skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It was completely implausible - the chip that was identified could not possibly carry enough processing ability to do anything useful as far as espionage goes, had no connectivity to networking, and there was never any evidence of communication from these devices to anything suspicious or unknown.

> Could the device not simply get the host to do these things for it, by e.g. rootkit-ing the server’s BMC? A “hardware virus”, per se.

IIRC, that's exactly what was alleged in the article. It was an implant that sat on the BMC ROM bus, fiddling with bits as the ROM was read during bootup. No need for any networking or processing ability beyond what was needed to that. This guy actually did a POC of that: https://trmm.net/Modchips/.

So totally plausable.
I remember the Apple Store using Bravia screens to demo Apple TV when they first made a section for it
For anyone interested in the multiuser aspect, the main "sdf" NetBSD host has 73 logins at the moment, "faeroes" has 46, and there are a handful of other systems on the network for interactive use like norge, the Linux MetaArray, etc. depending on membership type. The BSD hosts share storage via NFS.

One time my website was running rather slowly - I checked it out with top and found another user had runaway python processes using tens of gigs of RAM and pegging the CPUs. The solution was straightforward: I emailed them on the local mailer. A couple of hours later I received an apologetic reply and everything was working nicely again. :)
That depends fully on the format. Original article doesn't specify afaik, but the only sanctioned commander games I've ever played in a tournament format were limited events
Lmao I have had 2 MBPs die on me and the cost to fix them is like $800 and I can’t do it myself.
Fuck them.
India is the only country doing electronic voting well that I'm aware of

Almost certainly the only one doing it well and at scale
You could ask this question about many human populations
Apple retail union organizers want workers to be paid at least $30 per hour
Daemon is also simply the original latin spelling of the word.

In this context its interesting to note that the original meaning of the greek daímōn and latin daemon had no intrinsic connotation of evil. It simply was a kind of "spirit", a non-corporeal entity that somehow interacted with the human plain of existence.

Looked at it this way, the use of the word in *nix systems makes perfect sense: A non-corporeal, neutral entity, that interacts with the world at large, goes mostly unseen, and its interactions are (for most daemons) close to userland.
I would assume it's a combination of poor readiness, poor training, poor leadership and a high pressure/stress environment due to the drone harassment.
You didn't read past the second sentence, then?
"On LinkedIn, our locked in members information is our sole competitive advantage, which is why we prohibit unauthorized scraping on our platform."
Google will soon block battery-draining ads from loading in Chrome (2020)
>Due to these reasons, more and more devices in a typical computer now need firmware to be uploaded at runtime for them to function correctly. This has grown:

> Going back 10 years or so, most computers only needed firmware uploads to make WiFi hardware work.

You can actually go back to almost 30 years with dialup modems, most notably the winmodem/softmodem popularizing this concept in the pc market. If there is anything to blame on this path of binary blobs, I'd fault them.
Very good points, we have access to very powerful hardware in modern-day smartphones but the software is seriously limiting what can be done with it. My Nokia E71 from 10 years ago had a lot of nice features that I don't have in my iPhone á 2022
Again, what you call abuse of free samples, someone else calls a savvy strategy tailored to you're poorly crafted business plan. Have ways to limit the free samples or else it's your fault...
In the end, it should distill down to:

"What is the likelihood of closed-firmware-blob hardware manufacturers changing their behavior because of Debian?"

vs

"What is the likelihood of fewer people using Debian because their installer is more difficult?"

IMHO, the odds aren't good that ideological purity is going to have any net result on hardware manufacturers. So you're really just shooting yourself in the foot so you can feel painfully just.

That said, there are absolutely fights Debian can and should focus on, even if they're painful: ones where there's a chance of victory, and the rewards of victory balance with the risks of the attempt.
Plus, even with some absolutely secure digital voting system, there's no way you could explain it to most people. A huge advantage of paper voting is that everyone can understand it works and how it can be attacked.
Otherwise it's going to be even easier to claim the system is rigged or foreign hackers manipulated the vote or whatever, to undermine trust.
Should we [really] embrace a cashless society? [Book: 'The Pay Off']
The guide didn't specify what to do on linux, and I had to install a ton of packages, then this conan thing proceeded to compile wayland or something?? I don't know, just seemed sketchy for a simple game.
Analysis: China's widening Covid curbs threaten global supply chain paralysis
I file in both the US and Spain. There is nothing particularly more complicated about the US. Some aspects are more complicated in Spain (both countries tax on worldwide income). The notion that the complexity of the filing explains the inability to do it online is complete nonsense.
I think that it's not possible to normalize a single 'deck quality' score as the effectiveness of the deck depends on its opponents, you can have a deck that's good against some decks and weak against others in an intransitive manner; so the deck quality is conditional on the frequency of other decks in the 'competitor pool' i.e. the metagame. Game theory states that if there is not a single dominant deck (and I think that there would not in MtG) then there should be a Nash equilibrium of mixed strategies e.g. I pull out deck A with x% probability and deck B with y% probability, but with MtG rules that likely involves a distribution of many decks with different counterstrategies and counter-counter-strategies.
Too short, did not read. Listen to this.

