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by tptacek 4mo ago
The NSA isn't aggressively pushing for PQC; the industry is. Note that the PQC standard we have was the product of a competition won by European academic cryptographers.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
This is neat research, but the findings in AirDrop aren't all that interesting. An assert trip and an NPE, and then a recursion bug in a hand-rolled XML parser that doesn't yield any attacker control over memory; basically, 3 anno
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by tptacek 4mo ago
I'm sure. Boeing is also a world-historically huge company. This person worked at Nordcraft.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
No, there aren't. Countries generally don't do latitudinal IQ surveys. Very few people reading HN have ever been asked to take an IQ test, let alone compelled to do so. Numbers attributing "IQ" to countries are general
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by tptacek 4mo ago
It's also an enormous and heavily specialized market, so where an aerospace company might need only a small staff of people who speak aeroese to vendors and clients, if you're selling developer tools you probably need a bunch just
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by tptacek 4mo ago
It's a joke.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
There are no such thing as "national IQ averages".
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by tptacek 4mo ago
Does Russia do it at comparable yield at the same quality level? India can do single crystal turbine blades too, but at a small scale.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
You do you, but it's tough out there for that position, given Homebrew, Flask, Absinthe, Wine, &c.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
If they are, they're falling for an urban myth, because IQ tests in white-collar employment are legally fine, and several household-name corporations use them openly. I'm a noodge about this particular issue because there's a
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by tptacek 4mo ago
I completely agree with you about the effectiveness, or rather, I do if you stipulate a community that has a problem with curbing cars for innocent drivers (many communities don't recognize that as a real harm and will look only at the
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by tptacek 4mo ago
And "unwilling to commit" is fine! That's most people most of the time. The only problem is when there's ambiguity about the commitment.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
"Weird that you sound so defensive, given you're willing to die on this issue and ruin your reputation". Do you hear yourself? What's especially funny about this is that you haven't taken the time to even figure out
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by tptacek 4mo ago
I'm not sure austerity wages for founders are really a thing anymore. Serious investors understand that team turnover is as or more scary than fiscal drama. There was a longstanding "ramen profitable" ethos on HN, but part of
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by tptacek 4mo ago
This is all great. One thing I wanted to call out in particular is Thomas' take on investor verbal agreements. YC has a thing about this: it's called the Handshake Protocol. The idea is: you and your investor agree on (1) an amou
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by tptacek 4mo ago
I don't feel defensive but that is kind of a weird question for you in particular to ask, isn't it? (This site has not existed for 25 years.)
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by tptacek 4mo ago
This is like a straightforward Red Queens Race story, isn't it?
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by tptacek 4mo ago
I don't believe you know anything about me, but do go on.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
You're going to need to tell me why I'm supposed to be freaked out by the word "suspicious". Further, it is not my claim that (1) ALPRs are not problematic or (2) that they don't direly need more regulation; that&#x
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by tptacek 4mo ago
Oh, no! My reputation!
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by tptacek 4mo ago
Hey, Chaps! Sorry, I write the way I write. "They" are public bodies operating ALPR devices; in the main, municipal police forces, though obviously other public bodies (like the Illinois State Police) operate them as well. The ant
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by tptacek 4mo ago
It has plenty of credibility at the task for which it was designed. It wasn't designed as a backend event system for real-time sensors.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
The thing that Flock does that's alarming is that it provides operators with a search engine for arbitrary vehicle descriptions which include but are not limited to license plates, with history stretching back; misuse scenarios are obv
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by tptacek 4mo ago
Police cannot access privately-owned Flock cameras unless the owners authorize them to do so, or a court orders it (in the same sense that a court can order access to any information on any device).
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by tptacek 4mo ago
I don't know where you live, but if you lived in Chicagoland the advice for how to engage on this would be easy: there are 1-4 (depending on your muni) Facebook groups where all the meaningful policy discussion happens. Hold your nose
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by tptacek 4mo ago
Look, I agree that's problematic conceptually, but it's absolutely not what's happening. ALPRs don't select cars on spec, like, "this car looks out of place here". Nobody has time for that. They're match
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by tptacek 4mo ago
That's interesting, because the ALPR part of Flock is what caused all the problems here; the rest of it, of characterizing vehicles with attributes beyond just plates, wasn't really problematic at all.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
They're not getting banned fast, and regulation isn't a lost cause. Flock, in particular, is getting contracts cancelled primarily in ultra-liberal municipalities, and that's in large part because of their public relationship
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by tptacek 4mo ago
It doesn't. As drafted it applies to exempt employees. (It's just a proposed bill; it's unlikely to happen and if it picked up any steam presumably it would be drafted more carefully.)
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by tptacek 4mo ago
I'm just a message board nerd message board nerding about something I believe to be true. :)

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