<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fc417fc802</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fc417fc802</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:47:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fc417fc802" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fc417fc802 in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So if the death camps hadn't been for the purpose of genocide but rather for disposing of the poor or convicted criminals or perhaps those suspected of being illegal immigrants would that have made them okay? It seems to me that "I'm not sure we have camps where we're committing genocide in the states" is largely irrelevant to the issue at hand.</p>
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<p>You misunderstood, the meaning was roughly "one who claims his actions to be virtuous".</p>
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<p>Not just some, approximately all of them. It greatly complicates the logistics of a black start. † Of course that situation has additional complexity due to the need for substantial additional power in order for the various fuel supply systems to operate but I digress.<p>† <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start</a></p>
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<p>Yes, obviously, but key (/account/identity/etc) management is typically a much narrower and well defined problem to solve and in many cases it will already have been solved (centralized management of user accounts, employee ID cards that contain physical tokens, and other such things).</p>
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<p>I think that's true for widgets but it becomes much more opaque when it comes to digital services, particularly those that handle sensitive information. Sure there's govcloud and fedramp these days but if the US federal government had chosen to build that hardware out in house I think that would have been a reasonable decision. It's similar to private versus in house security personnel where there are arguments in favor of both.</p>
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<p>The necessary bits to facilitate that could be added on top of the existing protocol in a manner that doesn't break existing clients. Essentially it amounts to an out of band registration of the expected sender with your own server, likely by means of a short proxy code or phrase. Couple with key exchange to facilitate an E2EE extension at the same time, while also dodging the logistical issue that would otherwise arise when a sender has multiple addresses or the sending address changes.</p>
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<p>Well fair enough, although I find that rather surprising. If I understand you correctly selling anything more expensive than cheap food to a child carries a high degree of risk in Germany.<p>Then again, maybe making it impossible for a child to pawn expensive items for cash isn't such a bad idea. At least there shouldn't be any loopholes given the way Germany went about it.</p>
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<p>> whether a transformer of sufficient scale is feasible on current hardware<p>Just because a particular approach (such as a neural network or transformer) <i>can</i> approximate something doesn't necessarily mean it can do so efficiently. However I share what I infer to be your suspicion that executive function can in fact be easily modeled. I think it's likely to develop on its own depending on the training methodology used.</p>
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<p>Well yes, if you hand your keys over that is indeed a problem. Of course handing your keys over to the provider rather defeats the purpose of E2EE so hopefully no one is doing that.<p>Key escrow is the usual solution to an employer needing access to employee materials.</p>
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<p>I'd understand contracting a commercial provider to run the government infra, with extensive contractual obligations surrounding exactly how data is to be handled. What's wild to me is turning government bureaucrats loose to send and receive likely very sensitive information using the third party provider of their choice.</p>
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<p>If a child goes through the checkout at the grocery store with cash, can the parent march in and demand a refund because "he's underage so the contract is void"? A credit card was used. Why should aws care about the details? (Other than the potential for the card to be stolen ofc.)</p>
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<p>Ah. Just a blatant inaccuracy on wikipedia I take it. That does make a bit more sense.</p>
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<p>I don't follow. Are you saying that BigCorp would demand key escrow? They already deploy custom email solutions today so I don't see the issue.</p>
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<p>Given that the cryptography would necessarily be asymmetric verifying the sender on a TOFU basis seems like a trivial addition (just sign something). I doubt you can do better than TOFU though unless you tie it to an external ID system (corporate or government or etc issued hardware tokens or similar).</p>
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<p>It's mind blowing that government bureaucrats would be permitted to use commercial providers for official business at all. The provider being foreign is merely the cherry on top.<p>I was going to ask why something like mail.gov.nl doesn't exist but it turns out [0] (edit: wikipedia is full of lies) that they don't have a reserved second level domain for official government services to use? Is this really one of the countries pushing digital IDs?<p>> Official second-level domains do not exist.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nl" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nl</a></p>
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<p>This is entirely the wrong lesson to take from this. Why are we still using a plaintext protocol in this day and age? Why can we not get an E2EE addition to the email protocol with full backwards compatibility?<p>Yes, I understand that it would be imperfect since inevitably not all servers would support it thus forcing additional understanding and decisions on the end user. No, I don't care that a user other than myself might leak my messages in plaintext. Perfectionism in this regard only serves to further shoot us in the foot. Yes, I understand that key distribution is a difficult problem but then that's the case no matter the protocol. Other protocols have solutions that work reasonably well at this point.<p>There's no justification for the current status quo.<p>Alternatively I'd be fine using matrix for all my PII related needs (healthcare, government, subscription services, etc, etc) but somehow I don't see that happening any time soon.</p>
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<p>You misspelled insta-win. Infinite turn combos are the best.</p>
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<p>Those things sound less like general problems with rules engines and more like deficiencies of card forge IMO.</p>
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<p>> because of uncertainty on how it would affect it.<p>Have the LLM submit a proposed move and either advance the game state or reply "permission denied, try again". Probably also log the number of times it happens since attempted violations seems like a valuable signal as well.</p>
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<p>That isn't even remotely what I said though. Indeed I'm in favor of that in the end. But you're trying to invoke "just one more" when realistically we haven't even started for real yet. So it seems more like you just want to entirely skip the sterile part of exploration where we're careful not to cross contaminate. Which is certainly a valid position (though I disagree with it) but I think you should be up front about that.</p>
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