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I think the plan for Libra is always to have its value tied to something stable (USD for sake of argument, but more complex in practice). Each libra would be backed by 1 dollar or whatever.

(I'm not sure if the plan is that those dollars have to sit in reserve like some gold standard, but presumably eventually the temptation to use a fractional reserve would be too great.)
I always wondered why the zoom app required root permissions, which is why I never installed it in the first place. What would a video conferencing app ever need root permissions for?! Now we know: a backdoor.

Thank god for Apple putting down the law. This is why I happily pay premium prices...
Think of it as a malware scanner, like Windows Defender
Maybe they think they're training their Instragram feed to show more content like that?
Can we just automatically flag posts which mentioned "whataboutism"? THey are utterly ignorant and add nothing to the conversation - like this one.
I taught Gore Vidal how to use a PowerBook in 1995 while he was in California to film his A&E biography. The ticket said "George Vidal" and he said he was a writer. I asked what he had written and he replied, "Check your local library." At the moment I knew it was the only and only Gore not George.

He hated the computer and said he was going back to writing longhand on legal pads. Still not sure if that was a joke or not.
Theoreteically the capacity to have smart, healthier, longer living children is amazing and a victory for all mankind.

But it won't be for all mankind, just those in wealthy nations and even then only to those who can afford it similar to In Vitro fertilization. The worry becomes further inequality but at a genetic level over just wealth.

If we can eradicate a genetic disease in a few generations, we probably should. But if only the wealthy and powerful are able to then we head toward even more ethical and moral questions.
Most people I know cycle through the streaming services instead of subscribing to everything on the market. Streaming video is a very different product than cable. A single service gives you more on-demand content than you could ever watch. There's no particular rush to see a series since every season of a show is usually available. With cable you need the hundreds of channels to have any chance of finding something to watch, and if you miss it when it's live then too bad.

So people keep repeating that we're going to end up paying $100 a month for our subscription services, but I am going to happily keep paying about $12 a month. A quick google found an article from 2015 that Netflix is estimated to have about 35k hours of content. Another article claimed that Netflix adds an additional 3k hours of content each year. Do you really need to subscribe to 2x, 3x or 5x that amount all at once?
> People want comprehensive details about what companies do with their information, but they also want short privacy policies. You can't have both.

You can, if the companies would not track users.

"We are not logging your activity, we are not using cookies unless you are using the webshop's cart and we delete it when the transaction is confirmed. We do not share your private information to anyone but the payment company.

We log IPs for 3 months for technical debugging. We do not try to identify the people the IPs belong to unless an illegal intrusion is detected."
The article is explaining why many drivers dislike cyclists. This accurately describes some of the complaints I've heard from non-cyclists:

Then along come cyclists, innocently following what they see are the rules of the road, but doing things that drivers aren't allowed to: overtaking queues of cars, moving at well below the speed limit or undertaking on the inside.

Whether or not the cyclists are actually following the law is irrelevant, there's still the perception that they are not. I've had a motorist pull up beside me at a stop sign and yell at me to get off the road and ride on the sidewalk -- I pointed out the bike stencil on the bike lane I was in and pointed to the "No bicycles on sidewalks" sign, and he still told me to get off the road. Laws (even with clear evidence that I was following them) didn't matter to him.
I respect PG, but this is just his opinion, not some universal fact.
I imagine Apple has known about this daemon for a long time from it's OS analytics.
I can't verify since I don't have it installed but I see no reason why this webserver would need root permissions. If it's asking for root it must be for something else.
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I'm with you on some of those, but having one bar for URLs and search is a) great from the point of view of usability and, b) inevitable. There's just no real estate for two perfectly combinable text boxes on mobile devices.
That's not my definition of decentralization, sorry. Censorship resistance is but one of many necessary requirements for me. Another requirement is that no single entity should be able to mine more than a small percentage of coins.

A truly decentralized currency would have built-in protections against any sort of concentration of power, whether it's based on the ability to buy electricity in bulk cheaply or based on the ability to censor transactions. To date no currency is decentralized.
Not worrying about the humans in particular. Uncovered ground level roads are just death traps and fencing them off is even worse in many ways.
What OS analytics?

Apple gathers various anonymous metrics, yes, but I don't think they collect information on arbitrary web servers running on Macs.
I don't think killing those enterprise cert was a moral gesture. They were just enforcing their walled garden.
Philosophy, at least the real one, isn't "just". It's almost by definition deepest and widest study of what's possible to study, with all consequences and offsprings like sciences.
Wasn't there once a company with the motto "Don't be evil."? If that motto is abandoned, Apple should claim it since they genuinely try do their best to live by it.
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I won't pick out all of your arguments, but there is an abundance of evidence for the long-term expansion of the universe as measured by redshifted cosmological objects at numerous distances.

Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell does a nice job of introducing many of these concepts for those interested.
I would put it the other way around. wpa_supplicant is actually very good at doing what it does. But rolling it's functionality into ifconfig is probably "good enough".

wpa_supplicant is an application of the "do one thing" philosophy. The kernel provides a some basic hardware-abstracted plumbing which lets a specialist tool do all the complicated handshaking and what-not for wireless.

This saves the basic tools (ifconfig, ip) from having to build in all that wireless complexity. But it does introduce an extra moving part that has to be configured. For this reason, just bloating it into the basic tool is likely to be good enough, and also provider a superior UX (for nerds like us).
Only if I had no other choice. When choosing my flights, I'd actively avoid the Max and if my flight was changed to use a Max, I'd look around for an alternative date or time.
And why did Apple shut down the app regardless? Was it not properly patched? Did Apple not care?
Not really, no. Apple's update is just a configuration change to XProtect, which is the anti-malware system. It's not an OS patch, it's just like any third-party malware system auto-updating signatures.
Anything you put online can potentially leak.

This is common knowledge for us tech oriented people but with time (and stories such as these) it is (hopefully) becoming more and more general knowledge.

Personally I'm ok with it: If I use a cloud based voice enabled device, I accept that my voice might be heard by someone working there. Similarly, if one sends nude pics as a "private" message in messenger, they shouldn't be surprised if someone at FB sees them. Know the risk, evaluate the benefit, and make an informed decision.

One caveat is the explicitness of "put online": The above holds for things put up deliberately, not for things uploaded accidentally or covertly. In these cases the data is illegally obtained and therefor, imo, not important for this discussion. That's because I (naively) don't think big companies would risk a large scale purposefully illegal enterprise (and if they do, there should be major ramifications) and 3LA can spy on anyone anyway if they want, and that's (currently) legal/above the law.
I've never had this issue before but why not either

1) act as recruiter yourself. Yeah, some activist investors will tell you to only focus on core business stuff/creating product market fit but that's just certain people's opinion. Presumably you have some kind of network you can leverage + you can cold message people earnestly

2) Contract with a recruiting agency to perform some of the administrative/vetting part and give you the candidate for 1-2 interviews. You only pay for each hire. Expensive (I've heard of rates in the 10-30k range) but definitely does not cost $50k for zero result. This has the added benefit of allowing you to bundle recruiting tasks that you yourself probably don't have time for like background checks
Glad were in agreement :)
> When people move from C++ to another language for more safety, Rust is not their only option.

That's arguably missing the point. For a very long time, managed, GC-based languages like Java or Go were the only option for workable memory safety! (Yes, I'm ignoring a lot of stuff because it's practically irrelevant. No need to tell me about ATS and the like, thank you so much.) Cyclone and now Rust have changed that, which makes for a real paradigm shift in the industry, at least potentially. Rust even contributes meaningfully to thread safety by getting rid of simple data races, which are a huge can of worms not just in C/C++ but managed languages as well!
I don't like the "all you can eat" model. I think it killed cable because people paid for stations even if they didn't watch them, so there was no feedback loop to reward better stations. It devalues content wherever it has been tried from music to video games.
I think this would be really great for kids who want to take control of their own learning and do them without the need of total access to the teacher. If I had a choice to do my learning some days on my own in a private area at a computer instead of being in a classroom of 30 students with your typical problem childs distracting the teacher and other kids, I would have in a heartbeat. Leave the teachers to babysit the problem kids while kids who actually want to learn can learn.
Probably to not allow it to run if the users didn't update Zoom.
Windows Update leaves behind a lot of logs with KB entries, so I don't think they're trying to do anything secretly. If Microsoft changes your software, you know about it.
The funny thing for me is how much more intuitive this is when you run an actual server, or vps, and how fundamental it is in that context ("Oh crap, bunch of views, they are slowing this laptop down a bunch!") while being so much more involved here.

I'm hesitant to generalize past myself, but I really wish someone made me learn the basics on a web server in my own home, where I could reboot it by pulling out a power cord, and transfer files with a usb stick. I would have been so much more able to make thought out trade-offs or attempt grander things.

Its straight-forward and free (at the margin) to throw up a password protected site on a server, but daunting in SaaS world. Same story for having a bash script update some page with a gnuplot chart with data obtained via curl/wget, vs. CORS and an API, and a charting library, and json ...

I shudder to think of how much time I wasted as I was just learning web anything on solutions that were way too big and complex for my goals at the time - from docker, to lambdas, AWS orbit based nuclear powered whatever to run a clock widget or whatnot. I'm certainly glad I learned those things, and they are scalable and safer and all those good things, but hard to put into context without knowing how one stupid server doing it all by itself would do it.

