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Police are paid extremely well. For example in 2019 every officer in Seattle made six figures, and about a quarter of the department made over $200k. This is part of why there are so many calls to defund the police.

It's kind of amazing what unions can achieve when they're allowed to exist. I think cops are the only folks who get to unionize without the cops beating them up.

Yeah, nurses and EMTs should be paid more. All the EMTs that serve Seattle get "based" out of city limits and don't even make the Seattle minimum wage. You can make more as a dishwasher, and dishwashers don't have 24-hour shifts.
Yeah... This is the same company that gutted the careers of thousands (possibly tens of thousands) of employees because they had grown too old (and thus too expensive) to make room for a cadre of young, cheap and very pliant employees in India. It's easy to apologize to Lynn Conway but it takes real guts to make amends for the horrible ageism IBM has perpetrated.
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It removes some specific types of security, but System Integrity Protection is a "runtime" protection on OSX. It disables access to various files/etc even as root unless in the right context.

So it seems unfortunate to have to lower the level of runtime security for OSX, in order to enable booting unsigned software. As they shouldn't be strictly related.
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I don’t think they’re going to design classified military aircraft over WhatsApp.
It's worth noting that macOS without SIP is a bit more permissive than Windows—it allows you to load unsigned kernel extensions, for instance, whereas 64bit Windows will not load unsigned drivers†.

But I generally agree—power users should feel fine disabling SIP.
you don’t replace drinking with smoking.
Doesn't Google sell TPUs in the Coral AI line of devboards? (https://coral.ai/products/dev-board)
"Single-digit millionaires have no effective access to our legal system".

- Peter Thiel
> If there's any supporting evidence, or anything that's come up in discovery that Apple acted in bad faith

I know it's not apple's way of doing things, but can you think of a legit good reason why they couldn't service your phone with a new battery for a price instead?
USB 4 is here, and is essentially Thunderbolt 3
On Apple Silicon, you may lose access to e.g. Touch ID login to websites and Apple Wallet, as Apple’s Touch ID protocol allows^ websites to require a secured+unmodified system partition and Wallet may require the same for anti-fraud purposes. I expect Steam VAC and Xbox cross-platform multiplayer will take note of this someday, too.

This relates closely to the likelihood of future PCs with Microsoft Pluton^ firmware as well. I assume that Microsoft saw the writing on the wall about secure OSes and remote education and online testing and is repurposing their Xbox anti-tampering system for Windows before they get locked out of that market by Apple Silicon.

It’s not about disallowing you from tampering, or about blocking third-party operating systems — it’s about attesting whether or not you are able to tamper, in scenarios where a remote third-party has no physical access to your system. The Linux secureboot shims probably will not be sufficient to earn ‘tamperproof’ as they boot arbitrary unsigned code with tamper-capable privileges via /sbin/init or whatever.

^ via crypto-signed attestations by the Apple firmware+OS, working in tandem to attest that the stack is not and cannot be tampered with as currently booted.

^ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25123990

EDIT: Apologies, the missing paragraph connecting to the parent comment is —

IT departments will begin updating SSO/MFA systems to require, when deployed hardware permits it, the tamperproof attestations. This will protect them from the liability risk of employees turning off key security protections such as SIP, and may result in Apple Silicon being widely adopted by sensitive industries such as banking and IT once they realize they can reduce their risk and liability insurance costs by doing so.
They should have to pay punitive damages for this sort of behavior. The money should come out of the DEA budget, and not be replaced by congress.

Better yet, civil forfeiture should be illegal.
Those algorithms should be using TAI, not UTC.

Any distributed system that breaks in the presence of leap seconds is necessarily poorly designed.

The fact that any non-UI code uses any time standard except TAI is a very unfortunate historical mistake that will hopefully be cleaned up over the next few years.

