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Ask HN: Wouldn't it be best to just go all-in and embrace internet feudalism?
I have always been all aboard in the fight to keep the internet free and open. It always seemed like a life or death issue - like fighting against some new abstract form of colonialism. I have FOSS'ed up my digital life to the nines. I have ditched my smartphone for a flip phone. More recently, I have done the de-googled android experiment. I use an open source web browser, duck duck go, installed all the privacy add-ons in the entire universe. I returned the Alexa I got as a christmas present. There's not a single social media account to my name. I have done everything short of building a cabin in the woods and living off the grid.

Ultimately, I have gone through all this struggle and stress for nothing. People will buy airpods and airglasses and airsocks and whatever else comes next. The tech industry will continue to disrespect people's attention and privacy, because ultimately nobody really cares. And people like me who care are just spinning their wheels, swimming against the overwhelming current. I'm not much for Hegel but it is beginning to feel an awful lot like the next phase of history is here. You can get on the boat and take it easy, or you can waste your entire life stressing about it.

As for me, as soon as the US has a law equivalent to the GDPR, I am going to pledge allegiance to a feudal tech overload and never think about all this crap for the rest of my life. I have wasted too many hours and too much stress. I'm just going all in.

Typing this I kind of feel like one of the crazy people from Bird Box - just look at it!! But what's worse, that or being Steinbeck's poor Oklahoman farmer, throwing stones at a single tractor trying to take down the whole industrial agriculture machine?

Who cares? This fight has been lost a thousand times throughout history - it will always be lost. I am wondering whether it's best to just shut up and get on board?
What would an Islamist revolution risk for those that aren’t rulers in SA? Other Islamists regimes have done less harm than SA.
They are still the 3rd cloud provider.

It is hard to state that it worked, specially when AWS and Azure also offer Docker and Kubernetes deployments.

On Microsoft's case it is even supported directly from Visual Studio.
This is not exactly news, but having a NYT statement is cool.

They're obviously legalistic bullshit. So whatever privacy and rights I need, I create myself. And so I can entirely ignore ToS and privacy policies.
> so that the certs you're using aren't in fact self-signed but signed by a private CA?

I find that most people confuse or combine "self-signed" with "signed by a private CA". For a lot of uses, the configuration pains are the same to the user: "I have to load this cert into the CA root trust store". They don't realize how much better a private CA really is.

And of course, PKI would be so much more useful with "name constraints" so you don't have to trust a private CA for all domains just the one domain you care about.
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No. It is incredibly hard to be cordial when you're trying to ruin the web and say that you're actually helping. I am livid. Because of content blockers the speed of web browsing has increased substantially. Because of content blockers users' security is vastly improved. ublock Origin has been doing the right thing and now you're going to make it harder. With the limits imposed by the declarative net requests at 150k developers and extensions that are safeguarding us are being hamstrung.

In addition, because of the Chrome extension team's obsession with using js workers instead of persistent processes we're going to have to deal with finding work-arounds for holding important and unencrypted things in memory. Someone brought up the issue that some extensions will have to create a newly pinned tab to the top left of the browser because of these inane bullshit rules removing the background page. Imagine a stack of pinned tabs just so your extensions can do their jobs. Does that sound dumb enough yet? Sometimes it's necessary to hold a lot of information in memory because the user actually wants the extension to do a certain task in a reasonable amount of time. They are making our jobs harder because they're too stubborn to understand that extension developers are the ones who create the magic. This is central governance at its finest.

These rules are stupid as hell.
The bigger question might be, what price are you willing to pay? The Communist Party of China is now deeply entwined in the global economy.
Non waivable rights are pretty common in european law, both of member states aswell as union law itself.
We have it at the bottom of the page, but I agree that it's not very visible. We'll add it at the top of the page. Thanks for your feedback! Appreciate it!
I'm very much introvert and talking to strangers does not come easily to me, but at times I've experimented with engaging strangers in conversations, largely because while I don't feel a need to constantly talk to people I wanted to get over my hangups about it, and I largely have. I still mostly don't talk to strangers because I find it exhausting and it doesn't interest me that much.

But when I do, in London, I've never once had a negative experience.

On the contrary, as soon as people here realise you're not trying to sell them something, or get anything from them, they tend to fall over themselves to be nice, and I've had people start pouring out their life story after just a simple 'how are you today?' to a shop assistant I'd only seen once or twice ever, because I actually waited for an answer.

I think a lot of people in London go around so starved for any kind of contact that as long as you're not acting totally creepy most people will be very open to it.

