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I'd like to comment here that this is primarily about chronic fatigue syndrome. There are other handwaving statements towards vaccines, global warming, and GMO, but none of those statements have a clear factual outlay. It's particularly interesting to me that it was implied that the activism against physical exercise/CBT to treat (not cure) chronic fatigue had done damage to the motivations of scientists to perform further research into the treatment of chronic fatigue.

This was distinctly not about common controversies around identities such as the existence or non existence of biological/cognitive differences of race, sexuality, and gender, even though those would be IMO the most pertinent subjects to cover about how(and if) science is affected by activism (as they have the most significant activists for all possible political opinions). I find that this exclusion particularly fascinating, or is it perhaps I am personally biased to assume they're more common and more obvious journalistic study due to my existence in tech, where the gender and racial gaps are talked about by all of the leading industry employers?

EDIT: I should clarify I do not know if science is affected by activism, but anecdotally I hear a lot about how such-and-such field of study (particularly about race, gender, and sexuality) is being limited because of activism. I've never seen actual evidence of this limiting, and the fact that this article explicitly excludes all three may be a 'absence of evidence is evidence of absence' scenario. Or again, it may be that I am personally more aware of those specific discussions due to my presence in tech where those positions are taken far more than chronic fatigue syndrome is discussed.
What are the dirty tricks you're mentioning?

And I'm not shocked about your comment, as I don't really believe it. I don't think HN should be a place to spread gossip and possibly lies like this.
Thank you for posting such an informative reply. Kudos!
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That's a slippery slope argument, and the answer to slippery slope arguments is "We'll address serious issues with appropriate seriousness."

This specific error isn't a serious issue, as indicated by how little impact it's had on real-world security.

It's not favoritism to Apple and Google if they emit certs with 63 bits and get minor criticism and someone else, say, stops using random numbers to seed cert generation and gets raked over the coals. The latter case would require more urgent and serious attention.
Exactly. And now imagine you manage in some way to explain average user that he cannot trust email sender. Then explain him that if email is signed then it is OK. He will most probably answer "why the hell now should I trust email sender !? There is just a dumb icon saying the email is signed. I do not trust it !!!". Which would just be the most sane reaction actually
Downloading and Streaming are two different royalty models.

Legally, you have to pay more expensive royalties if you download music (referred to as "right to reproduce") rather than stream (right to transmit), so a special type of downloaded file must be used that can't be exported in any way. This is what Apple are prohibiting.
Counter point: the discoverability on all of the app stores I've tried has been pretty terrible. Unless I know the name of an app that I'm trying to install I almost never find what I'm looking for. Most often I search for 'the best app to do X' on Google and then put a name from that into the app store.
I feel like posting your personal science based work on social media walks the thin line between education and self interested-marketing.

What if after a year of posting, you find an error in your study? You have just misinformed everyone for a year. How do you backtrack on that?
Security bugs in HotSpot happen can and do happen. Check out the CVE list for the JRE:
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...
Over the next 20 or so years, expect a lot of syndromes/conditions to be reclassified, as Michael Sharpe puts in the article, as "biological condition[s] that can be perpetuated by social and psychological factors.".

I struggled with RSI for a couple of years until I read John Sarno's "The Mind-Body Connection" on the recommendation of someone from HN. Sarno's thesis is that many chronic pain conditions (those without a clear physical mechanism, such as RSI or chronic back pain) are psychosomatic.

A lot of people struggle with this idea, and take it, as they did in the article, as "my pain isn't real". Sarno's book very clearly lays out that the pain is real, it's just caused by processes in your brain, not the rest of your body.

Societally it's all very strange. We accept a "mind-body" connection for certain types of disorders, but, not for others. Anxiety sufferers can fool themselves into thinking they're having a heart attack and hyperventilate. Why is it crazy or anti-scientific to think that the same can cause other symptoms? We've searched for decades for body-based mechanisms for these chronic pain conditions, why not consider causes in the brain?
I do think we should avoid talk of 'the common people' because it's impossible to know with any clarity what 'the people' want, and it changes over time. This is why we live in a representative democracies, not direct democracies.

Personally I think the EU is a force for good in the world. It has failings - the parliament does not yet have enough power, and the treatment of Greece was a travesty, but in spite of that it has lead Europe from war, dictatorship and acrimony to peace and prosperity. The end goal is of course a federal state and for the states within that to be subsidiary, and a large free market of work and goods within that area. Sounds good to me compared to the sclerotic British state still fondly grasping at dreams of lost Empire.

