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> And the big question is what if your machine is configure in a way that is incompatible with the FBI’s justice.exe and you lose irreplaceable data?

Dude, this is just manufactured outrage. Come on:

> Qakbot delivered additional malware—including ransomware—to their computer

Bemoaning the possibility of the cops trampling your petunias while responding to the arsonist literally trying to take-hostage-or-destroy every square inch of your property is being petty.
Why are you making it sound like that's some profound revelation? Law enforcement is allowed to run stings, serve warrants and make arrests, you aren't. The military is allowed to invade countries and drop nukes, you aren't. Yes it is legal when they do it and not some average Joe who wants to play hero. That's how the world works, and it is a good thing.
Then crypto will get sued again and again while the SEC refine their internal model of what is lawful based on the outcome of court cases.

On the bright side, it clarify things. The downside is it cost a lot of money.

They can always do what traditional money does, stay within the safe zone with well established precedents.
Chemical fertilizer is a climate disaster. Can high-tech biology fix it?
Are there protections to prevent squatting? I admit that this is intriguing, I'm just curious what the rules are. It seems easy to exploit so I assume someone already has.
While in Europe every regular socket has 230V but induction has 400V with 5-wired connection. It is amazing how fast it can boil water!
>Infrastructure in the USA is a nightmare and an absolute embarrassment

And in the US, that will never change. An example from 2023 (yes this year).

The State where I live has a law all road construction/repairs is suppose to allow for what here in the US is called a "Bike Path". That really means a 2 feet (2/3 meter) wide shoulder on each side of the road. It is delimited by white paint that will be allowed to fade. On this "path" is painted a bicycle every so often, that will also fade and never be maintained.

So, a road near where I live, a bridge was replaced. The Plans called for construction of this "path" to accommodate cycling on this road. Construction completed a week ago, no white line was even painted. The plans only mentioned it so construction would be allowed to start. Since it is complete, the excuse is "Oh we forgot".

This is in a State that is pushing Cycling as an alternative to Driving to work. So in the US, do not hold your breath, we will continue with doing all we can to increase the average global temperature until no one will be able to go outside in the deep South during the Summer.
Source: history of law enforcement being stupid

- https://ij.org/press-release/after-a-swat-team-destroyed-a-t...

- https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/court-rules-homeowne...

- https://reason.com/2023/07/27/a-swat-team-destroyed-an-innoc...

- etc etc etc thousands of times
FWIW, I imagine the “invisible hand” is already in effect. That is, at the margins there are probably some potential franchisees who were dissuaded by McDonalds’ actions here.
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The Horse Drug thing is a bit of an inside joke - Ketamine is a pretty controlled substance, so many of the people who use it recreationally (allegedly) get it through veterinarian sources.
No, it’s Google’s proprietary product meant to lock you into their Cloud offering.
I have seen much damage from duplicate code at multiple organizations. I have seen thoughtful abstractions work successfully to mitigate it, and rarely encountered the opposite. I have encountered multiple perjoratives: copypasta coders, couch developers et al.
The 400V is between phases. 230V is between a phase and ground. Ie, you get 3 wires (phases) of 230V from the 400V connection.

Btw, Europe standardized at 230/400V in the nineties. In Czechia we switched from 220V to 230V in 1993. Not sure when Italy did, but probably around the same time.
> and consequently, has the most bizarre war memorial.

The plane is so tired it just face planted and settled in for a rest.
I've been using Void Linux for many years, which is hardly mainstream, and pretty much all Linux games from gog.com "Just Work™" with a minimum of effort (I need to install some 32bit libraries for some, but that's about it).

I believe on Steam it's even better/easier, as it just ships with an Ubuntu base and uses that (but I don't really use Steam).

Point being: I think the differences between distros for this kind of stuff has been rather overstated. For most things, it doesn't actually matter all that much.
Yes, Americans invented populace relocation (and the abuses that come with it). Nice to know the Roman Empire had a time machine to pull a major component of their imperial edict from.

But let's pretend your warped view of history is reality...that happened 100 years earlier. If Europeans are so enlightened atop those tall horses, maybe don't do it again and 10x worse?

In addition, I wasn't referring to the Holocaust...but the entire continent's shared sick desire to kill themselves off for 10km of border movement or literal dreams of world conquest.
Yeah, it's part of the social contract? This is a good thing. It's the same reason I cant just grab a gun and start arresting people as a "good Samaritan".
Just want to add that I prefer Ada over C++ despite it having less mind share, tools, and libraries because its productivity is so high. (Not saying that I dislike C++.)

