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Aiming high is all well and good when you got problems at home settled. For too long we've been avoiding fixing those problems which aren't intractable such as homelessness and poverty. If we can supposedly do both like the article mentions then why aren't we?
Stride had some really nice features though, like highlighting the final decision coming out of a discussion thread, and rolling those up into daily highlights. No one else seems to have carried that on.
Is it not more like blaming the people selling ransomware tools?
So, if this is such an obvious thing, why wouldn’t you think there are countermeasures for that? As people have said, the trucks have (or very likely have) axels that self-destruct. They also could have a trailer hitch that self-destructs if you attempt to disconnect it. The hitch could also be custom made to be too large/small/wrong shape for a traditional hitch. The lines that connect to the air brakes (that lock up without air pressure) could be custom made to not fit, or self-destruct, or both. The cab could have a kill switch that destroys or disables the engine. And of course, we don’t actually know which of these are actually used, and what additional security measures there are. So any bad actor would have to gain access to detailed security plans without it being discovered or attack blind and hope they have accounted for everything and can overcome known and unknown security.

Seems a bit more complicated than just unhooking the trailer and driving off.
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Not even close to the same use of the word - coerce is probably a better term.
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This is a pretty reasonable point in my opinion. These are all countries allied with many of our own. Where is the government to government pressure to curb this bad behavior? Why is the private sector expected to be the guardian of civil liberties in other countries and the public sector let off the hook?
I just find it nicer to admin: things work the way I expect them. Two things in particular: I can configure FreeBSD jails easily and be confident in the security model, where Linux containers are just way too complicated if you want to run untrusted code. Second, systemd logging really rubs me up the wrong way, especially if something goes wrong when setting up a box.

There's only one thing FreeBSD can do that Linux can't, which is Capsicum that I don't use, but for basic sysadmin I just find it nicer. The only Linux technology I really miss in FreeBSD land is KVM.
"criminals" and "democratic states" are very subjective terms.
It has nothing to do with bubble or not. It's just twitter only allows shalow takes with no nuances, so people either are lazy and give in to that, or they are frustrated by not being able to say what they want to say and get angry instead. My personal view is bubbles are actually bad for discourse, make people intolerant.
This was such a cool feature. Unfortunately it got removed when they redesigned the interface: https://en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_features_removed_from_Y...
I used Minikube constantly for development. The best way to run it is directly on Linux, in which case it does not require a VM and is very stable. VMs on the other hand seem to cause a lot of problems--it's not especially stable on Mac OS and does not seem to survive reboots very well. (YMMV.)
I'd be surprised if you couldn't get the parts to repair a normal desktop motherboard. But as far as I know there aren't really any repair shops that work on stuff like that. Likely because the motherboards in most desktops are fairly cheap and easy to replace. On laptops, the main board is the most expensive part. More so ever since everything started being soldered on instead of socketed.

Maybe the solution is to getting people to repair desktop motherboards instead of tossing them is to turn the cost to the environment of generating e-waste into an actual monetary cost. (Though I can't say I know how you'd do that since making e-waste disposal cost money will mean that people will just dump that stuff in the normal trash)
In theory, if you’re paying, it means that you’re a stakeholder, and can have some influence over the companies revenue, and therefore have some leverage.

In practice, the fact that you are paying for a service makes you much more attractive to advertisers because it says you’re willing to spend money online.
Think about this reasonably. I've worked with intelligence bodies before and they would never run something like pegasus on a cloud or connected to the internet.

Products like Pegasus are almost always an on-prem enterprise-product it's simply the only model that makes sense security wise. If you were a client of NSO would you trust them to not look at the data?

My guess is that the list is from one of NSO's other products or someone trying to gather business intelligence on NSO - for example: location tracking, check when user is online etc - anything that can reasonably justify the data not being sensitive enough for customers like security agencies to be OK with it being in the cloud.

Consider if any of those dictators would want the US and Israeli governments to have access to whomever they're tapping on.
Will it also have a non-exception for bypassing pollution controls? For cars that seems to be what people who want to change the firmware are really trying to do in every case I've seen. (I'm not claiming all cases are trying this, just every one that I've dug into)
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He can refuse to play for any reason he can think up, just like any of us can refuse work for any reason we can come up with
WYSIWYG composers are hard to do well, though. They're certainly not trivial.
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Adding onto this, if the fix requires some kind of notice or error message detail that didn't previously exist it can also require work from your internationalization team to translate that error into N languages your software supports.
the hvac guy does not know how drywall is made and would struggle to produce a piece od drywall. As a matter of fact, the drywall guy would struggle. They don’t build their own materials, they use materials they buy from Home Depot.
>Answering this to the fullest extent may or may not get this account banned.

