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Linux builds are up to distros to build and package (or do it yourself). We don't have the manpower to cover the 100+ distros under the sun due to Linux NIH syndrome. As long as alpine basically supports a full desktop environment using wxWidgets, it should build and run just fine.
Because a lot of bad people circulate among these groups. It's why being homeless or living in poor communities is so dangerous. Being homeless or poor doesn't make you a criminal, but it does attract criminals and criminal behavior--which is largely opportunistic. If a block is full of drug users and people loitering, the thief smashing windows won't stand out, or if he does he can quickly blend back into the streetscape.
Proximity also makes it more likely that those predisposed to thievery will band together, creating a cycle of escalating criminal behavior--a virtuous cycle, so to speak, not unlike how Silicon Valley works because of the density of engineering talent.

IMO, one reason why the drug epidemic has exploded in SF is because of the creation and centralization of so much homeless housing around the Civic Center and SOMA. Nothing is more certain to exacerbate addiction and drug use than to put drug users in close proximity. And anti-social behavior invites more anti-social behavior, particularly crime.

The Tenderloin always had it's share of problems, but the problem was primarily poverty, not extreme social dysfunction. Violence and property crime were relatively rare as compared to today. Drug use had been tolerated for decades, though the unwritten rule was that people had to make some effort to hide it, like shooting up in the alley. The erasure of this one very simple quid pro quo, the removal of any serious threat of consequences (i.e. the prospect of being forced into rehab if you invited arrest), and the dramatic increase and centralization of the addict population thanks to Mayor Newsom's and Mayor Lee's creation of over 10,000 units of permanent housing for the homeless, has created chaos.
The Epic Games Store won't accept 'crappy games’
I see it a bit differently, it's basically an undecidable problem (at least for now). Intelligent design == simulation hypothesis vs. pure accident and the anthropological principle. Which one of these is the null hypothesis is a matter of perspective / cultural background. What clearly does not hold are idiotic things like biblical literalism. But the big bang theory opens more questions than it answers.
> You can demand your attention back, but are you willing to pay for the content you consume?

Yes, I do.

In fact, I want to consume a lot less than the media corporations want me to consume (especially 'news'). So paying for Netflix/Spotify/Prime/Steam is no problem for me and I probably would pay for news if I would find it of any value. Today, every news corporation seems to have its own agenda and you have to do your own research anyway.

I am just wondering how much I would have to pay to get the other stuff without that DRM garbage... I mean for games we have GOG, but for movies and music, I haven't found a legal DRM-free source yet that offers the main-stream products :-/
Exactly — my scenario was an example of how failures at multiple levels could have caused this to happen. My "not-unlikely" is meant retroactively — now that it's happened, what's a not-unlikely explanation for how it was allowed to happen in a company the size of Facebook?

I didn't intend to imply it was a "slight oversight" — it's clearly a significant oversight — but there are people saying it's obviously gross negligence because how could this ever happen in a company that wasn't completely incompetent, etc. No, terrible accidents can and do happen even in companies that are trying hard to do a good job. Just like when a 737 crashes, you shouldn't assume Boeing is totally incompetent, but rather that several things must have gone wrong at once.
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I would argue that this is exactly the case. The governments of other countries are generally based on the concept that they decide what their citizens may do. The US federal government is based on the concept that they decide what citizens may not do, and the Bill of Rights is designed to set limits on even that "negative" power.

The Second Amendment does not apply to citizens. None of the BoR do; they are restrictions on governmental power.
My wife and I have a safe-word. After 4 years married (8 years together) we seem to know each other well and can read each other. But it's an additional comfort to have a safe word we can resort to whenever.

Seems like when you're breathless there's not much you can say, but perhaps you can have a safe gesture? Grab your own nose? Or something similarly unambiguous? Good luck and thanks for sharing!
We got a long way to go. But at the same time it's about what you want to do for your workflow. Altium can do everything under the sun which most people don't need at all.
A company that has lower acceptance rate than Harvard is "accidentally logging passwords"? Yeah, sure :D
Running the Chromium instance within the Chromium instance within the blog post worked better than expected!
I think the 1973 oil crisis and the 1979 oil crisis both count as hard times. You seem to wish that the Boomers would vote for a self-inflicted oil crisis.

It's also hard to keep the lower class employed with a living wage if low-cost migrants keep underbidding them for employment.

While the Boomers haven't always made great decisions, this us-vs-them thinking neglects that the Boomers generally care about their descendants. Boomers do not wish to see their grandchildren suffering.
This, a thousand times.

