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Certain critical information should never be stored as digital data, as we've seen repeatedly keeping it secure is essentially impossible. Like it or not, there's now overwhelming evidence to prove that statement true. We've seen far too many supposedly very secure sites broken into have any faith in keeping very sensitive data secure—the huge SolarWinds attack, the NSA break-in and the loss of British National Health records to name just a few at the tip of a huge iceberg.

Now here's yet another instance, and we're seeing them at this high level almost every day. Tragically, this leak could have very serious consequences in that people are likely to be killed as the consequence:

It's time we citizens demanded that such critical records be stored on paper files and in locked cabinets in secured buildings as they once were. Simply, we've no other option.

Smart governments such as Russia have gone back to keeping critical documents on paper as they once did. In essence, no matter how hard one tries to secure digital data it's still dead easy for a determined adversary to access it—but it's much, much harder - in fact almost impossible - for the same adversary to break into a building and then into locked repositories and steal the same files in their paper form.

Let's do some very basic sums to prove my point:

1. The amount of data stolen in this case is 250GB. (This is an absolutely huge amount of data.)

2. If we commit text to paper we get about 2K bytes per page (a long accepted round figure)

3. Therefore, a standard ream of paper, 500 pages, stores 1,000,000 bytes (1MB) of data.

4. 250GB is actually 250,000 megabytes

5. Now, a ream of paper weighs conservatively 2Kg (it's likely more). Thus, each 1MB in paper storage will weigh ≈2 kg

6. Extrapolating this out, we therefore need ≈500,000 kg ==> ≈500 tons of paper.

7. Thus, I'd strongly assert that whilst thieves (smart hackers) have amply demonstrated that they can easily steal 250GB of data from right under the noses of highly secured sites such as the NSA, Police etc, that it would be nigh on impossible for them to do so if the records were STILL stored in paper form, as they:

(a) would have to breach the physical security of a guarded building and break in;

(b) once inside, they'd then have to breach records security by breaking into secure records rooms thence secured filing cabinets; and,

(c) then remove 500 tons of paper records, this would require a huge logistical operation involving much manpower and many, many trucks—and they'd have to do all this without being caught!

The only way this could ever happen in practice would be for a country to be invaded by another (like the Nazis did in WWII).

In short, digital security has long proved that it's nowhere near being ready for prime-time. QED!
Close.

Giant blue stars burn all of the way up to the most stable element of all, which is iron. And then collects an iron core. As the core grows, the star shrinks and the pressure in the middle grows. Once the pressure in the middle is high enough, it overcomes the Pauli exclusion principle and electrons merge with protons to become neutrons with a release of energy, which mostly comes out as neutrinos.

Once a bit of that core disappears, the stuff around falls into the new gap, hits it, goes under way more pressure and the same thing happens. This starts a chain reaction that causes a supernova. The core collapses into a neutron star while the release of energy blows the outer shell out to eventually become a nebulae.

If the initial star was big enough, the newly created neutron star is big enough to transform into a black hole. Otherwise it is left as a neutron star.

If it forms a neutron star, the spin speeds up thanks to the collapse. Typical time to rotate can be anywhere from milliseconds to seconds. We can tell that because its magnetic field also gets trapped and forms a strong beam along the north and south magnetic poles. Since magnetic poles do not generally line up with the rotational poles, that beam becomes like a searchlight. If we're in the path of that beam, we see a pulsar, and the frequency of the pulsar is the rotational speed of the neutron star.

This is probably way more than you wanted to know. :-)

I probably also am going to get corrected on some details in 3, 2, 1...
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I meant to write it's not just shilling.
>"Corollary: With the interest rates so low, I don’t understand how wages are so low that collecting unemployment is more attractive than working."

