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In our entitled and highly litigious society I call this Corporate Normal Form.

First Corporate Normal Form is messaging derogatories, or things perceived as such, to have a unoffensive coating and makes speaking about them not immediately trigger your fight or flight response.

On a related note, George Carlin has a funny skit about how messaging has gotten softer over the years that you might enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY
Amazon and a lot of places either have tailgating detection in the turnstiles or at some locations airlock style turnstiles.

One place I worked people would scan in, log in, then jump the turnstile out to not track the badge out, then go back home and work.
Farm robots inspired by ant brains
Can you pre-prompt politeness?

For example, ‘assume every question I am about to ask is phrased in an incredibly polite way.’
But google isn't retiring their cloud. They're just kicking the jamboards off it. The jamboards are computers capable of doing local compute. There's no hardware limitation preventing them from being a lot more useful.

What we need is longer minimum warranties for electronics, with support and security fixes for 10+ years.
The driving bit seems to have been some editorializing on the submitter's part, the title has been changed to match the article.
I wanted to believe the same, until I thought about the Tax Office and, basically, the entirety of my government, who happen to not be USA but is definitely a Microsoft place.
In that analogy the source of the ELF would be hand-written assembly. There aren't many layers of abstraction above the graph when it comes to ML.
I don't actually expect GPS to be impacted in the coming week, but I think the big difference is that in the last partial shutdown, DoD funding had already been separately approved in September [2,3], and the shutdown started months later [1]. This cycle, b/c the NDAA has _not_ been passed, the DoD will be meaningfully impacted [4]:

- service members will not be paid

- some post and base services, commissaries and medical procedures may be stopped

Note that legislation has been proposed but not adopted to make sure that military personnel are paid even during a government shutdown. Note also that key military promotions/confirmations have been blocked for months in the Senate. It really seems like Congress does is not currently taking the military and national security seriously.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932019_United_State...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5895

[3] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6157

[4] https://www.npr.org/2023/09/27/1201956915/government-shutdow...
This is essentially how I eat except for the salt, if I don't get quite a bit of salt in my diet I feel horrendous. But otherwise I'm usually at somewhere around 75-80% calories as carbs. Oats, lentils, peas, beans, tons of veggies. Instant pot all of it. At first I was scared about low protein but I'm fugging shredded and have great workouts.
Stop defending the billion dollar corporations when they make expensive hardware into expensive paperweights.

Google could easily open source the software needed to run this without their cloud services.
She really was pretty moderate in many ways, especially when it came to defense/ir. I doubt her replacement will be as moderate, but hopefully she will be younger and more cognitively fit. (We have a competency crisis in our highest ranks, perhaps it’s a feature for certain factions, but it’s a big problem. Generational variation in narcissistic behavior doesn’t explain it all. How many of our current leaders would we invest in if they were the ceo of even a small, easy to run and profitable organization.)
Man, HN has sure changed. Clearly I'm not among fellow hackers if people are worried about tone rather than truth.

If someone needs their ass kissed to recognize I'm right, that's on them. Not me.
How feasible would you estimate passive positioning systems?

For example consider solar radio noise at frequencies that are partially reflected, partially transmitted by the ionosphere.

Do you consider it possible for an SDR to geolocate by comparing multiple antenna signals say:

1: "direct signal" : sun -DOWN-> partial transmitted through ionosphere -DOWN-> antenna 1 aimed at sun

2: "geography / terrain fingerprinted signal" : sun -DOWN-> partially transmitted through ionosphere -DOWN-> reflection on Earth -UP-> partial reflection from ionosphere -DOWN-> antenna 2

Or any suggested variations? (reflection from moon for example).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ionospheric_layers_f...

i.e. can Western citizens prepare to still have geopositioning in case of an adversarial (successful) first strike against GPS and Galileo where the citizen refuses to rely on adversary positioning systems.
That's not a solution, and it's certainly not simple.

For one thing, it would mean that I'd have to pull my kids out of school, pull my money out of the bank and cancel all of my utilities.

Heck, I'd need the equivalent of a degree in tax accounting just to avoid being jailed by the IRS, since I wouldn't be able to use tax software. (Not that this would matter, since I have to use *aaS stuff to pay my mortgage and insurance and collect my paychecks, so my taxes would be simpler next year.)

Even if I somehow managed to connect to the Internet without indirectly paying for a SaaS, I wouldn't be able to browse it in practice without agreeing to ToS contracts from companies I haven't even heard of.

Don't agree with the cloudflare, google and aws ToS agreements? Try blocking all their servers (since continuing to use the services implies agreeing to continuously-updated ToS terms). If you succeed, you'll find that the internet doesn't work at all. You can't even use email normally, since it's unclear what addresses get routed through which service providers, and what terms you have to agree with to "use" their SMTP services.
> but behavioral targeting is good for small businesses

Call me selfish, but my concern is not for businesses of any size. I don't want to be followed around the Internet any more than I want to be followed around in my “real” daily life.

