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> Moxie Marlinspike has been around a long time, and he hasn't been particularly discreet about his opinions about law enforcement.

I did read the article, I don't personally see the intent that the author is attributing (although I understand how other people might, and again, this is all separate from the CFAA concerns). The author is claiming that Cellebrite's users are synonymous and interchangeable with law enforcement. But that's clearly not the case, or else Moxie wouldn't have a copy of the software since he's not a cop.

Signal never mentions law enforcement in the original post; the only mention they make to governments are non-US authoritarian countries, which... it's not illegal in the US to build software that Turkey dislikes. The only category of users that Signal's post specifically supports by name are journalists and activists -- in other words, not criminals under US investigation.

And this is part of what weirds me out about this conversation. When you start talking about how obviously Moxie is trying to hack police departments because he's criticized them in the past -- my opinions about law enforcement overall shouldn't block me from writing secure code. I believe in police accountability, I publicly backed Apple's position during the San Bernadino case, which according to multiple police spokespeople apparently means that I love terrorists and hate America. Does their framing of that position mean I'm not allowed to build secure software now?

You don't see it as problematic that being critical of the government would mean that you have less legal leeway to write secure code? "Hasn't been particularly discrete about his opinions of law enforcement" to me reads as "he's going to face increased legal scrutiny and have fewer legal protections purely because of 1st Amendment protected speech."

> Have you tried? I think there's a misconception that lawyers are resources that will only talk to you if you can verify you have $1M in the bank.

It's entirely possible that I'm bad at looking around at stuff like this. I haven't seen specialist law offices that aren't charging more than a hundred dollars an hour, but... I am not going to pretend I'm an expert on this stuff, at all. I'm not an expert on anything we're talking about.

> And come on, we're not talking about writing a new game or a container orchestrator or some new ML algorithm here; we're talking about technology that clearly has a strong relationship to law enforcement and has a legacy of adversarial practices. Let's practice a little common sense here.

I'm not sure I follow, is your argument that security code is in a separate category from other Open Source software? I don't understand what you're implying. Signal is a messaging app, shouldn't ordinary people be able to build those?

There aren't a ton of consumer-facing projects I can build that won't have to care about security and privacy. You don't think that games, or music storage/tagging, or backup systems have to care about this stuff? It's not only banks that do encryption, any system that touches user data should be able to protect that data from criminals.
How network interfaces work on pfSense – TUTO
20,000 km / 4 h = 5000 km/h so Mach 5. Not realistic in my opinion.

It's at the upper end of supersonic before hypersonics. The flow can still be slowed down to subsonic for combustion. The ASALM cruise missile prototype reached these kind of speeds. http://designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/asalm.html
Probably just as dangerous as driving with a tank of pressurized natural gas, which is already very common (for instance, where I live, nearly all taxis are converted to run on pressurized natural gas, since it's cheaper than gasoline).
They could offer a bounty.
We adopted it 4 years ago and love it.

As for training people, I taught my non-technical co-founder Elixir for some backend scripts he needed to write. He found it much simpler to pick up then Javascript or Ruby and his code was idiomatic rather quickly.

As for the IDE support in VSCode, I've found ElixirLS[1] great. I do have to restart it sometimes (delete the .elixir_ls folder), but that's a small cost to pay for a pretty great experience.

After spending years in RoR in multiple code bases, I find Elixir code bases to be easier to debug and libraries easier to grok. Without the mutable state of OOP, I don't find myself asking, "Where is this state coming from and when/how was it set?" Of course, macros can be hard to follow, but I still find an Elixir library more straight forward than a Ruby one.

We've also experience the great performance and reliability shared by others on this

We haven't had difficulty finding the right libraries even though the ecosystem isn't as mature as Ruby or Javascript.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JakeBeck...
For me, I'd never order this because it looks suspect and perhaps over priced and total pricing is unclear.

I have to scroll all the way to the bottom to even see the price and the other color that you offer is double the price which seems strange. Then before I can tell if this price includes shipping which I would hope for a tiny vinyl sticker shipping would be included with this price I have to give you an email address.

No thanks. Let me know what I'm in for upfront in total or at least a reasonable estimate of it all and make it clear. Don't make me scroll through a giant wall of things about cameras before I can even tell the price of a product. It's a sticker for crying out loud. A Post-It note, which is readily available on anyone's desk, performs the same task. Yours may have some novelty but you're going to have to compete initially on that price perception over just picking up the post-it note.

