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christophclarke | 5 years ago | on: The Future of Online Identity Is Decentralized

On the other hand, however, the outcomes of a breach are vastly different. An individual who fails to secure their information is liable for only their information. If a "big-tech" is compromised, they are liable for everyone's information.

If users are still unwilling to run their own infra, then that seems like a great opportunity for Identity as a Service. I'd feel much more comfortable handing identity to a firm whose entire business model revolves around securing my information and protecting my privacy rather than a big-tech.

christophclarke | 6 years ago | on: People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”

This seems to play very well with some of MIT CSAIL's research in training robots to be able to manipulate objects they haven't seen before.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9U8X6I1vow [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06684

TL;DR the objects are grouped into categories which determine the "Key points" on the objects (similar to this 'skeleton') which the robot knows how to interact with in order to bring about the intended manipulation.

christophclarke | 6 years ago | on: Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2

It seems like they're selling ASICs. It would be useful in something like an embedded system where you train a model beforehand, deploy it, and then let it go. On top of speed improvements, they're generally more efficient, so something running on battery power could last longer.

christophclarke | 6 years ago | on: Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues

Crimes committed against the United States are seen as crimes committed in the United States. This is an issue of sovereignty, as there is no (for most intents and purposes) higher, international court to pursue the case in. Therefore, the case is tried in the United States. It's similar to any other foreign national conspiring in crime in the United States. They don't have to physically be in a country to break a country's laws.

The country that the individual was in when the crime was committed can certainly handle the issue and not extradite, however, generally these agreements avoid that.

This existed before the internet as well.

christophclarke | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you keep your files organized on macOS? 

  ~/Code/
      L python/
          L project1/
          L ...
      L dotnet/
      L web/
      L work/
      L ...
  ~/Documents/
      L school/
          L Spring2019/
          L ...
      L personal/
      L work/
That's about all I really access other than Downloads which is a huge mess that gets purged every so often. Anything of lasting value gets moved out of there asap.

~/Documents/ is backed up to iCloud so I can access them anywhere. (Tip: Any directory you don't want to be backed up can be suffixed with ".nosync" e.g. SecretStuff.noSync).

This all started after getting into Go, which mandates a central directory under which all Go code is stored. [1] nesting scope also helps namespace resources.

[1] https://golang.org/doc/code.html#Overview

christophclarke | 7 years ago | on: Carbon Removal Technologies

The issue with the Kyoto Protocols (and most multilateral agreements) is that there is no recourse from the international community for leaving the agreement. The only enforcement is for members, and there is no penalty against not being a member or real economic benefits for being a member.

There is a place for international agreements, but only if structured properly and flexible enough to change with the timescale they are meant to mature in.

christophclarke | 7 years ago | on: The Absolute Denial of Shit

But in slack emoji, you have to modify the universal standard for the workspace in order to add those emoji, and now you're back to where you started.

The whole benefit of Unicode is that anyone anywhere can see Unicode on any device that supports it, without introducing added complexity of sending the actual image over the message.

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