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> But how are enough people going to get the hardware in that ad-hoc scenario?

They already have it because they ready HN! Only somewhat fascitious... A few motivated individuals can provide connectivity to thousands. There's probably a few such folks in your city already!

> Something that combined that + a dedicated hardware mesh transmitter (for longer range when needed) and allowed adhocactual network use between devices would be pretty damn cool.

This is exactly how these systems tend to work in practice. Just connect your phone via Bluetooth then use the Meshtastic app. The app can function on it's own to send messages to other phones without cell service, you just won't get the range.


weevils

I interpret as the latter:

> As a rule of thumb, one koku was considered a sufficient quantity of rice to feed one person for one year.

I assume "sufficient rice" means it needs to be supplemented, and this is supported by the footnote as well:

> Apparently 1.8 koku (1 koku and 8 to) was actually required for nourishment by a man each year, according to the conventional wisdom documented in a "home code" (kakun [ja]) of a certain merchant family in the Edo period.


    Hurdle 1: Shoddy Logic       <- Freedom of Speech
    Hurdle 2: Tyranny of Numbers <- Irreverence
    Hurdle 3: Miniaturization    <- Pragmatic not Dogmatic
    Hurdle 4: Repeatability      <- Meritocracy
    Hurdle 5: Scale              <- Outsiders Welcome
Connections suggested without supporting info. I don't buy them. Maybe there's more info in the video, but the terrible AI intro (one of the worst I've seen) did not encourage confidence.

Watched some of the video. The connection between "freedom of speech" and "shoddy logic" is that Shockley invented the transistor despite being a raging racist. This was the best supported argument of the bunch.

It's an interesting point about that time in history, but I still don't buy the argument. Does it hold up when looking at which countries lead the world in semiconductor manufacturing today?


Thanks, it’s a valid question. And certainly semiconductors is an international game at this point, I make that clear at the end of the talk.

Once the engineering was established, we were quick to take the production abroad. But the 0-1 moments mostly happened in the United States. And could not have happened anywhere else.

And even though the individual points don’t connect elegantly, I still think america is an amazing place that produces the most amazing ideas and things.


    Blue his house
    With a blue little window
    And a blue Corvette
    And everything is blue for him
    And himself and everybody around
    'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen (to listen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinWA0EenDY

It’s 01:30 in the night you cannot just drop lyrics like that, I’ll have the song stuck in my head for hours.. :(

For this, you just lost The Game.


The only effective ear bleach for that is, say, German Weimar Republic era cabaret Orchester; eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bPh9CitHJs

You bastard.


The game mentioned

Thanks for the earworm.

Simple fix really, HEB should just open up stores up north.


Sounds impossible to enforce.

The penalty for not paying is often catastrophic. The penalty for paying will have to be similarly impactful.


Right, make the penalty for paying a ransom catastrophic. Very few employees will risk a criminal conviction and years in federal prison just to protect their employer.


Honest question: how do state-sponsored attacks from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia affect civilian life?


Presumably, those have influenced elections, though I guess it depends what you count as an attack.

Plenty of bots try to modify public opinion. Someone hacked the DNC in 2015/16, the result of which also alleged attempted manipulation in 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee_...

Since we (as old Rummy said) do not know what we do not know, we cannot be certain about the extent of cyber attacks and what they might have influenced, and may not know these things until discoveries decades later, if ever.


Note the RNC was also hacked but the data was not leaked. Presumably used to influence the election and policies in other ways.


I believe the popular sentiment is that when they hacked the DNC they found a handful of things that would provide bad optics for the party. But the RNC? They found so much evidence of criminality that near to the entire party flipped positions on issues related to Russia. So we have 2x successful hacks, one of which yielded some bad press for the Dems, and yielded an entirely compromised party in the Repubs who now are being actively blackmailed.


All of that applies equally to PRISM and any internal propaganda campaigns that was feeding into, no?


Yes... they might have influenced elections and now, as a result, the world must cope with the Trump regime.

Let's now fool ourselves.... Trump is probably the best, most successful attempt at world de-stabilisation all those rogue states ever achieved.


Maybe Americans should take responsibility for electing a maniac as their President. In the end, the buck stops with Americans.


~1/3rd of US citizens voted for him. Don’t lump us all in.


Some of you are just guilty of negligence yes.


Or maybe it's that our archaic system was designed so that some people's votes literally matter more than others, and more than half the country does not have a meaningful voice in our Federal elections.


The number of people who can vote, but don't, is staggering.


This is negligence with extra steps.

> more than half the country does not have a meaningful voice in our Federal elections

There is almost certainly an election on your ballot every time that is meaningful. Relinquishing that civic duty is how we get Trump. People to lazy, stupid or proud to vote absolutely bear responsibility for this mess.


