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> Those "hits" were retracted in court and not included in filing.

No, they were presented to the court in the drug trafficking trial, found to be true, and considered in sentencing, all of which was upheld on appeal.

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At the sentencing hearing, the district court resolved several disputed issues of fact. For example, because Ulbricht contested his responsibility for the five commissioned murders for hire, the district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht did in fact commission the murders, believing that they would be carried out. The district court characterized the evidence of the murders for hire, which included Ulbricht's journal, chats with other Silk Road users, and the evidence showing that Ulbricht actually paid a total of $650,000 in Bitcoins for the killings, as “ample and unambiguous.”

[...]

The record was more than sufficient to support the district court's reliance on those attempted murders in sentencing Ulbricht to life in prison. The attempted murders for hire separate this case from that of an ordinary drug dealer, regardless of the quantity of drugs involved in the offense, and lend further support to the district court's finding that Ulbricht's conduct and character were exceptionally destructive. That he was able to distance himself from the actual violence he paid for by using a computer to order the killings is not mitigating. Indeed, the cruelty that he displayed in his casual and confident negotiations for the hits is unnerving.

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[0] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1862572.html
Sounds like you're describing the Credential Management API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Credential_...
I applied a similar idea in a drawing application I wrote recently. You can paint and fill with 1-bit patterns, but since the underlying representation preserves a "color" index for each pixel, you can repeatedly flood fill, post-hoc edit patterns, and even animate the patterns: https://beyondloom.com/tools/ditherpaint.html
I can’t believe what I’m reading.

On one side Apple says they now offer a compatible API, on the other side you’re telling me dropping a minimum of $800 on a computer (+$100 annually) to release a free extension is the easy part.

BrowserStack would be a good solution to test it, but unfortunately you also need a lot of preparation and XCode-specific knowledge to even get to a testable point, which you don’t get unless you own a Mac.

The browsers that Apple claims to be compatible with don’t require anything more than WinZip.
Good points. The part that I have a different experience with is that you’d have spotted someone running over in the office to realize there’s communication between certain team members. To me that sounds either lucky or anxiety inducing. Should I as manager be keeping one eye on the group and one eye on my screen? I think these information gaps are much easier to catch by clearly communicating the process rather than keeping an eye on your surroundings.
For everyone commenting on the commute being terrible: shuttles are nice but what the US and California more specifically needs is a proper mass transit system a la the EU (works really well here in Berlin) complete with trains and light rail that bypasses the congestion.
Why not put cameras on perimeter and figure out some unhackable protocol for drones to identify themselves once entering these protected geofences. The drone should autopilot away from the geofence via the protocol and it should be some encrypted method that no one can spoof and signed by various agencies protecting wildlife, etc.

Thoughts?
That's called being a "scab", and is generally not appreciated.
Two main reasons that I'm aware of: (1) employer distrust of their employees being hard at work when not in full view of said employer and (2) the cubicle area put an automatic lower limit to the amount of floor space a single employee would occupy.
Apple is in Cupertino, one of the most expensive housing markets in the U.S. Numerous of the competing cities are in the immediate vicinity.

"Cheap" housing is at best across the Bay. Commutes from Santa Cruz (itself small and not cheap), the East Bay, or Central Valley are not uncommon. Traffic is insane.

Mean housing price is > $1,000,000. Median gross rent $3,335/mo. Population density is 5,418/mi^2 (compare SF at ~17,000, NYC at ~27k, and Guttenberg, NJ at ~57k/mi^2).

California has had an utterly dysfunctional housing / work / transport policy for the past 50 years. Cupertino makes the state as a whole look sane.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Cupertino-California.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
This is quite dumb of them.
Reminds me of Citogenesis, how things repeated enough becomes truth. https://xkcd.com/978/
I know. Just, no shortage of verified Apple emails commenting.

In all seriousness, I am just concerned for greater income equality from increased remote work.
I highly recommend HBRs “On Communication”. I always flip through it when I have to present something.
It’s entirely possible it’ll be a new public version name without an internal major version bump (IIRC Vista did this? I can’t remember which one)
Well if we're discarding his ideas on the basis of how he died, let's toss out our iPhones and iPads too, right?
What's the lesson? Why should it have been anyone else's business how he chose to handle his personal health?
The Nazi assets in Swiss banks whistleblower, Christoph Meili
That would be news to me. I have never used a secret key with 1Password and a local vault.
But did you die?
Yes. There are even companies specializing in this sort of thing.

https://getmibo.com/
There's also this small matter of continuing the species, arguably your primary function...
Governments that overspend or misallocate capital are a burden to the economy. With sound money, a badly managed country can go bankrupt because they can't print more money. It isn't the fault of the money, while this is the usual argument. It's just the nature of honest money.