Thankfully since 2013, Linux kernel has supported TAI.
Does apple use this to pay the tax too? In India, there is an 18% tax. Should an app has to pay 18% tax and 15% tax(totaling 33%) to apple?
Re: the Pinephone:

1) You can (mostly) reliably make and receive calls

2) SMS but no MMS. IIRC, if someone sends you an MMS it will jam up the SMS app (not sure if it is/was a modem firmware or app issue or if it's been resolved yet or not)

3) Error recovery... hahahaha. Umm, no. I still see a fair number of messages re: people needing to tweak the modem due to text messaging issues.

4) Battery life is far better than it was but not as good as it needs to be. If you use the phone moderately, it should make it through the day. Heavy usage can kill it in a couple of hours.

5) Other than possibly Verizon, I think it's been confirmed working on all the major carriers and MVNOs. I only single out Verizon because IIRC they have/had a policy of needing to whitelist devices so I'm not sure if there's an issue there or not.

If you liked SailfishOS, there is some activity re: getting it running on the Pinephone: https://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=126

Basically you're asking if it's 'daily driver' ready. My opinion is not currently, but opinions vary on this point. That said, if you're a heavy Linux user with an interest in mobile you might want to pick one up... it really is a fantastic little portable Linux device.
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I think Longsoon still uses MIPS64 because of institutional knowledge. It's moreso Alibaba and HiSilicon that I think are promising, and they both seem to be getting on the RISC-V train.
I'm a big ape hardware fan, I mean it's the best there is. As soon as I can run Linux properly on one of these I'm buying.

So good to see it may happen
Right, good question. Anything that is very rigid and heavy doesn't vibrate enough when we play sound near it. I would say it's more about the thickness and weight of the target object than the material itself. For example, a very thin piece of wood would work much better than a wooden table leg. In the paper we actually test against ten different objects that are likely to be within reach of the robot vacuum cleaner.

The difficulty with masking this attack is that you need audio playing at a comparable volume near to the legitimate speech sources, which might be pretty disruptive. In the case of background white noise generators, for legitimate audio playing at around 70 dB SPL, we don't lose much accuracy until the background white noise exceeds 75 dB SPL.
Politics does not belong in tech.
The point isn't skepticism of science, it's the recognition that something akin to Occam's Razor has to be used in theory, as there will always be an infinite number of unfalsifiable theories for any set of observations.

In this context, Sabine is the skeptic of theory writ large.

So many replies taking my argument to be the exact opposite of what it is.
The politicians will decide who gets the contract to design them over WhatsApp though.
A negative leap second (the appalling shitshow from the article) would make us skip a second, though.

Going back one second is what generally happens now when a Linux box does the "inserting leap second" thing. It goes from 23:59:59.999999 to 23:59:59.000000, then runs that whole second again. You get to 23:59:59.999999 again, and then you finally roll over to 00:00:00.000000.

From the perspective of the typical time_t rendering of Unix time, there is no way to uniquely represent that 61st second. It just "disappears".

Having lived through systems going backwards some 17 seconds due to a botched NTP-GPS appliance config, I can tell you that what died at that particular site was all of the locking code that used wall time clocks instead of monotonic clocks. They all CHECKed and died when their preconditions were no longer valid.

This didn't have to happen. They could have used monotonic from the get-go, and then they wouldn't have died when the clocks got yanked backwards 17 seconds to the proper time base.
"except those who cannot muster the resources to do so" is about power of countryA vs countryB. Your parent is writing about power of countryAspies vs countryApeople/countryAdemocraticprocess.
> As you begin to do so, you can keep a record of them in a spreadsheet or notebook.

This is useful, but probably because you're inverting the order here. You start with the observing and classification and end up using names rather than starting with "learn those names and matches".
Given the mutable global state nature of biology, this actually seems like a perfect target to apply machine learning to essentially try trillions of combinations in parallel to uncover ideal states. Once we know the ideal states of cells that eliminate disease and optimize bodily function, we can reverse engineer the precision medicines to “tweak” the chemical balance of cells.
Snowden had nothing to do with censorship. I haven't seen a credible accusation of internet censorship against the government in recent memory. Private companies can refuse to serve certain customers. And obviously there's copyright law and government secrecy laws. But no personal expression is banned.
> MCAS does not operate normally during any flight regime routinely encountered.

