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Influencers trying to get freebies and Youtubers disrupting the political landscape may just be the growing pains during a massive overhaul of society. It's no longer about "empowering" a grassroots initiative with a website, it's changing how humans interact on a fundamental level. Expect lots of indoctrination populism from mega-influencers during their 24/7 livestreams, but maybe less corruption too....
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I think there are too many people. Problems of loss of habitat and the use of pesticides and fertilisers to increase food production are all solved with <less people>.

The problem will solve itself, unfortunately.

Even if we had cold fusion and unlimited free energy, we'd still have the problem of too many people.
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> MSSQL does not munge data if the column is not equipped for it, I have no idea about sybase. You can test this easily by making an int column and putting a maxint+1 in.. it will tell you "NO" and not insert anything.

It does truncate strings.so does MySQL. But you need to enable strict mode. Easy.

Mssql does allow ddl in transactions, but do not do it, you will have huge locking issues. It will also not work in snapshot isolation.

My point stands: all major enterprise dbms have limitations. And you are dismissing MySQL, but by your standards Mssql and sybase would also be dismissed.

This is unfair.

You just need a semi competent dev to know those limitations. And MySQL with innodb is not that far from sql server or sybase.
When those features are mandatory their performance will be just another thing talked about in car magazines or when talking with friends about the experience with your car. A particularly good or bad implementation might significantly impact sales, so I expect lots of improvements in teh coming years.
If you're only here because this place has high visibility, not because you're interested in the conversation, you're a spammer no matter how noble your goals are.
> I don't see how boycotting ThinkPads sends a message that BIOS malware is unacceptable

It sends a message to other manufacturers: add malware at your own peril. I frankly consider it unethical to buy or recommend products from companies, like Lenovo, who demonstrated anti-consumer behavior because it perpetuates bad behavior as companies think consumers will forget or forgive them.

> ThinkPads never had that, and never would.

That is speculative. I can't know that whatever harmful and irrational environment that led to Superfish in IdeaPad won't affect ThinkPads in the future. Even in the most generous understanding where IdeaPad is a different, physically separate branch of the company, and Superfish was an act of incompetence and not outright malice I can't be expected to keep up with the insider intrigue of the company to notice any changes that could negatively affect me. More importantly, leadership is still responsible for setting irrational environment that lead to Superfish, whatever that environment was. This is a multi-billion dollar company, there is no excuse for such incompetence.
Facebook accesses links shared in private messages... not sure if they'll unzip it
Except you know Shakespeare using singular they[0]. Then the fact that I’m willing to bet decent money that random individuals in rural areas also use singular they all the time without realising. It is just when a trans person wants singular they exclusively that it becomes an issue.

1: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002748.h...
My former co-founder of my SaaS was based in remote Alaska (I am in tropical Australia), and I remember one day a while back late in the year, it was +35degC here and she said it was -35degC over there. I couldn't believe we were equidistant on either end of the 0 datum, with a massive 70 degree C difference in temperature variation.

Weirdly, it is now our dry season, with temperatures around 21degC and I just Googled the weather in her area and they are expecting around 30degC - Alaska is actually hotter than Northern Australia is right now!
That’s what this article is about: those (primarily psychosensory) effects are apparently able to be mitigated entirely with training.
Subjective temp is relative to habituated climate though. Where I live (subtropics) people complain that it's 'cold' if temps drop below 20C.

I imagine 32C might feel damned pretty hot to an Alaskan.
It most certainly has been taken advantage of. Bots crawl the internet checking for services on default ports without a password.

I was an victim of this recently when I got reports that my web app was down and when I investigated it I saw there was a password on redis preventing the app from connecting. I then found out the redis docker container was accepting connections from the outer internet with no password and someone had connected in and set a password on it (Probably just to alert me to the fact it was exposed). Thankfully there was basically nothing in redis so no user data was exposed.
Like the double slit experiment with a photon, or the semi-transparent mirror?

Simple: it goes both ways. Then decoherence happens, the universe splits in half, and we experience being in either one of those halves. What we observe is but a glimpse of what actually happen. We don't have access to the other side (split universes don't communicate with each other, contrary to what much sci-fi material describes).

That may sound weird, but the alternative (that half the amplitude is "not real", or that it "collapses" (in a way that is non-local, that is, exceeds the speed of light), is even weirder.

Or you could just refuse to answer the question, and stick to "this equations mean I should observe this with those statistics".
You've pretty much summed up where I am with my 2017 13" MBP. It was a huge purchase for me and I felt it was an investment at the time (I'm spending a few years learning coding skills having been made redundant), but having had to have the screen replaced because of keybaord damage, and having ugly-looking wear around the thunderbolt ports - all of this on a laptop that I treat very well, and which had had a hardshell case since day one and always travels in a padded slip case - I can't say I'm impressed at all.

