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> ruin a mans life for being a journalist

No: Real journalists do not do the things Assange is indicted for.

[Allegedly] Manning asked for help cracking password hashes, and Assange agreed to provide Manning fresh passwords to log in as other users.

That isn't "journalism", and it doesn't become protected/regular/normal journalism even if the prosecution is overzealous in other ways.
I don't have any numbers, but most of the advertising I'm seeing for these products aren't targeting vegans, but rather meat eaters. The basic message seems to be "all the yummy flavour of meat, without any of the guilt or ethical quandaries", and "you don't have to go full vegan, you can make an impact with just 2 vegetarian meals a week, with the help of our delicious products". If they're not having an impact on the bottom line, it is not for lack of trying
This approach may function effectively with your close family members. However, it can sometimes fail when your cousins won't let you near their IoT devices because they view you as the hacker or tech enthusiast who might tamper with their gadgets.
understated context here
Completely agree! The public record in this case is going to be what agencies and industry looks to, far more than whatever I might happen to personally believe. I'm going to get as much information from this discussion as I can, but every participant should feel free to comment on the record, or to get their employers, companies, trade associations, ad-hoc working groups, concerned citizens congregating on Discord to complain, etc. to do so as well.
> why is this information publicly published by every county in the US

To make fraudulent sales and confusion about real property ownership less likely.
I think it's the case of knowing what you know. IOS design language depends a lot on being familiar with iOS already - I think a lot of Android design is dictated to be understandable by people who really haven't used a phone before so things are a bit clearer and more obvious. I know when I use my wife's iPhone it's so frustrating because it feels like you should be able to do action X but there isn't any clear way on how to achieve it - I ask my wife and she shows me that it's hidden behind some invisible menu or gesture and I'm like "how were you supposed to know this???" And she just shrugs "it always worked like this". Ok, I guess, but that's really poor for discoverability.
Precisely. This is why I'm interested to see how institutions will react to this threat vector. If defamation suits become a standard go-to for disgraced researchers, the knowledge that institutions will defend them without even batting an eye (via a pot of insurance-backed money) will likely de-fang that approach. "Sure, you could sue for defamation, but you know you're wrong; do you really want to burn years just to enrich a couple lawyers instead of accepting the inevitable here?"

The only way pulling the other researchers into this suit seems rational to me at all is if she had reason to believe they might roll over and settle instead of digging into their affirmative defense and further shredding her reputation.
United Airlines issues nationwide ground stop due to computer issue
Do any of the fuji digital rangefinders have true mechanical focus rings, rather than "focus by wire"? I had an original X100 and thought it was a terrific camera. But I couldn't shoot with it the way I prefer because the manual focus mechanism was too slow and lacked the tactile+visual feedback of mechanical focus.

I looked a couple of years ago at the then-current fuji offerings and thought they seemed great, again, but still weren't the right thing for me because none of them had physically coupled focus rings.
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Even if you are technical enough, you might still need a GUI to avoid any surprises. Also the end user of this tool is not tech people, but content managers
I have a raise, the build quality is definitely top notch. But their software/firmware is very underwhelming if you want to do anything besides basic key remapping and basic layers.

I just ended up giving up on trying to use their stuff, and opted for software based remapping instead
Consumer don't have time, knowledge, or resources to demand all these things they use. When I buy a car, I want it to be safe. I spend zero time evaluating its technology and demanding labels. I already have a job.
>The implementation of the law shows “very clearly you can cut down on short-term rentals,” says Cox, who was part of the Coalition Against Illegal Hotels, a group that advocated for the registration law. “You can make these platforms accountable.”
I don't know about a mandatory update regulation -- one way or the other, that isn't on the table right now. I would love extensive discussion on the record, however, of the costs and benefits of requiring updates to get the label.
Awesome, thank you for the info!

Edit: not awesome that wood is lower quality of course, the awesome was for the explanation.
Not a bad idea at all. However, if they are not doing this already voluntarily, they'll need to be persuaded. Perhaps a role for the FCC.
This doesn't seem like the greatest idea.
Meta employees are back in the office three days a week as part of mandate
"Amateur" isn't the word I would have used, and I think the author sabotaged his point by using it. What I would say is, you're leaving a lot of money on the table and donating a lot of cortisol to entities that don't need the money or the cortisol donations, because they're not spending their own money, and the high order bit of their success criteria is "I was able to plug money into this interface and make a business thing happen within the planned time period, without adding any headcount".

The other place I disagree strongly with the author is about the utility of flat-rate projects. I've had good luck with flat rate, but it was never the project structure we'd have used by default. Rather: for any project we did, we'd have quoted a full project, broken out into billable weeks, with a final sticker price and a paragraph below the pricing table with "additional work needed will be billed at our pro rata day rate".

