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“Dame Joan Collins and Brian Cox unimpressed by historic trip, saying ‘let’s take care of this planet first’”

Brian and Joan should get on it.

8 billion people on this planet and for some reason it’s vogue to complain about billionaires trying to reach space.

Are we still burning coal to create 40% of our electricity globally?

Still overfishing the oceans?

Causing mass extinctions?

Plastic and micro plastics everywhere?
I would even say it's simpler, and the problem is Mark Zuckerberg specifically. He's deeply immoral, and continues to do what Facebook does for power and money. I understand, on some level, the excitement - he's a computer nerd who came to control an organization that is more powerful than the majority of the world's countries. Zuckerberg controls the platform that is the primary means of communication for hundreds of millions of people, and in terms of power he's almost on the level of G7 leaders, just not accountable to anyone.

Ethically, however, Zuckerberg seems to be on the level of murderous dictators, or human traffickers, or others that are among the very worst. I think he's willingly inflicted huge damage on modern Western society, and has certainly been the most harmful user of Internet technology.

Facebook as a whole is just a reflection of Zuckerberg's values and policies, which is not surprising for a company that's ruled by one person (as in CEO and sole majority voter). It's also not surprising that a company does unethical stuff to increase profits (and we have enough examples from Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Google, just about anyone), but I've firmly come to believe that Facebook is in a category of its own.
See e.g. p. 10ff. of the amicus brief where quite a lot of federal precedent is cited.
My (three year old) daughter asked me this the other day, and I didn't have a good answer for her.

I'd assumed that water up there was vapour, and so low-enough density to just float. But it sounds like actually they stay up because rising warm air keeps them up. And when the air stops rising they fall.
Well, I definitely notice the difference between using magit on Windows vs magit in WSL (on the same box).

Seems like there's something going on in the windows world.
There are a lot of things to complain about with regards to California politics, but trying to help citizens and fight Intuit is pretty unassailable. So either the one-sentence comment was on topic and truly endorsed such corporate strangleholds, or it was in bad faith and simply trotting out their general axe-to-grind about California at the mere mention. I don’t think there’s much sympathy for either interpretation with regard to advancing discussion of the article.
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> It's been working well for almost 50 years.

If you count being the source of countless security vulnerabilities "working well."

It's pretty senseless to use C in security-sensitive contexts. Let alone Tor.
For some definitions of "working well", but not many definitions that include robustness against hackers.
> Anarchism can be capitalist

Nope. That'd be neo-feudalism, as the super rich will be our defacto oppressive over lords. Anarchism is against oppression.

There are market anarchists, they like markets but in no case they like unlimited wealth accumulation.
I very much prefer

"Product X is written in C so I am re-writing it in Rust"

over

"Product X is written in C, so someone else should re-write it in Rust."

Great to see!
> These were almost exclusively used as a medium of exchange, and were not directly consumed as a commodity.

See also cigarettes in prisons (more recently ramen).
Sortof off topic question. I've never owned a smart phone but might get one soon assuming I can find a decent one that will run grapheneOS.

Is there an app that can be given permission to intercept the unlock code and upon receiving the panic/under duress code, discretely put the phone into a "parental controls" configuration that sandboxes all your data and only presents the storage you want the law enforcement children to see? Some cops use a USB device that pulls all the data from the phone. Is there a way to sandbox that data so they only get the data from approved apps and the forensics USB device does not know any better? i.e. not denied data, but rather can only see what you want it to see. Or should this be a feature request to the alternate phone operating systems developers?

Maybe this duress code should also activate a timer. If the all-clear code is not entered in a user-defined period of time, the phone wipes all user data in the background resetting it to a brand new phone. Or maybe wipe the data for specified applications to not appear to destroy evidence? Maybe also send network notifications(s) to specific in case of mission compromise destinations?

[Edit] Feature request update. This duress system should also log all the data that was added or planted after the duress code was entered, to log people planting evidence. Upload encrypted manifest,timestamps and checksums to remote site in the event law enforcement tamper with evidence.
Not only, a "good" knife can be measured by its sharpness (and still the 3x sounds very little scientific) but also by the durability of its sharpness, there is a a youtube channel[0] by a guy that makes blades out of "everything" and they are actually sharp, but how much do they last (and last sharp enough) is unsaid, and in the end of the citation it seems like they propose these HW knife as a replacement for plastic cutlery.

[0] as an example only a knife made out of plastic bottle material (should be PE):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZnT31JeBTg
I'm just talking about the signalling behaviour.
Just in: [Company Name] doesn't care about you: [Company name] always chooses profits over people
That is the thing with ISO/ECMA languages, it has to work in every possible scenario there is a certified compiler, if not then as you know, we go down the path of nasal daemons.

