skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. But it happens on the opposite side as well. I can say that major insurance companies have to deal with major hospitals (in addition to individual practices) miscoding stuff.

Not even because they want more money! It's more wrong vs correct. And is done just because "that's the way they've always done it" (and they're used to the insurance company fixing it on their side).

The biggest benefit of the move to automated processing and electronic records is it doesn't leave room for Dr. Sue and Mr. Green to have a non-policy understanding on how to handle claims.

It got things done, but it made it impossible to scale when you were trying to untangle 1,000,000 "special cases."
It's actually both, but I see your point.

Certainly, the overriding societal impact is the fact that law enforcement is corrupt, not that people pay bribes to corrupt law enforcement. No question.
what i'm curious about is how the 2007 zoomquilt2 has an easter-egg for the 2015 zrkadia.xyz in it...? Did the former inspire the starting frame from the latter, or was it retroactively retrofitted?
SFWA seems to be saying that Disney's argument is that when they bought the rights from George Lucas, the royalties didn't come along with that. It seems Disney is not asserting there are no royalties in the contract, just rather that they don't have to pay them.

I assume SFWA and ADF have discussed this beyond what they are posting to twitter. Him not posting the contract to everyone on the internet seems like a weird detail to call out as a point against him.
> Could be as simple as mounting the remote server via sshfs

Right but that's not encrypted and requires me to maintain another server. With unattended upgrades it isn't much, but it adds up if you have ten other things already running and you're actually trying to downsize this time commitment (mainly for the major version upgrades which take days out of holidays every few years, upgrading and re-testing everything again, sometimes fixing dependency issues, reinstalling things...).

Storage can be an "as a service" thing these days, indeed Google Drive / OVH NAS / hosted NextCloud / HiDrive / etc. is what I meant, basically anything that could interface with a pi in a way that it uploads the encrypted stream, so you capture whoever unplugs it -- at least that's how I imagine a regular security camera would work. But then, the only things I find online start at 4 figures and none of them are open source so who knows what encryption (if any) they really apply... Is there really no one on this planet running open source encrypted cameras, are all these systems that consumers use (some of whom are hackers) 100% proprietary, plaintext, or only stored on-site?
You're missing that they picked "robbery", excluding the much larger "burglary" and "shoplifting" and "fraud" categories. They then say "Much bigger problem than other forms of theft"... Implying "Much bigger problem than [all] other forms of theft" instead of "Much bigger problem than [some] other forms of theft".

And, if you're going to go with broadly estimated (and somewhat questionable) numbers, then surely you need to consider the ~$50B estimated lost to retail theft each year. Don't just compare $933 million proven lost to wage theft to the over-precise $340,850,358 aggregated from some robbery reports (really, 9 sig figs?) and call it "other theft".

Not to mention that that $933M "recovered" includes many cases of trebled damages...

Wage theft is important. But make an honest case.
See also today’s parallel discussion about Microsoft Pluton providing remote attestation in exactly this manner for Azure cloud servers and, eventually, all consumer x86_64 CPUs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25192681
Debugging with M4
State laws that contradict federal legislation is not a foundation of Federalism, though.
> I'm curious -- if a county sheriff's office demands bribes, what is the correct legal course of action in the US? Do you bring it to county court? To the governor's office? To state police? To state court?

I imagine anything other than "pay the bribe" would suffice.
I don't see any Apple apologists here in the comments. Who are you referring to?

All I see is the fact that the Apple employee didn't initiate the bribe, the sheriff's office demanded it (extorted it) and the employee was put in the unfortunate immediate situation of either not getting their lawfully permitted license, or paying the bribe.

At the end of the day it's bribery so of course the employee deserves to be charged (and Apple if it approved it in any way), but the sheriff's office officials deserve much harsher punishment quite clearly.
> If somebody’s got their hand in your pocket, you can forcibly remove it.

It's still pickpocketing, which is theft. Unless they employ force against you in turn, or threaten you, to stop you from removing their hand. That makes it robbery.

> If they’re burgling your house, you’ve got the right to shoot them dead.

It's still burglary, which is theft. Unless they also employ violence against you, or threaten violence against you, in the course of committing the burglary. That makes it robbery.

This isn't my opinion, so there's no use arguing with me. You're arguing against the law and the English language.
Wow, looks like China state funded operation to create a botnet. Nice research.
At that level of the government?

Not so long ago the US President was impeached for bribery.
While it would be a fun thing to have, in most parts of the world you have to inform the other party BEFORE you are going to record calls. Probably the reason apple left it out.
>Of the tens of thousands of people with enough "luck" to arrive at roughly the same place in 1991

There where not "tens of thousands" peoples who made a ~unix kernel licensed with the GPL.