If the EU fails, the UK fails with it, regardless of whether we are in or out. If war comes to Europe we will not be able to avoid it. So the independence given by Brexit is an illusion. I find it highly unlikely that the UK will have more influence, more independence ore more power outside the EU, simply because of its size and proximity. So in my view Brexit is a false choice between a dream of independence which cannot truly exist in our global world, and the spectre of an evil federal state dictating our every move. Why not help to build the federal state we'd like to see in the world? If I had to start somewhere building a new state, I certainly wouldn't start with the current UK political system and UK state.
I agree with you, but maybe bandcamp is just that much more lucrative because people pay more money for each song/play?
Sure, but having access to encryption/decryption/key derivation is pretty much equivalent to having the key in most circumstances. Plus, JS generates the key and sets "extractable" flag.
An author can always distribute an ePub book directly from their site. When you click on it, it can be directly imported into the Books app.
It's same on HN, many ISPs are banned by HN moderators and all comments which don't suit the views of YC are banned here.
If you've ever spent any time around "activists" you'd realize there's not much of a difference.
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Why do you need ecosystem own by one company?
You can have Ubuntu laptop, Android phone, WebOS TV. They all support Spotify and Netflix, you can cast videos from Android phone to your LG TV.
You can read more about the use cases and targeted user here: https://goo.gl/kRnhVe

They mention Cobalt (to allow targeting playstation), react native, nativescript, pdfium, and chrome's proxy resolver.
> Theoretically, if there were some horrible bugs in the JIT, one could craft malicious input data causing the JIT to insert arbitrary code in the code heap. In practice, it doesn't seem possible.

This is very possible: just do a search for ${your favorite JIT} arbitrary code execution, and you'll almost certainly see a real-world vulnerability.

> At least HotSpot has been JIT:ing code for decades and no one has been able to find such an exploit.

Yeah, no. See for example https://www.syscan360.org/slides/2013_EN_ExploitYourJavaNati...
Obligatory link to Kialo: https://www.kialo.com/should-governments-ever-limit-free-spe...

Mostly because of my thinking it'd be great if there were a site where actual debates could be had, empowered by technology, and supported by facts. Essentially long form debating.

And then something hit the HN front page that week.
Given laptop webcam placement these days, this is kinda true...
A 30% cut is something that Spotify needs to pay to Apple for every user that subscribes to Spotify through Apple devices. This cost doesn't doesn't exist for PC users, for example.

They probably could live with it but I can understand why it feels like an artificial cost that Apple came up with. It would be an understandable cost if they were selling the Spotify App through the App Store and using the actual store infrastructure for supporting Spotify... but they are not.

The app is nothing more than a portal to the entire Spotify infrastructure, it doesn't weight anything to Apple.

And then we have the subject of the direct competition, Apple Music doesn't need to have their profits cut in 30% because they are owned by Apple itself.

And it's even worse if they are using Siri, Homepad and Apple Watch to make Apple Music more appealing in comparison to Spotify.
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Two words: peak capitalism.
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> Instead, I'm pointing out that if there's a social contract one way, which places expectations about what upstream must do for downstream, then it also must be read in a reciprocal way.

I don't agree at all. That you reputation 'may spill over', or that contributing to open source 'can help you' is hardly the language of obligation.

If you do want to impose obligations on downstream, it's grossly unfair and duplicitous to make them implied and unspoken. What sort of chance does that give downstream to understand what they're getting into? Put it in the license, up front.
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> You could use the XCode linker to embed your JS/WASM code in the binary as a read-only resource/section, and then run it using JIT-less V8.

Or just read it from a file?
This does not ring true to my experience.

I was at the Spotify office the day the news of Steve's untimely death broke. It was a solemn day, and the the one senior executive I spoke to expressed true sorrow, as if a longtime friend had passed. Jobs was incredibly respected by the Spotify crew, as far as I'm concerned.
Unpopular opinion: I will never go back to the Apple ecosystem. I like my freedom way too much.
What kind of issues did you run into developing BT devices? beyond them treating the spec like a rough draft of suggestions.
Experiments at CERN use it. ATLAS has clocked 260k meetings, whilst CMS had around 130k.
We had a clicker like they use for dog training.
Possibly a bit need? I'm not sure if academia actually uses Twitter to network, but I wouldn't be surprised. Last exposure to university was in proto-FB days.

Per analogy, one could probably argue that you need a phone of some sort (per professional expectations).
> the pain is real, it's just caused by processes in your brain,

I don't find this particular statement very revolutionary. We have known for a long time that physical pain is manufactured by the brain as an evolutionary tactic to help us prevent further harm to ourselves. If we didn't "feel pain" when we were on fire, we would burn to death.
RE: Football

Monopolies can have negative effects without trying to extract monopoly rents.

The competition between BT and Sky massively increased the TV rights price for e.g. the premier league, so the clubs got much more money. In theory, they used this to buy better players etc and increase the quality of the league.