The hard thing with London is that you need to actually actively push past an expectation of not talking to people.

I actually find California more frustrating because while it's easy to get into a conversation, it's impossible for me to tell what is just pleasantries from when people are actually invested in a conversation.
As someone who also jumped on the Meteor bandwagon, and is now stuck maintaining a project created with it, run away and do not look back.

It is not being maintained by anyone as far as I can tell, more and more packages are breaking by the week it seems like, and the basic 'features' listed 'on the box' of Meteor have never worked.

Save yourself some headache and pick a stack with an active community.
This is silly. A bottleneck for audio processing is a particular product's flaw, not an intrinsic challenge of audio. A modern machine capable of doing interactive, high-resolution graphics rendering or high-definition movie rendering can do a stupendous amount of audio processing without even trying.

The data rates for real-time audio are so much smaller than modern memory system capabilities that we can almost ignore them. A 192 kHz, 24-bit, 6-channel audio program is less than 3 MB/s, thousands of times slower than a modern workstation CPU and memory system can muster.

The stack of audio filters you describe are a natural fit for pipelined software architectures, and such architectures are trivially mapped to pipelined parallel processing models. Whatever buffer granularity one might make in a single-threaded, synchronous audio API to relay data through a sequence of filter functions can be distributed into an asynchronous pipeline, with workers on separate cores looping over a stream of input sample buffers. It just takes an SMP-style queue abstraction to handle the buffer relay between the workers, while each can invoke a typical synchronous function. Also, because these sorts of filters usually have a very consistent cost regardless of the input signal, they could be benchmarked on a given machine to plan an efficient allocation of pipeline stages to CPU cores (or to predict that the pipeline is too expensive for the given machine).

Finally, audio was a domain motivating DSPs and SIMD processing long before graphics. An awful lot of audio effects ought to be easily written for a high performance SIMD processing platform, just like custom shaders in a modern video game are mapped to GPUs by the graphics driver.
The article I found said 60%, but that could easily be wrong or just out of date.
Yes, that's why I qualified my "real-world tasks" with "random". What is clear is that:

* Ryzen has a longer branch prediction history than Intel's processors.

* This will give it an advantage on repetitive executions.

* It's a challenge to robustly measure tasks since using repeated executions to gain confidence intervals can interfere with the measurement itself.

What's not clear is to what extent real-world tasks are repetitive enough to benefit or random enough to be negatively impacted. It's likely a mix of both.

By no means am I attempting to spread FUD — I find it quite interesting and wanted to spark a bit of discussion on it.
Let's assume in 10 years a descending order of the best laptop cpus are 1. Future ARM 2. Future AMD 3. Future Intel.

When I say leapfrog I am implying that I believe this list to be correctly ordered and that Apple will not use AMD chips but wait until they can use ARM.

Just idle speculation
If you issue user certs, it is best to do it from software and have them live for 8h max.

Also recommended: keep api behind a jumpbox.
Reminds me of Mozilla issues on GitHub and Bugzilla. You'll find important discussions that reference Google Docs documents with plans for architectural changes, roadmaps, or other details pertaining to the issue, but the documents are restricted to Mozilla employees.

This is especially frustrating if you want to learn more about the issue, or you'd like to contribute to the project.

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Amozilla+docs.google.com&ty...
> blindly enforcing a law for that law's sake.

I think this take is really uncharitable. I believe many/most people in the US believe that the laws controlling illegal drugs have at least some good purposes. Sure, most people want weed to be legal (not everyone, but most people). But heroin and fentanyl? I'm guessing support for legalizing those is well below the 50% mark. I bet in an unbiased poll, most people would support efforts to disrupt marketplaces that sell these goods.

I agree that if law enforcement believed what, say, many HNers believe about the effectiveness of prohibition laws, this type of enforcement would represent a slavish devotion to the law over justice. But I'm guessing they generally believe the law is a good law and that the country is better off with it enforced.

> This action doesn't appear to actually enforce any law

I already referenced the law that it enforces. I'm not sure what you mean by reasserting that it doesn't enforce any law, while in the previous paragraph you conceded that "[law enforcement were] enforcing a law for that law's sake." Are they or aren't they enforcing a law?
This is so on topic that I have to upvote.
This isn't just about Dropbox. Notice the enhanced collaboration with Slack and Atlassian (which is already an equity holder in Slack).

This alliance looks like an attempt to displace Microsoft in owning the "office runtime". You have Microsoft's Teams, Office 365, and Github vs. Slack, Dropbox, and Jira.

