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Thank you! I used to be a graphic designer and web designer before I went more left brain. I put a lot of love and time into the design. It's fully responsive, which is nice, but the part I really like is that the whole page fits into an invisible grid system. All of the columns, line heights, spacing between paragraphs, everything (well, except the illustrations...). It took forever, but I think it helps give the page a harmonious visual cadence.

> Great visual presentation can really take a load off the reader's brain, leaving more cycles to think about the actual content. Bravo!

Yes, I totally agree. Design is how we get information through our physical senses into our brain. There's no shortcut to skip past the eyes and ears, so you have to put care into the transmission medium if you want the signal to get through effectively.
I found this article really interesting and extremely well written. The excerpt below is a literary masterpiece.(other comments complain about paywall but on mobile I got "3 articles free" message. Not sure if they're A/B testing or if they're giving me free stuff because I'm in South Africa and they assume that online payments are hard here)

"Leisure time is now the stuff of myth. Some are cursed with too much. Others find it too costly to enjoy. Many spend their spare moments staring at a screen of some kind, even though doing other things (visiting friends, volunteering at a church) tends to make people happier. Not a few presume they will cash in on all their stored leisure time when they finally retire, whenever that may be. In the meantime, being busy has its rewards. Otherwise why would people go to such trouble?

Alas time, ultimately, is a strange and slippery resource, easily traded, visible only when it passes and often most highly valued when it is gone. No one has ever complained of having too much of it. Instead, most people worry over how it flies, and wonder where it goes. Cruelly, it runs away faster as people get older, as each accumulating year grows less significant, proportionally, but also less vivid. Experiences become less novel and more habitual. The years soon bleed together and end up rushing past, with the most vibrant memories tucked somewhere near the beginning. And of course the more one tries to hold on to something, the swifter it seems to go"
So you run without OS level FDE and trust a drive level crypto function? How does key management work, do you input the AES key at a firmware prompt on boot / wake from sleep, or is there transparent OS support for this?
Tab? Are you joking?

The point isn’t about one specific chemical, but rather the principal that the prevalence of non-nutritious, edible chemicals seriously augments the dark, warm controlled environments of our guts.

Nutrient capture as a whole, shifts in a way that, at the bottom of the tract, there are chemicals that humans leave unused, but which are still useful to certain opportunistic organisms.

If only those chemicals are available, and normal food is absent, every member of the environment is forced to deal with scarcity, and the strongest survive, and fill the void if they can.

If those organisms are forced to opperate with greater efficiency, then their capacity to deal with adversity offers them an advantage as an invasive species, and they will prevail in general, everywhere, not just in the adverse scenario.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
Too many bureaucracies become self-serving, and prioritize their self-preservation, rather than extinguishing the problems they're tasked with. This is not just my idea, it's well-studied, and has developed into studied phenomena, such as bureaucratic inertia.

Our public policy needs to somehow control incentive structures of these organizations. For example, the War on Poverty has spent trillions, with no measurable reduction in poverty. The War on Drugs, Prison State, Military Industrial Complex. And it appears to be even a cultural problem: CNN tells us we need to maintain an economy of killing innocents in order to keep jobs[1]. So many things are backwards.

In other words, perhaps public policy needs to fundamentally change the way it establishes and preserves government entities, in order to ensure their incentives align with their purpose.

1 - https://theintercept.com/2016/09/09/wolf-blitzer-is-worried-...
Gosh, it must be so awful for the market for transcriptional sex to spill over to those innocent boards, with the foul unnatural acts that everyone should be prevented. . . oh wait everyone who isn't a test tube baby is a product of a sex act. And look it's being offered for sale, as a contract or service job. Seems appropriate I hope the law bothers to catch up with reality.
It's more VPN'ing into your own router and trusting your own ISP more than some random free wifi provider.
Their tinder disrupt series are pretty funny.
I don't understand the distinction you're making.

Bad data in the context of database constraints is data that violates your data model which, in the absence of constraints, is implicit and tucked away around the application layer in comments and functions and word of mouth. If you're cleaning up data, that means your data integrity has been compromised.

If you're collecting unstructured data from scientists, there's no contradiction. Maybe you make a nullable byte blob column for it. That's generally the most nonthreatening data in the database. Data constraints don't mean you need perfect data.

But the fact that your mental image is the weirdly specific scenario someone deleting data while "their scientists" go "aw snap, I wanted that" indicates a misunderstanding on your part about what's being discussed.

It sounds like you think that the opposite of data constraints is a windfall of valuable data that someone wants. No, exactly the opposite is what you're protecting yourself from with constraints.
> If only it was possible for massive armies of people to inspect source code for possible defects or backdoors?

