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The first three aren't believed. They were proven. The Intel ME (and AMD PSP) are literally physically indistinguishable from a backdoor. NSA spying was proven by Snowden et al. Marketers fingerprinting us to the level that personal targeting is possible was proven.

Is it possible that China is bugging motherboards? Yes. But if they are, it should not be difficult at all to prove. Just buy some motherboards and analyze the chips to find where the backdoor is.

The fact that in over two years that still hasn't been done is just very suspicious. If someone is making a large claim but not providing information that can be found using public, verifiable sources, then it's very reasonable to doubt it.

Evidence isn't based purely on what seems right. If hard evidence can be provided but isn't, why should I believe you?
> “In early 2018, two security companies that I advise were briefed by the FBI’s counterintelligence division investigating this discovery of added malicious chips on Supermicro’s motherboards,” said Mike Janke, a former Navy SEAL who co-founded DataTribe, a venture capital firm.

is that a "bland quote"? do you think that meeting did not happen? do you think the fbi was wrong?
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> but perhaps that’s because super cruise is geo fenced.

Exactly.

The Consumer Reports test wasn't a comprehensive safety analysis; it was a superficial "how will this feel to a consumer based upon a few drives" analysis. We are talking about a consumer reviews magazine... no regulator or jury is going to give a shit what a Microwave/Refrigerator review website said after performing 37 "tests".

In other words, the other products are "worse" because those are production-quality products for which automakers with substantial assets to forfeit are willing to accept a degree of real liability.

I'm sure if you compared comma.ai to GM's equivalent "alpha quality software" -- aka Cruise's L5 prototype -- the latter would come out way on top. But GM isn't stupid enough to ship alpha quality self-driving software, even as an aftermarket add-on.

Including comma.ai in this comparison was a huge oversight on the part of Consumer Reports. They should be comparing comma.ai to competitors' "alpha" products, which are all L5 prototypes.
> [0] The following code unintuitively assigns the value of status_code to the variable NOT_FOUND:

This seems sensible and intuitive, `NOT_FOUND` is not different than `not_found` or `bob`. It follows the normal rules of Python bindings.

I'm way more annoyed by the special case for dotted names.
Since the names have to be dotted anyway, why not .var_name? I feel like this implementation is seriously half-baked.
I got the same problem but with my chair. Whenever I stand up, the chance is about 50/50 that it instantly restarts... I swapped the chair and it doesnt happen anymore. Swap the cat, maybe that'll help.
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I switched to Bitwarden in early 2019. The migration was really easy, and I was surprised to find that it was accurate, too. Bitwarden has its flaws, but I'm happy with it.
to quote you " ... re-generated when stock changes..." - that's exactly the correct wording, except it doesn't happen a few times per week, but a few times per millisecond if you're Amazon. Or a few times per minute if you're a national supplier, any country you want, and you have a sale on Black Friday. That, of course, assumes you want to have almost real-time inventory stock to show to your possible clients. Otherwise, if you don't care to show out of stock items, sure, it can be a few times per week.
I'm sure some users will find an alternative solution and switch easily. I'm also sure that some users will not. My assumption - take it or leave it - is that the folks who would find this more inconvenient are those who were introduced to LastPass by more security-minded friend or family member. They aren't necessarily inclined or well-equipped to transition their devices over from one password manager to another. This may cause them to abandon password management altogether or do something dangerous like temporarily store their passwords in plain text while they find someone to help them transition to another product.
5 or 6 years ago I was talking to coworker about password managers, and they told me how much they liked 1Password. I decided to give it a shot, and after a week or so decided to switch permanently and delete my LastPass account.

When I told them that I had made the switch, they laughed told me they had done the same: they tried LastPass and decided to delete their 1Password account!

Personal preference is funny like that.
And is number 1 for total amount of covid vaccines given.

That’s huge when you realize manufacturing capabilities don’t come online overnight. The us secured the large majority of supply.
Most of it wasn't written by GvR, same as the PEG parser, but nice to see that always the same roughly 10 people get publicity and credit in the exploitative Python "community".
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What's the best way to think of this as compared to a service like New Relic, Skylight, or Datadog? Same thing but open source, or is it offering something unique? Great to see new entrants in the space.
Any idea when the high level crate will have parity with the CLI? Or perhaps, UX parity?

I ask because the CLI looks fairly understandable (to a crypto-dunce like me), but the high level API in readme says:

> Please note that as of this writing the high-level API is very
incomplete.

I'm also not sure what crate they refer to, because there is no `sequoia` crate on docs.rs, and their link points to the root of the repo which is a workspace without a crate. Perhaps they mean sequoia-openpgp[1], but so far that interface does not look similarly high level to that of the CLI.