https://ia600903.us.archive.org/22/items/bsdtalk021/bsdtalk0...
We are talking about federal income taxes.
Couple of questions I can’t find answers to:

1) What companies are the first batch of 11? Or put another way, will we learn who is in each batch at some “graduation” point? Whether the founders grow or not, I would love to see the program practicing transparency from the start.

2) After so much interest in crypto, I can’t really seem to see visible crypto investments in their fintech area. Is crypto supported at all by this program?
Merriam Webster says it's a contraction of "let us." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/let's

People may look at you funny now, but less so in victorian England.

(Edit: OED agrees, in case we don't trust filthy American dictionaries. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng... )
> Maybe it's because I know to be picky about PC hardware

I have had home built pcs, custom built ones and have just bought that laptop from a common Linux only supplier. My Dell was much worse.

If it takes more effort than I have spent finding either support, components or experts then it's a bad sign.

Maybe you should just be ever so slightly picker about your Android phones?

> I have to wonder what exactly you do want then, maybe a parade?

Well this just unnecessarily rude, and frankly silly. What I want is a browser that works "well" not that just meets the bare minimum of "yeah it's possible to use".

> You've been conditioned to feel helpless here. You've been told you can't fix things so you accept that they're broken and don't think about it

No. I have told you exactly why.

1. I haven't come across this on my phone

2. I have on other devices and I would much rather spend time with my family now

I have gone through years of tinkering and adjusting xorg config files, wrangling with mythtv, all that kind of thing. It's no longer a trade-off I want to make.

> It's a little upsetting for people to act like that's reasonable or ok.

I think you have invented a false image of me in your head then are feeling upset about that character.
That’s a fair point for Commander. But the GP seemed to be making a universal claim that ELO wouldn’t make sense in any case, even say Standard where the decks are <$500 (or Arena where you can get a meta deck for <$100, free if you have time to grind wildcards).

I think perhaps we could agree on an intermediate claim that Elo could work amongst the pool of players that can build any deck they want, which is a big pool for MTGA, and definitely a smaller pool for physical Standard, and probably very small for Commander.

I wonder if you could decompose the score by playing some games with a fixed deck too? Eg Arena challenges. How much of your overall Elo is just picking the right deck for the local meta, vs raw quality of plays?
Hopefully nowhere, because we will have moved on to organics we can synthesize or high density metal-air fuel cells or something.

And if not, I'm sure the entire dystopian horror that a space colony would be will have wireless charging everywhere... maybe they can just beam power everywhere in their mostly indoor world.
Why should I care about Gopher?
While the cited link is broken, the dating of celestial folk tales to remote antiquity is far from a fringe theory. The fact is that some of the earliest recorded information is related to celestial motions (whether for farming or rituals, who knows). Stonehenge is a gigantic calendar, along with MOST other megalithic constructions across ALL cultures. The history book keeps getting pushed further back, sites like Gobekli Tepe depict megalithic construction from around 11000BC (before agriculture) with hieroglyphs and depictions of celestial constellations. The cave paintings of Lescaux depict constellations and religious/magical divination acts. It would be more appropriate to refer to the fields of comparative mythology, theology, and art history as fringe fields :)
Also ITS at https://www.hactrn.org/ by SDF.
Taxonomy of In-the-Wild Exploitation
Same for England. People think it's very rainy, but it's mostly just cloudy.
You choose not to chat with your friend group?
> If it has a $2T market cap and people are actually using it for that usecase, what the fuck are you arguing then?

Market cap doesn't mean squat here. The one use case that cryptocurrency has satisfied is being a speculative investment.

If some true-believer dude claims he's actually carting around brick-bux in a wheelbarrow and that it's great for buying things (and maybe occasionally actually making a transaction), that doesn't actually mean it's a good choice for that use case. It just means that guy isn't making very good decisions (or is dishonest).

> But like I said before, these kinds of discussions are totally useless.

No. There's quite a lot of utility in disputing BS, because that has a chance of eventually making it go away.

> You don't get the usecase, fine, no problem, move on already, there is no point of discussing this any longer.

