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Therein lies python’s biggest weakness. You effectively are containerizing the runtime to be sure your code will work. This is why languages like C++ are compiled to platform executable or why Java has byte run code (or whatever it’s called).
> Not to excuse the behavior of your drivers, but...
The key point is that the Nix scripting environment (think “a Ports manifest”) is an intentionally restrictive language intended to have deterministic results for every operation. It’s not intended to be a Turing-complete programming language; that’s the whole point.

What the author of the script has done here, you’re supposed to do by writing code in some other language that generates a Nix manifest (or just by hand-rolling a Nix manifest.) And yet, the author here managed to get Nix to non-deterministically generate Nix.

Considered from the point of view of Nix’s goals, this is more an “exploit” than a truly-needed feature.
Google, as the owner of Youtube, it not only profiting from an online homophobic personal harassment campaign by selling ads, it's paying someone to do it via the stream's ad revenue.

It's not as far of a stretch as you seem to think it is.
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> We're knowingly hosting malware

Now HN host malware too! That's quite a stretch of the definition.
Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich–Then Vegas Made Them Pay
somehow there seem to be many roll outs of stable coins of late.. the infamous Tether, DAI by Maker, USDC by Circle, GUSD by Gemini, TUSD and countless more https://www.coingecko.com/en?category_id=36&view=market
Machine Learning in JavaScript: Detecting Color Contrast
Web Application Made with Help of Ruby on Rails
Facebook puts a lot of time and effort into obfuscation of course code. They generate random classes and IDs and interweave containers (divs, spans, custom HTML elements) on each page load so that software can't tell what is content and what is an ad.

It's actually a really neat trick.
Isn't a block a cuboid?
Thank you for sharing your perspective and authoring the article. Is there growing sentiment like yours amongst colleagues and peers in ad tech?
Programmers, especially naive ones, tend to think asymptotically. We focus on what would be the most theoretically ideal and write off pithy concerns like "time" and "effort" as implementation details. I'm guilty of this myself.

Rust is this unusual situation where a new language is in many ways a strict improvement over a very widely-used preexisting language. That is extremely rare. So I think that's where the religious fervor comes from.

Would the world be a better place if Tor and the Linux Kernel and every C++ project out there had originally been written in Rust (setting aside the fact that this was obviously impossible)? Sure, maybe. But those projects also benefit from decades of refinement and bug fixes. Rewriting them means losing all of that. As an idealistic programmer it's tempting to write factors like legacy refinement off into the margins, but they're actually very significant. A piece of software's value doesn't solely reside in its preconceived design.
they are struggling to keep the peg. indeed how much magic central banks are using to maintain a stable currency
> I know RIIR appears to offend a lot of C/C++ devs, and I understand why. I do however, think RIISSL (Rewrite It In Some Safe Language) is a real meaningful thing.

It is not meaningful for open source projects where RIIR or even RIISSL types jump in and start offering unsolicited advice to contributors. These folks can fork and/or make some POC etc if they seriously believe it is a net win.
This doesn't actually look like a SHA-1 collision attack, tbh
Exactly - in a way that was a blessing in disguise because Python environments on MacOS is such a massive nightmare that it forced me to learn to use venv in all cases.
If the sidewalls are covered, how can they mold the internal structure so it isn't attached to the sidewall? Because if it is, it can't flex, so the tire will be harder than a rock.
They didn't just happen to publish anything, one of CT's _European_ customers leaked prefixes to them and CT didn't have filters in place to block it. Which is how peering has worked from day 1, you know the openness and doing things based on mutual trust that the Internet has been 'plagued' with since forever has also applies to peering relationships.

The notion that they did this on purpose to record traffic is just silly.
this might be unrelated, but i drew a number of comparisons between the kremlin and the Fukushima incident in terms of intractable bureaucracy. The sheer number of mistakes made at Daiichi really struck me as impossible. I guess it didnt hit home for me until the 12 mile exclusion zone was imposed and irradiated garbage began showing up on US and Canadian coasts.

It was nowhere near as dire or blatant as Chernobyl, but some issues were definitely things I felt like we had learned about these types of disaster by 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_Fukush...
> to avoid creeping you out

I assume in terms of "how did they know this about me?" a la Tom Cruise being advertised a particular brand of alcohol based on an automatic eye-scan whilst walking through a public space ["Minority Report"].

I used to be "creeped out" about this about 10 years ago. Now-a-days I am not.