I think you will find that you have a lot more in common with people globally than you think. It is a trap to focus on the differences and our mind tries to build those into huge walls when they are usually pretty small hedges.

> I'm not a law expert by any means(though I can interpret Hungarian law mostly fine on my own) but if >a person like me can't parse the drivel they spew endlessly, how could the average citizen >meaningfully engage with the process? I think we need less complexity in the chain of command not >more.

I think that gets to the guts of an ongoing discussion the world is having. Do we want direct democracy or do we want to elect people who take care of that for us as a representative democracy? I think you could make a good argument that normal citizens are better off not knowing some things. Especially since most/all issues are super complex and it would take years to learn about them. For example, your comment on EU policy toward the USA... the answer is it is complex and you can only see maybe 10% of what is happening in that regard.

>Lastly, they are so damn far away. How are we supposed to drag EU bureaucrats out to the streets when >they become lamppost positive? This might be a minor thing but I can't imagine this very "safe" >distance between us the people and them is healthy for democracy.

Vote? Bureaucrats are supposed to run the systems, your reps represent you. The entire system can always be improved, but you have plenty of neighbors and friends in local government I would imagine.
The big restriction on that system was honestly memory, since the GameCube only had around 24MB of memory usable by the CPU. That's really what necessitated splitting up the Great Sea into chunks. Check the Chrome memory usage while that's loaded; guaranteed it'll be a bit higher.
Spon on. And that is why I will not pay for a YouTube abo. The day I can not stand the ads anymore, I will quit the cold turkey.
In the EU, home or third party repair of a car cannot itself void a warranty.

Microsoft would have to diagnose the problem as being outside the warranty.

On the other hand, if repair is easy for third parties, warranty becomes far less important.
In a fuel pump, the washer also has contact with substances that are aggressive to rubber: the stove fuel itself. I doubt a rubber o-ring would survive long in that environment.
Only if their customers are state actors
You have to add profit margin and default risk on top. 7% for a business that you have lots of information about is still pretty bad though. It should be 4% all inclusive. You're right about one thing. The flat fee for the loan actually ends up obscuring the complexity. It's difficult to compare the square loan conditions to conventional ones.
If state is buying NSO tech and using it abroad they are pretty much defined as criminal.
Because the vast majority of people don't care if someone archives something they've made public. And the Internet Archive bends over (to some too far) backwards with robots.txt to exclude anything someone wants removed from public view.
It's why feature extraction/stat bucket AI sucks.

Human interactions have a social/cultural context. You can't just recognise $thing, you have to recognise how $thing depends on $context for the correct interpretation.

Current AI either ignores context completely or doesn't parse it correctly.

It's a rediscovery of the ancient "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" problem.

If you're out on a date and you say "Let's go back to mine" it implies one thing. If you say it to some friends after an evening out it usually means something completely different.

Sometimes it means the same thing - but you need to know a lot about the people involved to be able to infer that accurately.

And sometimes humans can't parse these nuances accurately either.

AI-by-grep or stat bucket can't handle them at all, because the inferences are contextual and specific to situations and/or individuals. They can't be extracted from just the words themselves.

Minsky & co researched some of this in the 70s, and eventually it motivated the semantic web people. But it was too hard a problem for the technology of the time. Now it seems somewhat forgotten.
There is a minor defense that a lot of evidence police care about can be destroyed using this method as opposed to no knock raids, the army isn't concerned with jury trials. I don't think that's a good justification for 99% of no knock raids anyway though.
On HN, if a comment is well-written and appears to be made in good faith but is (in my opinion) wrong, I neither upvote nor downvote, I reply.

Downvoting a good-faith comment because you disagree with it does no one any favors. It creates a sense of persecution among those who disagree with you, while not actually providing any counter-argument for the benefit of the undecided. Leave the vote counts alone, make your own convincing argument.
The mess in Texas was caused by not having enough reserve capacity to cover a period of exceptional demand, technical failures at power plants caused by extreme weather and under-investment, and not having sufficient interconnections with the rest of the North American grid which would have allowed more power to be imported.