Greed, really. Corporations are unwilling to admit the new reality of the labor market yet. Every Taco Bell near me has been closing early or completely unable to operate due to lack of workers. Meanwhile Chick Fil A is thriving, and I've never seen them so heavily staffed. Turns out if you pay your employees, it's actually a competitive advantage.
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A better approach would be not to use FaceID.
Not happening this century is a big statement. I don't know a lot about this industry, but I don't see why Apple couldn't do what IBM did to arrive at "everyone on x86".
It's incredibly self-serving - this rhetoric is intended to legitimize and allow one side's speech and actions while suppressing the other side. Committed activists and partisans first proclaim "your speech is violence" as they seek to censor/deplatform/demonetize anyone who opposes their views. Then they proclaim "your silence is violence", and demand you (or the company you work for) exhibit their political views. Finally, they also proclaim "our violence is speech" as they participate in large-scale rioting and property damage but then try to cast those actions as legitimate "civil disobedience". It's just one big bag of gaslighting, broken logic, and arbitrary redefinition of common language.
This nonsense? Again? I'd really have thought the average Hacker News reader was better than this.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-gates-vaccinations-de...
Nice writeup with helpful diagrams, thanks for sharing!

Readers might also find this short intro [1] helpful, including tips on porting. (Disclosure: author)

1: https://github.com/google/highway/blob/master/g3doc/highway_...

> many available instructions are missing from the wrappers

Highway can interop with platform-specific intrinsics (on x86/ARM, hwy_vec.raw is the native intrinsic type).

> vectorized integer math often treats vectors as having different lanes count on every line of code

Fair point, that's a cost of type safety. We usually write `auto` to avoid spelling it out.
As a physicist I still find it fascinating that you can study some of the smallest things in the universe and learn something about some of the largest things in it.
I wish Apple could release a laptop with a higher frequency screen. My MacBook M1 is super fast but my Asus i9 with its 240hz screen is a lot more smooth for Web browsing. It's also more noisy and it has a ridiculously small battery life. A M1 with 144Hz would be nice.
wifi hop should be under 8ms. untethering sounds like a great & sophisticated way to skill up.

also within this island latencies will remain low.
This one made me laugh:

"But it’s also doesn’t make the car “better.” It does mean though that, in something like the Model S, you have a car that can get up to nearly freeway speeds from a dead stop in the time it takes to cross a wide intersection. That’s not “fun,” it’s a safety issue."

Apparently high performance means its a bad car.
As an individual body, there is no benefit that alcohol provides your system that cannot be achieved through healthier means (that I'm aware of - tell me if I'm wrong).

I'm not saying alcohol isn't effective, I'm saying that in all cases there are healthier ways (wiser ways) to achieve the positive effects.

I'm not saying alcohol isn't efficient, I'm saying the work required to implement the healthier methods for the same effects is worth the extra effort.

At the public health level, I don't think there's any harm in condemning alcohol. I'm not saying prohibition, and I enjoy a good tequila or whiskey or wine or beer - it's great stuff. But the least of our members of society - those with the worst problems - are often making their lives worse with alcohol not better. I see no issue in messaging that repeatedly. Responsible and irresponsible people will always drink, but messaging the harm it causes more often could not hurt American society. I don't think that's naive at all. You may be confusing messaging "zero level" with a legal prohibition, and I don't think that's a valid equivalency. Exercise is good for you, abstaining from alcohol is good for you too. Just like abstaining from fast food. It doesn't mean everyone will comply, nor should you expect that. But messaging that this stuff is not healthy seems wise to me. Instead you see a steady drip of "a drink a day may be good for your heart" crap, that is assuredly endorsed and promoted by the beverage industry, and not with the health of society in mind.
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Thanks for the shoutout! (I'm David the Commonstock founder). We're sprinting to finish some things to improve content algos and sorting before we grow so it's very cool to see you and @joadha call out the value of that and to stay disciplined focusing on quality over quantity. It's actually the exact reason I started building it as a side project in 2016: I wanted a community for signal instead of noise. The original pitch deck said, verbatim: "stocktwits/reddit/twitter but without all the noise/garbage".

