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Now, some amounts are egregious, but remember the lawyers are fronting literally all of the cost here. They don't get it back if they lose, either.
It's kind of like complaining a vc made 500x what you did on an IPO.

I also think hacker news has no concept of what a large lawsuit like this costs.

if they spend 20 bucks a class member on everything from locating them to location to answering questions to handling claims, that's 50% of that 1.25 million right there.
That doesn't include the actual billable hour cost of the lawsuit, which for large and complex lawsuits, is ridiculous.

At the same time, hilariously, people here are against class arbitration (which would pay lawyers dramatically less and claimants more), and pretty much every other solution.
It appears they just think "lawyers should be paid less, but work harder to get others money".
IE they want a system where there are class actions, and the companies are made to hurt, but nobody else other than the people in the class make money.

The truth is most of these claims are worthless entirely, and people don't deserve squat. So $125 is infinitely more than they should have gotten.
(i'm sure someone will come along with no understanding of contract damages and claim the class members deserve billions)

Are some valuable? Sure.
Do some serve a valuable purpose of deterrent?
Again, sure.

But that's like 1 in 50 or 1 in 100 of all class action lawsuits right now.

Check out most class action lawfirm case lists, for example, and see how many you think are really deserving of more than nominal damages or "please fix this issue for us". Think about how many of them are the moral equivalent of bugs you've made in software before that is sold or used by other people. Do you think you should be paying millions?

Personally, I can't wait for the day when liability for software bugs comes and everyone here immediately changes their mind and decides most of these kinds of lawsuits are probably not worth as much as they thought :)

In the meantime, people starting worse-than-useless startups appear to be deserving of untold billions, and startups doing the same type of thing (eg making infinite multiples of their workers, who basically make squat) are a-okay.

BTW, fun fact: Class action lawyers, on average, work much worse hours than startup engineers.
The real thing with not having FB and connecting with friends is FB chat. A lot of people don't use any other IM service except for FB chat.
Okay I am reading this and some of the comments and well.....

Have some damn discipline. Grown up and be an adult. Problem solved.
And yet here you are on a tech site posting this?

How can you stay in tech and make products that are relevant to the market and be such a tech Luddite? It is like RMS or all those people on slashdot who boo everything new. Nobody who is anybody doing anything interesting listens to windbags who don't understand the current market. The world is going to move past you, leaving you and your skills increasingly irrelevant.

I don't understand how people who work in an industry that changes so fast can be such luddites...

I mean yes I get it... blah blah blah Facebook is making us all go to hell in a hand basket and back when I was a kid we all played in the freeway instead of used our smartphones or whatever but seriously. Change is constant. Fight it and become obsolete.
That's a little under 23% of the total judgement. What do you think a law firm should take %-wise from lawsuits like these? Should there be a cap? 5% is ~$274k, but the people impacted would still only get ~$154 at that percentage. Even if the lawyers did the case pro bono, each participant would only get ~$162.

Math:

(1,250,000 + 15,000) + (33,744 * 125) = 5,483,000

1,250,000 / 5,483,000 = 0.227977385

.05 * 5,483,000 = 274,150

(.95 * 5,483,000)/33,744 = 154.363739

5483000/33744 = 162.4881460407776
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I think you have some point (especially for the definition of "systems programming"), but in my perspective Rust has a possibility [1] to encompass the largest possible meaning for systems programming. Here's why:

Rust the language is really composed of two almost identical subsets, "safe" one and "unsafe". Safe Rust is what you will normally see, governed by normal safety rules and abstractions. Unsafe Rust is not what you will normally see, but still governed by safety rules and abstractions, only with an escape hatch. What I feel is that safe Rust covers the higher-level subset of "systems programming" (predictable performance, strong abstraction and safety), while unsafe Rust covers the lower-level subset of "systems programming" (excellent performance, near-complete control over everything). And still they are almost identical, so that the abstraction made in unsafe Rust is usable in safe Rust, and that's ideally how it covers the entirety of "systems programming"---the only border is the abstraction itself. Of course, provided that we have enough supply for appropriate abstractions (the community is trying hard with several promising results though).

Rust programmers do like the safety guarantee of safe Rust and rarely talk about unsafe Rust, but I think unsafe Rust plays a large role in the possibility of Rust. It's much closer than the border between, say, "glue" languages and their implementation languages. We don't change the fact that we will sometimes have to bend the rules (it's probably impossible). Instead we let you bend the rules, but only when you are in the cage. And that cage is, while not immunable to every attack, really strong.

