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> I think the recycled content, partisan grandstanding, and constant use of meaningless adjectives might have something to do with it as well.

Seriously, I get that he's trying to pander to his base but I checked his blog once and the most recent post was repeating the same baseless allegations about voter fraud that he had been making on Twitter up until the day he was banned. Good riddance.
Why should they waste time on scraping, compiling metadata, following subjects if the app provides all of that?
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How did the BBC know about this plot? This is something that the story does not explain.
It also gets the actual foundry a pretty sharp knife to cut through the pesky red tape/law when they do start looking for prospective sites.
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Since 2017, India has abolished state VAT by a constitutional amendment. Now there is a single consumption tax system called the GST across all states. A GST council collects all taxes and devolves receipts to states as per law.

The income tax is also devolved as per law.
You sound exactly like me before I started talking to people about the specifics. I've lost friends making that N different welfare systems argument.

Left and right are relative terms. If everyone else moves left of you, you're on the right. I think this has happened to you but you're in denial over it.

If you consider yourself a classical liberal then you're firmly on the right. That's where we are.
Then stop giving money to dregs. Yet more government excess is not the solution, even if this case of spending is slightly less bad than most of the others.
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In the U.S. politicians were more concerned with the opposite, that low property taxes would be more likely to cause loss of population and emigration than high property taxes. At the time of the revolution the U.S. colonies were relying on revenue from land tax, property tax, property income tax, and public banking rather than sales tax and were rapidly growing in population due to immigration from European countries where most of the large landholders were exempt from property taxes. Early America had large quantities of land and few workers relative to Europe. In order to industrialize Franklin and founders associated with Democratic-Republican party thought it was first necessary to increase population and maximize rural agricultural productivity, which from reading the French economists they thought would be stimulated by some form of direct tax and hindered by indirect tax.
> There are very few real tech review sites that test devices based on objective criteria. They don't get as much traffic compared to websites like The Verge.

The industry has a very carrot-stick mentality. Gamers Nexus for example gets shit on by everyone especially when they call this shit out while the "real gaming" channels just go along with anything to get review copies.
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> they certainly don't want their customers to look at iPads and think, "that's great, now I'm going to buy a real computer instead". They want their customers to buy an iPad.

They want their customers to buy both. Apple has nothing to gain by killing off the Mac via the iPad.
> As usual, Apple fanboys, downvote away.

Please stop breaking the site guidelines like that. I'm sure you wouldn't think of littering in a city park or starting fires in trash barrels, so please don't do the equivalent here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is the part of psychology I don't like.

What really gets hijacked here is a basic understanding of neuroscience and neuroanatomy, used to support otherwise unsubstantiated theories of what is presented as a neurological phenomenon.

Look at the sources of this article: The UMass Family Business Center, Sport and Recreation New Zealand, the CEO of True North Leadership. None of them are scientific, none of them present any evidence themselves, all of them are regurgitations of the original source: Daniel Goleman and his book.

If Goleman presents any actual scientific evidence of this phenomenon in his book, none of it is listed in that article. It's just more pop psychology, more "Your right brain is responsible for creativity so you should focus on doing things with your left hand", "the limbic system is the primitive reptile brain", and other BS like that.

We literally have no idea what most brain structures actually do, just that they're involved in various processes, so to make the definitive claim that "this is how these processes work" is disingenuous at best.

/rant
The same discourse was made before WW1, and we all know how that turned out. As far as I could tell the world was even more globalised back then, at least for the elites.
they added memory after the malware attack so its probably better now.
The article directly addresses your point in the paragraph surrounding the sentence you cherry picked.

> Now this is not a new phenomenon by any means. But what is new is that the level of these attacks has gone parabolic in the last few years because of one simple fact. With the addition of bitcoin to the problem it’s insanely profitable, low-risk, and almost the perfect crime. It’s also a very real economic tool that nation states can use to disrupt each other’s infrastructure.

> The singular reason why these attacks are even possible is due entirely to rise of cryptocurrency. Consider the same situation on top of the existing international banking system. Go to your local bank branch and try to wire transfer $200,000 to an anonymous stranger in Russia and see how that works out. Modern ransomware could not exist without Bitcoin, it has poured gasoline on a fire we may not be able to put out.
Something that would be relevant. Would love to know who's downvoting you.
You have to use the engines to slow down rather than aerobraking in the atmosphere.
AirTags are talking regular Bluetooth 5, not some magic Apple variation of it, right? That would imply my Android phone should be able to see them. For example, I should be able to poke at them using nRF Toolbox app I have installed.