I do understand the use case, I just think the application of cryptocurrency to it is BS. If you think there's no point discussing it, you're welcome to stop.
> can directly change the results by deliberately miscounting the results

This is why in liberal democracies the process of casting and counting votes is usually done in the presence of at least representatives of the candidates running and more usually whoever wants to attend them

You'd need total complicity in every single polling station to cheat without raising alarms

In electronic/internet voting, unless there is a paper trail which can be counted in the same manner as manual voting, all you need is government officials to tweak the code/the hardware being used. Are you going to let every candidate audit every single machine independently? Unlikely since that is, in and of itself, a security risk

> where the officials just threw out paper ballots

And since they had to physically remove material evidence we were able to get videos of it happening. Plugging an USB while the machine is in the warehouse or in the middle of voting can be done a lot more discreetly

> counting is left to individuals which will commit voter fraud

Which is why counting is usually done with supervision

The system in India works, but it works because it reduces the entire process to a paper ballot. Ultimately the security guarantees of the Indian elections are identical to the security guarantees of the traditional paper ballot system

The digital component is limited to easing the logistics of getting the first results of the election in a timely manner

Which is about the extent to which you should trust electronic voting
The YouTube channel for the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Telescope have a lot of interesting content. Scientists and Engineers do presentations about the science and technology.

https://www.youtube.com/c/hubblespacetelescope/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/NASAWebbTelescope/videos
I also made a mouse jiggler because of a former job’s inflexible screen locking policy.

I made mine hardware with a small MCU that plugged into USB and looked exactly like my work-issued mouse (vendor id, device id, etc)

It was hardware because I didn’t want it to show anywhere (we were technically not allowed to install unapproved software even if it meant we couldn’t do our job and it was a selectively enforceable fireable offense)

It worked very well and was shaking 5px left 5px right every minute. It was so little that you wouldn’t notice while actively using the computer.
Right, but the chances of a failed soldered SSD is the chance of any important component on the motherboard or the SSD, not just the SSD. Which doesn't mean you can forgo backups, but it does mean the chances of you needing them may be slimmer (and the cost of the repair smaller).

Then again "ship your entire Mac back to repair the webcam" was always a meme, so maybe Apple gonna Apple.
No. The language per se is neither interpreted nor compiled.
Are there similar lists for other industries? There has been one for snacks/food going around for a few years, but what about everything else?
If we are to believe the other content from their colleagues, "systemic racism" is not necessarily what the common man would define as racist like you're suggesting which hasn't been explicitly legally allowed (more the opposite) for decades in all first-world countries I'm aware of, but almost anything whatsoever -- no matter how intentional or not.

According to some of these teaching guides, the first one recommended by State Depts. of Education, things such as the concept of grading work, expecting assignments to be turned in, etc. All are "systemic" (common features of the learning system), and now "racist", therefore "systemic racism". That's the "beauty" of their way of writing. It can mean anything they want at anytime, and is framed in such a way that calling them out automatically "undermines" (to use your term) yourself for investigating their gelatinous word-soup common in their writing. Even asking questions about it you find yourself Kafkatrapped.

"We are pro-good, anti-bad. What kind of person would you need to be to even ask questions about it in the first place in this day and age. Wow, really says a lot about you. Be better and do the work." That's just gossip, moralizing, shaming, all dressed-up and using the shield of academicism. It shares many characteristics with religion from a century or two ago, certainly its tribalism and fervor.
In Spain the tax filing includes local taxes as well as federal taxes. Spain has, proportionate to population, more subregions than the US does, and their fiscal policies in relation to taxes vary considerably.

The US system is just terribly implemented and there's no excuse for it.
Person good at communicating would understand and navigate this situation and then figure out what to communicate for overall efficient solution.

Communication goes both ways. People who think they are so above that its easier to wave off others are more often than not missing different parts of the picture.
God is an global constant of undefinable type.
It's a fallacy to assume future risks can be calculated from past data. In the case of nuclear power this is is especially dangerous.

You are simply lying and dishonest. Coal is not the only alternative to nuclear power. Nor can you stop climate change with the level of nuclear power (and thus risk thereof) we have right now. There would need to be a nuclear industry in virtually every country, including the less trustworthy ones.

You think the situation around nuclear weapons right now is contained? Wait until most of Asia and Africa have nuclear plants and can think about weaponization. Dirty bombs with stolen nuclear waste within a few decades are almost guaranteed.
They already have a parachute on the booster. Why not steer the parachute and land on land?

The US military has been using automatically guided steerable parachutes for over a decade.[1] The current JPADS system has both GPS and visual guidance, so they can drop a load from a high altitude and land on target. There's a commercial version.[2] Maybe land on a target of crushable cardboard.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_CFv2MT7gM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A3PfDfzYEM
I ahve been using a long forgotten Lumia 830 and a BB on GSM for a year now. Short of maps and uber, modern smart phones are media consumption and attention draining devices for spying that have ahige impact on the environment. I use aseparate camera for photos.