These problems are independent of whether you're operating a market model or a monopoly model. The market model is common throughout Europe, but widespread power shortages don't really happen because there are many interconnections between countries, and mechanisms (such as payments made to reserve generators based on their availability) which prevent market failure.
Some actors have simulations (e.g. Beedle's boat) but not too many right now. Compare to Super Mario Galaxy or the Source Engine games where there's even a bit of interactivity.
What's the manufacturing process here? Is it feasible that fabs for this kind of thing could reduce in price over time to the individual or makerpsace level?
The next to last paragraph bothers me:

On Hackernews, they think it's "entitlement" to think that you can use free email
and search engines and expect not to be tracked. The main problem with this line
of thinking is that even if you had the option to pay for your email and for your
search engine, some G**gle executive somewhere would mention during a meeting that
they could add an extra $X million of revenue if they started using data from it
from targeted advertising.

Expecting a valuable service with absolutely no consideration in return absolutely is a case of entitlement. If that consideration isn't cash, it has to be something else. If you're paying cash for the service, though, you're well within your right to set expectations on the terms the service is provided on.
> I see their point - I think weapon sales (like Pegasus) should be regulated but blaming the company is kind of silly. It's exactly like blaming Colt for weapon sales.

It's not entirely the same situation, though.

In the case of Pegasus, NSO don't hand over the tool and that's the end of it. They continue to operate the attack servers on behalf of their clients - they're actively involved in the process.

Colt aren't there handing you each individual bullet, and pretending they can't see your target.
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Maybe I'm too dumb to follow your logic, but what interest do these governments have in locking down entire states again?
Thanks for the comment, I also have a zillion short family and travel video clips, so I will give it a try to. BTW, your YouTube video is hilarious!
Is Snap the only way to install this on linux? This is a non-starter for me.
This whole "written in Rust" as if it was a feature BS must stop someday.

Get the project 'A' features and compare with project 'B' features, the strength and weakness of programming languages will be apparent, on the features, runtime speed, bugs, etc..

Choosing a project over another just because its in a given language is not based on logical reasoning, but emotional reasoning and therefore the bad paths will get evident with time (Except of course if the language is really unsuitable to the domain, which is not the case here whether with C or Rust).

This emotional bias for me is a reason to actually look at Rust projects with suspicious if people working on it know its just another tool with some given properties and not some magical wand that will turn everything into unicorns and rainbows.

Note: this is also targeted at "why you would want to choose C over others ?" comment bellow in the same line
>free software

Well maybe, if this whole sorry ediface wasn't built on top of free software.
The Colt comparison seems wrong. They don't know their customer do they? It's the gun shop's job to make sure they aren't selling to a crazy person, or ex-con.

NSO know who they're selling to and knowingly sold this software to tyrants that they knew would do bad stuff with it.
Yes, it looks thicker in print [1].

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/lonelyfox/4329034436
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I tried to refrain from making reddit out to be a "failure" but it's undeniable they're not the same as they were 10 years ago. Reddit definitely felt more HackerNews like: decent articles, articulated comments, and the moderation was not nearly as bad. I am fully aware that they're successful and they're keeping it that way. Reddit however has gone the ways of just following the mob. They're not trying to foster a reason for people to stay on aside from addiction and boredom.
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the definition of ransomeware tools can be hard imho. There is still an ongoing discussion about what are hacking tools and sometimes wireshark is called as example.

E.g. they describe their tools as:

> develops best-in-class technology to help government agencies detect and prevent a wide-range of local and global threats.
Yes, the article says he is the U.S. climate envoy.
Replying to myself because I got too excited and hit enter.

Compare the above to a modern SaaS company. Customer support handling the reports is a fraction of the cost because it doesn't require spending time on the phone with each customer. Most don't have QA, so those costs are gone. No writing and validating installers. No cost of making and shipping physical media.

One other thing is that programmers were a lot cheaper then. So the time a programmer spent actually fixing the bug was even less significant.
Yup. Botox has to be one of the most amazing examples of expanded use ever.

Original approval was in 1989 and now it has 9 approved indications and many more unapproved ones.

