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Of course, I question reasoning behind clients use of our technology, and to date the purposes are universally issues of public safety: Universities, public school districts, sports stadiums, shopping malls, and so on are all highly concerned with public safety and that is the main driver of the adoption of FR.

Keep in mind, FR is not rocket science. (Hell, rocket science is not "rocket science".) It is going to continue to be developed, it is going to be ubiquitous, and the ethics of those in the industry largely define the ethics of the industry itself. If people of good conscious are not in the industry, no ethical concerns will be raised when ethically debatable clients and applications arise. I am part of the good ethics contingent.
Because the DMCA allows it. If you want an even-handed process, mandate it. It's the same problem (well, one of them) that the EU equivalent is now presenting: all the incentives for overblocking, no incentive to prevent it.
> I believe that if you are able to consistently achieve a result of "projects with this person tend to have fewer problems than projects without this person", it will translate into more $$$.

Bingo.
"violent opposition to fascism"

Beating up and suppressing anyone you don't agree with, which is exactly what Antifa members have been doing in the last 2 years at many of their 'protests', is itself fascism.
Researchers 3-D print metamaterials with novel optical properties
Materialized View Automatic Refresh Problem in Ruby on Rails Based Application
Strong recommendation for anyone pondering the same problem: the BBC Micro:bit. It's the v2 of the Raspberry Pi, with all the lessons learned from the unexpected success amongst adults and the unexpected failure amongst children and young people.

The Micro:bit is a simple and cheap embedded ARM board with a selection of sensors, an LED matrix, Bluetooth LE and alligator clip compatible IO. There is a progressive syllabus of programming, from drag-and-drop code blocks to MicroPython and Swift. The board can be programmed directly from the browser over USB, or directly from a mobile app over Bluetooth.

Most importantly, it's tremendous fun. It's basically a Defcon badge with child-friendly programming tools. Just like a Defcon badge, it instantly inspires curiosity and creativity.

https://microbit.org/guide/
As someone who has published a free app for fun, I've learned that due to any mix of entitlement and ignorance, anything you put out there can make some people emotionally angry. I'm still learning how to move on and accept that this is OK, for them and for me.
Most - if not all - primates can use simple tools like rocks to crush things. Our ancestors used the simplest of tools even before they were considered human.
I because think maintenance mode is a responsible alternative to abandoning the package altogether as it has (from the post) ~41k packages that depend on it.
... because you haven't built one.
this is not user serviceability -- have you noticed phrase like

> supporting system maintenance and repair performed by an IBM customer engineer

Even today, if you are a service engineer servicing expensive piece of equipment, you have some amazing tools. I know an engineer from NetApp for example, and he has most amazing debugging stories, like debugging customers' systems live to find out where the latency spikes come from. The main difference from IBM era is that in the old times, customer could watch the blinkenlights, and now it is all hidden under password-protected accounts.
AMD Launches Ryzen Pro 3000 and Athlon Pro Mobile CPUs for Enterprise Laptops
In a market-oriented society, it's unethical to put in place rules that divert capital and talent way from the development of lifesaving medical care. (And the half-ass refrain of accepting a market economy generally, but making an exception for medical care as being "too important to leave to the market" makes no sense. Unless you tamp down on the flow of capital to other industries, designating some areas as "too important" to leave to the market will simply cause capital to flee to, e.g. dating websites, leaving the "too important" industries as ghettos.)

The ethical thing to do is constructing a system that maximizes the amount of lifesaving medical care at minimum cost. Doing that requires acknowledging market forces. Scientists and engineers aren't any more altruistic than anyone else. These days the incoming classes at investment banks are full of physics, biology, and chemistry majors that could easily have gotten a PhD and went to go work for NIH. In the healthcare space, there is at least the potential for making a lot of money by doing a startup with the hopes of getting acquired by one of the big pharma companies. If you take that option away--if developing lifesaving medical care is a field that nets you at best a GS-scale government job--talent and capital are going to go develop dating apps instead.
It was a limit back in the day as well. Remember Google's "supplemental results"[0]? This has always happened. The only thing that's different is that a blogger was personally insulted by his output not being fully indexed, and decided to pitch it as history being erased.

[0] https://searchengineland.com/google-dumps-the-supplemental-r...
Google's index has been in memory for most of its life now: http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009/02/jeff-dean-keynote-at-wsd...