Although you now have to pay twice, the quality of the product has gone up. So it's not a zero-sum game. You can argue that you don't think it's worth it, but that's an opinion, it's not true that it's an inherently worse situation.

Until they entered into a rights sharing agreement.
As you know, those 50%s grow quickly. But the relevant question is "How few bits before cracking the cert takes less time than the rate of reissuance?" And the answer is "Fewer than 63."
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There appears to be some subtext involving a UAE state-backed CA called Dark Matter which is the real reason this is being treated so severely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19376528
I can conclude they are different enough just based on display layout. How could aerospace experts not?
This is awesome. We are not set in stone on the laptops. For a scalable business model, it is safer to rely on donations. Rasberry pi will also require a bit more peripheral devices i.e keyboard, mouse, monitor. But if we start getting Rasperry pi donations, totally. The kids will learn the in and outs of a computer with that kind of set.
Arguably this is a good idea. If all cars had a precise 'maximum braking', then if everyone slammed the brakes on at the same time, nobody would crash.

If some cars stop better than others, then if everyone slams the brakes on, the poor souls in cars that don't stop as well will collide.

Keeping a safe distance between cars mitigates this though.
Google could easily come in here.

Note I work for Google but have no knowledge of Googles PWA products or PWA roadmap
The difference comes in when Apple introduced Apple Music, a direct competitor to Spotify. So now, they're not only offering an essentially identical service, they're extracting a toll from their competition through their other holdings.

To put this in 19th century anti-trust terms, the manufacturing company owns the railways and charges the competition a toll to transport their goods. It's a clear cut case for Spotify, from a legal perspective.
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That's a really great point which I hadn't considered! Thanks.
Why did you leave off steps 4 and 5?

4. If the runaway continues:
STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches (both) . . . . . . . . . CUTOUT

If the runaway continues:
Stabilizer trim wheel . . . . . . . . . . Grasp and hold

I don't see why someone would stop at step 3, given that the MCAS pause cycle is only 5 seconds long.
You can be an activist and crackpot. These things are orthogonal.
Just to show my age a little the equivalent sentence when I did my degree would be “it would be criminal for schools to drop students out without knowing clearcase”.

I’ve used at least 8 source control systems in my career. Knowing them have not been long term beneficial. Especially in comparison to the other things I did learn.
I really like how this allows you to learn more about how the compiler understands your code. It could be really neat if it were added as an assistant editor in Xcode.
Is that an implementation detail or in the design spec?
Correct. I just think that Google is a bigger problem than this Chinese consortium. If I practically could I would avoid both.

Tried running Edge for a while, which is gentle on battery, however Edge is just lacking.
Does anyone know if this system could just be safely turned off? It seems to be a system that automates the stall avoidance when the plane hits a stall warning. It seems that all pilots should know how to avoid stalls and how to deal with them when they happen. As long as the stall warning still happens, I don't see an issue with turning off the stall avoidance system.
There are about 350 of these planes flying, and they've been in general use for about two years. That implies 1/350 odds of a fatal crash per plane per year. I can't find similar statistics for motorcycles, but that's still wildly unacceptable.

And even if it weren't, you're arguing that problems can only be addressed one at a time in strict order of severity, in a nation of 326 million people. That's ridiculous.
Meltdown and Spectre are only possible in the browser because the JIT allows you to write JavaScript that you know is then compiled (JITed) into a very tight assembly loop. Same for Rowhammer.
They are not silencing us, they are just the LOUDEST WHINIEST voice on the internet.
It needs to be embedded in the binary, because code that is not so embedded has different rules applied to it. So, it has to be done either in the compiler (e.g. as compile-time const arrays, which will then be part of the rodata section) or in the linker; the latter is arguably a bit easier.
Spotify should be able to do this using the API provided in iOS 12.
More than a decade ago, the EU forced Microsoft to let people choose their browser on a Windows machine with a fresh install. Not only that but the list of choices was randomly sorted so that IE would not be the first listed.

> Why do I have to allow you to develop software for my proprietary hardware, just because it's technically possible?

Of course if you were Apple, you would not want to do it. But, that’s what antitrust laws are for. As a consumer they are valuable: how long have people been waiting to use Spotify their Apple Watch?
> the movement was never about giving away free stuff to ...

Then they chose the wrong license.
I agree, it's a very sad state of affairs. I wish we could make decisions off of facts and what makes sense. I know many people that are very blind when it comes seeing how they react to news from one political side or the other. For instance, let's say they align with the right, there could be very logical legislation being put forward and if you said it was proposed by the right they would say it's a great idea, but if you told them it was proposed by the left then they'd this is what's wrong with the country, it's the stupidest idea, and go on and on.

