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Once the hacker has crashed the MCU of the software (an old version you can't get any more) then it's up to the hacker how long they let it sit there in a crashed state. They could leave it there for hours or days, if they wanted to. I mean the car is in Park.

So, it doesn't make any sense that you are talking about the time starting from when the crash was induced by the hacker, to the time when the reboot finished. You must be talking about what all the above comments were talking about, which is the time to do a reboot.

Well, it was probably a hard reboot. Which can only be done while stopped and with foot holding the brake down. And which takes longer than a soft reboot. So how long was it, exactly, since you claim it was well over a minute?

I checked the video to see what you could possibly be talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsSYyg4-3dg

The reboot starts at 2:09. The UI comes back at 2:24, which is being conservative... we could easily call it 2:23. 15 seconds. For a hard reboot. Again, soft reboots are even faster.

So, yeah. Saying it took a minute or more is a wild exaggeration. Fifteen seconds.

During these 15 seconds you are missing out on the ability to see your speed, which was shown continuously in the largest font at the closest part of the screen right up until the moment of the reboot. (Except in this case the car was in Park, so it's super odd that anyone would worry about driving safety here). And you miss out on the ability to open the trunk, the frunk, and the charge port. And the ability to look at maps. And possibly voice commands. I don't see any safety issue here. If this bothers people, they can just refrain from rebooting their MCU while driving. And if they really do get hacked, just look at the screen, note the speed, and reboot. Soft reboot should be fine, and can be done while moving or not, it's up to the driver, free choice. Don't like rebooting while driving? Fine, pull over. You don't need to though. Fifteen seconds. Tops. Of not having your screen. Soft reboot probably more like ten seconds.

This is how people form mistaken opinions about Teslas. Lack of personal experience, ignorance, presupposition of facts that do not exist, gullible acceptance of anything you read or hear, and exaggeration of perceived problems to a bizarre level.
I was also uninterested in one until we were given one. I immediately found it useful for presentations and speeches and for use in the classroom when I am teaching. I like it for note taking, reading and browsing as well. However, I still do the work of creating and editing my slides, lectures and development work on a laptop. The real-estate and windowed workflow are probably the main differences that make the laptop more powerful for certain tasks, but I also think it puts me in a different mindset.
And, on the flip side, you don't need a goddamn degree to think about algorithmic complexity. It's pretty basic stuff at the level most developers ever get to care about it.
Isn't the article forgetting the biggest factor: The human delivering your food?

They will be delivering for hundreds of people and may well be infected. Do you need to hide behind the door and ask them to leave it there and hand them a tip somehow. Because holding a 6 feet distance while they hand you your grocery/food is not gonna work.

I asked the same from the delivery guy Yesterday, he threw everything he had and run away like I had the plague :D. So be careful.
Yes, but it's not about the feel of the product which is definitely there, but about the skills required to design. I, personally, would never call anybody who designed his own computer whether with ATMEGA or not, a "cheater". It deserves respect, to say the least.
The AVR can't execute programs from the data bus, which means no execution from RAM or external memory, though you could write a virtual machine that could do so.
Awesome, thanks for the links!
> This seems a no brainer to me. Am I missing something?

Yes; you're making a judgment based on an exceptional situation (considered a once in a century occurrence).

Note that this a general consideration, independent from the the debate universal health care or not.
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I'm sure projects are popping up with ideas on how to help with this crisis, and looking for volunteers. And there's definitely a lot of people here with extra free time that would like to help and don't know how.

Let's give them visibility.
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Not cancelling or postponing the Olympics is massively irresponsible. That said, those who would still choose to attend are beyond help and a risk to their communities.
Seems like good preparation for the workforce.
I agree with you. This will change the election narrative a lot. Pre-covid, the major issues were looking to be gun control, taxes, and health care. Now it will be just health care and recovering the economy.

In my opinion, universal health care will do more to help the economy than any stimulus package ever could. If people aren't spending so much on healthcare, they will spend it elsewhere. That being said, we will still pay, just through taxes instead of direct costs. Hopefully the system will be made more efficient so that costs decrease from what they are now.
I got my startup acquired after 6 months
Side story: this is even true for pentesting (disclaimer: not a pentester, I was helping a friend to break into the career). The most recognized certification (OSCP) is about killing CVE's and dodging rabbit holes, that's it.

What I did on hackthebox.eu recently was:

<technobabble>

reverse engineering x64 assembly into C (silly, I should've used Ghidra instead). Then I started exploiting the heap by poisoning the t-cache, with that I could overwrite the GOT (getting an arbitrary read/write). Leak libc's base address bypassing ASLR, then using return to libc to exploit the thing (a ROP technique).

