y7

15 ms·

121.
by y7 6y ago
LaTeX indeed mostly works. But, I do think it could be a lot better. For example, today while writing a paper, I ran into a compilation issue that gave me the following error message: ! Undefined control sequence. <write> ...\pr
122.
by y7 6y ago
Pfizer's press release with more information: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201109005539/en/ - Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in particip
123.
by y7 6y ago
They're usually inaccessible if the system already suspects you of being a bot.
124.
by y7 6y ago
> Honestly, I feel like everyone would be better off if instead of reCAPTCHA, websites just used some service that automatically blocks proxies. That's even worse than reCAPTCHA. At least as a human using Tor you have some shot at
125.
by y7 6y ago
A browser that first wants your email address, and then sends your entire browsing history to its maker. No thanks. > Our servers automatically record certain information about how you use our Services (we refer to this information as “L
126.
by y7 6y ago
Enrol is the preferred spelling outside North America. https://grammarist.com/spelling/enrol-enroll/
127.
by y7 6y ago
All tabs opened in private windows share the same "container", which gets cleared once you close the last private tab. With temporary containers, all your tabs are in independent containers.
128.
by y7 6y ago
Hear hear. All "just use an alternative" does is temporarily shift the problem. And then tomorrow an article appears highlighting Windows 10's invasive telemetry and people say "yeah just use macOS".
129.
by y7 6y ago
> Could it be done with tech? Uh, as shown in numerous democratic countries like Norway and other European countries, you don't need tech for this. You just need something that isn't first-past-the-post.
130.
by y7 6y ago
> There's nothing wrong with the idea of gameifying piano I wonder whether that's actually true. Or maybe it depends on what level you're trying to achieve. If you want to become a good piano player, the feedback mechanism
131.
by y7 6y ago
Given that Mojave is the last version of macOS that supports 32-bit programs and arbitrary kexts, and that doesn't have ridiculous call-home mechanics for every program invocation, I hope Apple supports Mojave for as long as possible.
132.
by y7 6y ago
Because it leads to fragmentation. If developers have a choice of app stores, then users have to install ALL app stores if they want access to the entire market. This happened with streaming services as well: when Netflix was the only promi
133.
by y7 6y ago
Note that a geometric series can also be a multiple, e.g. (a, a r, a r^2, ...). It converges if and only if |r| < 1.
134.
by y7 6y ago
The conjecture by Erdős is the following: if A ⊂ ℕ is such that Σ_{n ∈ A} 1/n diverges, then A contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. Bloom and Sisask now proved that A contains infinitely many length-3 arithmetic progressi
135.
by y7 6y ago
Why should that be due to protectionism? There could be any number of reasons why the EU has so few large tech companies compared to the US. For example: 1. Costs on top of salary are more expensive in the EU (better worker's rights, m
136.
by y7 6y ago
Apparently it's still in the developer agreement you have to sign in order to be allowed onto the App Store [1]. Apple can't really blame people for spreading misinformation if the only reason this isn't true is that they usu
137.
by y7 6y ago
I just switched to this setup from Cookie Autodelete (or something similar), and I'm really happy with it. For some websites where you want to always login you can also set a URL to automatically open in a certain container.
138.
by y7 6y ago
I'm guessing the majority of his income for these videos comes from Patreon, although with his current 167 subscribers at $5 or $12 per month it's not a living wage.
139.
by y7 6y ago
So the author offers two alternatives: 1. Using docker-secret inside of a Docker swarm 2. Using Keywhiz [1], a Java server together with a FUSE client. This seems overkill for a lot of cases. If environment variables are such a security pro
140.
by y7 6y ago
I use git a lot, and I like the speed and decentralized nature. But I do think there's much to be improved. Named branches don't really exist in git: there's only a moving target name that refers to a leaf node. This means th
141.
by y7 6y ago
For those photos of you and your partner you made the conscious decision to take them, perhaps even weighing the risks of them being compromised at some point. This is very different from a video feed being captured of you unknowingly. That
142.
by y7 6y ago
Maybe it's that once a platform achieves a certain size then the potential of making real money comes into view, and that starts to be the objective to optimize for. That means employing typical short-sighted stock boosting strategies
143.
by y7 6y ago
It's lambda encoded as a unary vector, i.e. a vector (1, ..., 1) of lambda ones. It means KeyGen is parametrized by a natural number lambda, like KeyGen(lambda). The notion is from computer science or complexity theory I think. The rea
144.
by y7 6y ago
Yes, all existing FHE schemes have this property (called semantic security). The encryption algorithm is a randomized algorithm, which takes the plaintext and a random value as input (just like an IV). Note that we're talking about pub
145.
by y7 6y ago
Applications and hardware drivers on Mac just work. Even Homebrew works pretty nicely. The visuals of Mac are vastly superior to any flavor of Linux I've tried: smooth graphics, font rendering, HiDPI support, etc. Some aspects of Mac h
146.
by y7 6y ago
I've also done this. Maybe a good rule would be to just write the function for the single type you need it for, and only introduce a generic type parameter when the need for it arises?
147.
by y7 6y ago
If you're secret-sharing a symmetric key then you're dealing with computational security anyway, but you do get some notion of integrity for free. As you said, given a reconstructing set of shares you can tell whether all shares a
148.
by y7 6y ago
Neither. Mathematical notation and programming languages serve two different purposes, and I think they both work pretty well for what they're designed to do. Math papers are about communicating with other humans, so they use the short
149.
by y7 6y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23256050
150.
by y7 6y ago
I like the security-mindedness of Signal, but some of their choices baffle me. They go through all this trouble to create an encrypted cloud storage, which many people in the target audience of Signal do not want, while not even giving iOS

More ›