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The laws are never written so that they only target specific things.

Examples in the UK are many, you can go back 20-30 years when CCTV and surveillance started, powers aimed at "serious" things, resulting in local councils buying night vision goggles to make sure people are using the right bins.
>that is a judgement call

I think this is the critical point though. It leaves a lot of room to criminalize any type of encrypted communication device
So basically... computers. That have been either modified, or created, in such a way that they are illegal. They do not actually specify how. The phrasing is "modified and bespoke devices that enable access to platforms [...] where the software/hardware has been developed to anonymise its users and their communications".

Now... of course, we can always trust the good intentions of government bodies and agencies wink but it sounds like by this definition, installing Tor and a couple of apps that use it onto a phone could qualify as a "sophisticated encrypted communication device."

It seems that in a race to the bottom, the UK government is always a few steps further ahead of their peers.
This reminds me of Charles Stross's "Laundry Files" series, which I frequently recommend to anyone at the intersection of enjoying computers, spy stories, and Lovecraftian horror.

(The first conceit of the story is that there were two Church-Turing Theses, and the second one would be so disastrous as public knowledge that it was immediately suppressed by Her Majesty's Government, known only to a select few and the folks they monitor and handle).
So, all you have to do is make these devices be “mobile phones” and “commercially available”?

Is selling a device on Ali Express enough to qualify?
The PagerDuty CEO quotes MLK in the layoff notice:

> None of this would be possible without you, our leadership, and our board — thank you for your grit and resilience, your commitment to our customers and your support of our values and people. I am reminded in moments like this, of something Martin Luther King said, that “the ultimate measure of a [leader] is not where [they] stand in the moments of comfort and convenience, but where [they] stand in times of challenge and controversy.” PagerDuty is a leader that stands behind its customers, its values, and our vision — for an equitable world where we transform critical work so all teams can delight their customers and build trust.

“the ultimate measure of a [leader] is not where [they] stand in the moments of comfort and convenience, but where [they] stand in times of challenge and controversy.”

I don't think the challenges and controversies MLK was thinking of at the time had to due with cost-cutting measures by a corporate entity.

[1]: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/improving-pagerdutys-operatio...
I'm not blaming users for something. I said "I will never understand". Though I can hypothesize. I think in some cases due to deceitful marketing, users think "This thing will be great! It will do X,Y and Z for me.".. Then they buy it and realize that X is forbidden, Y requires a subscription, and Z is not available in their region or whatever. They are disspointed but they've already bought the thing at that point and make do rather than return it. I have seen this happen to people I know for sure.

I definitely blame the corporation for unethically making products like that in the 1st place, and then also deceitfully marketing them. There should be much stricter laws and severe punishments in place to protect the public.
+1 RSS.

In the meantime, you can use https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to get an RSS for newsletter items.
It was real if it was real to you goddammit
Yes, five smaller Google's would be good, 4 more points of view.

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter seems to have highlighted anyone with the greatest of intentions is never going to please everyone, and that choice and freedom to express that choice is good.
How can it possibly matter that the “user base is assessed to be almost certainly criminal”? Like, if you criminalize using such a device, I suppose the whole user base is now criminal. But if they already were and you can prove it, why do you need to criminalize the device as well?
do any of those services anonymize the social graph?

law enforcement cares less about what people are saying, more about who is talking to who
my eero pro does this. about once a month it will decide to update itself around two in the morning without any prompt, notification, or any way to defer or delay. there is no option to adjust update times. you can check the app manually and install available updates, but if you don’t do this within a certain amount of time, it will do it automatically within a few days.

three times now i have been up late working on a project and it has kicked me offline to update. it’s so goddamned annoying. i wouldn’t have bought this router if i’d known it did this. (i also had to call them on the phone to get a custom ip range enabled on it, which, for a “pro” product, is just ridiculous).
People that understand the implications are still in some places and put the brakes on.
How would you draft the rule? Is it just that Google is forbidden to offer services of any kind that other people also offer? Speaking as an informed consumer I strenuously prefer Google Flights over all others. I'd feel harmed if the DOJ just outlawed the 1 offering that wasn't a giant scam.
I don’t think I’ve ever been asked to do laundry, but if I would have I’d refuse on principle since I’m paying an exorbitant cleaning fee already.
Particularly when over half the article is Atlantic-style lengthy exposition about the history which a lot of us already know, and I don't really care if the author is that good of a writer or not.
Don't joke, Australian 'luminary' Malcom Turnbull passed a set of stupid laws and said unflinchingly and unironically that, “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia"

Politicians are idiots and the security services will play them like a fiddle.
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Make me a hammer that only works on nails
I don't think you can open the door on a 777 in flight.