The interesting thing is that Google is actually in a much better position to do this by way of GSuite, but their own internal messaging answer to Slack hasn't gotten out of pre-launch.
I've also been in the process of moving off both Dropbox and Google Backup & Sync because they are such resource hogs on the Mac. iCloud drive isn't perfect, especially when it comes to sharing, but I'll accept that if it means my fans aren't going to be on full blast when it's running.

I can't remember a time when I've had Dropbox open and not found it at the top of the CPU tab of Activity Monitor. This may be because I have a couple symlinks (not many, just some dotfiles) or because I have a large number of files (nothing ridiculous, ~100k photos backed up) but the fact is, it's been long enough for Dropbox to have figured this out and fixed it.

It's bad enough to where I now leave Dropbox off all the time, then only turn it on when I need to sync something. With iCloud sync I don't even think about it, which is the way it should be.

I opened Dropbox before starting this comment to see the new UI and even after giving it enough time to catch up, it' still using between 48 and 127% CPU. It makes even Outlook feel breezy.
Not sure if anyone has noticed but the submitter has given HN readers who prefer Javascript-enabled browsing a workaround for the WSJ paywall.

Add ?mod=rsswn to the end of the URL.
That changed slightly with Ryzen: AMD closed the gap on single-threaded IPC (close enough, anyway) but the new issue with Zen 1 and Zen+ was memory/cache/inter-CCX latencies. Zen+ solved most of the memory latency issues but hadn't fixed cache/CCX latencies much.

Supposedly Zen 2 solved most of that. (And some game benchmarks like CSGO suggest they really did) We'll see how it actually pans out since there's still the issue of inter-CCX latency (and now even cross-chiplet latency).
Not always true. My wife is in academia and involved in multimillion euro projects, and oh boy - do they fight. Usually dirty.
My argument may be 'all over the place', but you seemed to have followed it pretty well.

"How exactly would legalization hurt Mexico? Look at Portugal to see how we should all move towards dealing with drugs and addiction as a health problem instead of a criminal problem."

Portugal didn't have cartels running entire sections of the country. Drugs may be part of the problem with Mexico, but the cartels are too powerful and legalizing them will not solve the corruption problem..and the violence will continue.

"The violence in the 1930s WAS caused by the prohibition, sure it had lasting effects but ending prohibition was still the right move."

It was. But we had a corruption problem as well. Criminals don't just go away overnight. There are plenty of other ways to make money, once you have money, power, and influence. Legalizing drugs will not solve the corruption problem in Mexico.

"Can you cite the rise of black market marijuana in California? The market is doing well and bringing in good tax revenue in every state I've read about."

A simple google search:

https://reason.com/video/californias-new-recreational-mariju...

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-crac...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurphy/2019/04/04/cannabis...

"As for the opioid crisis, the issue wasn't that people one day decided they wanted to get hooked on them. The issue was they had pain or were recovering from a surgery and were being prescribed highly addictive medication that was being pushed by pharmaceutical companies without proper warning or care. Marijuana could have been given in these cases and it without the same problems of addiction."

Who decides to get hooked on anything? Some people get addicted to things faster than others. No matter how many warnings you give someone, it will happen...and the company will get sued for millions of dollars.

The cigarette companies are a good example of this. Cigarettes have been know to cause cancer for 50+ years. Yet, we will have people smoking, getting cancer, and suing these companies for millions of dollars.
I don’t think fiduciary duty is the right word for it. But there is some Supreme Court ruling (dodge bros. Vs Ford?) that seems to imply (or so people interpret) you need to make money for share holders.
The problem is, files are dying. 99% of the documents shared with me nowadays exist only in some cloud product. No one sends files anymore, it's all Google Docs links and such.

The only real place where files still live are with developers and designers. And even then, the move is away from locally-hosted content and stuff that only exists on someone else's server. VS Code remoting, Sketch Cloud, etc etc.

Dropbox is just fighting against the tide of the entire Internet. I don't disagree that it's disastrous, but what are they going to do? Their core product is going away. It's like being an oil company nowadays.
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"To be fair, most commercial cloud services overthink this, and also get it wrong."

ssh user@rsync.net ls -asl some/dir

... looking good ...

"There's exactly one sync program that gets it all right: Unison, written by Benjamin Pierce"

ssh user@rsync.net unison

Usage: unison [options]
or unison root1 root2 [options]
or unison profilename [options]

(Ask about the HN readers' discount)
The issue is not so black and white. Intervention and interning addicts in rehab centers is a very effective program for Rhode Island. They prosecute drug crimes and misdemeanors, and offer a choice between prison or enforced rehab. Many people who go through the program say it saved their life, and they come out with no criminal record.