Anyways, Thanks for the kind words!
(I'm all for more competition too, btw)
This is a very poorly written article with reductionist arguments to satisfy its own narratives. Every country has people with different socio economic backgrounds. Irrespective of country, people with resources will do whats best for them.
This is a rumor, Apple didn't make this announcement. It is not an example of the Osborne Effect.
"I can't agree with you"

"I cannot continue this relationship"

"I can't kill this guy"

"I just can't eat meat anymore"

"I cannot continue like this"

These are all examples where someone clearly could for physical reasons, but they can't for other reasons they are bound to, whatever these reasons are.
These charts seem to represent age (and to some degree, income and personal ethics) more than anything. Young people tend to be more progressive.
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In-kind benefits aren't taxed as income, so benefit both employer and employee in that sense, but they're also more likely than cash to never be used and thus become a waste for both parties.

Note in this case they're giving the cash value of the benefits for one year only, so presumably this will save them money in the long run unless they end up having to permaboost salaries, but that is doubtful. Market rate's the market rate and I don't think many people seriously make a decision based on whether one employer offers discounted gym memberships or not.
It is about talking politics at work.
From what I understand.

I strongly agree with Basecamp here.
People who do not have internet or a computer at home very often print pages from the internet at their local library.
It's not just startups, we live in a scam economy. There's a few companies that make good stuff, but they are rare.

Just an example, in 2017 I bought a fairly expensive, brand-new GM truck. It was manufactured in Mexico. I've bought GM stuff before but they were made in Texas. I'm sure it was a cost saving measure. I recently sold it after 4 years and 14k miles. Dead battery needed to be replaced, the transmission was hosed, and I took a bath on it. It's known as the "Chevy shake." There's a big class action suit that I believe was dismissed. We bailed them out in 2008 and they started making absolute dog shit. I'll never buy a GM truck again.

Most home appliances are also garbage and will only last you 5 years or so, if that. My elderly mother is paying for 2 ovens. The first one stopped working before it was even paid off. Her current one won't heat consistently and she constantly complains about it.

The LG OLED TV I bought a few years ago has YouTube burned into the screen. I won't reward them with another purchase. My "commercial grade" grill's wheel rusted off after a couple of years because it wasn't treated and had cheap metal. I have the broken, detached wheel on the ground under it, sideways so the thing won't constantly rock back and forth.

Planned obsolescence that almost killed many US industries 40 years ago is back in full force and will have predictable results.
A red flag indicating what?
This. I can’t understate that, despite its reputation and general mockery from HN commenters, good WordPress dev skills beyond theming (and even theming in some cases) are deeply valuable in the job market if you’re looking in the right places. There is also a lot of variety, from agency work to companies who specialize in specific WordPress plugins.
You are conflating two unrelated failure modes:

1. A fraudster obtains your credentials and steals money from your bank account: The bank reverses the entire transaction and makes you whole. You get your whole money back, no matter the amount.

2. The bank goes out of business: Worst case scenario, the bank has no assets, the government reimburses you up to 100k CAD/100k EUR/250k USD depending on the country the bank is located in. A lot of times, bankruptcies are due to liquidity issues, not insolvency, so you would get back most of your money, even above the caps here, eventually. Also, because the government is not just the insurer, but also the regulator, it has gotten much better at avoiding bankruptcy and this does not happen often these days (at least in Canada).

I am not sure what failure mode you are concerned about: one where fraudsters steal so much money that the bank goes under, like tens or hundreds of billions of dollars? And the transactions are somehow irreversible?
I'm not sure I see what it's all about, but Paul G seems to think the world of them.

> I love how friendly Replit and MIghty are to one another. One day they will divide the world between them.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1357097710734749700?lang=en
This seems somewhat orthogonal to the question asked. They have Kinesis which competes with Kafka, SQS with competes with a variety of message queues, redshift, dynamo db, etc and it’s my understanding that Athena was originally a fork of Presto. So, they could definitely move more heavily into the caching space if they see there’s demand.
> Well, I am unable to give someone your money because you won't agree. It's not against the laws of physics, but I still can't do it.