And, speculating here, with the encroachment of AI into programming/software engineering, I assume that it's convenient to use languages that are declarative (e.g. Haskell) and/or designed for verification/formal methods (e.g. Ada/SPARK) to integrate AIs of various kinds.
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Linux 6.6 Lands “Pretty Juicy” IOmap Improvements, Lower Latency with IO_uring
> Also, the SEC itself isn't the arbiter of what the law says, that's the court's job.

To the extent to which we are taking about the laws (and not rules), it is worth noting that the SEC--despite claiming these laws are clear--is almost hilariously bad at understanding them given that they are now on a losing streak in the courts ;P. So far, they have lost on their enforcement of Ripple, were told the reasons they denied Greyscale were unacceptable, and the courts have them on a right timeline (refusing to cede jurisdiction) to provide to Coinbase the regulatory clarity they petitioned for (which is currently supposed to happen by October 11th, but we'll see if they figure out how to delay further).
Had this CEO shared the data they claimed to have reviewed, we'd be talking about that and not empty appeals to authority.

Should Napoleon have invaded Russia? I say no, but then again nobody's making a movie about me starring Joaquin Phoenix.
> As part of the operation, the FBI gained lawful access to Qakbot’s infrastructure and identified over 700,000 infected computers worldwide—including more than 200,000 in the U.S.

"Lawful access" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, but at least they specified it.
There is such a thing as developement hell. Meaning lots of effort, but not much progress when certain layers became a mess. The latest Duke Nukem game for example was developed for 10 years (I think) and then abandoned and never released.

And I follow SC just from the outside, but at least partially, I get that impression. So sure, shiny new ships are coming out. But the game itself does not seem to get much more stable and .. playable.
There's a lot of times where deals are made because the government looks at how much it's going to cost to get the full value vs the settlement price. If the cost to gain the full value is larger than the settlement, then getting the full value is actually a loss compared to the settlement. Also, the government makes deals willing to take a haircut to get some vs none. A settlement is both parties giving something, not just the accused.
https://opentelemetry.io

> OpenTelemetry is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools. Use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior.

You can absolutely categorize telemetry into these high-level pillars, true. But the specifics on how that data is captured, exported, collected, queried, etc. is necessarily unique to each pillar, programming language, backend system, organization, etc.

That's because telemetry data is always larger than the original data it represents: a production request will be of some well-defined size, but the metadata about that request is potentially infinite. Consequently, the main design constraint for telemetry systems is always efficiency.

Efficiency requires specialization, which is in direct tension with features that generalize over backends and tools, e.g.

> Traces, Metrics, Logs -- Create and collect telemetry data from your services and software, then forward them to a variety of analysis tools.

and features that generalize over languages, e.g.

> Drop-In Instrumentation -- OpenTelemetry integrates with popular libraries and frameworks such as Spring, ASP.NET Core, Express, Quarkus, and more! Installation and integration can be as simple as a few lines of code.

I think OTel treats these goals -- which are very valuable to end users!! -- as inviolable core requirements, and then does whatever is necessary to implement them. But these goals are not actually valid, and so the resulting code is often inefficient, incoherent, or even unsound.
It is, especially in hindsight, difficult to appreciate how big a deal DPMI was.

But to try to give you an idea: I was in an OS/2 seminar (because, well, OS/2 was the future at that point in time) when someone from Microsoft circulated photocopies of an early DPMI document.

This instantly divided the audience in two groups: those who got it (and abandoned the OS/2 hype train that instant), and those who did not.

When (some years later: Internet time was not yet invented either) Windows 95 came out with pretty much flawless DOS compatibility, whereas OS/2 was still struggling to run more than one DOS app simultaneously (with DOS apps still being very much the only revenue-positive game in town), OS/2 was effectively dead.

Sure, NT put the nails in the coffin, but it would be a few years before typical consumer/business hardware could reliably run that. With DPMI (an API, not even a product...), Microsoft settled the OS wars (as they were at the time...) decisively.
Our roadways are a mess, our healthcare is a mess, our K-12 education is a mess, a lot of our food is unfit for consumption in Europe - what are we doing? As the United States continues to crumble from within its citizens keep thinking it's the best place in the world and refuse to acknowledge there are serious issues needing addressed. It's become quite insane.
But has it actually been communicated? In other words did Jassy email all Amazon employees globally and state that they must work from the office?
I remember the airport down at the marina in San Francisco when was a kid. Now its a big grassy field.
Oh neat! (I was here to ask the same question as above) would love to share the project when OTel support is released!
That's disappointing to hear because my current residence came with a large digital-capable antenna installed in the attic which I've never connected. When more local stations in my market start ATSC 3 broadcasts next year I was thinking of hooking up an OTA feed just to see if it's better than the Comcast XFinity cable-delivered mess.