The landing page seems very focused on selling people on the idea of covering the camera. I think your primary focus should be selling people on your camera cover and secondarily that cameras should be covered when not in use. This would be accomplished by straightforward up front simple pricing that includes shipping. Trivial products should have trivial pricing. When you focus on selling people the idea of something like this you can accomplish that goal and be successful on selling them the idea but it's so trivial they have no need to buy your product because post-it notes, a piece of paper , any number of other things can accomplish the same goal.
Even if reading about new topics is harder than watching videos about new topics, it says nothing about the relative efficiency of learning from text or video.
I think the site is reporting M2 for each of the currencies, which includes much more than just the bills + coins. E.g. the value of all USD coins + bills is "only" $2.1 trillion [1] vs. an M2 that's 10x larger. The 60% of all USD are held overseas statistic only applies to coins + bills and not M2 [2].

An explanation could be that people in Chinese save more and keep more of their savings in banks, compared to Americans?

[1] "Currency in circulation" in https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/20210506/
[2] https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/jp-koning/how-much-u-s-cur...
I Photoshopped a Poster Today
Show HN: Find the most competent app-designer,bioengineer,physicist in a country
Hey guys, I had the idea to make a website where you can simply find the most competent physicist, politician, architect, app-designer, marketer, dermatologist, soccer player etc. in your country.
I made this platform, because I was frustrated by how arduous and difficult it is to find competent people that are really good in their field. There is simply no way to find them quickly and efficiently.

The same goes for companies, hiring is very difficult and no one knows who is the best e.g. data-scientist, UX-designer in your country.

Of course, this list won't be a perfect reflection of who is the most competent, but the Top 10 by field would always be full of highly competent people.

So you could say it's a mix of Reddit and Wikipedia.

Everyone can submit new listings, however, only those with a verified account can upvote or downvote.

I just finished the first version and added a couple of listings myself. There's not much on there yet, so it would be amazing if you could add some listings of people in specific fields that you think are very competent.

Thank you!
Many of the crap-extensions load ads which makes google money.

I think it’s safe to say Google likes this sort of thing.
I think that image is from Facebook Marketplace where you can sell anything, not just guitars.
More like an electric car, if it's a hydrogen fuel cell car (I'm not sure if all hydrogen cars are that or if there's another variant that combusts the hydrogen)
Ah thank you for mentioning that! I removed the consent timeout - so to close it you have to click the button. I wonder if I should mention that it's only on the landing pages only - I intentionally leave tracking out on the app itself...
> Docker containers aren't provably secure.

Not only are they not provably secure (very few things are), they are explicitly not intended for use as a security boundary. Their whole gimmick is lightweight containers you can use instead of VMs if you trust everyone who's going to run code under them.
This is literally how face id and automatic sleeping when you look away work. It's described clearly in the promotional materials for these features.
I can charge at work and the grocery store. Still much nicer than going to the gas station, especially in the winter.
This has been my main limitation on using... about half a dozen neat Windows virtualization features. I wasn't willing to give up... every... other virtualization tech to have the Hyper-V feature installed.

Hoping the other child comment is right and that there's been some improvement in this space.
That's a hell of a "Other than" you have there.
Clickbait. It talks about the FaceID and Infrared scan.
> rxvt, etc have had bugs found and most aren't regularly fuzzed.

Recent example: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/17/1
Why people are not ordering?

The people who care already have one, or they've taped over it anyway. The rest don't probably care.
> anyone could trivially break the record

"Make it bigger" doesn't really work in cars, otherwise range anxiety wouldn't exist as a concept.

The record still makes sense because the Hyundai Nexo is commercially available and it's not a prototype with a comically-large just for the record tank.
uBlock Origin has a handy filter under "annoyances" that seems to clear out several of these. Not perfect, but it helps.

I'm still baffled at the way this was rolled out. Why are we putting the requirement on website authors, and not browser vendors? There's a lot fewer of those to regulate.
how is this news? it was announced when iphone x has been launched that the face id checks whether you look on the phone or not in order to not lock yor phone while in use.

it is not a picture, it trackes your eyes.
One thing to keep in mind if your growing your greens outdoors is that they quickly get bitter when it is hot out. If you live somewhere that gets very hot in the summer you'll want to stick to the shoulder seasons for greens. Most can survive light frost, so you can start them quite early/late.
Both of the old logos are better than what we have now.
I don't think the previous commenter meant converting it back; just that if there is an excess of power, e.g. on a sunny and windy day, that can be captured into H2 which is much easier to store than electricity. It wouldn't be converted back to electricity for the grid.
I'm wondering if humans are helping the destruction. Warmer, more acidic ocean; more waves; more storms...
I was just answering the parent by saying that no, police do not need to have financial incentives to make up cases and lock up innocents; and therefore there stills needs to be a way to punish corrupt police officers and departments even if those incentives do not exist.

Obviously financial incentives are a key motivator for many people in forces as well, I was only saying that this can happen even if there is no money to make.
The simple answer is to "feed your soil". Basically give back the nutrients lost, and modify the soil to promote growth of soil bacteria.

