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Are Hackers criminals? Yes, because the law says they are. Does that matter? Not much outside the realm of law.

I don't think hacking/cracking should be illegal. If I send you a series of electrical pulses and that causes your systems to do something stupid, that's your problem. You are not a "victim".

Laws against physical violence and against stealing physical objects have good reasons to exist, because otherwise there would be no point in having any moral conception at all, because everyone would solve their problems through violence.

On the other hand, sending messages through a wire doesn't have good reasons to be outlawed. We could live peacefully sending each other all sorts of bytes, and each entity would make an effort for their own systems to behave correctly.

Most people disagree with me, but their abstraction is leaking, because even they agree with me on a fundamental level, they just don't know it. The moral discussion is so disconnected from concrete actions and formal definitions that it devolves into dumb analogies like "but if you left your door open blah blah".

Having a "right not to be hacked" is of the same nature as having a "right not to be offended".
for 199 you can get https://www.racedayquads.com/collections/all-pre-built-quads...

close to 1 to 2 mile range (depending on obstructions) 30 min battery as long as your not freestyleing lol. (assuming you have everything else for it. a decent starter set up is close to 200/300 dollars but is compatable with any drone you can stick a rx in)
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In the US there are many highly processed foods with little fiber and added sugar.

Nutrition fact labels can be very misleading. e.g.: showing nutrition facts per certain some arbitrary amount of weight, or having multiple servings per container, which is misleading if it's an individual serving container.

e.g.: Oreo serving size is 2 cookies. Who opens a pack of oreos only to eat 2 of them? nobody.

Many occupations do not involve physical activity, and nowadays many day to day activities also do not involve physical activity.
Same Paris, metro gates would simply filter out three quarters of population if installed in US.
Maybe eating out every day isn't the best idea.
Why, how many Americans have the figure of Tom Brady? Is that number big enough to have a meaningful impact on average BMIs?

I don’t understand why everyone is so quite to dismiss BMI based on edge cases, especially when the finding is backed up by your other evidence.
The thing I find puzzling about the whole face masks thing is that so many people come out of shops, off public transport etc. and throw them on the ground. There are face masks lying all over the place at bus stops and in supermarket carparks, round my neighbourhood.

I can't quite grasp the logic of this. On the one hand; "This virus is so contagious I'm going to wear a mask when out in public", on the other; "Now I've finished using this mask [which is potentially now covered in this virus I'm so frightened of], I'm just going to throw it on the ground or leave it on the seat on the bus"

If these people really believe this virus is so deadly and so contagious and believe by wearing masks they are helping to end the pandemic, why are they not disposing of their used masks with more care and consideration, rather than leaving them lying around to [theoretically] infect other people and keep the virus spreading?
The URL has the anchor #NVIDIA_Jetson_Nano at the end, making the page scroll to almost the end when we open it.
The transition from low quality to high quality driving will be sublinear, not linear or greater than linear. This has been the case at every other self driving company. You get big gains from working on low hanging fruit early on in the process, then there's a long, arduous march to make improvements once those fruit are gone and avoid regressions. That's why Waymo, Cruise, Zoox, etc. Have been able to do impressive demos for the last decade, but it took Waymo a full decade to actually launch a public ride-sharing service.

Before you bring up Tesla's "Fleet Learning", it's not used at all outside of gathering perception training data for labelers. greentheonly got access to a dev build of the FSD beta - ML is just used to generate a representation of the current scene - all of the driving and planning logic is rules-based and hardcoded by engineers.
the biggest issue is the service model not anything related to the car unless you got a lemon.

they aren’t scaling service centers fast enough to keep up with an extra 200k cars added on the road every quarter, so service meaningfully deteriorates every week as more cars are sold and existing cars age. it simply doesn’t work unless they were committed to building out 2x-3x the SCs they have now but nothing indicates that’s on the roadmap at all.
Phone photography is brilliant nowadays. In recent years with the emergence of computational photography, smartphones present a fantastically accessible way of creating very decent images.

You'll have certain constraints caused by the lack of a zoom lens (or limited alternate zoom cameras), but such constraints often can lead to good creative challenges.

The single best thing about smartphone photography vs. a dedicated SLR/mirrorless camera, however, is the ease of editing images with the varied apps that provide all sorts of creative control (with degrees of involvement/automatic adjustment).
> but it is very destructive and unhelpful in the long run.

If the United States ever moves to a public-funded healthcare regime, it will also be more expensive and destructive to care for from a government budget perspective.
I work with nano-UAVs. I am very skeptical that the 40 minute flight time is even close to being real.

Especially with a quadcopter design. They are way to inefficient.
The food is not so much unhealthy as portion sizes are just too big.

I eat literally the kids meal sizes at many places.

McDonalds burger is not very unhealthy for example.