[1] The advocacy naturally advocates for something's possibility and not for something's success. So it is still correct that Rust still lacks some solutions for existing problems, though it's not inherent.
There's this article https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/ which is accompanied by some really neat interactive visuals.
This probably should not matter to me but going to that website (even though its a super basic marketing page) and seeing it without SSL it just starts to bother me that someone who does so much bank consulting would care so little about a simple SSL cert on their own site, especially given how easy Lets Encrypt has made it.

Like I said this probably should not make a difference to me because I won't be hiring any "COBOL Cowboys" anytime soon but as a customer of many large banks who these people have probably worked for its a bit irksome for some reason
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Solar, wind & batteries will power the future. It is a question of when not if. All others will fade into oblivion. So long, and thanks for all the Joules.
Not all French texts need be finished either. Nobody his picked a date boundary to constrain all French text. Nor has anyone formalized which texts are French, since the French language is evolving.
> Companies never think of the old guys as the ones to implement the new system - that's a job for the "enterprise experts"

Exactly this is why rewrites fail. The challenge of a rewrite is not in mapping the core architecture and core use case, it's mapping all the edge cases and covering all the end user needs. You need people intimately familiar with the old system to make sure the new system does all the weird stuff which nobody understood but had good reasons that was in the corners of the old system's code. IMHO the best way to approach a rewrite is to make a blended team of experts of the old system and experts of the new technology, and you put a manager in charge with excellent people skills who can get them to work together.
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I don't know. I see all of these people complaining about these effects, and it simply doesn't bother me in the same way (not to say it couldn't possibly have a subconscious effect).

But I feel as if it caused the same effect in me as it causes in others, I'd be talking about how I'm going to "take a break" from $socialnetwork for a month, and how much better I feel, and so on. But I don't. It's just a tool. I use it and enjoy it. If I didn't, I wouldn't.
But this one is just pure cartoonish moustache-twirling evil.

I think it's in line with mainstream conservative messaging. Their first resort is to argue against policy goals, but some "liberal" policy goals, such as keeping poisonous chemical out of rivers and streams, have broad popular appeal. To deal with that, conservatives rely on a broad anti-government message that they have been repeating and reinforcing for decades. No matter what the mission is, no matter how straightforward it seems, the government will find a way to cause more harm than good. That's how people can grow up next to a waterway, eat fish from it every week growing up, see it poisoned by dumping, reluctantly stop eating the fish, see animals die after drinking the water on a bad day, forbid their children from playing near it, and still thank God for their Republican congressmen gutting environmental regulations. The stream should have been kept clean, the dumping should have been prevented, but environmental protections would have made things worse, because it's just common sense that government makes everything worse. Everybody knows that.

Another message conservatives have been drilling for decades is that liberals are only interested in helping degenerate, parasitic subsets of society. Conservative voters on the lower end of the economic spectrum don't trust law enforcement much more than liberals do. They can easily imagine themselves being railroaded by corrupt or incompetent law enforcement using bogus forensic data. However, they don't imagine that liberals, or a program set up by liberals, would help someone like them. Conservative messaging has drilled it into their heads that liberals are only interested in helping lazy, dishonest, dissolute, parasitic people, and that's not how they see themselves. So they see government programs as indifferent to people like them, which adds an extra layer of distrust on top of the perception that the government gets everything wrong anyway.

Trump is not a conservative, but he understands the voters that conservatives have created.
That's fair, and to be clear I'm not entirely dismissing the issues related to binge Internet use. I do think this can be a very real problem that has very real consequences. I'm mostly unable to accept the alcohol comparison.
Of course it is cleaner. Until you need to deal with nuclear waste. And until the accident. Afterwards, it is not. How many Fukushimas and Chernobyls are we supposed to experience? Do we first need to have a plant like Tricastin blow up, wiping out Rhône valley wines and all of Provence for thousands of years? No thanks.
The fact that they've made so many gains despite governments often building barriers to help non-renewables is quite telling.
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What about Folding@Home or other high energy computing tasks.

If you have your PS4, XBOX, home desktop, SO's laptop, etc running high intensity tasks how much energy would that be?
Yeah, good point that cash must be explicitly requested in advance for voluntary denied boarding vs involuntary. The Points Guy has a pretty good guide for VDB.

https://thepointsguy.com/2010/08/points-guy-pointer-anatomy-...
But Facebook is a problem. Social media has its place somewhere in society but Facebook in particular is definitely a problem, for a multitude of reasons.
For me, the solutions are bookmarks. I keep a folder "Daily". Several times a day, I open all bookmarks inside that folder and go through the opened tabs one by one. Moreover, I unsubscribed from any kind of impersonal email.
Ignoring the time limit you mention, I fail to see the difference? Electricity isn't tangible. In the case of AC, they're just wiggling the electrons in your appliances back and forth. Any promise that your power goes to your neighbour, via the grid, would be a lie.