>Linus is also lucky that he had decent nutrition in his childhood

Yeah let's stop here it getting stupid.
There are two meaningful options for CPU. If they both adopt the tech...
I don't understand the logic here. You seem to be saying that it's better to have a featurephone than a modern phone if you can't load arbitrary code on the modern phone, but that logic, applied broadly, would serve almost no consumers well.
> Since facebook is like a driver's license atm, you can be certain other people use it and having a chat client tied to it is very nice to have.

This is an unfortunate situation to be in.
I don’t think the fact that something is an “essential right” implies that’s it’s okay to commit bribery or other crimes during the procedural steps to exercise that right. Presumably it ought to be illegal to bribe a government official to move your court date up, even though the right to a speedy trial is also protected by the bill of rights.
I think greasing the wheels is so normal that everybody implicitly expects it anyway, while open highway robbery just feels a bit heavy-handed.
It takes two to tango and those giving bribes are not exempt from anti-bribery laws (as you can tell since the giver also got indicted). I’ll also note that things like this are explicitly called out in the anti-corruption training every single employee of a large US corporation undergoes (or at least the US-based employees).
> I haven't heard of anyone harassing him for having Asperger's

I may have worded this badly (not a native speaker, it takes a lot of time for me to find the right words and formulate my thoughts in English), but what I meant is that they are using Stallman's peculiarities (which are likely ASD-related) against him to destroy his character. See the message I linked earlier where Wingo refers to multiple posts on stallman.org suggesting his very biased interpretation of their meanings and of Stallman's behavior.

And it could be painful for RMS: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg004...

> I can empathize with people who wouldn't want someone who says those things to represent an organization that they work with, regardless of what caused the person to say them.

But GNU is Stallman's project (and it is not an organization), he started it. They could just leave and continue working on Guix independently. Some projects join GNU, some leave, no one is forced to work under Stallman's leadership. But it appears to me that Guix maintainers feel so attached to the GNU identity, that they want to hijack it instead.
I disagree. I dislike Apple's practices as much as anyone, but when the #2 person at the sheriff's office is the one soliciting the bribe, you have a problem with the police department that even Apple cannot be expected to fix.

You can argue that they should have gone straight to the DA, and you might even be right, but the only way for this problem to get fixed is by cleaning house at the police department, not by scolding Apple for trying to work with corrupt officials.

Keep in mind that it's incredibly rare for any DA to go against the police, so this case is already unusual. We'll have to wait and see if they actually have the evidence / wherewithal to see this one through rather than just settling out of court for a slap on the wrist.

Edit:

I actually agree with the comments suggesting that Apple and similar companies will learn from this experience and will use it as an example when trying to ensure that it doesn't happen again, and in that sense, it's important that they be punished too.

I think the point I'm trying to make is that, on a moral level, the police department comes off looking way worse than Apple here, and their punishment should be higher.

Police are given a special position in society where we essentially trust them to conduct themselves professionally and uphold the law fairly. When that trust is misplaced, the checks are slow and unreliable, and corrupt cops can cause a whole lot of mayhem while we're waiting. So if you're going to go after police corruption, you'd better hit hard. It's really, really bad for society to have police who are so comfortable asking for bribes this openly.

It's also bad for companies like Apple to feel like they can just pay the bribes to grease the wheels, but it's a different kind of bad. It's a "We should punish Apple to discourage a tragedy of the commons" kind of bad, while police openly asking for bribes is a "betraying the public trust" kind of bad.
> The stock iOS keyboard has a dictation key I always hit accidentally. I can disable it when I'm Jailbroken.

Install SwiftKey and never look back
A private citizen of limited means paying a bribe is somehow reasonable because there's a huge power imbalance.

Refusing to pay a bribe is also a refusal to participate in a racket. Local police can be extremely petty and extremely violent [1]. If a police officer told me he'd let me off for a bribe, I would probably pay it. I wouldn't be paying to get what I want. Rather, I would be paying to avoid the appearance that I disapprove of the bribery (and the possibility of resulting reprisal).

E: And, of course, I would report that bribe as soon as it was safe to do so. And, of course, I'm referring to a scenario where I, as an individual private citizen, am told to pay money to a person with a gun who controls my immediate safety... which, importantly, brings us to the second half of this comment:

But this isn't that.

A high-level exec at one of the world's most powerful companies paying off a local LEO for a permit instead of, IDK, contacting the State or the Feds, is beyond inexplicable.

[1] https://oklahoman.com/article/5666549/woman-recognizes-attac...
I was a flag marshall at a race track a year or so ago, one of the classes racing was the Radical, a lightweight mini LeMans car based on a hight performance motor cycle engine. They are pretty awesome. One car was a full battery EV which they were testing out. We were instructed that if it crashed and caught fire were were NOT to assist ourself but to wait for the main team to arrive.

