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The interview that is linked[0] in the footnotes of the article with the person from ETSI is absolutely wild... Some excerpts:

> kz (interviewer): How did it go about meeting those requirements, because that's the one they're saying has a backdoor in it. Was that the condition for export?

> BM (ETSI): Backdoor can mean a couple of things I think. Something like you'd stop the random number generator being random, for instance. [But] what I think was revealed [by the researchers] was that TEA1 has reduced key-entropy. So is that a backdoor? I don't know. I'm not sure it's what I would describe as a backdoor, nor would the TETRA community I think.

...

> KZ: People ... believe they're getting an 80-bit key and they're not.

> BM: Well it is an 80-bit long key. [But] if it had 80 bits of entropy, it wouldn't be exportable.

...

> kz: You're saying 25 years ago 32 bit would have been secure?

> BM: I think so. I can only assume. Because the people who designed this algorithm didn't confer with what was then EP-TETRA [ETSI Project-TETRA is the name of the working group that oversaw the development of the TETRA standard]. We were just given those algorithms. And the algorithms were designed with some assistance from some government authorities, let me put it that way.

...

> bm: That's what we now know yeah - that it did have a reduced key length.

> KZ: What do you mean we now know? SAGE created this algorithm but the Project-TETRA people did not know it had a reduced key?

> BM: That's correct. Not before it was delivered. Once the software had been delivered to them under the confidential understanding, that's the time at which they [would have known].

...

You've really got to wonder who at ETSI gave the thumbs up on doing this interview.

0 - https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/p/interview-with-the-etsi-sta...
Note that I was implying that there is no merit to "making money" by itself.
I haven't read the paper, but James Hoffman and others regularly do blind tasting with 3 cups, testing things like extraction. In the case of extraction, for example, they'll measure extraction with precision scales, then have 2 cups at one level (either the "optimal" extraction or slightly below/above) and the third cup at the other level. They don't know which is the outlier, but they're to guess. They seem to be very open when they're not sure or the difference to them is marginal. They try to control variables like temperature.

I don't know if they make sure the person putting the cups down doesn't know which is which.
Or maybe people have different principles than you.
> Read the article I linked to. Then claim with a straight face that razing Gaza is the only option Israel has.

Great comment and again no answer.

You think question with suggestive answer is dishonest way of conducting debate? Ok. I get that. Let’s remove any suggestiveness from the question. “ What would you suggest Israel do if fighting hamas is not an option.”

I am not OP an I personally did not suggest anything, I just wanted to see your responsible answer.

So, what Israel should do in your opinion?
And what outcome you expect after it does it?

PS: I’ve read the article. Disappointed by the quality of it. It is written with intention of emotional impact and to push predefined agenda. It twists meaning by playing with words. I notice those tricks and can’t read it with keeping my face ‘straight’( using your word).
I generally don't follow recipes and rules although I do read them - but always experiment during cooking. Coffee is one of those over the last 40+ years.

After many iterations (filter, mocha pot, simple espresso), I have arrived at a French press for my morning coffee at home - I grind coffee reasonable fine and onto the pot while getting water ready in a electric heater. I add just under 3 tablespoons of water and then slow stir for a good 2 to 3 mins. Then add remaining water. After a couple of mins, it is a really smooth coffee in a mug and ready for the scrum call.

I do the same for tea as well - tea leaves, black as I prefer with milk, stir, wait and a relaxing cup at night.

I found the stirring to be the most useful - mentally a few mins of inconsequential living, and then with a good cup
It seems we have dialed down corporate taxes and taxes on the extremely wealthy. In their place (because these things don't pay for themselves) we have shifted the tax burden elsewhere.

If I don't go to National Parks why should my taxes pay for them? Make the visitors pay to enter.

Seems to be where we are these days.
That depends on what they’re trying to address.

If the issue is primarily the presence of the vehicles themselves, it makes sense that larger vehicles take more space and cause more congestion.

If “congestion” also factors in pedestrians, then those larger vehicles are increasing congestion at a higher rate than smaller vehicles, both in terms of space taken by the vehicle, and number of humans entering the area.

I get what you’re saying, but I think there are a number of ways to make it make sense depending on what behavior they’re trying to alter.
That's not my experience in London tbh; you can get away with a 7 year old diesel car, for example. Also, this is being done where the public transport is second to none, so everyone has an option for local transport 20 hours or so a day.
> It seems odd to try to build an RPG in a procedural world. It’s hard to build an immersive world,

cough caves of qud cough
The other regions of Europe don’t include that big of a timespan, from 400-500 BCE to the contemporary era. The only exception is the Italian peninsula and its Northern region (the Po Plain). That’s what also made a guy like Byron to fight and die at Missolonghi, doing it on some desolate field in Northern France or present-day Belgium would have meant nothing for him.
> hate the lack of tactile buttons in those cars

This is one thing these new generation of "ipad only" cars gets completely wrong. We should be building these interfaces the same way NASA built the mars rover instead of building them like another left-pad nodejs electron app.