I think the attitude that says "all the risk should be borne by the client, not the struggling independent consultant" is bad business (for high-end tech consulting, you should start seeing your practice as being in part in the risk mitigation business!), but that doesn't mean you need to take on extra risk just for the hell of it.

That said, there are clients who are so valuable, because they're going to be repeat-business house accounts or because their reputation is so strong that they'll bring in word of mouth business automatically, that you should definitely consider just doing flat rate projects for (if that's what they want) and just eat the overages.
The tone of the article doesn't sound bitter - it sounds coldly rational, and a bit resigned. It also sounds like other things I've read about - primarily on HN - regarding the state of academic research and publication.
Cracking is about removing anti-features, typically copy protections.
It pairs well with pirating, but neither one strictly requires the other.
Robot software firm Mujin raises $85M
Lunarspoon.
As technical lead for the OpenTF project, how does things like this get merged?

https://github.com/opentffoundation/opentf/pull/36/commits
I'm not sure what a ChromeOS developer writes, since the "native apps" are PWAs only.

The author mentions various driver-like things, such as a custom keyboard. Can such custom drivers be installed when not in Developer Mode? I see no mechanism to do so, nor any "ChromeOS app store" where I might download such things.

If you're a ChromeOS developer, where and how do you distribute your products?
if you introduce a key that can decrypt all messages, what you have is not end to end encryption. Then you might as well just not do end-to-end, since the service provider can read all messages using the key they gave the police anyway
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> Fixed price is amazing when the client has a specific, measurable problem that they don’t know how to fix (but you do). You can solve it cheaply, get paid waaay more than hourly and have a happy client.

What about fixed price makes the client happy in this situation? It's definitely not the fact that the contractor billed "waaay more than hourly".

The upside of fixed price is that it's more predictable and it aligns incentives. With hourly, the hidden incentive is to take as long as you can get away with because every additional hour you take is an additional hour you can bill.

With fixed price, the contractor has an incentive to finish earlier.

That's the part that I find many contractors miss: They treat fixed price as an opportunity to extract more money from the customer. As someone who has been on both sides of this (I've been a contractor and I've also hired a lot of contractors) I lose trust quickly when I spot contractors inflating fixed price bids because they think I won't be able to recognize what they're doing.
One thing that BMW does do well is supporting their vehicles on the road. IIRC they keep the parts production active for a minimum of 10 years past the final model year. Compared to finding parts for domestic American vehicles less than 10 years old (looking at you, Ford), BMW support is leaps and bounds ahead of many alternatives.
Except you can't say they're "leeching" when they're using the software on the terms you offered it to them.

I'd also love to know how much Hashicorp chips in to maintain the projects they build upon. For example, I'd bet the vast majority of Terraform usage is on Linux. Do they support Linux development? Do they support Go language development? It seems like the companies complaining about "leeches" (eyeroll) aren't the ones actually paying people to work on upstream FOSS projects.
People used to spend a lot more, per item, on clothing. The real culprit in this case is that we have become accustomed to things being cheap.
This would make for a fine comment on the record. It would be great to have suggestions about pros and cons of government, court, third-party and other audit means.
I think your comparison to OPEC is interesting, b/c it sounds like you think the price of oil was artificially high, but in retrospect, I think many would say that it has been far too cheap to burn oil, and this has driven our multi-generational climate crisis. I.e. I think the market failure in stewarding precious resources was _not_ that OPEC tried to keep prices high, but that failing to price in the cost of damage to the climate and environment kept prices artificially low.

In the helium case in the US, my understanding is that from 1996 to 2013, though the US was the dominant global supplier and _could_ have chosen to act as a cartel, the 1996 legislation fixed prices to be artificially low (with the aim of merely paying off costs, rather than maximizing revenue), which is claimed to have disincentivized private parties from developing new production capacity.

I'm not some free-market zealot who thinks the invisible hand can do no evil. But in this case, if the problem is that (a) there's currently a bottleneck upstream of important healthcare cases and (b) we want to discourage waste then we should want helium to leave the national reserve (i.e. there's more supply available to hospitals and other parties), and we should want that to be at a reasonable price so it isn't used frivolously (e.g. we wouldn't want party planners to be induced to use more balloons just b/c they're cheap). So auctioning off some of what is held in reserve seems like a reasonable action.

