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Governments† burn libraries.

Don't create central points of vulnerability to coercion. That multiplies the effectiveness of coercive force. Create decentralized systems. Git, not GitHub. Bitcoin, not Citibank. Email, not Gmail — although we still need to free email from DNS.

Never forget how the Spanish Inquisition — the origin, in the West, of these sorts of degraded "laws" against "criminal content" — treated the Jewish people and the keepers of the quipu. Reaching back further, remember how Qin Shi Huang treated the Mohists, infinitely his superiors in every respect.

People will say it's justified because the Catalan separatists are fascists, terrorists, pedophiles, or whatever. It's not justified. The rulers of al-Andalus were no angels either, but their abuses were nothing compared to the genocidal nightmares the Inquisition concealed with its censorship.

Today we are building the systems we will live in tomorrow. Do you want a future of a thousand Inquisitions or a thousand Miltons and a thousand Humboldts? Do you want Jefferson's future or Stalin's? A new Dark Age or a new Enlightenment? Will a thousand schools of thought contend, or will the people of the world suffer a sanitized environment devoid of "degenerate art" and "bourgeois ideals"? Will they remember what really happened, teasing the truth out of biased accounts written from many points of view, or will they only be able to read history as written by the victors, the version whose "correct ideology" earns it the censor's imprimatur?

It depends on how vulnerable our systems make human rights, and in particular the right to knowledge.

As a hacker, you decide what tomorrow's books are made of. Will they be printed on celluloid, which goes up like gunpowder with a spark? Or will they be etched in bright sheets of stainless steel?

Because governments burn libraries.

But cypherpunks write code.

† That's "states" to you Brits.

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One thing I think that will be critical to the future of software is community efforts to build deep neural nets that match the AI power of the big companies.
Every time people point this out, it gets accused of sinophobia.

I'd say most Chinese cast their lot a good while ago and they decided to trade some personal freedom for economic prosperity, basically giving the CCP carte blanche to do anything (in)humanly possible to preserve the status quo. Reversing that trend is not impossible but it's extremely difficult by now: there's simply not enough dissent and anything that does pop up gets quickly dealt with. It's why Hong Kong is so important.
Yeah, wake me up with bioinformaticians (computer programming + biology + statistics) make more than computer programmers.

It's an incredibly interesting field, but over-hyped, extremely hard and not particularly profitable.
This information won't be useful to track any individual.
I think the concern here is that engineers understanding might eventually be overruled by managements need to decrease costs, roll out faster, etc...
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As someone who was addicted to nicotine, quit for 5 years and for personal reasons fell back into being addicted: no, it's not that easy.

It took me weeks of being depressed (about 2-3 weeks) when I first quit to start to feel normal again, took me another couple of months for the cravings to really subside and for the smell of cigarettes start to disgust me. And then another year to forget about cigarettes.

Now I quit cigarettes and keep with vaping because I don't fucking want to go through another 2-3 weeks of depression and being barely productive.

There is no choice, there is drive, there is self-motivation and there is a bit of suffering but it is definitely difficult.
So it could as well be "WhatsApp sues Israel's NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones".
> And multiple desktops instead of "sessions", etc?

I don't like multiple desktops; I like being able to switch panes/windows without losing sight of other applications, like editors and browser windows.
There is a reason for the old Kathy Sierra's quote: "Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live."
it's never have been officially on google play for obvious reasons, someone must be accountable to publish an app on google play, and if you give fake data you are going to have your app removed.

It's also one of the serious security problems with this app, you can't have an official source, and forcing people to install through direct apk installation, it can be replaced by a rogue modified version very easily.
Mentioning Modula-3 and how to get the toolchain working isn't even remotely related to the subject. Of course we can share experiences, but it would be probably at the bottom of this thread, because it's off topic.
A, the "plans were on display" defense...

“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Yeah it makes the use of electronic voting less vulnerable to tampering, but obviously the voting still needs to he done in a private booth.
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The alternative to that decay system was having smurfs that lost on purpose when their rank got too high.

Maybe something like a hidden quick ranking would help. I.e. something trivial like average kill/death ratio, numbers of headshots, ...things that make smurfs annoying. And then match you still according to the real rank, but put people with the same hidden rank in the enemy team.
> their plan is to continue doing so in an anonymous and unaccountable way.

I mean, the politicians who tried to do this in an eponymous and accountable way got prison sentences, so...
Facebook doesn’t have the ability to prosecute people for War Crimes. They can (and routinely) share information with law enforcement for things that they deem abhorrent (human trafficking, notably of children).

