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That's a self-defeating argument. Your objection to the concept of ownership would apply to just about every concept, including your own morality, which leaves your thoughts about what _should_ be a little out of place. That is, unless you think there's something very special about ownership in the grand scheme that is not true of other abstractions...
> up to 300 feet

which means 50 feet, which is still impressive in that it's a useful distance. I remember the earlier version being more like 5 feet, which sounds pitiful but is still enough. In fact no wifi at all (0 ft) is enough to plant software (CMD-space Terminal RET curl | bash && exit) if you take your chances that the target is inattentive.

I learned of the earlier version here on HN but I can't find the link now. It was maybe 4 months ago?

Given that the attack is that it's a USB keyboard, nothing to do with the lightning aspect, except that the victim is likely to need a lightning cable at some point, any USB dongle will do.

Given the attack methodology for this specific device, of being in visual distance of the victim, just use an unpaired apple keyboard. Macs will automatically pair to them, so you just need to turn it on when the victim looks away (a brief 2-second overlay appears on the screen upon connecting). You could force this by creating a distraction: drop a glass. No dependence then on the victim using the cable.
>terraforming" as a feel-good substitute for unplanned global climate change),

Not true, please don't put words in my mouth. I use the term terraforming to emphasize the magnitude of the claim. We are fundamentally changing the properties of an entire planetary atmosphere, inadvertently.

>and claims that are very strong, sweeping, and incorrect ("totally model-driven field").

Also not true. The point is that climate science by nature cannot be experimental. We can only make predictions and then proof amounts to measuring how well decades of measurements line up with predictions/models.

>Another correction, relating to "no one knew" about a future crisis in the 1980s. Here is a paper [3] from James Hansen in Science magazine, in 1981, that clearly warns of crisis-level consequences. From the abstract -- In the 21st century, we will see "creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage." For whatever it's worth, this appeared on the NYTimes front page in 1981.

Again, given the non experimental nature of climate science, this was a massive claim which requires decades of data collection and modeling to verify before committing to sweeping social and economic policy reform which has costs of its own.

People underestimate the fact that climate change is one of the most radical ideas ever proposed by the modern scientific establishment, in terms of the scale of the changes, the disastrous predicted consequences, and the scale of societal change required for mitigation. We're talking about a potential irreversible, runaway global extinction accidentally triggered by humans 100-1000+ times faster than any measured natural rate. Due diligence, in a non experimental field, limited by 80s modeling hardware, took time. Meanwhile we all benefited from the fossil fuels we (and our parents) burned.
Great story, thanks for sharing. I for one pretty much constantly live the life he alludes to at my company bomquote.com. In China, we actually negotiate in increments of ~1/6th of a penny.
I think a good strategy is to sponsor anti climate change activities to keep current profits flowing while at the same silently investing in businesses and tech that will do well in the world climate change creates. I think that's what they are doing.
Can you share any more info on your company? I've long been interested in companies that work in this area, but I have seen few startups in the space. If not, no problem. Thanks!
Norway trades a wee bit of land with Russia, too - a couple of banks in the Pasvik and Grense Jakobselv rivers are traded back and forth as the currents shift them from one side to the other of the centerline, the bilateral agreement governing this calls for the border to be reviewed every 25 years.

One amusing tidbit I remember is that even as the border is to follow the centerline of the rivers, no country is to gain or lose territory when the border is reviewed - so there's still some room for arbitration; the net size of both countries is to be unchanged.

One of the officials involved in the Norwegian delegation claimed that Norway was the only country ever to have been ceded part of Russian territory in modern times, though I expect this to be one for the newspapers - presumably other states with a river border with Russia have similar agreements.
IIRC, then US Rep Al Gore first Congressional hearings were in 1981. Further IIRC, Gore had had a professor that was lecturing about climate change, so that'd be the 1970s (?).

Of course, as we know now, the fossil fuel industry knew in the 1950s.
Arms sales to Taiwan are also restrained for security reasons. The Taiwanese military is probably heavily penetrated by mainland agents. And if reunification ever occurs, whether peacefully or by force, the PLA will end up with any remaining equipment. So it's too risky to sell Taiwan anything advanced.
Sure :D
At this point I think it's well understood that >90% of scientists and experts agree that climate change is a real thing and going to be a severe problem.

It's not about "Those who disagree with me" it's "Those who disagree with widely accepted facts." and are causing real harm by doing so.
The presumption here, as I understand is, is that a zero-click search happened because Google used one of their inline apps to answer a question. (For example, if I search "population of new york city", I get a big and bold answer along with a graph that shows NYC's population over time, as well as LA and Chicago.)