Wrt pricing that is presumably _lower_ for installations with recycling capabilities -- I would think that recycling might if anything make institutions willing to pay a higher volumetric price, since they get more total benefit from it. If the recycling technology is efficient and practically applicable in many contexts, more and more facilities ought to be pressured by high costs to introduce recycling ... or leave the market.
hmm, so the nukes were/could be deterrence, which kinda proves the point
> On the other hand, the fact almost anyone can buy a PC that runs almost any program is the result of blatant copying of IBM's machines.

The PC was made with off-the-shelf parts; only the BIOS is copyrighted and, as analog31 said, IBM published the source code and schematics. That's not the same thing as condoning "blatant copying"; IBM went after clones with infringing BIOS. Most, however, followed Compaq's example and used clean room techniques to build their own, or purchased the Phoenix and other BIOS made the same way.

Almost all Apple II clones of the type described in this video infringed on Apple's intellectual property. The only exceptions are a) the Laser 128, and b) the post-lawsuit Franklin models.
I like that legislation, and I like we have real democracy at work here. Not the kind you have in the US where a loud minority imposes abstruse rules on everybody.
I was 23 at the time and it was pretty awesome (and I'm pretty sure I subbed to that magazine). I was probably playing Burn:Cycle, which was one of the numerous high-concept cyberpunk-y CD-ROM games that came out around then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_Cycle (CD-ROM games, and their massive storage and video capabilities, were still new at that time)... You'll see how wild it was if you read the story summary lol, you can probably find playthroughs of it on YouTube, I'm sure the graphics haven't aged well but I remember "Sol Cutter" vividly... aaand yep, you can LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMRggmXbJF4 Had a great techno soundtrack as well.

There was generally a ton of tech promise and a vibe of excitement, libertarian nonjudgmental sexuality that didn't demand both labeling AND acceptance as it seems to now (as can be seen throughout that magazine)... all of this at the cusp of the explosion of the Internet...
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I struggle to define it. Emotion? The feeling of another world, different from the one I inhabit? Maybe Diane Arbus could make digital look like that idk.
just go by past incidents. Quite often it is not software vuln that enables hacker's attack - it is insecure default config that user never changes and manufacturer supplies same default user/pw with each device.

also insecure backdoors left by developers for debug purposes (or is it really debug or maybe espionage?)
This is a great idea. The Philips Hue hub situation is a great case study that many are probably familiar with where the support ended for the first version of the IoT hub much sooner than many consumers were expecting. It's like a more acute and malicious form of planned obsolescence.
Oh gosh this needs a wireless option!

(And yes, I see https://www.zsa.io/wireless/)

One of my co-workers was mentioning earlier that he wanted "keyboard pants." This caught my eye because he probably would like hanging it from his belt.

But... There's a wire!

It might be less effort on the vendor's part to source out a simple "wireless USB adaptor" that they can sell as an add-on instead of writing a long-winded "you're wrong" page for people who want wireless.
> Delivery has figured out how to get to hallway doors for 50-100 years. This is a solved problem.

Most new-ish developments I've seen have a central lobby or mail room that handles all deliveries. All external doors are locked and require a keycard. No one is delivering to your front door.

Of course, whether they're staffed at 1am to handle your Doordash delivery is a separate issue.
>Or they don't have the time or wherewithal to study for a test for whatever reason.

Then they certainly don't have the time or wherewithal to vote as an informed constituent. They'll base their vote on an ad they saw on the TV, or blind party affiliation. What else can they do if they don't know the most basic facts about the institution they're participating in?

>The fact is that in order to implement this, you would have to turn away people who show up to the polls having fulfilled their end of the social contract (paying taxes, following laws, etc.).

In that case I would consider adding 'have basic knowledge of the democratic processes you participate in' to the social contract. It's no more onerous of a requirement than paying taxes IMO

And your point on 'who writes/grades the test' is a very valid one, as you say there is a history of using such measures for political repression. You'd have to be very careful and vigilant about setting it up in a fair and bipartisan manner, which unfortunately I have little hope for. I'm more attracted to the principle of the measure than how it'd likely play out in reality.
AWS Copilot has been great for deploying `services`. But I wasn't sure if the `jobs` were what I was looking for, since they are event triggered. I'll test it our now.

Essentially I'd like to build a docker image of code from a repository, and deploy and run it, and manage its lifecycle. Perhaps I could copy the CF template from the Copilot to do the same.
Terror Form has a nice ring to it.
It's not clear that the robber was leaving at the time he was shot. The robber was still threatening people with the gun when he was shot. Shooting the robber in the back was a way to get the jump on him—drawing on someone who has already drawn on you is generally suicide.

As for the risk that someone else might mistake the shooter for the robber, anyone who has taken a concealed carry class has learned that there are risks to defending yourself. It's a choice you make because you don't think there are better ones.

