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Because the cars are self-driving they require updates to improve the autonomous software that controls them, including improvements related to security.

As for surveillance related to V2V communications, I fail to see how it meaningfully adds any surveillance over just monitoring the other electronic emissions from the car like those that emanate from the media centre or even the phones of those within the car.
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"there is NO country today which is as badly off as EVERY country was 200 years ago" - I can name a few middle east countries that are worse off...and some African countries as well.

I think something else that needs to be considered is that all these years since 1945 Germany was held in check. This is increasingly not the case anymore and no matter how modern and progressive we think we are Germany always seems to have a penchant for starting wars. This time around, with them in control of the entire EU, it won't be so pretty and it is likely we will not last through it.
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I do DevOps, with a heavy focus on the Infrastructure side, and there is a comical amount of misinformation buried throughout that article.

I don't have the background to comment on the reverse-merger, but the VMware-AWS partnership is generally regarded as a smart move, giving Amazon access to enterprise customers who weren't moving to the cloud, and giving VMware a way to get in on that sweet Cloud OpEx budget.

VMware has been doing a pretty good job of being the SDN one stop shop for companies that want that, and selling SDN components a la carte where required.
I have no incentive. US-CERT should offer rewards. I'm not worried about labels on HN but I am concerned about what shows up on officer Wendy's screen when I want to enter the USA.
Not sure I agree. It seems to me that "claiming the world is in decline and a state of moral depredation" has always been primarily a cheap way of bringing attention to yourself, your cause, and gaining popular support. Which is why, for example, journalists love writing doom&gloom articles.

Also, if anything, everyone preaching doomsday makes people depressed, disinterested and detached. If the world is falling apart, what could possibly an individual do? IMO we need the exact opposite now - an optimistic tone that tells people that while there are problems, things are looking up, we're winning, and yes, you can help too.
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One last reference, these are in contrast to peaker power plants [3] which can quickly start up and shut down as needed to cover high demand periods. Gas, hydro, and grid tied batteries fit into this category.

At least in the US, the grid runs as a market where as demand rises, plants bid their price to meet the demand. The energy price that they charge for these peaks is substantially higher than the base load price because you have to build enough power plants to meet the highest demand (else you get brownouts) and the peaker plants are only going to run for a small fraction of the time. The price they charge for that small time still has to cover all of the infrastructure cost.

Since the peak energy price is so high, that makes a good opportunity for batteries to jump in. Tesla's recent Australian battery project is a great showcase of that.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant
I'm not arguing with their methods but I think there is an alternative explanation to their data: naked mole rats might still have gompertzian aging but with an exponent that is low enough to not show up at the age of 30 or so. Humans also don't display any signs of biological aging up to the age of 30, but around 70 everything starts to fall apart. My point is, until we have a decent sample size of 70+-year-old naked mole rats, we won't know.
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That is criminal.
That doesn't make it any less clunky or sluggish.
>usually, but wrongly, called "Western culture" or "American culture"

Usually, but not wrongly. Not only because bona fide American culture (even morals and soapiness) are the majority of what's replacing local cultures, but also because the little of regional cultures that becomes international does so after it passes from an American filter/lens.

>Personally, I don't mind the universal culture. But then, I'm just comfortable in it; many people are not, and cling to their local traditions.

In other words, you don't mind a base monoculture and the loss of untold regional treasures and ways of human expression.
...at a time at which they're unprepared for making financial decisions.
> A lot depends on your viewpoint. What you call "unprecedented levels of inequality" is, at the same time, unprecedented rise in quality of life for pretty much everyone

That kind of assumes “quality of life” is a simple function of absolute material wealth and not strongly influenced by relative position. While certainly many people have moral beliefs that that should be the case, there is plenty of reason in all of human history to believe that it is not in fact the case.
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I used to fill the pits with balsamic vinegar and chopped garlic and smear it on rye toast. FANTASTIC.
The reason we can trust Matrix is that it's free software, and it's decentralized.
Snowflake is most definitely running multiple instances for anything but the smallest clusters. It's plausible that one warehouse might scale better as you increase the number of nodes but I would really be surprised if there was a big difference---the techniques for query execution are pretty well-known, so Redshift and Snowflake are probably doing the same things. I did a benchmark I while ago [1] and I'm definitely planning on adding multiple scales to evaluate how they compare as you increase data size.

