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Yikes. The company seems to be at fault here, treating employees very (very!) poorly. Ugly stuff.

What worries me about sensationalist media coverage of a story like this one, in the middle of a pandemic-induced global economic slowdown, is that the media coverage itself could motivate other, copycat episodes of employee violence.
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Back when i was in high school in the late 90s/early 2000s there was a website, i think called cellphonescanner (.) com that had a realmedia stream to listen to analog cell conversations around NYC and Toronto or something like that. It was great entertainment.
Imho it would be fair if it was treated on a cost per hour basis.

So a typical sec researcher will charge $350 per hour. So if this hack took 10 hours then $3500 would be fair
> With eyes sensitive to longer wavelengths the entire sky is indeed bright

With eyes sensitive to the CMB, the CMB is dimming and reddening. Such eyes witnessing an essentially isotropic and homogeneous CMB would be Eulerian observers of the CMB. (In contrast to observers who see a dipole anisotropy because of acceleration along one spatial axis, for example, or observers immersed in the gravitational field of a massive system like a galaxy cluster or a planet).

Such Eulerian observers see a clearly peaked spectrum, essentially identical to a that of a blackbody radiator that is cooling. If such observers are in deep inter-galaxy-cluster space and equipped with instruments to augment their CMB-sensitive eyes, they'd detect plenty of bright spots with frequencies much much lower than the peak in the CMB. As an example an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_galaxy will be much brighter in wavelengths longer than that of the CMB (spectral radiance peak of CMB is ~ 160 GHz and falls off quickly away from the peak).

That -- correcting for proper motions and atmospheric effects -- our view of the sky is pretty uniform in the CMB (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOOMERanG_experiment and beyond) but far from uniform in VLF, radio, IR, UV, X-Rays, gamma rays, and so on (as known since roughly the 1930s thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Guthe_Jansky#Radio_astron... ) just like it is in visible light, and that the bright spots at different frequencies aren't coincident in our sky, are important pieces of evidence which must be dealt with by any prospective model of physical cosmology.
It's not common in professional writing but it's use goes back quite some time, and it's a fun example of reduplication.

https://www.wise-geek.com/what-are-the-origins-of-the-phrase...
Open-source developers say securing their code is a soul-withering waste of time
I think you misunderstand the genre of essay that pg practices. It's a form of thinking out loud, and intensely personal—a way of finding out how one understands oneself and the world by writing about it. This is actually the origin of the term 'essay', which means 'attempt' and is intrinsically informal. Citations would be out of place.
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I see. Thank you. I can visualize it better now.

In the case of Cybertruck..the batteries will be in the underbelly/chassis making it ‘bottom heavy’ ..would this be right?
Nice! At CMU, we have 15-213, an introductory course on computer systems and one of the hardest/fun assignments is implementing malloc. We end up using seglists, mini-blocks and other optimizations, ending up with a faster implementation than the standard malloc itself on several benchmark tests.
21k to 12k is much more than a ten percent drop.
It seems like what you're describing here is simply a bug bounty program.

The reason companies pay for app pentests and also run bug bounties is that the two modalities find different kinds of bugs. App pentesters generally get a lot of intel about their targets (source is not unusual). You're also getting a team with bios and a final deliverable that records the diligence work done, which is not an outcome you get with a bounty program.

But you can do things in between. It's not crazy to offer a gig to someone who has delivered a good finding on a bounty project. But you have to do something to incentivize them beyond what the bounty already does, and the most normal way to do that is to not make payment contingent.
And it will certainly improve the debuggability of such code. The approaches are great, it would be nice to bundle these tools into a single shell script for easier usage. Or is there any reason why foreach() needs to be a file?
Many years ago, I worked for a guy who regularly monitored mobile phone frequencies and recorded conversations. He wrote screenplays and used the recordings for dialog study. At least that was what he claimed.
If you know what you're doing building and running yourself is usually a good path
> If YouTube is a public resource, why wouldn't the laws governing public nudity apply?

Because those laws by their own terms usually apply to people being nude in public places, not to images (whether in public or on publicly accessible websites), which are governed by different laws.
> What worries me about sensationalist media coverage of a story like this one, in the middle of a pandemic-induced global economic slowdown, is that the media coverage itself could motivate other, copycat episodes of employee violence.

Hopefully it'll scare employers into treating their employees better, or risk labor conflict like this.
It would be like writing off a stamp.
The SC isn't supposed to concern itself with justice, that's a sticky matter for the legislators. Their job is to make sure that the legislators followed rules (wrote laws which do not contradict the constitution) and that those laws are properly applied.

Yes, every individual judge has their own skills and opinions and as such, sees the legal question slightly differently, and has different legal interests and thus knows some law more than other. We have a nine as a balance between not having enough diverse backgrounds such that we might be missing the critical input some day weighed against the group being to big to be convenient.

