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> Christian principles have maintained civilization for thousands of years.

Even during these past 2,000 years (really less than that, given Christianity wasn't culturally dominant until several hundred years into that period), there were times where western civilization was carried by non-christian nations.
This isn’t Star Wars or the Wild West btw.

Bounties in the US are issued by the court. You can’t issue one as a private person.

For it to be legal for a bounty hunter to do anything, they need to comply with some laws while doing it. Otherwise, it’s false arrest and/or kidnapping.

Which I’m sure with some work, and a lot of money, some folks would be willing to do for you. However, I doubt it would go well for anyone, and certainly wouldn’t result in the person being taken going to jail if all they did was scam someone.

Targeted International kidnapping (human trafficking?) is one of the ‘quite serious’ things likely to get whoever initiated it tracked down and thrown in jail though.

Near as I can tell, only the Philippines has a similar system.

It gets a lot of press and there are a lot of legends around it, but it isn’t what you think.

The formal system for having someone arrested and sent to another county is extradition, and it works rather differently. It’s slow, expensive, and rarely used outside of serious crimes.

Having someone arrested, tried, and penalized in another country for committing a crime against you somewhere else is also not easy.

1) often the courts in the attackers country will say they have no jurisdiction to try them, as the crimes were committed elsewhere. This can also happen if you try it in the victims country.

2) you run across all sorts of ‘meh, don’t care’ issues when the attacker is bringing in good money locally and the victims are seen as ‘not here/not anyone we care about’

3) good luck collecting evidence, making a case, getting them arrested, etc. in a foreign county, speaking a foreign language, with a legal system that you don’t understand. It’s hard enough doing it when it’s local.

4) if the local legal system is known for corruption, good luck figuring out which buttons to push. The attacker almost certainly is already familiar with them.

Not impossible. But the costs can easily be > $100k, sometimes in the millions.

Hence the ‘serious enough’ bar too.
> except for senior management, which took a larger cut.

There's your trouble -- even if a company would go the "pay cut" route now, there is no chance in a million where the leadership at the top would ever agree to losing a single dime. If anything, it would be performative, with other payment options making up the difference.
All the laidoff people should form a tech union of sorts, one big agency/union/syndicate combo thing where to get talent you gotta go through the union, maybe union gets 0.05% of wage paid by employer in lieu of dues, etc, encourages the union to fight for higher wages too.
This isn't a particularly high quality study. Eg no Statistical power sample size calculation done beforehand.
I'm not so concerned.

For one thing, a /64 issued to a house is a pretty daunting search space for the scanning worms of yesterday.

Another, computers today do come with firewalls that are enabled by default and tricky to disable.

Third, the industry really had to start taking memory safety and attack surface seriously after the Blaster/Sasser/MyDoom days. We see another article here on HN every week about another company categorically solving memory problems by adopting Rust.

Finally, having remote desktop shouldn't be a problem if people don't know your password, no? It's not like there is a firewall stopping baddies from guessing your Gmail password.

I realize that a NAT/PAT device does incidentally serve as a stateful firewall for many homes, but I think it is less important with modern OS's than one might think.

Now for the hospitals still using Windows XP...yeah you're right about that. I'd like to see regulators start fining companies for using obsolete hardware and software.
https://archive.ph/darim

http://web.archive.org/web/20230121041850/https://time.com/6...
Seems like they've remove the PDF from the article.

You can get the original PDF from Arxiv : https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250
Well all the FAANG are doing it right now, so not the best example, but if your company is cutting salary and other companies that offer the same TC are not, then there's no reason to be loyal to a company anymore (companies aren't loyal to you), you might as well jump ship to the company that will give you more money for pretty much the same work. Usually people only get raises when they job hop anyway.

I've been at a company that cut benefits because of hard times. I stupidly stuck around longer than I should have. Those benefits never came back, after multiple years. Meanwhile those that were laid off got all those benefits and more back with their next company. I eventually left and got all of it back plus a large salary bump.
Why do you think that report can be trusted? I think it more likely that they were covering up the FBI’s guilt.

Isn’t it a sad commentary on society that I am willing to believe the innocence of a bunch or wacko cultists than any claims of their guilt by the DoJ or FBI?
They need to make a remake of this game ;)

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/frederik-pohls-gateway-1e...
Sure, turn loose these tools to answer the actual spammers/UCE. But:

Speaking as an ISP, if somebody turns loose what is clearly an AUTOMATED tool shitting up the contents of my abuse@ispname.com inbox with reports from some software script, I can guarantee you it goes to /dev/null

At some point we will just block their MX at the SMTP transfer point and call it a day.

98% of that already is abusive DMCA rights holders who are ignoring our federally designated DMCA-agent address for copyright violation complaints. With their automated 3rd party things complaining about people torrenting Yellowstone or whatever.