MMT advocates want Congress to run the economy? Are you out of your freaking minds? They haven't even managed to pass an actual budget in the better part of a decade!
I don't have any connection with Continental or ASC. I did see ASC's flash LIDAR prototype back in 2004 when it was on an optical bench. I thought back then they had the right idea. It cost too much in small quantities. It's made in an IC fab, so cost should come down with volume.

Leddar ships a flash LIDAR, but it's 16x1 pixels. Useful for near obstacle detection, but not enough to create a point cloud. Quanergy seems to have problems, but they have demoed[1] ASC has a 128x128 pixel unit, expensive but good. Those are the main flash LIDAR players.

MEMS mirror scanning looked promising. It worked for video projectors. But it has problems in the automotive environment, apparently.[2]

Liquid crystal beam steering goes back to at least 2004.[3]

The mechanical scanning people have real products, but the ones that can rapidly collect enough data for a point cloud still cost too much.

So Lumotive isn't that novel. The video on the Lumotive site is a render, not a demo.[4] If they had a price, a "buy" button, and reviews, now that would be progress. The vaporware to product ratio in this industry is far too high.

Somebody needs to get this right so we can have vehicle anticollision systems that profile the ground and don't plow into stationary objects.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-13/how-a-bil...

[2] https://precisionlaserscanning.com/2017/12/mems-mirrors-vs-p...

[3] https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1765211

[4] https://www.lumotive.com/
This argument crops up on every discussion of this topic. Why is it always people who work in the arts always told their work isn't worthy of payment except when delivered under certain conditions? If you don't think artists should be paid, then neither should programmers.
> His insight was that while any single household can dig itself out of a hole by cutting spending when its income falls, the economy as a whole cannot. One household’s spending is another’s income, so if everybody cuts back, no one gets paid. What you get then is a depression—a situation only government can fix because, unlike the private sector, it can afford to spend freely, putting money in people’s pockets and thus getting the economy back on track.

IMO this is a failing assumption that is designed to benefit politicians who make entitlement promises in the future (you can use inflation to undermine the truth of those promises)...

While thrift may initially lead to a stutter/halt in the economy, eventually people will get desperate enough to work for less or products will devalue to lower prices, debtors will accept lower interest rates or even less than principal.

I have long felt that America needs a strong depreciation period so that worker's wages can fall to reasonable values in the world wide scene. (The only reason a living wage is $15 an hour is because so is the price of a burrito w/ tip) ...
"Cloudflare has promised not to log individuals' DNS traffic and has hired an outside firm to audit that promise." -- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-t...

Ultimately you have to rely on such promises, because there's no way in a distributed internet to be completely self-reliant.
I've been on it for ~35 seconds and I've already learnt: square, complementary, split complement, triad and analogous colors. Wonderful!
> I'd be interested in a system or tooling that could identify that something sensitive made it into a log. I think it is practically impossible, but would be interesting.

Have all strings printed to logs go through a common checking routine. That checking routine simply checks for the presence of certain hard coded sequences, and raises an alarm if they are found.

Whenever a production system is updated, run a test suite. The tests includes logging in to a test account whose password is one of the aforementioned hard coded sequences. If your system accepts payments, the tests can include a test purchase using a test credit card number that is one of the aforementioned hard coded sequences. In general, for each type of sensitive information, have a test that supplies sensitive information of that type, with that information being one of the hard coded sequences the log checkers checks for.

This won't stop you from accidentally logging sensitive data in production, but it should catch it during the post-deployment tests so you can fix it quickly.
Yes, conversion therapy is composed of people. But so are governments, businesses, societies and everything else. Your argument would essentially argue that nothing can actually be harmful because it's due to the people behind the concept, not the concept itself.

We can measure things by the harm that they cause as a whole, and as a whole conversion therapy is harmful. Unless you would like to dispute the factual harms it had and does cause.
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How many levels deep did you get? I got 3 (excluding base reality) https://imgur.com/a/Zuh9d78
Yup. It's the rails underneath it that are mostly owned by freight or other rail companies.
> I just am embarrassed when I tell people I work for the military because they think I make bombs or something.

Personally, I don't understand this, but I'm from an ex-Eastern Bloc country which I was all too happy to escape.

I'd rather the US (and the rest of the Western world) made bombs than only Russia and China did. Vacuums of power in the world will always be filled and a Western invasion/expeditionary force is a much nicer alternative to a Russian one.
Thanks! It was fun to work on.

Yeah, that can be frustrating. We allow this in some places, but not others, because it can get tricky in edge cases such as when the order of objects is changed.