You mean like what Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. already do?
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I’ve seen some of the studies and agree. That said, the senate report specific to backpage raises concerns.

I’ve personally donated to St James Infirmary in SF and related to charities that provide related protections.

Even in places where prostitution is legalized (Amsterdam), trafficking is an issue. When I was in Amsterdam 7 or so years ago, I recall stories of Russian and other traffickers.
Ironically, The building overlooking it is a gerontology inpatient clinic...
Here are some which I thought... I am wondering if there are other classes or categories we should watch for Fraud/Risk

1) Unusually large orders or high-priced orders
2) Expedited shipping on large quantities or high-priced orders
3) Expedited shipping when billing and shipping addresses differ
4) Make sure the billing address matches the IP location.
5) Limit the number of declined transactions.
6) Customers who make multiple orders from different credit cards
7) Machine Learning - supervised classification - the system is told in advance which already-reviewed orders are fraud, and then asked to predict whether another order is fraud based on what it’s seen so far
8) Anomaly detection
> it's commonly believed by linguists to have been caused, or very greatly helped along, by the bubonic plague

I have a master's degree in linguistics and I've never heard about that theory before. I don't want to argue about the validity of it (obviously, because I'm not familiar with it) but I will say that I don't agree that it's commonly believed by linguists.
> Instead, he's raising the subtler (and I think reasonable) issue of whether despite the societal benefit there may be individuals within the population for whom the risk/reward ratio is reversed.

FWIW, this is a variant of a debate tactic known as "just asking questions" (on rationalwiki) or the "loaded question" (wikipedia). I won't accuse ~Varcht of doing this intentionally, because I don't know them well enough to assume bad faith, but the end result is the same: the question, appearing innocent enough, is based on false premises and derails the conversation.

It's especially common coming from people who have been misinformed on some controversial subject and have developed vague doubts towards established science on that subject, but don't have a sufficient library of information at-hand to argue directly. Instead, they just try to raise the same doubts in others. Their conversations follow the form, "Okay, but what if...?"

It works because people in civilized forums don't want to be seen as unkind towards people asking innocent-looking questions. For instance, here we are being distracted by ~Varcht's 1-in-100 question, but the patently false statement they started with is being ignored.

To bring this back to the subject of the thread, ~Varcht unintentionally -- I assume -- made themselves an excellent example of a victim of the modern problems of misinformation. I would wager that they don't regularly read the National Enquirer, and probably wouldn't believe most or any of the stuff in one, but here they are to raise the spectre of the dangers of vaccination -- a popular belief, I would add, that kills people, especially young children.

So that we don't let ourselves become too emotionally detached from the consequences people suffer from this pandemic of misinformation, here's a reminder of what infant whooping cough looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZrMGDMMw

> If your goal is persuasion, I think it's better to engage rather than resorting to sarcastic responses of "Good job, HN".

Sometimes persuasion is a reasonable goal. Other times, bad ideas should be mercilessly mocked before they have an opportunity to germinate in fertile ground. You were around here then, do you remember what HN's attitude towards established science was shortly after the CRU email compromise?

But yeah, I could've left that last part off.

But I can't -- and shouldn't -- be dispassionate all the time, either.

> Your comments are usually excellent, but I thought this one fell short.

Thanks, and fair 'nuff.
Aren't all ISPs required to comply with lawful intercept regulation that includes data retention?
I’d help in whatever way you’d like. My dream is to make a company engineers love to work in. The chance to learn from whatever you share would be amazing.
Funny how the narrative goes from "microbiome helps you adapt to new foods" except when it doesn't and it then becomes this super sensitive thing that breaks down when approached by any foreign substance.

In every test done with a different substance the question needs to be, how much was it given to the subjects? (g/kg body weight). A lot of tests are done with excessive amounts (which are fine for testing purposes, but doesn't mean the effect will be as pronounced in smaller amounts)

I'll get the sugar-free soda as opposed to something that is the definition of high glycemic index empty calories. Or even better, just water.
friend of mine made a discord filesystem, it was atrocious.
No need to replace text. Patch all the fonts in your OS to display something instead of zero width. That will work outside the browser also.

There really is no valid use case in Latin script so why is zwsp allowed next to Latin characters?! (Emojis is not a valid use case, and why do they depend on zwsp anyway?)
Looking forward to reading through this. Thoroughly enjoyed Game Programming Patterns, in particular your style of adding comments to the side.
Soluble fiber usually produces more bloating, maybe that's what they're referring to?
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It's what Delphi has been doing with strings since 1995. It really is just copy on write, which normally has an assumption that the thing is shared before you copy. It's easily implemented with a refcount. It makes heap allocated types behave a lot like value types.
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The data is not dropped silently but very loudly, immediately. Unless of course you are using Mysql, well then...
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If the information exists in public domain and especially reported by news agencies then why should this information be deleted. Why should it only apply to Google and not other news agencies? EU should have more claroty on the law and make Google delete it only if it applies to the entire internet.

