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Could you please not create new accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do this, and it's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but do need to have some consistent identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community at all. That would be a different kind of forum. Anonymity is fine, and throwaways for a specific purpose are ok, just not routinely.

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Haven't down there yet but was really surprised by this photo collection in The Guardian about Australian suburbs:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/apr/10/sydne...

Quite surprising how closely it resembles some of the US, especially Southern California, in the sprawl, car culture, and surburbia. Then again, I hear Melbourne and Brisbane are quite livable with better public transit options.
Could you elaborate and provide some evidence? The sources you linked don't seem to be related to the claims you're making.
> We should be reactive to bad behavior, not proactive.

The ex-Google employee is calling on Congress to be reactive to Google's activities. Do you agree then with their proposal?

I actually don't agree; bad behavior hurts people and that harm should be prevented if reasonably possible. For example, we should be proactive about airplane safety. We should have been proactive about regulating the securitization of mortgates - that would have saved maybe billions of people from harm, many losing their homes, jobs, and savings.

Of course, anything can be taken too far ...

> Instead of blanket calls for regulation, we should be specific and considerate when making new rules

I don't think anyone would disagree, but am I overlooking someone?

In fairness, you earlier wrote the following, which seems like a much broader, stronger statement:

> any solution that requires foregoing independent corporate decision making would be foolish
That's a terrible idea. They should be focused on finding winners regardless of diversity.
Have you tried Magit?
Exactly. No worries all around.
Can you link me the Ad Blocker for text messages?
What if the more relevant ads are robocalls like in this case?
The behavior of pixels on a CRT is important because CRT pixels really don't behave like colored squares. For example, a diagonal line might look smooth rather than jagged because of the way the pixels blend together, even though the same pixels viewed on a modern LCD would clearly look like a zig-zag of squares. The people making the pixel art for games in this time period were definitely aware of how CRTs displayed their pixels and were designing accordingly.

Of course, you're right that it's not just a question of an old CRT being effectively a different artistic medium than a modern LCD. The best pixel art is carefully crafted to convey the impression of an image of much higher resolution than the actual pixels. There's several good demonstration of this idea in this article: http://www.dinofarmgames.com/a-pixel-artist-renounces-pixel-...
That’s my precise question, does digital === electronic? If true, how do Claude Shannon’s (numerous) contributions become relevant in the absence of electricity?
Its the default in the openBSD openssh upstream, has been for years and years.
That all depends on expectations. With just one, I would be set.

No worries.
Thanks for the answer! Apologies if this question betrays my ignorance further, but what would happen if a signal were reflected twice? Would the polarity flip back?
You know the HN line “your business model is not my problem” that’s trotted out when it’s the advertising industry or the media industry? Well, “your business model is not my problem”.
There is always systemd-nspawn to do it the simple way.
If the lights go "out", I suspect most of us are dead meat anyway.

Only things I see left in the "relevant" column by then would be how painlessly you get to go and your relationship with Jesus Christ.
It was, twitter, Instagram and Facebook were lower than 30% and Snapchat was around 40%. For teenagers.

For millennials Facebook was above 80% with Instagram and Snapchat sitting above 60% and twitter somewhat lower.

I mean, having an account isn’t as interesting than usage, but when less than 30% of teenagers have an account, they probably aren’t using it a whole lot.

I wonder where they went though, the article didn’t say anything about that. Discord maybe?
Following the entrepreneurial dream and quitting too early or not pursuing employment opportunities because I thought I should be going on my own. Lack of consistency in my career, jumping around way too often. Now in my mid-career, I'm paying the price, being stuck with the feeling that I have driven my career into a dead-end
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The podcast I'm looking most forward to is The David Feldman Show [1]
His guests are comedians (the brilliant Aaron Berg) and politicians/activists (left). He asks good questions, talks about current events and I learned a lot about American politics.
As a counterweight, I'm listening to Joe Walsh (Teaparty guy) and his neolithic point of view (back to the good ol' days). His anti trump rants are sometimes good and it's super cringey when some real conspiracy theorists are calling in and he has to cut them off. But I barely make it through a whole episode, because it's just too much repetition.

[1] https://davidfeldmanshow.com/
Would you please stop posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments to HN? Whatever good point you have, I'm sure you can make it neutrally and politely. Please do so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FB is a dominant force for millennials and up, but Instagram is also really strong in the millennial group.