I'm aware of this. I'm also aware that it failed twice within a couple of months -- which is far too frequently -- and the consequences of each failure were complete loss of the airframe. Anybody who has ever done risk analysis can see that MCAS was improperly designed and poorly implemented and the people who signed off on it should probably go to jail.

No new system whose failure could result in all souls lost and is known to have a single point of vulnerability should ever have been added to a commercial passenger aircraft. Period.
Really got to applaud the lotion attack.
I’me working on an embedded project and would like to setup a CI/CD pipeline. Do you have any recommended resources?
this is my favorite blogger

his 'there's a gold rush on and I'm the shovel' article about his decision to leave programming for writing has always stuck with me

and nothing he's written since then has betrayed that voice (especially the post on 'you're using the wrong dictionary')
1. Angular, React, Webpack, all these stuff add to the mess. They don't take away from it. A well organized framework can still provide a good developer experience.

2. The user experience really, really suffers from this toolchain.
Perhaps we need to put tech back to the ultimate goal: to keep us busy creating stuff just like art. In the end, progress is an illusion. An idea we put there to ignore what comes... death.
If you call your tool Censored Planet it certainly implies you have a conclusion in mind before you start collecting data.
I don't disagree with you at all. I'm a hardcore right to repair advocate, and frequently criticize Apple's lack of reparability.
A lot of people here have nerve damage from RSI. Pick another term.
well, I'm from a third world country. 1000$ should be enough for me so that I can focus on things I love to do
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Perhaps I misunderstood your description of subfloor, but I don’t think it’s common anywhere to insulate between interior floors or walls.
haha, didn't realize there were so many qualified ones here.
It definitely requires some tweaks, glad you enjoy it.
>"The world will have a master. The question is, who do you want the master to be?"

I prefer not to have a single master but a multi-polar world where countries learn to use a diplomacy and do things for a mutual benefit rather than submit to the biggest dick on a street. And I think this is where the world is going.
Many computer programs use UTC time (which means you have to deal with leap seconds) when they really should be using TAI (which is based purely on the physical progression of time on the earth's geoid, with no arbitrary input that has to be updated periodically). https://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html

Generally, you should only be dealing with UTC for things that have to display/accept a time to/from human users; there's no reason for computers to reason about the interval between events using UTC.
I seriously can't overstate how easy it is to sign a binary. You don't need an Apple Developer account, or an internet connection, or anything other than macOS and a working development environment. Just go into the Terminal and type:

> codesign -f -s - [path to binary]

Unless something has changed on Apple Silicon, that's it, you're done, the binary has a signature. It does not have a trusted signature, but you don't need one. I think it was just simpler to write the OS assuming all executables would have a signature.
This is the kind of thing that would make me seriously second guess every selling anything to, working for, or otherwise interacting with Disney. As someone with minuscule experience as a writer this is just down right scummy and all but unethical ... Sheesh!
Aren't leap seconds built into GNSS protocols? i.e. if you have a GNSS receiver, leap seconds will be accounted for in ZDA NMEA sentences.
Yeah, TCP_CORK would work but it's not an elegant solution IMO.
My wish - all of them and few more so that no one gets funny ideas about ruling the world.
Keep an eye out for v2 in about a month ;)
> absent some specific customer segment that has special credit situations

It seems from the S-1 that Affirm has grown it's market quite a lot, but my first and primary exposure to them is in the car scene. Affirm entered this customer segment and dominated pretty quickly as the creditor integration of choice for long time-scale projects with up front costs like custom engine builds. I imagine to some degree they are able to make decisions partly based on the nature of what is being purchased.