I agree to an extent but I have a hard time blaming many in the LGBT community/supporters of Palestine for sitting out when Harris and co so thoroughly abandoned them in the general. They stood behind Biden in 2020 then watched as the democrats gave in on trans rights and did nothing to stop Israel’s campaign. Now they’re watching Newsome and folks gleefully accept trans erasure going into the mid terms/next election, so they’ve been validated in many ways.

Is it tactically sound? No. Is it what I did? No. But I’ve had enough conversations with folks that I get where they’re coming from, even if I thought it was the wrong decision.


I vote in local, state, and federal elections. I have volunteered with multiple campaigns and causes, and given substantial time/labor to the EFF. I have been harassed by Trump supporters while filming protests and other civic action. Please do not presume to know me.

I get you’re angry but you’re swinging at the wrong person.


It wasn’t personal.


You weren’t the commenter and either way it’s an unproductive blame game that doesn’t fix anything or help anyone.


Good. But the parent was blaming Trump on disinformation propaganda, and it is important to point out that the remaining 1/3-rd of the country is not some kind of idiot army that replaced their brains with FB propaganda. They voted for this actively.

Also, in a democracy you don't get to disavow 1/3rd of the population that didn't vote with you.


2/3rd’s* that didn’t vote with you.


Clearly you do, since Donald Trump has been aggressively doing this for his whole political career. I agree that it's a morally problematic thing to do, and it can be bad tactically depending on the situation. Practically, it does happen without consequences.


Not if the election was stolen. There was a smattering of evidence after the election but the speed with which is disappeared was truly something to behold.


WannaCry massively affected the NHS.


century energy ransomware no?


> To protect the privacy of our members, their data, and to ensure site stability, we do look for extensions that scrape data without members’ consent or otherwise violate LinkedIn’s Terms of Service.

What a nightmare! Are your findings and this list of malicious extensions published somewhere?


It's interactive, for starters. You can do that with SVG, of course, but the boilerplate required would be larger than the `.canvas` file. You can externalize the boilerplate, but then you're no longer creating portable SVG files, and if we're going to create an SVG-like DSL we may as well try out this JSON-like DSL.


This isn't obvious to me. You can have javascript external to the svg for making it interactive, it doesn't have to be embedded in the svg. And the interactivity for json canvas isn't embedded in the canvas json either.


If we're adding external interactivity, we're treating each as a custom DSL format and need to evaluate them as such:

JSON Canvas:

    graph primitive
    easier to read, write, and reason about
    harder to render
SVG:

    path primitive
    easier to render
    harder to read, write, and reason about


Interactive like this? https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/

I still don't see your point. Why wouldn't I always choose SVG? What problem or pain point is being solved?


It's not interactive for me:

https://codepen.io/ItIsHappy/pen/vEXrXxg

Yes, I'm being pedantic, but that was the point of my comment. SVGs aren't interactive by default, you need to bring your own interactivity.

For static content, SVGs work great, but for interactive content the additional sematic layer of JSON Canvas has a clear benefit. SVGs represent connections using paths, while JSON Canvas uses a graph. This means SVG cannot connect a single node to more than 2 adjacent nodes. If I want to draw arrows from Alice, Bob, and Charlie all to Dave, then I need to create a second Dave or reference to that location somehow. (You can see this in your sword example by moving one of the edge points. The sword delaminates because only two of the four edges at that point can be connected together.) SVG provides limited tooling for this, but it gets rather complicated rather quickly.


Cool, now show me a codepen with an interactive JSON Canvas?


Fair point, SVGs are more portable. They're also more capable (and complicated). JSON Canvas is a more specific tool.

Both of the following examples show the same thing, but the SVG representation doesn't convey the structure:

JSON Canvas:

  {
    "nodes": [
      {"id": "a", "type": "text", "text": "Alice",   "x": 20,  "y": 50,  "width": 40, "height": 10},
      {"id": "b", "type": "text", "text": "Bob",     "x": 170, "y": 50,  "width": 40, "height": 10},
      {"id": "c", "type": "text", "text": "Charlie", "x": 320, "y": 50,  "width": 40, "height": 10},
      {"id": "d", "type": "text", "text": "Dave",    "x": 170, "y": 150, "width": 40, "height": 10}
    ],
    "edges": [
      {"id": "ad", "fromNode": "a", "toNode": "d"},
      {"id": "bd", "fromNode": "b", "toNode": "d"},
      {"id": "cd", "fromNode": "c", "toNode": "d"}
    ]
  }
SVG:

  <svg width="400" height="200">
    <text x="20"  y="50" >Alice</text>
    <text x="170" y="50" >Bob</text>
    <text x="320" y="50" >Charlie</text>
    <text x="170" y="150">Dave</text>
    <line x1="40"  y1="60" x2="190" y2="130" stroke="black"/>
    <line x1="190" y1="60" x2="190" y2="130" stroke="black"/>
    <line x1="340" y1="60" x2="190" y2="130" stroke="black"/>
  </svg>


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