> why do we end up with split votes that so often fall down partisan lines?

People are flawed. Let's say some injustice caused you to get into law. You're likely going to be more familiar with that area, and more sensitive to its harms, than another judge. You may not be voting your ideology, you may be there (as a justice) because of your ideology, and you may have your honest beliefs because of your unique experiences.

I often read opinions I don't agree with, but I can see where the justice just had a different life than me and sees things differently.

> Supreme Court opinions literally called opinions, if they are apparently objective?

The only use of objectivity in this thread is yours. But if someone did use that phrasing, they'd mean that the justices should decide the same on the same issue, no matter if it helps a nazi or a nun. Justice is supposed to be blind.
> The paradox claims that the sky should appear bright, which I take to mean that a detector should be receiving light from each point in the sky at each moment in time.

I don't think this is required for the paradox. All that is required is that the average flux of radiation received from the sky as a whole should be constant, and equal, roughly speaking, to the flux corresponding to the surface brightness of a star. That will still be true, under the specified conditions of the paradox (a universe in steady state and infinitely old) even if quantization is taken into account.
This is often the case for amateur radio equipment as well - transceivers are configured not to transmit outside the licensed amateur bands, but there is often a simple modification (cut a PCB trace, remove a component, etc) that happens to remove those limitations.

These are often called "MARS mods", since the Military Auxiliary Radio System uses HF frequencies that are outside the amateur allocation.
> In light of the decades of Red Hat's behavior, I will say one thing: you reap what you sow.

I'm surprised to hear you say that, because this is exactly why I personally won't touch anything from Oracle with a ten-foot pole; I'm not fond of RH yanking support, but we're talking about the company that is known throughout the industry for license audits and calls from legal as a sales strategy. Is there some reason why you trust this particular product more?
there is a self recognition system, the body indexes its components and will end process when the protien is recognized as self. foriegn molecules are not indexed and if large enough [as in protiens, not water or salt] they will trigger immune response a wanted poster and a bunch of antibodies are produced that tag the invader.

the mRNA of concern will not modify your DNA sequence, the expression of the S protien occurs untill the mRNA is destroyed by the cell, or the cell itself is destroyed taken apart and compared to self antigens, the foriegn antigen is expressed by MHC cells and PresenteD in a context of this is a hostile thing [a wanted poster]

this all occurs in a system of interdependent cell types and thier interactions.

your question addresses the crux of immunology, and needs a lot more attention than would be constructive here.

put on your reading cap and check this out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_disease
I'm really curious if the management/owners also took a fifty percent cut in comp.
"Entropy provider" is not a thing, nor is "good sources and throughput". I've been cagey about writing about this but this thread is now old so I'll just be direct (and boring): there is a misconception that running cryptography primitives somehow burns through entropy as if it were fuel. But that's not how it works at all. You need enough entropy to seed your CSPRNG, and enough to periodically re-seed it to have some safety margin against compromises, but in the interval in between, you have effectively limitless "entropy" to spend.

The lava lamps aren't doing anything for Cloudflare's security. They're a marketing gimmick. A very good one! They got articles like this written! I'm not begrudging them the win! But this is not in fact how you engineer cryptography.
Have you seen "Burn after reading"?
SDRs don't have the 800Mhz restrictions.
Disagree: RH isn't likely to sue you.
> Do we have any evidence someone's been infected from a momentary passing in open air?

We don't have the specific history of >99.9% of infections, so, of course we don't have great evidence for any scenario. Therefore I guess it's presumed safe, just like licking doorknobs? :P

Many of the construction site and agricultural site transmissions took place outdoors, without close contact.

Yes, outdoor is much, much, much lower risk than indoor contact-- about a 20x odds ratio.

Something I tell all my students in our shop class-- PPE is useless if you have to give a lot of thought about when to employ it. Yes, everything happening in the lab right now might seem like it doesn't require safety glasses... but you might not be assessing the risk properly, you might not know everyone else's activities, and you're only ever as safe as the riskiest thing someone else is doing in the room.

The cost of masking up for most activities is low, and the cost of partial knowledge or a miscalculation could be very, very high.
at heart, Wistron is a Taiwanese company - and this sort of move is common in Taiwan (I speak from secondhand experience, primarily that of Taiwanese companies reducing salaries in China). That said, this seems like an extreme example. Curious how much the India-based execs and managers are deciding on this
Is there a reason they don't create the protein in Vito and them inject it as a vaccine? I would imagine they could use in Vito cells to generate a lot of spike proteins.