So, it results in destabilizing governments that are overspending, but stabilizing those that are not.
’Smart Toilet’ Uses Artificial Intelligence to Monitor Bowel Health
Rationalists seem to be often susceptible to this error.
> *BSDs probably have 0.01% of Linux' usage rate

Just wanted to point out that Hacker News runs on FreeBSD[0] :) Some people like the BSDs, and would appreciate it if everybody stopped designing for the Linux monoculture (well, monoculture if you disregard Windows and macOS).

[0] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/introduction/
I had an interview once where I felt like the interviewer really didn't even know the answer to the question they were asking. I was surprised because of how confidently they were giving me the wrong answer. Instead of insulting them I just took it as a red flag to not work there. Or maybe re-interview a few years later.
> used insider information well, it's whether they used insider information at all.

it'd be impossible to detect inaction as a result of insider info. For example, if someone were originally planning on selling, but based on some insider info, changed their mind to not do anything.

So - the point i'm trying to make is that if they _profited_ from insider info, rather than just merely utilizing it, then it should be prosecuted. But if they are stupid and did the "wrong" thing with insider info, i don't see why there needs to be any effort trying to prosecute. They got their just punishment by losing money already.
I have lived in Santa Clara and every day done a 1.5 to 2 hour commute one way to go to my office in SF. I know people who drive 1 - 2 hours to Apple or pay insane high rents. Then combine that with limited space on desk and insane distractions of getting pulled over by someone who was stuck on a very small configuration which he/she could have figured out at his/her own by spending 15 mins (rather than borrowing me for 5 mins and disrupting my thought process worth hours). I believe what COVID made me realize was the fact how much bullshit I was keeping up with (including social pressure stuff) to just be “good team player”. You can think of me as introvert but I am very talkative and social person.I believe 3 hours worth of commute and the ceremony stand-ups are not required when you have technology at disposal. Google, Microsoft, and Apple should be leading the charge on this technology centric culture rather than being backwards, stuck in time. If I am asked today to return back to office I would rather resign and be freelance developer than being stuck in the company policy prison again.
ICs do have it simpler. Leadership comes with complexity and accountability. Sometimes yes, it is hard. I'm trying to avoid reading too much into your anecdotes, but it sounds like you are saying remote work is less desirable because it makes your life harder. I suppose that is a fair point, but I'd wonder what your goal is as a manager - to make your life easier, or to make the team perform better?
An American teacher was jailed in China in 2014. He still says he's innocent
There are plenty of approaches that have been developed over the centuries for dealing with nefarious actors (usually pirates) on the high seas.

The tools employed can be blunt and destructive.
I was totally embarrassed the first time I was "that guy" whose eating noises were audible on a huge call. Thankfully someone chatted at me, and I was able to mute. I consider it equivalent to having something in your teeth at this point, and I treat it as an opportunity to do that person a favor by letting them know, instead of condescending to them.
The venn diagram of people who can afford autonomous wire-cutting submarines and people who can hire accountants to hide white collar insider trading fraud is a circle.

Most "evil plans" are subverted by the fact that it's literally easier to just become rich and powerful in traditional/corrupt ways than to try to execute some elaborate scheme with espionage and robotic inventions.
A Rubyist's Walk Along the C-side
Very nice! Have you thought about making a clock-free version of this design?
"... only works when there's a stable currency to dump your value into ..."

Hence the rise of algorithmic stable coins.
> Imagine the chaos if during war-time the first thing a major power did was cut all the internet wires to their enemy?

Britain cut the telegraph cables to Germany at the start of WWI, it lead to being able to intercept the Zimmermann Telegram [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram
IP is not a person identifier. They should not be allowed as evidence in criminal cases.
I don't understand why higher-higher ups are now pushing to return to office... by limiting actual employees in the office, it gives the flexibility to outsourcing, making them save money in the short-term. It's almost like an own-goal
24 Hours at The South Street Diner, Boston [video]
Sure. But that's not the point.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27402455
Tor seems to work reasonably well, except that many mainstream media sites block, throttle, or CAPTCHA it.
That's what I think, yeah -- they cross-referenced the information anotherway (from another technical source or like you say, another site maybe) and withdrew.
Also, a more expensive microphone won't change the bandwidth zoom send it over at.
I'm a proponent for returning to the office. Working from home has never appealed to me from a number of perspectives (mixing work and life just seems tiring, lack of resources, serendipity, space, distractions, lack of evaluation metrics, etc).

I think working at the office creates a sense of community and a focus on team over the individual. Which I think is the opposite of working at home; notwithstanding all the tools we have gained in the last few years that try to bridge that. As well, self-management is not the strongest skill set among young engineers, many need management, coaching, evaluation based not only on work quality but also interpersonal and team commitments.