As an aside, the eRadical was some 300kg heavier than the ICE version but otherwise identical. As for competition: there wasn't any. From the flag drop at the start the eRadical jumped ahead (thanks to electric engines offering 100% torque at 0 rpm) and held that lead throughout the race. The only time it didn't;t finish first was the last race of the day which was double length: it DNF due to exhausted battery.
They say covid hit production :/
oh yes, they just started doing all of this in the last six months.
Tesla had a really good set of videos on how to respond to emergencies involving electric vehicles. They obviously showed it on a Tesla but I thought it was really well made in that they talked about other designs and what will be in common and what won’t. I am not a first responder so there is little direct reason for me to know this but I spent several hours watching the videos anyways simply because they were so interesting and so well made.

Similarly, I really liked the video from an ER doctor who races motorcycles about responding to motorcycle crashes. Highly recommend learning more about this as you very well might be the first person there and the dangers are non-obvious. And of course I highly recommend taking a CPR course and carrying a first aid kit, including a mouth to mouth membrane, with you in your vehicle. You never know when you’ll be in a position to save a life.

Edit: Tesla emergency responder resources: https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders

Motorcycle crash response: https://youtu.be/MsZBXlTHPCg

Red Cross CPR certification: https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/cpr/cpr-training/cpr-c...
That's not what I said though...
I remember the Guns n Roses spin-off band Velvet Revolver had a cool Flash site around then that had a similar navigation effect. When you clicked something it would zoom in to that part of the site. It blew my mind when I ran across it back then.
Apple options backdating. If you search for that you should find lots of info.
Lobste.rs thread: https://lobste.rs/s/24gfue/play_statically_typed_forth_compi...
Except not paying the bribe then opens you up to all sorts of incidental interactions with the sheriff's department.

I have stacks of anecdotal interactions with local level police (both sheriff and police) that nothing surprises me anymore.
Math entries in Wikipedia generally favor completeness and correctness over clarity, which makes them of limited use for many users.

In order to explain something simply, you usually have to lie a little bit — but I speculate that those little lies bother the contributors to mathematical Wikipedia articles a great deal. So they correct those little lies, making the articles more accurate but less useful for many of us.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff is not a state agency.
> 1. Is there a LTS Firefox package in Guix?

Yes, it's called IceCat and is a rebranded Firefox with privacy enhancements:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...

> 2. Is there a LTS Chromium package in Guix?

There is no LTS distribution of Chromium anywhere. But the latest version is available, sans Google integration:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...

(you can also install Chromium extensions with Guix)

> 3. Is there an escape hatch if I'd rather just download an Electron binary for my package dependency rather than properly package Electron?

Kind of. You can define an environment with the relevant dependencies on LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or use "patchelf"). But expect to experiment a bit to make it work.
Cool NSA back doors
Why are you saying "push" when it appears to be 100% accurate? There's no "angle" here, just the truth.
I'm glad you brought it up as extortion.

You could record it yourself.

I would go to the FBI since this is happening under the color of law, which is considered a civil rights violation. The ACLU should be interested too.
This is another problem I have with stock iOS—third party keyboards randomly revert back to the Apple keyboard on password entry screens!

I 100% understand why Apple does this, but a keyboard that randomly changes to a different keyboard under some circumstances is completely unusable to me. My brain needs consistency.
Wow, there is a like a million tools in use here. Before I clicked the link I was expecting the tool set to be extremely minimal and focused, e.g. HTML+CSS+javascript/node.js. I currently have a bunch of projects using PHP+javascript+HTML+CSS and I am seriously considering dropping PHP and focusing more on javascript, and thus using node.js instead of PHP, so I no longer have to keep up to date with PHP. Anyway, great you can manage it all and that it's working for you.
Because his funding library was a legit ad. I'd all on board with open source projects taking in funding, but spamming a terminal with ads for linode is not okay at all. Begging may have been a bit harsh.
I would agree if California was a shall-issue state for CCW, but it's a may-issue state. Essentially it's arbitrarily up to the sheriffs department if you can get a CCW.

Personally, I chose to live in shall-issue states.
Arming black people is the only strategy for getting rid of the 2nd amendment that will actually work.
You got to be fucking kidding me...
> That's not something I want in my general-purpose computing device where I am the owner.

Consoles aren't general computing devices, though.

Apple disagrees with your idea of ownership, too ;) and so do the customers who Pluton is targeted at - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/windows10...

The whole project isn't targeted at end-users. It's IoT, businesses, hospitals, government agencies, utility companies, etc.

We need to stop seeing us (as private end users) as the centre of the world and start to acknowledge that there's hundreds of millions of PC devices out there that don't serve private end users. It's the security needs of these organisations that are addressed by this technology, not yours, not mine.

The unfortunate truth is that Windows is still the backbone of many government agencies, power plants, hospital IT, businesses and so on.

