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> If your system isn't 100% secure against hacking, you can't really use the system for business.

In a perfect world? Yeah sure. But in the real world that's simply untenable. Every major browser has critical CVEs every few months. Clearly they're not "100% secure against hacking". Are you suggesting that we "can't really use [them] for business"?

>Genuinely sensitive meetings should be held outside, with no electronic equipment brought and at an unexpected place and time.

The physical world is anything but secure, especially when you're up against the local security services with tens of thousands of agents. Parabolic microphones exist. Bugs can be installed. "unexpected place and time" might make those hard/expensive to pull off, but it doesn't make it "100% secure". Moreover, how are you supposed to coordinate all of this cloak and dagger stuff without electronic communications?
> chose to make the RDJ villain central to the plot

The movie is really about the conflict between a small-souled bureaucrat and a physics genius. The question is: what could a different story have been? I'm not sure there is enough juice in the "personal guilt" angle, and I don't think the "communist spie" angle is viable in today's Hollywood, given the general political leanings and, well, who the actual traitors were. Oppenheimer's direct involvement hasn't been conclusively proven (unlike eg Leo Szilard and a myriad others), so it comes down to how much you believe Pavel Sudoplatov's testimony, who was an NKVD general.
Uncommonly known factoid: movie ticket sales have been sharply declining for decades. We hit 'peak Hollywood' in 2002. [1] That's especially remarkable when you consider that the population has continued to increase since then.

The 'record breaking sales' since then are mostly a product of inflation alongside a mix of price increases. Here [2] is a table of best selling movies, inflation adjusted. No movie made in the past 25 years, including the endless men in spandex movies, is among the top 10. It's not us - it's Hollywood, but they seem ultimately unable to bring themselves out of this rut. What happened? I suspect a mixture of drugs and politics - the two cancers of the mind.

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[1] - https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

[2] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross_adjus...
Many years ago I wrote a simple programming language that would macro expand into lambda calculus statement that could then be compiled down to different sets of combinators - the simplest being just S & K, which are pretty fundamental given how simple they are. The fact that you can express things like recursion in the lambda calculate (see name of our hosts on this site) and therefore in combinators still amazes me.

Not the most efficient approach but it does work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
If she's taking longer to recover from surgery than expected, why don't they just be honest and say that?
I've been waiting for an offline opensource implementation of passkeys not tied to a device or a company. This is good news.
Princess of Wales: Kate apologises for Mother's Day photo 'confusion'

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68534359

The Princess of Wales has apologised "for any confusion" her Mother's Day photograph caused, after five agencies retracted it over editing concerns.

Catherine, in a statement posted on Kensington Palace social media, said: "Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing."

The image, taken by the Prince of Wales, was the first of Catherine to be released since her surgery in January.
Parts of this seems dated. I'm pretty sure the entropy changes suggested doesn't really add anything after the recent (~2 years ago) rework of `/dev/random` in the kernel.

It doesn't mention `systemd-homed` which might be useful in some cases and the kernel module signing portion is just... wrong or misguided.
...except if it's the "one way street" sign used in some countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_traffic), which is definitely mandatory.
I don't know about in other countries, but commercial pilots in India have random daily schedules - for example, today the flying time could be 1 pm to 8 pm, tomorrow it could be 8 pm to 3 am, then two days later it could be 2 am to 9 am. Given how random the timings are, I'm not surprised about captains falling asleep (maybe not first officers, who are younger (saying this out of hearing an anecdote about this)).
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(P.S. Just to head off a possible diction issue - biomimetics just means taking something from nature as inspiration for doing something, it doesn't mean the reverse which is to "try to understand / emulate nature completely well". E.g. solar panels arranged on a stalk to maximize light is acceptably biomimetic and there is no issue about whether solar panels are faithful enough to model chloroplasts.)

I'm coming from the context of theoretical models of computation, of which there are only so many general ones - Turing machines, lambda calculus, finite state machines, neural networks, Petri nets, a bunch of other historical ones, ... etc. etc. Consider just two, the Turing machine model, versus the most abstract possible neural network. We know that the two are formally computationally equivalent.

Abstractly, the distinguishing feature of theoretical neural networks is that they do computations through graphs. Our brains are graphs (and graphs with spatial constraints as well as many other constraints and things). The actually-existing LLMs are graphs.

Consider, C++ code is not only better modeled by the not-graph Turing machine model, it is also easily an instance of a Turing machine. These man-made computers are instances as well as modeled by von-Neumann architectures, which can be thought of as a real implementation of the Turing machine model of computation proper.