But fundamentally, I'm objecting to your characterization that this guy was looking to legally kill someone or that it was motivated out of a desire to keep his wallet. The robber was threatening people's lives. The danger was not over. Shooting the robber was a reasonable choice given what the shooter knew at the time.
however, blood clots where one of the side effects of the astrazeneca vaccine, not sure about the mRNA vaccines. this prompted my OP.
At what age is "early childhood"? My son is turning 5 but isn't reading yet. Should getting him to read asap be my top priority?
I went to an EFF event where there was a guy from Sling Media (Slingbox, remember them?) who said the one point that overrides all others in importance, which he learned from EFF, is that updates should never be force pushed.

Designing a device to accept force pushed updates opens non-addressable security holes by giving a mechanism that will allow political players, acquiring companies, or pretty much anyone with an angle, to use the legal system to exert any control and conduct any abuse they can get away with.
I’m appalled they didn’t loop in the HN community when considering the sale of Helium.
Data collection is another point - customers need to know if their personal data, video streams are being collected and stores somewhere?

like video camera streams, voice audio, images, etc - are they being used to train AI models for some object recognition of some sort?
I learned to type on a Corona typewriter and it would jam when the key metal arms (or whatever the name was) came from the opposite side. The arm coming from the left side leaving too slow and bam! the arm from the right side comes smashing the other arm. My guess then was that the letters were put in some fashion that the group of letters coming from the right side seldom where adjacent from the group of letters coming from the left side. The closer the arms where to the center of the typewriter the less they would travel hence faster going in and out and beneficial for the letters to be adjacent, for the English language of course.

ETAOIN SHRDLU

The 10 most common letters in the English language. With exception of the A, all towards the center of keyboard.
Nice, on a total side tangent, the logo looks fairly awkward in dark blue against a dark background. The white stroke also isn't bold enough so it looks very pixelated when also combined with a dark background.
Probably a good idea to continue with that initiative. OpenTF is new. However, your CTO should contribute to the OpenTF effort.

I would like to see more companies that leverage open-source contribute back to the very community that enables their value creation.
I hear you. My process is cheapest, doesn’t require chemicals, can be done in sunlight, and with some glsl knowledge, essentially the same. Only digitally and for $0.000000001 an image.
They don't own the no-CD crack. So technically, they are selling software they pirated.
Tokenizer benchmark comparing 16 language models pre-trained from scratch
Razor1911 is a cracking group from the mid 80s on... but it would be fantastic wouldn't it? :)
Gotcha, do you also provide functions to build and store docker images from a code repo?
I haven't seen "on crack" used in a positive light, but apparently it is sometimes? Usually I'd say "they must have a crack team on incident response", meaning a highly functional, smooth-running team.
> I also understand that on September 29, they mail out the last discs ... and subscribers can keep them.

I don't believe this is correct, or at least wasn't in the quote from a Netflix employee I read in an article a few weeks ago. It said something to the effect of, "Subscribers must still return the final discs. Unfortunately, our licensing with the studios allows for rental, not sale."

Update: It seems that they've changed that policy within the past couple of weeks.
The biggest problem isn't even new regulations. The liability for violation always tends to be a rounding error to profits. Then, even if there are teeth, there is no money for enforcement which makes it all pointless.

Look at how the FTC and SEC have completely failed us in the 21st century. Better regulations would matter if we ever bothered to enforce the ones we already have.
gHacks has a good tutorial on how to address this:

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/03/youtube-showing-ads-with-u...
Lol! If you're an engineer and you don't spend even a little time on Blind, you're signing up to get hustled. Learned so many interesting tidbits from Blind that I was able to use to get ahead in my career. Is it negative, yes; can you still benefit from it, yes.
> customers don't know what they want.

It's not always like this. I've used contractors to take on extra work that we were familiar with, but didn't have time for. We knew exactly what we want because we'd done it multiple times before and had already written a clear spec.

The eye-opening thing was that this actually scared a lot of fixed-bid contractors away. As soon as they realized that we knew the task and had the option of doing it internally (on a longer timeframe) they became less interested in working with us.

When I started playing dumb and pretending like we didn't have the experience in-house, I got some wiiild bids for how long it would take. Some of the contract shops who had clearly done this before tried to pretend that we were doing something new and novel that would require a lot of R&D.

It was a very disappointing experience. Once of the worst contract shops was even the recommended support partner from one of our vendors.
Wanted to write a snarky comment along the lines of "no AI? it is already dead". But I clicked and

> Tokyo- and Atlanta-based startup Mujin, which develops AI-based software for industrial automation...