(We have only so many iPhone users in Poland, and I currently live in a small town, so I can't just experimentally check it right now.)

If that's true, then one should be able to write an app that scans for AirTags in the background and warns you about their presence. I'd hope someone will do this. I'd also hope this would eventually be included in the Android OS itself, perhaps as a generalized facility to detect Tile/AirTag-like devices around you.

Long time ago, there were these things called "beacons", that IIRC started with Apple introducing iBeacon spec/protocol. They used BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) to announce themselves. Some of those were used for the purpose of tracking your belongings[0]. I assume AirTags must be substantially different from that, because saw zero mentions of the Beacons in articles and discussions about AirTags so far.

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[0] - I even bought a bunch of these on Aliexpress to play with, but didn't want to install the vendor's sketchy app, so I ended up not using them (but I could make them beep and give me some telemetry by poking them over BLE directly). They worked off a CR2032, but there was no "tracking network" back then - you'd connect these tags to your phone, and they'd just start beeping when they disconnected from your phone. A pretty unreliable design, given BLE can be flaky when mixed with apps, battery saving modes, and thick walls in an apartment. Unfortunately, all the non-sketchy makers of BLE beacons seem to have focused entirely on the retailer market - i.e. using them to push spam to your phone as you walk through a mall. I lost all my interest in that technology then.
Given some comments in the prior discussion of this where drive manufacturers stated it may void your warranty, I wonder how much of this specific finding is related to them using more of the disk space than is healthy and causing write amplification? [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27002848
This would make a fantastic horror movie. I could see it being in the same vein as "It Follows", except in this case you can't talk about the monster.
Government subsidies protecting industries rarely pay off in a peaceful world to the entire country. I personally get nothing out of Chevron getting tax breaks. However, if those incentives meant supply was harder to disrupt, and in a war time the country has better access to fuel, then it does seem like a worthwhile trade off.

In this case, the risk is that China literally takes over (one way or another) the vast majority of supply of semiconductors to specifically harm western companies (or countries in a war setting). In that scenario, are you still worried about unequal kick backs or are you happy that the nation has access to the chips it needs for industry and defense?
Not always, and that oftentimes doesn't account for partners/children. Childcare in the US is insane. Thousands and thousands of dollars.

In the US, all kinds of expenses are pushed off of the government/employer and onto the employee. Salaries have to be way higher.
I'm out of the loop. Expand?
I’m willing to bet SaaS ransomware will be up next.

Imagine a user is tricked into adding a browser addon (common), and the malicious addon encrypts all the data in a salesforce, Dropbox, and online mail account
I am not sure what your background is, or whether you are, or have worked as, a freelancer. What I am writing might therefore be old news to you, in which case it would still be interesting to hear how you are thinking about the numbers I'll present.

A lot of people write comments such as yours. 11000USD/mth is a very decent salary if you are an employee. What most regular employees completely discount when doing back of the envelope calculations about the salary of other people are the amount of additional contributions that are made by your employer that regular employees might never see, but that are paid for you all the same.

Here is the math for me as a freelancer in Germany, with a similar salary as the one you are claiming is outrageous.

I bill roughly the equivalent per month from Berlin in Germany. I am not sure where the Babel developers are based, so their circumstances might differ, but all the same, here goes:

Of the 9000EUR (11000USD in EUR) I have to pay:
- 19% VAT = 1750
- 950/mth in health insurance
- Put aside 1000/mth for retirement (which is less than I previously had from my employer)
- Set aside money for vacation (as a regular employee in Germany I would have 30 days paid vacation, as a freelancer I had to set aside roughly 600/mth to compensate for this)
- Set aside money in case I get sick (as a regular employee I still get my salary when I am sick, as a freelancer I get paid from day 45). I set aside roughly 450/mth for this.
- Then there are miscellaneous freelancer related expenses and having to buy hardware (which your employer would cover too). Let's make that 300/mth.
- Then there's income taxes on the rest. This differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but let's make it an even 30% (which is below what I pay).

This leaves me with 3950 before taxes, or 2765 after taxes...
That doesn't sound so amazing anymore, does it?