For comparison the plane that D B Cooper used had a stairway in the back(sometimes called airstairs). He was able to override the in flight lock and get out that way. My understanding is that the db cooper incident is in a large part why they don't put airstairs on planes any more.

But now you have me watching videos on 777 doors. they open outward than forwards, like most airline doors they probably have a interlock to prevent them from opening in flight, if you could override that, I don't think you could push them forwards against the slipstream.
Mobile phones are an obviously difficult target to go after (due to the public perception) but what about tor, encrypted Linux systems, or specifically tails?
Nervas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket were prototyped back in the 50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNX65d-FBY is a good overview of the work already accomplished.
I think once you get to the third paragraph, it's best to start scrolling down quickly, sampling the opening sentence of each successive one. Then, imagine a few HN comments speaking praise to such lucid and profound analysis.
In recent years as well Indian nuclear scientists have been departing under mysterious circumstances and the rumour is Pak/China/Rus were not facilitating those departures.

“Business deaths” maybe? Biggest economy doesn’t like competition.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/11-indian-nuclear-scientists...

https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/investigation/7559-atomic...

https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2021/01/06/from-the-archiv...

https://asiatimes.com/2019/07/indias-vanishing-nuclear-scien...

https://www.unrevealedfiles.com/the-strange-disappearance-of... — this one just turned up in Google. Seems like a blog, not a news org.
Not "always", at least not the kind of mass layoffs we are familiar with today though most people here are probably too young to remember when it was uncommon. For example IBM had a no-layoff policy until 1993 and when they ended it, it was newsworthy at the time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/03/31/f...
NERVA in the 1960s operated under a similar principal to the one just announced. Orion (what you're describing) was not the only proposal in the 1960s.

As for nuclear propulsion being the only way forward, I doubt that, I suspect that chemical will be more cost efficient for a lot of the trips, especially for unmanned cargo trips.
Actually its an excellent example of why we unfortunately -need- war because there will always be tin pot despots trying to genocide other countries. Now Germany will have to keep their word about the Leopard tanks, looks like Scholz will have to stand up to Russia after all.
I hate the fact that i'm forced to buy appliances with these circuits and nonsense apps in them. I dont need my appliance to be "smart". I just need it to do what I want it to do. a washer should just wash, and it should work for a really long time without breaking down.
I reckon it’s the dire quality of our elected politicians. UK politicians don’t try to understand technology, and they feel entitled to dismiss expert opinion whenever it will win them public favour, hence the disaster with Covid lockdowns.
I cracked the whippets into a large plastic bag and then inhaled from that. I stuck with whippets because it was the fail safe option.
tbf what makes proton unique is that they mostly not use forks and instead work with upstream and just pin point their dependencies and use cherry-pick after they forked a major.
Thanks everyone for checking this out! Anyone at OpenAI here that can expedite my limit increase request?
Sega vs. Accolade
Oh sure, I figured they pass that charge through. But even that charge is not a straight percentage, is it? I always thought it was a percentage plus a constant.
Bulldozer, AMD’s Crash Modernization: Caching and Conclusion
HN is trying to derive axiomatically what this is about, but there's an empirical backstory you want to know about this. Start with this grugq conversation on Twitter from a few months ago:

https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1610169123388141568

What this appears to be about is not encrypted messengers but rather particular brands of modded Android phones that are used exclusively for organized crime.

That doesn't mean you should support the proposal, but if you're reading it as "the UK is trying to ban encryption outright", that's not the whole story.
Well, now everyone outside of India wants to watch it as well.
> This seems strange for a middle aged candidate, what are they looking for here? Communication skills?

Culture fit, probably looking for a few keywords or experiences that match a profile.

Seems fraught with peril from a legal perspective, IMO. Lotta hooks or opportunities for discrimination.

OTOH I could also see the appeal, e.g. you're not the ideal-on-paper candidate, but you did a bunch of X and Y, had experience w/ Z, tell me about the other stuff, sell me a little. I'm not an MIT hyper-literati type but give me the chance to show why that doesn't matter, etc. etc.
It is important when you want to draw conclusions; you should use factual data, not your emotions
Great advice on minimizing distractions:
You may be thinking ‘I can't just delete my browser or delete my PC.’ But you can delete your browser, or delete your PC, or move to a country where there are no PCs. If you want to get things done, you have to be willing to make sacrifices.

https://www.paulgrahamai.com/rect2Rp1eu7V1I8JG
Well I asked for discussion about Smurfette as a sex symbol, and instead I got an article about She-Ra, sexualization of cartoons, and interesting discourse about Pixar and being able to do things in animation that you can't do otherwise [0]. Still it was pretty good even though it didn't mention Smurfs.

[0]https://www.paulgrahamai.com/recPKFXrH5aI6KUks
Generating a PGP Key
Upvoted despite the Reddit flavoring
I had the same reaction. It's the first time in my life where I've ever thought, "This is the beginning of an era. They'll give a name to this period of time." And yeah, maybe that's overselling it, but I had that thought.