</technobabble>

Most of these things I learned during my CS master and it's apparently overkill for something like OSCP. More importantly, not all skills overlap. Dodging rabbit holes is not something you learn well. Understanding how to reverse engineer a binary has not much merit when it comes to finding a CVE and using metasploit, or some script on Github. Dodging rabbit holes and being fast at finding the right CVE's and using them properly to exploit a target are skills in their own right.
The numbers mean nothing. All your seeing is the availability of testing kits, which has nothing to do with the number of infections. Don’t bother graphing a thing.

For the numbers to have meaning, a stochastic sample of the population should be tested at random, not people coming forward because they think they’re sick.
It doesn't work like the comment described at all. If you can't pay you end up in debt collection and then get a lot of extra fees on top of the already ridiculously high bill. In the end it will bankrupt a lot of families.
No.

We’ll see the same reaction that people had when witnessing extreme weather events: focus on the immediate problem, and refuse to engage with larger issues on the basis that “it’s too political”. For extreme weather events citizens and authorities showed an aversion to discussing “Is it climate change?”, and “How should we deal with climate change?”, etc.
> deaths are more reliable indicators

They are more reliable than the simple number of cases but in the Italian province of Bergamo (and I suppose in neighbouring Brescia, too) lots of people have started dying before the ambulance even arrives at their homes. Those people will not show up on the official statistics of covid victims, at least not now.

A similar thing had started happening in Wuhan once the situation had become really dire, and the closest valid indicator people could find was to look at the number of incinerators and how busy they were (mostly looking at the number, because the incinerators were busy 24/7 anyway).
Oh huh. So it’s a lot like working as a software engineer, then?
Oh, I never even considered this... But how would Rust ever be able to signal allocation failures in such cases?
Things would stay the same even with millions of deaths. "Socialism is nothing more than communism" and "communism is evil" are two concepts that are deeply embedded here.
I think it works that way, you think it doesn’t work that way. So in that sense there’s no way to know based on “trusting random commenters.”

But I can tell you this: there aren’t a lot of ways in which that debt collector can collect. They can’t take your home, they can’t take your car (as if the uninsured person even owns their car outright), and I don’t even think they can garnish wages.

The statue of limitations on debt is as short as 3 years in some states, and it won’t even affect your credit score beyond 7 years.

If that person never answers the phone and never admits to the debt, it basically just goes away on its own from my understanding.

Even if they decide to settle, that debt collector purchased the debt for pennies on the dollar. That person settling is not paying anything close to the full cost. The hospitals know that a bill going to collections is already a lost cause, and is basically written off as charity care.
Undergraduate CS courses do not teach library API design or software system architecture.
3M is in Minnesota. There was no effort to make more masks in the months we had. This is entirely a failure of government at all levels.
Do you have any recommended resources regarding the mardware memory editing devices you mentioned? Haven't actually heard of those mentioned before, at least not that commonly
Volkswagen explores using 3D printers to produce ventilators
It’s estimated to save 68k lives and $450 billions dollars per year [1]. If you have a better proposal, champion it.

[1] https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/medicare-for-...
> "...let's say a 30-year veteran of COBOL..."

That would be around the era of the Intel 80486 processor. All of us cared a hell of a lot about both algorithmic and data structure efficiency back then since computers were so feeble compared to today's systems; people who didn't couldn't produce programs that functioned properly.
I agree. But, you know, enthusiasts enjoy holywars. And there's a thin hazy line between a "true" and a "cheater".
They are not seeing the exponential growth others are. Eventually it will die out there.
No, push for the most aggressive plan possible. This is the one moment in history you might just get what you want. If you start in the middle they'll argue you down to nothing. Hold firm and tell. Don't ask.
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Welcome to America, where the dream is that everyone can make it but reality is that large groups of people really can't.
There is also the privacy issue. Using Google voice in the car requires I turn on its always-listening functionality. Nope!
How do you create an infinite list in C++ or Python?
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/coronavirus-pollution-ma...
There is far too much money being made in private medical services and insurance to be able dissuade enough American politicians against the private insurance model.
There's a big community built around DIY Z80 systems, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

Grant Searle's breadboard CP/M machine: http://searle.x10host.com/cpm/index.html

Spencer Owen's RC2014 modular bus-based Z80 system: https://rc2014.co.uk/
Highly active RC2014 discussion group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rc2014-z80

Phillip Stevens' beautiful YAZ180 Z180-based SBC: https://github.com/feilipu/yaz180

z88dk, a Z80 C cross compiler with libraries and all sorts of useful things, which supports many machines: https://www.z88dk.org/forum/