And even the food you buy is loaded with sugar and other hidden carbs.

Yogurt - for example - is kind of positioned as 'healthy' when for the most part it's total junk food due to the addes sugar.

Most cereal, crackers are effectively junk food.

Pragmatically speaking even bread is junk food.

Salad dressing is usually junk food.

BarbQ sauce is junk food.

Eat less, avoid carbs and sugar ... we'd probably do just fine.
"Due process" did probably happen, at least the Chinese version of it. Even dictatorial regimes usually have to maintain some appearance of legitimacy for the things they do. That legitimacy might not be apparent or even visible for outsiders, because it is targeted to keep a sufficient majority of citizens at bay.

And before you say "but 'due process' is well-defined anywhere", I've got a star chamber in Guantanamo to sell ;)
Thanks, I was thinking of the server-side AP Token system (i.e. the signed per-device authentication tags that confirm the firmware is up to date and able to be installed), but then ended up describing the Nintendo Switch fuse system.

Indeed, in the past I believe people have used SHSH blobs to successfully downgrade, and also if Apple misconfigured their signing server to approve older versions, people have successfully downgraded during the window created due to the misconfiguration.
A decent amount of the servo work ended up Firefox proper already.

They merged in the CSS work (stylo) a while back and Webrender is now the default 2d engine.
as with many things, probably the cost
But they're driverless. This means a very high confidence in the system. Hopefully, they'll reach total confidence next year and get rid of chase cars.
I love this concept, keep going! It would be great to have an app that allowed me to predict the use I'd get out of a particular product. In wardrobe alone, the # of items purchased but seldom worn is, in the aggregate, devastating to the environment and a waste of hard-earned money. There is a huge idea in what you're doing.
The problem as I see it is that many, many people have the skills to compete, but not the capital. And often are working so much that they don't have spare energy to invest every weekend for years to build an MVP.

I know some will say that sounds like making excuses, but the examples I've seen of entrepreneurs have been people who haven't actually had to work very hard at their day jobs. They aren't totally burned out at the end of the day.

I wish I knew a way to fix this situation. The economy could operate far more efficiently than it is, and that would be better for all of us.
Define reliable.

If a metric had 95% accuracy would that qualify as reliable? I would certainly say so. Especially if the 5% outliers are not random but in fact an extremely obvious edge case?

I do not know how “reliable” BMI is. But elite athletes represent an exceedingly small percent of the population.

My intuition is that BMI is a pretty darn good first approximation. And instances where it’s not good there is supporting evidence.
Every car is a game of tradeoffs. Any other EV you can buy today (including the Mach-E) will have you trading off build quality and access to good service (probably; some dealerships suck at servicing EVs) for extremely slow software, low range, and lack of supercharging access. MKBHD has a good video on this that came out yesterday - https://youtu.be/pJlA2J92Fw4
Missing the point.

Alcohol is real.

Games are not.
Not all exploits are due to negligence or at least not crass negligence. Sure, something may have been forgotten (although the present article says nothing about this), systems are complex and as the "defender" you only have to make one mistake. But your "it's on me" is very much victim blaming unless you can show a pattern of intentional ignorance or malfeasance within a network.

I can get in your house even if you close the window. It's a window and can be opened. Are you still to blame? I can look for money even if you hide them, I'll search around. Are you still to blame? You could have taken the precaution of not having money in the house or at least not living on the ground floor if you do.

Many attacks are 0day, many others are supply chain attacks, many exploit the weakest of links, the human. There's a limit to how much you can protect yourself from one attack in an instant before you cause yourself harm slowly but continuously. No matter how many locks you put you're not guaranteeing anything. It's a calculated risk and sometimes the calculation doesn't pay off.
That’s because muscles are heavier than fat, right?
But how many people does having both muscle and fat push them from the overweight category to the obese category? At 5'-9" the overweight category starts a little over 169 lbs and the obese category starts just above 203 lbs. Given that as a teenager I was well into the overweight category with a six-pack and very little fat from an active lifestyle and playing a lot of basketball multiple times a week, I could easily see how just eating more might put be closer to obese while still having less fat than one would expect from that designation.

That's not to deny Americans have a problem with weight. I just think it's counter-productive to use metrics that people can easily see are problematic when trying to make a valid point. Using controversial measurements because the are easily available is lazy.
The Dji Mini 2 has a range of up to 6 miles with OcuSync. 239g and about 30min flying time. Quite close to the specs of the BA system.
Is it cost?
When I used to travel to the US with work, I would start to get split cuticles after a few days due to nutrition deficiencies eating out every day
> In contrast, in cyberspace, the chance of holding attackers accountable is much lower.