I'm fine with adverts based on what I am currently looking at and/or where I am (the latter at a granular level: country/region/city, not more precise). Anything more than that involves tracking and storing data that I consider an intrusion. Some might disagree with the granular location even, though without that you can't simulate something like posters in local shop windows advertising local events (which to me feels valid).

If I'm looking at technical things¹, by all means advertise technical things¹ at me. Heck, feel free to blanket advertise your technical things¹ more widely. But I don't want targetted advertising for technical things to stalk me when I'm booking a holiday or doing my weekly shop online, any more than I'd want someone following me into the travel agent or supermarket, tapping me on the shoulder and saying “I hear you've been looking at laptops, could I interest you in …”.

Small or not, I don't want a business following me around.

--

[1] replace “technical things” with anything else I might have looked at or been shopping for: running shoes, martial arts equipment, groceries, recipes, scifi books, books in general, TV listings, etc.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines. "The short answer is no,"
In general, I don't want to "discover" products, not at all times of the day, on every web site I visit, every radio and TV station I tune into, every billboard I pass.

Marketers have this notion that people are all merely 24/7 product-consumers, constantly on the lookout to discover new products to consume, and as long as their "message" reaches my brain, it's an unambiguously good thing for both parties.

When I'm browsing the web, or driving to work, or watching a show, or trying to complete some basic task around my life, I'm definitely not trying to discover your product. I wish marketers would stop assuming I am. If I want to look for an unknown product, I'll deliberately go out and do so. In that case, and only in that case, ads are welcome.
The thing Google knows is that once the law decides what privacy means, neither Google nor you get to have your own definition anymore.
I mean... I absolutely do think early adopters of stuff are ridiculous and that the only reason I hop into bleeding edge tech is if I need or want to target it as a developer; and yet, I also think that a lot of these issues are ridiculous and in many cases (not sure about this current one, to be clear; but I haven't heard the cause yet) predictable (to the people who came up with / added it, not necessarily those of us in the peanut gallery that don't even know what really changed) to the point where it sometimes feels like the companies aren't doing sufficient QA at the conceptual level before pushing their product, as if what matters more is hitting some release deadline than making users happy.

I guess: I blame the premise that Apple is a publicly traded company and I blame the people who work for it for going along with the incentives it has to simultaneously market the hell out of their new devices right out of the gate while simultaneously not really thinking through the ramifications of their designs in a way commiserate to the idea that they themselves are the reason so many people insist on ravenously buying into this stuff immediately. Like, it just doesn't, to me, feel like a cultural problem: it feels like a problem with the kind of arrogant marketing and simultaneously arrogant technical stance that the overall arrogant company that is Apple likes to take with their entire public image.
> I suppose being design sensitive folks, as many Apple customers are

That trope is so very, very tired, surely on HN we can get past it?

The iPhone has over 50% market share. The vast majority of iPhone owners do not give two shits about the design of the phone. They slap it in a case anyway, and get on with their lives.
Your claim that I was making a baseless accusation is purposefully incorrect. You read the same parent comment suggesting group punishment for an entire people unrelated to the organization in question. I'm not judging you based on my non existent powers of telepathy, I'm judging you for your actions because you were sticking up for prejudiced statements. Your accusation that I was creating a straw man by conflating the advocacy of group punishment to the Jewish people by the Spanish government with antisemitism is wrong. That original comment was plainly and purposely in fact antisemitic. If you really are earnestly trying to be some sort of drive by moderator of debate, you're incorrectly applying it here. It is absolutely okay to "screech" antisemitism where it exists. The original comment was a clear demonstration of vile hatred against the Jewish people and I'm sure you were able to perceive that as well. But I guess you'll continue to evade, deny, and accuse your way out of owning your own behavior. In my personal life experience, I've come across many layers of prejudiced people. Some folks blatantly and openly spout racism. Others don't want to put quotable statements out there so they just sort of offer general support to the hateful folks without directly addressing the hateful statements as if they accidentally missed them. It's usually something about the rules or etiquette. What's the right way to call out racism? Do you suggest a more appropriate alternative? Or are you still suggesting that the racism in this case was a figment of my own imagination?
>We aren't cutting any core businesses, and are continuing to invest in games with Fortnite first-party development, the Fortnite creator ecosystem and economy, Rocket League and Fall Guys