You can look up what plants you had in there before and what nutrients those usually consume the most of. Then you can look up another plant that specifically generates those nutrients, or you can add them via a fertilizer. Companion plants help get rid of pests that attack certain plants and also increase production of needed nutrients.

Before planting, you can aerate the soil (basically mix it up) while simultaneously adding organic material (grass clippings, dried leaves, sticks, fallen trees), then water it and tend it like the soil is a plant itself. You can also introduce beneficial organisms like earthworms and beneficial nematodes.

"Modern" farms don't replace their soil because they're basically growing monocultures and using a sort of "nutrient flamethrower" to completely drench the soil with what that one plant needs, and pesticides to kill anything that a genetically modified plant can't survive. It's unsustainable and harmful to the ecosystem in many cases, but it results in big yields.
I would love to see another metric. How much of their money entrenched interests (coal-plants,nuclear, grid-provider) had to invest into holding back solar. One could compute the point of collapse from that.
One of the things that stuns me, is that for as effective as phishing and scam ads are today, they could be hundreds of times more effective if someone put the effort in to run them through a spell check in the target language.

It sometimes seems like the saving grace to society is that criminals aren't actually all that smart.
"The new plan is stupid" is rude because it's not actionable. It doesn't say what specifically is wrong, why it's wrong, or how it could be better. The older I get the less tolerant I am of people simply venting or breathing out generalised criticism that doesn't help us navigate to a better place.

I expect people to bring criticism, but I expect them to do so constructively if they want to be listened to. "This plan is unworkable because X but if we did Y instead that would lead to Z which would work much better," is actually helpful. "This plan is stupid," isn't.
I think this underestimates the massive infrastructure investments those charging poles would need to work. I live in a medium density European town (about 1000 inhabitants/km2, think 4-5 story buildings on average). In residential areas the whole street is lined with parked cars on both sides. To charge these, one would need something like 1MW charging per every 4 cars, which means every 20m of the road, on both sides. So 1km of inner city street would have new electricity demands of about 100MW for fast charging.

Even overnight charging at say 10MW per km of road would mean the complete energy infrastructure of the complete town would have to be changed.

Edit: Inserted a line break before the last sentence because apparantly almost every replier overread that one :)
> ban the exchange of crypto for fiat in the USA? This will have a huge positive effect on carbon emissions, chip shortages, and actually reducing ransomware.

Makes sense, we did it with drugs and there's no more drugs.
I treated this like a spelling test: how am I accustomed to seeing this in professionally produced material, and therefore which option would I choose to avoid a distracting sense of "not rightness" for a general audience?

By those rules, it was a fun and fair game. I really hated abandoning my streak to get my own work done. Well done to the creators on that aspect.

I can understand that like a spelling test it might be frustrating if you approached it from the perspective of "how should this be done if we are open to unfamiliar possibilities."
>Naive question. How does one know this is malicious before installing it?

You can't, that's the problem.
Lawyer but not your lawyer, not legal advice, etc.

I'm not sure how enforceable the obligation to keep informed clause can really be, in and of itself. If you launch a competing business and violate the (I assume present) non-compete agreement clauses then sure. What remedies do the contracts provide for the breach? Termination? Can you provide sample language that we can take a look at?

As you suggest in the comments, I reckon this is mostly about keeping the employee contracts uniform. The lawyers don't "want" these clauses any more than you do; or, at the very least, they don't care one way or the other. Someone on the business side pushed it and they just went along.
Just AI transpile to Rust: problem solved :D

No seriously, AI will take years to understand the context.

Coding is more about capturing real world knowledge into a functional program. It involves so much learning about how to translate processes, workflow and regulations into a binary that it seems naive to have an AI code generation tool we even can't understand.
OOP also leads to spaghetti code. Everything turns into a steaming pile of crap if you don’t work to avoid that reality.
Because putting the fear of god into people often works, especially when it cuts into the gravy train.
Meh.

Sometimes it takes very long for things to die definitively.

"The BSDs are dieing" is definitely a (false) meme but there's some truth to that.

On a lot of things the BSD are either cut out or lagging behind by a lot.

Example for both things:

Being cut out: containers and kubernetes. Heck, you can even have MS-Windows-based kubernetes workers, whereas just yesterday some random guy released an experimental oci-compliant, jail-based container runtime (IIRC). And that's for FreeBSD, does not even apply to Net/Open/Dragonfly/whatever.

Lagging behind: wayland. Mostly working on GNU/Linux, what's the status on the various BSDs? Not pretty.

So to wrap up: it kinda depends on your point of view.

If your use case falls within what's supported and what the developers develop for, then the BSDs are alive and doing well.