Yes, because this is still a new and partially unregulated space. But deterrence is growing slowly but surely, for both individuals and states.
The obvious one, the search engine... due to its accuracy and speed. No wonder their monopoly lawsuit.
This article actually refers to the United States's NASA, not Uganda's NASA.
Yeah, that was our first thought as well.

And then....

;-)
Cash strained airlines that aren't looking for another disaster are not going to be so forgiving.
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If you are administering networks by writing down ip addresses, it sounds like an old habit that maybe survived this long because of conveniently short addresses, but hardly essential.

(Yes I have done it too back in the day, though we had this nifty tech called copy & paste...)
More simply: Ok, your car has four wheel go. But EVERY car already has four wheel stop.
Usually, healthier cooking doesn't taste as good. Most of the food industry is focused on providing the best tasting food so people will buy them. How do you make food taste good? Add a lot of fat and/or carbs, which are the macro nutrients that are calorie dense. There doesn't seem to be much demand in healthy food services.
I've seen your quality posts on Chinese manufacturing. I feel like you are strawmanning an argument surrounding interior development that I did not make. Industrializing the interior provinces will not uplift 600M inland to parity with coast, I never claimed otherwise. The claim is that despite 600M able to work for less than ASEAN, it's still not sufficient regardless of whether industry can be recaptured inland. In this case, lost light industry for predominantly undereducated unskilled rural labourers, for which there is no labour shortage post planned agricultural reforms. The poor will mostly remain idle/informal. Whether the ship has sailed is ultimately secondary to the fact that the ship never had such capacity in the first place. Fully developing China simply was/is/will not be possible with so many people. Hence demographic decline, in China's case is a forgone necessity, and the massive disparity between the haves / haves nots is essential in managing the transition. The end of which will situate China to better deal with a variety of issues.

The blessing is the stabilized end population post decline, though far away and difficult to manage is preferable to demographic curse and uniformly unrealizable dividends due to resource constraints. It's preferable to have an unequal society where 1/2 underclass takes care of 1/2 globally competitive class. It's about as optimal for tackling demographic decline as one could hope for given Chinese geopolitical constraints, which is real and requires actual response than hypotheticals of fully automated luxury algae eating Utopia. Meanwhile, there's going to be efforts to retain manufacturing and industrial capability in particularly strategic sectors and the inertia of demographics will generate enough new human capita to maintain relative competitiveness. Metrics / indicators in the last few years suggest China share of global manufactured exports is maintaining / increasing. Automation is not a panacea, it's part of the response for competitiveness in certain sectors. Stability maintenance of the people is easier than great powers competition. The people matter, but only so much, and as component of comprehensive national power.

As for journey ending earlier than expected, no one expected Trump, but pivot against China happened under Hu, so friction and competition also not unanticipated. I'm less pessimistic on prognosis of domestic consumption. Savings rate is high, real estate is a bubble, capital flight and brain drain is real. All true. IMO there's unused levers for those, though [x] doubt dual circulation. That said, 600M poor are frankly so poor that taking care of them is trivial. 1000 rmb is... so little that 600M / 40% of the population is 7% of national GDP - they can be bought off. Alternate framing, 2 years of slow 5% Chinese growth means the economy has expanded enough to take care of these people with 40% income increase. Forever. Manufacturing won't save China, less people will, the sooner the better, preferably the poor. It's ugly. Hard times are ahead. I'm rooting for algae utopia, but not holding breath.
Well I presume they would just kick the creators off if they thought they could get away with it without massive backlash, they're happy to randomly ban them at least
I just wonder to what extent this is pre-programmed. Surely the engineers gave some sort of high level description, and let the robots figure out the rest. Also, it's probably not possible to acount for all the variability of the environment beforehand, so the "recording" played back does not contain every move to the last detail.
"You weren't using the actual FSD software, but the live production autopilot, so it's Apples to Oranges."

Do you think Tesla has completely separate groups of engineers working on this? That doesn't seem like Tesla's style at all.
>bomb muslims in Afghanistan
>bomb muslims in Iraq
>bomb Uighur extremists in Syria

"at the same time I am worried about working conditions of muslims in China"

10/10
Did you see that graph with amount of cases in control/vaccine groups? Where around day 10 vaccine group graph shows massive drop. It looks pretty convincing. And by now they have much more data, especially with lots of cases nowadays. That simple move can save thousands of live and I think worth considering, instead of just ignoring everything.
I work in Big Tech. I want governments to regulate and break up the monopolies
Ah, looks like they may hold off til Feb. for US approval. (Results expected from another trial by then)
I think there is a very real difference in air power vs ground power that seems to have played out through history.
James 'Scotty' Doohan's ashes may have been smuggled aboard the ISS
Compromising a single endpoint via a malware e-mail / link is just the first step of such an attack, you then need to move laterally in the network to get access to the important bits of the infrastructure. For Windows networks this often involves breaking into the Active Directory / domain controller, which then gives you administrative access and makes it possible to e.g. encrypt data. This usually requires manual enumeration and specific exploits, it's not something that can be fully automated yet.