Right to be forgotten should only apply to information provided by user wanting to be forgotten. For all other cases, we should ask the court to allow it to be forgotten from internet and not just google.
My point is that even though he puts his stuff out there, if he is not heard of then it matters not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism

Eventually you get used to the thought and it stops being scary.

Being busy helps, so you don't have time to think about it.

And have faith that (natural) death is a slippery slope --as you age you'll lose the mental faculties to fear death, and you're physical pain will increase until you welcome death or morphine. Since you won't fear it then, there's no need to fear it now. Just go enjoy.
"As with many great endeavors of man, this one also started in order to impress a girl"
Gotta love the man :)
"As with many great endeavors of man, this one also started in order to impress a girl"

:)
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> Great Vowel Shift is responsible for the fact that English spellings now often strongly deviate in their representation of English pronunciations.

Can someone explain this in simpler terms? I'm too tired to interpret this.
The Signal Path - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSignalPathBlog
A mix of relatively advanced and relatively simple videos, no rambling all content with great demos. If you have a test gear fetish this is your channel.
All writ{ers,ing} {are,is} emotionally soluble. And sometimes you need to unload before you can think clearly and articulate with perfect moderation. It's fine.

The article and writing was very good. The rant sections could have devolved several orders of magnitude further, that wasn't the end of the world IMO.

I got some major general-worldview TILs about engineering from the parts that talked about experience levels.

The bits you said could be their own articles, and/or which you said you could go on about... I hope to read about those in followup posts. :D
Technically not but in terms of company practices or legal environment it can change a lot.

For example, are $US_ISP and F-Secure in the same bucket in practice?
plus google amp, where google serves your site from their servers. and 4.4.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 dns servers, where they can see which ssl site you visit that still haven't added their spy code
May I ask about your living situation and how you maintain it without regular employment? That does sound blissful, and I'm curious how you fit the rest of your life around it.
be more useful and run a tor node
Ask HN: How to prevent duplicate content in a distributed webcrawler?
So, we've a distributed webcrawler and we are gathering images + 180 character context. Then display it on a page for users to search, filter, group. We are suffering from a large number of duplicate or slight variations of those images/text.
Then the data model was wrong and they migrate their scheme appropriately. I don't think you understand that this is a core part of why you want a strict database: so you can perceive mismatches between your assumptions and reality and then respond precisely.

Do you think it's superior to be in a situation where you thought all of your IDs were numbers, you built your system with that expectation, and it turns out strings have been silently making their way into your data?

The difference between the two scenarios is that the person that used constraints knows when and why and where they got unexpected data and they can take more decisive, informed action. Meanwhile the other guy is desperately writing queries to find unexpected data, shooting around in the dark, and wondering what else slipped through.
Having a miserable life is miserable indeed. Older people have less power to change their lives. He could do better though -- living with neighbors in an apartment building, and living closer to family. Of course it's hard to make that change later in life if you don't plan ahead. And frankly, the bad old age you describe is a very small portion of his life, preceded by a decent old age.
There is an endless supply of kids everywhere -- volunteer at school, college, library, or church
Buy an Arduino-based starter kit that includes a breadboard and a bunch of small parts like LEDs and resistors. Adafruit or Sparkfun have some good kits.
sites and isp were excempt of all common carrier laws. then fcc tried to add privacy considerations on isp similar to telcos, but that was shot down recently by republicans. granted, if the proposals also included sites/advertising, democrats would join in shutting it down.
All I want in a modern car is to have nothing smart in it that I'd _need_ (or, want) to root...
In such conditions, cameras are not unreliable, they're downright useless. Heck, even people have trouble driving during snowfall. I have a feeling that this is a massive set of scenarios that aren't even edge cases, yet SDVs are completely unprepared for them. ("No snow in coastal California - it doesn't exist at all!")
One of the major problems is removing duplicate or near duplicate content like images, text etc....
Once I was building a small application, I didn't want to use a whole database such as postgres that is amazing but does require some maintenance, so I settled for using just Redis.

It was fine but the lack of constrains and structure was killing me making everything harder, but I liked the zero maintenance things...

So I build RediSQL[1] a module to provide SQL capabilities to Redis to get the best of both worlds: stability, easy maintenance, velocity, constrains and structure in data.

