skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish the public narrative concerning spyware would shift to something analogous to how we see the state monopoly on violence.

The police are a necessary institution that needs oversight and criticism to ensure that the dignity and rights of the population are preserved as much as possible. To that end, we don't hand over the role to private militia that has sparse regulation and no accountability.

NSO Group are the private police with sparse regulation and no accountability of the spyware world. They don't simply sell the means to an end, they operate and deploy those means on behalf of customers.

Just as we shouldn't accept police hiring private forces to kick down doors to check in on suspects, we shouldn't accept the contracting of services from NSO Group.
Wow. Would never have imagined I'd read something like this on hacker news.
Then you can power a bigger house.
s3 is also used to deliver ads. so do you block *.amazonaws.com ?
Weird, but Wikipedia does say of the DR that almost 80% of the total land area [is] suitable for crop production and that the main exports are fruits such as avocado, papaya, bananas, cocoa, etc, which don't grow on arable land anyway. In 1998, arable land totaled 1,020,000 hectares; with land under permanent crops at 480,000 hectares.[0]

While on Haiti, it says that of the total arable land of 550,000 hectares, 125,000 hectares are suited for irrigation, and of those only 75,000 hectares actually have been improved with irrigation.[1]

So while I'm sure Haiti could do better than what they are doing now, it seems curious to say that it is more suited for farming than the Dominican Republic. I think the author might have misread numbers.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Dominican_Repub...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Haiti#Agriculture,_...
Then you will discover that Secure Boot will stop your computer from starting until you reinstall something signed by Microsoft.
I've replaced many VRMs, capacitors, etc, over the years--even a PCIe socket I melted once. It's been a few years since my overclocking days where I'd burn this stuff out, but it was pretty easy to replace most things on those boards, assuming you were semi-capable with a soldering iron.
The first sentence is: "Forest clearing has forced hungry chimps to raid villagers’ crops."

So it doesn't seem that's their natural behavior. So how's that relevant? Oh wait it its, just exactly the opposite of what you said! Nice.
Maybe they should stop deciding what people can and can't say. That would solve the problem, wouldn't it.
The UX on this page is awful. The text fades in way too slowly and not at all in a useful or aesthetic way. It could win an award for creatively poor UX.
This massacre was a protest against multiculturalism and the spread of islam to Norway.
“APPROX. 18:30: The son of Trond Berntsen (the security guard and police officer who was among the first to be killed) is standing in the sea on the southern tip when he comes face to face with Breivik. The terrorist shoots and kills five people in front of him. ‘Don’t shoot me!', the boy shouts, doing all he can to demonstrate to the gunman how small he is. Breivik does not shoot the ten year-old. According to the testimony he will later give in court, Breivik decided not to shoot Berntsen because be believes that 'it is wrong to kill children'. When interrogated, Breivik will say that he spared the lives of the smallest children because they were too young to have been 'indoctrinated by the Labour Party”

What kind of messed up mental gymnastics is that? I had no idea this whole rampage was about a political party; That makes it scarier because you can see this happening in any country where the fringes are being radicalized against each other.
There is a lot of incentive to flood well-meaning discussions with vitriol in order to bring the political temperature up. Most people that do this aren't even trying to be trolls, they are caught up in the fury of those around them.
I'm not suggesting we take their word for it at all. I brought this point because some times in the "denial" you see their admittance (which isn't the case here).

It's just a bit weird that media couldnt bother to test more than 67 phones before coming out with this breaking international story.
I love UML. I used to use it all the time. Is it still developed? It was really a pretty slick system and very easy to work with.

http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/

(another good site: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/User-mode_Linux )
In 2020 it was probably a grand total of 20 days, and restoration took days.
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I'm interested what would cause underground cables to break more often. Is it people not "calling before you dig" and accidentally severing them or is it something else?
The media has presented it's evidence and reasoning for why they believe the list of 50k numbers is from NSO. In the original Washington Post article, they link to the methodology used by Amnesty to determine why they concluded it's likely from NSO.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...

From the Washington Post article:

"The media consortium, titled the Pegasus Project, analyzed the list through interviews and forensic analysis of the phones, and by comparing details with previously reported information about NSO. Amnesty’s Security Lab examined 67 smartphones where attacks were suspected. Of those, 23 were successfully infected and 14 showed signs of attempted penetration.