Anyway, just asking because i often write apps that use signing/encryption/etc for data at rest, and Sq looks neat.

[1]: https://docs.rs/sequoia-openpgp/1.0.0/sequoia_openpgp/index....
I was about to share this with some folks at work, but mind the screen grab. It's funny, but you might be a bit red-faced if you share it around with your office—culture-depending.

Tell me more.
People seem to be very positive about Bitwarden. I've been using Lockwise from Mozilla. Any thoughts about it?

I've been using it for a few months to sync between Win, Mac and iOS and it has been working pretty nicely.
First, I hope you become a billionaire!

However, I don't agree with what you're saying. Are the laws perfect? No. But I do think we need something in place to balance things out so that companies are less predatory with our data. All these laws bring awareness to normal people, even if they click "accept all".
Ever since I was a kid I hated the smell of new cars. It boggles my mind how anyone could like that noxious solvent smell.
Libertarianism (and especially American libertarianism) is not the logical conclusion of rationalism in the minds of many rationalists. Rationalism is more about analyzing bias and using reason to the greatest extent possible than promulgating any particular political view. In fact, in this comment on LW[1] which I recently came across, Scott appears to compare using rationalist ideas to win specific political arguments to the dark side. Also, take, for example, the CFAR[2], where the workshops cover:

- How to combine conflicting intuitions from multiple sources, including your gut reactions, your analytic reasoning, and of course the opinions of others;

- The structure of your own goals and motivations;

- How to learn new skills faster

So perhaps if the only rationalists you've met are haughty libertarians, you've gotten unlucky.

I will say that the rationalist community tends to be liberal on social views, but that's probably because the community tends to be utilitarian, and it's hard to justify, for example, banning homosexuality in a utilitarian framework.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GfMSiorAsYeezpn9o/the-proble...

[2] https://rationality.org/workshops/upcoming
> mainstream journalism is either lazy, extremist, or both

More significant than those factors is time pressure and limited staffing.

You can have your news fast, cheap, or unbiased. Pick two.
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Oh let me panic before it's too late!

(Of course even a millisecond spent in a new car would "expose" you. But that doesn't mean anything. Walk in the park exposes you to radiation.)
Only if you believe that the warnings went out because of the "alarm over the devices' sophistication" and not "alarm over the idea this could happen" or even "alarm over a misidentification of a legitimate component and now we're too embarrassed to issue a retraction to those 10 CEOs"
Businessmen are "non-startup-like" all over the world as far as the "prefer profits to losses" part goes. And I suspect that the love for real estate is also widely shared (including by non-businesspeople).
Google et al. invent new problems (e.g., Kubernetes) and solve them accordingly (SREs). Quite clever, if you think about it but depressing nonetheless (and a waste of time and brains).
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I was not thinking about local state; you're right that the sequence points ensure an orderly evaluation there.

My point was that since ternaries can call functions, and functions can have side effects on global state, the concept of an "if" being a "statement" vs a ternary being an "expression / value" is not nearly as meaningful as it's made out to be. A ternary can trade stocks, fire a 500W laser, unlock a velociraptor enclosure, etc, just as easily as an if can.
The word of someone who's not an expert in the subject, who wasn't in the meetings and only heard about them via an unspecified number of intermediates, and doesn't even work there but "advises" the companies? Forgive me, but for the only sourcing of their main claim, that's a bit too weak to clear my standard of evidence.
I confess I like the summary in your reply a great deal more than the excerpt in your original post. It is a fact about humans that many of them think and perhaps even overthink various topics of import, leading to indecision, ambivalence, sometimes even confusion. Those humans are not worse humans than their brethren who seek only to support what they currently perceive to be their tribe.

[EDIT:] In fact I think you have completely misunderstood Dorothy Thompson, since the Nazis were overwhelmingly the latter rather than the former sort of human. A complete reading of her essay is a complete reading of a set of wooden stereotypes, interesting only for the fact that it records the propaganda of an era in which a previously apparently peaceful nation was girding itself for world war. Ms Thompson includes such scintillating analysis as "Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi." Good grief.
Fake reviews, that surely Amazom is aware of.

Knock-off products, that again are not a secret.

Unless there's viable competition, these things are not going to change.

Lied to. Stripped of our privacy. Influenced and manipulated by analysis of our own behaviours. And so on.

It's a shame it's come to this.
Yes I agree. I choose to ignore that little Easter Egg.
I certainly know people who have quit their jobs because of asking a question like this, and at that point (before they quit) they were part of "baddies" according to what they eventually figured out.