Interesting he mentions investing in Fall Guys specifically when Mediatonic was hit really heavily by these layoffs.
How the Innovative Admin Embraces Adaptability for Career Success
Well, RMS tirelessly advocates for his beliefs, but sometimes his beliefs are regressive and outdated. In particular I remember a debate perhaps 8-10 years ago when the gcc team wanted to expose more info from the compiler back end to enable better support for editor integrations and similar tools, because gcc simply couldn't compete with LLVM in that department. IIRC RMS stepped in with a unilateral decision blocking the effort, saying that it wasn't a big deal anyway because editor integration wasn't an important feature. RMS, a guy who (AFAIK) hasn't done any serious coding in 30 years.
Arc raises $70M for electric wakesport boat
I'm surprised, I thought the digital imaging was the standard now. The eye doctor I've been going to for several years now only does the new method and doesn't even offer dilation afaik.
Highly recommend taking a shot at LD. Games are great fun to make and doing one from scratch in a rush is a fantastic way to learn a bunch of things quickly. Also, I haven't done an LD for many years but I still have some online friends I met there. I suggest giving it a try!
Google supporting privacy… lol
And so, to back to your question:

> Imagine what the CA/Browser Forum would do if they discovered that a PKIX CA had lost control of its signing keys, didn't revoke them and in fact carried on using them for 2 years without telling anyone...

Are these certificates affected? Or perhaps the CA/Browser Forum aren't aware of the scope.
Another system similar to this but with more information is STAR voting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_voting

They all have different strengths and weaknesses. We should be trying to move to more optimal systems.
The problem with this is it just merges both. I want to be able to pipe both while keeping them separate.

I guess at that point you'd need 4 standard FD's: STDIN, STDOUT, STDERRIN, and STDERR.
Microsoft will stop old Windows keys from activating new Windows installs
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat/

I did not follow a specific guide but the setup is relatively simple. The commands I list below is all you need to set it up.

To view existing seats:

~ loginctl list-seats

To show assigned hardware for a specific seat:

~ loginctl seat-status seat0

Initially there will one seat. To create a new seat just attach some hardware to it.

Lets reassign a usb port to a new seat:

~ sudo loginctl attach seat-1 /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:05:00.0/usb3

Lets reassign a sound card to seat 1 instead:

~ sudo loginctl attach seat-1 /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:02:00.1/sound/card2

You will typically do this for a screen card, sound card and some USB ports and then you will have another seat available.

If you want to reset run:

~ sudo loginctl flush-devices

Some gotchas:

Seats and users are two different concepts. You can log in on any seat with any user but then you should not log into the other seats with the same user. That generally causes issues for me but is fixed with a reboot.

Use GPU's that run on the same driver.
English is not my first language, but I am good enough that I still think I was justified to be (slightly) surprised when they started charging.
Can we stop acting like it isn't trivial to get around these laws if you're not stupid about it? The US has at-will employment, which means that you just come up with another excuse to fire someone without being stupid enough to explicitly state it's related to their disability.
Neither are celebrities in the media
I work in IoT as well and definitely try to implement as much as possible locally as well. What companies seem to forget is that any part of the product that's cloud hosted becomes an ongoing cost that goes up in proportion to the number of devices sold.

The less you have in the cloud (generally) the better the economics for the manufacturer.
Yeah it's interesting how an 8% change can be so perceptible. I think it's also a change in the moment of inertia contributing to that feeling. The 13PM that I traded-in for my 15PM feels like a brick in comparison.
Prison for shills. And rewards for whistleblowing on illegal ads, garnished from the companies that paid for them. The same incentive mechanism that makes tax enforcement effective [0].

Fundamentally, ad markets can't hide from enforcement, so long as whoever's buying the ads is a commercial entity interacting with the financial system. Which it usually is: the primary reason to buy ads is to boost sales of something that's being sold on the open marketspace, overtly and conspicuously. (If it's being advertised, it must be conspicuous, right?)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_Whistleblower_Office?usesk...

[late edit]: In short—if society wants to ban ads, that's a thing that's enforceable and difficult to evade.
Effectively loading ads without impacting page speed
The article pretty much gets Google's philosophy on this correct. Google, having cut their teeth on being pioneers in search in a world where people were still figuring out what the consequences of vastly collating human data at scale were, found themselves all too often the moral and philosophical pioneers as well, whether or not they wanted to be.

As a consequence, they have heavy skepticism about both government and public capacity to self-regulate here. Neither group has usually done either the deep reflection or trial by fire that Google has in figuring out all of the parameters of the problem, all of the consequences of the decisions, etc.

In short, they trust themselves more than they trust anybody else and they put their lobbying money in places that allow them to maximize acting on that self-trust. They'd rather be making mistakes and correcting them than forced to make what they perceive to be the wrong decision by bad ideas baked into unmovable law. Good bad or indifferent, that's where they're coming from.