I've seen so many pieces of incredible technology struggle to find a use-case. By contrast, ChatGPT almost has too many use-cases to catalog, and while it's far from perfect, it seems obviously, to me, to be a tipping point of sorts.
And to contradict my own point, australia has anti-association rules specifically to deal with known criminals associating to prevent organised crime, to my knowledge this hasn’t been abused to infringe on the rights of previously convicted but otherwise legitimate people from associating.
I want to block accounts of the promoted tweets I get. If enough people did that...
> Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter seems to have highlighted anyone with the greatest of intentions is never going to please everyone

I dunno, wouldn’t that require assuming that Elon Musk had “the greatest of intentions”, as well as being a generalization to “never” from a single failure?
hey - some other commenters have answered your question better than I could.
Nathan Fielder would be proud. This policy will be easily avoided by any serious manufacturer of devices like these.
Was it a physical addiction? Like would you actually go through withdrawals from not being on Nitrous?

I've done a little bit, a long long time ago, but didn't realize this was a possibility.

I didn't really enjoy it personally
LLMs like ChatGPT E.g. https://text-generator.io that combines then with image/web link content understanding, so it can answer questions about pictures with text in them like reciepts or simulate how people would talk about documents or respond to emojis/content.

It's apparent in the future machines will have a deep level of understanding and it will be easy to extend/build upon and also affordable
So this has a potential evolutionary aspect to it.

In caveman days you had to wake up, triage the current environment for threats(weather, animals etc) and then once that was done you would go out and try to find food.

It makes sense that your stomach would take a back seat till the above had been taken care of. It would then trigger the hunger feeling to motivate you to focus on food.
Twitter Has No Answers for DiedSuddenly
I honestly don't understand the downvotes here... Maybe it's because of the tone? But the message/content seems entirely accurate to me.
Ok I’ll check it out!
HTTPS is pretty sophisticated. Are we going to outlaw Google Chrome next?
It depends on what you are doing. If you are being given access to an important shared code base, being a team player seems much more important than a single minded rock-star.
The current court was preceded by a far less conservative court which did precisely dick about the problem for decades. Stop trying to frame this as a party issue when this is a class issue -- and the bourgeoisie controls both sides of the aisle.
WOW I will never sleep on a plane again.
Very interesting, thanks for the reply!
Yes, LLMs are fascinating and there are many characteristics that are not completely understood. I am not _much_ surprised it can follow connections and do some math, given that it is Turing-complete.

However my point in the initial comment was that whatever contradiction you have in logic of the prompt, won’t break the model, because it would just reply whatever is a statistically reasonable response to such a prompt.
The Paul we didn't want but the product team said we needed
So, you found “Product-Market Fit” for your startup idea
If only there was more textual information as a supplement to the headline. I imagine such a supplement (which I'm going to call "article" since it's a fun word) would provide details about the headline. In this case, such an article would maybe explain why that was happening... i don't know, say maybe investors not approving of his salary the same anymore. I imagine the article might go into whether that's salary or total comp, and maybe a breakdown of what that total comp means. Bonus, what I imagine to be a decent article they would even mention restructuring of incentives if that was involved.

What a world that would be.
Giving a drug addict, who obviously doesn't want to be doing the drug anymore, advice on how to more efficiently do drugs seems at _best_ morally questionable.

They've probably already worked out many other options and know this, but even so...just why do this?
Isn't this ironic? A proposal for criminalization of encryption devices in the country which broke the Enigma device...

From where, to where...
Probably easier to generate chemical fuel on the moon/mars too then to refine nuclear fuel, although if you could carry enough nuclear fuel in the first place maybe that would be moot.
Did anyone see it happen? Were you close to falling in?
Put the system into single user mode 15 minutes before disaster. Update all filesystem times and the HW clock to 0 offline. Reboot a couple of times 30 minutes later and fix the timediff in APIs surrounding the system. Easy going.

I think I have been in too many horrible workarounds over the last couple of weeks.
Consider this: one of the many complaints about big tech is companies having too much personal data on customers. But if we feel one entity having the data is bad, why is several having it better? That seems worse. Now it's even harder to keep track of.
It can't be done with uBlock because Twitter randomized pretty much all DOM element class names. You really need to parse the content, then climb up the tree and trim grand/parent nodes to remove all the junk. Used to be much easier few years ago with descriptive class names, but they changed that.

* I'm not the OP, but I made a similar extension.
As long as you're armed with that information, though, it makes getting to an 80% solution (to many things) almost effortless.
Same as all the others, they're planning a premium tier with enterprise functions, hoping that enough happy free tier customers will help convince enterprises to sign up.
PagerDuty is.. woke. Just saying that matter-of-fact; people who work or have worked there know what I mean.