West coast states have similar alternative drug courts and rehab available, but they are underutilized because there is no incentive. Even non-drug misdemeanors committed by addicts are ignored.
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Total closing costs include much more than just agent fees, and can approach 10%. The majority is covered by the seller, but things like title insurance and transfer tax are paid for by the buyer. Anyways even if the seller pays for something they've undoubtably priced it into the sale price, so the buyer pays for it one way or another.
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Did you not see that they are competitive or beating Intel in single threaded now?
Too late to edit, but I just read the announcement about the changes to Drive and Photos which directly addresses my confusion.

https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-p...
IMHO I've found greatness is also very much a result of environment as well. Not just in the "you are the five people you interact with most" kind of thing, but also in the kind of bounds you face when shipping greatness. It definitely impacts your scalability curve. Shipping a great product and having business impact is kind of an O(1) deal; people see the great product, git blame the source or look at release notes, and find out you're behind it, and then think you're good at programming. Shipping a bad product because of business or technical org constraints and then having to explain to people the design decisions and compromises you had to make is very much not an O(1) deal. I think the former definitely lets people stand on their own two feet and merits, while the latter concentrates power in those who control perception.
Also checkout perkeep
The good news is it's been in development for a decade already and the next step seems to be human trials for effectiveness, so it's still years away, but if it works out, maybe not that many.
Oh no god forbid a company slightly change any of their offerings and add more features that will appeal to most of their audience. Then go around and try to advertise this on Hacker News, which we like to think is a community of visionary and entrepreneur geniuses but we really are a bunch of self-entitled and change averse edge case users that know better.

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Also, required "fuck Google" quote at the end.
I don’t understand how this method is supposed to fix carbon sustainably. Microbe respiration on biomass is at least natural if not necessary. Even burning has long-term fixation benefits. Seems like playing short-term games with surface carbon, when clearly the long-term problem is total surface carbon.
>Many people who go through the program say it saved their life.

That's great!

Theoretically though, if someone were to state publicly that it was completely ineffective, will they still get the option to stay out of jail next time?
If your company can't replace a doorknob in a decade, destroy that company. It has no value.
I don't know why an organization called phys.org might need such sensationalization of mundane news. Every article including this one makes it sound like new developments have occurred in physics. When you actually read the article and apply a small helping of skepticism you realize, the world is just the way it was yesterday. phys.org is not HN worthy imho.
Even if it damaged/killed a small percentage of healthy cells, as long as it kills a much higher percentage of CTCs, hook me up. Good cells are replenished. So are the bad ones. Its an arms race!
A better understanding of the hardware+software stack and a return to fundamentals instead of piling frameworks sky-high on top of each other making it very hard to impossible to debug which layer is buggy when things go sideways.

> complexity in software deployments

Reduce complexity
What makes this even weirder is that all of the FAANG companies are using their own in-house-built platform instead of Kubernetes. Even Google.
More recently, the 9900k's MSRP was $500 but it was sold for $600 at launch due to scarcity. People wondered who would even buy that given its price but gamers (myself included) happily did and it sold out for months.
I think that’s possible for the case of fenatyl and similar synthetic opioids. They and other RC’s have been largely popularized through the internet. Because the amounts required are quite low it’s actually plausible.
> If you are friendly with SA you can put pressure on them to improve. If you declare them an evil enemy would the outcome be better?

> There is a path to walk and it is not easy to find the right one when you have to deal with reality not just idealism. The natural resources in the middle east are important to the world and it is not so simple as an 'us vs. them' because there are many entirely separate interests in the region and we play them off each other.

> Maybe it would be better to do a Star Trek style prime directive of completely cutting off countries until they have a certain level of social development, but you would have to come to terms with knowing bad things were happening and actively deciding to do nothing.

If the US was friendly to all countries in order to exert pressure on them this might make sense, but in light of actual US foreign policy with respect to North Korea, Iran, etc. it's completely absurd to pretend that the US is being friendly to SA as a means to effect change.
You are comparing direct military action to civilian protests.

I don't like what happened in Ukraine, but there is no realistic resolution to that problem without starting a world war. I don't like it but that's how it is.

The Uyghur's are another issue, and I feel like it supports my position more than yours. We wouldn't even know about what is happening to them without social media. The world is watching now.

Same could be said for the Rohinga.

The world sucks, and governments do evil shit all the time. The difference now is that they can't hide behind their lies.