For example, the Epoch semantics in xlCC would have to behave as in VC++, to avoid too many nasty surprises in cross platform code that is in production for decades.
Juding only by the headline: where's the news?
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I love Tor, but this analogy doesn't work. We don't have a choice when it comes to taxes. Working for the Tor Project is clearly a choice.
"This lady", or "managerette", and "this guy" are quite different tho, don't you think?

The question is, if she's criticized differently, because she's a woman.

Personally I feel like the patronizing/infantilizing language wouldn't be used for "a guy".

I don't speak up for the CEO's protection, but for the women reading this. I don't give a fuck about the CEO's feelings at all, but the women who may feel discouraged by the additional burden of sexism.

Not defending the CEO's parasitic behavior. I don't get why execs should be paid differently at all, anywhere. It's a position which inherently attracts toxic people, if it's hold up as exceptional. She sucks. I totally get why people want to be a little mean, but please consider the collateral damage. That's all.
Seems a very good idea from a security POV. You get an email and your favourite Email program will be more than happy to open the link and execute the code. And because this is the CEO of Apple, you presume that he is using MacOSX and send him an Apple executable. Which will not run on a windows machine.
Now, ransomware on the other way ...
I 've also read somewhere that bilingual children are slightly smarter on average, but I don't have a source.
Regulation of anti-competitive behavior seems to have been extremely relaxed lately. Amazon's marketplace and Amazon Retail seem at odds with each other, yet they're allowed to coexest, and everyone is fully aware of the anti-competitive behavior. Intel's chip business needs to be seperated from their foundry business, and the 2 can't be allowed to comingle with each other.
Meh. I’ve seen a lot of these short essays about how after the pandemic we either should not or simply will not return to the status quo. It doesn’t really do anything to say “the economy doesn’t work” in 5 paragraphs and then say nothing else.

Yes, lots of poor people are getting screwed. Some jobs don’t pay well despite the higher moral standing of directly assisting others. The environment looks pretty bad. But you can’t just say “rich people bad. New economy plz”.

This essay is basically r/im14andthisisdeep
Which is messed up. That said, biometric unlock is identification, NOT authorization; if you have secrets on your phone, do not use biometrics. They are a low to medium security convenience.

Second, of course, don't keep evidence of crimes on your phone.

And final tip, on an iphone, hitting the lock button on the side five times rapidly will disable the biometric unlock until the passcode has been filled in. It also pops up with the option to call emergency services. Spamming the lock button is considered a panic button.
I think that's fair, it's a very complex phenomenon.
Yes localized we've had bad flu years. The netherlands was hit pretty hard in 2017-2018 too and europe didn't shut down either.
But you're comparing an epidemic to a pandemic here. Again, much much different scale. Or: a disease that can be vaccinated against vs one that we were not able to vaccinate against then.
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> do you really think so little of boat-builders that you don't think they'd turn their hand to something else than building yatchs, that would be good and profitable for all involved

do you think so little of boat-builders that you want to tell them what they should do with their lives? I imagine if they're building boats it's because they like building boats, and are more than happy that there are obscenely rich people there to pay them a livelihood designing and building beautiful yachts.
> Pathological liars lie compulsively, about things for which there is no reason to lie. Is that what you’re claiming is happening with the entire executive staff of Facebook? They are all physiologically incapable of being honest? That they know and believe their actions are destructive and are committed to doing them anyway because they have a mental disorder that makes them unable to stop?

Nobody can make a diagnosis from a distance. I am saying their actions are substantially and increasingly indistinguishable from those of someone so afflicted.

Lying about X-Check to their Oversight Board is one such instance. It's stupid. It's so stupid. If those who lied--and there were several, at least five to my count--who thought through whether they should lie, or if there were other, better options, they would have come to the rational conclusion. But they didn't. There was instinct built over years of cultural conditioning, and they did what they do. They lied.

I have good friends at Instagram, WhatsApp, formerly Facebook (going back to the early days)--the whole shebang. It wasn't always like this. But within the last decade, senior leadership started acting like it was them against the world. That attitude created the situation they scorned.
While security researchers keep taking advantage of memory corruption bugs during those 50 years.
How many people bemoaning Facebook's evils on HN still have Facebook accounts?

Do what you know you ought to do. Stop feeding the beast. Set a better example. Close your account and don't look back. And, when people ask you why you left, tell them.
We ignore our sense of smell as much as we can (most of us); but the subconscious communication it enables still happens.

We'll never know the world's flavors like our hounds do but we need not willfully blind ourselves to them, either.
IIRC under the 5th amendment, you can indeed clam up at any time you so choose,except in court under oath. And even then it's not cut and dry.
Is that backing her or is that licking his own embarrassing wounds?
> unnecessarily paranoid people, criminal enterprises, and state agencies

These things are the most newsworthy which is why you hear about them most often. Don't conflate "most newsworthy" with the "most common" use case for Tor.
First off, @pg actually started Hacker News and was instrumental to its long-term success.