For the remaining 30, the tests were inconclusive, in several cases because the phones had been replaced. Fifteen of the phones were Android devices, none of which showed evidence of successful infection. However, unlike iPhones, Androids do not log the kinds of information required for Amnesty’s detective work. Three Android phones showed signs of targeting, such as Pegasus-linked SMS messages."
I assume the liability costs far outweigh costs to upgrade/operational costs. Likely will ratebase a bunch of this work as well. That and they might just get kicked of business by the CPUC if they didn't manage their risk profiles more effectively.
And you have enough knowledge on the subject matter so this can be seen as an educated guess, or are you just throwing some good-knowing words around to see what sticks?
It depends on the culture and if it would be seen as a flight risk. If it’s less product type side projects it could be useful.
"Protest" is very much the wrong word here.
The FBI uses private contractors for highly specialised tasks, and they perform a law enforcement role also.
In Germany average consulting rates, run around 100 euros per hour.

https://www.freelancermap.com/blog/freelance-market-study-ge...

Plus some management expenses, and it turns into around 1000 euros per delivery day for a FTE.

Then we can go to the companies doing high level consulting and pull some notches still.
When you did not reason yourself into your opinions but adopted them in order to get a sense of belonging to a group, the existence of other opinions is an existential threat.
In a world with climate change, there's no reason to ever subsidize ICE vehicles. So we can count those as a total waste of money.
Can't you just turn that off in the BIOS settings?
I saw an interview with him, where he told that story. I believe the other person was counting with their "hearing", while Feynmann was counting visually.
> You should have a right to know if a given company wants to track you, and to decide if you want to still do business with them as a result.

Theoretically true, but what happens when all sites engage in spying? We're nearly there right now.

You could argue that I still have the choice to avoid using online services entirely. Which is what I do (outside of a small handful of exceptions, such as HN -- and even then, I have to actively put a lot of effort into defending myself).

But, this strikes me as being wrong on so many levels, starting with the fact that it seriously reduces the utility of the web and certain swaths of the internet.
While I don't like to write more C than strictly necessary (which lately is close to none) I move that everyone should be exposed to C at an early age. If not, they will end up on accidentally quadratic when don't realize what their javascript does behind the scenes.

Also, templates are C++ not C.
Government and the economy are just people, they're not actually a 'thing'. If you kill off the people who have experience running the economy, government, education system (I know, Haiti's was likely tiny and only for the ruling class and likely consisted of a few private tutors), then there's no one to teach the next generation and you have no government or economy.

Instead of killing off the slavers, pressing them into forced restitution as advisors and educators would have been better for Haitians, more satisfying, and just.

Why kill the governor who knows not only how to builds roads but where and when they should be built, and instead force him to continue doing his job, only his payment is now a stay of execution?
What is the job board creation tool that everyone uses nowadays to create a job board that is an identical clone of Pieter Level's remoteok board?
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Speaking for myself, it was sometime in 2011 when I first heard of Sylvia Plath. Never knew she was dead until this headline 10 years later. She's not defined by her death for me, anyways.
I am looking for a Cobalt Qube since long time. Unfortunately, they are very difficult to find.
Give it five minutes and you'll contradict yourself.
*Confining the omnipotent root
Outrage has always traveled faster than dry factual information. This isn't a new Internet phenomenon. You can see it in action all the way back in Greek and Roman history as well. It's an inmate feature of human psychology, not a new invention by reddit/Twitter.
More emulators listed here:

https://riscv.org/exchange/software/

The most popular emulators are qemu and spike. There are even a few emulators written in Rust that aren't on the list:

https://github.com/shady831213/terminus

https://github.com/d0iasm/rvemu

I've messed around with Terminus the most.
I find C.M.V. essentially failed due to the vote system.

All the upvoted, visible views are the same trite repetition topics that have been done a thousand times before that are also about hot button political issues: more interesting apolitical C.M.V.'s are often downvoted for not being political enough. I've seen views about optiomality of certain cooking methods be downvoted there.
Past history of the US 3 letter agencies, and their enormous, often secret budgets.
If I were Apple, I'd try to arbitrage these exploits by getting somebody on the inside to find out where the attack vectors are. I blame the companies for being exploitable.
Well he IS a wild chimp attacking people, right?