If it really was a 'pro' piece of kit, I wouldn't need to put a sheet of A4 paper between the screen and keyboard to avoid the glass getting damaged every time I shut it (it's now out of Apple Care warranty, and another screen would be £500). I actually like the feel of the keyboard (although it is noisy), and I love the trackpad - anything else feels like a cheap toy in comparison now.

I've needed on occasion to use it with external hardware - soundcard, dongle for Cubase, USB memory, etc., and it's a messy pain. I also have a 2010 15" MBP I was recently gifted, and it's better overall because it's solid, reliable and has lots of ports, and doesn't need to be treated with kid gloves. Yes, it has the procesing power of a ZX Spectrum in comparison to the 2017, but I can live with that. It's become my travelling laptop instead of the 2017 because it's not a hothouse flower.

I don't know if this trend was solely Jony Ive's, but I sincerely hope they will make actual 'Pro' machines in the future.

However, I shall not be buying one. This cost me a fortune (twice as much as any laptop I've bought in the past), and it's once bitten, twice shy, I'm afraid.
Great, the butterfly keys were an enormous downgrade in terms of comfort, and one of the reasons I sold my 2017 Macbook Pro.

But will they still keep that awful touchbar where the Esc and F1-12 are supposed to be? Then I'll still be passing.
One day we will look back at Halloween and try to come to a political conclusion to make ourselves feel better.
Unfortunate. I really love the new keyboard. I am typing it right now on a 2017 Macbook Pro butterfly keyboard. I have a 2015 Macbook Pro too but I don't like its keys that much.
giveth and taketh.

Google/YouTube/FB/etc made the web more accessible, fun and useful to normal people. The profit motive was great for cutting through the more idealistic 'open web's" occasionally stubborn^ roadblocks.

YouTube, for example, got online video bigger/better/faster by doing centralisation, flash & such.

After they win though, they effectively become squatters. YouTube or FB could go offline today and tomorrow we'd probably see new services, possibly free and decentralised, popping up to replace them. But, while they monopolize their areas... they probably create negative value.
It's easier to create a new user account and run firefox from it. Something like:
xhost +si:localuser:firefox && su - firefox -c 'DISPLAY=:0 HOME=/home/firefox firefox 2>/dev/null' && xhost -
Maybe if the channel was named "Kody Kinzie's Flowery Cyber Instrument Safe Space", it would have been promoted instead...
We had transcoding as early as 2011. As that is when I made my first commits to the video jobs codebase, specifically to the transcoding jobs. It was quite late when we had the resources ($$$) to provide widespread availability of transcodes to the community.
The idea is to publish the checksum of the archive separately. After downloading the archive you can calculate its checksum and compare with the published checksum. If they differ you known something is up (possibly bad).

When a browser helpfully decompresses the archive you can no longer perform this check.
Yes and no. While it solves users/audience problem for alternative platformm, there is another barier of entry: bandwidth costs. I recommend anyone to do a simple math excercise of simple multiplication:
size of 20 minute 2K video * 50'000 views * price per GB of traffic on your favourite cloud/hosting platform.
To make the excercise more interesting now multiply whatever result you got by the number of videos your platform is supposed to host. Assume this number to grow each month. Also assume that some users will want 4K.
I'll actually be a counter example to that, I recently started a security podcast with a couple friends, talking about the latest in exploit development and mitigations, and whatever news we find interesting.

Shortly after we uploaded our 4th episode we were banned on Youtube. We appealed the ban and were allowed back on pretty quickly (hours) and we are by no means a large channel even now (~50 subs).
Does facebook user data getting sent to a 3rd party to manipulate elections big enough? IoT devices are regularly being used to DDoS major internet services.
Perkeep (https://perkeep.org/) has a similar but broader goal: store all the data you would typically store on social networks or in a backup service and be able to access/search it from any browser: tweets, Pinterest locations, photos, files, docs, whatever
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or use https://outline.com/
I like the butterfly keyboards.
I personally the impact of nuclear disasters a quantity higher than that of 80's protest songs. Your mileage may vary.
(I didn't mean to derail this thread, but want to answer you anyway)

You're right, one can't isolate one institution for topics as complex as these. I'm pretty sure it plays a role, though, as (ignoring fundamental differences in poverty rates, workplace regulations etc.) many countries employ the healthcare system to inform the population about healthy eating and offer incentives and free courses for coping with stress. Thats the beauty of a single payer system: Beyond ethics, the healthcare system has an intrinsic interest to prevent the preventable, as that is almost universally cheaper than bearing the cost of circulatory disorders later.
I'm convinced that Tesla UI is only good because they're not afraid to continuously iterate on the design.

The best way to improve a complex human interaction task like a vehicle is with experimentation and incremental improvements—and the touch screen allows the pace of that feedback loop to be an order of magnitude faster than a physical interface.

