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> This opinion seems a bit overdone. OpenVPN is one of the simplest and robust VPN protocols to setup and manage in my experience.

I burnt 2 days earlier this month because `comp-lzo` is apparently distinct from `compress lz4` and fixing that required an OS upgrade (because it didn't exist before 2.4 and this VM isn't on the bleeding edge), which killed my VM's desktop environment, so I ended up needing to rebuild the entire environment. Even after that, the GNOME network manager doesn't respect the existence of this flag, so I have to work around the OS.

Changing the VPN server's configuration to disable compression wasn't an option either. (Compression oracles are bad, m'kay?)

If they were using WireGuard, this problem wouldn't have existed in the first place. Maybe compare/contrast them for yourself? You may find WireGuard even easier to get running.

I for one welcome our modern crypto overlords.
i believe they were refering to the part in the previous post that said "a logical fallacy". to be a logical fallacy requires that something be used in a logical construction (hence the name). this is where "justify" has relevance.

for example, ad hominem is not a "logical fallacy" unless it is used in some kind of logical construct (such as a syllogism). it's not necessarily a "logical fallacy" to just simply insult someone in some subjective or qualitative way.
> I agree they try to capture every single dependency.

No... they do capture every dependency. They don't try. They do. Try getting something to build that has dependencies outside the nix store. You can't, because you can't access the local file system, the internet, or anything else while putting things into the nix store.

Nix doesn't care about `-M` output. It's a package manager that captures dependencies. If your package's build system doesn't have `-M`, then you must declare your dependencies yourself. This is how people used to do it before `-M`.
I don't know for sure why the downvote, but maybe because Thailand is a place where you can be imprisoned or exiled for criticizing the (late) king. It's not hard to imagine somebody on HN might not be cool with somebody supporting that sort of enforced devotion.
Another point of view is that the "powers that be" is you - and me - and everyone else who has a choice to make about whether to work on technologies like these.

Historically speaking, the "if I didn't build X - someone else would have" argument -- well, we all know what that has led to.
My post merely shows that PoW is the mechanism via which this absolute timestamp (I like this terminology, BTW) is provided and seems very important, but I think the real question (to which I do not know the answer) is: can it be proven that an absolute timestamp is essential or non-essential, because it would answer the question of whether a distributed ledger without PoW (timelock puzzle) is fundamentally possible.
> i find it fascinating how to some folks, pointing at obama's ethnic background is apparently some kind of knockdown argument.

It's pretty close to a knockdown argument against someone whose position is US government policy is to imprison black people on account of their ethnicity.

The great-grandparent comment may have been suggesting that. However, she was too vague to be sure.
Not the author, but it seems as though Bluebird is indeed faster and more efficient (see [1]). Could also just be habit though.

[1]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/278778/30600...
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Yep! Usually all you need is `wg-quick up myserver` and `wg-quick down myserver` -- the wg-quick(8) command wraps all the others for the most common trivial use cases.

By the way, I believe https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand has support for WireGuard (in addition to a billion other things...).
Nit: the site should be serving all of its assets over https.
Here you go[0], this man was abducted by the FBI and held for 5 months without charges or evidence of imminent wrongdoing. His life was utterly destroyed in the process.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/11/rakem-balogun-...
> btw, apple and google ad spyware process (google play service) will collect gps and wifi data without any user visible UI, not to mention download ads in the background.

Would be nice to see actual proof of this. I am very familiar with all network traffic an iOS device may emit and do not know what you are referring to here.
If you get a smart lock, then you expect it to be reliable. What’s the point if you still need to carry your key around or sneak into your own home from time to time?
A bit of paper called cash backed by the state?
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The transactions are denominated in fucking Bitcoin, each party has the option to go off-chain without counterparty risk.
I didn't see anything in the code to address database contention for inserts/updates. This is SQLites achilles heel, even in a single process, with multiple writing threads. But it's easily remedied by "serializing" writes with a queue or lock for example. Many claim WAL remedies this, but in my test, WAL still succumbs to contention. Time out and retry is another possible solution.

The other thing is setting the sync and journaling mode on the connection. You have to do that for every connection, if you do want to use WAL mode.

SQLite can be quite high performance if done right.
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I feel the issue is more about benefits than how easy it is to set up. The why matters more.
We use this model in the manufacturing plant I work in.