The feedback should be immediate without lag like an actual button. I however don't really need it to be tactile.
If those are all the greatest works, why does anyone bother pirating movies and TV? Oh right, because they're infinitely more entertaining and cost millions to make.
It’s also not really a different format then, just a constrained form of PNG.
Absolutely untrue in all states of Germany and Austria I've visited. People here would flip out if conveyor belt sushi was priced any other way but with a simple flat rate.

The entire world is not just Japan or the USA, please be respectful of this.
Do you know what is a great productivity boost? Muting all slack notifications.
I had seen the video before but completely missed the video conference capability. I wonder what network line they used for that. Simply amazing
There are also a few recent developments that should frighten any foreign companies that are still operating in China

- China's government's unprecedented and nationally coordinated audit on Foxconn's taxes and real estates in China. You could say that it is politically motivated, given the ceo of Foxconn was at one point running for president in Taiwan. However, he has since stepped out of the race, yet the audit is still ongoing. No doubt this has scared many Taiwanese firms to quickly move out of China, since this is just part of recent trend to try to squeeze money out of any capitalists (foreign or homegrown) since China is very very broke. (no, their now dwindling $800B dollar reserves is smaller than the dollar debt they owe abroad)

- a ton of recent arrest and prevention of foreign executives from leaving China. For example Japanese https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/how-an-executives... and American https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/business/china-business-c.... This has prompted many companies to pull their employees out of China. Recently Moody downgraded China's rating, and Moody issued warnings to its employees in China https://www.businessinsider.com/moodys-staff-in-china-wfh-du...

- Russia's recent nationalization of foreign company assets. Being that China is allied with Russia in war against Europe and US, supplying Russia, and has the same dictatorship quality, it is very likely China will walk down the same path of nationalizing Apple's assets
A friend of mine was a reseller for them! Fond memories !
Doing them daily would be useless -- it generally takes a month or more for supplements to start to show effects. 6x or 4x a year is the most you need. These will tell you if your vitamin D supplementation is working fine, or if you need to double it, or if you should halve it, for example.

The tests aren't that expensive. At insurance rates, it'll run you maybe $75-150 for the whole standard set in the US if you're paying 100%. And the first one is mostly covered as part of your free annual checkup anyways.

Are they slow and a hassle? Sure, but what do you expect? They're also a minor miracle, that they can detect so much about your health from little vials.

Point is, if you want to do it, you can.
Could a 1m30 trailer of your favorite book be made in a way that conveyed that it's well written? There's style and world building, small aspects of which can be conveyed in small formats, but there's drama composition and significant aspects of style and world that cannot be compressed into a format so small. I think almost all high capital "artistic" projects are conservative in their design, so as to be a safe investment, which basically means having a trailer that will sell. The question being asked, I think, is "if a given element of the production can't make it into the trailer, does it even have a return on investment?".
To be coldly analytical in response: Surfside is a bad example. You're right that it wouldn't matter there, but that's not the use case.

On the national level, because there are few dire incidents in an affluent peaceful nation, there may not be much use for this in, say, the USA. You can solve most of its emergency problems with raw manpower and there aren't many resource constraints.

It's real use case is international, especially in times and places of war.

I can pick two out of the news right now - Ukraine, Palestine - and say it would be helpful there. But even if those wars ended, we can be certain new ones will crop up with similar conditions, where it could also be used. There will always be places, internationally, where buildings are collapsing and resources for rescue are scant to nonexistent.
Wow. So the word is a contronym?
> It seems a strange belief that you can tell all the radio operators about the vulnerability without also telling exploiters

I suspect that there was an update (or replacement) to the radios that was generally described as an ordinary update / maintenance.
There was a delightful Usenet post way back around 1990, where someone described how they had just purchased a new multi-CD player. They very excitedly filled it up with their collection of Prince CDs, and set it to random shuffle play mode.

Great for a while, but then they complained that all the slow songs were bunched together. And perhaps the random shuffle play mode was sampling the songs, deriving the tempo of each, and adjusting the shuffle accordingly.

Very funny.

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Heh-heh, I independently came up with Fibonacci hashing for color many years ago.

My web app was drawing a diagram of N rectangular items, color-coded to tell them apart, with a table listing the details of each below.

(Normally I would use EIA standard colors, with a nod to my EE brethren.)

But I didn't want the colors to bias anything. So you'd normally try random colors. But random colors can come out weird and some can be close together.

So I used a Golden Angle around the hue circle, with a constant brightness and saturation. And sure enough, the generated colors were nicely differentiated.

BUT... not as nice as I'd like. Something was wrong.

