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>> ... the orders of magnitude of difference in effectiveness between a cohesive, trained and organised force and a bunch of individuals

True for a head-on conflict, but the story in the article has the organised forces' equipment in a vulnerable place - 65Kft above a city.

Asymmetric activity in such a theatre would favour the armed civilian, for now at least.

Ground-based coordinated tracking with 1W laser on rudimentary automatic control could ground such devices. The gas-bag being a large, vulnerable target.

The relative ease of downing a tracking device, capturing, reverse-engineering then publicly reporting its capabilities should help keep them in check. For now.
Go to China? You don't have to imagine.

Well the UK isn't much better now.
How many weeks of protest are in Paris now? It hasn't appeared to change anything.
I think "sacrifice" is used as a verb at least as frequently as a noun. To me it's unambiguously a verb here as "Maya" is a noun ("Mayan" is the adjective).
Try https://cancel.fm/ripcord/, if you want to give them a try.
I’m sure he got flagged many times and used several accounts for this scheme.

Amazon bans you very fast for high return rates like this.
This is only a half step removed from being required to buy and use some specific brand.
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https://www.dell.com/support/incidents-online

https://bugcrowd.com/dell
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Companies building and selling pre-built computers are probably the main customer base. This specific one is probably a bit too expensive to end up in your average office machine, but I could see companies with higher requirements (like CAD etc.) use it.
You are confusing average with median. Normal is colloquially used as average.
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Easy. Just destroy Google. Done.
This comment would make much more sense if AMZNs fuckup rates were much higher.
Sorry to be so blunt but fatalism is a pretty convenient thing. It dispenses one from having to put up a fight and saves one from any efforts that this might entail. I don't like this attitude as it only gets in the way of others who do not give up easily.
In the future which is rapidly closing in, everything is a "license." You own nothing. Nothing is transferrable or resellable by you. Things will feel like you own them, but you will not. Despite all the marketing and advertising telling you that you are "buying" something, you will actually only be able to secure a license to possess and use it. These licenses will restrict how you use the thing, and circumventing them will result in federal charges of violating the DMCA. These licenses will also not obligate the seller to anything whatsoever and be voidable at any time with no notice for any or no reason. This is already the case with most peoples 'ownership' of most media, and it is already spreading into other products. Farmers have had to fight John Deere for the right to repair their own tractors (they won temporary special exemptions which can only exist for 3 years at a time and have to be re-fought-for every 3 years) but still can't prevent their own tractors from reporting soil data back to John Deere which the company then sells to Monsanto and other companies.

None of the things you 'buy' will be fungible because they will all be discrete licenses locked to you personally and have no actual 'value.'
When companies have too much money that they start going wildly outside of their core market and product this is how you know they are a monopoly.

In an ideal market their competition in the core market should keep them focused on that market and striving to offer increasingly better value and quality for their core product, not chasing wild gooses with all the billions they got from their monopoly.
> Privacy violation is power.

This is the crux of it. Life is an asymmetric-information game, and the person with the most information (and the most ability to process that information) always wins. Any discussion of why privacy violation matters always comes down to this: The more your adversary knows about you, the weaker your bargaining position.
That's definitely the correct way to do this today. But even then `kill -9 $(< /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/tasks)` is not enough if your goal is to reliably kill all processes because that's not atomic. Instead you'll have to freeze all processes, send SIGKILL and then unfreeze.
You are lucky it's ordered through Amazon, had it been ordered on their own websites full of English errors, it will be the same response but no easy refund, after lengthy back and forth hassle with Paypal and credit card company you'd be lucky to have your money back.

While for these scammers, it's a super lucrative business, their whole cost is no more than 1 dollar, that means they can make money as long as not every single order was refunded.
I meant the NDA from the party where the bug is reported, Apple in this case.
I'm beyond flattered to hear this, thank you so much for writing this! Your paper is so nicely done that it definitely warrants an interesting discussion!

SLDNF resolution really does not terminate in many cases, also if no variables at all are involved. The "a :- a." example which I mentioned is such a case: Speaking in terms of resolution, the resolvent of ¬a and (a ∨ ¬a) is again ¬a, and so it continues if we simply blindly try to derive ⊥ and do not check for saturation of derived clauses. This program is also not subject to occurs check (s.t.o), so occurs check does not solve the problem either even though it is in itself a good idea to use.

Memoization in the sense of "remembering what has already been derived" does not improve termination either in this case, since nothing has been derived yet. You can easily implement a simple form of memoization within Prolog, but SLG resolution goes well beyond that and can improve not only performance but in fact even termination characteristics, as the above example shows.