You can cut a small corner every single day and it probably won't matter, until that one time when some other upset condition occurs and suddenly you're seriously injured. An implementation of this has made a huge difference in the overall safety record.
> The fact that we have AES-NI (despite the fact that AES constructions are being replaced with EC constructions in quite a few protocols, due to the difficulty of using AES in a safe way)

Say what? Unless you mean something other than ‘elliptic curve’ by ‘EC,’ that doesn’t make sense to me: AES & EC are completely different kinds of thing, the former being symmetric & the latter being asymmetric. Indeed, it’s quite common to use an EC-derived secret as the key for AES-encrypted material.
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"nor did an "AI" cause deaths of humans": Really? In the case of Uber: I can see clearly a man (woman?) absorbed in his cell phone before the crash. What else was powering that lane detection system? As for Tesla, the autopilot is not qualifying as AI then what else is these days?
Maybe non-violent, but innocent? Innocent of what? If they are innocent, then perhaps some statistics on how many innocent people are imprisoned?
>commodities like toilet paper

Why don't you just buy this at the store in town? It's cheaper and probably takes less time to just throw that in your cart while at the store anyway. How much time do you save by buying that online?
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You are making a good point - Youtube recommendations ARE garbage. But I wonder how harder recommending videos compared to music.
My guess is that doing data analysis on music in simpler because you only have to analyse the music data itself (frequency, bpm, etc) + related artists, etc.

I'm sure doing movies recommendation is easier than youtube videos. For example I watched "this is america" recently. I liked the video, but mostly because of the video, not the music. How does youtube understands that I want more of this type of imagery and not sound? Very hard.

That might also explain why we services like Spotify doing a good job at discovery, but I can't think of a service doing the same for videos.

But I agree with you, lots of example of google not doing a good job with ML. At the same time, it seems like they are doing a good job with ML on other (maybe simpler) things, such as gmail/inbox, search, etc.
Ineligibility for universities for opaque reasons happens in the west too. So does unaccountable public shaming - I don't think it being done manually rather than automatically makes it better. Knowing what information companies have on you doesn't actually help any - it means you know the inputs to their model, but not how they relate to the output.

Freedom of movement and GDPR are good things. The EU is not (yet) China. But the social credit score is not the bogeyman people make it out to be - or, to the extent that it is, it's already here.
I think worse than "whataboutism" is the conflation of all westerners as one.
That's cool, but we literally don't have a marketing department. So whoever gets hired will report directly to me, no matter what their title is.

The primary function of the role is to do writing, not engineering - and the success of the role will be measured in terms of marketing, not engineering - so to me the title we went with makes the most sense. I can definitely understand the discussion here though :)
Sometimes it's quite difficult to remind oneself that those with inexplicably martial attitudes are more likely to be deluded victims of the war media than actual employees of the military-industrial complex.
So far, the "smart" (read: network connected/controllable) devices I've owned have all had fallback options. I used to have a Nest at my old place but I left it when we sold (didn't feel like replacing it and couldn't find the old thermostat). If it somehow lost connectivity, it still functioned as a thermostat, albeit one with more potential for a software crash or firmware brick. Neither ever happened in the few years I had it.

With Hue bulbs, if you can't control them due to not having your phone handy or LAN issues, you can always just flip the lightswitch off and back on to get them back at "normal" brightness and color. Again, it's not something that I run into often but if someone else is visiting and doesn't care if the lights are dimmed blue or whatever for movie watching, they can still use the lights as normal lights.

Got a window AC in a small room that I can control via LAN but again, it still has a regular remote and buttons on the front if that fails or I want to disable it.

The only things I typically run across in the consumer space that don't work this way are IP security cameras that depend on remote servers in order to work. The ones that won't just send an h.264 or MJPG stream over the LAN are forever off my list for this reason (as well as a dislike of recurring bills). But I at least understand why many people don't want to set up a NAS or spare computer running software to receive the feeds over their LAN so I get why they exist. I just don't particularly like them. I'll stick to IP cams on a separate local network that I can access remotely via VPN into my home network. If nothing else, I don't have to depend on anyone else's service and I don't need to expose some backdoor-ridden device to the WAN.
You know what you call embedded software developers who move up the stack and start programming in Java and “don’t understand why the hardware works”? Not embedded engineers.
> Office 365 is pretty close to that, actually. You need Premier support to get anything useful.

I haven't had too much experience with their service support, but their app support seemed decent. I was having an issue with S/MIME signatures not being parsed properly on Outlook iOS. Support chat seemed competent and knew what was happening (no support for S/MIME signatures yet).
Good to know I'm not the only one to think of this: a phone app that asks what you want and then orders you around. And when you tick the online box, it optimizes over the population of all online users. For example, it might suggest places and times as to increase chances of serendipitous encounters.
I think all cultures value nature to one degree or another. Once developing countries accrete enough wealth, they will probably invest some of it into proper waste disposal. It's hard to justify diverting resources into waste disposal now, when you are still poor and hungry and in the midst of industrialization.