But I'm not convinced that's necessarily true. I frequently search for things to get a general idea of what is out there, and I only skim the results. This is also something I do when I'm refining my search terms. It may take me several iterations to refine my terms until I find something I want to click through to. In this process, I may have three or four no-click searches before I land on a good query, and then I start clicking.
Around the year 2000, a PIC 12C508A was about 1 Dutch guilder @ 5000 pcs.

Today, Mouser lists 1 pcs @ € 0,908, 100 pcs @ € 0,863.

The guilder/€ is 2,20371 ( muscle memory ).

The MCUs in the article are 12C508A class, one is an actual clone.

So for ~ € 0,80 at quantity, the 12C508A currently costs about 1.75 guilder. 20 years later.
Historically:

1. Chechnya WAS pacified when Russians started using inhumane tactics.

2. Chechnya had an organized military to fight Russians.

3. Chechnya and Syria had rebels use military equipment of similar quality as their adversary.

4. Assad and Yeltzin's armies were very mismanaged/poor quality.

I posit that PLA is

1. Actually professional and not disorganized like russian/Syrian militaries

2. HKers will not be able to capture PLA equipment in any significant amounts
Yeah, it’s a very poor choice of words. It’s like saying that if I steal a TV and see the cops chase me I have faced a dilemma of keeping the TV but getting caught or dropping the TV to run faster.

Suppress the rights of educated people who value freedom of the press and independent judicial systems and ... what do you expect?
I mean that’s could be one explanation for no clicks. But if that would be the primary cause it would imply google’s results are getting worse, which would lead to someone else increasing market share. The primary reason is that google shows you information scraped from other sites directly on the results page so you never have to click on any links for a lot of queries.
thanks for the feedback. Yep, currently looking into the issue. There're over 1.5k beta testers so far.

Didn't know Station was from YC. Yack is a native app with a custom UI/UX built specifically for browsing online communities. As far as I remember, Station was another wrapper that points to actual websites, no?
I like to point out as well that it isn't tech "debt" if there's no "IOU". For instance, in the hard-coding example, it's conventional wisdom to avoid hard-coded magic constants for a few reasons including it sometimes is hard to figure out later why a magic constant was used, and in an if/else branch situation like that maybe tough to figure out when you can cleanly refactor those branches. If the case is well documented (it's the date of a given feature release) and the code reasonably factored already (the "off" branch isn't a ticking time bomb bug that needs to be removed after the date in question), then it may be a code smell, but it isn't necessarily an IOU to a future developer (such as yourself), so it isn't necessarily "tech debt", it was just a trade off made at the time. Of course, if a future developer adopts a hard linter rule against that sort of code smell, they may come to see it is tech debt retrospectively, but that's also where the analogy starts to get fuzzy.

(Pushing the analogy to a breaking point: Is adding a linter then, doing an audit and depreciating assets for "tech taxes"? Come to think of it "tech taxes" would be a fun alternative term to add to the "tech debt" family. "Hold on, just paying my tech taxes; npm install, npm audit, and npm run lint.")
Interesting, I don't have that impression. levels.fyi doesn't show much disparity, for example. Where do you get this from?
Google can preview results for clicks by exposing a site's content in the search results.
E.g if you google Obama you will see a wiki blurb about him on the right
Or Xinjiang?
If you're searching for a quick piece of information, that might be included in the description text, or one of the cards that google might generate for your query (like when doing a calculation, unit conversion, weather query, stock ticker query...)
I think Xi is not well prepared for urban guerrilla. He'll probably wait this out, get prepared for it, and shut up the protestors once and for all the next time they decide to make noise (maybe in 2-3 years?).
I genuinely believe that Microsoft is at least making an effort to not be the 'Microsoft of old'.

Also, them open-sourcing a lot of their tools seems to back that effort up:

VSCode

TypeScript

.NET Core

Powershell Core

Just to name a few.
Not hacker specific but IMO its somewhat unfortunate that most of the good/intellectual internet has moved into private chats, secret slacks, etc.

This is OK except that it makes it much more difficult for newcomers to find the good thing, so the pipeline is worse. Sometimes nowadays it is hard to discover and be discovered.

Twitter still works OK.
Heeey, but how would you get a selfie sub-module into F22 and real-time social media sharing from missile in-flight without Agile? Please don't be so backward, thx.
As someone that sees smells (synesthesia), the answer is yes. The reason I presume is simple, hormone levels change as you age and thus you smell different.
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Can you name a business that doesn't offer you a discount commensurate to the amount you spend with them? Why wouldn't Microsoft give you a discount on your windows license if you're also using their cloud?
He means in addition to minifying the SVG, you should compress it for transport (which is likely happening already depending on how you serve it)
The fact that the government tries to pretend that it didn't happen suggests that they are at least embarrassed by it.
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This person has very strange and misguided idea of what open source software is intended to be.
> I think the real value of this attack is against air-gapped computers... that people charge their wireless devices with? That would be stupid.