Otherwise, the BSDs appear to be dieing very slowly.
How do you do update your notes on your phone?
Actually in several states they're still usable. Some as supporting evidence, others requiring double consent, and some just as evidence. Their time has not completely passed sadly.

Never mind that the government itself still uses them as part of their security clearance process...
Distribution and Demand
1 million click farmers in china/India/Nigeria?
Drives like an electric, refuels like a liquid fuel car (it uses a compressor, not electric charge).
Not sure that we can blame the eggheads for this one. The "Limits to Growth" report was published in 1972. I remember people talking about it in my teens (80s). At some point, everyone has to take their individual responsibility and accept that the scientific community did it's job, and that it's not their job to make society move. That's on all of us.

Moreover, it sure does seem like we have passed a tipping point. Whether it is the tipping point remains to be seen.

From a societal point of view, I think it is not a good idea to communicate "we're too late to fix anything" as it seems clear that this will lead to a total abandonment of any effort.

The best moment to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best moment is "now".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
Want to boost IP creation by creators and make distributors beg? Have copyright return to creators after 20 or so years after they've been transferred via whatever contracts. Lots of renegotiations will mean lots of money for Picassos!

After all, everyone says the aim of stronger copyright laws is to protect "creators" (those same laws that implement near perpetual copyright terms, extraditions, $100k+ fine and 5+ years jail that can easily be applied such as sharing a picture to your parents)
You know what's funny is you're the second person to mention the technique/framework aspect of it as being the bigger thing here. I'm beginning to be convinced! I was thinking maybe if I dropped in more examples of different scenarios that it would be easier to show that aspect.
NASA testified to the US Senate in 1989 that climate change was happening and 99% anthropogenic. The science hasn’t been the problem.
Well, exactly. The gang in question rather publicly issued a mea culpa and said they will be taking steps to make sure that doesn't happen again specifically because they're worried about that. I doubt things would ever progress as far as Afghanistan, but I'm sure they're thinking that their government might not continue to let them do their thing if the specter of international sanctions should arise.
I made no comment about mobility, just stated the reality as I see it at a couple points on the ladder.
Hydrogen forms explosive mixtures with air at a much wider range of concentrations than typical hydrocarbons and has a nasty tendency to permeate straight through a lot of materials.
How network interfaces work on pfSense – Tuto
Amazon is reportedly negotiating to acquire MGM for about $9B
When the spread is $1k, the actual price that you can buy at changes really fast... 1 second, I could buy at $50k and the next second I could buy at $51k, AKA the last trade price.
100% electric cars isn’t feasible for countries like Japan

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/toyotas-chief-says-electric...
The current PR strategy is to be relatable and give people some comfort, or something cool, something that entices them. And do the shady stuff in a way they least perceive it.
You would not get a fake Microsoft-impersonating app on the Apple App Store, though, because of the very checks you're writing off as nothing but a money grab.
The complaints of web users still have power for now.

Slow, tracker-laden web pages are still terrible, AMP was just the wrong solution.
Displays fine for me - gotta be your filter lists subscriptions
Just to put this into context, my 2003 diesel car with a 68 litre tank can drive ~7-800km.
One of them constructed themselves as an opt out, that required you to click yes in order to opt out.

The way I read it, a timer expiration on that one would have opted you in
We were getting 1000km between fill ups (60L tank) on a family road trip in a bog standard 1.8L gasoline (!) Ford Mondeo, seating 2 adults 2 kids and with trunk loaded to the brim and A/C running on full.

Really difficult to be excited or impressed by these "records". Both Tesla and H2
The Downfall of RTS – Where have all the good strategy games gone to?
This might be Elon Musk's objective, not Tesla's (whatever that means, as that will be a different thing if you ask it to one of its board members, to a sales person, to a developer, etc).
I agree but...

If you have nothing to lose you have nothing to fight to protect but if you have little you have are precariously close to having nothing, and that is a line most people fill fight hard not to be pushed closer toward.
Molarity and molal are obsolete terms?
Because of the prospect of losing that income stream. Their ad services are very well managed. AFAIK they're not making much/any money from the stores now so it makes sense they're not fixing it, or am I wrong?
How network interfaces work on pfSense – tuto
how about security updates? i would advise against blocking updates. you're fixing an issue and creating another one.
I remember back where there were some code execution bugs in putty, a friend would pose as a naive Linux noob on IRC, go into hacking channels, and ask if people could help him fix some problem, and he would get shells on anyone who tried to log in to his machine.

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1788
We need webauthn not just 2FA
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)
I'm frustrated that every gas station seems to have ad-riddled gas pumps now. Sure, there might be some low-quality content clips, or ads for the station's convenience store, but that doesn't really help matters.

And the noise...which generally is not mutable
Doom multiplayer in Wasm running on Cloudflare Workers
Solved easily but not making rash assumptions and reading what you're clicking.