I think this conceptual relationship could be the same for biological brains. They are doing some kind of computable computation. They are not only best modeled by some kind of extremely sophisticated - but computable - neural network model of computation that nobody knows how to define yet (well, Yann LeCun has some powerpoint slides about that apparently). They are also an instance of that highly abstract, theoretical model. It's a consequence of the Church-Turing thesis which I generally buy (because of aforementioned equivalence, etc.): if one thinks the lambda calculus is a better model than neural network for the human brain, I'd like to see it! (It turns out there are cellular models of computation as well, called membrane models.) But that's the granularity I'm interested in.

In different words, the fact that many neural network models (rather, metamodels like "the category of all LLMs") can be bad models or rudimentary models is not a dealbreaker in my opinion, since that is analogous to focusing on implementation details. The goal of scientific research (along the neural network paradigm) would be to try sort that out further (in the form of theory and proofs, in opposition to further "statistical tinkering"). Hope that argument wasn't too handwavy.
It's of cause worth noting in comparing cars to bicycles that cars are the number one cause of bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities, so fewer cars will lead to fever cyclist dying.

Railways and busses are a lot closer to airplanes in statistics then cars https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics... so going car less is probably the single biggest improvement we can make to transportation safety.
Exploiting Qualcomm EDL Programmer Tools (1): Gaining Access and PBL Internals
They are on the roof, it's a two stores house, I think I will never be able or willing to do it personally :/
Ok, it seems you had a different angle in mind.

> Swiss arms industry is having same problem, but there it is stemming from neutrality of Swiss government.

This is interesting. Any good references to read up on the topic?
Born in 1980 I still think I was during the DB-->early DBZ in the target demographic.

I can't speak of the manga but on the anime I saw on TV it felt to me that they went from an original traditional storytelling manga to an industrial thing where a pattern of a generic story was repeated and dragging into tons of empty episodes[1] whose sole purpose was to sell child and preteens brain time for advertisers. Even I as a preteen I felt robed and insulted in my intelligence at the time and I don't consider myself a genius.

[1] most of them were just several minutes of generic blabla without any action nor story development
I believe they’re saying the opposite.
>These three fields would be concatenated into a token.
The token would be sent to Apple server (albert.apple.com) where it would be signed with Apple's private key.
The signed token would then be sent back to the device.
A daemon lockdownd, listening over USB verified the token using Apple's public key.
With the proof that the token came from Apple, and matching DeviceID, IMEI, and ICCID, lockdownd updated the device state to "Activated".
The user then had access to the iPhone homescreen and the apps.

Sounds like the pre-cursor to oAuth now days.
A TUI Git client inspired by Magit
I guess it's down already? I keep getting

> Something went wrong!

> Please! Try after some time
eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel [video]
Or you can just

from fakelisp import *

And turn your Python into a Lisp.

https://github.com/akalenuk/fakelisp
It's easier to evolve code with a real OS where you can update software with rsync instead of a USB cable, write log files, ssh in and run the code under a debugger, run the same code in a test mode on your laptop, etc.
As far as extradition is concerned, in France, people with dual nationality (or several nationalities) are considered to be French and benefit from the rules applicable to French nationals (refusal of extradition). However, the date on which the offence was committed determines whether the perpetrator was French at the time of the offence.
This is the point that poses a problem, as most of the perpetrators applied for Israeli nationality after the fact.

Very few countries extradite their nationals. The question is whether they are prosecuted in their country. Judicial cooperation between France and Israel is very poor. The problem with Israel is that it lets murderers go free.
There are several scandalous cases of refusal to extradite and prosecute (an ex-policeman swatted the father of a rival in a scam buisness, the elderly father died of a heart attack). This has prompted the French state to mount operations with the Italian and Cypriot police to arrest French-Israelis outside of France.
AI chatbots found to use racist stereotypes even after anti-racism training
> Kind of what Telraam does, but using our very powerful smartphones, locally, no server subscription needed.

It isn’t 100% clear to me from its site, but doesn’t Telraam run locally, only using its internet connection to upload results for visualization?

https://github.com/Telraam/Telraam-RPi/blob/master/README.md:

“Telraam consists of software on the front-ends (i.e. the Raspberry Pis) and the back-end (our servers that handle both user registration and management as well as advanced clustering and visualisation of measurements).

[…]

Telraam's internal nuts and bolts

[…]

The monitoring script that performs the image processing and data transfers: telraam_monitoring.py”
Well, in some languages "kernel", "nucleus", and "cannon ball" is the same word. Just imagine hilarity talking about military and software.
Thanks for that link. Having seen Japanese martial arts I was vaguely aware of what practitioners wore although I had no idea they were called 'hakama'. In fact, until I saw the link (having not thought about it), I'd assumed they were 'jet-black'—if I may use that term here.

Indigo is notorious for fading—its deemed virtue—but what I'm surprised about is how deep a blue it is here (its deeper than the bluest of unwashed denim). I wonder if any other dark dyes or pigments are added to increase the blackness.