[1] https://blog.fivetran.com/warehouse-benchmark-dce9f4c529c1
The UN and it's declaration have had nothing to do with the peace we have seen since 1945 - it has been becasue of Pax Americana...and with that on the way out we will see another major war in short order.
> An industrial control system that crashes when it receives an unexpected network request isn't built for someone that knows exactly what they are doing.

Yeah - I can see even the simplest of network vulnerability scans wreak havoc on a device like this.
> I'd argue that safety critical vehicle software should not be downloadable.

I'm not sure I'd go that far. OTA "automatic update" probably not a good idea. Downloadable/flashable at the dealer OK, no need to go as far as swapping out ROM modules.

Following avionics software engineering standards should be absolutely required. Entertainment/nav systems that require network access should be 100% air-gapped from the vehicle control systems.
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Taking a single family home off grid using slightly over sized solar and batteries is already cost competitive in most areas.

The real question is if economies of scale and the ability to shift demand across geographic areas offsets the cost of an electric grid + administrative overhead. Based on the constantly increasing rate of Solar deployments I can only assume this actually works out just fine.
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Amazing, yes. Scary, also.

If you're going to figure this out, please output a warning and ask me to call the optimized intrinsic or something.
Oh I'm blind. I didn't see that, thanks.
It's not nearly that simple.
You can use template meta-programming to make expressions both easy to read and efficient, by avoiding creation of temporary objects, fusion, lifting, etc. etc.

In some domains (e.g. linear algebra) this can be very powerful because you don't have write non idiomatic expressions just to feed the compiler things it can understand.
> Because the cars are self-driving they require updates to improve the autonomous software that controls them

This doesn’t follow.

> including improvements related to security.

This should not, under any circumstances, be a reasonable justification. Cars should not have any external attack surface, period. The ECU and any other critical electronics should not be networked at all. Unfortunately, that ship has long since sailed.

It should be possible for cars to be updated, but it should require physical access, and any mandatory update (e.g. due to a safety failure) should result in the manufacturer incurring heavy costs, e.g. you have to give every owner $1000. We have to internalize the externalities of shitty software, especially in stupendously dangerous machines like cars.
Yes, it is intentional. Apologies if unclear. This is an excerpt from his book: https://jtbd.info/1-challenges-and-hope-ddd7836df947
I bought my first legal weed in California yesterday and it was a very interesting experience. I don't usually smoke but I wanted to see what the store was like. It was strictly cash only. They had several ATM's installed in the building. Security was tight for this reason. It's hard to process that it's now legal.
at some point I just gave up, if you're going to be manipulating it - to dump it into a map. use the map for yourself and reserialize it if you're going to have children.
I felt this way when I started my current job, and still do, ha. I even tried to rewrite the whole codebase. What ended up happening is that my code never saw the light of day because my coworkers are simple folk. You have to write code that the rest of your coworkers will be willing to work with, which is often shit code.
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I still prefer classical scientific books. This book is too much tool driven. I need the actual concept.
> One of the problems I've had over the past year and a half is how to communicate this idea without:

> 1. Sounding like a crank.

> 2. Giving ideas to terrorists or hostile foreign governments.

#1 is this article's biggest problem. These problems are real, but I think the author sounds like a crank. (Based on the way this article is written, I suspect that the author actually is a crank--obsessed with security, but fundamentally lacking in the relevant skills to do anything about it.)

If the author is serious about this, here's what you do.

1. Become/join a non-profit organization. You want to be frequently quoted in the press, but not as "well-known software security expert Zach Aysan" but as "Zach Aysan, president of the Organization for Global Security."

2. Build your reputation by finding and earning credit for security problems. Do ethical reporting, but when the issues get fixed, exhibit them in a flashy way.

3. White papers, not blog posts. This "article" starts with a subtitle "with apologies to Elon Musk", followed by a personal dedication to Zach's father. This is not the tone of a white paper from a think tank.

The subtitle of the post should be the thesis statement of the article. "Self-driving cars lack adequate security protections." The first paragraph should be an executive summary of the argument of the post. Each paragraph should support the thesis statement.

Have someone read your articles; update your work based on their feedback. Thank them in the footer.

