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While your part about limited retrievability is reasonable right now (though as always the fear is that attacks only ever get worse), I'd take some issue with being blasé about this bit:

>Furthermore, the bug cannot be used part of automated botnet attacks, requires physical proximity

I think that needs some real qualifiers. A high percentage of the population, and an even higher percentage of valuable targets, lie within fairly dense urban areas. One of the whole challenges with WiFi there is that there are zero places that don't have many overlapping WiFi networks. That kind of density in turn definitely raise the potential for automation if a widespread enough bug was found that could be used as part of a takeover chain. There are a lot of unpatched systems/IOT/etc out there, so "physical proximity" is a phrase that has to be considered closely. Anyone would have to evaluate not merely their own networks but if they're sure that none of their neighbors have any vulnerable devices, and none of their neighbors' neighbors, that nobody walking by or visiting or visiting within range or the like has been owned, etc. Kr00k by itself may not be enough, but these days lone bugs are almost never enough even locally, full RCEs/rooting and such usually are a chain of exploits where any single one wasn't a real threat, but each brings attackers past one more safeguard.

FWIW, self-propagation in high density areas has been considered and started to see some interesting public research (who knows what state actors are up to with it) over the last few years. An example from 2018 was "IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction" [0], which focused on the ZigBee protocol.

I do think WiFi is fundamentally better, it has had more development, faced more scrutiny, and in general is part of regular networks that we have far more mature tools and techniques to monitor and secure. Again, I'm not arguing this is something to panic over specifically, but even 'minor' exploits like this shouldn't be left hanging about and should get patches reasonably promptly and upgraded as opportunity allows. "Requires physical proximity" isn't always straightforward.

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0: https://eyalro.net/project/iotworm.html
No. The grandparent addresses exactly this point.

When Google entered the Chinese search market it was competing fairly with local players: both Baidu and Google have to accept the (authoritarian) rule that they need to censor their search if they want to legally operate in China.

You could argue if the rule itself is good (I think it's not), but the point is that there are clearly stated rules that Google could choose to comply with or not.

Which "rule" did TikTok, Huawai, Wechat violate other than the fact that they are born Chinese companies?

The US could also decide that all social networks that operate in the US must be owned by American companies and subject to congressional inquiries. That would be fair enough, though that's an even more extreme version than what the Chinese government has been demanding.
Well yes that's how these things usually go, but haven't a bunch of white people left? Doesn't make the economic wrong right, but does at least crudely function as justice.
They listed these quotes as coming from the author:

- "Oh man, it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.” - "Caucasians were “only fit to live underground like groveling goblins.”" - "Dumbass fucking white people" - "#CancelWhitePeople"

Is there a context for those that explains them?
At least as a layperson, I really appreciated Everyday Astronaut's explanation for why aerospikes never caught on, and perhaps never will: https://youtu.be/D4SaofKCYwo

It digs in much deeper than the usual offhanded, easy explanations like the, "We're stuck with bell nozzles because they were invented first," that this article offers.
Words have meanings.

It's not a "dictatorship", because Congress (elected every 2 years, approximately) sets the laws that the President acts under, and the President himself (so far!) is elected every 4 years.
It take 2 to 3 days to reach the ISS from the ground. Getting to orbit is only 8min of that. The rest is a slow approach of the station.

If you want to deliver cargo or people to a specific orbit and a specific place, say the ISS, you're not gonna be able to turnover a SSTO in a day. Even a week might not be enough for a quick return trip to and from the ISS. All this time your expensive ground to orbit capacity is idle.

A first stage can launch a second stage into orbit and return to launch site in less than 15min. How fast you can turn it around for relaunch is an engineering challenge, but there's no fundamental reason you couldn't do it in a day or even in an hour.
Hmm given all the intellectual theft and bootlegs and knock offs, I suspect the WTO complaints reflect a reality that US complaints mean something and Chinese complaints are a waste of time, thus there are fewer because nothing will be done.
Why would it? That isn't how climate change works. It really worries me that people seem to think we can stop polluting tomorrow and things will all be back to normal by Saturday afternoon. Is this really the level
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Making clones is not a material part of this equation. It happens everywhere.

But when a nation puts up barriers to trade, and grabs IP, then the government themselves back companies, using control of their nationalised banks and central bank - then it takes on a different form entirely.

Everything happening is a bit predictable.
One item on that list I cannot understand:

Ctrl-Command-Power does an immediate reboot. Loses any unsaved documents. Doesn't shut down cleanly so potentially damages the filesystem. No "are you sure?". That's great: they thought the feature of "damage your computer" was so useful they should make a keyboard shortcut for it.