Second, @pg 10 years ago is not @pg today. People change, and while his latest essays many not be exceptional neither in style nor in content, texts like "What You'll Wish You'd Known" and "What You Can't Say" have been highly influential well outside SV or even US.

P.S funnily, shortly after "What You'll Wish You'd Known" I saw a viral video of Joanne Rowling saying the same thing @pg was barred from saying at a commencement address: Stay Upwind.
* Amazon doesn’t care about you: Tech giant always chooses profits over people

* Apple doesn’t care about you: Tech giant always chooses profits over people

* Microsoft doesn’t care about you: Tech giant always chooses profits over people

* Google doesn’t care about you: Tech giant always chooses profits over people

They are all the same. It's how capitalism works and no amount of hysterical TYT shows can change that.
All companies choose people. The people they choose may not be you, however.
Yeah but that access has to come from your brain; doesn't it therefore fall under the 5th amendment that you have the right to remain silent and something something self-incrimination?

I mean I'm trying to think of other instances of getting access to evidence, and the only things I can think of is companies having to provide certain administrative documentation that may not even be their own. But that's probably me lacking imagination.
Yes... it is for Windows, macOS and Linux
This article that you are sharing is the dumbest thing I have read today.

It literally says: "the company has built a culture where privacy and user data aren't all that important."

It's Facebook, the whole point is no privacy and the entire product is user data, what do you mean "aren't that important"???

It's like going to the street naked and complaining that someone took pictures of you.
At least you don't have to run between rooms, running across ULB campus, while leaving 5 minutes earlier to still assure a place. :)
Well we know that bamboo harvesting is more sustainable/renewable than wood harvesting (note the 4-5 years time to yield vs... orders of magnitude difference with trees, among other things).

But I'm guessing your question is more about the processing of that bamboo (chemical and energy to produce):

https://bioresources.cnr.ncsu.edu/resources/environmental-im...
> Coupled with this, we’ve also seen new laws that impose individual liability on local employees for actions taken by a company offering online services. These types of laws have drawn concern from organizations like the Global Network Initiative because individuals can be pressured, prosecuted, and held personally liable, even when they are not responsible for the content decisions of the company they work for.

Wow. What's the logic behind those laws?
That's a random article written by a journalist, not a scientific paper published by a researcher.

DARPA has, among other things, spent a lot of money on a glove to help blind people drive. That's not evidence that blind people are good drivers, or that wearing gloves will make you a good driver.
I think context is very important as well. A CEO bragging about a Facebook->Instagram converter that doesn't actually works in real-life VS a blood testing machine that other treatments might depend on is for me two very different things.
I've done a lot of i18n work in the past.

I found the hardest bit was managing the translation files, at least in Java. Java has a scheme where the you create files with key/value pairs of text id to translation. Instead of putting in text in your element "This is a button", you put in the text id "THIS_IS_BUTTON", and java's i18n would look for a properties file with a suffix of the current local and then pull the value for "THIS_IS_BUTTON".

It was enormously cumbersome for large apps
>> Tor usage legitimately helped.

Every time I have needed to bypass a stupid local filter to read one of my favorite news sources (torrentfreak.com). Every time I've wanted to see what my website/project looks like to people from a variety of geographically different IP addresses.
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A wealth cap why is this looked at as such a bad thing, your body has caps, the environment has caps, earth has a cap on how much it could handle. But na don't touch money or cap that, as that would not be fair instead allow it to keep going uncheck and spinning out of control we will fix it when it's no longer a situation we can live or exisit in. Is that a better option? Just let it explode and blame something else
>The documents I have provided to Congress prove that Facebook has repeatedly misled the public about what its own research reveals about the safety of children, the efficacy of its artificial intelligence systems, and its role in spreading divisive and extreme messages.

Here's the red flag: for the children. Anytime that is brought up, it's something bad for the population. See drug war, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria (Aleppo), vape pressure (to keep people smoking cigarettes for state settlement money), etc.

I'm afraid the ultimate plan is to get rid of section 230, which would of course give a monopoly of political discourse back to the corporations: Viacom News, Comcast News, Fox News, Warner News, Microsoft News. Of course controlling that is a lot of power and allows business as usual in our governments with little to no pushback.

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/dear-congress-platform...
> In a proper free market, the telephone poles would have 50 wires, most of which wouldn't be functioning. Afterall, how would anyone provide you internet? Without government regulation any startup has to put their own wires up.