(And to be clear, this is not an endorsement of their position. I think people who believe that there is a gap between that self-image and of the reality of the decisions they've made as de facto arbiters of privacy online have plenty of evidence to bring to the table to support their position.)
Letterboxd, Online Haven for Film Nerds, Gets a New Owner
Ha! Thanks for clearing that up- was there a leak?
There's even an old BBC documentary on this called Century of the Self [1] created by Adam Curtis that covers how businesses and governments were taught to make people desire things they don't need.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s [video][4 hours][996 MB]
You’re right, Google’s stalking and manipulation conflict with my interests.
Btw. Norway is not a member state of the European Union (EU).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway%E2%80%93European_Union_...
As always, chat gpt makes experience more valuable and inexperience even more of a disadvantage
What does that have to do with anything? It's a better material. Many materials are engineered to make them better. Steel isn't 'natural' either in that regard.
Musk Fires Entire 'Election Integrity Team' at X
I'm guessing part of the problem is that some folks internet just couldn't handle it. I tried GeForce NOW and Stadia and Stadia felt miles ahead in responsiveness.
https://cloud.typingmind.com/share/80e896c4-47e9-42e6-a8e4-d...

Not a bad start.
Same way you prevent any anti-social activity which is highly profitable?!?

How do developed countries stop people cutting their products with cheaper alternatives?

How do we enforce weights and measures legislation so every shop visit doesn't require you to lug along your own standard weights and scales?

How do we stop investments being all scams (ok so this one has failed a bit in the US.)

The answer is competent regulation with active enforcement. Tie reviews to a government issued ID. Enforce stiff penalties for any company found to be pissing in the communal data pool.
A mature open source project may be governed under an open source foundation which usually gives it a charter https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/charter.md#3-va...

... and/or set of values: https://kubernetes.io/community/values/

There's also a lot of open source guides here https://todogroup.org/resources/guides/ that may help you if you're looking at building mature open source projects.
Least intrusive: Make it take up so little space that you don’t even need to close it, make the accept button green and the deny button red, and let there be no consequence if neither is clicked. Don’t make anyone aware of the ambiguity that not clicking it is neither consent or denial.

Pointing out this stuff forces you into the path of requiring that people click on it before being able to navigate the website, which is extremely intrusive, and makes all the marketing people insist that you apply dark patterns.
Residential use isn't a lot, as the area is very sparsely populated, so it's about using less water-intensive crops there. Farmers will have to adapt to not having a dam for the next few years anyway, so reasoning goes -- maybe we will not rebuild the dam once everybody figured out what to do without it.

Barren is quite a stretch. Here is what a natural reserve in the area looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askania-Nova. People lived in the South before the dam was build and will live there regardless of it being rebuild.
Yea, it’s pretty normal - people are rightfully try to poke at your solution before they spend money on it.

Sometimes they are simply not the target market (yet) and that’s okay.
Prices hospitals post can be wildly different than what they share over phone
s/Facebook/any privately owned and controlled hardware-software platforms
There's no "their side" here, both sides of the Dnipro are Ukrainian territory; one of them is temporarily occupied.
I like how you open with "you are correct" then go on to completely ignore the GPs comments.

I've been doing this stuff for longer than a lot of people on here have been alive and the biggest risk is always your weakest link. The weakest link in most companies isn't the cloud, it's the engineers deploying to the cloud. That weak link exists regardless of whether those engineers deploy to a centralised place or on-prem.

Is there an additional risk having something centralised? Sure. But in the vast majority of use cases, that risk is going to be marginal (and for those types of businesses where it is an unacceptable risk, they are largely not using public clouds for exactly this reason).

And we are back to my point about these conversations being nuanced. A security team, if they do their job correctly, doesn't just make blanket statements like "centralised systems are insecure" -- instead they identify the risks and develop an IT strategy based around which risks a business is willing to accept and which are not.
Well yeah, but of course it's kinda hard to just go ask the people who make monetary policy for the global black-market economy, since they wouldn't want to admit to any of it.
"simpsons weird nerds defending elon musk from valid criticism".gif but for Tim Sweeney
> Is military GPS more accurate than civilian GPS?

> The user range error (URE) of the GPS signals in space is actually the same for the civilian and military GPS services. However, most of today's civilian devices use only one GPS frequency, while military receivers use two.

> Using two GPS frequencies improves accuracy by correcting signal distortions caused by Earth's atmosphere. Dual-frequency GPS equipment is commercially available for civilian use, but its cost and size has limited it to professional applications.

> With augmentation systems, civilian users can actually receive better GPS accuracy than the military.

Is it fully true ? So the only advantages of the military GPS is that the codes are unknown and that it is more jamming proof ?
That construction is simply dropping an implied "if". It's a rhetorical trick, bordering on dishonest - it's trying to paint a false picture and make something sound weightier or more exciting than it is, by making you think about a hypothetical as if it actually happened when it didn't.