It's one key away from Alt-Command-Power which I use all the time to put the computer to sleep. So the feature is not only convenient, it's very "discoverable". I certainly discovered it yesterday.

Windows laptops solve the problem by making you hold down the power button for 5 seconds, to prevent you from doing it accidentally.

WTF Apple. That’s just insane.
My bad, but I can't find how to edit it. Long-time lurker with only a few submissions.
They excused the income tax on forgiven debt, they handed out "first time home buyers" tax credits, they excused tax on "imputed income" from living without mortgage payment for years in foreclosed houses while evictions were held back in court, etc.
On the other hand, the Chinese have virtually no pull here, while the US has massive reach in Europe, including "cooperation" for all kinds of CIA operations, black sites etc. That's not because "we're friends", that because the provinces do what the empire commands. They'll issue a press release about being disgusted later though.

What I'm trying to say: it's better to be spied on by somebody that can't kidnap you. The Chinese can't really kidnap you in Europe, the US very much can.

And of course, the third option is preferred: don't be spied on by the US OR China, at least not to that degree. But that would require European Data Sovereignty, and that'll likely not go over well with the US, which is why the EU won't try.
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China is literally putting ethnic minorities in concentration camps by the millions.

It has some affirmative action laws on the books but they are 100% lip service and don’t result in anything meaningful.
Yeah, the tea and herbs part is the first part, near the middle and end you start to see things like heavy industry.

There's a Marxist concept called "commanding heights of the economy" which refers to things like public utilities and transportation.

Theoretically a socialist government can retain control of this limited set of industries while letting foreign capital develop the others, so that the capital can't totally control the government.
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>Later on I unfollowed 90% accounts and stuck to those accounts which strictly tweets only about programming, math, history and other such stuffs in robotic manner (I.e. without any hidden agenda or connotations).

One thing I noticed in my own time on Twitter was that this is easier said than done. It's very difficult to accurately gauge whether something is 'without any hidden connotations'. I'm not a historian or a biologist or a sociologist. I'm not a scholar of constitutional law.

There may not be an agenda there, perhaps not even an agenda consciously realised by the author, but it's hard to accept the idea that we can escape 'connotations'. Very much like how the best propaganda appears as fact, or how ideology must first present itself as non-ideological, this gets extremely tricky when it comes to something like history, or even biology.

Similarly, the mere presence of a plurality of ideas is insufficient to overcome this.

I suspect that many who would follow your advice will find themselves still trapped in very similar bubbles of ideology, but this time without the knowledge that it really is ideology. This is a more insidious kind of politicisation, because it primes the user to put down their critical guard in the fact of a lack of 'hidden agenda or connotations'.
Presumably by spamming it to HN at least ten times in 24 hours.
This is the classic conundrum when thinking about supply chain attacks. It can happen, but at what probability threshold do you stop trying to take security measures?

On the other hand, users need to put their trust in humans, not computers.

It’s still a human trust problem all the way down because you had to buy your computer from someone, and they had to buy the parts from someone, and so on.

There are some places where it’s less of an issue due to cryptographic magic, but those are few and far between.
Trump is smarter than that. He will also take credit for "securing America, because he stopped the Chinese computer virus that sleepy Joe and the socialist Dems wanted to let into America"
I am going to ignore value judgment over whether it is fair, or whether it even makes sense and am going to jump straight to enforcement framework and EO interpretation.

EO appears to single out two entities WeChat ( Tencent subsidiary ) and TikTok ( ByteDance subsidiary ). EO appears to indicate that the restrictions will be governed by sanctions framework.

Tencent owns a fair amount of gaming outfits so based on ownership, for example, Grinding Gears could be affected since Tencent owns 80% stake there. Gears seems to interpret the order in an optimistic way leaning heavily on phrase 'any transaction that is related to WeChat', but ignores 'with Tencent Holdings Ltd.' and how it is likely going to be interpreted by the banking. In short, Tencent interpretation right now is 'it applies only if it only blocks transactions related to WeChat.'

