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I know that people sometimes excuse bad behaviour by their other bad behaviour; however, to stick with the vegetarian example: more and more people around me, and in my country and general, have been going vegetarian, and this process is only accelerated because it is easier than ever to become one due to supermarkets and restaurants catering to this growing group.

So sure, people are not going to be perfect immediately, but there's no doubt that even the non-vegetarians are far more aware of these issues due to the number of vegetarians around them. Meanwhile, the environmentally-friendly parties in my country and the surrounding ones have been growing in popularity.

Besides, I'm not quite sure how you think people are going to be pushing for drastic changes if every step towards that actually is a step away from it. Would actively dumping toxic waste in our rivers be better?

For change to happen, there needs to be a widespread push for it, and that widespread push isn't going to happen unless awareness spreads. Sure, it might already be too late for that push to make a difference, but about not doing anything we can at least be sure that it will not make a difference.
Sorry, but you're out of touch.

Almost everyone wants the features that JS enables. Literally: Almost everyone. I understand you don't, and I absolutely respect that decision, but it means that you're not worth developing for. Full stop. It's not a matter of mal-intent, it's a matter of financial logistics.

You bought that machine to run code. If you don't want to run code that sites serve you on the internet, don't visit them.

That said, I'd be willing to wager a fair bit that literally every line of code you've run on your machine (probably ever if it's been bought in the last few years) outside of the vendor installed OS and drivers came from the internet.
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They say that compared to photosynthesis, it's 10x more energy efficient.
Yes, just look at how well this worked out with Gab.
This is an amazing site! I haven't really gotten into ukiyo-e but this is so great for exploration and discovery. I think there are a lot of other genres/topics as well that I would love to have a site like this.

I appreciate the work put into making the site light and responsive, even with so many images. And I find the mouseover functionality really neat, too - even if it's not the most practical way to view hundreds (or thousands!) of works at a time, it's completely mesmerizing.
"Google had the ability to enforce a JS-required rule on login at least 6 years ago and never used it until now."

Um ... this should terrify everyone.

'We had the power to impose this, and we graciously chose not to. You should be thankful for what we have done.'

No. Just ... no.
In these situations, companies aren't sued for harassment, but for having a hostile work environment; allowing harassment to persist (e.g. by retaining harassing employees). If an employer has effective mechanisms to deal with cases of harassment, then it shouldn't be liable.

Even if a harasser was prosecuted or sued successfully, if the company retained them, that would create a hostile work environment for the harassee, and make the employer liable.

There's also the case of quid pro quo harassment, where a superior makes someone's career progression tied to the harassment, in which case it may be harder to distinguish the company's liability from the harasser. But even in such cases, an effective system to report such behaviour can mitigate the company's liability. In such cases, claims often surround retaliation for reporting harassment (e.g. employee transferred, demoted or fired in response to a harassment report.)
I find that the impending climate cataclysm is really starting to affect me and my day to day life in the form of crushing depression and anxiety. It's such a huge, nebulous, threatening issue that I can't even begin to think how we go about mitigating it (as preventing it entirely seems like a dead horse to flog at this point).

I'd be really curious to know if anyone else is feeling like this? And how you may have gone some way to alleviating it through positive means? I'm always looking for practical things I can do to contribute towards a solution, even if they're small (e.g. vegan diet, strict recycling, cycling/walking nearly everywhere and so on). But it feels like a drop in the ocean. And it's really starting to weigh heavy on me mentally, as trivial as that may seem in the grand scheme of things where the future of our species might be a stake.
Perhaps what we are seeing is not a problem with technology but a problem with the human condition?
The original directional cables, sans mythology, are a real thing. Grounding for cable shielding matters a lot, and is plainly audible in many circumstances. "Directional" cables only ground the shield at one end, preventing ground loops and interference from grounding both ends. This is electronics 101.

An interesting aside on cables... I play electric guitar a lot, which is far more sensitive to cables than hi-fi gear, because guitar pickups are high impedance, low output devices - enough that capacitance can have audio-frequency passive filtering, and grounding is a huge problem. With passive pickups, I can easily hear differences in various cables I own. But some of my guitars have active electronics onboard (EMG pickups or other preamps), and produce a low-impedance signal. I can't hear the difference with those guitars.