This is how Stuxnet ruined Iran's nuclear centrifuges.
I don't think that's what they're especially worried about; those are fairly minor.

Instead, think about interacting with someone who a) is so convinced that they need an exploratory MRI but b) can't convince a doctor of that need. I'd be afraid that either I'll be stuck dealing with someone perseverating over a totally normal anatomical variation (and everyone has a few). If they get sick later, I might also get dragged into a debate over whether I should have noticed something on that scan, done a different scan, or whatever, possibly with big legal implications.

This is why our techs will happily scan a fruit or something, but don't run an ad-hoc clinic.
FWIW Early AIDS treatments were pretty bleak in terms of success but that didn't stop people from making it better.
It seems like ebola treatments have advanced much faster than they did with AIDS so I'll take it as a net win :)
> If I search for something using Google, and don't click on a link, doesn't that mean my search was fruitless?

No, it could mean that Google itself provided an acceptable answer for you in an infobox.

For example, if you search for "San Francisco temperature," the top-of-the-page result is an interactive box showing the current conditions and 24-hour forecast for the city.

That's reasonably likely to answer the implied question without redirecting you to another site, so it is an example of a successful "zero-click search."
Honestly, too bad. Even if some countries might fail to contribute their fair share action just needs to be taken.

If folks can get an equitable system working then that's great - otherwise I expect the US, India and China to bear the vast majority of the cost since those three nations all have an immense amount to lose if global warming gets more extreme.

Both India and China are in extremely weather sensitive areas with large populations and a government that would be unable to cope if food shortages became a thing and economic instability happened. America just doesn't want the hassle of being the golden egg if food shortages break down, it'll probably fair pretty well for quite some time, but the 40% of Americans that are obese will be poorly situated to survive in extreme weather events.
If you don’t like this you need to write to your representatives or call their office. Literally send an email or pick up the phone right now and call them to tell them you disapprove of this action. If you can’t even just a single minute for a phone call... I’m just disappointed.
What bothers me is how they've actually encrypted their datastore in Mendeley so their own customers can't actually get at the data they paid for:

https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/23/mendeleys-encrypted-repos...
There have been efforts to do this. Back during the first crypto-wars I had some code in Java that would give it capabilities similar to the way that the language Joule did it (basically the class loader would elide any methods from the loaded class based on capabilities so they weren't even available) I got a couple of patents out of it but sadly the politics inside of Sun kept it from going anywhere useful.

Highly constrained OSes and languages that do so in order to minimize attack surface tend to be challenging to work in. As a result they constrain productivity which increases time to market and the folks who got something out, even insecure, would "win" the market. It was a sad thing to see happen.
Google scrapes the info and then displays it on the search page, meaning you get your question answered without needing to click through. So basically denying anyone else traffic, while still being useful to end users.
> HK is different in that it's China's primary interface with the Western financial system.

Was.

Part of the reason for protests in HK is that it's not as important as it once was, and young people growing up in HK who don't remember the British (remember, HK never had democracy under the British) are at once lamenting the lack of lucrative jobs like their parents had/have and idealising a past that never existed in order to maintain a self-identity that isn't simply 'Chinese'.

Unfortunately this also won't unfold the way the protesters want. China can turn HK back into a fishing village by simply opening up Shanghai and Shenzhen even further, and HK has no real path towards independence. There's literally no sympathy for them on the mainland, no foreign power will intervene, they have no real power.
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Yeah it's been a while since I've read up about the growing number of refugees but IIRC climate change has the potential to dramatically increase the amount of migration to countries which won't have enough resources to properly with the influx of people and put even more stress on local resources (i.e. water, food).
We use Blockstack for authentication. It is made on Bitcoin blockchain to store your private key that will be used to encrypt all of your stuff.
Making the master key will be done just the first time, and after that, every file gets a new password from the master one.
No matter what, all the files will be encrypted, so you always have control over your data — something like ProtonMail but for Office.
Honestly, the second google started owning and promoting their own properties on search results, anti-trust regulators should have jumped on it.