It turns out that our perception of color is more complex. And when we're differentiating between colors, it really, really helps if the colors are familiar, and describable.

So simple colors like blue and purple are much easier to differentiate than a new weird blueish color and a new weird purplish color.

So my Golden Angle colors were technically superior, but not as good a user experience.
Urban sprawl is perhaps the most environmentally devastating behaviour that humans do.
This site was originally called "Startup News" then renamed to "Hacker News".
I hear the faint hum of the interstate right now and it makes me think that somewhere along it through space and time there is someone experiencing something so different.
It’s going to be hilarious when Elon starts deplatforming executives that boycott X ads from Tesla.
For the record, here are the requirements: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/car...

Minimum emissions standards

Petrol: Euro 4 (NOx)

Diesel: Euro 6 (NOx and PM)

Petrol cars that meet the ULEZ standards are generally those first registered as new with the DVLA after 2005, although cars that meet the standards have been available since 2001

Diesel cars that meet the standards are generally those first registered with the DVLA as new after September 2015
It puts a cost on flexibility, optionality, that kind of thing, which tend to increase dramatically with wealth.
I've heard you get better results if you spritz them.
European here.

Ukraine/Russia war is caused by disagreements between US/NATO and Russia.

EU has nothing to do with it, and if US didn't involve itself with Europe or try to expand NATO, there wouldn't be any war. The chance of it spreading to the rest of Europe, except if EU countries attack Russia (or help Ukraine with too much weapons), is zero.
> Tesla is the only car that gets better every few months via over the air updates

If hardware is software locked, this is pretty easy to accomplish.

>> Coming with next month's update - heated seats.

The heating coils were always there.
While I can understand your first and last points the tactile button thing is not a thing.

For the important things there are tactile buttons, the rest works really well in practice.

To the point where I now feel a bit attacked by sea of buttons when I get into a modern non-Tesla.
Was JavaScript really made in 10 days?
> Option 3 is to recognize that all societal freedoms exist within the construct of society.

I consider this an axiom of any discussion about liberties, rather than as an option to be separately considered. The only point of talking about "liberties" or "freedoms" is in the context of there being more than one person, because otherwise the discussion is irrelevant as it would all amount to the same regardless.

So I suppose the real option 3 is as follows: kill every other human except for yourself.
They are used for many things, like fire, ambulance, railways, harbour operations, police, military, coast guard, and so on.

The weaker cipher mode, TEA1, is used when selling the radios to anyone who may not necessarily be an ally or highly trusted. This is the legacy of strong crypto being export-controlled.

It was public that these ciphers were weaker, but they were actually much weaker than advertised. This is the backdoor.
Apparently you're in an extremely tiny (so tiny it's negligible) minority,

The buyers who have made the car the best-selling car on Earth obviously couldn't care less about the opinions of virtue signallers.
Animation vs. Physics
We don't have to discuss anything if you don't like, you replied to me.

Also that's not what trespass means. You don't "deprive" someone of their land when you walk on it without permission, and you don't "deprive" someone of their song when you pirate it.
I can't discern how many are just those "dependabot" bumps but the 1400 forks show some are active https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/forks?include=active&page... including CircleCI who I would think have a stake in a libre Nomad https://github.com/circleci/nomad/tree/circleci/release-1.5....

Now maybe their goals don't align with the community, and/or they don't want to be in the maintainer business for such a project, but better than nothing
1. Numbers are close enough to correct

2. This is no longer true, the plan is tolling individuals driving into that area 24 hours a day, and from 5AM-9PM at the full rate.

5. Just because Manhattan has public transit doesn’t mean they’re coming from a neighborhood with accessible public transit. Converting a short drive into a 2 hour each way trip is wrong no matter how poor the person.
If you want to maximize passengers per 'vehicle space' this is the pricing you use. While the van costs more, the per-passenger price is less at capacity. The only other option is to charge based on actual passenger count (with the price being lower per-passenger as you have more passengers).

If they were to charge less for larger vehicles, people would buy larger vehicles just for carting themselves around regardless of number of passengers, which would increase overall congestion.
Some time ago there was a github repo online that has all teaX and hurdle algorithms code, and also ta61 identity encryption algorithm mentioned by Midnightblue.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230213001503/https://github.co...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230213001335/https://github.co...
Which makes me question describing this as a "deliberate backdoor."
Is this a serious proposal or am I missing how this is a joke?
If so, that'd be vigilante justice and still immoral.
Tech unemployment fell in November, lowest level since January
we can either "just" have ppl pay $15, a nice simple free market solution that doesn't limit anyone.

or we can run a daily lottery and create a port of call just outside NYC for people to wait until they win the daily lottery. and administer the daily lottery. and somehow communicate daily to the winners. and really set a hard cap on entrants.