We do want to accept json-encoded input in addition to form-encoded input (json is nice!), though in this case the encoding isn't the limiting factor.
An article about Tesla on HN always has the top comment defending them. Always.
We need be careful not to conflate degrees with fields. Psychiatrists can and do engage in "doctoring," psychological testing, therapy, analysis, etc. Clinician psychologists can do all of the above except for prescribing meds. So saying "this is psychiatry and that is psychology" isn't really a thing except where medication is concerned. It wouldn't even be fair, in consideration of neuropsych, to say that psychologists categorically don't treat diseases as having root biological causes.
Chromium in Chrome? WTH? AWESOME!

Blew my mind.
128x128 is as far as ASC got. There's a tradeoff between range and beam width for flash LIDAR. The idea is to get the price down, so you can have multiple wide-angle short range ones around the perimeter of the vehicle, and a narrow beam long range one pointed ahead.
New Zealand/Aotearoa was settled by people from the Marquesas Islands, as was Hawaii. Hawaii is "1313 miles from Midway Island, 1337 miles to Christmas Island, and 2395 miles from San Francisco." to quote Quora.

The closest useful island to New Zealand is the Raoul Island in the Kermadecs (which was settled by Polynesians from New Zealand).

I encourage you to look at Google Maps and understand the scale of the Pacific. https://www.google.co.nz/maps/place/Marquesas+Islands,+Frenc...
Can you not see the tragic dimension of this?
That simplistic view is not the consensus of modern biologists.
Building a raft, even a crappy one, not even sea-worthy, is a significant investment just to strap someone to it.
Here you go: https://repl.it/@amasad/tcl-GUI

We'll add it as a top-level language soon.
> debts which will be constantly devalued in a high inflation environment.

Why wouldn't lenders just charge higher interest rates to offset inflation?
Accidental colonisation? They accidentally transported their livestock and staple fruits with them too? They accidentally sent several waves of colonisation to new islands?
> The facts are that if you're chromosomes are XX you're female, and XY you're male.

The facts are that if you have the sex-determining-region Y (SRY) gene (which usually comes on the Y chromosome, but may be missing or defective, or may be on the X chromosome because genes do funny things), you are most likely biologically more-male-than-not and if you don't you probably are more-female-than-not.

But even SRY-or-not isn't enough: XX male syndrome, which normally occurs because of an unusual recombination event where a copy of SRY ends up on an X chromosome, can also happen without a copy of SRY, and XY females can exist with SRY in complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (largely, because of variations in genes responsible for androgen receptors, which are located on the X chromosome.)

The idea that biological sex is binary and corresponds to XY vs. XX is simply false; there's a lot more than “what shape are your sex chromosomes” involved.
So tired of all this fucking comparison to software salaries. I should just start doing a shitty job too, and complain that it's because I don't get payed as much as doctors.

The bigger problem is that these police officers can't afford to live in the city which they work. Think for a second, about how that might affect your desire to "clean up" crime. Who's neighborhood is it? Certainly isn't yours.

It's not that software engineers are payed too much, it's that it costs too much to live here.
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DNS servers deal with domain names, not URLs. For an HTTPS request, the rest of the URL (path etc.) is only ever sent to the target site, over an encrypted connection. From an information privacy perspective, DNS is a weak link in this mechanism.

The reason running your own DNS improves your privacy has to do with how centralized or decentralized your DNS traffic is, and who gets to see it as a result.

If you use a DNS controlled by someone else, the DNS operator can see, and therefore (in principle) track, all of the domain name lookups you make that aren't served by your local machine or router's cache.

In contrast, if you run your own DNS server that's not just a slave to e.g. an ISP's server, then external domain lookups are made directly against the authoritative DNS servers for the domain you're looking up. There's no longer a single central server, other than your own, that's seeing all your lookups.

So if you look up news.ycombinator.com, and the name isn't already in your cache, the request goes direct from your DNS server to an AWS DNS server, because that's who hosts the ycombinator.com DNS. Your non-cached DNS requests are thus spread out across all the DNS servers for all the different domains you're accessing, and the only DNS servers that see your requests are the servers for the domain you're accessing.

There are some caveats to this.

First, if your ISP is unscrupulous, it can examine your DNS traffic anyway, since most DNS traffic is currently unencrypted (this is changing, but slowly.) To get around that you'd need an encrypted DNS proxy hosted outside your provider's network.

Second, large DNS providers like Verisign, GoDaddy, AWS etc. will tend to get a large subset of your requests anyway. However, most of those big companies are publicly focused on information security, and it would be big news if it turned out they were tracking your DNS lookups. Some of them provide audited guarantees that they don't do this.
Neither is a permissive attitude that leaves the homeless, primarily the mentally ill and hard core drug addicts in the SF case, to literally rot on the streets.