There's too many blind activist on both sides that drown out the middle. This causes the people in the middle to start to separate and choose sides because they see the crazies on one side or they other and think that party is retarded, which increases the divide. We're in a heavy downward spiral at this point and I don't foresee it getting better unless we take radical action, such as not allowing people with no science background to make decisions on matters that should be based on fact. Unfortunately this will never happen because the (USA) political system is entrenched with paid actors.

Sorry for the rant and taking a veer from topic. Lots of built up frustration about all this stuff.
Wondering as well. If you click "Pay by Card" you get a Stripe pop-up, also with no price.
Interesting because the common thinking is that "The Facebook of X" is Facebook.

Is Facebook finally losing its stronghold? Possibly.
You’re talking about the rank and file, my friend. I’m talking about people who had billions of dollars on the line.
I don't see how blocking a company actively trying to monopolize podcasts from using the Apple recommendation API is monopolistic. Apple podcasts (either intentionally or just from neglect) have always been backed by open RSS podcasting.
As I explained there, getting the hash seed of a running process in a dynamic language is trivial. Every language has enough ropes to hang yourself and print the value from some known offset. And if not, there's still enough information from a typical bad hash table (95% of hash tables are bad) to get at the seed via ordering and timing. From there you just brute force an attack even with an extremely slow hash like siphash. A seed is no secure protection against an determined attacker, only for newbies. A newbie would just DOS the system with simplier means.

The point is, don't believe the theatre, use proper protection against the attack (no linear list on collisions), and keep the hash table fast. Collision counting or fallback to tree really is trivial.
Thanks for the feedback :-). However opening new tabs doesn't help for the following workflow:

A site breaks due to missing Javascript. I open uMatrix in via the Firefox menu. The matrix page is displayed in a new tab. After changing settings I press the refresh button on top of the uMatrix page (that's my workflow on desktop). Only the tooltip is shown (it says "Press shift to bypass browser cache", but the originating site is not reloaded.

If you think it's worth opening a bug report for uMatrix, I'll gladly do so.
This experiment doesn't break the second law, because they have perfect knowledge of the intermediate states, so they can apply a transformation to invert the evolution.

In a big macroscopic system this is imposible in practice, because you only get a parcial knowledge of a few important properties, not of every detail.

Moreover, in most systems it is imposible to know everything about the system, but in some specially build systems like a quantum computer you can know the state of all the qbits.
Misleading title - this doesn't go into the "how" part at all.
What is also interesting is that the definition seems to shifts when we talk about star systems. Alpha Centauri might not be the nearest star system if we compared orbits instead of the current distance. Then again, it still might be the nearest... I have no idea.
Globalism and PC culture aside, aren't "cultural" biases bad? Aren't we are supposed to stand united and be against dogmatic principles, prejudices and intolerance? I should be able to wear a green hat or/and a skirt outside if I want to, without being shamed or threatened. As well as I should be able to incorporate that hat and a skirt in any of my designs or mockups if those please my senses and fit my vision, right?
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I've never seen many water bottle filling stations at airports. In some of them, such as Hamburg you have to ask at the bar as there are no water fountains.
It's hard to respect people let alone women if your value system is based on money. Not saying all people in SV are that way, but it obviously exists.
Here's a few things: (without effort put into this...)

1. Package management / Extensions. Vscode comes with this right away, Sublime you have to install a package manager to manage packages...-sigh-

2. File icons. (this may seem dumb, but man it should be a simple thing to have defaults for...)

3. Git integration (though seems they may have caught up on this?)

These are just off the top of my head...

Edit: spelling
That's not an "unpopular opinion", that's a personal preference and you're welcome to it.
But this isn't code (at least, to the operating system)?
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>Also, it's not activists, it's random crackpots.

The difference being?
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I don't dislike people having Twitter, but to be on Twitter you need to have a thick skin, and if you don't then you shouldn't be there.
Just as Microsoft were stopped from shipping a browser with their OS, vendors should be prevented from shipping an App Store with their OS.

You cant move to another platform without losing access to all your "purchases" - there is no free market. They have monopolies within ecosystems they created.

They should be FORCED to have an open platform, with users able to access multiple 3rd party storefronts on multiple platforms. They can market themselves as official/curated/whatever they want but the user should have the choice.
While everything you say is true, there are other forces at play as well -- many people have much more time at younger ages. 15 years in, many of us have kids/responsibilities which are another non-tech reason for "greying out" (ironically perfect name!). It's easy to conflate these two forces, which are different but both contribute to this effect.
Maybe "he" got bored of "his" hat and replaced it? Visual Studio should not be used by people who change their hats from time to time?

/s
Spotify calls out Apple and pleads with EU