To be honest, a part of me wants this type of thing. I'm all for exploring knew products and "discovery" and so forth. However, if the "Check out this product you just bought" problem could be solved, I'd be chips in for "Hi User, check out this neighbouring product" should that actually be relevant; Amazon is almost OK for example, but that's an "almost ok".

Extreme Example: If I don't drive and have less than zero interest in sports cars, why would or should I get ads for a Ferrari? Today, I have no doubt I'd receive such an ad for somebody's giggles on the penny. Tomorrow, I dream not to.
Show HN: Let's replace Medium
I agree. Norwegian fund seems to be the biggest single fund.

Saudis have three separate funds that are bigger combined. UAE has multiple wealth funds that are > $1 trillion together.
Jokes aside, The Maxwell House Haggadah is one of the oldest examples of free ad-supported content decimating the market for quality content while expanding access. Everyone had MH's free Hagaddah, so most people never bothered to seek out an alternative that better suits their spiritual values, and probably turned off a segment of a generation of people from being interested in Passover and Judaism, but people who weren't going to pay ever still got something to sustain their Jewish practice. All this beyond the fundamental tackiness of a major religious artifact having corporate branding.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Darwin_among_the_Machines
I once worked with a brilliant engineer. He was from Hong Kong. He struggled to express his ideas in English. We tended to let him show us in code instead.

Sometimes this worked. Sometimes it really, really didn't. It also meant we had a very difficult time discussing larger architectural questions with him or giving him useful feedback on his code.
How We Built a High Performance, Distributed Document Store on RocksDB
"For a start it needs to do its first boot off a CD and subsequent boots off a USB drive-type-arrangement."

No it does not. I boot my SmartOS instances with PXE, DHCP and TFTP from the network. Served by a Solaris 10 intel server, no less. No CD's or USB images anywhere in sight.

In fact, I came up with a trifecta scheme where three SmartOS servers will all run TFTP and DHCP servers, thus being able to boot each other and all the other SmartOS servers over the network. In the event where all three would lose power simultaneously, THEN I reach for a USB stick with the emergency boot image. And I'll have two of those. But barring such catastrophic loss of power simultaneously, there won't be any CD's or USB sticks needed.

The network is the computer.
Getting Smart About Software-Defined Networks
I understood instantly. In south and north america people use “block”... not sure about brazil though
What's the point of this? If you can't download something without knowing its hash in advance, then you can never download a new version of Chrome or anything else, so why do you care whether one is available?
I think the math would then lead to only big sites being "good enough" to pass the twitter test as to who gets a whole domain filtered or not, and if you're running a site that someone does a bad thing on ... so much for anyone linking to you anymore on Twitter.

That seems inherently bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moscow_Times
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I haven't decided if it really matters to me (if it would really affect the decision to purchase a review), but one thing I was looking for on the page was the background/qualifications/experience/etc. of the reviewer(s). Again I want to emphasize that I don't even know yet if I really care. It could be a five-year-old doing the reviews and maybe I'd still purchase. In fact that could be a good option!

I like that you have actual reviews that you did at the bottom. It means that exposure of some kind is included in the price of the service, which you may want to emphasize as a free perk.

For the 20 eyes and 40 eyes option, it would especially be nice if you could guarantee that the "eyes" are from lots of different cultures, backgrounds, ages, professions, etc., and not just a circle of friends or something. Or kinda the opposite actually, that the eyes are from people in an industry/culture/segment/whatever relevant to the website being reviewed. Maybe have further options here for "eye type". :)

Anyway cool idea. I especially like that you have actual video review samples on the page.
Perfect! What can we do to make an alternative such as https://reader.booxia.com/ better?
His most known work: Soria Moria, is amazing.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soria_Moria_Castle
I only have one question for you: would you eat it?

Served on a plate, cooked just right. With a side dish of sauteed mushrooms from the area?
The example of the pizza delivery selling the personal details of their customers is precisely why GDPR has value.

People have been dismissing it as being unfriendly to startups. As a software developer I totally get the complaints, but as an Internet user I couldn't care less.

You could say that the free market will adjust itself when consumers will figure out the damage and learn to protect themselves by choosing better alternatives. But there's no way to protect oneself. For example in the pizza delivery case, there's often no way to know that your address and phone will be sold to third parties, unless it's against the law to do so without you giving explicit consent.
Blood In the Feed: The uneasy experience of predatory algorithms
I've poked at High Fidelity occasionally over the last 3 years or so, and I'll say one thing: "the Metaverse" will be able to load decently over a 100Mbps connection and won't bring an i7 w/ 16GB of memory to its knees. H.F. can get back to me when they figure that part out.
Just have your legs replaced with pogo implants.
For such a scathing article title (expected if "millennial" is there, I guess) it's interesting that the article itself says things such as:

>For example, while boomer dads have the edge when it comes to traditional DIY, 62 percent of boomer dads concede that millennial dads are better at tech-related tasks.

