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Elon Musk writes magazine column for China's Cyberspace Administration(nypost.com)
6 points by woevdbz 4y ago|2 comments
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by woevdbz 4y ago
The self-styled "free speech absolutist" writes column in a magazine published by the Chinese government administration in charge of online censorship.
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by woevdbz 4y ago
If it was a poc they just lost the ability to build the real attack by being way too noticeable. This issue has likely already been mitigated and will be patched up within days if not hours. Much more likely to be an honest mistake.
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Maybe. But given the culture at most of these places I'd expect the junior to be explained that it's ok, everybody makes mistakes. Some engineering manager is probably sweating bigger buckets over their failure to properly secure
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Also until that time, their competitors (foreign like Toyota, Hyundai, etc and specialized eg Tesla, Rivian, etc) will get more subsidies and continue to undercut them. IMO what will really light a fire under their ass at this point, even i
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Having worked in both US and Europe I think this is very much less about average engineer and much more about engineering management and product management. There are many excellent software engineers in Europe already, and they are general
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by woevdbz 4y ago
1900 is an impressively small upper bound of affected users, implying that Signal and Twilio got onto this very, very quickly. Seems like the response was swift. I would be interested in learning more about the process that led to such read
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Physical security and insider threat management for one thing. All big companies tend to hire for these positions from the ranks of law enforcement. Look up literally any company in the fortune 500 and look at the experience of the chief of
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by woevdbz 4y ago
This looks like a right wing disinformation site. The implication is that Twitter (in readers' minds the incarnation of oppressive liberal media) is somehow colluding with FBI deep state chimera to stifle freedom of speech. This is wha
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by woevdbz 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand what this has to do with autism. Eg the "should we use React" situation - I have quite a few colleagues too (presumably not all of them autistic) who tend not to answer directly the questions that th
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by woevdbz 4y ago
There is never a shortage of desperate people living under corrupt regimes. That's the wrong problem to focus on
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Feels like a great application for adversarial generative networks
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Ask HN: Resources/news sources for climate tech?
3 points by woevdbz 4y ago|1 comments
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by woevdbz 4y ago
I think back at my days in college, when a bunch of the computer science lab professors and postdocs had basically unaudited root access by design to all of the college's email and Unix logs... Or later, when I worked at an ISP and saw
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Science, not engineering
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by woevdbz 4y ago
The underlying principle I've been using to understand this is, no engineer worth their salt will be spending a material amount of time working at an organization that they don't believe utilizes their talents well. The opportunit
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by woevdbz 4y ago
?? Where is there any reference to amusement or self-actualization in TFA?
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by woevdbz 4y ago
After a couple really bad experiences with product quality (think clothing items that don't last after a couple washes) I no longer buy Amazon branded items. It's going to play against them over time if they keep messing up on qua
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by woevdbz 4y ago
When people say "software is eating the world," this is what they are talking about. When mastering the software development cycle becomes a strong differentiator in an industry, inept companies (like Hertz in this case) get fleec
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by woevdbz 4y ago
This fails to note an important factor in both suicides and car crashes, which is (in the US especially) strong popular preference for personal freedom over personal safety. People would rather be able to freely own guns (even if they are r
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by woevdbz 4y ago
And it's a good thing with the incoming recession. Good regulation should be countercyclical — it's in times of plenty that society can bear the cost of reform and restructure. Besides, tech won't need government's help
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Wrt "people standing around", software is the same. You look at what it takes to ship a one-line change in any nontrivial, well-engineered website or app, compare the textual code change with all the work that goes in waiting for
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by woevdbz 4y ago
I'm not sure we know about the side effects very well yet though?
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Any statistic calculated over a large enough number of places will yield some outliers, even if nothing actually distinguishes these places other than luck. It is unclear that the characteristics described have any predictive value.
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by woevdbz 4y ago
> this is a class of attacks which are only relevant to a specific, small class of users Yes. > It's irrelevant to users who have intentionally enabled any kind of network communications on their computer No, there are lots of us
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Well but that is exactly the point of air-gapping. It's meant to give the institution a guarantee that, no matter how badly the box might be owned, no matter if the user themselves is compromised, stuff won't get out. If a user wi
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by woevdbz 4y ago
This is an excellent metaphor, and I would note that the annealing strategy of always taking the good choices, and randomly accepting some bad choices too, also applies in career choices or life choices. Sometimes when you find yourself tan
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Gee imagine being fired or ostracized for voicing casually x-ist comments even though they were true... Imagine being fired or ostracized because of your sex/skin/passport though... stop whining, start asking questions. What does
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by woevdbz 4y ago
It's striking how much more flamelike the structures appear to be, with the added resolution
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by woevdbz 4y ago
Thank COVID for teaching more people how to use the dang camera on their phones as a barcode scanner (by way of many restaurants moving to QR menus)

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