What was interesting was that none of the existing social networks had much of a presence with teenagers. I mean, if you’ve gotten less than 30% of teens to even create an account, are you even in the run?
Not sure about the choice of pie chart as the default leaf format (humans are bad at guessing proportions from pie charts) but otherwise it does look great and convey the information efficiently.
Disclaimer: I work on ANITA. Also I need to go to bed, so I'm writing this really fast so it probably doesn't make sense.

ANITA is a radio telescope attached to a balloon looking for broaband impulsive radio emission in Antarctica.

The main purpose is to look for the Askaryan emission from neutrinos interacting in the ice. The Askaryan emission is just the coherent version of the same process (Cerenkov radiation) that produces the flashes of light in IceCube (basically at long wavelengths you can't resolve the charges in a cascade and see a fast moving current density-- there's a negative charge excess because positrons can annihilate with atomic electrons). To detect this Askaryan emission, you need a dense dielectric material (if not dense, no target mass, if not dielectric, then RF won't propagate). Antarctica happens to be both the place you do long duration ballooning (due to all-day sunlight and favorable wind patterns that keep you over land) and the place with the most ice.

However, the events discussed here were produced by another channel. ANITA can also see RF emission from cosmic-ray extensive air showers (EAS). The RF emission here mostly comes from the splitting of charges in the showers by the Earth's magnetic field. Because in Antarctica, the magnetic field is approximately vertical, this produces horizontally polarized emission. Because ANITA is so high up (~40 km), EAS development from cosmic rays occurs below the payload, so the most common way for us to observe EAS's from cosmic rays is for the emission to bounce off the ice (because it's very forward-beamed). We can also see atmosphere-skimming showers that miss the ice entirely. As expected, the events that bounce off the ice have a polarity flip compared to the events that miss the ice.

The strange events discussed here look like EAS's from air showers, but the RF emission clearly points at the ice and there is no polarity flip from reflection, so the events look like very-energetic upward going air showers. There's no good way to explain upward going air showers in the Standard Model at these energies and observed angle (at lower energies or more grazing angles, tau neutrinos make it through the earth, which can decay to make upward-going air showers). So either there is something wrong with the measurement (we can't think of anything, but we're trying!), we got really unlucky with anthropogenic backgrounds (we think this is very unlikely), or there might be some new physics.

For this detection channel, there isn't too much special about Antarctica, just that we're on a balloon looking down so we can see stuff coming from below. The ice could potentially offer a slight enhancement compared to rock, but that's probably not so important. Other observatories looking for upward going showers from tau neutrinos (Pierre Auger) only look at very grazing incidence. There are proposals using fluorescence instead of radio emission (e.g. JEM-EUSO, and the SPB-EUSO balloon mission) that could do more or less the same thing.
Sure, that makes sense for your business, because it saved money. For me, personally, I don't want spend time getting used to software that is likely to be taken away from me (i.e. forced obsolescence). That is a very frustrating experience. I'd rather use and build on software that I know is going to remain usable for a long time.
It’s the last thing. India and Canada are globally irrelevant. China is a waking titan.
Nice website. 1/2 my cohort of close friends are doctors and I'm sure they would've loved something similar. I'll send this their way in case they know people that might be able to use it.

The top comment on this recent HN is from an orthopedic surgery resident who also has a side business so seems there's plenty of ways to continue to integrate both in your life:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077766
Bhenchod no point inserting useless sjw talking points when they are not relevant to what the parent asked. Why worry about color is what he asked. Maan chuda
Who is still answering phone calls on their cell from numbers not in their contact book? If you call me and you're not in my phone my phones just dumps you direct to voicemail.

Not excuse this behavior in the least, but robo calls in general are a solved problem for me.
Headphone? Deep Note was made for speakers.
And again, no.

I'm saying that you should abide by the law of the nation where you're performing an activity - say, designing and implementing some piece of software - regardless of where the fruits of your labor will eventually be deployed. And the law of that nation will, of course, be based on its cultural values. So if the culture of that nation frowns upon helping to oppress people in certain ways, then you shall not do so while in the jurisdiction of that nation, regardless of where the oppressed people are located.

None of this imposes any cultural values on anyone who is not in the jurisdiction of our nation. If China wants to have their Panopticon, they can still do it - themselves. But Google doesn't get to help them to do so, because it is an American company, and people who implement these tools of oppression are American residents, subject to American laws and cultural values. China doesn't have any natural right to the fruits of their labor.

Really, this is no different from prohibiting or regulating arms exports. Do you have similar objections to, say, arms embargo on DPRK?
The location option in the android quick menu. I was unaware there was any other way to even turn off the GPS. I assumed it was wifi since it seems to not happen when the wifi is turned off.