$3.5B in global sales and likely no competition as who has the setup to make something that toxic? Plus with such an entrenched product people will probably ask foe the branded version.
That's amazing insight smoe.

We are indeed aiming for low income worker population in LATAM and your calculus is right:

- Here we see around 50Euros for a salary of 900/1000 so around 5 to 7% of your salary withdrawn.

- We would expect even smaller quantities in LATAM.

App is super lean and accessible by every phone and building trust among our community (users & companies) is key.
More specifically, Windows is an horrible environment for C, C++, or Rust, Haskell, or any kind of language where most developers do not like IDEs. Bad for Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl where IDEs do exist, but it's not a given that they are better than simple editors. Not really good for Javascript or any language with extensive use of dependencies and configuration.

It's not better than Linux for any language, but it comes really close for the IDE oriented ones.
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Are you always on all topic in a minority? If yes then maybe is your way of communicating.

Still you need to find a subreddit with rules like:

- comments only on topic

- no personal attacks, only critique the content

- always provide sources when providing some information as a fact

- no lazy comments like me too, memes, jokes,

When you find such a subreddit then do a bit of work and report comments and threads that are breaking the rules and of-course respect the rules.

I wish HN would have such rules, you could have lazy comments, bad jokes, aggressive comments, information without a source removed.
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Interesting, is multiplication method used for arrays concatenation as well?

Even if using multiplication to join strings may be consistent with some properties of mathematical notation, it's less consistent with the usual meaning of the words (I checked the cosine similarity using GloVe 6B words embeddings, the similarity between "add" and "join" is 0.4 while between "multiply" and "join" is only 0.03), so it's probably the balance between being the general purpose and math oriented language.
I've seen some claims that even a magically costless heat producing device connected to a steam turbine won't be competitive with solar PV so I'd guess Fusion would also fail that test if it is basically being used to generate heat (note, they're claiming they have some new tech that avoids this problem, but we don't know if actually does or not)
Adding other factors into this system might help.

What about:

weighting a vote by the "degree of separation" of the voter? (ie., friends count more)

hyperbolic discounting of karma acquisition

limiting the number of voters per item

new accounts can't vote until achived a network & karam status (eg., shares, by friends, are upvoted).

accounts which primarily upvote/downvote outside of their network are ignored

etc.

I think this adds up to saying, "small networks of voters" are the primary type of community; and big-network effects are largely discounted. Where things are popular, they are because many different active communities appreciate them.
There has never been a legitimate application of software of this type since back orifice and sub 7. The only difference is this one is modern and also can be updated to leverage the latest zero day. this type of software should be banned and the company should be dismantled in addition to classifying the software as a weapons sale. In my opinion, it should be classified as a weapon of mass destruction, because it is.
People selling ransomware tools are not legal companies regulated by the Israeli and US government. If NSO didn't pay income tax or wasn't regulated by governments I'd agree.

To be clear: I think the poor job regulating tools like Pegasus by governments is due to their incompetence in regulating this sort of weapon not to gain something.

I also think a lot of this PR is because NSO likes it to get more clients as this sort of PR shows that their tool works - you never hear this sort of PR about their many many competitors in this space (like Verint, HackingTeam etc).

We are enabling them instead of shutting them down which is unfortunate.

Similarly if you were making stealth fighter jets underground and selling them to dictators it'd be more like ransomware.
Funny how all the people criticizing the science behind that article didn't do proper research themselves.

The Max Planck Society is a research organization with a steady, long-term funding through the German government that is organized in a bottom-up manner, meaning the directors of the various institutes can do pretty much whatever the fuck they want and decide about everything important in that organization. There are dozens of institutes doing research in virtually every research field. And yeah, lots of Nobel prizes. They really don't have to follow some political lead or short-term trends.

Just, you know, fyi (the other fyi, yes).
Another 2 cents. Drones are very popular for being able to quickly look at above ground lines. You can easily & quickly determine if parts are in need of repair or soon will be. I don't know if a similar thing exists in underground without building some type of complex tunnel system.
Just a great demonstration of how much knowledge we used to not have, how much we still have to obtain, and the weird ways we'll get it!
Maybe because it is their own project and it is their rights to do however they see fit.
Beethoven and his deafness is another example. His condition profoundly effected his music, listen to Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement, when played by the right pianist you can feel his loss and frustration.