What they can do —like in this case— is to sue in civil court. What they can also do is to kick the people that they are suing away from their platform for violating their terms. It’s actually not rare (several people involved with Cambridge Analytica were locked out of their account) so “aggressive” is a stretch, but that kind of side-show is representative of the internal tone of the discussion.

A friend talked about “their large legal team” and, yes, that’s more to the point. Said legal team has a lot of friends familiar with Den Hague so I wouldn’t be surprised if your wishes become reality.
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> developed an app that allows people to know where demonstrations are happening

Sounds like a bit of welcomed transparency to me. The Spanish police, concerned citizenry, etc. can use the app just as much as anyone else, to prevent things from getting out of hand.

(*Edited for consistency with newly-provided info in this HN thread.)
Okay but what if we just let people build condos until people stopped buying them?
This is the standard right wing excuses why social programms like they are assumed elsewhere, can't be implemented in the US. But I haven't seen a good explanation how one thing prevents the other yet.
"Peaceful" does not mean destroying the streets, setting cars on fire, throwing incendiary devices at the cops, or bullying those who don't agree with you.
The same applies to gift cards, should they become non-transferrable?
It strikes me as completely insane that it's more complicated to write a browser rendering engine than a whole OS. But I suppose the proof is in the pudding and the fact that there are so many more hobby OSs than hobby browsers must be testament to this fact.
Not in the English speaking world at least. "Government" is an umbrella term which includes the legislature, executive, and judiciary.
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If you can just say "I'm done" and walk away without feeling anything you weren't really addicted in the first place. That's literally the definition of addiction.
Plenty of others in the same archive[1], but you pretty much have to sift through it manually to find something interesting.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
It's true, and neither side is handling this very well. The government could have let the referendum happen but campaign against it, appeasing the people who wanted a democratic vote but still winning. Instead, they went full suppression and made themselves look much worse.
However there's substantially more income inequality in the U.S., so GDP per capita won't capture the distribution of that wealth particularly well.
If WhatsApp is end to end encrypted then how can spies can access messages?
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Most of NSO's users are police forces working under rule of law. That's the thing being regulated (what police forces it is allowed to sell to).
I believe the app requires you to be invited via QR code by an existing member to gain access.

Of course, the police would be able to infiltrate this with a bit of effort.
In the US "government" means the whole Leviathan. In the UK the word for that is "state", while "government" means the ruling political party or parties and the officials they appoint.
I know this is meant as friendly banter, but reading this kind of stuff still grosses me out.
> No one should really be writing UI code by modifying a file by hand because UIs are often complex and deep, so the file structure used to store the UI data doesn't need to be human-readable.

I strongly disagree. SwiftUI is fucking amazing.

https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/

Even with your other comment about "until you hit a moderate level of complexity." People are already creating some complex things with it. In fact, they can be more complex than what you can achieve with traditional frameworks when you consider the time it takes; what takes me a day in UIKit etc. takes me a minute in SwiftUI, so I can quickly move on to the next bit.

With declarative UI code I could literally have a usable app in the same time it takes me to struggle with getting separate visual designers + logic editors to agree over a single moderately complex component.

Though, it is several layers of abstraction over what really happens behind the scenes, so I guess a part of your point stands.
We don’t have a paywall. Whatever news sources you do or don’t pay doesn’t affect me. But thanks for noticing!
And it's also easier to debug human readable text then it is to debug raw binary. Text is such a good abstraction layer that we almost never have to deal with character encodings, etc. Only problem is that it has to be parsed twice, first from binary to text, then from text to whatever. But computers are good at such tasks, while humans are not.
Remember, the sound isn’t really coming from the tip of the bolt. The majority of it is coming from the super-heated air around the bolt along the whole path.
>A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.[1]

>In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government
I posted this because it helps to have a model of other people's blind spots whenever you encounter hostility.

"Navigating around other people's blind spots is tricky and often painful, but it is still worth doing. The internet can make this dance more difficult, but if you are curious and keep exploring, you will escape the confines of the internet’s echo-chambers and develop the ability to see things from multiple perspectives. This is the balm that salves the pain from seeing too much."
> then you need to find enough voters that would take a X% haircut on their investment in their own home

Or build entire new cities. This is what the UK did after WW2 [0], building dozens of new cities of 100k to 250k people, most notably Milton Keynes, Peterborough and Northampton.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_towns_in_the_United_Kingdo...
It's curious, smartphones seem the greatest "disruption" of our time, but they don't fit Christensen's theory... and in fact he classified them as non-disruptive at the time.
In American English government is generally used as an overarching term and any judiciary would fit inside. We have three separate pieces: judicial, legislative, and executive (as well as shared-sovereignty with states which each have similar systems)

An American reading the title wouldn't be mislead (we're generally confused when other countries talk about forming new governments) but an English-fluent person from another parliamentary country might be misled.
I feel like this might, in part, also be caused by the hate for taxes in the US. The goal seems to be lowering taxes as much as possible until only the bare minimum is left. Proactively maintaining public land is not something people deem important (until it's too late) so that's an easy thing to skip. 'Adopt a highway' is a perfect example of something that, in my opinion, should be taken care of through taxes, but is now the responsibility of good Samaritans.