Their S-1 indicates this is shifting, but I have historically seen Affirm in places where a more typical online consumer credit organization like PayPal Credit / BillMeLater / etc doesn't play. Affirm seemed to be focused on larger sized purchases which would otherwise be paid on an installment plan, but filling that gap. Exercise equipment like Peloton is a great example, just as engine builds is a similar type of transaction.
Already been said a number of ways here but: If the agency spies on it's own citizens, why wouldn't it spy on non-citizens?
Hi Adam,

The demo given just below looks amazing. I initially thought it was a video, now seeing that it is actually coded. Brilliant
> I could make a theory that says that gravity works exactly as we think it does, except in about 1000 years will cease to function entirely.

I suppose you could - but this vacuous armchair theorizing, which, I hope, took you less than a minute to dream up, has no bearing on scientific theories of gravity, which are based on what has been observed. This does not depend on any concept of 'simplicity' or 'elegance', but, at most, on Occam's razor (which is not, as Wikipedia claims, a matter of "the simplest explanation is usually the right one": it is a matter of eliminating premises that are not explaining anything beyond what can already be explained.)
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Indeed! There is a vast bibliography but starting with a music-school theory book is often really daunting... so searching for something different I found this series from Michael Hewitt [1], there are 3 books, one for theory, one for harmony and one for composition.

Halfway through reading the first book I decided I needed to get better at inputting music to my computer, so I started to learn Reaper (which is a bit like "the emacs of DAWs" :-).

https://www.hooktheory.com/ is also a great practical resource, focusing on numeral analysis of popular music, and the their composition tool is fantastic!

I have a backburner of other resources that I want to eventually cover but I figured that was as good a starting point as any.

1: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001I7U4SM
The culminating moment of all of the security researcher hostility discussion was "The reality is that Apple has been so hostile to independent security research that they've lost their edge: exploits for Android now cost more than exploits for iOS, a reversal experts generally credit to Google correctly allowing researchers open access." https://www.wired.com/story/android-zero-day-more-than-ios-z...
Deffo not as large parts of it isnt even used. Current techniques involve building lists of active ranges and focusing the scan on those.
Why do you think he somehow "managed" this? How your children act and what they want to do is, in many ways, beyond your control. Do you think of yourself like that? Like "I acted like X because my parents raised me like Y?"

I certainly don't.
Oh yeah, Occam's razor has nothing to do with any concept of "simplicity". /s

You're literally stumbling into my conclusion and then arguing that it is different from what I was saying. You can even look at my other replies to you referencing Occam's Razor as exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about.
It's wrong because it's useless: you can use inline styles instead (and if you gzip the html it's probably going to be smaller as long as you factor in the framework, since essentially you are using numeric LZ backreferences instead of useless long class names).

The whole point of CSS classes is that they don't map to fixed styles, so they offer a useful abstraction, allowing you to change the CSS class definition once and effect all elements it applies to.
Little less than a must have, but Sublime Merge (from the makers of SublimeText) has been a great Git GUI. Especially since Linux lacks an initiative snappy one.
> Biology is a capital-intensive endeavour

Or, looking at it another way, software is a uniquely capital-light endeavor.

Many people who have been in the industry for a few years have enough savings that they could just quit their job and try whatever crazy idea they have without any external funding. You can't do that in biology, or most other fields for that matter.

Part of the reason software companies pay such high salaries is to make this option less attractive.
$20k / month
Ok that's fine but...

> 1. Applied the throttling fix silently

I would maintain that the device that didn't throttle, taking into account the real capabilities of the battery, and instead shut down unexpectedly at 20% was broken. It was fixed by this patch.

> 2. Denied warranty replacements.

There's as much reason to replace a battery under warranty that has maintained 80% charge capacity after 1000 cycles or 2 years, as there is an ink cartridge starting to run low. Batteries start getting worse after each charge cycle, and my understanding is that they followed the prescribed policy.