If you tried hard enough, you could probably manage this.
> As you know, I am writing this while on medical leave from Basecamp, a condition that was necessary in large part because of the extreme emotional duress I have experienced as an employee at the company.

Author, you aren’t an indentured servant to Basecamp. If you don’t enjoy the environment then take a little personal responsibility and find a place that makes you happy.
Neither extrem weather events, nor pandemics are expected to be freak events in the coming years. SARS1 was a warning shot.

I don't think pandemic monitoring and response preparation are a that expensive, even if you use them just once a decade or two.

And lots of failings highlighted by the pandemic are of a general nature concerning infrastructure debt. If health care wasn't run at max human capacity for "cost effectiveness" we may not have to talk about triage. If broadband internet access and digital literacy were a thing, WFH would run more smoothly.
Safari is the new internet explorer though. It's popular so you must support it, but it has bugs and it requires specific development.
Original source: https://twitter.com/yifan_xing_e/status/1387083773292941313?...
ARMv8, ie, AArch64 is a redesign/new, and entirely 64 bit with legacy (32bit) support mode tacked on. The design was done to be able to remove legacy without another redesign.

To my understanding, this is quite unlike AMD64 (ie, Intel's current 64 bit ISA licensed from AMD) - which extended x86.
You implied printing is tech illiterate. I've had to print web content for many reasons, including sharing it with strangers whose email/phone/messenger I don't have. Or a group of people whose details I do have, but I don't necessarily want to fill their inbox with this content.

You also can't highlight interesting parts or scribble notes on a web bookmark. You can print it to a PDF or paste in Word and annotate that. But aside from it being much clumsier and messier as an approach... it still needs decent print styles to print to a PDF.
How does KeyDB compare to memKeyDB?

https://github.com/memKeyDB/memKeyDB
One of my middle school teachers gave that sheet out to the class. I was that one kid that took it seriously, but had no prior-example knowledge to even bother reading ahead.

The test with the bail-out at the start sounds logically fine. The test I was given was just a cruel trick from a trusted source of tests / knowledge provision.
If you don't want another process sending you an intent, don't export your entry point. This isn't hard. Security through obscurity is no security at all.
The divisor for case fatality is number of infections, not total population.

You can look up the definition.

so 572,674 / 32,124,869 = 1.8%

As I already said, and as you can look up yourself, in the link I gave.
It seems to me that they have an emergency opener. It's not the kind of thing a car manufacturer would forget about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-tJc-BgaI

People are funny about the love/hate Tesla continuum. My take is that they are like owning any smaller volume semi-exotic car. People who think they are crazy unreliable should talk to the ex-owners of V12 BMWs.

'lectric cars appear to be the future, but the average person could stand to wait for another generation or two of batteries and buy something like an EV Corolla.
I don't see forking as being aggressive. It's the natural thing to do if you want to take the project in a different direction to its stewards. Often lessons are learned from that process and the learnings integrated back into the main project.
They really aren't
lolol true
Indeed. It's interesting to see how people like to label Apple a monopoly - a company with a 19% market share in smartphones and an 8% share on the desktop.
We only have science and tech because of population growth giving us smart people who invent things.
Interesting, I notice the change in color when I wear mine. It's not dramatic but it is definitely there. When I forget to take them off, and realize it, the change in colors is very obvious when I finally take them off.
When they switched to Intel they released the first Macbook Pros in January 2006 (32-bit Core) and in October 2006 shipped 64-bit Core 2 Duos.
> Unless they somehow hacked the encryption, you're still going to need a connection to the phone's WhatsApp client.

Apologies if I sound a bit naive, but what would be there to "hack"?

WhatsApp clients are available for many platforms, whatever encryption they might be using can easily be figured out by decompiling the code, and if they are using a key on the client side to do any encryption, that key is available for extraction from the distributed client too.

