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I've paid for Sublime, but I abandoned it for VS Code. For instance, the default Python setup - in particular its handling of virtualenvs, linters, and formatters - works pretty much out of the box. I was constantly fighting against the Sublime plugins to make them work halfway reasonably. Sublime is faster, but the lower mental overheard required to make VS Code work properly makes a much bigger difference to me than the price does.
Microsoft calls for regulations to control, restrict facial-recog tech
> They are not removing every single nipple.

It's worth taking care to distinguish what's being done from what the new policy is. The policy exempts artistic, political, and some other non-erotic uses of nudity, which is good to point out. But so far, the actual outcome is that nudity is being flagged and removed with no regard for context (or, say, the difference between a human and a statue). Some of it is being restored on appeal some of the time, but that's very different from "not removed".

Admittedly it's quite hard to draw a specific conclusion about how non-sexual nudity is being handled, since what's being removed is basically the random output of an untrained classifier. (Which, incidentally, leaves all of their users on uncertain ground.) But the examples of many other websites with similar rules suggest a major chilling affect on ostensibly approved content, either because it's not restored or because takedown-and-restore patterns prevent normal engagement with material.
Oops, that was my misunderstanding in the first paragraph :)

Maybe a clearer example w.r.t. the base^exponent value would be another highly structured class of long passwords, instead of short passwords. For example, those that are just a 2-character sequence repeated 20 times (e.g. abab...ab). You can still say that it'll take maybe up to 26^40 tries for an attacker to guess this, but that number should be more obviously too charitable, since less entropic classes of passwords are more likely to be guessed first.

More generally, this kind of counting analysis depends on your choice of attacker, and it's plausible for attackers to be more sophisticated than just trying all the strings in lexicographical order. A more concrete but still practical attack sketch adapted to the frequency of password schemes today could be: guess dictionary word combinations first, starting with common/short words/phrase lengths, then repeat with small perturbations, then more perturbations, and so on until you search all the remaining strings.

Then, the number of tries for such an attacker to find a 3-word passphrase with a few changes would be much closer to (some small constant) * (# dictionary words)^3 than (# characters)^(string length). Of course, you can still say that such an attacker would take at most (# characters)^(string length) tries to get it, but such an upper bound isn't as useful when the password is much more structured and easy to guess with a slightly more sophisticated attacker.

(Yet another way to put it: one shouldn't expect a password that's 'slightly out of reach' to be significantly more secure than a password that follows a scheme exactly - a more sophisticated attacker would test neighbouring passwords as it brute-forces the combinations in the scheme)
> City people drink their beer in a bar.

Er, no, we mostly don't.

> Country people drink their beer standing around a pile of burning pallets.

I suspect they city and country people both mostly drink their beer outside of business establishments, though, sure, standing around a pile of burning pallets specifically may be more common for country folk.
After solving global warming, should we be more concerned by the approaching end of the current interglacial period? The next glacial period of the current Ice Age is going to be terrible for our stage of technology and civilization.

If we are serious about the current issues of climate change, and about potential asteroid impacts, why should we not also be planning for the mid- to long-term risk of the return to an Ice Age?
"The world has progressed from smart users in front of dumb terminals, to dumb users in front of smart terminals." --Proverb
Montblanc Summit 2 vs. Summit
So they took one business's confidential documents from another person travelling in their country who had them as part of discovery for another lawsuit (that a CA judge asked to remain hidden)? And then they publish them for everyone? And these are the "bombshells"? Seems like normal (albeit arguably immoral) big business and would have expected worse from an internal email cache of such size.

Obviously FB has nobody on their "side" but themselves, but I for damn sure am not on the UK government's side here. Comes off as look-what-we-can-do strong-arm tactics when you don't show up when they want you to. And the publishing appears to be just gloating. Shameful and I would hope others see it this way regardless of their feelings towards FB. Sadly, the less-principled masses care more about who it's targeted towards than the actions.

I wonder if the CA judge will formally censure the UK government or encourage others with sealed documents in hand to not travel to places like this. Cry "exceptional circumstances" all you want, but we declare non-guilt on harsher crimes for much less egregious discovery violations than this.
Hang on, I meant that I believe that the DOJ was acting in good faith.
If people eat horse, dog, or whale meat are they at the same level of risk?
The gas mileage seems off. I have a small SUV (Mazda CX3), and since there was no category for that (maybe the small SUV market is too USA-centric), I picked a "Medium car" (lke a VW Golf).

But it gave the gas mileage as 18 mpg, while I get a measured 30 - 32mpg on my commute. Even when I had a golf, I was getting around 25 mpg.
There is no nation in the world remotely capable of sending an invasion force here

Famous last words. Well, good for you. Worst enemy usually comes from within, though.
On Overcoming Pain
More seriously, how do you calculate the Co2 for EVs? It seems like different power sources used at different times would make calculations like yours almost impossible, since you would need to know when the vehicle was charged and the mix of power sources at the time.