Seems like a poor example. If there’s all these unused wires owned by people who are losing money, surely a startup could rent capacity on an existing network, or outright buy it if the capital was already available.
That's a bit far fetched. Comparing Zuckerberg to dictators and slave traders? He could be on HN.
> And it really appears to be a Facebook problem. Instagram for Kids wasn’t the fever dream of a deranged Instagrammer

Two things to unpack here.

its not a facebook problem. its a problem that exists in many large companies. Apple for example doesn't give a shit about individuals. (you can see that if you slip off any of the predefined support pathways)

_everyone_ to google is just a thing to evaluated and advertised to. They are literally storing your every move and using to sell adverts, services and the like (how do you think they manage the "x is busy now, try later"?)

TikTok has literally hoovered up most of the 9-18 year olds, they even say as much when they try and pitch to advertisers. its the wild west on there, with all sorts of nasties flying around

Snapchat's USP is nudes & bullying, regardless of age.

Amazon: knowingly hawks fakes, dangerous and poor quality products, shamelessly copies and undercuts producers. But they have "free deliveries" and free returns, so its all ok.

There is nothing unusual about facebook, its just nobody likes them, and its fashionable to not like them.

Now to the point: instagram for kids. A fucking stupid idea. There was no possible way it could end good, even if it was perfect.

I imagine the thought process was: the kids are flocking to tiktok, we need them on facebook's platform. We are able to protect them better than snap/tiktok/other because we (facebook) have better controls than the rest. We also have some of them on instagram already, its better to make something for them, rather than having them there illicitly.

that isn't evil, its just hopelessly naive.
It's hard for investors to get Management in line of the needs of the investors, they mostly work for their own needs, take a look at the big bonuses and raises they constantly give themselves. Often even after a terrible year.

In big corporations there are so many investors that they are hardly organized. And even if they are it's a difficult problem to incentivize a manager correctly. It's a topic with a lot economical scientific research. In theoretical terms it's called the principle-agent problem.
Microsoft acquired U-Prove-It way back in 2008 [1]. I wonder if there is any connection between the U-Prove-It approach and ION. The linked article is from Kim Cameron's blog, and if you are interested in identity I highly recommend following his content.

[1] https://www.identityblog.com/?p=939
The point of nuclear power is like government funded health insurance.

It’s a safety net that isn’t profitable (or shouldn’t be), but provides enormous value provided it’s well run and limited in scope.
Why's that confusing?
The "natural method" provides protection against variants, whereas the vaccine needs boosters to protect against the variants.
Has Interpol become the long arm of oppressive regimes?
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>It might be a long time before it makes sense to buy a non-Apple laptop.

Can't tell if sarcastic but until you can run Linux on the M1 I don't see any reason to buy an Apple laptop.

It could be 10x faster than the competition but with OSX it would still feel like a net productivity loss, from having to deal with bugs and jank in the software.
I have found when it comes to career, or money, 95% plus shelve their morality. (I'm suprised Paul Graham hasen't wrote one of his infamous essays on the subject. He must have seen a lot in his times.)

Be it a Psychiatrist, Chiropractor, Attorney, Priest, entrepreneur, or tech worker, they are all the same with morality.

If it affects Their Financial Security, or Financial Future--They Become Sheep. (sorry about the caps.)

When I was younger I walked out of a Chiropractic school. I knew the crux of the profession, the Subluxation, was very rare, and if people got better through manipulation of bones---it was all placebo. I was alwready in debt for 10 grand, and had a A- average.

I used to think how can all these people sit through this, and not question the profession.

I'm no hero though.

I dropped out because I developd a huge anxiety disorder, and had some kind of breakdown.

If my mind was stronger, I probally would have graduated, and hung up a shingle and go into denial over my worthiness. (I would have never done a Rotary on even my worst enemy.)

My point is many people like to belive they have morals. I sometimes think the only people left with true morality might be the Amish.

Sure people like to believe they have string convictions, and ethics; but when it comes to financial security they are followers. They might disagree internally, but really taking a stand is very rare.

You would think a wealthy man who could afford to be moral, and ethical, would take advantage of their privileged situation?

No----they are the worst offenders.
I'm specifically focusing on the pharmacology of the psychoactive substances rather than the method used to consume them. No matter the method of administration, there are still risks and side effects. Sidestepping the discussion of smoking vs gaping allows us to focus on the action of the compounds themselves. We already know smoking is bad, we should not combust things and inhale the byproducts
“People’s World, Continuing The Daily Worker”. I never thought I would see a Marxist newspaper at the top of Hacker News: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_World

At least Marxists by definition have been at it longer than anyone else when it comes to criticising capitalism.
> The Democratic mayors of New York City, Baltimore and Los Angeles are among those now backpedaling on their vows

So they didn't actually do anything.
I would like to recommend Timecode (2000) [1]. The screen is divided into four quarters, each containing a single 93 minute take, all shot simultaneously. A camera will follow one person into a room and follow another one out, or you end up with multiple cameras showing different angles of the same events, or four completely unrelated events. Careful audio mixing and timing guides your attention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecode_(2000_film)