4. Separate "how to" articles from arguments. This article is long because it is both attempting to persuade the reader that we haven't invested enough effort into securing critical systems and also to give a list of proposals. These should be separate articles, with one article arguing why security is important, and another article giving a list of proposals.
I have a large avocado plant that I grew from a pit. At only 2.5 years old, it's about 3 feet tall. Definitely won't be ready for fruit any time soon. Maybe when my grandchildren are born (for the record, I do not yet have children).
> I don't understand how high avocado prices could cause Chipotle to loose money. Guacamole is an optional add on why wouldn't they just raise the price of the guacamole to reflect the market price of avocado

Potentially because then price sensitive people to whom avocado is important to enjoyment of the Chipotle menu items compared to other meal alternatives will instead not eat at Chipotle, so Chiptle will lose more money.
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> They rebutted that individual cars are much easier to hack and after they are first used in a terror attack we will get the political will to fix the problem.

Was that meant to be a joke? Sure, they can establish a new standard that will apply to all the new car models coming out four years later. But who actually expects hundreds of millions of cars that are already on the market, to receive a software overall with a new architecture?

This is why it has always bothered me that almost no one seems to bring this problem to the forefront - certainly not carmakers. They're all too focused on how awesome self-driving technology will be and how it will save us from drunk drivers. Thus, disregarding the fact that once we have 100 million to 2 billion self-driving cars on the road, that will be a huge market for cyber criminals, from ransomware and cryptojacking (hello powerful GPU computer + free solar power charging!) to assassinations.

And before anyone says "how much harder it is to hack a car than a PC", consider the fact that most cars today aren't actually connected to the internet. And most of those that are, only have their entertainment systems connected to the internet. Self-driving cars will be able to receive OTA updates that will improve their engine, steering, and brake performance = the OTA software has access to everything.

Combine this level of access to the high level of recklessness in the name of profits carmakers seem to be showing today, when they advertise features such as "unlocking your doors through an app".

EFF's former chair and someone who worked on Google's Waymo, has some decent ideas about how to protect self-driving cars, if only carmakers would listen:

http://ideas.4brad.com/disconnected-car-right-security-plan-...
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Carbon capture seems like a bigger wildcard to me than battery technology. Battery technology has been improving pretty steadily and will likely continue to do so.

Capturing carbon from coal power plants adds cost to something that is already not cost effective. Capturing carbon in the atmosphere likely will require huge amounts of power - and if its not 100% renewable power its kind of pointless.

Nuclear is better than coal or natural gas, but there have been some high profile failures lately and the lead time on new nuclear is so high, as well as the sticker price.
If you haven't gotten rid of the phobia by 40, what makes you think your preference will change?

Also -- you've never even had guacamole? Or a California roll? Are you some kind of picky eater?
The operator should never be in harms way period. If they are working on equipment it should be physically locked out, say a valve would have a 6" diameter pin through the mechanism and a padlock on it so the pin can't be removed except by the operator, and electrical equipment is powered off and the breaker is locked in the off position. If they put themselves in harms way they will eventually be fired for unsafe work.

bad updates are bad updates. they are incompetence on the part of the programmer. but the worst they should be able to cause is minor equipment malfunction or the physical system has been poorly designed.
Dell acquired EMC in 2015 and already owns 80% of VMware. This is just talking about DELL doing a "reverse-merger" with VMware as a way to get back into the public markets.
Is this like an annual resolution where we just choose one thing to be worried about?
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It was what stopped the British led allied bombing which had escalated out of the Blitz. Dresden was not a military target and its destruction killed so many civilians that they stopped night time bombing raids.
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> On Windows, once the file is open, it is that filename that is open; You can't rename or delete it;

I am not sure about deletion, but one of my programs has been using the ability to rename itself to do updates for the last 15 years.
When Oliver Twist was published (1838), a third of the British population couldn't read[1].

[1] https://www1.umassd.edu/ir/resources/laboreducation/literacy...
I think the human brain is capable of only grasping so much abstraction. I'm sure every genius working in the deepest areas of advanced mathematics has heard of deep learning. If there was some amazing concept from their field directly applicable to deep learning we would have heard about it by now.
Really? Watch the video. Note where the top-right corner started 200 years back, and where the bottom-left corner ended when the video was taken. And yes, the world has continued to improve since.

The world has improved more than most realize. More than I did until I watched that video more closely.
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There is always a lesser evil to tackle as each evil is eliminated.