An interesting reference that may serve as a useful starting point to implement tabling is the paper Tabling as a Library with Delimited Control by Desouter et al.:

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6880648/file/6885145.pdf

I'm looking forward to seeing more papers and slides from you about these topics, and to discussing them here, keep up the nice work!
Posted 1 week ago! Do you know what took them so long to realize this is the correct way to do it? Windows has had it for some two decades...
Because he most likely used tens if not hundreds of accounts to accomplish this.
>but on BSD and its variants like MacOS, the session ID isn’t present or always zero

Don't know about macOS, but session ID/pointer does present on FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
It matters because most people believe the opposite, because it's a misconception. A lot of people also think that it was believed the world was flat for centuries, but it was known to be spherical or spheroid since greek times.
In a sense adding the code to handle inputting the numbers wasn't even necessary, this easter egg is already readable by looking at the ROM dump itself, so already does its job that way
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The article actually talks about methane and nitrous oxide emissions and gives no numbers to allow any sort of comparison.
Yeah, isn't exactly half of Europe's soil always dryer than normal, by definition?
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How would you know how she teaches? One of her problems as a scholar is having ignorant geniuses claim all kinds of nonsense about the medeival times that are patently false. Her tone is to some extent a reflection of having to deal with those people.
Well the strict mathematical term doesn't even make sense because a scalar can't be perpendicular. Unless you're claiming the moisture is imaginary, I guess...
The novelty here is a further reduction in cost by mounting it on balloons, but gorgon stare platforms for total surveillance have been rolled out in cities in the U.S. for several years now with plane-mounted camera arrays. Baltimore’s PD deployed it in secret in 2016 with money from a private donor without even informing the mayor.

The cost is rapidly falling to the point of inevitability for government actors and possibility for private players. Amazon balloons could track your physical shopping behavior to better target you with ads. Criminals could observe people and car movements in entire neighborhoods to better target burglaries and carjackings. The genie is pretty much out of the bottle.
I've witnessed my father with dementia and a whole lot of other diseases (kidney failure, MS). He was happier in his last days^H^H^H^Hyears. Except for pain because of his back from lying down, an indirect result from his lower leg amputation.

(Somewhat related to the lucidity: he had good and bad days, and I never knew which one it was going to be before I went seeing him. This lead to both surprises and disappointments.

I also suspect my father used a lot of humor in his life as a way to memorize things. Because humor sticks. Now I remember all these dad jokes, and repeat the pattern with my daughter...)

Now, contrast to my mother in law. I'm currently the only person who speaks to her. Her 3 children are in fight with her, due to various reasons (well, I believe it all stems from autism which 2 of her 3 children now have a diagnosis for 1 of which she does not even know; and she surely has it as well, same for her oldest son). Her memory and brains are still quite well at the age of 77 (6 years older than my father when he passed away).

I don't have such a good memory, and it haunts me currently. It has haunted me all my life. Especially other people with autism have much, much better memory than I have.

I believe dementia has a rather clear purpose: to become happier in the last days of your life, to make life bearable.

Since I learned about this purpose, it makes it easier for me to know I have this gene. And more difficult to know how my partner is going to deal with the lack of dementia plus the occurrence of mine.

From my observations between my mother with my father, and myself with my father, it seems at first an internal struggle which the patient is trying to carefully hide. Eventually they admit it to other people. It seems that at some tipping point, the pain of dementia is more for the people who notice it, while the person with dementia does not suffer as much anymore.
> You keep saying it's somehow safer with the government involved.

It's certainly not less safe. In lots of places, there are precautions: spending limits, programs to combat gambling addiction etc.
Dryer than the 'average' dryness of all the soil, perhaps, but if normal is an expected range of values - the soil in this place is typically somewhere from here to here in dryness - then it's not that case.

Even if we are looking at the mean average, it's still not necessarily the case that half the soil will be on one side of the mean average; long tails tugs that mean average above and below the median.

But if what's meant here is the median, then yes, half will always be below.

Excuse me now while I go and beat myself up in the car park for being that person on HN.
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As a native speaker, sacrifice is a verb.
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The UK has put millions of its citizens in prison because of their religion?
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Good implemention! Also, it can be extended with other apps like Duolingo, but not sure if they have a API.
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https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp BPF

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src: https://cert.europa.eu/cert/filteredition/en/Vulnerabilities...
Judging by the replies in this thread, I fully expect someone to show up and explain that the soil is in fact perfectly sane.
By creating a extension which blocks AMP, for ourselves. But, if we really need to destroy AMP from internet. Unfortunately it is not really possible, unless if you have enough money to buy Google.
I tend to agree Jira is a bit of a mess, but the responsbility needs to be shared with the users.