Sorry chimps, that was mean.
What is a "digital product"?
thank you very much! hope we get to help a lot of developers
You phrased COVAX as though it was a vaccine in itself, rather than a program, and it is not at all clear that was your intention
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The obvious realm is the deep seas -we know little about that. We only took plate tectonics seriously starting in the ‘60s.
According to Wassenaar arrangement (the loose moral analogue of Geneva convention but regulating the export of dual use weapons) the seller is under obligation to ensure that the buyer uses the weapon in a compliant way. Its a little complicated because Israel is not a direct signatory (but indirectly it is, see my other comment on this thread).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement#2013_ame...

Passing the buck is not an option if one wants to stay with the Wassenaar agreement. But then USA found a way to skirt around Geneva convention too during Iraq war.
Are they? I see them more as Glock, H&K and other defense manufacturing company than a private militia.. no?
That probably applies to the free software option too and may be unavoidable. Reducing the number of people who have to care and how much they have to care are both achievable goals though and snallwr businesses working with some free software is a workable synergy to some degree.

Many of the free software success stories involve a bunch of compeitors trying to dethrone a monopolist. Since the other conpanies are already excluded from being the king, they work together to avoid veing totally crushed. Regulation could encourage this too.
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> So control over all the computers in a country comes down to just a few keys

Notice that I didn't mention "country" anywhere. There's no country restriction.

> or rather a single key, held by the government, which signs the list of approved manufacturer keys

Hum, no. The single key is held by Microsoft.

And yeah, that's basically what the Trusted Computing Consortium was designing at the early 00. But people pushed back enough that they stopped publishing public documents and delayed the implementation. We are just getting there.
A side project can be as little as 30 minutes or an hour a week, with lots of time spent away from the keyboard thinking about the problem and designing the most effective approach to code the least.

It could be a home automation project or applying tech to another interest.

It’s entirely up to the individual to take initiative in their own self directed learning.

Quality is far more important than quantity.
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Excuse my ignorance, but what is this sort of thing used for?
I'm familiar with the concept of opportunity cost, but the question of whether to build or buy is highly context-dependant. As is so often the case in software development: it depends. Not all B2B tools are the same. Not all integration efforts are the same. Not all developer hours cost the same. Not every return on investment is the same.
Let's see... Go is someone at Google going up in the hierarchy by doing things that sound advanced.

TypeScript is an attempt to make Javascript less of a mess.

Dunno about Rust.
In germany, the government has a monopoly on force. Often referred to as “Gewaltmonopol des Staates.” or “Staatsgewalt.”, it’s even laid out in the constitution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
> ultimately that removes the ‘fraud load’ by mostly moving it to another place, to number of accounts. That is arguably worse because it incentivises the malicious users to create as many account

Arguably the common social media policy of not having your account tied to a unique identity needs to change. It permits all sorts of problematic incentives like you describe, and which lead to bot accounts and more.

Of course, your identity doesn't need to be disclosed in your profile for when anonymity is important.
Yeah, I remember my parents taking me there 20 years ago. Looking at new pictures of the monument I don't think anything has changed. Makes me wonder how long it would actually take to complete if they brought in a bunch of workers and really dug in. They'd probably have to close the site down to tourists for a while though, which would be unacceptable to their wallet.
Yeah, these were good as you could filter out the "funny memes"
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>with a 55 percent success rate

I assume that getting a new phone would make you a miss unless there was a new request for you to be tracked.

And unless the 67 people who agreed to have their phone examined were terrorists or felons, 37 positives proves the broader point of the story that the software is being abused even if there's some discrepancy with the 50,000 number list.
>He had also seen brutality the likes of which we cannot imagine

We don't need to imagine because ISIS filmed it in 1080p for us.

Of if you want something a little less cultural exotic there's plenty of examples from the Balkans.
>But I cannot see what resources or wealth representing the "marshmallow" that they are supposed to have foolishly, greedily gobbled up.

The entire reason they were a colony was due to having vast amounts of arable land where coffee and sugar cane was grown. That's ignoring the natural beauty of the country that would be ripe for tourism if they had corruption and crime under control.

It doesn't make sense to act as if Haiti is a barren wasteland with no possible way to generate wealth. The "marshmallow" is quite literally the wealth the country as a whole can generate. They are one of the worst countries in the entire world when it comes to corruption index:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
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I appreciate that you're trying to combat the anti-science shallow/kneejerk critiques, but this is not the way. You're feeding trolls by the handful. Here, you're jumping to conclusions just to dunk on somebody. Please pick your battles more carefully so you can be more deliberate as you wage them.
> This is the worst possible situation for the advertisers, because it can reveal that tracking users offers no ROI. In fact, the overwhelming majority of ads are already being ignored, and they're basically fighting for scraps.