Working at home also risks your work being considered non-core or worthy of outsourcing or automation. The risk that you won't align well with company goals and vision is real and slowly (if not almost immediately) being considered less important to the team and the company itself.

I do think there is a place for working at home where efforts to operationalize exist but most firms don't have the capability or insight to do this. I think Apple has an entrenched culture of working together in the office. And while this may have worked over the last few months (year?) I'm sure they don't see this as a long term strategy. Nor do we have an insight at the structural issues that working at home may have cost the firm over this time. (not to mention the cost of build that UFO)

My vote is go back to the office. Or resign yourself to consultant, and make the risk you are taking clearly part of your strategy to monetize your work. I think this approach to use their union (?) to push operational methods is incorrect and they are certainly pissing off people do this.
> You’d fine then the same amount?

Progressive fines on people are based on their income, not how much they have left in the bank at the end of the month.
The basis for the ban is that the politician made an incontestable, factually true statement, which Twitter claimed was “hate speech”.
Except they get less time with their family. And seeing the average size of a suburban home, is that amount of space needed to love your family or is that an ideal we feel we must have?
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This article implies that QKD could be a replacement for asymmetric cryptography, which is simply not true. In order to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, QKD requires having a pre-shared key between the participants. If you have that, why not simply use a symmetric-key encryption algorithm (like AES) which cannot be broken by a hypothetical quantum computer?

Another serious drawback is that QKD requires having some kind of direct physical connection between the communicating partners. Even if we had perfect quantum repeaters (which we really don't), this would require going back to 19th century telephone exchanges that physically plug together cables (or fibers in this case). The scaling of a global network would be infinitely worse than the modern packet-switched internet.

At best, QKD could provide a type of forward secrecy against someone stealing your keys or breaking AES in the far future. This comes at the cost of extreme impracticability. Not to speak of the host of side-channel attacks and other implementation vulnerabilities that have been found in commercial QKD systems.

I think that QKD is a fun idea to explore, but I find it really disheartening that these pratical issues are almost never openly discussed in the community. And pop-sci articles usually get pretty much everything wrong about the topic.
Cables are cut all the time just by eg anchors; I don't think you'd need a sub. The hard part would be finding the cables though, since their position isn't publicized to prevent this sort of thing. Plus the place where it'd be easy to do this, on the continental shelf, is probably in territorial waters.
Atomic rename is a mechanism to provide compare-and-swap, upon which you can build higher level things like transaction commit in a database built on top of the distributed file system.
I think this is more or less assumed to be the case already. It would be foolish to initiate your nuclear retaliation without first burning all your zero-days on widespread infrastructure failure.

For more localized conflicts this is also already routine, lots of countries in civil war order ISPs under their jurisdiction to start blocking websites or the entire Internet whenever blocking it benefits the incumbents (which is always).

In any case there are counter-measures and counter-counter-measures for such situations. It's why Starlink has always been presumed to be a financial success even if civilians don't get behind it; every government in the world (and especially the DoD) would want a satellite network that can provide Internet connectivity to any part of the world, and you would have to literally shoot down dozens of satellites to impact its availability.
I think you might be mixing two things up: it's impossible for a native program to find where it is, because argv[0] can be anything.

But it's possible for an interpreter to tell the script it's interpreting where it lives, i.e. argv[1]. For example, Python does this in a pretty straightforward way.
All the people who worked on Windows 10 are no longer with Microsoft so the promise of Windows 10 being the last Windows is over.

I would have thought they'd have 10.1 like Apple does. Windows 10 was like MacOSX for Microsoft.
Except for the sharing, Chrome password manager has all others you listed.
How did you know he was fully nude?
So I think those would work if the hybrid day layout was more flexible.

In this case, Apple is two days of WFH (Wednesday/Friday I believe) so your second suggestion wouldn't work (honestly some folk I've spoken to have even considered car camping). If it were contiguous blocks perhaps.
The fees do fluctuate, thus layer 2 solutions. A few days ago I moved some bitcoin and two transaction fees were equivalent of USD 0.78 and 0.72. For finality in a few minutes, I thought it was reasonable.
All you need is a red colored flashlight. I have used these during astronomy to read star charts without ruining my night vision.
I would think 2FA-in-masterdb still protects you against some website hacks, most browser exploits and phishing sites, using your password on other potentially compromised devices (public wi-fi, work, etc.) and probably some keylogger scenarios that would miss the database content.
There are many ways to fight this battle other than writing a letter to Tim Cook.
> ...you have a different and much more complicated concern.