All they need is a few more buttons for the most common tasks on the steering wheel and the Model 3 design would be greatly improved.
10 years is probably longer than most of these iot companies have been around. Most of these devices probably get 1 year updates max before support being dropped.
Yes, and if they are good enough, they result in a net gain for the other party as well.
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You can clone democracy if you want trustless.
I think you're answering your own question there:

> That would enable library authors to build whatever error handling conveniences they wanted

What I want from a language - especially if it's, like Go, aimed at really big project - is for it to be opinionated and narrowed in options. That's Bill Kennedy's point as well, they're adding a language level feature so now there's one more way to do a very common thing. And when there's multiple ways to do something, they will all get used.

"But what about conventions and code reviews?", you might ask; that's cognitive overload that, if there was only one way, would never be a thing. I mean another feature of Go is that it enforces a certain standard (with tooling and formatters), so that as a development team you should never have to waste time and energy on discussing or arguing about formatting.

I'm not against changing how errors are handled now, as long as they're standardized and the One Way to do things.
Isn't the touchbar what you're asking for? Mini-oled screen and arm processor. Unless it was ironic and I am oblivious.
Me too, for the first few days, before they inevitably start acting up.
I would disagree that is not really blockchain, Linus is a form of consensus for the git blockchain of the Linux project, I see no issue in that.
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I'm (obviously) very involved in climate change and how tech (very represented in the HN community) can play a role in fixing it: many are asking themselves the question on how they can do something about it.

I want to help these people find a spot where they can find like-minded people interested on working on it - and I believe climate change posts on HN are a good match between people concerned about the climate, and who would be interested in joining tech communities working to fix it. I'm all ears to find other ways to give people avenues to work on their "climate" anxiety - let me know if you have better ideas.
Another thing is that they have a clear strategy and are open about how the money is spent. Generally speaking FreeBSD governance is one of the things I like most about it.
braking to maintain distance to the car in front isnt part of cruise control?

Yes, that isn't part of regular cruise control. It's called "cruising", not "driving in traffic". These systems have been around since the 60s, far longer than automotive sensors have existed.

The part where the car actually responds to the movement of cars around them is a new thing (only available for ten years or so), and is called adaptive cruise control.
I'm not entirely convinced it is. I started a exploit development/security podcast with a couple friends a few months ago, we were banned on Youtube shortly after the 4th episode for a community guidelines violation.

We appealed it and were reinstated pretty quickly (hours), which was a genuinely surprise to me given all I've heard about the Youtube system and the assumption that channels only got unbanned by being able to attract attention.
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Now just get rid of the touchbar and I'll consider using a Mac again.
Whenever you download any untrusted file and attempt to parse or unpack it (and this includes zips, tarballs, PDFs, even images) your program should fork off some kind of sandbox which limits CPU time, memory, disk space, and access to local resources such as the filesystem and system calls.

There are various sandboxing technologies from using simple rlimit, or a cgroup, or even running a full VM (see libvirt-sandbox) depending on the threat level and the amount of effort you want to put in vs the perceived risk.
At least he didn't use a raspberry pi for this.
Do you have any citations? If you mean the deliberate usage of singular they as a neuter pronoun for subjects who identify as non-binary, then sure. But otherwise, singular they is used by almost everybody some of the time. always4getpass' comment, at least on its face, refers to the latter usage.

Frankly, I think even people offended at being forced to use the former usage will relent. Refusing to accommodate (rightly or wrongly) is confrontational, and being confrontational is exhausting. It's already quite natural to use singular they when using a passive, impersonal voice, and using a passive voice is what people will invariably resort to when they're exhausted.
Even worse, the code examples of (in)famous Bjarne Stroustrup were missing neccessary #include's and contained deadly typos.
Which is why Julia offers the `fld1`, `mod1` and `fldmod1` functions:

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/math/#Base.fld1
You'd be surprised if the largest content delivery platform in the world cares about being accessible to the broadest range of users?

https://code.fb.com/ios/under-the-hood-building-accessibilit...
Yep. I find myself unable to use my personal MBP 2015 after using the 2018 MBP for work. The feel is just so much better. The reliability is the issue(though I haven’t faced any issues yet).
Egoism is not bad - it's inevitable. Abrahamic values teach this literal self-hatred and "humans as innately evil" line but it has no basis in reality.

See the work of Max Stirner on a rehabilitation of egoism and why a union of egoists (differing from a society only in the voluntary nature of the association) isn't synonymous with "egoistic psudo-individualism"
Been using FreeBSD for years as well and donate to the Foundation annually.
It's always my go to OS mainly because it's changes are never too dramatic!
This is not something a kid learning basic html/js can do easily, since he probably uses windows, and doesn't even know how to navigate in the command prompt.