This doesn’t mean that eliminating evil is trivial or isn’t worthwhile.

One day we will all be focused on the war on hangnails.
But has riot.im really been bought? Isn't this just providing the riot.im developers with more time and developmental resources to push forward with?
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I work in the industry and I can definitely say that these things aren't built to be internet facing, but nor should they be.
It's social cachet. You get to show off. You could decide to not care what clothes you're wearing, or you could be someone who likes to show off their labors.

This isn't important to the "game" - you can still win/lose just as well - but it's an important social aspect for those who want to show off. (I make no judgement on those who like to flaunt the fancy gear - it just makes me want to beat them even more while wearing ugly game-cosmetics that I didn't pay anything for.)
The Dresden firebombing is very well known outside of Germany. And if you've seen the 'before' and 'after' pictures of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden you won't be surprised that people consider them to be on the same scale.
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In my case, I became "that guy" and aggressively pressured people I know to switch to it, even if it's just to communicate with me. The way to get people to switch is one person at a time.

I know it's annoying, and I do avoid doing such things in general. I'd have never done it to get people to switch from proprietary centralized service X to proprietary centralized service Y.

But Matrix/Riot is special and worthy of such evangelism. It's the first federated secure IM system with a good user experience and instant messaging desperately needs to move away from today's proprietary walled garden hellscape.

I had hoped XMPP would pull it off, but it didn't. For a time it seemed Google Talk would make that happen, but Google bait and switched us.

I'm hoping that Matrix/Riot can pull off what XMPP failed to do (and Google arguably actively sabotaged), and I'm willing to strain friendships with social pressure to convert people one person at a time.

Because that's how you build movements. One person at a time.
> It's a bit like the Fermi Paradox.

During the late 90's and early 00's I often wondered why with all of the Microsoft hate why someone didn't create a simple virus that did something destructive like just format windows hard drives. There must have been other incentives at play that caused this to never occur. Perhaps in the same logic if you can infect every Tesla it is more valuable to not crash them, but instead scrub the data and sell that back to [insert company] or something.

If there was ever something that would cause a formal programming guild to sprout I would be willing to bet that it would form its roots around security.
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> Being completely transparent is the only option for any stablecoin claiming to be backed by real USD

U.S. dollar backed "stable coins" share an inherent flaw. There is no way to safely house large quantities of U.S. dollars without knowing their beneficial owners. It's prima facie what anti-money laundering laws are meant to prohibit. If a country wanted to flout American international jurisdiction that boldly, they'd do better simply re-permitting anonymous numbered bank accounts.
There's probably not a lot of leverage for the Federal government to interfere in basic state and local budget issues. DC's efforts in the past to use federal funding to influence state behavior has had mixed results. And there's probably not much will in Washington to do anything about it anyway. Unfortunately, that only leaves local agitation as the remaining viable option.
Also worth noting that even a 30% tariff on panels just makes them cost about what they did in 2015. It does nothing to the other significant costs of solar tech - inverters, supporting structures, land, installation labor.

At worst it will delay solar adoption by a couple of years.
Ya this resonates with me more. We are seeing the rolling back under the current US presidential administration of so many things we thought were done deals. Things like Bears Ears National Monument getting turned over to private corporations for uranium mining. And a thousand more issues just like that, of weighing the value of the priceless against the profitable. Or misdirection in the cause of various forms of human suffering away from the very people and institutions that caused it.

I think what a lot of people (especially modern day conservatives) don't realize is that this stuff requires never-ending vigilance. The natural tendency of human progress is towards authoritarianism and totalitarianism, and the eventual complete exploitation of people and resources.

Where some people today see a spoiled youth glued to their smartphones and spending all of their money on flatscreen TVs, I see a generation disenfranchised with literally no say in any aspect of their regulatory system. No say over how much money they make, no recourse when multinational corporate monopolies charge them excessively for education, health, even things as basic as untainted food. Earning a fraction of the income their parents had when adjusted for inflation.

So no, this is nothing even remotely close to the future we're capable of. We're just comfortable enough to miss the injustices being carried out against us and the planet, often in our own names.
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Like which ones? And I do agree but going from theory to practice can be super tricky.
wait what? using a whole linux kernel as firmware before booting another OS to improve speed, reliability, security? does this seem strange to anyone else?