It would have at least been corporate speak to have an option called GPS that people assumed was location tracking and was not. Having an option called "Location" that does not stop your phone from tracking your location when turned off has crossed the line into fraudulent behavior for me
Disclaimer, I haven't looked at GRC explicitly, but often tools like this will

* check whether a range of domains are censored by the DNS

* lookup a bunch of domains and ping them to check whether the DNS server is returning properly localized addresses using EDNS - Cloudflare DNS is a good example of one that was not (at least a few months ago)
(disclosure - I've had conversations with the author of this tool)

I'd say that it's HashKnownHosts that is impractical, not the attack. One of the reasons someone would publish a tool like this is to raise awareness of the brittle security HashKnownHosts offers vs. modern GPUs.
"four months ago" they stopped requiring it for 2FA, that's the time GDPR came in.

I wonder if Facebook acts differently for European users?
The academy award is called "best adapted screenplay" and awards the best screenplay (by oscar standards) which happen to be an adaptation. Whether the adaption if faithful or improves of the source material is not a factor, only the resulting screenplay.

I'm not disputing the movie is cliched oscar-bait. That is the kind of movies the oscars awards.
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...for many users...

What numbers, precisely, do you have on this? Because it sounds to me as if you're arguing from a position of ignorance.

There might be some benefit to the small number of users who 1) have multiple devices and 2) share one or more of those amongst several other people in the same account in ways that this Chrome feature ... might address. But this doesn't strike me as some overwhelmingly large use case.

The system for user separation on shared computers is called ... user accounts. Which every mainstream consumer operating system has supported for the past 17 years (Windows XP being the latecomer to this game.)

Otherwise, this is a broadening of Google's ever-expanding ingestion of user data, either directly or by way of one more (or an incremental series of) "small change". If I notice my enemy maneuvering me to his advantage, I counter that maneuver. In my case, it's meant uninstalling Chrome and Chromium from any systems on which that's possible.

(My much-regretted purchase some years ago of an Android tablet being the primary exception, though I'm resolved to not repeat that mistake, despite a dire lack of viable market options presently. Purism and Ubuntu may be nearing useful products.)

...small changes...

In the Universe in which I inhabit, Google specifically addressed user feedback and sign-in changes. I cannot find your characterisation of their announcement as accurate under any charitable interpretation.
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>does digital === electronic?

I had never thought about that. But someone has: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-electroni...

>relevant in the absence of electricity?

Theory is independent from practice or implementation. A logic gate is a logic gate whether you model it with wires, water channels, or whatever else. Regardless of perceived 'relevance':

>The value of knowledge is not statically predefined
Yep, even if they'd be offering it for free, after adding the privacy tax for all the data they siphon, I certainly wouldn't touch it. Exactly the reason why I went with HTC Vive.
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I'm more worried about the noise from headphone jack.
Because you are stuck to use Oracle Java 8?
>But mobile phones (Gear VR, Google Cardboard) can do VR with much less graphics horsepower

I'd say mobile phones can do much less VR with much less graphics horsepower. I tried both Oculus, Vive and Cardboard, and the last was terribly underwhelming after seeing proper VR solutions.
There's seems to be a THX contest on currently and I found this version quite remarkable. https://youtu.be/ZRvJW4-izLs
"Give me as much service as you can while keeping me as far off the grid as possible" is a skill that is sorely lacking in this market. I don't have this problem with weed dealers, but I have this problem with information dealers. Internet companies could seriously learn a thing or two from the black market on how you treat your customers.
> iPhones have been inundating 911 call centers with unintentional "butt dials"

Because they fill that lock screen with junk making it a butt dial magnet.
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Lucky you already have your account. These days you can sign up for one without a phone number, but then you flat-out can't sign in without giving one.
Yeah, or if it reflected off an interface going from high refraction index to low (e.g. reflecting off an under-ice cavern or something). These are possibilities, but 1) the reflection is far away, so for this to be coherent, it probably must be some massive feature, and 2) ANITA also had a trailing balloon with a calibration pulser from which we could observe both direct and reflected pulses, and from that pulser, we never saw evidence of the reflected pulses not being flipped in polarity. Of course, that did not probe every region of ice and all incident angles, but it seems like if such a strange reflection were likely, we likely would have seen it there.

Nonetheless, we are working on simulating reflections off various ice models to see if we can come up with a plausible optics explanation (like pathological sastrugi).
It’s not just a question of fatigue but also that for intellectually innovative work, it’s rare to get more out of 40+ hour weeks than 20-30.