Actual reports that are clearly written by a human saying "hey it looks like this /32 of an IP address is compromised as some sort of botnet" will get a thousand times more attention. Or the very rare cases where we have a network-engineering emergency escalation and somebody calls me on the phone.

Anything generated by chatGPT or similar will be clearly obvious enough that it matches a similar pattern and comes from an automated script.
Wow, good on you. I wish you all the best.
I wish I had such financial safety net to change jobs
There’s a lot of evidence that indicates that layoffs will cost you your top performers too. They see layoffs, have options and take them before they get laid off.
Yeah, it's actually one of the last sentences in the New Testament - Revelations 22:18.

Jesus did his best to tone down the fire and brimstone, but the Abrahamic god is not a particularly forgiving one.
If you’re a tech worker at any of the top paying public tech companies you’ve already taken more than a 10% paycut as you’ve seen the value of your RSUs decline
> False. As per historical findings, the current scientific consensus is that the origins of the Rus people (who ruled Kyiv/Kiev/Kievan Rus') are traced back to Norsemen from modern Sweden.

Before Plague of Justinian, original Russia (Русся) lived in the town of Russia. After the start of plague, they abandoned their town and spread over large territory, from Caspian Sea to Spain, so, after 541, original Russians can be traced back to a lot of places.

> Also false. Existing historical and linguistic evidence do not support it

Typical Russian style of discussion. Here is the evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Vasseur_de_Beaupl...

> ВКРАИНА, рж. Див. Украйна. XVI. Ино тими рази на вкраинахь оть татар многим таковая ся пригода и шкода пригожаєть Арх. ЮЗР. VIII, IV, 172 (1501). – (an approximate translation) «on those occasions at fringes (borderlands / edges – «вкраинахь») will be becoming useful and [шкода] will become useful (?)». The context is incomplete, therefore it is difficult to make sense out of it. The reference dates back to 1501.

I'm the native speaker. You are just lying there. It's clearly written, "Vkraine, See Ukraine. ...".

Also, your attempts to convince that native speakers don't know the meaning of the word are pathetic.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian
> Having seen both, I'm much more likely to leave /after/ a layoff than after a 10% paycut.

It's different when layoffs are happening across the industry.

When everyone is doing layoffs, seeing your company do layoffs isn't as surprising. It's expected as everyone adjusts to changing market conditions.

But when everyone is doing layoffs and your company cuts your compensation, it's a sign that you might be underpaid relative to what you could get at other companies. So people start looking around for an opportunity just to get back to their old salary.

The other problem with paycuts is that you can only really do it once. In a slowing economy like ours, it's not surprising to have multiple rounds of layoffs as companies cut departments and react to dropping sales.

But having multiple rounds of paycuts would guarantee that your best employees all leave for other companies where they can get back to their old compensation levels.
An observation about anything published: Why do the make me read the entire article to find what I want, which is a bulleted list of new techniques?

That's how most things I read online are. Many HN posts are long articles from which I'm trying to extract a bit of information. Who has time? If I want more context, I'll read it after I find out what the techniques are.

Maybe I can use an AI to do it for me: 'Please list the new techniques in this artcle'.
Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century
Calling it the Fermi "paradox" really seems like begging the question to me. You've got a theory ("this math says life should be common") which conflicts with observed reality ("we don't see shit!"). Is that a paradox? It seems more like an invalidation of the theory to me. The resolution to the "paradox" is realizing that something in your theory is wrong.

What is the common refrain? If the facts don't fit the theory, then the theory is wrong! Isn't that the core essence of science? Empiricism is a repudiation of Platonic a priori reasoning. Beautiful and elegant theories that don't fit the facts are simply wrong.
GNOME is a joke for triple monitor, and KDE's multi-monitor support is somewhat broken.
Private address ranges are a human convention and there have been instances in the past of upstream routers passing them on.[1] Relying on other people to do your filtering for you is a bad idea. I'm going to put the rules in my own router, whether those addresses are (potentially) globally routable or are designated as private.

The use of small private pools has even helped attackers who would inject browser scripts probing the well-known prefixes.[2]

[1] https://serverfault.com/questions/374126/private-ip-getting-...

[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-behave-ex...
i feel what beats a assisted therapy 10/10 is in the wilderness completely alone. i would never trip with anyone who had the goal of helping me because this is very dangerous
I've been living in Kenya for the last 7 years. ChatGPT is exploiting workers. Yes many live in poverty, especially in Nairobi, but one 'good' meal on the side of the road is about $1. To put it in better perspective 1 dozen eggs cost $1.80. Even in slums there is a cost for living in something barely more than a shanty house, without running water and/or proper toilets.