Now this is what it looks like from far away in Europe and I might be completely wrong.
Copying is a harsh word IMO. Vue has been liberal and open in quoting prior art, particularly from the React ecosystem. For example vuex[0] docs, actually quotes Dan Abramov regarding flux implementations for state management.

[0] - https://vuex.vuejs.org/
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There are a lot of regulations that are more harmful than helpful. How many transit projects don't get seriously proposed because the cost of looking for endangered species (in a city that is already not conducive to wildlife) makes the costs too high - resulting in everybody driving at much higher environmental cost but not study needed for that.

I don't have answers, but the problem is real.
> Does anyone like having CAPSLOCK to the left of A?

It's been in that position, above the left shift, in every keyboard I've ever used. And that includes typewriters, where the Caps Lock mechanically locked the shift key below it (which is mechanically linked to the shift key on the other side) on the down position; a quick press on the shift key released the lock. That is, it's a fact of life, like Ç being to the right of L; that key being anywhere else would be unusual.

> Indeed, does anyone ever actually use CAPSLOCK?

When typing a long sequence of uppercase characters, it's much more comfortable than holding down the shift key for the whole sequence. It affecting only letters, instead of everything like on a typewriter, doesn't matter much since it's normally used for a sequence of letters.
> KrebsOnSecurity [has] a link to 26 million credit and debit cards. So far the banking sector is [not in a hurry for] re-issuing cards.

Krebs should publish those card numbers to light a fire under the feet of the bankers to re-issue the cards and get them to demand better security on merchant terminals or servers or wherever the info came from. Of course he should publish only the numbers, without the associated names, CVVs, expiry dates, PINs, or other security info.

I don't think there is a risk in publishing just numbers, is there? The search space for valid card numbers is so tiny that I find it hard to believe that anyone could generate a false transaction with just the number and no other associated info.

Krebs could go a step further and provide a verification site à la haveibeenpwned.com where your enter your card number, or the last ten digits or something, and it tells you whether you've been pwned.
DigitalOcean Spaces offers S3 API compatible object storage (i.e. you can use any S3 client library without modification) and a seamlessly integrated CDN that is markedly cheaper than CloudFront: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/
Time to go all-in on Powerwalls and Solar, buying just the EV is a half-measure.
Doesn't "public disorder" in English have the same meaning as in Spanish here (i.e. not medical)?

For example, https://batasnatin.com/law-library/criminal-law/crimes-and-p...
NSO founders' ties to the Israeli government are a bit more essential to their business than the Google example. See also the China examples from another commenter. I'll bet there are examples of "Russian company XYZ" as well. In cases like these, the nationality of the company and especially of its former-unit-8200 founders does seem rather germane.
> Having a 501(c)(4) with a political term like "Tea Party" in the name is per se probable cause for an investigation.

It is perhaps reasonable suspicion (at most) but I can’t see how it’s per-se probable cause.

Imagine a cause that you support instead. Would you want Alabama to be able to treat any charity with “Family Planning” or “Pride” in it standing alone to be probable cause for the authorities?
"Inequality" doesn't mean that even the poorer part of a society has slid backwards.

Considering the situation of Afroamericans, I think you underappreciate the amount of lynchings, violence (not just by police) and structural discrimination that took place. All of that is at a record low, if still much too high.

There is still a lot of work to be done, but undoubtedly their situation has improved, long term.
Superb syntactical sugar.
> GMail and Dropbox being prominent examples.

Dropbox I'd agree with, gmail I actually much prefer the current UI to the old one.