Well, it could, but what if it showed the opposite?
I concur with many other commenters here, this is a fantastic read. Though, I find the value in this book is not the discrete proposals Jaynes makes - his conclusions on schizophrenia are dubious at best. Jayne’s achievement is in his explaining of the mindset and thought patterns (what Jaynes calls consciousness) of the ancients.

So often ancient man felt alien to me. Not until reading this book have I felt I understand what it was like to have lived millennia ago.
You would hate to look like a hypocrite though, or even someone who was pumping the antivax crowd for ticket sales.
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It gets grosser by the day.

This is something that is endemic not just to ad-tech companies, but regular brick and mortar stores as well: it isn't enough to just be consuming, to actually be producing value for the business: they must monetize as many seconds of our attention as possible!

If I'm buying gas, I'm being served ads via the little screen. If I'm at the grocery store, there's ads plastered onto my cart. Buy something online? I get ads for unrelated products emailed to me in the weeks after, even if I didn't agree to be marketed to (I never do.)

It makes me feel like I'm going crazy, sometimes. And what's worse is it feels like there isn't an end in sight.
What about Kurt Cobain, Buddy Holly, Tupac? All get remembered disproportionately for their deaths.

Not just because they died young - you could pick equally famous artists who died young but whose life is more famous than their death. Try Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley or Hank Williams.

I don't see anything that clearly links the artists "defined by their death". But despite the BBC's efforts, it's probably not sexism.
Not OP, but I assume they meant "free as in speech, not as in beer". AKA FOSS.
This article is, perhaps unsurprisingly, very well written and structured. A joy to read compared to most internet writing!

It vibes pretty well with my own "rules" for reading:

* I read one book at a time

* In general I only read when I feel like it, but I will read every day: if I don't feel like it, I'll just read one page

* At any point am I allowed to stop reading a book and pick up a new one

* I do not track "pages per day" or "books per year", I do not participate in "reading challenges"

This way, reading has most personal value to me without becoming a "second job" with the pressure to "perform" that comes with it.
How does this work if you’ve never done business with the company or ever intend to?

If I get a random email from a company with a tracking pixel, am I ‘doing business’ with them?

If a friend shares my name and number with an app, am I doing business with them?

If a friend posts a photo of me on a social media service I don’t use, do they send out a PI to track me down and let me know they’re going to be running facial recognition tech on the photo which could build an album of me?

This is more the Wild West than a free market.
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No police departments, no militaries. We’ll all just sing kumbaya and the world will be at peace?

The flower children have returned apparently.
The one who puts down the mass shooter.

“Man with Hunting Rifle Foils Attempted Mass Shooting at Apartment Complex”
https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/fort-smith-po...
Yes, these are all different kinds of logic that can be executed, and none of them are ‘right’, it just depends on personal preference and situation.

We call that user-selectability ‘subjective moderation’, but it’s basically a client-side compiler for a people-based raw data feed.
Not sure I see the "mental gymnastics" here. Isn't it a usually accepted thing that young children have no clue? It makes "sense" (at least in the scope of Breivik's craziness) to consider that these kids were "victims" brought there by their parents or something.

Maybe I misunderstood what you meant by "mental gymnastics". I think this expression usually applies when 2 contradicting /paradoxical statements are made in the same sentence.
> Didn't Slashdot have multiple dimensions, a post could be "+5, insightful" or "-3, off topic".

Ars Technica does something similar and it's a great addition to the overloaded upvote/downvote
You would need to standardize passing of current root as a file handle, I think? Probably will break some software...
> If you are strict with this argument, there would also be no free internet sites to visit.

This is demonstrably untrue, as demonstrated by the fact that there were tons of useful free sites before advertising was even realistically possible, and there are still quite a lot of useful free sites now.

Also, I take issue with calling ad-supported things "free". They aren't free at all -- you're just paying with a different form of currency.

> websites could be financed through advertising that doesn't rely on tracking.

This would remove roughly 95% of my problems with the modern web and online services.
I have always found it pretty helpful when Gmail would add reminders and calendar events by scanning emails so I can see it.
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