It's also a fact that most of these machines are not well managed, lack updates , aren't hardened or secured in any way and are targeted by cyber criminals on a daily basis; sometimes with grim consequences. It gets even worse when you look at IoT and the mess that manufacturers get us into (default passwords, unsecured data transfer, ...).

I see this chip in the same area as Intel's vPro, TPM 2.0, AMDs ASP (in their Ryzen PRO line), and so on; not necessarily aimed at end users (aside from the occasional buzzword) and more aimed towards businesses and government users (as part of their Zero-Trust initiative).
The most random things can help.

Was in your wife’s shoes. Locked in a dark room most of the week.

Most medications not working. Supplements helping, but not enough.

Someone suggested TMJ. Looked up video on TMJ massage. 3 days later I was nearly normal. Been mostly fine since.
There is a bulge at the back that gives it a bit of an angle on a desk.
> The phone company isn't allowed to block you because you said something politically incorrect to my friends and tech companies should be no different.

The phone company normally connects two people at a time. That's not a public forum.
I just meant it to mean "someone with a strong desire to make something of the opportunity offered to them."
... they create a niche for a third ... provided there are enough people who care.

If nobody cares nobody cares.
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So, the Trusted Platform Module itself isn't a DRM solution. It's a chip that hangs off the LPC/ISA bus and holds a crypto key generated from boot stage hashes that your BIOS, bootloader, and operating system provide to it. The idea is that all of those hashes together form a key that would change if any stage were tampered with, and that by encrypting things with the key you can prove that those particular things haven't changed.

It's not particularly practical to build a DRM scheme out of a Trusted Platform Module, notably because the key attestation the TPM provides audits a particular combination of boot stages, not a particular piece of hardware. DRM vendors don't care about you updating your firmware, but they do care about videos being locked to a particular authorized piece of hardware. If you had a TPM-based DRM, you'd deauthorize your video downloads by just updating your BIOS, while videos you passed from one person to another on the same OS version would play just fine.

I imagine Pluton is trying to be a competitor to Intel ME or AMD PSP, which are things you can use to isolate software running on shared hardware. For example, Intel ME provides hardware support for Intel Software Guard Extensions, which is used to isolate DRM from the host operating system. AMD has something similar with Secure Encrypted Virtualization, which uses the PSP to set up different memory-encrypted containers for each VM that higher security rings can't access. In this case, locking down PCs from arbitrary code, like an Xbox, isn't really on the menu. What they're looking to do is carve out space in Ring 3 that Ring 0 can't touch.
Kinda reminds me of that time the Cupertino City Council asked Steve Jobs for free Wifi and iPads in the hearing to approve Apple's new campus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuz5OmOh_M&t=790

But I guess they all had a good laugh in the end, so it doesn't count?
Sure but there's still a world of difference depending on who initiates the corruption. Apple's not trying to actively corrupt the police department, the police department is acting corruptly.

It's a serious offense on both sides, but far more serious on the part of the sheriff's department.
The buffer is allocated in general library code, unfortunately. It's not something I can easily adjust.
The article says that the iPads never changed hands because the Attorney General's office started investigating during all this. It is likely that what happened is another applicant was also asked for a bribe at around the same time and reported it to the Attorney General of California. You can report a myriad of crimes directly to the AG's office: https://oag.ca.gov/contact
This is why gun rights organizations fight for shall-issue rather than may-issue.
One of the driving forces is for every device to have a 5G connection, no wifi needed. Everything will have an IPv6 address soon.

I do not agree with any of that, though.
Why should Apple security have CCW permits? Why do they deserve them any more than a random person? They should not be able to defend Apple property with lethal force.
I believe this sort of thing is explicitly outlined in the FCPA, which deals with corruption by US Corporations abroad. FCPA is pretty stringent, and this is what is covered in the in-house mandatory training you end up doing at any sizeable company. However, this is within the United States and this person appears to have been acting on Apple's behalf, so
how does this fall afoul of the law (what law in particular)?
Is it still a bribe when the public official initiates it? I hope they all get into trouble but I do wonder, when faced with a corrupt public official who is withholding government-provided services, at some point does that not simply become the necessary payment as opposed to a "bribe"?
I suspect the other commenter’s point is that they thing there should not be any procedural requirements whatsoever for concealed carry.
If you want Google’s results, but on DDG, the GP mentioned that you should prepend your query with “!g”
I think Flash's editor and scripting abilities had a more accessible "on-ramp" for creating interactive content. I think the technical knowhow and discipline is a little higher with JavaScript compared to Flash.
Trump tells GSA that Biden transition can begin
The concept of making do with less in the Western world is something driven by necessity in other less wealthy nations, the prime example being the Indian "Jugaad"[1]

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad
Nobody needs a permit to carry a weapon on private property, even in California.
All JS is the place to be. TypeScript is an amazing dev experience, NodeJS is decently performant, and then it's all portable as hell thanks to the web.