When it gets down to it, I use the cables that are most reliable and comfortable to handle. Sound quality doesn't even enter into it, whether or not it's audible.
As if getting through an airport isn't bad enough, now in these locations we will have to submit to a pseudoscientific farce. (Polygraphs, that record more detailed physiological data, in concert with a human interpreter, fail to "detect deceit". Clearly this system, which the article says was tested on 30 people before deployment, will produce random results.)
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Yes but the point is the signal path in those probably less than $100 end to end. Instruments excepted.

A decent audio grade opamp is $2 for example.
It's already true. You can quibble over who's fault it was, but it really doesn't matter at this point. The web serves code that users run. That's because the web is the best distribution medium for code we've ever seen.

I bet you've also installed client side applications that came from the web, on a vendor installed OS that came from the web, and drivers for your machine that came from the web.
We have a requirement that users be logged out after 30 minutes of inactivity, so JWTs are perfect for our use case.
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I guess we better get some people off this rock before earth orbit becomes unnavigable.
I have the same issue with button resizing on my 4k monitor, I think it would work better if just the button resized, not the text, since the spacing between the letters bounces around when the text resizes.
Looks super slick, thanks for sharing!

Can you give a little more detail in how this compares architecturally with something like PD? I imagine a tradeoff of generating LLVM MIR and compiling it is that you can get better performance, but don't get the interactive experience of hearing changes immediately as you tweak the object graph.

Does the DSP graph operate on blocks or sample-by-sample?
Some people have no choice but to use ATT, it's the only way to get internet into their home. I can do everything I need to without Google, but not ATT.
Sheeeet..

Norway is in the middle of trying to figure this out. Or we are where we have always been: Pretending to do everything we can to protect the climate while actually doing almost nothing that would impact our standard of living. Its hard to tell if we are actually moving the discussion forward or not.

We are happy to spend billions funding rainforrests around the world, but we won't make any hard choices that affect us at home.

Stopping the national subsidies for oil exploration is something that would probably stop it dead in its tracks. But we are not doing that. We are instead in the process of opening new areas for explorative drilling. There might be some truth to the "clean oil technology" talk, but it doesn't change the fact that oil == carbon.

The only reason we havn't started drilling in "Lofoton"( our famous fishing grounds and home of a lot of magnificent scenery constantly posted on reddit ) is that a few small swing parties are putting their foot down. All the larger parties want to drill. As they always have. Its depressing.

We do have the fairly new(in terms of actually being voted for) "Green" party which is basically a single-issue party. I'm hoping they can steer the conversation to a point where will be able to make hard choices.

Not to derail too much, but this also applies to everything else we do or dont do. Like not cutting arm sales to the saudies etc. Its money talks all the way.

Edit: and don't get me starte on wolves. Even while the majority of norwegians seemingly wants wolves in our forests, we seem to be dead set on limiting their numbers to a population which is not going to sustain itself genetically. Rip wolves.
Yes, I know. Nothing much that can be done about that, sorry.

The point I'm trying to get across is that companies use these techniques because they are effective - it isn't as simple as "some junk that was beaten ages ago" - and the collateral damage is very small, relative to other techniques. Far fewer users run with JS disabled than the number of users who struggle with CAPTCHAs.

We can see the direction things are going with reCAPTCHA v3, which appears to be the logical end of the path Google started walking 8 years ago - reCAPTCHA v3 is nothing but risk analysis of anti-automation signals.
Why does one man claim the Right to force other men to break up their businesses?

digusting.

This is communism and totalitarianism.
Microsoft used to require arbitration but got rid of it earlier this year after the deserved outcry. Apple still has it AFAIK.
> Maybe it was growing up on age of empires that improved my typing.

I'm definitely the fastest in the office at typing PEPPERONI PIZZA dozens of times in a row.
A paid account is just as vulnerable to password theft as a free one.
Your solutions are not enough because Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp - they buy out new social media so they're always in control.

In Europe at least everyone uses WhatsApp and no-one texts anymore - they're too pervasive to avoid.
You're making an assumption about me, I actually don't use noscript these days (I haven't for at least 6 years at this point) however I will fight for the right of my brethren who do not have machines with six CPU cores and 64G of ram, or those who have had their scrollbars hijacked, or their text to speech software go insane, or their web experience which used to be controlled by them insidiously invaded by people who want to use their webbrowser as a software distribution platform and virtual machine.