My vote is ChatGPT is being exploitative, what they are paying should be an hourly rate. They are taking time from people with education and who speak at least two languages. Just because you can pay people less, does not mean you should.
What is your distinction between the two?
Sure, you make a good point if you ignore the political ideology in US vs. China and the fact that all the social media apps you just listed are banned in China.
Is that link broken for anyone else? Redirects back to the top level page for me
Finnish rapper Petri Laurila started out as "NuEra", offering incisive social critique about societal problems. Critics loved him, sales were dismal.

As a joke, he then released as album that was as crass and low brow as possible, rapping about getting drunk and having sex, with hilariously bad lyrics ("don't be so apathic [sic]/my mind is automatic/the first time I ate pussy it tasted tomatic"). It was a runaway success and he's been milking the cow ever since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_Nyg%C3%A5rd
Now I want a time machine to play Wolfenstein on the T3100e I owned in the 90's.
"API" is a funny term to use here, considering that APIs are always "permission based," borderline political. Crypto is designed to be somewhat of the opposite of that idea.

Anyway, I think the real use case isn't "day to day transactions," it's better "money in a mattress." along with a staking/savings instrument.
I don't think there's any social judgement for a woman to quit her job and become a stay at home mom. I think it's only less popular in the US due to lack of financial freedom to pull that off.

I do noodle around this thought in my head though that socially accepting women to work ended up just making family lives harder. If take the assumption that corporations aren't generally giving in how they raise salaries and such, it seems like women were onboarded into the workplace but men and women just share the same slice of pie that men had before the change took place. So instead of a man making X$s a year to raise a family, it's just the same 2 * (X$ / 2) and now the kid has to be raised in daycare which I believe is less beneficial than being raised their parents, dad or mom. This is definitely a showerthought and not something I feel strongly for. It's just more of a what-if question.
How to Avoid Analysis Paralysis as a Product Manager
Hey all, I wrote something that might be useful for everyone, here is the main points:

What is Analysis Paralysis?
After a bit of research, I realized that this is not a recent problem. Aesop and Shakespeare have dealt with the issue a very long time ago.

In the Fox and the Cat fable the Fox ends up getting caught by the hounds because she had a hundred ways of escaping and could not decide the one to follow. The Cat had only one way out and is now safe. Also, Prince Hamlet’s mortal flaw was “thinking too much”.

Overthinking a problem can paralyze you. Being in a Product Management (or any management) position can not only lead to slow decision-making, thus, harming the development and the business process, but it can also harm your perceived value as a manager by your team and stakeholders.

Beware.

What are the root causes of Analysis Paralysis?
External causes:

Limited resources. Scope, cost, time, quality

Complex and rapidly changing environment. Ranging from changes in the top management to procedural changes

Lack of support

Unclear objectives

“Design by committee”

Internal causes:

Fear

Overconfidence

Too many options

Information overload

Lack of experience

Perfectionism

Tips & Tricks to avoid Analysis Paralysis
Set clear goals and objectives (Relevant Frameworks: SMART, OKR, BHAG, Eisenhower matrix, Balanced Scorecard, CQM)

Prioritization (MoSCoW, Eisenhower matrix, Kano model, RICE, Pareto Principle, KJ method)

Product Roadmap (Themes and Epics, Gantt Chart, Release Train, Value Stream, Impact and Effort matrix, Lean Canvas, SAFe)

Establish a clear decision-making process (SWOT analysis, PESTLE analysis, Cost-Benefit analysis, Decision matrix, Six Thinking Hats method, AHP, Delphi method, Five Whys method)

Deadlines

Train yourself to realize when you are overthinking

Improve your communication and collaboration with your team

Gain experience in your industry

Trust your instincts

Use an AI to validate your ideas (that point is so 2023)

Iterate
You're not wrong at all.
It's also out of necessity since most development tools and documentation is EN to JP. Its hard for them to find answers since everything is either in English or outdated.

Regardless, the mentality of ofjit ain't broke don't fix it is well engrained in J culture. It's something that I admire of the Japanese.
Well seeing that everyone working at a public tech company has seen far more than a 5% pay cut because of declining stock prices and their unvested RSUs, that’s clearly a Counterexample
I don't think IBM would be my next choice after getting laid off from Meta. There are plenty of tech jobs available at healthy companies outside of the "tech industry".
I believe that's inside the chip, much like DDR5. However that doesn't help if there's an error introduced by the packages, pin, board traces, CPU pins, or CPU.

Better than nothing, but not full ECC either.
> This proof-of-concept would be a breakthrough for healthcare, security, gaming (VR), and a host of other industries.