Basically, my question is what can a closed source downloadable client do to protect the encryption it uses to connect to a public network?
For all the people talking about price.. it’s a cheap extremely fast computer not an expensive browser.
RISC-V doesn't offer the same advantage over ARM that ARM has over x86, so that's unlikely to happen.
Those little devices are in high demand. I've been buying them in quantities of 10-at-a-time (Especially when they were cheaper) since they are useful for putting VOIP phones securley behind VPN. I've seen a lot of folks recommend them on HN. They support OpenVPN + Wireguard out of the box and are easy enough for non-techs to reconfigure in the field w/ remote instructions.
For sure. I don't know of any actual evidence though, just anecdotes.
Technically you are right.

However the key here is exploiting the ambiguity.

‘We are unable to’ is a cowardly way of saying ‘we choose not to’, or ‘our policy dictates’.
https://electrek.co/2020/08/04/tesla-wiper-controls-ruled-il...

> On Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, Tesla didn’t install normal windshield wiper settings through a steering wheel stalk.

> Instead, the automaker is detecting the rain through its Autopilot cameras and automatically adjusting the speed based on the strength of the rainfall.

> If the driver wants to adjust the speed, they need to do it through the center touchscreen.

> The driver in Germany was adjusting those settings when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed.
This. My wireless networks, MAC addresses etc are collected on Google's end by my neighbors' Google devices for things like advanced location tracking.
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Since I happen to have Dragons Egg on my desk, from the "About the Author" section:

> Dr. Robert L. Forward is a senior scientist at the Hughes Research Labs in Malibu, California. Dr. Forward is one of the pioneers in the field of gravitational astronomy, participating at Maryland University in the construction of te first antenna for detection of gravitational radiation from supernovas, black holes and neutron stars. (The antenna now resides in the Smithsonian Museumm.) At Hughes, Dr. Forward constructed the first laser gravity antenna and invented the rotating gravitational mass sensor. ...

Fun fact, the start of Dragons Egg (copyright 1980) is April 2020
https://mscgen.js.org/
> Finally, my devs work in AMD64 and that would be another source for "why does this work in dev but not prod".

I can see a use case for building a CI/CD pipeline on Raspberry Pi's.
In other words, if you were a judge and we're presented with a range of offenders wearing tshirts with "two genders", "satan church", "flat earth" and "vaccine hoax" logos, you'd selectively label them as political, religious, unscientific and "dangerous disinformation" and issue sentences accordingly? If that's the case, this isn't different from how the inquisition operated long ago, except that they would praise the flat earth and two genders guys, and execute on the spot the satan worshipper. Freedom of speech is about protecting all viewpoints, including the ones you don't like and even the ones you deem offensive.
I think that casts are guaranteed delivery if the process exists. Problem is, the caster can't know that with certainty (there could be a race between checking, process death and sending). Or the recipient could just ignore the cast altogether. Out if the box it's impossible to know which happened.

Calls by contrast check out a monitor on the counterparty and crash with a timeout so you have guaranteed delivery and acknowledgement, or crash the calling process.

A lot of times people from other plarforms rush to use casts when they "don't need a response" but the actual meanings have more to do with failure domains and rate limiting back pressure; my personal feeling is you should default to call and only use cast when you need failure isolation.
I think it's worth recognizing that there is systemic liberal bias in most of the media and cultural institutions.

And liberals have been trending towards authoritarianism, no doubt.

So it's not all that surprising that lowercase-L liberal attitudes, which can be described as essentially based in protection of individuals from the arbitrary will of majorities, are falling to the wayside in a lot of cultural spheres.
A classic indeed. I seem to recall that jumping off a high cliff or from a hovering vehicle was deadly to them because without the crushing gravity their bodies exploded into a cloud of "regular" matter.
Oh well, it's the kind of thing that gets people engaged without playing the Nazi vs. Communist game that has seized the nation.