I don't even watch that much TV content but when I do, I want it to not look like crap. It's frustrating because I'm sure the four national broadcast networks and top cable channels (eg ESPN, CNN, etc) are providing pristine source feeds at their head-end distribution points which look amazing. Is there even any meaningfully better-quality alternative these days? Maybe some over-the-top streaming provider of broadcast and cable channels who actually delivers 4k sources with guaranteed high-quality encoding and decent bitrates? If so, I'd cut the Comcast cord even if it costs more. It's not like Comcast is cheap but I also hate the idea of paying top dollar for such a substandard product simply because there are no better alternatives.

BTW: I'd be delighted to learn of any viable US-based content alternatives (eg streaming, direct satellite, etc). Back in the analog SDTV days I had a C-Band sat dish and the direct network feeds looked amazing in pure 6 Mhz analog component compared to local cable and even local OTA broadcast.
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They are talking about building 2,000 drones, 30ft long. That they will be piloted by AI is interesting, but not as remarkable as the fact that they only cost 15% of what a predator drone costs, and will be the cheapest drone of this type the Air Force fields by at least a factor of 3.

There are no plans to arm them (yet), instead to make them do recon autonomously and report the results to humans. And the government is currently saying that when they do carry weapons, a human will have to authorize every use.
It's more like: You're going to need six simple colors eventually, and when you do you want versions that work with your brand colors.
If that were the case then they could all pool together their documentation and help guides.

But I'm guessing the reason they don't is because there are some non-superficial differences.
Do you have any tricks for conforming to APCA when you need to keep track of font weight, font size, and background vs foreground color while designing/developing UIs?

I don't, as for us we set our goal to have a contrast of >60 regardless of font size/weight. Since we already weren't compliant with our 11px font sizes, we chose to use the contrast guidelines without the font size guidelines. Agree it's a lot to manage - we didn't find a great way to solve for this, which is why we mixed and matched WCAG, APCA, and general UX principles rather than relying on a single set of rules.
Middle management isn't making this call though.
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I've always thought there should be a class in high school related to Law where you simulate being criminally charged and have to do a mock-engagement with "the system" including field trips to courthouses, and other places relevant to the legal system as well as learning how to think about the law, both analytically and practically.
It's interesting that Linux gaming has managed to largely avoid this problem - by targeting Windows. By which I mean: Proton (and DXVK etc.).

Proton has got so good that the best way of making games work on Linux is to target Proton and all your cross platform challenges are taken care of.
Sounds like the beginning of the matrix
Even Microsoft has to know Excel is shit software for large datasets. I can’t even get it to do a VLOOKUP correct half the time.
I believe that US code requires a dedicated circuit for all 240v outlets. Only 120V outlets can be chained. The only people who use 240v outlets are planing on using all the power it can provide, if they want a second outlet they want a second circuit as well.

Check with your local codes of course. Even if the local codes allow it, your building inspector may not.
Thanks, I actually got the idea after reading his adapt refresh article as I didn't understand it.
There is a paywall, but it's a nice article
Give

https://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Col...

a good read through. Many, many facets of labor relations didn't change one iota from far before WWII. There's an elitism inherent in American culture that is just a right pain in the arse to shake off.

Take Ames dumping on Reagan with a grain of salt, but he does a fantastic job of extending the line of labor relations culture quite a ways back beyond merely WWII. Though I won't argue that things got very turbid around that time specifically because of the perceived existential threat the War created.

I still maintain, however, that no matter how unpopular labor movements were at the time, that they dug in was still an invaluable act of civic courage. It is at such times that resistance is most important, as the majority is all too eager to turn a blind eye to the suffering they have wrought.
Note: I am the author of this article.

Firefox Sync encrypts all data on the client side before sending it. Chrome Sync can do the same if you know which settings to use. 1Password, Bitwarden, Dashlane – every password manager worth their salt encrypts data locally (LastPass is the only one which failed really badly here). How is this rare and not something we should expect?
The streets of the greater Chicago area are full of frustrated drivers in a pointless pissing contest seemingly all on the fringe of a road-rage incident. It's like they're all fighting over scraps and the roads are the arena.