>Millennial dads are also more likely than their own fathers to prioritize family time over DIY.

>“Today’s time-pressed dads are quick to master new tools like apps and mobile technology for their families’ benefit. They’re also more likely to outsource time-consuming home maintenance to professionals who have the tools and training to get the job done right — a handy trade-off that enables today’s dads to spend more time with the people they love.”

Which sort of goes against the tone of the title...
Actively undermining is good! Specifically fighting for new regulations and laws around this issue.

I think people in tech have an obligation around this. We understand it better than most people. It's our responsibility to explain it in ordinary terms and champion reigning it in.
There's more to shoddy than just security. I'm personally familiar with Huawei storage for example - implementation and support are _significantly_ below competitive norms.

Example: critical configuration processes involved filling out an Excel 97 (yes 97 and this was last year) spreadsheet and uploading it to the storage system. Yuck!
> So whatever medium of value exchange is used by computers, money can be exchanged for it.

Money is, quite literally, the power to have others act for you within the rules of society (i.e. laws, for the plebs, and nought for the very rich).

Why would computers value human money in a world where human work is worthless (to computers)? There goes fungibility.

Provided they don't have the command of the industry, the power of the very rich disappears as well.

> What will the money the robots earn be used for then?

Making more robots.

> We need UBI [...]

UBI is lubricant. If we were to take in an even larger dick, it would be humane, but it's a chainsaw that's coming up our collective butt. Lube will only make it spin faster.

Less figuratively, UBI is the acceptance of humanity's obsolescence. A large population with UBI is completely powerless and can be unplugged at will.
Exactly. German culture and government is highly nuclear-energy phobic.
o7 same thought occured to me m8. Fly safe!
I paid 100EUR for VIP.
VS Code support is good too. https://areweideyet.com/
There’s a (behind paywall) Quartz special on exactly this with SoftBank Vision Fund

https://qz.com/1565699/the-complete-guide-to-sovereign-wealt...
Incidentally, Tor has some Rust in it these days. I haven't heard from them for a while, so I don't know how the project is going...
It's much worse than that.

I've been approached by a company that trades e-commerce transaction data, for personal data tied to IPs.

As in, you give me your customer data, and I'll tell you who visited your site based solely on the IP address.

We declined, but it's tempting.
That is how PATH works. An installer would have to be doing something seriously wonky to get that wrong.
Updating Python once a year shouldn't be too much to ask of a company like Apple, and is adequate for 90% of users. I shouldn't need to install pipenv and virtualenv if I want to drop into a scripting environment once a month.

These tools aren't (or at least shouldn't be) only meant for professional engineers.
No, he doesn't assume you should have no rich people. He wants there to be only one class of people, regardless of total wealth. There are two classes in capitalism, owners and workers. In Marx, there is only worker-owners.
I am still waking up but when I read the title, I thought it was about Python self updating itself.

Glad to see some love from Microsoft for Python
Assessing Federal Subsidies for Purchases of Electric Vehicles
I think part of the problem is that humans are fundamentally present-biased. So low quality code that can avoid a schedule delay today is considered preferable to higher quality code that prevents even larger schedule delays in the future.
Probably just buy a PlayStation
I mean memory, storage in a broad sense. Not a statement about in RAM or cache, though I see the confusion in retrospect. Having code access some sort of storage (better word than memory) is always the most expensive part.
From what I've seen, there're 3 kind of people that deal with loneliness differently:

1) The average social people, they had grown up in social contexts, more or less, given as granted, so loneliness is more of a pain point.

2) The socially disconnected people by choice or experience, they had grown up like 1) people but after an event or experience they disconnected(implicitly or explicitly) their minds from the social/cultural/(and sometimes identity) contexts that they got used through their lifetime, so loneliness is, more or less, painless, because at this point your deeper existential self is on spot.

3) The socially disconnected people born with clinical syndromes that physically make their minds, really hard or impossible, achieve a basic perception task as connecting/learning from social clues, through a lifetime.

I'm from the 2nd kind.
I feel like all the language comparisons are largely missing the point, at least for me. I don't write (mostly orthodox) C++ because it's a great language. In fact, I think it's a terrible language, hampered by a myriad of systemic issues that will never be addressed and seem to be getting worse over time.