I'm really not sure how Google can be protected by Section 230 and at the same time control and publish so much directly. Last time I read an article on the topic, google controls 23% of the top 100 sites.
Example query - “Leonardo DiCaprio‘s net worth”. While previously this would have resulted in a click to the top website that put in the effort to compile this information, now google would highlight that exact sentence with the answer right there. The site loses a click through and any potential revenue.
There was a time you could build a meaningful business largely on SEO. (See: Yelp, Zillow). No longer.
Thanks, jascii for putting that question! This is really problem but people who have abilities using internet must be smart enough to not share vulnerable information with anybody and registration on this site doesn't require any personal information yet but in the future we must think about the issues of course.
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China has said they consider the treaty invalid, meaning HK is theirs already. Why would they treat it any different than the mainland?
Babies smell.

My friend, undergoing radiation therapy for cancer, had a distinct smell. As have those treated with specific chemotherapies.

Athletes smell. Indoor and outdoor athletes differently. Pool swimmers of chlorine, open-water swimmers of the sea.

Parkinsons and Alzheimers appear to have distinctive smells.

Diabetes is characterised for its distinct smell (and taste).

We are chemically-regulated, processing, producing, and (to an extent) signalling systems. The notion that there are associated perceptible scents is exceedingly probable.

Another aspect of older people (and again: Parkinsons and Alzheimers in particular) is a loss of the sense of smell. Which may mean that odors otherwise noticeable and addressed aren't.
I think you're going to run out of options pretty quickly outside of what Amazon writes in-house then. The alternative isn't a sustainable business model.
I dont understand how that is meaningful.

If an entire "family" of versions of the OS is vulnerable to these 11 (eleven) bugs whilst the "certified" versions are vulnerable to none (of these specific 11 ones, not necessarily not vulnerable to other 11, maybe 12, other ones), it means that the certified versions are different.

Small volume and thus less attractive targeting might explain why - since no time has been spent to find the hypothetical "other 12" vulnerabilities in the "certified" versions - noone found them (yet).
Nothing's perfect, but ebola levels of paranoia drastically slow down any chance of spread.

While partial resistance can be encouraged in a single person, that doesn't matter if it dies inside them. And if a resistance mutation happens in the wild, away from drugs, there's no reason to expect it to spread at all.
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot too. It seems like anxiety, paranoia, hyper vigilance, and obsessive behavior are unintentionally encouraged and rewarded in the workplace. At least most of the people who have risen quickly around me have some elements of this. I hope and wish there were another path to success, but I don’t see many counter-examples in my day to day.
How many times does your first search query result in a page you want to click on? It usually takes me a couple of tries for anything interesting I'm looking for.
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The issue is that PRC, ROC, and every other country in the world agrees in principle to the “One China Policy”. The One China Policy is the fundamental basis of things. Nobody, even the Taiwanese, is willing to officially accept the notion that Taiwan is not part of China. I suspect that neither China or Taiwan would allow any country to simultaneously recognize both of them as separate de jure nation states.
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I use a data blocker on anything I think might be suspect.

But, then, I am shifting trust to my data blocker...
Well, they certainly smell awful to me. Especially old women. That's a very distinctive smell. I could recognize an old woman without the use of any of my other senses.
Our society of popularity unfortunately means that it's not just "allowing dissenting opinions" but 'thought leaders' end up getting an outsized amount of attention.

Some celebrities are smart - some have degrees in neuroscience... but I really don't care to hold their opinion over anyone else's.
> There's no more effective way to perpetuate your values than through your own children. Education of other people's children is not very effective or efficient

The former may be effective, but considering the effort and resources it takes to bring up children and the impact additional people will have on the environment, it is at least possible that it is not efficient at all.
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As bad as this sounds, I got to say I'm not even mad. The instant answers Google provides seem to come from websites that are mostly unusable, bloated with tracking and other BS that increase load times, and even worse SEO-content (that stuff that repeats words just to have more "relevant" keywords). I don't feel too bad about those pages losing traffic.

Longform content, interactive content, blogs, videos, forums and social networks (generally pages you might want to spend more time on) seem to be mostly unaffected.
It's a mix of Electron & native code (Swift). I have done so many optimizations to make it lightweight, smooth and fast. If you have an older Mac, try it on it and see how fast it is. I use Apple Mail app for my emails and for my benchmarks so far, Yack works faster and smoother than Apple Mail.

Give it a try and don't forget to report back here :)
If "Wordpress" (which I reluctantly use for our corporate branding site and blog--very carefully managed and controlled) is a better architecture than what Tumblr is using now, what they have now must be truly awful! Wordpress really doesn't scale very well, and you can easily have massive security problems.
I don't see why your last statement was necessary. Trump has been very tough on China.
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NextCloud for syncing calendar and contacts, and hosted git for syncing Markdown files for notes.

I also make heavy use of the phone's voice recorder, and try to transcribe my voice notes periodically.