I could write a short novel describing my childhood bmx experiences there through the 80s-90s, and in 2022 I rode an mtb around all summer during an extended visit.

It's just insanity. People there are miserable and angry. It's palpable in how they drive.
> Proton has got so good that the best way of making games work on Linux is to target Proton and all your cross platform challenges are taken care of

There was the famous "Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux" article last year which pretty much about this https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624

As you said, easier/better to target Win32 and just use Proton.

It's also funny because it kinda became true on another level as "Win32 Is Only Stable on Linux". It's easier to run old games and softwares (XP era and earlier) with Proton under Linux than on current Windows 10/11
Not sure I understand your concern? Isn't this something they're doing as part of the release process, not somethings that happens on a developer's machine?

I couldn't see any mention of needing an internet link.
As someone considering a sabbatical, let's clarify one thing. Yes, health benefits are tied to the employer and getting health insurance privately (or through CORBA) is expensive, but wages are higher in the US. You can buy health insurance, and if you time things right you can get "Obamacare" which won't make your premiums too high.

It's possible to save money on a tech salary in the US for staying a few months, or even a year, on a sabbatical. Maybe it will cost you 100K or so for a year in an average city in the US, assuming a family of 3 and no other income, a third of that being health costs. But it's possible to save 100K to do that. Hey, we're asking for the entirety of society to work to provide us a ton of services/products (even beyond healthcare) while we're resting, so that shouldn't be so surprising, right?

One thing that I read a lot on HN are arguments talking about how having to pay for health insurance makes things impossible, as if people didn't have other expenses. For most people, rent is more expensive than health insurance, so are we going to say we can't go on sabbaticals because we don't have public housing? I understand that it's not easy to deal with private health insurance, but millions of self employed people in the US do exactly that, some of them with top notch (and expensive) health insurance.

In a country with public healthcare, you don't need to save the healthcare part. But you still need to save for all other expenses - rent, childcare, bills, transportation, books etc. So maybe it would cost half as much to go on a Sabbatical in other places, but in general tech wages in "other places" aren't nearly as high as in the US. So in the end it is kind of the same.
I have a hot take on this, which I hope will resonate with at least a few people: duplication, even of blocks of up to a few long statements, rarely bothers me, because I remember all the duplications as a single instance. I have extra ordinary memory, and this makes a huge difference in how I think of and write code. Or anything really. I save everything I've ever written, like bash history, but everything, and refer beck to it and copy paste somewhere else. I wonder if anyone else has this. This doesn't affect how I think of production code, but it hugely affects my work flow.
I live in one of those cities, and yes that is the stereotype, with one addition, Bicycles are only really for kids to ride in parks or on the sidewalk.
I see local motor enthusiasts are well aware of that spot lol
Direct link to ESA: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2308c/

2.7MB JPEG: https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/publicationjpg/potm2...

NIRCam vs. MIRI Slider: https://esawebb.org/images/comparisons/potm2308/
Thank you. You make interesting stuff.
How many residential devices actually ought to contain a three-phase motor running at fixed frequency? (And I mean now, in 2023, not in 1990.)

I can think of three, sort of:

1. A well pump, pumping from a high-producing well, into a tank or pond at the surface, where the pump is sized to efficiently pump somewhat less than the well’s production.

2. A pool or pond pump which, by some miracle, has been correctly sized for the system, and which, by some other miracle, is more appropriate in the application in question than an Intelliflo VSF or similar pump.

3. HVAC fans. But these are usually pretty small, and better systems usually use ECM motors.
I don't understand the reasons given. All of these exist for sensitive data today, which is why we have things like SOC II compliance, Data Processing Agreements, etc. Data used for AI is no different.
Coolant leak the cause of 'suspicious' Nikola truck fire, BEV sales on hold
>>Because the trains use a radio system that lacks encryption or authentication for those commands, Olejnik says, anyone with as little as $30 of off-the-shelf radio equipment can broadcast the command to a Polish train—sending a series of three acoustic tones at a 150.100 megahertz frequency—and trigger their emergency stop function.

Goes without saying here that this needs to be fixed ASAP.

>>The railway agency wrote that “there is no threat to rail passengers. The result of this event is only difficulties in the running of trains.”

There is no threat to rail passengers, unless a passenger train does not know about a stopped train ahead of it on the tracks, e.g., a cargo train go stopped by the hack, but the passenger train 10min behind it did not and continues to rush onward towards the stopped cargo train. IDK if Poland's control system would reliably detects these conditions, but if it does not with 100% reliability, this is a real threat.
Just put it in the blender for a while.
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