The "click on the html file on the desktop" just works(TM)
It is confusing for those outside the community. A person who had full use of her legs but severely limited use of her arms and hands would not be considered "paraplegic". However, if she had no use of her legs, the same condition of her arms would classify her as "quad" rather than "para".

Yes, it would be nice if we were all inherently sensitive to this nuance. That isn't the case, so I appreciate that your comment actually attempted to inform rather than simply castigating like sibling comments.
(tech) people tend to laugh at me/pull the tinfoil hat card for putting my dlink/iot stuff behind a very restrictive, dedicated, iptables filtered, hostapd based custom network running on my pi zero w that isn’t allowed to talk to the home network or internet at all.

As mentioned by others, I guess it really needs severe identity theft/abuse with vital services until people realize that today‘s IoT 'plug & play' is worse than than the level of 'plug & pray' we‘ve seen in the early PCI/USB/Win98 era (that only impacted your local device functionality).
I'm pretty sure the other way around it would be a foregone conclusion that Huawei stole IP from Cisco.
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> most people uncomfortable with pronouns

Interesting way to phrase it. Taken literally it's absurd - obviously people aren't allergic to saying "he" and "she". Presumably you mean chosen pronouns. Where it comes down to a matter of someone asking for a tiny bit of respect. Some respond to that graciously, a lot of people go along with it indifferently, but a few regard it as a massive outrage to be asked to be respectful towards a stranger. They escalate it; they raise it to a "me or them" issue, and are surprised that some people choose to exclude them so that they can include trans people instead.

> Who’s going to give them a place to belong first?

What does this mean? Does it mean a place where necessarily trans people can't belong?

Certainly in the UK it's not a question of "belonging", most of the newspapers and large sections of all political parties have joined in the panic over trans people. Being anti-trans is tragically mainstream.
first they came for alex jones.
1. You put it in a URL marked as "noindex-nofollow". Google will avoid it. You are supposed to only serve the page to identified spam bots anyway.

2. You create an exception so that they never cache the page and don't proxy this exact URL.
Meanwhile, I can't ever get Amazon to accept liability for the 3 bits of cardboard and a deck of playing cards I received instead of a £209 SSD that was sold by Amazon directly: https://twitter.com/JamesMcMinn/status/1144537350602678273
I didn't mean that _only_ extremely libertarian (or communitarian) people hold one or the other end of the argument. Just that it it's more common, as these are most likely core concerns for those people
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I really should thank you for the opportunity— not many people would let a new college hire spend months on a green-field rewrite of something so core to the company.
The evaluation sets involves ~20k samples. They only let you do like 100 for free. Also I’m not sure there’s an API for it for me to do automatically for such a large scale
I feel exactly the same way. So many apps, so many websites have been destroyed because people can’t stop adding features.
MAD helped the world learn to laugh at itself, including comedic cynicism and sarcasm with top notch satire aimed at everyone including themselves at MAD.

MAD inspired all types of comedy from many greats today. Terry Gilliam called MAD's Harvey Kurtzman his mentor [1]. Judd Apatow says similar. It inspired Cracked, National Lampoon and many other comedy media. MAD was even partially responsible for the counter culture [2].

The re-launch I think wasn't truly the MAD spirit but I was hopeful for it continuing, always a subscriber. MAD didn't transition well after the internet, even though they were like a pre-internet must see destination. After 2000 they held under 250k subscribers [3].

I'll miss dearly new content from Alfred E. Neuman and the 'usual gang of idiots' for sure, but we'll always have MAD history.

MAD will forever have changed the world and comedy for the better. The world could use more MAD satire today so it is sad to see it go.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5756899/My-MAD-men...

[2] https://groovyhistory.com/mad-magazine-covers-1960s

[3] https://blog.comichron.com/2019/07/the-complete-mad-magazine...
To play devils advocate: this is what Cisco says, not result of an independent analysis :-)
The improvements in JS performance over time is crazy.

I was an Opera user (started with 5.x IIRC) and its JS engine was pretty slow. I mean so slow that even in the early 2000s some pages with just a few animations were annoying to use and better viewed in IE.

Then at some point they rewrote the engine from scratch and also implemented JIT compilation to machine code. Opera might even have been the first browser to do so. After that it was lightning fast, ahead of IE, Firefox and Chrome before Blink/V8. If you use the last Presto Build of Opera today, those pages that still manage to render at all and use heavy JS are painfully sluggish, close to unusable.

Opera's JS engine rewrite felt like performance was suddenly IE times 10. Now it feels like Chrome/Firefox are Opera Presto times 100.
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Its use with an unspecified antecedent is centuries old, but usage for specific persons is not. Time will tell whether it'll catch on.
Has anything come of this yet? Did you report it yet?
Yes so in the last ~100 years it was the highest. How about 1000 years or 100000? Why is only the last 100 years relevant in the context of climate?