Even if the Babel guys aren't working as freelancer but pay themselves through a company, the math works out roughly the same (at least from what I have seen in my own business over the last 9 years). The only difference is that the company needs the equivalent monthly budget instead of the individuals.
I think this will just lead to a split ecosystem with some libraries requiring a GC and others requiring manual memory management.
The solution for people that are worried about this is to take a freaking chill pill.

Anyone that cares can already easily track/stalk you.
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation) is a foreign company that operates entirely overseas - why would the US have authority to tax them? If anything I'd imagine they'd be against this proposal.
Doing increased harm brings increased amounts of attention. I'm pretty sure they would like to avoid that.

Before this hack, you had insurance companies wanting to stop these guys. They were comfortable with that level of heat. Having the NSA and CIA trying to track them down is a totally different level. Even if they don't get caught, they have to spend a lot more time worrying about opsec, which leaves them less for actually making money.
Typically students find us and use us on their own (no parental involvement). We don't market our site towards parents at all. The result is that most of the students using our site actually DO want to be there, and they are often very grateful for the help.

It's really common for students to thank their tutors at the end of the session and leave comments in the post-session feedback form saying how awesome the tutor was. Right now we're just sharing that feedback with the volunteers ad hoc, but we'd like to find a better system to share it regularly.

We're also planning to launch a volunteer favoriting feature for students later this year, which will increase the likelihood of students and volunteers who get along well having future sessions with each other. It's actually a commonly requested feature from both students and volunteers!
To me, it sounds like BBC knows more then they let on. Could BBC have been running a undercover investigative story? It just seems too unlikely they could get the hitmans bitcoin address without being somehow involved.
> This set of vulnerabilities requires a potential attacker to be physically within range of the Wi-Fi network

I have troubles imagining an attack on wifi protocol where this doesn't apply :).
Thanks for the detailed response! I checked out the RFC repo posted by nindalf, and I was wondering if you could explain (very briefly) the issue tagging scheme? Do the "A-" tagged issues mean they're active?

Edit: For more context, the README says:

> If you are interested in working on the implementation for an "active" RFC, but cannot determine if someone else is already working on it, feel free to ask (e.g. by leaving a comment on the associated issue).

I went and checked out the issues and couldn't tell which ones were active. (I also don't plan on implementing an RFC, so no worries if this is something that should be apparent to someone more involved.)
Laborers do important work. Without them the company produces nothing. We could go back and forth with this. And for one reason: it doesn't matter what the CEO does or doesn't do. There is something else that matters much more than any of that.
1- Crypto is made to evade government control.

2- Government are there to ensure law and order.

Result:

Crypto is a great tool to evade law and order

Governments will have to control crypto or governments will stop working
> but the attacks themselves could be done entirely out of malice if they wanted to

But then it's not really ransomware anymore.
I’m looking forward to a world where the iPhone mesh net lets me move any amount of data from place to place without needing any long-range wired or wireless network link, just apple phones moving around.

We largely go the same places every day, and apple could figure out how to send a message or request for a song/movie/file/update and it just appears a few hours or couple days later.

Like a transparent sneakernet that uses onion routing.

We have some satellite-internet fed remote areas in Canada, and how to get your phone updated without a local IX means everyone chews through data just for system updates. They do have daily or weekly flights however. Loading up an SD card for the trips back and forth could work, but complicated.

When MS released the Zune with wifi, I hoped I could sit in an airport and “borrow” songs from other users/hosters, but I don’t think it worked that way.

Worldwide, high-latency LAN. For basically free by doing what we already do.
But that's the thing. If everyone isn't helping, then this virus continues to mutate and spread through the human reservoir. We won't reach herd immunity.

By not vaccinating, you're contributing to the problem at some nonzero level. Unless you're on an island away from the world.
I was pulling from experience. In that instance, you are correct, they did realize it was a team effort.

But what I failed to share will hopefully clear up the confusion. They didn't call that out during the hiring process. They talked themselves up as if they could succeed single-handedly. It wasn't shared until they were failing to show progress and then it became an excuse. It wasn't possible to give (or hire) them a team. In the end, the person was let go to find a bigger company with the resources and capacity they would need to succeed. No hard feelings... just not a fit.

Does that clear everything up?
Obviously, by the nature of the question, existential horror trigger warning. Further, bear in mind that your reactions may vary; none of these particularly bother me because for better or worse I have my own solid opinions on such matters.