Western societies went through the same process. They polluted heavily through much of the XX century, while building up their own industrial economies, and didn't start cleaning up until the 1970s and 80s.

I am hopeful developing countries follow the same trajectory. China, for example, has been successful at tackling its air pollution. And googling shows that they began rolling out programs to combat river pollution as well. Eventually, we'll get there. Not soon, but eventually.
Actually yes, hafta say.

Granted there are few places in the world that are exactly the same as they were 20 or 30 years ago. But then again, certain places -- like San Francisco New York, London, and many, many other cities -- have arguably "tipped" to an extent such that, while the postcard views are pretty much the same -- the overall vibe and intensity is but a glimmer of what it once was.

And sadly, Berlin seems to be one of those places.
This underscores to me why I have no fear of the Singularity. It would be impossible for an AI to do worse things to us than we as humanity are willing to do to ourselves.

We have tortured and maimed in the name of advancing medicine. We have killed millions in the name of saving more millions. We manipulate people's thoughts and behaviors in order to make them "better". We evaluate other people based on those we perceive as their peers.

AI only makes those processes easier.
what scene in shawshank are you referring to
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There was something like this in California, public meetings law, called Brown Act. As I heard, it's not exactly working as intended http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2017/03/23/californias-ope...
> but most of us live in the US. It makes sense that we would talk about our own country.

In an article about Chinese human rights abuses? At the most charitable, needing to make everything about the US is a form of political narcissism.

If you want to talk about US problems, post an on-topic article and talk about them there.
It shouldn't scare you that much. Without the Nest servers, all you lose is the remote control/monitoring features, your devices don't become useless bricks.

The Nest thermostat would still be an attractive, interactive thermostat with a color screen and tons of features. Without an internet connection, the $250 thermostat doesn't turn into a brick, it turns into a $150 non-connected thermostat.

The Nest Protect smoke detector still alerts you to fires or carbon monoxide, with voice warnings, and a lighted path at night. Without an internet connection, the $120 detector doesn't turn into a brick, it turns into a $40 non-connected talking smoke/CO alarm.

The Nest smart deadbolt still lets you lock and unlock your door with either a key or a PIN code. Without an internet connection, the $280 smart deadbolt doesn't turn into a brick, it turns into a $100 keypad deadbolt.

People lose their internet connections for all kinds of reasons, and the majority of smart home devices you can buy continue to be premium devices in that state, better than the basic thermostat/detector/lock/light/etc they likely replaced.
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That's because there is so much variation in what you watch on youtube - from listening to music, to movie trailers, to sports highlights, to howtos about cooking, etc.

The music we listen to is way easier to analyse, even if we have some variation in what we like. Sometimes im in the mood for classical, sometimes its rap. Easy to differentiate and offer me playlists for each genre.
Well that's just silly. Is your CPU going to work with bespoke hardware connected on the whatever bus? Then you still need to know both software and hardware to debug the connection to the bespoke device. Stuff rarely works the first time; FPGA designers make simple typos just like software engineers do.

Yes, the ecosystem is changing. Instead of a wide range of embedded CPUs, we're shifting to tiny bit-bangers (8051 or Arduino) and most everything else is ARM Linux. CPUs were never the hard part of embedded. The hard parts have always been (1) debugging the hw/sw interface and (2) meeting realtime requirements, if the system has any.
This has been the push since the dawn of computing. The need for low-level engineers is much less than need for high-level engineers. This is not just the case for embedded developers, but also for OS, database, browser, IDE, etc. developers. A handful of people who are experts in these fields support the millions of "high-level" developers that build apps.

I'm sure most of the people in these fields have generic degrees in CS/CE/EE.
Not really - a $1 million CRADA doesn't make a company's existence important or guaranteed in the eyes of the military. If the technology is deployed, different story.
The British did not make captured IRA members renounce Catholicism, nor the Americans make Guantanamo internees "erase their Islamic beliefs and reshape their very identities". Here is an article from the CBC, if you can't bear to see an American outlet report on the issue. Or are the Canadians complicit with their actions as well?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-internment-camps-1.466668...
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The US doesn't need to annex them, it just violently installs a capitalist government and then US companies buy everything.
It still feels surreal to read these kinds of blog posts from Microsoft, after they refused to recognize Linux’s existence/importance for so long, called it a “cancer”, etc... I don’t have words to describe what a different world it is.