If you don't like being voluntold to record thank you messages to Georgia get-out-the-vote workers, whites-not-welcome Slack channels, and Slack bots telling you to not use "you guys" in every channel including private channels.. You won't like PagerDuty much.
This is pretty neat!

I have played around with slides^1 before for doing small demos with my team, but I find that outside of highly technical geeks most people don't want to look at presentations in plain text in a terminal window. I like that this lets you create more traditional graphical slide decks while still using markdown + your favorite editor.

[1]: https://maaslalani.com/slides/
I've always seen the terms kick-scooter and motor-scooter to disambiguate the later two.
Welcome to Hotel California: Lawmakers Move to Tax People Who Have Left State
I've found CMMX to be fairly useful actually. A lot of software in this category can be pretty pestery and exploitative but I've been pretty happy with CMMX
I took a look at this a few months ago, and when I left off, I was unsure exactly how they conducted the validation of the technique. In particular, there was a test on June 3 2021 where they attempted to reconstruct the path of a flight from Samoa to Australia[1]. Certain phrases in the report leave me wondering whether the test simply amounted to looking for anomalies in the WSPRnet data in close spatiotemoral proximity to where the airplane was known to be:

"There are no WSPRnet anomalies observed at departure. At 03:30 UTC there is a drift anomaly 2 minutes behind the aircraft as well as 5 WSPRnet links just behind the aircraft, which may be due to the wake." [my emphasis here and below.]

"There is no obvious way to choose whether the aircraft turned to port or starboard to execute a 180° turn back towards Australia. I tried out both options and the best fit appears to be a turn to starboard."

And from a comment by someone apparently involved:

"There was one error of note, the initial turn of the aircraft after departure was to port and not starboard. Mike commented 'I should have told you that aircraft departing NSFA on RWY 08 will always turn to port due to terrain clearance considerations. If you’d known that then no doubt the first part of the route would have been a bit more accurate.'”

These quotes seem to suggest, if not outright imply, a detailed knowledge of the airplane's track by the person(s) searching the WISPRnet data for indications of that track, and if this is the case, then the test falls short of demonstrating an ability to determine the previously-unknown track of an airplane, which is what is needed for the MH370 investigation. I would be more than happy to update this opinion once I get a clearer picture of how these tests are conducted.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/1cox7y91m89sjsv/GDTAA%20V2%20Blind...
I've known a team in INRIA writing their papers in Word. It felt so weird...
Good video on the NERVA project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNX65d-FBY
Yes. I agree.

> Make no mistake, MS and Xbox still hate us.

I should point out that I was not suggesting there was a good relationship between console hackers and Microsoft. Quote from me again:

> respect towards the ingenuity of console hackers

I did not say they had respect for the people, or that what they were doing was good, or anything like that. I'm claiming that from a security standpoint, they took the threat very seriously.

Microsoft legally bullying people is bad, but it's nothing new from Microsoft. Hell, it's nothing new from the console industry either. I actually was not aware of Microsoft putting anyone in jail over the Xbox homebrew/modding scene, but it does not surprise me. I remember what happened with Sony and Geohotz.

Still, from a sterile, technical point of view, I do think that in 2005 they were way, way ahead of keeping their console "secure" according to their threat model. I am never going to be particularly fond of a threat model where the adversary is the customer, but that's not really the point.
Tauroursodeoxycholic acid in the treatment of patients with ALS
silymarin (or milkthistle extract) may share some similar actions.
Years ago, Turkish government made a law to force companies which develop crypto communication devices to share a copy of keys with government. Few years later, a group leaked call recordings of president and ministers. The same government complained about corruption in the system and power of bad guys. They couldn't accept they were hit by their own gun.
in UK, as conservatives screw everything up even with crypto devices, they may not be worried about these kind of leaks.
Click step two and guess how many steps it is.
iPad Pro doesn’t need a major revamp, but better software
If anyone wants to start reading on the shady world of organized crime, smuggling, gangsters and such that can be found in Vancouver, BC, google "phantom secure Vancouver".

The well known "phantom secure" custom firmware phones sold years ago for organized crime type people.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=phantom+s...

Then google "Vancouver Canada casino money laundering".

I would think that any sufficiently sophisticated organized crime group in 2023 would consider any "special" secure phone sold with such software to be a honeypot, and either DIY it or come up with some other method. This sort of thing would be purchased by clueless/gullible mid and low level people only now.
I suppose what I'm saying is I don't think antitrust is necessarily beneficial for consumers or client businesses. It could be. But generally speaking, large companies pay their employees better, are more likely to comply with regulations, and so on. Having businesses be small for the sake of being small is not necessarily good.
No google actually owns the backend of these flight search engines as well[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software