However, I also don't write code in a vacuum and other things matter more to me than language features. First-class GPGPU support, a mature ecosystem (including some of the highest quality, most efficient code that exists), vastly superior tooling, multiple established compilers, good C compatibility, the list goes on. The purported advantages of Rust, such as the trait system (which is legitimately great), the static safety guarantees (which I personally don't care about at all) and others pale in comparison.

If you really like Rust, you don't address these things by obnoxiously evangelizing language features. You address them by building up the ecosystem, improving the tooling, making the language more pleasant to use and eventually advocating for important vendors to include first class support for Rust in their products. Then, and only then, might this kind of in your face evangelism make some sense, if we ever get there - and the way towards it is paved with patience and lots of hard work, not opening GitHub issues.
5% ain't bad. Depending on site content ctr could be as low as 0,5%. Rates have been dropping for ages.
It's a great default assumption when you don't know all the quirks of the specific language or compiler, because either it will help you or at least won't hurt you.
> The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information.

From The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.
How long did it take you to install Triton?

How many systems did you need to install Triton?

How much memory did(do) the individual systems running Triton have?

Which documentation did you follow to install Triton?
> Relevant ads were never the goal

That, then, is "targeted advertising" against this non-goal?
Wordpress is a great example. Its the most successful, most love blogging platform and usually user's first choice.
>> wildly misrepresented the role of women in Russian society during those times

Women were better represented in USSR's STEM fields that in the US. For example, Between 1962 and 1964, women were awarded 40 percent of the chemistry PhD, while in the US that number was five percent [1].

I recently went to see my grandmother, and she showed me her Physics collage graduation pics - there was only one man in their class of ten students. And no, it was not due to WWII raising women/men ratio - born in the 30-ies her generation was too young to be drafted.

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-russia-had-...
I normally do not just stop like that, however the dig was so out of left field and so wrong it hit me like a cognitive segfault. If the sentence had been more germane to the topic at hand I probably would have continued on (though far more skeptical of the author's other points) but it was just too out of place for me to let slide.
gain traction? you are really talking about a non-issue this decade

everyone is already used to making their frontend, backend and database parse and store external things in key value pairs

this schema pre-detecting ship has sailed a long time ago
I'm not sure since I've been out for a couple years, but at the time I'd often have conversations with marketers where I'd come away wondering how they could be so oblivious to the ethical concerns in what they were asking for. I do think as time goes on, more and more people are becoming aware of the issues, but I see that uniformly across society rather than in tech.
Bitcoins Stolen from Bitfinex in 2016, Began to Move to an Unknown Wallet
Maybe this is captured in “Infinite Detail” but it seems to me that this list is missing the one thing that is explicitly stated to be the key to making the MetaVerse popular in the book: highly detailed and accurate facial expressions.

The facial scanner in the movie adaptation of Ready Player One was a good touch for this. I think we could accomplish the same with temporary (or permanent!) non visible tattoos for facial tracking via cameras.
Tor is probably one of the better cases because of its stringent security requirements, but there remains an oft-ignored tradeoff of losing all that refinement work (and the fact that you can't just flip a switch to make it happen). It's a cost/benefit decision.
Do you think this could happen in the U.S. with all the regulations? Do you think either Ukraine or Russia could put that much manpower together to handle an event like that today¿
If they did chase such a lawsuit, it would expose them as having serious double standards as per the recent Pelosi news item: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/technology/facebook-pelos...

"Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday strongly rebuked Facebook, saying the company’s refusal to take down altered videos of her demonstrated how the social network contributed to misinformation"
Debt (technical and otherwise) is leverage if utilized well, and potentially crippling if abused.
Alternative medicine could treat our maladies, but we have to study it
The one thing you can guarantee about the system python is that it's exactly as up to date as the system itself needs it to be. That's why it's there: it's not necessarily for you, unless you happen to be writing something system-level.

Anecdotally I've run into more problems with python than with ruby over this issue, but I think that's just because I'm more familiar with the parts of the ruby ecosystem which let me draw a clear dividing line between system-ruby and my-ruby. My impression (which is probably out of date) is that python tooling tries to bridge the gap, and in my experience that's not worked well, to the extent that I just don't try to use python for anything on OS X.
I recently walked into a Casper store to check out their new night light. The sales girl came over in her silly sleep scientist outfit to demonstrate the shake-to-dim feature. "Neat, right? That way it won't disrupt your REM sleep while you go to the bathroom at night."