I personally have less generous read, but if a lawyer could actually weigh in, that would work:P

Original text:

Section 1. (a) The following actions shall be prohibited beginning 45 days after the date of this order, to the extent permitted under applicable law: any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with Tencent Holdings Ltd. (a.k.a. Téngxùn Kònggǔ Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī), Shenzhen, China, or any subsidiary of that entity, as identified by the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) under section 1(c) of this order.[1]

[1]https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

Diclaimer:

I am not a lawyer yo. Don't be an idiot.
Facebook was banned after they refused to identify rioters who were using Messenger to communicate. Google was banned because they wouldn't comply with content restrictions.
It allows others to easily mirror your code. The original code owner may disappear for any number of reasons (burnout, early retirement, being run over by a bus, etc.).
Not sure how different this is from Windows. Use home/end for start of line or ctrl+page up/page down to go to start of document. Ctrl+left/right moves by words. Holding shift selects while doing any of these. Ctrl+backspace/delete to delete by word instead of character. Ctrl+a to select everything. Ctrl+1,2,3 select tabs, Windows+1,2,3 selects apps. The main advantage I see on Mac is the separate ctrl/cmd keys that let you use ctrl+c/v for unix terminals. Other than that, I think it's whatever you're used to.

Of course some laptops don't have end/home/page up/page down keys and you have to avoid those.
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Your average American voter doesn't know what communism is or whether China is or isn't it.

The might have some notion of "big bad central state", and China was and remains that.

In any event, some rhetoric to grease the wheels politically absolutely was in order.
Funny, both the USA [1] and Australia [2] can compel its companies to hand over all private data if asked and regularly exploit the security systems of their own companies with little to no due process to obtain data on people. Nation-states interests are disjoint from those of its people. We need global unity, not petty tribalism if we are to make the world a better place for all. The internet can be a powerful tool for unity, but state actors and other narrow minded selfish actors are currently seeing the value of it and manipulating it to support their political objectives. We need to unite and quash this menace to free societies and global free economies. Recent measures by the current US regime stoop to China's level and usher an era of balkanization that will ultimately destroy the competitiveness of US companies and promote petty nationalism and racism.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/national-security-letters
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/14/oz_encryption_backdoo...
How do we know if anyone is checking?
Censorship by another name is still censorship.
Another victory for the World's Playground Bully.
Working on a version of https://www.literature-map.com which will be used to organize scientific articles about literature.

The design will look like this:

https://www.gibney.de/preview

The big blue arrow leads to the articles which are related to the topic in the center.

Now parsing through a big German text corpus to calculate where the research topics will be placed on the map.
Thanks! Prevent Sleep Mode is on my TODO list, same as publishing to Windows Store. I'm not sure if there's a similar tool for MacOS. If there isn't, that'd be a bit of a learning curve for me to implement it :)
My biggest irritation with MacOS is CMD-Tab back to Finder breaks constantly.

Then the terminal short cuts are bound to CTL, and at least on my Macbook Pro, CTL is only on one side. I also don't like how Return is "change a file name" instead of "run a file." There are so many things that are inconsistent with other OS's, that I guess it just comes down to what you are used to.

I've found that MacOS is much more touch-pad / mouse heavy than other OS's. For example, CTL-K is awesome for browsing through a Linux folder system. This would put you in the path area, so you can sort of use it like a terminal.

Browsing finder in MacOS is painful, click here, click there, hope you don't get lost, etc.
Let me explain: xenophobia. Trump is playing to his base.
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Wow, another kickstarter straight from aliexpress.
This is one of the features I miss most when using other systems. Text navigation and generation are incredibly easy on a Mac (comparatively, for me). It’s a joy to come back to.
He was involved in a war of aggression, and his company made a bit of money both for destruction and rebuiling, did it not? And we can't even begin to guess how many "buddies" profited. At any rate, he's not in jail, and I think that is way too much success than is acceptable. He may be a moron, he certainly is a fool, but then what does that say about the ~300 million people in whose name he did his crimes, to live happily and smugly ever after?
I just wonder if the source of the problem are these "App stores" of the world.

If I could just download these apps like I download software for linux, it would be very difficult for the govt to enforce anything like this.

Tik-tok banned in India too and by ban it merely meant that the govt. forced Google / Apple to remove it from the play store. There is complete ban on torrent / porn sites in India but that doesn't stop anyone from visiting those either.

I think this is just one more argument against these central repos that are aiding censorship and political propagandas.
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I really hate that in typical US manner this issue gets pushed to the extreme so in the end a reasonable discussion can’t be had but it’s only a fight with everybody digging in and not listening to each other.

Abolishing the police was always nonsense but there are plenty of areas where police is overused and too aggressive. In my view there shouldn’t be police in schools or hospitals. The drug war causes a lot of unnecessary arrests and aggravation with a lot of neighborhoods. Bad cops often stay in the force without consequences for clearly bad behavior. Cops don’t have enough training so they aren’t prepared for difficult situation . The list goes on and on.