In financial terms, letting anyone sell electricity to the "shady power company" at the same price they buy it at is only possible as a government-mandated subsidy paid by all customers, intended to promote clean energy. It effectively makes the grid your free, unlimited, zero-loss battery.

If you want to sell it to your neighbour at the same price they and you pay to have the grid wiggle your electrons, there's no difference. If you want, for unfathomable reason, to set a different price, you can just walk over and hand them some money whenever you feel like it. But currently, there are no circumstances under which it would make sense to not sell as much as you can to the power company: if you're producing at costs above grid prices (still likely in most locations), your neighbour could always get his power cheaper from the grid. If you're producing below grid prices, selling as much as possible at the subsidised rates is your best choice.
Free will is just what it feels like to have a mind that can construct models of realities that are not fact. And you can model nondeterminism in a deterministic system just fine.

So I would argue that it illustrates nothing of significance under either of those issues.
I suspect the point is that if the only group which is in any way meaningfully enriched are the lawyers, there is a problem we should be examining in the underlying system.

...A system lobbied for, and legislated by said lawyers.
I think the view that the internet is "one of the most important utilities there is" is seriously influenced by what most of us do for a living. The fact is that it's mostly used for idle, time-killing entertainment and gossip. I've been so tempted to cut my home service but like others have mentioned it would be a really hard sell to the rest of the family.
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Ha, IPLing, seems to hardly be the problem. Its turning it back off... But then again, if you give up and use the big red switch its not so bad, but god help the next guy who wants to turn it back on.. <chuckle>

What really truly shocked me the most was "installing" a zvm/zos stack without relying on a machine image. Gosh, i'm still shocked thinking about it years later. I remember "writing" (cause copy pasting assembly with the assistance of someone who knew what the hell they were doing doesn't really qualify) system hooks for things that literally work out of the box in any OS written in the past 3 or so decades. Stunning..
May I suggest that the problem is one of quality much more so than of quantity, and that a solution that takes a more fine-grained approach than just shutting off your ISP altogether can give you the best of both worlds?

"How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist"

https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-technology-hijacks-peop...

Once you see how subtly dark patterns borrowed from advertising and casinos tap deeply into your subconscious impulses without your knowledge, you will likely jettison any cavalier conception of things like Facebook, smartphone notifications, etc., and begin to treat them like the subversive, profit driven intrusions that they are.

Let's as well not forget that just about 100% of the web used to look like it would today if you disabled all Javascript and CSS. The change is not a coincidence, and it's important to recognize who benefits from the intrusive web, and what we lose when our scenic view of the historic part of town has been blocked by the new casino development.
"Chernobyl was just soviet mismanagement, the west is safe", "fukishima was an unexpected tsunami, everyone else is safe", "newer reactor designs are safe". The nuclear industry move the goal posts after every disaster.
It's funny, because there seems to be a lot of effort to get exactly the right version of asset in every circumstance. I'd wager showing an old version of the thumbs up really would get someone fired.

It's so much funnier though, that the solution is to just keep throwing in more and more copies of the images.

I feel kinda bad for the poor developer responsible for keeping all of those copies up to date. Very much 'i pass butter' kind of programming.
Ok thanks, what you described sounds much more realistic and in line with what I've heard from family members who did video game testing than the narrative the article was talking about.
> it can still be a net positive in your life

I also don't drink[0], but when I did I saw it as a positive thing as it got me outside and I was able to socialise with people when I was drinking. That was all just a state of mind though - there isn't anything magical in alcohol that makes you more confident (other than removing

Since I've quit I've made many new friends and my relationships with them are much deeper than any of my previous 'drinking buddies'.

[0] I occasionally drink kvass which has very small amount of alcohol (usually <1%). It is more natural (not pasteurised and filtered like most alcoholic drinks), so I wouldn't be surprised if it also has the same or greater health benefits.
The truth is most of these claims are worthless entirely, and people don't deserve squat. So $125 is infinitely more than they should have gotten.

...Then all the more reason the lawyers who helped them bring the suit in the first place don't deserve to be paid for empowering said fraud.
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The "set Do Not Disturb for 12:00AM - 11:59PM" trick has been amazing for me the past month or so I started the experiment. I set it to allow texts and calls from my Favorites through (e.g. wife, mom, dad) -- but essentially every other type of notification is non-urgent and likely even non-important.