Jon Langseth's LiNC80: http://linc.no/products/linc80-sbc1/

Steve Cousins' many different machines, some RC2014-compatible, some z50bus (LiNC80) compatible, some Z180 stuff, SBCs, a powerful "small computer monitor", etc: https://smallcomputercentral.wordpress.com/projects/

Alan Cox's Fuzix, a unix for 8-bit machines (including many of the aforementioned Z80 machines): https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX

Most of the folks mentioned can be found on the retro-comp discussion group, which was formed from RC2014 group members to discuss other projects: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/retro-comp
One of the major benefits of CarPlay is that this is avoided, because there's a secure link established between the phone and car at setup time.
I get that your comment is coming from a good place, because the threat of misinformation is real. But this is an “Appeal to Authority” argument. I’d rather have an informed discussion among smart people, even if they’re not experts in the specific field. I’d rather be able to weigh the input of many people. Especially in a case where the experts haven’t done a great job at communicating or understanding the severity of this.

Rather than admonish people to shut up, it would be more constructive to point out the flaws in their methods, so we could all learn and make better judgements.
One way this coronavirus situation forces people to consider universal coverage is that the less fortunate, without health care and means for testing, become an attack vector for the virus towards the more fortunate. This makes universal coverage in the self-interest of the more fortunate, and hopefully they realize cost-efficient.
I think it's time to realize health is a common interest and not the interest of individuals only.
For the non-Americans, what is the difference?
It's pretty cool to see a zero day "crack" again https://www.iscracked.info/is-doom-eternal-cracked
Is there no “press a button to listen” or “wait until you hear a wakeword” option?
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Spanish flu was right after WWI. That affected economy and its recovery quite a lot.
> the net result was that all of [low risk group] were forced to start paying for insurance to subsidize the [high risk group]

This is literally insurance.

Obama's plan failed because the public option was removed, employers and states refused to play along, and the Supreme Court undermined even the part you're complaining about. It was also not a great plan begin with, compared to European programs.
> Yes; you're making a judgment based on an exceptional situation (considered a once in a century occurrence)

It's not. We've had at least 4 outbreaks in the past 20 years, and it's only going to get worse because our economies and supply chains are more interconnected than ever, and people are more mobile than ever.
> I was looking for information on (high) killing viruses

They're not really alive, so they can't be killed. But you can destroy vital parts of them and make them unable to reproduce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturation_%28biochemistry%2...
Glass House is a sandbox level on the PC version, to fool around with the engine!
submitted to the german gov hackathon #WirVsVirus
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Heat at 56°C kills the SARS coronavirus at around 10000 units per 15 min (quick reduction).

Hence I'd assume that boiling will be reasonably effective.

Source: WHO https://www.who.int/csr/sars/survival_2003_05_04/en/
You give the electorate too much credit. While logical, most people aren’t. They vote their feelings, not facts.

I’ve spoken to several at risk people who have written COVID19 off as a political conspiracy and not a real threat.
How do you know they are actually deleted?
How so?

The ruling is about agents using thermal imaging technology to bust a marijuana plantation, performed from a car on a public street. The court stated that this does not constitute a search, since any random citizen could've done the same thing using commodity equipment.

Always on microphones that transmit via the internet (i.e. bugs) have been a commodity for... a few decades? But you still cannot legally bug your neighbor's apartment.
Replace “programming assignments” with corporate politics, deadlines that are defined with no actual thought behind them, and product owners that can’t write acceptance criteria to save their life.

Sounds like its pretty good preparation from my perspective.
I'm itself hard to answer to this question.

In means of "minimal valid raster image" - its raster image with 1px × 1px; in means of "minimal valid vector image" - its vector image with single dot OR single line segment.

But I can't imagine what is "minimal valid raster PDF" means.
> Italy found that among fatalities the median age is over 80 (older than the average lifespan of an Italian man).

Selection bias. They're so overwhelmed they're using age as a primary factor to triage patients. Clearly, if you put your medical resources towards saving the younger patients, the younger people are going to have a better survival rate. Lack of a ventilator, when you have a severe lung disease, is a massive risk factor at any age.

> 99% of fatalities were among people with a prior illness. About 50% of the deaths were people suffering from at least three other illnesses.

Again, if you look at the oldest people, you're probably going to find more diseases there. This could easily be just another consequence of age-based triage.
>The counter argument is that while it is easy to let go of the phone when things get tricky.

And the counter-argument to that is that things can get tricky faster than you would expect. So tricky that even the time it takes for you to react and put your phone down or drop it still wouldn't give you enough time to prevent an accident.