I have a friend who works for the local power company. He told me that at off peak times, our power is almost entirely green. However, at peak times, they use dirty natural gas or coal peaker plants. Even though I don't have time-of-use metered power, I make sure to always charge in the middle of the night for this reason.
I'm seeing the same problem on Windows:

$ rustup component add rustfmt
error: toolchain 'stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc' does not contain component 'rustfmt' for target 'x86_64-pc-windows-msvc'

I looked for how to uninstall rust, and found that "the book" says that the command 'rustup self uninstall' will uninstall both rust and rustup. So I figured, what the heck, I'll start from scratch. I ran this command, uninstalling everything. Then I re-downloaded rustup-init.exe, and then ran it, reinstalling rust. I even then did 'rustup self update' and 'rustup update' for good measure.

I still get the same error when trying to install rustfmt. What else is there to do if completely uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't work?
But even 1000 cycles... assuming 0.5 cycles per day gives you ~6 years life span? Sounds a little too low.
>Here's the long version. I feel like you're completely ignoring the fact that racism exists, and ignoring all of the racist comments made by social-right.

TL;DR: you are incapable of separating minority views that tend to choose one party from the views of people in the party in general.

>what Republicans in America say. Here's an example: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018....

What a Neo-Nazi running as a Republican says != "what Republicans say". Someone can piss on the subway but that doesn't mean all subway riders piss on the subway nor does it make the description accurate.

Are you comfortable with the everything a few Democratic party members say being associated with the entire party? Cortez claimed that unemployment is low because people are working multiple jobs[1]. Do you think it's now fair to claim that "Democrats have no understanding of economics"?

>I'm providing you with lots of clear explanations and evidence so that we're on the same page.

Once you are convinced of something, it's easy to go through and find anecdotes to support your views like you have. But that doesn't make your broad claim any more true.

>If you read through my links of racist rhetoric Republicans use,

Again, that's not what you provided. You provided links of some Republicans using racist rhetoric. Until you understand that distinction and stop making conclusions based on that confusion, you are part of the problem.

It's unlikely you would be convinced all Democrats are racists if you were provided with anecdotes of Democrats being racist. Why are you so happy to accept that logic for Republicans (other than them being the out-group of course)?

1. https://www.factcheck.org/2018/07/ocasio-cortez-wrong-on-cau...
There was one downvote: yours.
[edit]If this indeed is LinkedIn they are not forced by lay (GDPR) to come clean. The data was not stolen but scraped.
Generic nationalistic flamewar comments will get you banned on HN. Please don't post like this here, regardless of which nations you favor or disfavor.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18616293 and marked it off-topic.
Your scrolling is broken when the decision modal is open[0]. You should either let the background scroll behind the modal or prevent it entirely.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/XYe7pDE.gifv
Obviously this law and ones like it have no place in a modern, free society, but in regards to the risk with using business apps, it's just the same as before. You can not trust app's from companies incorporated in the five eyes [1]. If you are using a product made in any of the five eyes you are already compromised. By compromised, I mean you can be almost 100% sure that if the owner's of those countries want your data they will get it, and they will get it easily too. They do not need warrants, courts or judges to sign of on anything and haven't done for a long time.
To clarify my position on this. Whether a law like this is actually passed or not, you should assume that every company incorporated in these countries have been forced to place backdoors in their systems. I'm not saying that every company has done this. I'm saying you should assume they have.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
I'm with you. Same for pillows. I can't handle big soft fluffy pillows and soft beds. Especially memory foam. It hurts my back. I've actually gotten up in the middle of the night to sleep on the floor before when the bed's been too soft.
Updated alphazero crushes stockfish in a 1000 game rematch
I went from the Nexus to the Pixel line and I couldn't be happier. The main thing I noticed is that the Pixels pull you further into the Google ecosystem (the assistant, hard-integrated Google calendar/weather, etc) while the Nexus phones tried to be a "pure" (read: vendor independent) experience.

Depends on where you are but here iphones are the new "grandma" phone -- phones you can get for $0 and are idiotproof. They're simply not fashionable anymore.
24 Amazon Workers Hospitalized After Robot Punctures Bear Spray in Warehouse
I am making a practical argument and you are making an ethical/moral argument of it.

But for your argument to be complete I think you need at least some example of someone doing something unethical or wrong because of the policy. The policy exists today so hypothetical arguments fall a bit flat.

To illistrate my point, consider that it is legal (as far as I can tell -- not a lawyer) to walk around in California with a sword as long as it's neither concealed nor being brandished. But it doesn't make sense to argue that the lack of a law against carrying a sword is unethical because of what people might do. Theoretically people might do horrible things while carrying a sword; but empirically they do not, because few people even have swords, fewer still walk around with them, and approximately zero deaths result from it.
I believe it comes from a good place, but this post is bad.