It's not very common, but it happens - and not necessarily after finding out something new about your organization, but also after finding out something new about yourself and your standards.
I didn't mean to shit on big auto and I like their features. My car has collision detection that I find pretty reliable and useful. My main complaint is what I see as the unfair attacks of comma.ai by engineers where we should be applauding his efforts and openness, especially compared to the competition.

I don't see the Ford complaint as them introducing features slowly and carefully. To me its a code smell. But my biggest complaint is that its opaque. If they had a detailed description of the features, what sensors are used and their limitations, then I would be much happier. But instead they have nothing more than a name and a trademark.

Again, the "alpha" level doesn't mean anything. Hotz is immature and some of his actions are regretful. It certainly doesn't live up to the thought and care he puts into his products. Of course, I don't know the guy but I have heard him speak for hours and was very impressed.
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Let me guess, you don't follow sports? I know many, many people who do daily. Have you seen the episode of the IT Crowd where the guys get sports blurbs from. some website to recount to their coworkers to make them more popular? It's even been enshrined in pop culture how much the regular people is concerned with sports compared to the average "nerd". Just because you don't care does mean it's not enormously popular.
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While I agree that "if statements are expressions" is a nice feature, I disagree that your version is more readable. That being said, it's readable enough that, if the rest of my team preferred it, I'd be ok using it.
I think the issue with lastpass is its popularity, which would make it a target for hackers. If someone brute forces your password, then they've got access to everything

Are there any less popular but well featured password managers, or any roll your own solutions that wouldn't be so easily targeted
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This is a huge loss. Whenever I get stuck on a WebGl or OpenGl problem, invariably I find an answer or some sample code that Gregg has written that helps me right through it.

I also worked with him on a graphics team many years ago, and it was just the same. He was the guy who knew graphics inside out, and could whip up a crazy demo in no time.
It's worth the cancer. I love that smell.
It makes a lot of sense if you view it through the lens of people preferring the status quo. The "founding fathers" can always be used to justify leaving things as they were.

That's good if the status quo is working for you. It's not so good if you're somebody who the system fails for.

The really horrifying part is that there are people in the latter group who imagine that they're part of the former. The system is failing them, but for a variety of reasons they're convinced that any change will make it worse.

Much of the time, it's because they've been played off against other groups who are also having problems in the current system, and told it's a zero-sum game: if they do better, you must be worse. If you just keep revering the "founding fathers" eventually you too will be successful.

The worse they do, the harder they revere. It's a vicious cycle, and I have no idea how to break it.
I can switch off street lamps by walking near them, I'd like to try with that computer.
I've been using KeePassXC for a few years now. Before this, I was using LastPass and then before that, the original KeePass. Feature-wise, KeePassXC does a really good job replacing and going beyond LastPass.

It can have folders, it generates passwords, it can hold TOTP (2FA) tokens and it can even hold SSH keys acting as your SSH agent. Having your password safe be an SSH agent is a really nice feature which means less copying passwords around. The browser plug-ins have worked well for me as well.

I like that it can use any file sync tool for storing the key database - similar to why I like Joplin for note taking. I also like that there are many different clients for it since it is an open standard. To keep things secure you can use a password plus a key file. As long as you keep the keyfile only on the devices or on separate sync services, it raises the bar of security quite a lot.

There are KeePass clients on Andriod (Keepass2Android and KeePassDX) as well as iOS (Keepassium and another that I forgot the name of). All of the mobile clients support filling passwords. I have them all looking at the same file share and have not had any issues with corruption or file sync. I have it configured to immediately save all changes to disk and it writes and merges conflict files automatically as needed.

There are a few areas that it isn't as strong. First is sharing passwords - it has a feature for it but I haven't actually tried it out yet. Since you need to have the shared file ahead of time, you're really relying on your file sync provider to share that part of things. Second, the integration between programs works well but it isn't as seamless as a cloud service would be. For example, prompts will pop up in KeePassXC when there is a request to access a new password by a website. I believe this is probably more secure but it is an extra thing to come up when auto-filling passwords.

I have yet to try bitwarden but I would guess that sharing and lower-friction in web browsers would work better with it since those were the key benefits of LastPass when I'd used it.
> How will this help them make a choice if they don’t also have access to the writings of other therapists they might consider?