Javascript being enforced allows for a sub-par slew of web development which does not cater for performance(minor) or accessibility(major).

I dislike the trend of _forcing_ people to do something that doesn't benefit them. Even if I'm not personally affected.
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I strongly believe we need to tread extra cautiously while observing what these companies do with the internet. They would like to have their own walled sections of the internet where they define the rules and govern the policies. It started with URLs first (facebook.com was the internet for many). It is shifting to whole top level domains - Google’s usage of “.new” for example.

I agree that the best solution will be to reduce the concentration of power. However, it is extremely complex to implement. There are too many parameters in play, both technological and political. It would be important to not let these walled premises build until we have the solution.
Our two closest primate relatives are not vegan, they’re omnivores. Bonobos and chimpanzees hunt smaller mammals.
>In a perfect world, we would be able to de-platform those that incite violence against others (for any reason)

Should we really do it for any reason? Are there not some groups of which a certain level of violence (enforced by the state) is good? I can think of many groups of people who engage in actions which we agree it is good to respond with some violence to enslave them in cages. Well, that is one interpretation of what we do when we put someone in prison, but I think we cannot divorce imprisoning someone or putting other punishments on them that are backed by imprisonment from the threat of violence that is put on prisoners to comply with the rules of imprisonment.

At the core, laws are enforced by violence or threat thereof and are largely based upon subjective morals. Talk about adding laws is thus talk about bringing violence to some group of people. And sometimes (say laws against murderer or theft), it is required for us to have a civilized society.
Left of Center Bias

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The difference is that the false pretense of the engagement breeds the abusive behavior that is common in these sorts of engagements. The "magic" is just a veneer over the grift, and the entertainment aspect is a start of the sales funnel.

That's why legitimate therapists, etc have professional associations and standards of ethics.
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I'm not sure why this would be questioned.

On the front page of Hacker News right now we have articles about conservation, witchcraft, the death of an author, the Japanese language, horror and WWI, and ketchup.

And this is a relatively tame day.

A theme for an extremely popular framework used by many "hackers", created by a fellow HNer and presented as a "Show HN"... this seems exactly in line with the spirit of Hacker News. This is the kind of thing I would expect to see on the front page.
If the software physically destroys the hardware that is running it, I'd say that's fairly violent. Stuxnet, the virus it's being compared to, destroyed the centrifuges it infected. Sort of the issue with the "more violent" explanation so far is that Iran isn't saying how bad the damage is, and it sounds like this new virus might be hitting critical infrastructure like power systems, but no one will say anything beyond "systems are being attacked".
I have seen my algorithm outperform me by a large margin at something I am an expert in. The task was a highly ambiguous visual analysis. The trick is that humans focus too much on strong signals. Algorithms are much better at correctly aggregating lots of weak signals.
Hey if you guys are still considering solutions maybe one of the following derivations of Paxos will help:

EPaxos[0] - flexible/minimal quorums + if you're willing to know ops are commutative you can fast-path, and you can flexibly quorum

WPaxos[1] - flexible/minimal quorums + dynamic partitioning via object stealing for spreading writes around

The main benefit of these is of course getting over raft's weakness of the leader being a SPOF.

If you're willing to go with causal consistency there's also CmRDTs (operation/command Replicated Data Types) which are generalizable to "pure operation based CRDTs"[2] which make the merging problem trivial and should in theory boil things down to replication lag while allowing writes at every node.

[0]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/epaxos-sosp2013.pdf

[1]: https://cse.buffalo.edu/tech-reports/2017-03.pdf

[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.04469.pdf
>Except you did if you wanted to do serious work.

What am I missing out on by avoiding social media entirely?
In what way is that different than the current state of affairs?
I think the code tag shows up when you indent a line of text. Check if there's any spaces at the start of your message.
Every consider trying WSL? It's built into windows and gives you a full linux shell
The web is designed to make limiting the propagation of information (and any emergent effects from that) impossible.