- Why buy a complicated mess?
- Why let a random Scrum Master / Product Owner manage it?
- Why don't we think we need to protect an IT system we buy like an IT system?

Many of the reasons engineers hate Jira are specifically related it being a complicated mess that is hard to use and admin. So if management would listen to engineer about IT systems, maybe this wouldn't happen?

Another possibility is we actually did a risk assessment and what we put in Jira isn't of sufficent risk for us to care, so actually IT doesn't need to be involved because we're not super worried about it leaking.

There are likely worlds of both involved.

My own pet hate is just that it's too slow and often configured in a convoluted way that makes me spend too much time in it.
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I'm not sure Hacker News is for advertising.
Decentralisation is beautiful but it has one fatal weak spot: tragedy of the commons. That isn't some politicophilosophising; it is a mathematical fact (see game theory, which is consistently vindicated in this model). The only way to combat this is centralising governance of the resource being overused. Fishing is an example, and CO2 (a "negative" resource use which follows the same patterns).

I won't argue that the people in power are doing great, but I can guarantee you that throwing our hands in the air and giving up on centralisation entirely is not the answer. For the above reason. It's throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
You mean the element is moved offscreen, and has display: none; applied? And now you want to move it onscreen.

Do it entirely css. if you use a have a keyframe animation applied and remove display:none on clicking. The animation will fire immediately. Unlike trying to transition it without using keyframes.

example: https://jsfiddle.net/mr029o7h/ (sorry if its a bit messy haven't done this for a while)
They continuously track your financial data and sell it to VCs.
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> American Indians all considered white people intolerably dirty by their standards.

So American Indians were around during medieval times and bathed regularly. Post title upheld!
> Several of the [...] engineers stated their concerns about the O-rings and urged a delay, but the concerns didn't get communicated beyond the Level III Flight Readiness Review (FRR).

I think this is partially a fault of engineers, and/or the development/project model. They were not able to clearly state that no, it's a no-go, or yes, it's a go, they had "concerns". But that is probably useless. Therefore the problem is they lacked the conceptualization framework, a risk model, to state the severity of their concern, what is it based on, and someone should have been able to aggregate it and determine how this estimated risk influences the mission's overall risk.

That said, it is entirely the management's fault that they lacked this critical expertise/competence to manage risk and the project, and the engineers. (And naturally some of those managers themselves were engineers.)
It's a matter of cost and disincentives.

Want to pass a law that cuts on workers' rights in a country that typically doesn't protest? Sure, go ahead. Want to do that in France? You'll think twice about it after the clashes of 1st May and of the gilets jaunes.
Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20594802
Is that a joke? I found it absolutely insufferable. You're upset, I get it, now stop using the f word in every sentence.
Surprised to see that there are places in Cyprus where the soil is wetter than normal. I thought i live in a semi-desert. In addition, the climate is wetter in the southwest areas here (near Paphos) and dryer northeast, map shows it other way around. For example, bananas are commericaly grown around Paphos but won't be a viable cash crop east of Limassol.
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> SLDNF resolution really does not terminate in many cases, also if no variables at all are involved. The "a :- a." example which I mentioned is such a case [...]

I see! In a hurry, my mind substituted "A :- A.", but your example is indeed more interesting than that! Now I am curious as to how SLG resoultion deals with this case. This is definitely something I will look into at some point! At the moment I am at a stage where I am happy that my retract/1 implementation is respecting the logical view. :)

> I'm looking forward to seeing more papers and slides from you about these topics, and to discussing them here, keep up the nice work!

Thank you!
Unfortunately, as Linux has matured, many of its developers refuse to adapt technologies for the sole reason that it "stinks" of Microsoft.

Cutler and his team were pretty forward thinking given that NT is over 30 years old. See also: the async i/o headaches and the inability to WaitForSingleObject()/WaitForMultipleObjects() (or an analogue) in Linux.

It's a shame really.
Seems like the Bugcrowd link is only for their web services.

I sent them a ticket.
Or maybe it is that period of lucidity that enabled them to plan the act.
>"Cost has protected citizens of the world's liberal democracies from sliding into totalitarianism for a long time. Now the brakes are off. Surveillance technology costs are plunging across at the board and capabilities are skyrocketing."