That concern seems to disappear when I attend meetings seemingly all on phone and webex and that goes for at least half a day. Company never flies me to meet folks in other offices in different cities face to face.
That's typical volatility, imo, a reaction would have been 10+% in either direction and it was well known throughout the day well before the actual announcement itself.
It’s really to generate some excitement for OEM PC sales. 10 being the last version with Windows update is a viable way to go, but you get none of the annual “get people excited” event apple has capitalized on so well.
> lack of evaluation metrics

What office specific metrics are there, at least in tech?
The Pythons were ahead of their time.
Did you read the article? You’re free to TWW, but rather than shooting the idea down you bring up the constraint that breaks the idea. Not: “hey that won’t work because xyz”. Result: people discouraged.

Instead try: Hey that would work if xyz were true.
Result: people can think about why is xyz false, how do we flip xyz to true?
If a crappy website’s user database gets attacked, the hacker may have my plaintext password stored in it. They may not have my 2FA seed, so there’s at least a chance that the attacker still may not be able to access my account.

I think this is much more likely than an attacker cracking my 1Password vault.
> I never understood why someone would live over an hour away from where they work

property prices.
they're attacked either way....might as well go down in a blaze of glory with the WHOLE truth out there!
The bosses aren’t any better, friend.
No currency ever has been 100% stable. The exchange rate is how we perceive it in the modern economy, but fluctuation in commodity prices was the indicator of an stable, or not, currency when the gold standard was in place. That will be the indicator if bitcoin, or any other currency, achieve 100% use, which in itself is impossible.
But there is no guarantee to stability, bitcoin doesn’t provide it any more than the usd backed by millions of soldiers does. Stability begins on the production side, not the monetary one; after a huge drought you’ll see prices skyrocket irrespective of the currency.
I think pyrtl was designed to enable abstraction in hardware design; it emits VHDL. Would be curious to know if anyone else has used this tool.
By E2E you mean SSL and not actually end-to-end right? AFAIK no provider transports HTTP packets over the wire E2E in the same way that Signal or Telegram transports text messages E2E. It's not actually possible since there is no way to transmit a shared secret without first establishing a secure channel (which itself cannot be E2E).

Anyways point being, China/HK could just subpoena the private keys for individual SSL certificates and decrypt traffic on their end while it passes through the pipeline. Having sovereignty over the cable is still an advantage for them.
A "scab" is a worker hired to knowingly break a union strike, so unless there's a well-accepted Apple Software Engineers' Union it's not applicable here.

And of course it's not appreciated by the union, since their ability to collectively withhold labour from the company is their only real source of power. The ethics of the situation depend entirely on what's actually going on, though - there are plenty of well justified strikes, but there are also strikes where the union is overstepping its bounds. Union and corporate power remain relatively well balanced or one side gets screwed and ultimately everybody loses.
They are sending fighter jet squadrons into their airspace pretty much constantly though. I don't see any likely scenario where Taiwan maintains sovereignty in the next ten to twenty years. They will either be assimilated as a useful puppet or there will be military action to bring Taiwan in line. China has been flexing their military might for a while now and they can't afford to look weak by backing down or letting Taiwan build up their defenses further.
How would you deal with employees that were in a different office? What about offshore contractors? I find it hard to believe that managers need to see people together in a physical space to be effective.
What you've written is beautiful. I love that I'm drawing an image where the paintbrush behaves as an eraser. This project has perfect fidelity with the original MacPaint except better https://archive.org/details/mac_Paint_2 I upvoted your link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26517917 It deserves to be in HN's second chance pool.
Then sounds like you're working with a diminished product that's less secure.
I think it's called a job market.
I'm sorry but I absolutely love the ling's car website!
They may not be in the middle of being taken over, but the process has definitely started. Ccp jets are being flown into Taiwanese airspace constantly. I don't think China would risk looking weak by backing down and letting Taiwan be free.
I had a Facebook account suspended for 7 days for correcting someones vaccine misinformation.

Of course I clicked the "I disagree" button on the notification that you're in Facebook jail. They replied with the "We're sorry we got this one wrong, your comment has been reinstated" message.
I thought I was ok until I logged in and suddenly found my account restricted for 30 days.

I got a strike. I protested and won. But I still got suspended for 30 days?

Facebook is horribly broken.
Office work, for all its many pitfalls, has the value that the company is providing space, infrastructure, and furniture (in both physical and metaphorical senses), which puts all employees on an even keel.

One of the benefits of space, in the sense of a shared common space is that those who are present in it are present in it. Mediated conversations across space don't do that.

You talk of signal. The overarching signal I'm picking up is a distinct lack of empathy.
My interaction with birds is not a key part of my drone work, just incidental. The drone I have is the best option for what I need - often need to launch from a boat, hand-catch, move precisely amongst trees, etc.
> I’ve seen a couple of experiments of them trying it,

? Browser-addon 1password has been the only way to use (modern?) 1password on Linux for a long time.