By far the best app to silence has been my email. I consider it a luxury that I can come home and not worry about it. I highly suggest it to anyone who thinks they have a screen addiction.
A 50k LOC program serving a critical business function without a test suite or requirements documentation can be quite a chore to replace, especially if you let it go until you have neither staff experienced in the language or with experience with the background of the specific application.
Whenever I see one of these periodic postings of people using FreeNAS, and they come up on HN every few months, I'm always looking for the answer to IMO the most obvious, most basic question:

Why FreeNAS; why not vanilla FreeBSD?

I've never seen a good, detailed answer to this. Mostly the response is along the lines of: "well, of course use FreeNAS, after all you're building a NAS!"

From what I can tell, FreeNAS offers a pretty GUI and some tuning on top of FreeBSD. Anything else?
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For me, Facebook is the new yellow pages telephone book that contains all addresses to people I may want to contact. That's about it. I do not see any other value in Facebook.
What a ton of people forget : you also need to implement bugs or edge cases the same as in the old software.

More often than not the next developer using the old system worked around it. But never documented it as a bug (or wrong format, it featur! Not a bug!)
I didn't mean to imply that you said it was a weakness, though I did think some may consider it as such ("what, you don't have enough self-control to limit your smartphone usage?"). I'm addressing the fact that self-control is not limitless (even if developed and increased) and that if one's goal is to be more productive, one should feel free to use the tools available to them, which include both modifying one's environment and increasing self-control. And of course any modifications have to fit in with how you want to live your life. If it's crippling, it's not a useful modification. Having a dumbphone may be crippling to some, and liberating to others.

You seem to have dismissed the former entirely with "that doesn't seem sensible to me at all", and here leave it as only a last resort. I don't believe that's a useful way to view it. Use the tools you have available to modify your behavior.
What's the advantage over just scanning them and having a conveyor belt system channel it to the right spot?
I think contract work is common in these industries because most work is project based and often different in essence. A comedy and a thriller likely needs different creative talent. It's also very much based on personal networks, so a producer or director may bring with them a core of people.
Subscribing to the weekly newsletter / digest might help, you still get hacker news, but only once a week ;)
Besides the contact form perhaps, what really needs to be SSL? Specific reasons. FYI, the site is powered by Wordpress.
Any advice on getting into this field? Seems like it would be pretty rewarding (mentally) work.
It is in fact a lot more often a failure than a success.
A Powerwall helps with being able to store charge for yourself.

It'd be awesome to share power directly with neighbors, too. You could always install your own cable, right? Doesn't seem like the power company would even need to be involved.
> This is part of the problem of having to rely on hype of general public with short attention span. I am all for higher safety standards on nuclear power. But when population loses interest, even critical technology will lack funding and research.

The bigger part of the problem is nuclear power is a case of "cheap, clean, safe, existing, pick any two".
Obviously, yes, any activity or lack thereof induces changes in the state of my brain - I am not a closed system, I am part of existence.

But as you seamlessly go on to acknowledge, there are effects, and then there are effects. Some of these effects, I choose to pursue - I read books, I drink coffee, I comment on HN, at times I even think. And some, I choose not to. There is a silly comment further up, about why I would be reading an article on LSD, seeing as I am not in the market myself. I felt like changing my brain-state by banging my head something when I read it. Of course I can take an interest, as I can in almost anything. In fact, I have taken plenty of interest, and here's my point: Nothing - nothing - I have ever read on psychedelic experience has tickled any desire whatsoever to go and try the stuff. I'm sure there is no particular rationality behind one choice or the other. It just doesn't interest me.

As I started out saying, I'm all for anyone's freedom to choose. I actually speak up for lifting of all drug restrictions. Let supermarkets carry the damned stuff, I really am not my brother's keeper. Just leave me out of it. I'm not against as such, I just really, really am not interested.

I do not understand the widespread impulse to prohibit. Likewise, I have no idea why so many users of so many substances have this urgent need to spread the message.

And I see no reason not to part amicably :)
Pumping "huge plumes of particulates, CO, and NOx" into the soil would actually be good for farming. It fertilizes the soil and kills some of the bugs.
> In financial terms, it's extremely generous to let anyone sell electricity to the "shady power company" at the same price they buy it at.

In some countries, it's even a better deal, because the "shady power company" has to buy it for more than they sell electricity for. (I don't know if it's still true, but it was the case in France)
I think TJ lives in a smaller suburban town...
Why would you need to do that?

If they are also friends, fine -- make after-work plans face-to-face. Otherwise, talk to them at work tomorrow.
As a digital nomad for the past several months, Facebook has been crucial in keeping in touch with friends and family back home, but also a perfect platform for staying in contact with new friends I make on my travels :-)
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I think it's because they're meant to explain Fourier transforms to people who aren't familiar with transforms, and therefore are much more comfortable with Fourier coefficients rather than an actual transform in the frequency domain.