That is false. The collective political will and desire to maintain Democratic institutions, not some prohibitive cost of surveillance capabilities, is what has saved us from totalitarianism.

You are putting the cart before the horse. Totalitarian states establish or use surveillance capabilities to maintain their own power, but many liberal democracies today have more expansive and effective surveillance than the Nazis or the Soviets could have come up with in even their wildest fever dreams.
And Norway is almost completely mountains, yet most of their soil doesn't seem too badly affected.
“I don’t think it’s possible to have such breadth and size of userbase and use-cases without a non-trivial increase in build complexity.”

But why? What in full-flexible geometry and linear problem solving prevents us to support diverse userbases or devices?

I’m not speaking about throwing away accessibility support or using fixed-size medium. I’m simply asking for sane math-based rather than MSWord-based primitives.
The article is about surveillance, the STASI were known for their insane levels of surveillance. The last time I checked there was a huge number of security cameras in the UK, maybe more than any other country.

Also the UK has put people in prison for the nebulous crime of "hate speech". There are seven hate speech convictions per day, though I suspect most of these are fines and a criminal record.

So the UK is going down the same road as China.
I've worked on a team before where we every dev said "we need to upgrade X, we're Y versions behind" and management always responded with "no budget, this is not a priority". This continued until our hand was forced by a company wide initiative to modernize some aspects of our architecture and all of a sudden our team was frowned upon for being so far behind. Then we had to spend many months on an "upgrade project". I'm sure this same story has played out many times over in many other companies. In my own experience, often lack of tech currency/accumulation of tech debt is a management/organization problem. They won't get rewarded for upgrading things until their boss makes it a priority and there is some highly visible "upgrade project", so why bother doing so now.
Reminds me of a public library in Hillsboro. Surrounded by trees, the place was a heaven of peace to work. It also had a coffee shop.

https://www.hillsboro-oregon.gov/departments/library
Expect GitHub to be dropped from the case pretty quickly, I presume. They have a Safe Harbor exemption from responsibility for content posted by users on their site. The complaint doesn't even allege that anyone ever warned GitHub about the presence of the data whatsoever. They just baselessly assert that GitHub "should have known" without providing any support. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides the Safe Harbor protection to platforms as long as they do not do things which amount to them having editorial control (things like holding posts for moderation before posting can do this and lose their safe harbor, as happened to LiveJournal years ago, but taking posts down afterwards and responding to flagged content does not).
Anybody using English[1] will benefit from a good dictionary. All dictionaries show both noun and verb usage.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/Sacrifice

[1] I do mean anybody: people with or without English as a first language.
But their competitor intel does.

Intel regularly has delays due to limited fab scaling ability.
I have some issues with takes like this headline.

It's not "dryer than normal". It's "dry like the new normal". Also "lower end of dryness of tomorrows normal".

Climate change is happening. It's a bad take to make it sound like something's going back to a "normal" that will probably never happen again. What is "normal" is changing and we need to think how to deal with this, not consider it an anomaly.
With no evidence.
It can be a noun or a verb, depending on the context [0]. In this sentence it seems to be a noun, which is qualified by the adjective "mayan", written simply as a noun in apposition "Maya". If "sacrifice" is a verb, the sentence has no object, thus it is ungrammatical, because "who" cannot be the object, only the subject. Or so I was told when learning this damn language!

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/sacrifice
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It may very well happen that the same thing happens now with the top soil as with groundwater - once the water is gone and the ground is dry, the weight of everything above it will settle down and compress the lowest parts of the ground - rinse and repeat and you suddenly have soil which is not capable of storing or even buffering water, which means a massive risk increase for flash floods at one side and a lack of drinking water on the other side.

For those wondering what I'm talking about: https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/scie...
I don't know much about the medieval periods, but in the 16th century, people certainly didn't bath very often.

They tended to wear fresh linen everyday, which did a remarkable job of cleaning the skin of dirt and sweat, then washed their clothes regularly.

"Method" historian Ruth Goodman has described trying this herself, and claimed that it was a very effective way of keeping clean, saying that even after a few weeks, she still lacked significant body odour.
> Also the UK has put people in prison for the nebulous crime of "hate speech".

Almost all these examples usually given involve campaigns of harassment.

And there's nothing nebulous about it: the boundaries are clear and simple.
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Roman slaves could own property including other slaves. They could be doctors, architects, teachers & other occupations that would be considered middle class today.