"just" does seem to apply to one of those options to me, but not the second
Ouch nobody called my out of my misspelling (twice) of Aragorn. I'll surrender my Nerd card.
Congestion charges are not primarily about money. The desired effect is discouraging people from driving there. The income is a nice side effect, but not the goal.
Don’t forget that those societies also impose heavy obligations on men. Are secular women, many of who are stuck both working and raising kids by themselves without men supporting them, happier on average? I haven’t seen any data to suggest that’s true. Indeed, Mormons are happier overall than other groups: https://news.gallup.com/poll/152732/religious-higher-wellbei.... Maybe there’s a big gender gap there but I’m not aware of any data to support that notion.
Then why make two?
I think your “90%” is quite unfair as EnvKey also has a lot of features that Vault doesn’t have, and the comparison is focused specifically on secrets management.

Vault has some long tail infra/enterprise features that EnvKey lacks and perhaps those are relevant to you, but a lot of them aren’t really secrets management per se, and for the core objective of managing secrets and config, EnvKey has a lot in terms of de-duplication, automation, and UI/UX/DX that Vault lacks. But for sure it depends on your use case.

Of course we are going to be somewhat biased, but everything in the quick compare section is backed up below. On security, EnvKey has end-to-end encryption; Vault doesn’t and requires trusting the host server. EnvKey is clearly easier to set up and use. EnvKey has an MIT license. EnvKey fits into a local development workflow and keeps config in sync much more effectively.

For sure you could write something that gives more attention to Vault’s specific strengths, but I stand by the comparison as broadly accurate.
I agree but at least Tesla is making us all a favor by pushing innovation and lower prices to the rest of carmakers. If it was for the old players we would still be with hybrids like Prius or electrics with short range and highly decaying battery like the Nissan Leaf.
> So software makers should give their competitors their software with a liberal free “as in beer” license and then try to compete with them.

This is literally what they did when they released their product code under an OSS license. It was their free choice.

> This isn’t a workable or sustainable model. The companies leveraging free software don’t have to work nearly as hard on software which means they can focus 100% on ops and marketing. And of course they don’t give anything back to the software creators

The other companies might not need to work so hard, but they also have little to no control.

If you can't build a sustainable business on a piece of software when you are the steward of that software, control the product direction and backlog etc., then you're not very good at the business.

Or, put another way, if your business success hinges on people not competing when they have access to (and license to use) your source code, when releasing it under an OSS license demonstrates that you're not very good at the business.
>Surely they'd have a minimal IT department...

That is horrifically underfunded, so the pay is low, so the employees get poached all the time. I have a bit more insider information here than most as I had family that has worked in the court system and law enforcement 20+ years, and was good friends with IT at the county.

These counties are generally so busy fixing past problems there is zero time, budget, and manpower to implement new technology like you're talking about. Seriously recovering encrypted systems is a major part of their time. As to the poaching, the number one 'company' that poached good IT people in the county was the feds. They tend to pay a lot more, and they too are generally critically understaffed.

Most IT people simply don't want to work for county/state/fed at the end of the day because pay isn't great, and for that not great pay there are a lot of restrictions.
Interesting! This is the same as the “EST” sessions depicted in the TV series The Americans, for those familiar with it. Didn’t realize it went back so far.
Do you remember when cryptography export was controlled? It was implemented by limiting key size to certain number of (effective) bits (of security). This suite is just a victim of that law, as it is a 1990s design.
Law suit, but generally arbitration of some kind (the conceptual kind, not the legal term). Part of the social contract is that we don't resolve our own disputes beyond a certain level of seriousness, we allow neutral third parties to do so. Otherwise we'd have fights in the streets and mob justice.
Surprisingly startups often don't even pay less cash salary these days. It used to be the trade-off: a much lower cash salary but a pile of shares. Not anymore. You trade off in FAANG vs something else, yes - if they want you. But not startup vs established.
Looks like a handy resource you're building here, thanks for this.

FYI the category link right under the title links to a different category to the link below, and the first link only contains one post.
I find Nuitka worked a lot better than the alternatives. It genuinely compiles the Python to an executable, rather the all the other alternatives (like pyinstaller) which actually have the Python files hidden inside of them. It doesn't give any particular speed advantage (despite that being the original point) but works very well for packaging.

I would suggest using the "standalone" mode of Nuitka. As the name suggests, it is self contained, but it's a lot of files per program because all the C extension modules are separate files. It's tempting to use "onefile" model instead because it really is over for so seems neater, but this is really just a self extracting program with the same files hidden inside as standalone, so has a few issues like the other packagers (e.g. can trigger virus warnings or leave files lying around in temp directory).
Urban density doesn't cause the issue of traffic. The issue of traffic is caused by cars. Urban density allows public transportation, the only current viable alternative, to be financially sound on a large scale.