Why?

Because it doesn't apply the same comparison standard to character-based passwords than to word-based passwords.

Sure, we only use a few common dictionary words. But by the same token, our character-based passwords aren't random strings either: they are variation based on random words.

This is the basis of the xkcd advice to use 4 random words:
https://xkcd.com/936/

Notice Randall gives each word 11 bits of entropy, meaning he considers each word is chosen at random amongst a pool of ~2000 words. Yet that base is still much bigger than ~64 for characters.

If you take 3 common words, you get ~8 billion possibilities. 4 common words: 17,000 billion. That's much more than than ~400 billion for a perfectly random (again: that's not the case in practice) password of 12 characters. And four words is easy to remember, 12 random characters is HARD.

If anything bad can be said about the xkcd comic, it's that it doesn't hammer the point that it has to be FOUR words. As three is much less secure (but still probably more secure than the 12 characters password people are likely to use in practice).
This is what a monopoly looks like.
Any idea what drives Lyft riders to be better behaved?

Is Lyft more expensive in your locale?

I’m in a new Lyft market, so their pricing makes them the cheapest with their discounts often.
Yep. My father works at an oil refinery in Northern Alaska and everyone there is making well over 100k, around 200k for middle management, plus benefits like a pension. Downside is that it's a frozen tundra where you can't go outside without protective goggles to keep your eyes from freezing shut, but they also work 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off, so it's basically 6 months of vacation every year, in addition to normal vacation days. He said some people chose to live in warmer places like Puerto Rico and just fly back and forth every 2 weeks.
true but how far are we from chemical theoretic optimum ? manufacturing of cells is very suboptimal at the atomic level.
Which is an excellent feature. Another one is WebVR.
there is an antenna - just a wire - but that changes the equation a lot relative to what a normal UART does has part of a system that already meets FCC (or other) regulatory standards.

I'm curious about the gain of the antenna and what consideration has been made re trasmit wavelength and the antenna wire length.
> f Microsoft knew that Edge in its current state is inferior, why did they try so hard to make every windows user switch to it?

Because it's not inferior in all ways? Edge has far better support for anything touch (Firefox and Chrome as still awful in this respect) and the battery life using Edge is far better than any of the other browsers.

I'm always forced to use Edge at times because of how much better those aspects are, even though other things are worse.

I also wonder if this is why they're going with Chromium; they can work on getting better touch and battery life on Windows built into the thing.
Bottom line, they can ask a technology manufacture to do anything (literally last time I looked the bill had the phrase "do a thing") and they have to do it. But the specific intent is to have the manufacture deliver targeted malware to people they want to monitor. A warrant is not required, but a crime with a jail term of 3 or more years must be involved ("involved" because you do not have to be a suspect, just useful to the investigation to receive the malware).
Why would they be?

The owner of the repo is Google. Google gets last word on anything Microsoft wants to include in Chromium/Edge.
They are, but like—how many of these schemas is a cracker going to try between "test just words" and "brute force". There's a ton of possibilities, and I really don't think they'll bother enumerating them all. That's the point—the cracker doesn't know what schema you're going to use. Sure, maybe they'll test word lists. But not all of:

* word sym

* sym word

* word word sym

* word sym word

* sym word word

* word word word sym

* word word sym word

* word sym word word

* sym word word word

And then what about 2 symbols? Or separating words with spaces, or dashes, or underscores, or nothing? How many schemas are we up to by now? At what point is there no value to trying all of these, and just running the brute force lookup?
I tried Gutenberg and uninstalled it in less than 10 minutes. It might be awesome but the onboarding didn’t get me there. Builders like Divi and Visual Composer can have a steep learning curve but at least they lead you through it.
Don't forget the tariffs on imported ICE trucks and SUVs.
so you're saying: "why bother trying to fix it. party on and let the next generation fix our problems"???

disgusting.
You could contribute and earn a living at the same time via capitalism, e.g. start a solar product sales / installation business. From an investment perspective it's a steadily growing industry with widespread unmet demand, rapidly decreasing prices and increasing efficiency, but still requires expertise even if the product costs nothing. From an ecological point of view such a business speeds up the displacement of carbon emitting tech. Politically it decentralizes the grid, redirecting political power from the energy industry toward your customers.

And running a business that's a significant part of your income creates an incentive to keep at it religiously and relentlessly. That incentive is weaker without the profit motive, when it's about making an uncertain contribution to other people over decades.
This kind of thing has stopped being true a long time ago.

For all intents and purposes, web browsers are operating systems running web applications, taking care of security, etc.

And all these Chromium-derived browsers are skins and utilities on top of Google's browser/OS.
Everyone intrinsically understands that native is better, and I'm saying this as somebody who runs a 120k LoC Electron app (https://getaether.net) myself.