Isn't it obvious? To put it in mathy terms: if I have to choose from ten things, and I dislike 2. my chance of picking something I dislike is 0.2, if I can disqualify one of the disliked things up front, my chance of picking the remaining disliked thing is 0.11 (i.e. a big improvement).
As a guy who built an interval arithmetic constraint programming system, based on minikanren, in python for his PhD, I agree, unification is pretty sweet!
I received a bulk mailer recently that looked like an "Amazon postcard" that was essentially recruiting for fake reviewers.
How does this differ from pass? At first look it appears to be pretty much the same?
In the states medicine is primarily private and unlike most of Europe not classed as government assistance so you'd use the 10K to pay medical insurance.

In the UK your point would be more applicable, UBI brings a lot of uncertainty for healthcare (amongst other things!)

Waste management, environment and policing are all things which benefit from a government. Tax seems to be more of a horror to Americans than Europeans and UBI seems to me to be, in the states a tax avoidance strategy, and in the UK it's a strategy to improving social security. Both views miss some complexion
I use TiddlyWiki/drift for my own notes [0], hosting it with a php script to get a public and a private version [1]. May not fit for everyone of course, but easy to tweak and perfect for me!

[0] https://akhater.github.io/drift/

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/GRkskZRzj_o/m/M0QVJ...
The sophisticated version is difficult, but there are a lot of things you can treat as "opaque, everything mutates this, lots of stuff depends on it" and still be able to make decent optimisations based on what you know.
The thing is that NSA was engaging in a shadowy campaign. It wasn't possible to conclusively prove or disprove it. This story isn't. It's making factual claims, that there are physical backdoors in hardware that is publicly available. From then on its possible to settle the matter by buying such a motherboard, and using this to produce hard evidence of the backdoor. It wasn't possible to go to the nearest NSA field office to get yourself a copy of XKeyScore.
I think that it is possible to be beginner friendly, while also having higher level concepts that you can learn. I actually think this is what makes it an amazing progressive language to learn. You can continue to learn new things about the language almost perpetually.

I understand arguments that simplicity means easier to learn, but also think that in most subjects in life we start with the basics and then break those rules to add nuance and continued expansion to the topics. See math, language, science.
Publicly funded news will never be independent or truthful. You can't give tax money to the government and let them control money flow to media outlets and expect them report truthfully and honestly. That's a recipe for disaster. All you need to do is look at totalitarian governments and how they control their media. You will NEVER have a free and independent media if it's money is coming from public funding.

I have no idea why people think the answer to fixing a shitty government is handing more money over to them and hoping they'll do the appropriate thing with it when they prove the opposite time and time again.
The problem is that `NOT_FOUND` behaves differently from the literal `404`, which breaks an important principle: “if you see an undocumented constant, you can always name it without changing the code’s meaning” [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/brandon_rhodes/status/136022610839909990...
As I click my 10,000th cookie modal to read this article, I am forced to ask if this legislation has made my web experience better in any way, to which the answer is a resounding no. I understand the importance of it, but please prioritise revising its shortcomings rather than doubling down on being the most tech-hostile region in the developed world.
The only way of obtaining a method in Ruby returns it as an object. Whether or not they "are" an object is thus entirely an implementation detail.

I think part of the confuction here is that "ob.puts" for example, does not directly access a method. It denotes passing a message to "ob". That message may or may not be routed to a "puts" method.

But at no point does Ruby allow you to get hold of any kind of reference to a method that is anything but an object.
Is there even a source for replacement vacuum tubes? I thought they burned out on a consistent basis.
Distinguished means expert in the field. The distinguished engineer I knew who worked at Cisco contributed to the TCP/IP protocol and also basically built their first router.
> Retailers in EU(and EEA and UK) have to take the product back if you don't agree with the licence

> No, you can't return it, but at least in EU you are 100% allowed to take that licence and sell it on

You’re contradicting yourself.

PS license is spelled with an s
We probably won't know the full story for a while. There are many providers and they may all have their own unique issues.

But the general theme will probably be: Infrastructure in Texas isn't built to withstand freezes, and all kinds of things can go wrong when they happen. Keeping a generator running doesn't require just the generator staying warm (that's easy, as you note), but also the fuel supply lines, operations center, staff, etc. Like, maybe the staff literally can't get to the plant because there's a foot of snow on the ground and no snow plows in the state. Who knows... we'll find out in the coming weeks.
I am surprised that government-related news get more than 1% of airtime.
The emptor's counterpart, the venditor, also has a responsibility. I wouldn't dream of offering a free product that handles one of the most important aspects of consumer data security and then drastically altering it with only four weeks' notice. Many were introduced to LastPass, probably reluctantly, by more security-literate friends and family. These are the folks most likely to be squeezed in this very short transition period because they won't necessarily know how to navigate to a different product and would probably be more likely to do something risky in response.