> 3. Wouldn't even replace the battery with cash in hand until after the suit was filed.

I'm very much against this policy, as a right-to-repair advocate I believe battery replacements should be simple and end-user achievable. Short of that I agree that the replacement should have been carried out on a cost-plus basis on request.

> 4. ..leaving people with no good way to have a working device.

This is where we disagree except as I replied in (3).
Thanks!

We're open to discussing it. Do you have an email we can contact you at?
I don't think I've ever seen such an inappropriate and wrong headed analogy in my life.

> But they are blind to the future possibility of being locked out by apple by decree (see epic), or some other arbitrary rule they create.

Indies aren't stupid. Their paychecks come from the uncertain whims of App Store review. Many of them have gotten rejections for various reasons and had to fight for them or revise their apps to keep them in the store. They are the first to back other Indies when things go south. The same people who are celebrating this rate change were among the most vocal critics when Apple pulled Hey out of the App Store.

People aren't one-dimensional. It's possible to celebrate that one part of being in business with the App Store has gotten a hell of a lot better. Even while recognizing that other parts still have a sign on them that says "Here be Dragons".
I was at Twitter when lots of machines seized.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/leap-second-glitch-explained/
Probably because water is (considered) a utility whereas food is (to a large extent) privately produced, transported, and sold.

> The people whose land was taken reacted with disbelief, sorrow, anger. That land might have been in their families for generations, might have been the family’s sole support, might have been the only home they’d ever known. The city decreed and mobilized and condemned properties for seizure without asking residents’ permission; found all sorts of legal subterfuges for denying the value of their fields and homesteads as established by expert witnesses; lowballed every estimate; treated them with distant contempt. Since the politicians and commissioners were not running for office upstate, they felt no need to package their enterprise as a humanitarian mission; they spoke in numbers and legal precedents.

Do you think this is acceptable conduct if it was in the service of procuring food for city people, or people in a country that was a net importer of food?
If you want to read further about this subject, I highly recommend a book called Discussing Design [1] which goes into how/when/why to give and receive design feedback effectively. It's a pretty easy read and has some fun illustrations by one of the authors. It's one of my favorite design books in general since I believe it's a pretty important subject which can easily apply to other types of knowledge work.
[1] http://www.discussingdesign.com/
It's different in that the electric car is marketed as capable of achieving 70mph, Apple does not market iOS devices in terms of performance. No promises were made in that regard - at all, IIRC.
Isn't this just partially fixed? I believe google.com cookies are still exempt in the current latest release.
Windows Resource Protection doesn't prevent code injection, and can be disabled from within the OS. I don't consider them equivalent.
Ambient article.
Mozilla -> Linux Foundation -> Graveyard
> Boeing or Lockheed Martin on the other hand, I'd be extremely surprised if our intelligence agencies didn't give them stolen tech.

Assuming we’re talking about military tech. Why should they? What tech is the military and defense industry lacking in that would provide a battlefield advantage that other countries have?

There’s only a handful of non-US weapon systems that can potentially compete with US weapon systems.
I still hate how I'll buy something that is clearly an expensive one time purchase from amazon (such as a lawnmower or an audio receiver) and the best its dumb algorithm can come up with is, "Hey, wanna buy another lawnmower?"
An interesting addition to the swirling chaos that is intellectual property rights.

Given Disney's fierce defense of their vast IP properties, I'd have thought they would be issuing a humble apology and paying out as necessary in order not to tarnish their desired reputation as a defender of the rights of the creative community. (naively) Ironic.
Games on iOS sold very well but I don't think Apple's game platform/strategy works well.

iPhone as a gaming platform: device sold well, SoC is excellent, RAM is fine, API is fine, users are relatively rich, IAP is easy.
The US’s racist drug enforcement predates the DEA. Billie Holiday was an early victim.

They needed to justify prohibition era law enforcement budgets after prohibition ended, and explicitly targeting blacks was politically expedient.