Are they using mRNA because it's easier to manufacture? Or is the protein too instable?
Was this in the video? I saw a row of cars with windows smashed, and I saw a golf cart tipped on its side... but no flipped cars.
That could end up as part of the bail condition. Some places use it more than others. I'm not sure why it isn't more common. Police response time could still be an issue.
Pardon my ignorance but is this something that could, in theory, trigger a cell to become cancerous or trigger the body to develop an autoimmune condition (as the spike protein is created by the body's own cells)?
I used to joke at my previous position that I was a "programmer-lite", because I was in a support role and they wouldn't let me write code, but for some reason I was allowed to write and commit bash scripts, so all of the programmers started coming to me to write the shell script interfaces to their programs. I took pride in making the scripts "safe", running them through shellcheck and actually checking the exit status on things.

To this day, I've still never quite gotten the hang of the whole "trap" mechanic, though...
I used to think this way as well, but out of necessity, had to work specifically with a commercial IDE for some time. Turns out, if you are confident learning the keybindings of a robust IDE is worthwhile (e.g. you know that you must use it for some particular project for a decent amount of time) the investment pays off just as well as learning shell commands. A good IDE can do everything a cobbled together shell pipeline can, often in two keystrokes instead of N trial and error command inputs because you forgot, yet again that, e.g. while `grep` takes a pattern argument before a path, `find` does the opposite--in spite of POSIX there's an incredible lack of UX standardization when it comes to unix tooling.

People like to pretend that learning shell commands is somehow better because it's more portable, but unless your work entails working across multiple machines and environments daily, it doesn't matter. Most of us do most of our work on one machine, in one environment, so at the end of the day, it really comes down to preference. Personally, I do prefer working in the shell, but if you prefer working in a modern IDE, don't let anyone fool you that you're somehow wasting time or being less proficient than you could be in a shell--if you took the time to learn the IDE keybindings and the IDE is on par with anything Jetbrains puts out, you're not losing in efficiency at all and possibly making gains when it comes to certain tasks.
They are concerned, but it's a balancing act. COVID itself is a new virus with unknown long term side effects, and it's killing millions while causing massive economic harm triggering political destabilization in some areas. The vaccine is new and may cause issues, but current data doesn't indicate it will cause issues and it prevents death and sickness by COVID very effectively.
There's a lot of misinformation here, and it's clear the author didn't do their homework by simply putting $10 into Facebook ads.

FB gives pretty good data on who sees the ads, and advertisers are well aware. Moreover, it's fairly easy to explicitly target demographics.

If TikTok ads were being seen by quite a lot of 35 year old men, then this was part of TikTok's strategy.

It's foolish to spend a lot of money on such ads without having some measure of their effectiveness and FB and Google actually do give tons of data.

Compare this to TV or print, wherein advertisers have only a very crude idea of who is seeing their ads.

As someone who buys ads myself, Facebook is frankly probably the best platform in terms of being able to access large audiences with decent data, and frankly getting decent activity from the ads.

Google keywords are good for only specific things and most banner ad networks are worthless.
> The downside is that Norwegians (or at least Norwegian institutions) can be distrustful of foreign academic qualifications; even those from a highly respected institution that is older than Norway, unless they have personal knowledge of it.

Is this a downside, or has the rest of the word devalued its academic qualifications by lowering its standards, failing to seriously tackle cheating, and (relevant to postgraduate degrees and academic titles) prioritising novelty and sensation at the expense of rigour?

I've never seen the inside of a top UK or US university, so I can't be sure that they're churning out meaningless undergrad degrees, but they certainly seem to be complicit in these trends at the level of publishing and hiring/promotion/tenure.
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I was responding to the specific question you asked:

> What’s the difference between a court opining that a law is unconstitutional and a court interpreting a law as unconstitutional?

That question was a reply to this comment:

> Citizens United was based on the law being unconstitutional, not the court’s interpretation of the law.

That comment is referring to two different things SCOTUS can do:

1. Throw out a law because it is unconstitutional.

2. Interpret the law by deciding how it applies in a particular case.

They're saying the Citizens United ruling was of the first type, not the second.

You seemed to miss that, so I was trying to clarify it. That's all.
The United States, one of the wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations in the history of nations, occasionally has riots and certainly has labour scandals. There are occasional instances of human rights abuse.

It can simultaneously be true that globilisation is uplifting poorer economies and also that there is violence breaking out near Bengaluru.

Asia has proven to have a repeatable formula for getting wealthy. Working hard & cheaply is a key step.
Your concern here is, "what worries me here is what if exploited workers stood up for themselves?"

Not the slowing global economy. Not the exploitation of thousands of workers. Not the realization that the products we rely on are built with exploitative practices. But, "what if the exploited people fight back?"
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The headline buries the lede.
If that is the case, the term sadly becomes meaningless then.