It's actually more complicated than just a single static index, which is also why it's unrealistic to expect a search engine to be deterministic at scale.
Examples of Successful Ecommerce sites targeting seniors
Personally I have similar experience, but other way around. Every time I try look for anything in Google almost always most of results are from 3-6 years ago unless I specifically specify I want results from last month / year / etc. And I not just talking about technical questions, but all kind of stuff include music, travel information and such. I not even sure when the last time google provide me the link to some new website with fresh content.

Like it's sometimes feel like web completely frozen and all content moved into closed gardens. I switched to DDG a while ago for this and bunch of other reasons, but I wonder if someone else noticed this. Anyone?
We have burnt before. We invent something to fit our idea eg all wave need a medium. Hence light run in ether and ... in fact we even call Ethernet in remembrance of this ether. But it does exist.

We have done it before. We believe there is one rule from smallest to the largest. God does not play dice with us and definitely not in the dark. We were wrong.

Do not know whether this dark material (and the total different case of dark energy). Just to say eliminate one more theory like dark hole may not be the end of non- or better the birth of
Dark Matter. If it is just weak ... but dark. Still need convincing most positively.

* search for why Ethernet is called Ethernet you should find this :

“In 1973, Metcalfe changed the name to “Ethernet.” He did this to make it clear that the system he had created would support any computer, not just Alto’s.

He chose the name based on the word “ether” as a way of describing an essential feature of the system: the physical medium carrying bits to stations.

He thought this was much like the old luminiferous ether was once thought to propagate electromagnetic waves through space.”
It seems they’re just trying to relocate their operations elsewhere. https://www.fightforthebight.org.au/
Anecdata: I ran marathons and a few ultras (several 36 mile, one 50) in my late 20s. Through my 40s and 50s, my EKGs, and one ultrasound of the heart, have all come back clean; I'm not sure whether I've had one since turning 60. I'm 63 now, and haven't run for a couple of months, but that has to do with plantar fasciitis that I let get out of hand.

The craziest of my running friends, measuring by ultras run, has said that she doesn't run far these days, but that's her knees.
The land was seized at gunpoint within the past couple of centuries; does that affect your answer?
I had a utility called Hacktrick 60Hz that I seem to recall allowed switching between 50Hz and 60Hz? Discussion of it
here:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=77875
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=1925

It was on this disk - which brings back memories! Even though I didn't manage any programming it was the Amiga that led me into a career in tech: https://archive.org/details/amigaformat023disks_1991-06
Great decision by Norway. I hope this (and other decision that'd follow suit elsewhere) would precipitate the R&D and subsequent implementation other energy technologies. And that the existing oil drilling could be left for using oil in petrochemical products instead of as a energy resource.
Just checked out millionshort and wiby. And those are absolutely awesome resources (click on remove top e.g. million in millionshort)!

In my opinion there has to be widespread fatigue of Google just somehow managing to return a large chunk of something like 1,000 sites for pretty much any search. It's in part SEO, but it's also like the article mentions - Google makes money from ads. These sites they spam at you generate substantial revenue for Google - no name sites do not. Being the world's largest advertising corporation and search engine is one hell of a conflict of interest in terms of delivering what the user wants, instead of delivering what Google wants.
I don't get it. Aren't A&E people in ambulances reaching for the defibrillator themselves? And don't the automatic defibrillators allow for a much faster response time in the case of fibrillation, lowering the chance at brain damage and the like?

I mean I don't know how often people end up needing one of those in real life and I'm pretty sure it's some weird conspiracy by the manufacturer(s) of that device, but still.
Curating the Cosmos: A Lens on Nature
Seems like a sane bit of governance. What’s the issue?
> People don't seem to understand that as a small team, you don't have and won't buy all the hardware choices that exist to work on something for free.

that's why there shouldn't be as many distros. With fewer distros, it would be easier to test them on various configurations. Also it would make sure any fixes for specific hardware are used more widely, rather than ending up a patch in a single distro.
I read the whole thing. It seemed like an article with zero content. That all sounded perfectly normal, and happens to lots of people. I'm not sure it really needed an entire article.
> How can you restrict the very possibility of creating invalid instances of a User this way? There's nothing stopping me from using the "new" keyword and making an invalid user with a name 400 characters long.

Why do you need to restrict this possibility? How many places in your code create new users, and how many places in your code need to validate users? If the answer is “many,” you have serious design problems that should not be solved by introducing more classes but by restricting how many different areas of code do the same job.