I'm notorious for getting very grubby when stripping machines down for maintenance, etc. so I'm familiar with getting 'black' oil and grease stains out of clothes, it's very difficult and in some cases impossible. The black in oils and grease comes primarily from metal oxides and sometimes graphite, these aren't dyes as such but are in effect pigments.

Some oxides/pigments can be very black (almost neutral) and some of their fine particulates lodge mechanically (and often tenaciously) in the fibers and can stay there permanently (a little like a tattoo in human skin). That said, only a 'small' percentage of a pigment will remain fixed to the fibers but what stays there does so permanently (like carbon black in printer's ink a mechanical mechanism (the binder) is need to hold it there). I'm now curious, perhaps some of these very black materials are a combination of a black substrate pigment buffered with either azo blues and or indigo.

Just a thought.
>no one said they did.

Actually you did when you said, among other things:

>To me, it just sets an implicit expectation of "this is something I support"

>Again, expecting a product to be supported unless otherwise stated is not entitlement

If you describing something you expect, you are describing something that you feel that you are owed.
Latam Airlines: 12 treated in New Zealand after mid-air 'technical' issue
All first-level comments on this article are dead due to the scourge of downvoting - Quo Vadis, Hacker News? I understand that Signal has its loyal share of followers but this is just silly. I checked the dead comments and did not find them to be so egregious as to deserve execution. If you don't agree with a comment just respond or ignore instead of trying to cancel it.

Do I use Signal? No, I do not. I run my own XMPP server which has none of the downsides of Signal/Telegram/Matrix while sharing many of their upsides. Do I feel the urge to downvote anyone who uses something else? No, of course not, why would I?
> Long before it emerged as the epicenter of global colonialism, Europe was itself colonized for the first time by humans migrating from the east.

That is just crass. Why ruin an interesting topic that way?
It took me a long time to finally see it, because I was a little skeptical of the hype, but I felt Everything Everywhere All at Once was brilliant.
Not open source and you require a subscription to run a scraper from the user's own device?

Edit: I see that it's free for now but still
Threat Actors Breached Two Crucial Systems of the US CISA
I was just considering how to solve a similar problem and saw your reference to tally.so which works great! Thank you.
So connectors having their contract end at the expected time is now a layoff?
The viewer for geospatial data is much better than most other GUI clients (and CLI clients are often not very useful for geospatial data).
> Might try you locally for your crimes abroad though.

Not for child rapists though[1]…

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski_sexual_abuse_...
> spending it on themselves over having kids

Not at all, it’s that having kids used to be financially beneficial for parents, and now it’s horrendously expensive. The situation changed 180

And in addition, threat of climate change means you aren’t sure into what kind of world you are bringing children
wasn't lucky, sorry
Learn how containers work by building your own Docker clone
those are some great points. I suppose for each company those numbers will differ (0.1 for amazon is massive) so would be hard to productize
Conscious AI the second-scariest kind
The plane transited from an air stream (of whatever velocity/vector) into one descending vertically at high speed = instant down elevator = passengers in free fall as plane descends = impact roof hard/soft. Soon exit the stream and get used to it = fall down hard from 7-8 feet in random attitude.
Down is the worst, a vertical up = pressed into seat and already standing.
Pilot might have had a warning or inkling = faster seat belts/sit. In a down acceleration like this all loose objects are affected = missiles, a laptop can hit you hard.
Back in the old days, they called these 'air pockets' - lacking velocity they were less dangerous than these occurrences at modern speeds where planes are going at 500-600 miles/hour and the transition is virtually instantaneous.
I don't say it's good, it's just my guess what happened.
The username, the adjective, it's all fabulous.
Pretty much no-impact. Both Finland and Sweden were NATO Enhanced Opportunity Partners.
https://archive.ph/W50mG
Thanks for the insights. This is interesting. This is why I will end up keeping an eye on it. I'm interested to see how they managed to scale down yet retain the effeciency. They've replaced a transmission and drive train with a generator, power transmission, electric motors and batteries. Maybe a 10x increase in weight. I'm curios if this is going to be a success or not.
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Calling Barbie a better movie because it's easier to watch is something I didn't expect to witness on HN.
Well good thing it oxydates iron or we woudn't be able to move it in our body!
What about leveraging the old PRISM [0] program? That'd be a good starting point to figure out which companies have sensitive information they are willing to share with nefarious groups.

I'm less worried about being surveilled by capitalists and more about that information getting into the hands of law enforcement. Capitalists, as a body, want to sell me stuff. That is less threatening than people who might arrest me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
The revolving door problem is mostly people coming back from a stint at a regulator to private employment at an salary that sometimes affect how beneficial their stint as a regulator was to the company hiring them post public service.