EDIT: I know to some this kind of sentiment might seem cliché (is that where the downvotes came from?) but at least for years to come I’ll be repeating it. Life was very hard for Microsoft dissenters 15 years ago. (I’m only 35, and I’m already going on about “back in my day” :) Now get off my lawn.)

I heartily welcome the change.
> So its got a decentralized, distributed public ledger recording every transaction made? Since when did that happen?

No, that's not how it works. Participants can go on-chain with their transactions only if needed.

> LOL. No. You use USD.... No citizens in economically repressive states are gonna flip to bitcoin

Repressive states make it difficult to get USD.

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/04/03/...

> Not when it gets 4 transactions per second tops.

Again, read up on second-layer scaling.

> Not when you have to purchase your currency from early adopters in order to participate.

Why would that be a problem? Also you can mine it yourself.

> Not when you can lose your entire savings by simply exposing your computer to the internet.

There are may solutions for storing your deposits securely, hardware wallets being one.

> Sorry man. You fell for a scam.

Everybody who tells me that knows very little about Bitcoin
Your logic and economic explanations are sensible. The term "shady countries" was the phrase I reacted upon, and only that. Shady government officials, businessmen, deals? Sure. Shady countries? It sounds extremely wide and viewed from a position of privilege.
Wouldn't really be innovation, it would just be doing the bare minimum required.

The only reason these "smart" devices can exist is because the market hasn't matured and customers don't know any better.
You may want to let him try some "simple" games : things like super hexagon or one finger death punch require only 2 keys. And some reflexes.
So I guess this actually trumps my previous point, which was music is easier than video. But if you say now google is garbage at recommending music too... then I guess they are not as great as I thought on ML.
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And when the agreement completes they'll each gain +200 science.
> The US situation is unfortunate, but it's more the result of poverty and low-level racism, not racially tinged policy.

Is this just your conclusion, or the conclusion of anyone who has studied mass incarceration in the United States?
It was "please can you indicate what specifically about the claims you think is unlikely; or your purpose in questioning and expectations for a response".

I mean you don't actually think there's documentary evidence from the time dogs became domesticated of either what the people, or the dogs, were specifically thinking, do you? It was my hope that, perhaps, by reflecting on that I might draw attention to the obvious futility of the direction of questioning.

And yes, snark.
> This kind of event just doesn't happen very often.

While it may not happen very often, I wonder how many customers (like me) they lose because the customers do not want their devices to even have internet access but still want local remote control (and are willing to sacrifice non-local remote control).
Well, you said yourself:

> I start getting into management. That’s a bit saddening

Less one engineer in the world?
> Credit score is a private system where your ability to pay for things is assessed so loans are not given to people that don't pay them back. I don't see how that is anything like a government run "social credit" system.

I've never understood this American notion that just because a private company is doing something that makes it fine. If you can't get a loan and can't find out why, what difference does it make whether it was the government or a private entity that blocked you?

> Also, you avoid even having a credit score if you just pay cash for everything.

Sure, but at that point you're unable to participate in much of society, just like someone without a social credit score.
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Options are the right to buy not the mandate to buy. Thus the name "option". I don't know that I follow your point?
> Particularly when other topic-focused communities already exist i.e. what problem are subreddits solving?

Subreddits don’t necessarily solve a problem... they’re just a well-made framework for content sharing and conversation, combining ideas from previous message board systems to provide a good user experience. But it’s the way Reddit combines them that makes them useful, which means I can’t answer this question without answering the following one:

> And to invert that to the whole set, what problem is Reddit solving?

Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but the answer seems blatantly obvious to me: it allows you to have all of your communities on a single platform. It creates a kind of meta-community... a user you interact with in one subreddit may show up later in another. Why would you create multiple independent accounts at multiple message boards across the web when you can have one account and one simple feed of relevant posts from all of your communities?

> I recoil at the suggestion of signing-up and slogging through curating and filtering until I achieve Reddit Nirvana. Life is too short.

I’m honestly perplexed as to why you think setting up a Reddit account is this gargantuan task. You find a few communities based on your interests and you subscribe to them. That’s it. And you don’t have to do it all at once. You can join as many or as few subreddits as you like, whenever you feel like it.

I must be missing something here. What topic-focused communities do you prefer? Are you talking about Facebook Groups?
Even Encyclopædia Brittanica uses Animal Farm as an example of Allegory: https://www.britannica.com/art/allegory-art-and-literature.
* Issuance is controlled by a monopoly

* high transaction costs unless both parties are in physical proximity

* not durable

* not programmable
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This already exists to some extent: https://mycroft.ai/