Similar capability is scheduled for new consumer routers in 2024 via Wi-Fi 7 Sensing / IEEE 802.11bf. Hundreds of previous papers include terms like these:

human-to-human interaction recognition
device-free human activity recognition
occupant activity recognition in smart offices
emotion sensing via wireless channel data
CSI learning for gait biometric sensing
sleep monitoring from afar
human breath status via commodity wifi
device-free crowd sensing

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423395

Sample code exists for ESP32 WROOM, https://wrlab.github.io/Wi-ESP/ and Intel 5300, https://dhalperi.github.io/linux-80211n-csitool/
Can we use this sort of processing power and analysis to figure out how to get better signal coverage in a property instead?
> prehistoric human were just as smart and creative as us

This. The educational system, willingly or just incompetently manages to instill a sense that human intelligence somehow grows monotonically with historical time. Maybe thats because it is conflating it with knowledge accumulation and never bothering to make a clear distinction.

In fact its very plausible that 30000 years ago some homo sapiens had a discussion around a campfire that was as intelligent as your average HN thread :-)
George Santos says it was proof he was formally a pharaoh.
>He thinks that younger people, brought up on big screen TVs, 120 fps oled smartphones, and 240 fps gaming action

This might be true farther in the future. But the vast majority of kids now were certainly not brought up on 240fps games and 120hz smartphones.

The iPhone 14 is still 60hz and the Galaxy s21 is the first Samsung phone to have 120hz and it was released in 2021.

And 240fps gaming monitors are a thing, but not really mainstream yet.
The pull quote on the cover, "Gadzooks,' quoth I, 'but here's a saucy bawd!", is itself a funny poke at a cliché in historical writing known as gadzookery.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gadzookery
Most mindfulness paradigms teach you to notice the breath and not modify it. This excerpt is the basics of mindfulness.
Thanks for the recommendation.

This GM/automotive documentary was also interesting: "American Factory"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9351980/

(Don't be put off by the dramatized trailer)
> Bellman-Ford is optimal for positive edge only.

???

CLRS says it takes negative weight edges (just no negative cycles) and does it in O(VE). I have no idea where you're getting this from
> Curious on how maggots and leeches may overlap with their medical uses?

I think very little.

I have no relevant expertise, but I think maggots are used mainly because they eat dead flesh - good for cleaning out necrotic wounds.

IIRC, leeches are used in the modern era for the impacts they can have on your vascular system (since they've evolved to suck blood, they have some interesting biochemistry around that, IIUC).
when the 20th century artist, Francis Bacon, is the topic, most of your a priori knowledge of Francis Bacon is not power.

"ipsa scientia potestas est" ["knowledge itself is power"] - Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae 1597

in the past few days there was one of the periodic flurries of interest in Francis Bacon on reddit, stimulated I think by the reappearance of the user franceisbacon and I can't help but think that led to this topic showing up here when it did, also a periodic showing.
I always find takes likes this super weird and conclusory given that there's a LOT of revolutionary tech that nonetheless takes forever to catch on, especially one that threatens to disrupt big incumbents. The fax machine was invented in, what, the 1800s?
Not sure I trust a book which has activism against the current economic system as a goal. From the sound of it, the book does have some interesting ideas about prehistory that might turn out to be at least partially correct. But then to turn that around and use it as an attack on modern society stops being historical and becomes polemical.
I'm in a similar boat though I'm employed for now in an independent, bootstrapped startup. I am unable to find employment in any big VC-backed startup or any big tech corporation.

On the job hunt, I kept applying for those jobs anyway because then at least it helps to awaken people when they are told by their superiors to drop me for no reason. I suspect there must be some kind of blacklist. I often get dropped at the last stage of the interview (e.g. the one where I'm about to meet the VP of engineering which is supposed to be a formality).

What worked for me was to find an independent startup which is not affiliated with big VC or big tech.

And for the record, I never did anything wrong at any of my previous jobs. I suspect that some of my troubles may be related to one of the following things I did:

- I refused 2 job offers from well connected VC-backed CEOs in the US (who I met over video). I wasn't prepared to move to the US.

- I worked for a hotshot VC-backed company remotely as a contractor and after 1 year (with limited growth), I asked the CTO for advice about getting funding to launch my own startup and that didn't go down well with them. Whoops.

- I joined the blockchain space and worked for a reputable project which is still going. The Matrix really started to glitch after that.
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> I wonder why ideas in this field seem to be stuck with technology of the last century?

SETI used to be focused on looking for RF carriers. Few modulation modes still in use waste energy in the carrier signal. In newer modes, a small amount of redundancy in the bit pattern provides synchronization.
Analog TV was 80% carrier, 20% content at megawatt levels, probably the most detectable signal ever sent from this planet. Hugely redundant and easy to decode. But now it's history. This planet emitted high-powered carriers for less than a century.

Modern RF signals look like noise unless you know what to look for. Listen to an old modem sound. That's what efficient data transmission sounds like. If there happen to be some interstellar radio beams that hit this planet occasionally, they might not be recognized easily.

Signals sent in a noisy environment have to contain some redundancy and synchronization information to be received successfully. So, unleash the machine learning algorithms on all that radio telescope data. Worth a try.