So you're describing just the first link in a long attack chain. Eliminating that weak link doesn't mean the attackers can't gain access to the network, it just means they have to find another entrypoint, and in a real-world network where people need to regularly click on links and open untrusted documents it's notoriously difficult to plug all holes.

Even the largest DAX corporations in Germany regularly become victims of cyber attacks, and trust me they spend a ton of money on cyber security and have thousands of people working on it.
dangerously thin hahahha omg
The point is that nobody expected Google to just hike their price for mapping by 1400% overnight. If they can do it with one product, what’s stopping anyone else in a similar dominant market position doing the same?
They are more dense, yes.
"The contract states Google won’t use data about Facebook’s bidding history, known as bid response data, to influence pricing, “reverse engineer” Facebook’s strategies, or “adjust or otherwise influence in real-time the bid response of another bidder (including Google),” according to the draft lawsuit."

Well, if users click on Facebook ads or not, surely Google uses that in their ad targeting ML. And if Facebook is a big enough spender, then eventually Google will indeed "adjust or otherwise influence in real-time" the algorithm (and thus the market).

I wonder if Facebook could further show fraud through discovery.
I wonder if hitting the delivery targets of 20M per month is going to be achieved. That's the first bottleneck before the vaccine supply.
Every time BMI is mentioned someone has to come up with an example of a body builder or fit athlete who has a high BMI. Yes, everyone realizes this already, and nobody who is in that position is going to be mislead into thinking they are obese. Sure, it would be great if everyone could do a caliper test or a water displacement test, but that isn't ever going to happen, and BMI is a trivial and good enough place to start.

Because being overweight/obese is normalized because it is seen everywhere, there are tens of millions of people who have no idea they are at an unhealthy weight ... they rightly think they look like everyone else. The BMI is a an easy metric to get people to evaluate if they need to do something about it.
It's a joke now but there is going to be a sizable amount of property damage to these things once this shift occurs.
Your position here is, essentially, the same as a Q believer. Just trust in Elon, wait for the big reveal. Despite a complete lack of evidence in favor of the idea, and also despite an abundance of evidence to the contrary, FSD will emerge fully formed in the near future, without any intermediate signs of progress.
TIL. i rescind my assertion.
Fringeing overweight, it has taken me years to remove 10kg and keeping it off is a constant battle. I used to be as thin as a rake.

Folks, its a mostly one-way ratchet. If you put a one-way walk into any system, and let it run free, what direction do you think things will trend, even if the pace of movement is a crawl?
It would be a cool feature if cars using autopilot would have a notification device somewhere so I could see they're currently autopiloting as I drive behind them so I can give them more room (since they won't behave human-like).
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My (42y) sleep has been terrible since age 19. Sleep phase issues, obstructive sleep apnea, and now not sleeping long enough, possibly related to acid reflux / hiatal hernia. I need to get an updated CPAP.

Already take a multivitamin, b complex, and 5k IU D3 and 250 IU K2 MK7.

Changed diet to cut weight by 40 lbs in 3 months by budgeting macros to 1500 cal/day (43% protein, 21% carbs, 36% fats).

I exercise in the morning (best time to improve sleep). I walk fast to stores some distance away and do weightlifting.

Fast caffeine metabolizer but it's bad for my stomach and anxiety levels. caffeine might be neuroprotective and boost workout performance, and coffee hepatoprotective, but it's not worth the other issues it creates.
My reality is the opposite. I ate healthier food when I worked in an urban office every day. There was basically a salad place on every corner -- enough variety that I basically never got tired of them. And when I did, I would usually get some ethnic vegetarian food that I have no idea how to cook anyway.

At home, I have fewer options in my fridge, it's easier for me to make a lazy choice for lunch, and there's nobody around to lean on for social support.
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Started shooting on my iPhone 4, yes its portable but lacks optics quality, moved to Leica M8, moved †hen to film. If you are film shooter and want small camera Rollei 35 is the tool. Of all the cameras that I own, I use Leica M3 and Leica M240 exclusively. Its ultimate photography experience and yes, the lenses are sublime and filled with artistic rendering. Mobile phones are devices with goal to replace all the devices, in reality they are good companion, device for quick capture of ideas.
"The proof that you are wrong is obvious and left as an exercise for the reader" it no way to hold a discussion on a public forum, or anywhere.

And I say this as someone who knows that Gecko is constantly being updated and that Servo is a testing ground for new technologies that after being shown to be effective were migrated into Gecko.
Who is behind the Open Society Foundation?

Anyone super political?
Why do this when you can gas a bunch of people or blow them up old school for way cheaper? Not sold