People need to stop paying attention to phones while driving, period.
Sure, for some hypothetical tradeoff you just made up then sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But the reason companies as large as apple care so much about performance is because at their scale a 10% difference can easily mean 100,000 physical servers. So they do go to insane lengths to avoid "pretty good"
To me - given my personal experience - it would be enough if the software developer would:

1) provide PUBLIC bug report/tracking

2) listen to reports/check them

3) do something about those reports

Besides bugs, more generally the software developer should listen to its customers.

Of course it depends on the specific "kind" of software we are talking of, but I have seen far too many examples of "vertical" software (those that I see as "tools") clearly written by someone possibly very good at writing software but without any idea on how the actual thing the tool is intended to help with is actually done in practice or with workflows very different from what is actually needed or that would be faster/easier/more convenient to the user.
I'm not sure how the USA is going to fund universal health (one that's actually unversal and free like we have here in Europe) care without first having a discussion on taxes. I can't say I'm qualified to have an opinion on it but regardless what the budget in the USA is, the cost of public healthcare all of a sudden could very well be unsustainable without having a federal level tax policy similar to other countries with public heatlh care. Furthermore, the USA as a whole does not have a very healthy population, which means free health care could cause a surge in appointments and treatments. I think it's something that they will have to do sooner or later but the first years (or decade?) would be a test to overcome, and cultural changes would need to kick in before it starts running smoothly.
Hey I worked on this!

Source for producers:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iAzOOs4YL1N2LYIZycCF...

Data from the American Distilling Institute (distilling.com), and the DHHS via data.gov.
My analysis was in response to and in the context of large companies conducting stock buy backs which is in no way related to the position SMBs find themselves. So yes, those buy backs were mistakes.

In the last 20 years we have had at least 3 “once in 100 years events”, so yes, maybe corporations should be required to be more prepared for down turns as a condition of being granted the right to operate with limited liability.

These are not buzz words, I practiced law in New York and worked on the bankruptcy of American Airlines, Lehman, GM and others. I saw the conditions on the ground, the incentives management responded to; I saw $200M bonuses for traders that lost $1B, I saw how decoupled management was from the risks they engineered. There is a prevalent attitude that as long as the short term reward hits before they quit then they should do it.

Since 2008, airlines have experienced one of the most profitable periods in their history with drastically lower competition and low oil prices. What did they do with that? They wasted significant amounts of cash on buy backs. American Airlines reduces outstanding stock by 37%, thats massive. Why? Because executives are taught in business school that there is an obligation to maximize shareholder value. No such obligation exists in law and I am arguing that is really bad social policy.

Employees are going to be decimated as this unfolds, are they more responsible or in a better position to plan for these once in 100 year events?
While yes, that would have been a better title in terms of telling us what the post was about, but then you get a different tone for the post.

I think the post is first and foremost for thanking Arash for his work on Dropbox and about the partnership he had with Drew, and telling us about it comes second.
Not Python exactly but I have these situation. I am writing business server in C++ that exposes JSON based RPC API and Javascript client library to access said API.

I have no idea where is that claim about high productivity of these free form languages came from. In C++ in addition to the nice intellisense compiler checks everything before sending program to debug. So I do not need to do manual testing during runtime to discover typo in my code.

In javascript I can write literally any crap and the system lets it go. Intellisense sucks big time as well. As a result of this and usual typos I have to literally go and do a lot of clicking to see if this part blows up at runtime.

So all in all I'd say productivity in C++ is way better. And C++ is not a stellar example of easy language. Actually it is easy for me. Not because I am super-duper programmer but your basic coding with the help of standard library is a piece of cake. I do not really need to be an architecture astronaut and dive into any esoteric stuff. Simply not needed
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We all understand Ricardo's law of comparative advantage. The problem is what happens in a supply chain disruption. In that case it's better to have at least some inefficient local capacity instead of nothing.

As an extreme example, the US continues to manufacture it's own military aircraft instead of buying from China. Even though China might be willing to sell them cheaper than we can make them.
That is what epidemiologists do nowdays and did from the beginning. They don't calculate models on paper anymore.
Few things you might not be aware of:

1. Even in the event of Emergency visits to in network hospitals, one is often charged out of network fees if one of the doctors present is out of network. Which one is not notified of and has no say over, regardless. So going to an in nerwork hospital (which is the best one can do to align to their plan) means nothing.

2. When charged out of network, it most certainly does not mean only the coinsurance rate changes, you are also charged 10 to 50× more. So you are charged say 40% of $5000 rather than 20% of $300. Again, at an in network hospital.

3. Out of pocket max differs dramatically in network to out of network, in some plans going away completely in out of network scenario.

What you are saying above is not just a minimization its completely misleading and wrong.