Addressing these issues would be good for cops, citizens and also public budgets. But instead the country chooses to have this stupid fight where the interested parties spend a lot of time distorting other views. Reminds me of the typical healthcare discussions. It’s very sad.
GDP dropped 50% when honestly reporting facts stopped becoming a criminal offense.

Gorbachev liked social democracy, but the Communist Party warlords like Putin didn't disappear in the revolution, they hung back and then took over again.
Why Clojure? I honestly never heard of anyone using Clojure as data tools.

I use Python and Scala. I use Python for mostly small tasks. When I hit large data, I normally use Spark on EMR (PySpark or Scala).
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> than the trash fire that is the current US situation

Everyone that I know has been saying that for their own country for ages, I personally believe that the US is doing much better when compared with certain European nations (such as Britain for example). As I mentioned before comparatively with the past presidents Trump (at least in my limited european view) has done less evil (I mentioned it before, cancelled TPP and did not declare any war). If you disagree I would be glad if you could explain how Clinton specifically would do better.

> you don't get to "choose neither"

I do, I get to vote for a 3rd party that will at least vote for sane choices in the parlement.

> regardless of how pure and glowy you feel inside about your moral high ground

I do not appreciate your tone (including from the previous post: "you're suffering from Clinton Derangement Syndrome and are utterly disconnected from reality"). Surely we can acknowledge our differences in opinion and have a civilized debate without this.

> has direct and lasting consequences for everyone in the country

And so would voting for your preferred candidate. There would be no point on voting if it made absolutely no difference.
Your pupils become narrower and probably stay that way for a while when you open your eyes. This gives you a sharper image.

Look up "pinhole camera" for a good explanation of this effect. These cameras don't even need a lens!
It's not difficulty in planning that's responsible for the ubiquitous right angle, it's the tendency of people to like familiar features and want their furniture to fit (they're also often fond of materials not particularly amenable to 3D printing). Architects would love to design the sort of curvaceous things from concrete, steel and glass they went to architecture school to admire, but the need to sell the houses gets in the way.

I'm struggling to see procedural generation of the designs as doing anything but subtract from the ability to conceive 'distinctive style a lot of people like', given that architects are people with likes, can talk to prospective purchasers about their likes and understand at a high level how people might use [or not use] particular design features and what designs regulators might reject.

Neural networks, on the other hand, produce outputs which are just a function of their inputs. Procedural building generation is what designers of 3D worlds use for the bits whose appearance they don't care enough about to detail by hand. The one place software design might lead to improved efficiency is randomising features for McMansions on a street from a simple library of squares and automatically generating the docs...
Those rotary shavers look sweet, thanks.

I don't know why, but I nick and bleed very easily.

My brother (and former roommate) is a cutthroat partisan. He's kinda nutty about tools, precision, etc. Such a great shave. But somehow his face is more durable than mine.

I've tried every kind of shaving.

My Braun 5 is the best product purchase I've ever made. In any category. It's not the greatest shave, for my face. But I never bleed, or get a rash.

I'm on my third Braun. I keep the retired unit for traveling.

YMMV.
> Best of luck to Crosh and its author, liljencrantz!

Crosh is the ChromeOS shell!
What other Chinese-government controlled apps are hoovering data?
> Is that the underlying causation behind this 'fact' is that there is systemic bias against black men from law enforcement and the rest of society.

No. The underlying causation by large consensus in the research community is that high crime rate is heavily caused by low social economic status.

Discrimination by law enforcement is not the primary cause of low social economic status. Racism in society contribute to lower social economic status for people of color but it too is not the main causation. Parents social economic status has the single largest impact on any individual social economic status and historical racism is the primary reason why African Americans as an demographic has lower social economic status than white Americans and why as a result, on average, African Americans commit more crime than white people. Programs which does not acknowledge and understand the critical relationship between social economic status and crime are unlikely to have any direct effect on crime or the rate in which African Americans end up in jail.

Which is why a lot of people in current time is arguing against diversity programs that tries to fix the problem by attacking the legal system. Its highly questionable if such programs can ever have any meaningful effect. A strategy that is more likely to succeed would be to address the social economic status issue through desegregation, social security, social economic support to parents, improving the education system in low social economic areas, access to health care, minimum wages, and other strategies that focus on the bottom 20% in the wealth hierarchy.

Different people can share the same goals but have distinctly different views on the causation and best strategy to achieve it. It does not mean it is a red herring or that they pretend to be against the goal. It just mean they have different ideas on how to reach it.
Also, DevComarade already has a shortcut for Presentation Mode, which just launches Presentationsettings.exe, but that should too keep you PC awake and without locking the screen, if that's what your want.
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