (predicate, array) as curried arguments, to aid with composition import { map, pipe, range, sum } from 'ramda';

    pipe(
      range,
      map(i => i * i),
      sum
    )(0, 6)

I haven't messed with HN formatting before, so I hope that turns out right. My team uses Ramda and pipes regularly in our Node code, and its absolutely wonderful

MFogleman

il y a 7 ansdiscuss

50% write their passwords down in a notebook or sticky note near their computer[1]

1% use a password manager[1]

[1]%100 of these stats are assumed

MFogleman

il y a 7 ansdiscuss

Im a big fan of a cli program called tldr[1].

Usually when the internet says "Run these commands", they either don't tell you what they do, or tell you to just check `man`. The problem is that man pages can be super long, can have a somewhat intimidating syntax, and 1,000 flags that arent your flag. Running `tldr program_name` gives you a way simpler manual with common flags and actual examples.

[1]https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

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