And indeed web services do tend to optimize for the "lowest common denominator", or more generally for the "majority of users". Which does tend to fuck over power-users. But it also means for most people telemetry works out.
IIRC a study on beginners learning Python found that case sensitivity was the biggest source of errors/confusion. So I'm all for new languages being case-insensitive.
Yeah I agree that there's a chance that might be the case - might be outrageous misrepresentation, takedown to crackdown on the movement, etc.. But I personally decide to give the system a little trust at least at first and like to think that the Spanish authorities who ordered this will have real reasons to base their decision on - with time we'll see I guess.
I find it interesting that NSO, an Israeli surveillance technology company, was allowed to have such dealings with Saudi Arabia. Their statement that "the sole purpose of NSO is to provide technology to licensed government intelligence and law enforcement agencies [...]" implies that their technology is subject to export controls.

My understanding is that Saudi Arabia has poor diplomatic relations with Israel.
He shouldn't be behind bars. Freedom of speech; he was simply putting forward an idea, nothing illegal about that. He was the CFO, he wasn't ultimately responsible for the behavior and crimes of the company. The CEO should be behind bars!
This story sounds similar to the AI-plays-hide-and-seek one [1]. More abstract/general skills than detailed modeling.

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/20/20872672/ai-lea...
No, the argument is that those IRS experts in tax law switch jobs between writing the regulations for the IRS, and then doing "various tasks" for the private companies that work in tax, including lobbying congress for more complex tax laws thus ensuring more people have to use the private tax companies to get their taxes right as opposed to taxes being simple enough to understand without needing help.

While you could lobby congress yourself, odds are you don't really understand tax law in detail well enough to be effective, while they do.
Fair enough. And a lot of people in New England were without power for weeks after an ice storm about 10 years ago. Fortunately I was only out for a few days.

As you suggest even gas can be a problem but it would likely be less of a problem than an EV.
If gas stations were without power and being rationed, sounds like ICE vehicle owners were pretty fucked too.

It's a hell of a lot easier to produce electricity locally from alternative sources than it is to produce gasoline.

And if you do have gasoline, you can use it to produce electricity.
They misused the political institutions for their benefit and pushed their agenda even when they have been warned several times of the penal consequences. There can be disagreement with the conviction time, but they are not innocents.
I work with planes and it's not at all uncommon to find lightning damage. In fact, there are generic repairs for particular locations prone to lightning strikes.
It's transparency when the information is about protest planned for the next day or further in the future.

It's less clear cut when it becomes more of a "barrier has been breached on this street" along with "cops are moving to this other street" in realtime.
It's not so much an American "point of view" as it is their definition of the word. It appears that Spain defines the government as the executive branch, while the US (and several other English speaking countries) defines it as an umbrella covering the various branches (in the US; executive, judicial, legislative).
Lack of instinct for good ux.
It’s not that rare: breaking terms of services will get your kicked out quite rapidly.

Being a little assertive with your marketing will get you a couple of warnings and temporary bans but systematic efforts, after Facebook sent Cease & Desist letters, etc. will. Being one of the very few able to hack WhatsApp, refusing to submit the generous bug bounties but instead using that to get US journalists killed… that will get you at the top of the naughty list.

I understand that, without details, OC’s wife might be an innocent accountant, someone motivated by good values but misinformed or an active and knowledgeable participant to gruesome abuses. We can agree that Facebook doesn’t know yet. I would understand why once the problem is detected, Facebook might want to take precautions and only revise their individual bans later.
Not sure what people opinions are when the judicial system has

> the movement Tsunami Democratic has been confirmed as a criminal organization driving people to commit terrorist attacks

So any material support to a criminal organization is criminal per se in most jurisdictions.
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Google is trying to be the central authority on what the central authority to do a thing is. Probably a good business move but it creeps me out.
In parliamentary systems, the term "government" frequently refers to the current governing party or coalition.
Yes, so the sound should last a while as bits of it from far up the bolt reach you, but I don't understand why the start of the sound would be delayed.
The rub with this is PG&E was avoiding maintenance to pay out dividends. The situation was entirely preventable. Frankly it's scary how everyone is apologizing for the utility company's management.
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Cox is absolutely MITM this too. HTTP/HTTPS it doesn’t matter. Terminate the tunnel, forge a cert and QED.
It's a similar issue with DB Netz rails and tracks in Germany — the amount of maintenance is too much, and too expensive, so they stopped cutting the vegetation about 20 years ago. And now, with every little storm, trees end up on the rails.
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and how does it earn money? With users' data?
I'm not sure this is the case. I have a Samsung Note 5. Its been a while since I factory reset, but Im almost positive it was back to the old android version. I always remember having to upgrade again.

Maybe my memory is incorrect, but I'd be surprised if it did not revert back. I'm thinking of reseting soon, so if I do I'll report back :)
What is their agenda? Given that a large part of a country wants secession, isn't it only democratic to vote on it?