A lot of people have a bad reaction to http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 . An entire "canon" (collection of stories and sometimes some SCP entries) that can be similarly rough is http://www.scpwiki.com/end-of-death-hub . Here's a roughly-equivalent reddit question: https://www.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/ai3aik/recommendations... & if you're serious, by all means feel free to post your question there, the community as a whole never tires of answering it (no sarcasm).

But I would just say in general that if you've got a "hole" in your psyche, hundreds of writers across thousands of articles will eventually find it. No joke. For instance, I'm sure a lot of people would just bounce off of http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5045 but it spoke to me, probably because I've played rather too many video games from an era where those sorts of graphics were current and I've got neural pathways adding overtones related to the graphics that a younger person probably doesn't. (But said younger person might have found Herobrine stories legitimately spooky at some point.)

(5045 is a bit of a "format screw", which is to say, it has stuff hidden beyond the usual text, images, and clearly-labelled expandable drop-downs that most of the Wiki is built with. Be sure to click on the images as you go along. Most images in the Wiki don't do anything but many of these do. But not all.)
> (For comparison, even Transmit iOS, discontinued in 2018, continues to work fine today for those who purchased it.)

This is not true. A recent iOS update broke Transmit; it no longer launches and says it needs an update.
Please don't call names in HN comments. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I'm sure you can make your substantive points thoughtfully. That will both represent them better and enhance the community rather than damaging it.
Germany hasn't required FFP2 masks, the state of Bavaria did (which includes only 15% of the german population)
This reminds me of an all-time favorite essay: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756

"We can ask: if consciousness is reducible to computation, then what kinds of computation suffice to bring about consciousness? What if each person on earth simulated one neuron in your brain, communicating by passing little slips of paper around? Does it matter if they do it really fast?

Or what if we built a gigantic lookup table that hard-coded your responses in every possible interaction of at most, say, 5 minutes? Would that bring about your consciousness? Does it matter that such a lookup table couldn’t fit in the observable universe? Would it matter if anyone actually consulted the table, or could it just sit there, silently effecting your consciousness? For what matter, what difference does it make if the lookup table physically exists—why isn’t its abstract mathematical existence enough?"
Interesting! TBF, attaching to a keyring is the only obvious use case where I'd really need something like that and I've already ordered one of the (cheap) attach to keychain accessories. But love how people figure out this sort of thing.
I would if the money wasn't taken forcefully through my taxes. It's hardly excess for one of the most important assets a country can have right now and it beats the hell out of seeing the money go to yet another useless social welfare program for fuckups.
https://www.amazon.com/GPS-Trackers/b?node=617650011
One good thing about Android in this perspective is that many sub-components of it have their own processes (binary), especially around HAL, after Project Treble [1]. This means that you can rely on the process boundary as the language boundary to start small.

Also note that Android is more C++ than C. And C++-Rust integration is something Rust has already done in Firefox. The road is paved, at least partially. So I have high hope here in long term.

[1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/05/faster-ado...
>this much power

... or the power that's been building for twenty years without a peep from right-leaning people who all of a sudden care about this topic because it finally affects them
Cryptocurrency does make it easier, sure. But without it we'd still have Western Union/wire transfers to overseas jurisdictions, or Paypal, or gift cards, or money mules, or any number of less-traceable ways of turning ransomware into cash.
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Our goal is to make market research and competitive intelligence more digestible, continuous, and free/low cost.

We have 3 main components included with this launch today, and a big roadmap ahead.
1) Fuel News - curated news from operator companies in key B2B SaaS markets (just where we focus best for now but will continue to add more markets over time)
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3) Market and Company profiles - data profiles with a focus on digestible insight.

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But that's kind of my point - once you are talking hundreds of spaceships, setting up a manufacturing shop on the moon will pay off, because you can manufacture and 3D print all the metal parts there.

You can also actually make money from producing telecommunication satellites, startlink sats, etc. and launching them from the moon.
There was, but it got suspended: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57018148
Pretty much the entirety of modern physics is this type of abstraction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...). You are just facing the discomfort felt when your intuition clashes with the tools usually required to make reliable predictions and explanations about the universe.

Consider, how is your current discomfort with this statement any different from the discomfort felt through the centuries when ideas like fields instead of forces, entropy, phase spaces, quantum amplitudes / complex numbers, matrix mechanics, spacetime, curvature, etc were being introduced. They are all abstractions that end up being more reliable than our intuition.

Whether this "abstraction" is a "real thing" is a question for the philosophers. For me there is no difference between the two.