I'm painfully aware that native is better, all day, every day.

The problem is this: I'm a solo founder. I am both the engineer and designer (and PM). The alternative for me would be not to write a Mac app, a Windows app, and a Linux app separately, and have them work.

The alternative would be for Aether to not exist.

You're expressing a sentiment that everyone feels, but you're off on why — it's not change aversion, but the simple fact that these technologies make trying new things cheaper, things, by definition, that would be too expensive to try in slower-to-build tech.

In my case, a compromise I found worked was to use JS for just the UI and write all code that does something in Go. Since that code is native binary, it's fast and efficient. Vue in Electron handles the 'client' UI, and interacts with the Go app binaries via gRPC.
yeah indeed
>But suppose we never figure out a good way to recycle these batteries, and we just have to throw them all in a landfill and keep making new ones. Is that actually so terrible?

I mean... yea?

I don't know but I look back to the 2006 Jeep Wrangler being almost entirely recyclable steel and had an effective life of 40+ years if taken care of. Then I look to new cars using composites and lithium that WILL go into a landfill 20 years or less because they're just not fixable in the same way, it's cheaper to write off of an insurance claim than to fix.

It almost seems to me there is no free lunch, but that people like new and shiny and the company with all the tech is going to be popular with tech people.
My 2 cents.. either threats of regulation (anticompetitive behavior) or pressure for Zuck to step down.
Protecting employees from attacks in SPAM or JUNK folders
>Ironic because on the mostly white hiring committees I’ve been on, being a woman or black gives huge bonus points. I’m in the med west and that seems to be how it goes around here.

That's basically my whole point. It's always going to be either a positive or a negative, not a neutral meaningless thing like it is for white guys. In your experience it's been positive, but I can't imagine that's always the case.
> You attract drivers by paying them more, you attract riders by charging them less.

The network effect favours the larger player: less dead-heading between rides and better “pool” load-factors.
Most apps are API based and react native works perfectly fine for them - I've done all 3 and in general, RN performance is sufficient. Previous cross platform frameworks were pretty disappointing but I truly believe rn is well engineered.
Except we don't have any way to do it economically.
This still prompts a question, though: does this not happen on all social media?

Ok, Facebook presumably dodges the problem with privacy settings. But it's no harder to post an underage selfie on Reddit or Twitter than on Tumblr, and those sites have much larger userbases. Their apps haven't been hit by Apple, nor have they ever talked about resorting to outright adult-content bans to control it.

So what's the difference? Are there any major theories other than "tumblr's site moderation tools sucked" and "tumblr's moderation team was way too small"?
>Why is the girl doing free-form poetry being held down?

The poetry is about her being held down by the way she talks. The poetry isn't the thing holding her down.
This is what most interests me about Rust, using it to replace the C code on our embedded devices. Nice to see that is a first class use case now and the language will be mainted to ensure it is supported.

I might have to try and do a proof of concept with one of our devices now :)
MIT Course 6.S099: Eric Schmidt Guest Interview, from Google to Alphabet [video]
Netflix, Xbox Live, etc..
A few friends and I have noticed that applications that are using React Native, even in the best of situations in optimizing, it still drains battery life faster (sometimes far faster) than something written in Java/Kotlin or ObjC/Swift.
Even more interesting
This is true, however, how does one know when the market is down? It's down now. But maybe it's falling much further and you're catching the falling knife? Maybe it starts a 5-year boom tomorrow and you've missed your chance?

I guess that extends the thought expressed in other comments that no one really knows when a recession is about to hit. If they did, it would be preventable.

A good investor knows his risk and his time horizons. Obviously, don't throw thousands into the stock market just before you're about to retire, even if the market looks to be down, if you don't have a very sizable nest egg. Additionally, a good investment should be a good investment even during the hard times -- for instance, I don't think Amazon is going anywhere for a while. Otherwise you're speculating, which is a valid form of investing, but you can't ignore the risk, i.e. you have to have cash and assets that will protect you if you lose all your money or the apocalypse happens.

It's complex. I'm not saying I'm a good investor, but I am trying to learn from the past!
I appreciate your clarity and honesty! The level of change required to completely stop CO2 emissions, reverse the process, and return the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels is enormous, and will require many sacrifices. It is not clear how many people are willing to commit to these radical goals and to the path leading there.
... in Bhutan.
THIS! -- I was hoping a ham would chime in here :)

For anyone looking to do experiments like this - which are really cool to do - getting the ham technician licenses is pretty easy and very educational!
I hope multiple US executives now get arrested in other countries for supporting a US regime that breaks human rights and ignores international everyday
I doesn't say anything about speed though, does it? Only subscription rates.
The most powerful thing you could probably do is vote for politicians who have made it a goal to fight climate change.