Also, the private constructors do absolutely nothing. The static factory methods in this blog post could be written the exact same way as a constructor, and they would work exactly the same. The only reason the author uses a static factory method is because that's what he was taught to do in Java.

It's just OOP for OOP's sake in a language with tons of features designed for avoiding OOP.
It can burn glucose (table sugar is sucrose).

It can also burn other stuff [0] and have almost no requirements for glucose, all of which can be provided through gluconeogenesis from amino acids and the glycerol backbone of fat.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874681/
Agreed. A "guest" could target popular listings and hide a camera without the host knowing.
Now that I'm no longer super young, I am very much aware of the precious time every day where I can do valuable, creative work (outside work). From this subjective point of view I question if many open soure projects are truly worth it.

Valuable activities would
1. improve relevant, marketable skills
2. bring joy
3. help improve the world
4. make some money

It appears that many activities around maintaining a linux distro are mundane chores, compared to the learning process of, say, studying security issues deep inside the kernel. It certainly does not bring joy as reliable and immediate as, say, switching off the computer and going outside for some pickup basketball, and there are already plenty of linux distros out there, with marginal differences and little impact general progress. Nothing needs to be said regarding my #4.

So I will offer my unsolicited opintion: Life is short, focus your effort on things that are really worth it.
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It does on some devices, unless this isn’t what you’re referring to -

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/11/16460120/...
Increasing price of oil incentivizes increased oil production.

If oil prices fall because supply was increased too much, then demand will increase in response to the lower prices of oil.
Competition does work. You can see that by looking at the average profit margins for drug companies: they aren't particularly high. The problem is that drug development is just really hard and expensive. All the low hanging fruit has already been picked.
Ask HN: Suggestions for Managing Hosts File
I am developing an application to manage my hosts file. I was using a shell script to manage these things. Now I am packaging it as an app and hoping to release it under MIT License.

Question: What is the best way to manage the hosts file?
- Replace the original hosts file itself?
- Symlink the hosts file from my app data storage?

What are the pros and cons?

TA.
The risk for the wife is that he will turn possessive, controlling and as a result abusive. Because he bought her, he will want to have control over her. She will never be respected partner with equal agency.

The risk is also in sort of men attracted to this proposition. They are literally dangerous ones to date, whether physically or for mental abuse.

Having to run out of abusive marriage sux big time and have long term consequences for women.
I think it probably measures the curvature and if the curvature exceeds the normal parameters of non-lens objects then the device has curvature and can be detected.
An Internet that respects my rights vs an Internet that does not. Why is the former a bad thing?
I don't think there should be fewer distros, but I personally have mostly stuck to the big ones, as they generally have the fewest issues.
>The chances of a highly nutritious, energy dense food being just left to go to waste by nature are practically zero.

Well, humans are nature so..
So you are not sure if they are receiving tax dollars or not, but think they probably do. It doesn't really matter if it is for a specific purpose or not, if they have less revenue from other sources they will need larger subsidies.

What incorrect assumption were you referring to then?
>A less attractive guy can make himself get a foot in the door by using really interesting photos.

Which is impossible for everyone. Only a small percentage of people can have "really interesting" photos. If everyone suddenly got photos that today are really interesting the photos would become mundane.

>All you need is the swipe-right then use your confidence and humour to get a date.

Which is another problem. A lot of men lack confidence and humor.

I think you've hit on the path to success in online dating. My pictures from the traveling I did in my early 20s set me apart. If I didn't have those? I probably would have been lost in a sea of averageness.
> There might not be any camera's, but every room has a google hub

that is a bigger privacy invasion if you ask me... and it is probably even illegal in some states (https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/LAWS-ON-R...) ...
Some advice:

Just get your prototype up with what ever and figure out your scaling issues when it's really a problem.
Pinterest to price IPO below last valuation
In this situation, I would worry less about lack of love and more about presence of abuse and lack of freedom.
One huge caveat is that divestment from oil / fossil fuels is in no sense a moral, ethical or socially responsible act, yet lots of organizations (like famous universities or the Norway sovereign wealth fund) try to play the divestment card to curry goodwill and social signaling.

The reason divestment is not “morally good” is that the current price of the assets reflects the net present value of all future cash flows for those assets. So if you choose to sell and materialize those assets as cash today, you’re just expressing a preference for cash instead of oil assets, but are not fundamentally signaling anything about the future cash flows. Particularly if you are realizing a profit in cash from having held those oil assets for a long time.