Side benfit? No tracking from big tech
In all fairness, flexitarianism is a thing, and I know a lot of people who would never want to go fully vegetarian or vegan, but who want to reduce their meat intake significantly, generally for environmental reasons. The change in messaging from "a single animal death is murder and unacceptable" to "any reduction is good, the more the better" is probably significantly not effective in this context at actually reducing overall meat consumption (although I unfortunately don't have any evidence for that hunch).
This argument never really made sense to me, because it's already completely undermined by mail in voting in which you can not only sell your vote but even have the guy you sold it to turn it in for you so he can be 100% certain he's getting what he wanted. You can even give him a 'blank check' by filling out your personal data/signature, and leave the vote slots blank for him.

And for context on the scale of this, in the 2020 election there were 65,642,049 mail-in-votes cast. And the outcome of the presidential election was decided by 42,921 votes. [1]

[1] - https://www.cfr.org/blog/2020-election-numbers
I have a personal 2013 MacBook that has been left running in a box in the desert for a week straight and filled with dust, had sesame oil poured into the fans, dropped, hit, scratched and heavily dented, but still works beautifully. Then the butterfly keyboard ones were issued at work and it immediately become unusable because of dust, randomly double hitting e or the spacebar or failing to register hits to some keys. YMMV, 1 apple computer sadly != another apple computer anymore
And nulls :)
That link shows me two completely different things on incognito and regular browser.

Incognito shows me the actual page, regular mode Rickrolls me.

EDIT: Oh, later in the thread they're talking about this.
> Digital payments leave myriad traces – traces that accumulate into vast stores of information about us. Depending on how you pay, this record may be more or less extensive and may be visible to a few or several organisations. It may comprise information that shows who you are, where you were, how much you spent, what you bought and from whom. Your smartphone might reveal just as much information, if not more, but it’s still possible to leave your device at home, or even go without one. The equivalent choice won’t be available if cash goes. // Abandoning the freedoms of cash may not be of any great concern if you’re as pure as the driven snow and not too worried about being tracked and ad-targeted, but are you ready to settle for a world in which every transaction is recorded and, by definition, controllable? Think about that the next time you choose how to pay, because each time you go cashless, your decision is helping to shape our collective future. There may come a time when we all, to paraphrase Lord Byron, have cause to lament: “Alas! how deeply public is all payment!”

The original was "Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!", and a possibly preferable version would be "Alas! how deeply painful would payment become!"

The authors, Natasha de Terán and Gottfried Leibbrandt, introduce in that brief their book

The Pay Off - How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything

> Leibbrandt and De Teran shine a light on the hidden workings of the humble payment - and reveal both how our payment habits are determined by history as well as where we go from here. From national customs to warring nation states, geopolitics will shape the future of payments every bit as much as technology
It's a shortcut that often isn't really useful. Also the statement about compiled languages is wrong the way it's written.

The OP states:

1. Interpreted language (whatever that is) are necessarily distributed as source code and an interpreter evaluates the source code line by line.

2. Compiled languages (whatever that is) are not distributed as source code and they are necessarily transformed to machine code.

Both statements are wrong as they are.
I mean, if you want to settle this by appeal to authority, I already quoted CGEL, which is much more authoritative.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-grammar-of-th...

How the word originated doesn't tell you what it is now.
media consolidation is not why people call jones a nutjob.
It's not just SaaS. Marketing & sales costs are high for most companies with a product to sell. It takes a lot of money to put your product into your customer's mind. Just about any company that sells a product will eventually have a sales and marketing budget that's very high relative to other departments in a company. In software companies, manufacturing the product for sale is relatively inexpensive so sales and marketing becomes the highest cost in the budget. R&D is important but usually it's never more important than actually selling the product. Imagine a situation where a company spends the majority of it's revenue in R&D. They may have a great product, after a while, but sales would be unlikely to grow or they would decline since people would not know about your product.

There are exceptions. A company like Tesla has a relatively small marketing budget but that's because of the CEO's constant shenanigans that keep the company in people's minds. A way to get millions of dollars of free advertisement.
US Supreme Court cites computational literary studies
I beg to differ. They are higly optimized attention seeking monsters with side "benefits". They will turn on you thr momemnt google/apple so choose.
Spain has the advantage of having authority over their subregions.

See my sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31075655
The underlying reason for all of this is price discrimination - they are worried that simple and transparent pricing will lose them margin because their highest value/margin customers will have comparative pricing to help them negotiate.

On the flipside, if you put forward transparent pricing but it’s too high, it will stop prospective customers coming.