Fairness and justice do not require relinquishing all expectations of socially normative behavior. There are plenty of freedom utopias around the world where libertarians can live tax free and nonconformists can escape the bondage of community morals, but few of them are places people _choose_ to live.
coward.
Unfortunately it doesn't actually seem to work reliably (certainly not for Pinterest), which is why this and other such extensions exist.
I think, in many ways, not respecting personal boundaries is how people show closeness, and how they get close. Asking a prying question, telling a hard truth unprompted, or giving a hug out of nowhere. Asking for permission before every little thing feels like it makes people more distant, and reading that story just made me sad.

It's how we treat strangers, not friends and family.
Not wrong, just strange :)

And the algorithm in general appears to frustrate many people, if the comments here are anything to go by.
I distinctly recall every flavor of "it's not real Star Trek" when Enterprise came out, and people still whine about the story choices in Voyager today. Heck, some people who were fans of the original series would be loathe to call TNG "real Star Trek". In fact, having people who complain it isn't real Star Trek might be the best proof that Discovery is, in fact, real Star Trek. ;)

Star Trek has always been incredibly progressive/left-leaning. The Federation is a communist utopia where everyone has everything they could ever want for free. If you talk to people on the original series, plenty of them will talk about things that they wanted to do, in terms of gay characters and the like, but that they couldn't get permission to actually air. But they have always pushed the envelope of being about as far left as they can get away with from a business side perspective.
Took way too long to load on a Gigabit connection. Whatever happened to resource optimization? This is so silly, just build a native framework using Qt.
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Not to repeat the the entire previous thread about this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19445855) but this is just a semantic wordplay: on any other similar existence questions (is there a teapot orbiting the sun?) we'd gladly conflate "undecidable" with "false" as the difference between those cases is a negligible probability. But when you mix in such a culturally sensitive topic like religion, suddenly we have to carefully distinguish these two cases. It's an unfair inconsistency that is used to propagate religious thinking.
I'm a Deep-Ecologist who is concerned about the large human population of consumers impacting global biodiversity so I see "things like hunger, disease and war" as natures way of keeping a species at bay. Although we seem to have outsmarted the laws of nature in the last 500 years.

No i don't think killing people is the best option. I obviously would rather reduce human consumption through other means.

> I am glad that ads ... provide them cheaper goods

There's always a cost to indulgence or easy living. Our children will pay it if we don't.

(I know my comment is dark but the parent comment mentioned "disgust towards the world we live in" so its relevant.)
Solutions already exist. Bandcamp allows artists to let users pick their price, and services like Patreon allow you to support the artist directly. So all of this would have actually been more difficult in the "good old days," and you now have more ways of supporting your favorite artist however much you want.
The zoomed and cropped from 480p, i.e. making it even worse quality?
>MMT economists don't support inflation at any level, do they?

MMT does not make normative judgements on inflation. It does state that taxation and fiscal spending are more effective control knobs to target inflation than monetary policy, but that isn't a normative judgement either.

>it sounds like you're using "MMT" as an incantation to dismiss inflation

I'm giving context to why hyperinflation / inflation scaremongering surrounding MMT exists.

I'd do it for the same reason for why I'd reference oil company profits in reference to global warming skeptics - because it's the responsible thing to do to associate the motive for spreading bad science with the bad science.

Naturally this gets abuse slung at me - with phrases like "left-wing back-rationalized voodoo economics" slung around for instance.
CBT therapist first, then if that fails to make any progress, maybe start with drugs + CBT?
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The Aborigines of Australia migrated separately from the Austronesian people who colonized Indonesia, coastal New Guinea, the Philippines, Madagascar, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.
Ah, yea if you're ok with that then great. I like it myself. A lot of folks are dismayed by that though. I find that the language itself has the ease of Python with the performance of a language with static (or is it strong?) types, JIT, and a design focused on performance. The REPL functionality and package manager are pretty good too.
Let's say you look up "porn.example.com" and "dissidents.github.io".

. (the ICANN DNS root) sees "io" and "com".

com sees "example.com" but not which subdomain or anything to do with io.

io sees "github.io" but not which subdomain or anything to do with com.

example.com sees "porn.example.com" but doesn't know anything about "dissidents.github.io".

github.io sees "dissidents.github.io" but doesn't know anything about "porn.example.com".

You leak the same total information, but no single entity has a convenient list of every DNS request you make.
> Tesla is the largest battery manufacturer in the world, and manufactures their batteries at significantly lower cost, higher performance, tighter tolerances, and with greater automation than anyone else in the world.

Are we expected to just ignore LG Chem? Tesla's batteries are good, and I'm glad they're investing in them, but Tesla isn't ahead of their competitors there in any significant way.
"Rising inflation" != "runaway inflation".

The difference may be differing assumptions on how likely it is, if MMT were adopted, that we would stop with merely rising inflation.
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