At least this is the case with kids.
I was studying neuroscience and met another student who said "Hey, I've been running workshops teaching people how to build simple brain computer interfaces with EEG, but it's hard to explain the signal processing steps without showing them what it actually looks like. We should build an app that does that."

Fortunately, there was a product out there, the Muse EEG headband, with a lot of users and a decent mobile SDK. The company gave us some free headbands to work with, some experience software developers told us what tech to use, and a few months later we released EEG 101: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eeg_projec...)
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I don't follow - what does Github and its ownership have to do with anything? I could be wrong, but I was under the impression Linus mirrors on Github just for convience's sake.

I do know that Linus's Github repo is not the official public repository for the kernel -- that's kernel.org's job. And FWIW, relations between the Linux and MS kernel devs have (to my understanding) never been better, especially since the Spectre/Meltdown reveals.
Thanks! changed from https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am-i-logged-in-or-not-additio....
In FAST mode, the 81 blanked the entire screen while drawing because of that. It was eerily fascinating.
I don't have that data on hand, but the chrome team apparently does.

Certainly, for you or I, user accounts (and incognito windows) solve most of the problems that this change fixed. But most users aren't you or I.
> first place I usually check when I compromise a new server

Probably don't want to admit publicly that you compromise servers, though I assume you mean with consent. :-)
> How do Windows users do it?

I got a BIOS update through Windows update once. Didn't have to do anything except deal with a random restart.
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As DenisM points out below, you broke the site guidelines with that last bit. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here.
If we truly have 17 years to stop our own extinction from happening in 80, then we honestly don’t need to save them, because there’ll be no one to save them for.
The ZX81 was actually my first computer, and I loved it. I pretty much read the manual in a weekend, and spent hours upon hours learning how to program (and getting stuff in and out cassette tapes).
I do not think that "social/psychological signalling" has a good meaningful interpretation along the lines that you are using it.

That is, many people seek wealth, and signal it through a lack of frugality. Look at the number of owners of super and mega yachts, and tell me how they are frugal. There are a lot of such yachts, yes?

(You could say that they are frugal because they live well within their means, but that's not what you meant when you singled out Buffett and Kamprad.)

Look at billionaries like the Koch brothers, or the DeVos family. Money gives political power, and both of those families have used their wealth to push their respective political agendas.

Thing is, that can also be interpreted as "social/psychological signalling", could it not?

So it seems like anything that a rich person does can be interpreted as "social/psychological signalling".

I don't know what you refer to when you say "one billion people ... a trillion USD/year in value." Does that include all of the people who sing for free in their church choir, or who volunteer to organize a race, etc? Again, if you say those are all examples of "social/psychological signalling", then I think that definition is so broad as to be meaningless.

Much has been written about Carnegie's philantropy. Quoting Wikipedia, '"Maybe with the giving away of his money," commented biographer Joseph Wall, "he would justify what he had done to get that money."' Isn't that a rather different interpretation than yours?

Note too that Carnegie was far from frugal.

Finally, you reference to hunter-gatherer systems (excepting the settled hunter-gatherers) in what seems which reminds me of Marx's description of "primitive communism." If I continue with a Marxian analysis, those hunter-gatherer systems had no mechanism for capital accumulation, and it's that accumulation which contributes to the social power imbalance we see now.

How does "economic transparency", much less "apps running on personal computing devices" , result in a major equalization of social power gained from capital accumulation?
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People who explicitly care about whiteness (KKK, neo-Nazis etc) do.

The "I'm not racist, but ..." majority - which is the real driver of systemic racism - doesn't. In fact, so much so that "Judeo-Christian values" became the standard way to describe the culture of that crowd, and it's a formulation that is specifically intended to include Jews.
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Features can introduce risks in various ways. I discovered this long ago through a software vendor's annual feature request solicitation, in which I learned to be ware of what others ask for: you may get it.

Specifically as to sync: I would love to be able to sync certain elements of browser state between my systems.

Not between one of my systems, some arbitrary third party of questionable trust and intentions, and another of my systems. But directly between my systems.

Google actively thwart this.

A feature of most early browsers was the ability to save bookmarks to a file, and import that elsewhere. By slight extension, a browser session or tab state can be saved, either directly, or as bookmarks.

Chrome does not do this, either at all, or on all platforms. It's most resistant to this on the consumption-only platform of Android.

This has been a major point of frustration to me for a year and a half as I've been wanting to dump user state from one system to another, without Google intermediating that exchange for me. I've found no means of accomplishing this.

That is one element of the tyranny of the minimum viable user, as well as of Google cattle-prodding its users into the feed chutes.