If you wanted a divestment-like action that could possibly be considered a morally good stance on climate change, then you should give away your assets to groups of people likely to receive direct negative externalities from continued operation of the oil industry. Liquidate your position in oil and give away that cash to coastal property owners, developing countries, laborers or communities exposed to environmental damage. After all, it has been your choice to hold those assets and act as a shareholder demanding increased value (which you received) that has been a huge reason for environmental damage in the first place.

Any possible way of realizing a capital gain from that environmental damage you incentivized with your shareholdership is at best nothing but everyday financial activity and at worst greed.

I can’t stress this point enough, that merely divesting and realizing capital gains from selling out of your oil asset position is emphatically not a moral or ethical stance on that industry, not an attempt to migrate to renewable energy, nothing.

Divestment is literally nothing but realizing a profit from capital gains in one particular way.

The public moralizing about it, I think, is just a way to let rich people have their cake and eat it too, because the yes-man thing they want to hear is that there is a possible way to extract big profits from oil investment while at the same time promoting migration away from fossil fuels. But you can’t.
Not a direct response, but in the case of modern automotive paints, especially 2 part urethane or epoxy ones it is exactly right - they're even based on the same chemicals!

Of course, that doesn't really mean that paints work as glues, but you can add pigment/dye to a lot of glues and get a workable paint. (workable in the sense that they will adhere and color. they may not have the consistency that makes them work well as a paint).
Expert car mechanic doesn't take 3 yrs. I went from knowing nothing about cars to building my first race car in 2 years in my late teen years and that's without the wealth of knowledge I can find online today. ... and not just jamming a bigger v8 engine, but slamming a turbo on a 4 banger and not blowing up the engine and shaving almost 3 seconds off the stock 1/4 mile times, with limited budget too.

Something I see with most IT folks is that they think they are so special and feel very threatened when other's can learn what they can and faster too. Being an expert in 3 years is possible in most fields, all you need is dedication and deliberate practice.

We are not special, let's get over it. The only crap getting in the way of youngster's today is filtering out the noise since there's too much crap. But once they sort it out, they will move 10x faster than most of us old timers ever did.
Can confirm. Just saw red light on my TV remote w/ my LG G5. Pretty interesting!
> We can get demotivated, uncertain, depressed even by negative reactions or interactions, and it can lead to developers stepping away from the project, taking a break or even leaving for good.

It truly is a struggle. I have a couple of projects with moderate numbers of users, and between the "it doesn't work" private messages (not even mentioning which project) and some abusive and entitled users, I do wonder sometimes what would be the best way to protect ourselves as maintainers of open source projects.

There are of course sensible users whom I truly appreciate, though encouraging messages are easily drowned out by low quality support requests and negative interactions.

We may step away for a while or cut off communication channels in order to heal, but I don't see a real solution to this problem, other than to delegate tasks so that abuse is spread out evenly between a team of maintainers.
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OWE and an SAE PSK network with a well known PSK do not solve the trust issue of connecting to public Wi-Fi rather only the encryption issue.

Take the example that you are connecting to an SSID named "Airport_Guest_WiFi". In the case of OWE you simply connect and now everything between you and "Airport_Guest_WiFi" is encrypted. In the case of PSK with SAE you connect to "Airport_Guest_WiFi" and exchange information to generate secret keys only you two know. The problem in either scenario is you've just set up encryption not trust. How do you know the "Airport_Guest_WiFi" you connected to was the airports or the attackers?

WPA3 Enterprise solves this issue somewhat but is not realistic to deploy for temporary guest networks.

I argued ever since I heard OWE was going into draft it should have some optional mode for PKI validation. E.g. if you connect to the SSID "guestwifi.airport.com." and the airport signed the hello with the cert for that domain then the client could validate that against it's root stores and have the same level of identity trust it does when connecting to usersbank.com. Clients need not be forced to validate it but at least it gives a realistic option to connecting to such networks.
Interesting! I have the opposite experience. I've gone on a bunch of very low-carb diets, maybe ten at this point (not sure if they were exactly ketogenic or not), and I've enjoyed them. But every time I try low-carb, my sleep gets extremely light (I'll wake up 3 or 4 times a night), I sleep a couple hours less than normal, and I get weirdly vivid dreams. It's always the weird sleep that makes me quit the diet.