If that system was made one way so that people retiring from industry to government were forced to burn all "financial" bridges to the industry they were regulating by forcing them to accept a clause that they can newer go back especially not as a consultant a lot of those issues goes away.
ebpf seems to be a very interesting idea and have been experimenting with it. Still I find it weird that we're doing documentaries on software "frameworks"
European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU
It does have TV in the name (Apple TV+), which the Oscars doesn’t cater for. Apple seems to be doing just fine (Ted Lasso, etc.) at the Emmys considering most of their originals are TV series AFAICT.
8.7/12 to be somewhat more exact, i.e. ~9/12 or 73%.
Signal doesn't support backup exports on iOS
A blog post from 2014 is a hilariously bad way to claim you aren’t blatantly lying in your marketing.
> The horror stories are from contractors who have attempted to cheat the tax system

Some are, certainly. Many are not.

The example I gave is people who setup a limited company in order to take on work as a contractor. They've gone to an accountancy firm who've told them we'll do all the work for you. HMRC have then turned around and said that the company is a sham. Again, I can't remember the name of that particular problem but it's well known on a popular UK contracting forum.

The deeper you dig into IR35, the murkier it becomes. Contracts are dismissed for instance and it's actual working practices that are reviewed. There are absurd rules around control which are far too vague and subject to opinion that it could easily be argued either way.
Just ask if you want to raise a PR. Explain what you want to do. Or fuck off. It's as simple as that.

You're not owed an explanation just because somebody gave you something for free. The maintainer might have complicated reasons for wanting to accept some PRs and not others and might not want to put the work in to write it down.

They're not obligated to explain this to the all and sundry just in case somebody wants to raise a drive by PR.

If you think they are obligated, that's indicative of a culture of entitlement.
Why do you think such ‘experts’ are anywhere close to bonafide super genius?
I assume localsend can’t buffer files?

That’s what I’d really like when sending stuff between my devices because my most common use case is I see or think of something work-related when I’m off and don’t want to dig out the company laptop to make note of it, or the other way around see a personal interest or a nerd snipe while at work and want to stash it for off-the-clock.

I usually sling mails between devices, less commonly stash something in iCloud (or similar), but those are pretty noisy and high overhead workflows.
I’m not convinced you can draw strong correlations between ticket sales and movie quality, or even movie popularity.

DVDs, streaming, high definition TVs…there are a lot of technological improvements that have changed the way we consume media.
Not to argue, but the reinstalling part isn’t so difficult these days.

I don’t have a current bootable ISO, but I have a bunch of old 8…16 Gb USB drives just for that. Also, there is Ventoy that makes it even easier. So making an installer is a trivial task these days. For me, it’s either downloading Arch Linux media, which is 400 MB or something. Or it’s downloading a Fedora installer, which is 3…4 Gb and takes minutes to do. If I go the Fedora way (which I would, if I need a working computer right away), it’ll take up to an hour to get back to work.

I understand that for an average user that could be a serious issue, but if that user is managed by someone competent, it’s really the non-issue. The only thing that needs to be done is a proper backup system for the data of that user.

Recently, I had a case with some distant friend whom I help with his computer. He needs just a ‘Word’ and a browser, so he uses Debian and LibreOffice. I haven’t paid him visits for years, so the Debian was 10 or even 9, while the current one is 12. He wanted to install something, and as the system was very obsolete, I insisted on updating it first. I did the proper way (from version to version), but at some point the installation just broke for no reason. I tried to fix it, but even the help of ChatGPT didn’t allow me to do the job quickly. So I just nuked everything on his ssd (his data was on a separate hdd), went all-in Fedora and went talking and drinking tea with him. I was surprised how easy the whole reinstatement was.

I’m talking Linux, which is very easy when you know what you do. But macOS or Windows not that difficult these days, when all you need to do is to reinstall. Again, considering the data is saved separately. Preferably beforehand.
Hoppschotch is also a simple Postman replacement - https://hoppscotch.io/
I think these numbers aren't comparable because they're normalized by employees, not employable population.

If you compare a traditional mom-stays-at-home family with a more typical German family they both might work 50-60 hours a week. The difference is that in the former case it's a male burning the midnight fuel in an office or working a side job and in the latter it's two parents working a 20-40 or 30-30 split or so.

So I think the difference would look much differently if you'd account for that fact.
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Indigo is perceived more traditional then black, some places allow indigo, some demand.

By the way, indigo bleeding is not limited to washing, the colour actually rubs off during training.

It is turned around and seen a virtue since your garment becomes uniquely yours as it fades.
It's surprising Amdahl's Law isn't even mentioned in this article, even though it starts with a perfect example of it in the first paragraph.
Self hosted Gitea will mirror a repo for you - I'm not sure on an entire account though.