[1]: https://github.com/RedBeardLab/rediSQL
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What happens if all your sensors fail, including the one that senses the failure of your sensors? What happens if the power source disconnects?
And don't forget pointing out that the driver forgot to use their blinker a week before the crash so clearly they just aren't a responsible driver.
Aerospace QA is expensive by definition, because reliability nines generally are, whatever the industry: an additional nine costs 10x. You can go cheaper, but with a corresponding decrease in reliability.
In New Zealand, if you installed certain new fangled plastic plumbing a few decades ago, you house may now be unmortgagable for a new buyer because it's been silently spraying water inside your walls for years. 20 years ago there was also a rush of monolithic cladding, now many of those houses are silently rotting due to invisible leaks into the walls. Fun new construction does reduce costs but can ruin people many years later if it's too wild west.
If you are repeatedly going to sites A,B,C, then over time even if you are sending bogus packets, the sites you do go to will rise to the top.

It’s similar to differential privacy where even with a bunch of bogus data patterns in aggregate can be determined.
Comments from me that are skeptical of Apple are always downvoted. Complaining is acceptable but doubting is not. I have tested this over the years and it is remarkably consistent. Its both amusing and sad. The clicks can sometimes take a while to come, sometimes days, but they always come. Whether I add something silly acknowedging this phenomenon makes no difference. They come either way. Its just a small price to pay for being irreverent I guess. I have plenty of karma to spare. Well worth it.
Mkay. I see my confusion. You need something like a fluid and also in a non-inertial reference frame which is under some force of gravity or acceleration. I guess a supermassive black hole such as Sagittarius A (assuming it exists) could provide a force of gravity. Then you'd need enough dust or something to exert pressure on the objects around it. It seems likely there's not enough of anything remotely like a fluid dispersed throughout the galaxy to have such an effect though who knows? I'm clearly no physicist :).
I personally thought Stats 134 was the hardest of those courses by far (though I took it under a visiting professor who was needlessly difficult). 188 was a breeze, and I believe the full course is offered for free on edx
I was especially glad to see the carefully hand-drawn diagrams. Thanks for that.
Again, how is it odd that everyone agrees with the obvious explanation?
Is this TMobile USA? I worked in engineering when they were still Voicestream Wireless. We were acquired by Deutsche Telekom and rebranded as TMobile. We had virtually no interaction with the European "T-Mobile."
Ehh. I'd be reluctant to say that he's ever had much of a support network, and he's always had the sort of personality that would reject such a thing anyway -- a consequence of growing up rough and mostly alone.

I think he'd also say there's no recovering from the grief of losing his wife of 60 years. I can't even imagine being with someone that long, and at my age, likely will never have the opportunity to try.

I think more fundamentally -- and something that should be a part of more conversations about mortality -- he's outlived his ability to enjoy living.

One danger of articles like this one is that they can make old age seem not so bad (not that that was its intention, just a side effect). But, I've always had an affinity for older people, and I really don't think very many of them enjoy being elderly. It's a cruel way to spend our last years, if we're lucky enough to make it that far.

In the end, it's the experiences we had while young that we rely on to pass the days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ

This is good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bktozJWbLQg
Check out Haight Ashbury, it's where the whole hippie thing started and honestly it never stopped there. there's also a ton of cool, weird stores along the road.
I find F#'s type inference to be really nice. You feel like you are almost writing in a scripting language but whenever you mess something up it will tell you. And if you say, "No F# you are wrong!" F# always wins. And the ability to write small pieces of the code in F# interactive is tremendously useful. I find I like T-SQL for that same reason. I can write small programs scripting as I go and bring everything together in a bigger program all without having to worry about types too much. The tooling isn't quite as nice with T-SQL as it is with F# (granted C# blows F# away with its tooling, but F# is catching up slowly).

What's nice about T-SQL is that you can do a lot of your programming in it and then you generators to generate all your C# code (Query-First) and even your client side code (I'm working on a console app that will do that for me). But the tooling for this is not very mature. I don't understand why programmers don't embrace it wholesale. I feel like I'm always writing so much cruft in my day-to-day job and screaming at the computer that I could do what takes an hour in C# in 5 minutes in SQL.

SQL is a bit harder to learn at first. But the more you work with it the easier it gets. And it is much easier to understand since there isn't much to it, unless you are doing something really complex. But then, I don't know if C# is that much clearer.

I just wish the tooling were as nice for PostgreSQL as it is for SQL Server. I don't understand how you can pay $200 for a product that can't even figure out what fields my alias refers to.
I commented on the first one that humans could easily make the mistake the Tesla made. This, however, is a scarily bad fuck up.