Because then any random person with a smartphone and a social media account can claim to be a journalist and make a video (or a tweet?) claiming anything and everything. That Bill Gates is building a zombie army. That they found evidence of rampant election fraud, subscribe, hit the bell icon, and come back next week when they'll release the kraken!

Obviously needing certification would also be a bad thing, because then who does the certification, and will they be neutral? ("Welcome to Russian Journalism Certification. First question: what do you think about Vladimir Putin?")
I think it also comes into the language design. If you expect programmers to use an IDE, then language features and best practices can require large amounts of boilerplate, on the expectation that the IDE will be generating that boilerplate. For languages expecting no IDE to be used, the language itself needs to avoid that boilerplate.
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We are talking about censoring speech that is otherwise acceptable under the TOS, not “pics of your butt”.
The bash manual is an okay place to start:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/
I agree with you, but to answer your argument: the difference is that one is airlines choosing who they want to serve, and the other is the government choosing who airlines are allowed to serve.

I have no problem with the former, but I have a big problem with the latter, particularly as it's currently implemented.
Remember if you took logic in college, appeal to authority is only a fallacy when the authority is not a domain expert. In this case it's quite valid.

> What about bad neural network papers, or bad physics papers?

That is a logical fallacy. It's called false equivalence. Just because there are some bad hard science papers does not mean gender studies is on the same level.

If anyone needs to be called out here on their behavior it is the humanities in academia and the insanity they are harboring and encouraging. I find no fault with PGs reference.
Facebook is in a different category. Are you really arguing that Parler, Mastodon, and Gab have userbases that are on par with Twitter? How exactly are you defining “plenty”?
https://legal.tapprd.thefacebook.com/

You're probably right. Windows Server / IIS doesn't seem like them
The limit was 40-bits for a while. Maybe briefly in the late 1990s the export limit was 56 bits, but all of the EXPORT cipher suites in TLS 1.0 (from 1999)[0] have limits of 40-bit symmetric keys, or a NULL cipher. Also the RSA and DH moduli for export cipher suites were limited to 512 bits.

[0] Page 60 of https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt
Okay, why is it like street and highway incompatabilities? Don't they all drive on the same internet superhighway?
Not a good look for India.

Have they heard of unions?
“inadvertly” = we goofed on a real overtly design.
The fair market price of an entire app pentest of that legal dashboard application, one which would almost certainly find that bug† if run by a competent, reputable firm, along with many other bugs, run by consultants with bios and concluded with a deliverable that Facebook can file away, is probably somewhere between $20,000 and $35,000, so the idea that the fair market value of a single finding of that engagement is $75,000 is pretty hard to take seriously.

From my perspective, people weird ideas (in both directions!) about how much this stuff costs.

† It's a little tricky to say because the blog post is cagey about what the vulnerability actually is, but I'm thinking about all of the password-reset-flow bugs I've ever seen that fit the rest of the pattern of the post and I'm pretty sure this is low-hanging fruit for a serious app pentest.
The 80% number wouldn't change since it's only pertaining to the frame/reciever regardless of the other parts.
Depends how Apple feels about this. They want a reliable supplier who's not in the news for unpaid wages.
> Perhaps if the docs started with a simple example of what has been seen over time to be the most common incantation for each command it might be tolerable.

Rsync’s man page opens with examples, and even though I never actually those specific commands, they are usually enough for me to remember how to do whatever I wanted to do.
COVID-19 is likely to be airborne.
A law can be so blatantly and obviously unconstitutional that everyone can see it and refuses to arrest or charge people for breaking it. It's pretty easy to construct test examples, "Bob Smith must pay 2x tax", or "Black people can't do X".

The supreme court doesn't make a law unconstitutional. It already was or wasn't. They provide notice to the system that the law will now be seen as unconstitutional or not.

If they get it wrong (lets say we know because another SC overrules them in the future) it doesn't change the constitutionality of the law, just whether it's enforceable or not during those periods.
The only comparison point for the labor practices of Apple's contract manufacturers is China, which does not have a free press. All we know is that conditions were not great, and only very substantial public pressure on Apple led to some improvements.
My neighbor let his apartment out on AirBNB and the people who stayed there started a fire in the fireplace and didn't open the flue. I had to crawl out a smoke filled hallway.
As mentioned in the Nature article and in another poster's comment[1], MRNA vaccines have been known for a while now (decade+ ?), and studied on animals, with some limited phase I / phase II human studies. But nobody's gone through a full phase III before covid hit, so that kind of a wide fan-out is new and exceptional because of the emergency nature of the disease.

But I don't think they're unconcerned. I think it's a combination of lack of decades-long longitudinal studies, and also that previous phase I / II studies haven't throw up significant red flags.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25403560