How will the effect of 'bad actors' be limited when they can just move elsewhere? You don't need sites of the scale of Facebook or Twitter to have emergent, viral or culturally relevant effects occur.

What makes the big sites like Facebook and Twitter isn't their size per se but their capture of network effect and discoverability... they are content aggregators (among other things) and so the content they aggregate can by definition be found elsewhere.

If those sites are broken up, then users have to put in more effort at discoverability (which was the case with the "old" web), but that problem can be solved by smaller sites, other aggregators, other search engines, apps, etc.

It's like the Force in Star Wars.. the light side or dark side doesn't matter, the Force doesn't seek good or evil, only balance. With the web, you can't reduce the propagation of information, or bias it effectively towards one moral or political alignment or another, just distribute or centralize discoverability. Either way the web will still find a balance.
I am genuinely curious - how do you (did?) resolve that kind of work-place conflict?
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But hopping around on one leg is obviously less efficient, slower and maybe even unhealthy for your joints etc. Is a vegetarian diet less efficient or healthy?

It is limiting your choices in restaurants obviously, but suppose you live in some vegetarian community. Is this community limiting its potential? While if you live in a community that exclusively hops around on one leg, the answer is obviously yes, for the first example I'm not sure.
Some people understand the law of diminishing returns, but have the resources to not care. If a $2000 pair of headphones is no more real financial pain for you than a $200 pair, and they're better despite diminishing returns, then why not get them?
Same. I generally rest in the home row, but I'm sure the fingers I'm using to strike specific keys are not the "correct" ones. I've never been formally trained in typing. I do find that I make fewer errors when I have a correct keyboard height and I keep my wrists elevated.
I think the main issue that has allowed the likes of Google and Facebook to grow to a dangerous size is the ability to scale globally with minimal resistance from other countries. As time goes by, I start to realize that China's great firewall may have had some visionary thinking behind it, and other countries may follow suit in future to enable their citizens to take part in the digital revolution.
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That just means the person writing the algorithm becomes the authority. As we recently saw with Amazon's hiring practices, algorithms have bias as well. Granted, a better designed system might not have made this mistake, but since humans designed it, can it ever be perfectly unbiased?

Without actual censorship (which I'm against) the offending material still exists, but would only be found by those who seek it. I do like that approach personally, but I don't think it would be enough to satisfy many people who prefer to eradicate offensive speech through authoritarian measures.
I don't understand why anybody concerned about having JS on a login screen would want to log into Google in the first place. I imagine there's a tiny overlap between "Runs NoScript" and "Trusts Google"
The police are not primarily there to solve civil disputes and disagreements. There is a pretty wide area where things are not illegal and possible to convict, but you would probably want to do something.

The police’s mindset (at least the ones I’ve interacted with) is one of three things:

1. Deterrance from crimes to be committed (doesn’t apply here)

2. Achieve convictions for crimes (would also not apply in your situation)

3. Deploy force to break up ongoing altercations (also doesn’t apply)

2 is interesting. Talk about a specific alleged crime with a police officer and they will not be discussing whether it was a crime or not much, nor if the person committed it, they will be discussing whether it can be proven in a court of law or not that a criminal act was committed by a specific person, beyond reasonable doubt. It is a purely pragmatic operation of “how can I provide proof that something occurred that is against this list of rules”.

The police are in no way useless, most people just misunderstand what their job is. Their job is not to dispense justice, or make sure you get your revenge.

In your specific situation it sucked, but from a police point of view what would they do? Is there a crime? Maybe. Would they be able to present a chain of evidence proving beyond reasonable doubt that a crime occurred - most assuredly not. Would a conviction, however unlikely, achieve something meaningful? Nope, the guy would get a fine at most, but would still be working with you.

On the other hand, an employer is fully within their right to fire someone for a situation like that. They do not have the same burden of proof, they can refer to previous records of incidents, and the consequences would better match what you’d want (removal of the hostile environment).
The point isn't to finish selling before you build, the point is to start selling -- do market research -- before you build.

You use the term "investment" -- do you invest in stock market / bitcoin / real estate by buying whatever looks cool, and chalking up your losses to the learning process, or do you research your choices and look for ROI opportunities??
I also would like to see the Catholic Church treated like any other organization would have been treated whose members abused children and covered this up for decades.
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