This is all a drawn out way of saying that the cheapest lightsail vps is like 3 bucks a month, and you can implement all the fanciest netlify features right on it, and if you never have done that, you really should. If anything when you do move to netlify, you will really appreciate it on a different level.
My concern about Libra is that it suggests that Facebook is trying to control things that have normally been the purview of the government. This is concerning in the long run because Facebook is not run democratically. Any institution performing government-like functions should be at least as accountable as the government itself.
But olivine is a rock and oil is a liquid. That cost is so low because of pipelines, but you can’t build pipelines for solid things.
Why are you parsing URLs yourself? It's been a solved problem for decades, so use a library.
> Then explain why they changed to Alphabet. Shareholders were sick of things like project loon, siphoning cash from google search.

Alphabet is still spending billions from Google into "other bets" like Loon, so I don't see how this explains the change.
Honestly I like that better than the US version of requiring you to pay a bunch of money for a doctor to sign off on something that a pharmacist should be able to give upon request. Something like an eye infection should be just a couple bucks to treat, but just going to a doctor to tell you "yeah your eye is infected, you need antibiotics" and then getting charged $100 or more for their signature is crazy. Maybe it would work fine in a free healthcare model. From the research ive seen there is very little risk from humans abusing antibiotics, especially in comparison to agricultural usage. I can go to the store and buy amoxicillian for fish for like 5-10 bucks, but to get a human prescription it could cost $200+.
It took me a minute to realize that "classified" in the headline means labeled, not secret.
> That they choose to fill all the streets with big Suburbans

Where do you even see Suburbans in Manhattan that don't belong to the NYPD, the MTA, or a black car service, let alone streets filled with them?
Because zoom’s patch will only help users still using and updating zoom while those who have uninstalled zoom are still vulnerable (because the uninstalled leaves the web server behind)
It's a bit weird to say they have "some of the biggest" spaces if you don't count everyone else of note. But backlots and shootling locations are just a part of the recipe. Look at the end credits of Netflix originals and compare them to Disney, especially w.r.t. the VFX and post production shops. That's the difference in vertical integration I was trying to point out.
What is Netlify using for the underlying data storage and query engine?
It could also just not be true? No one but Netflix knows what shows their subscribers like and they're currently spending money like a drunken sailor so I'm hard pressed to believe any argument about paying less for their work. The author is not in the industry and has no access to what Netflix viewers are watching, how much Netflix pays or how much competitors of Netflix pay. What we do know is more shows are being made which means more jobs.

I bet it's more like Netflix realized what viewers have: the first few seasons are almost always the best. Perhaps it's not "straightforward market power exploitation" and it's just that later seasons from legacy players were renewed out of habit, time slots and pre sold ad sales and not because of quality?
> Famous athletes/artists have earned the public's trust due to being very talented and working hard.

This is true, but is also crazy. Just because you can throw a ball or put some paint on a canvas better than anyone else — even if it took a ton of work to learn to do that — that says absolutely zero about any other worthwhile aspects of your character. Self-discipline does not directly lead to morality, kindness, empathy, charity, etc.
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Lower teacher pupil ratios and more personal attention to learning. Machines have a role but denying the role of the pedagogue feels wrong. And corporatism. Why is education hold hostage by big data outcomes? Ethics potholes.
Do you have any support for your claim that taxation leads to innovation?
This is a wonderfully condescending response but it answers nothing. The question was, why can’t google do it differently? This doesn’t answer the question. We can plainly see this from the fact that other companies, operating under the same conditions you describe, make different choices.

This is the business equivalent of saying “because physics.” It’s not wrong, it’s just not useful.
What about the security of my AWS Lambda functions and their dependencies
This has been widespread for the last week and a half, but nobody knows why. Unrelated to zoom.
Checked XProtect.meta.plist inside the app bundle, forcing an update check with softwareupdate has no impact either.

Perhaps it’s a staged rollout, but at least on my iMac there’s no sign of updated signatures.
Account recovery on Ethereum will be easier with contract-based accounts. Essentially your ether is stored in a smart contract rather than a single private key. The benefit of this is that you can now have multiple keys with different levels of privileges to your funds, kind of like ACLs.
Meanwhile, a pro-player hides his/her identity on the Korean ladder under the name "AlphaStar" and was the top 10 a few months ago.
I'm with pg on this, starting a company with someone is a bigger commitment than getting married and without the physical chemistry to help things through tough spots. You'd be crazy to do that with someone you just met. I can't help thinking you'd actually be decreasing your odds of success versus just being a single founder. I'll stay a single founder and I feel that's the right decision for me. I can weather the highs and lows. I remain curious to see if the data will back this up more generally.

Long term this could be a good idea to meet people with similar interests, but to partner with for your next startup maybe. Not for now.
I believe so, yes.

Real journalism costs money and since the Ad market can't sustain newspapers any longer, a paywall is the only real way to go.
The python complaint licence fee was the best deal I ever made.
Most developers I interact with don't even understand something as fundamental how a TCP connection works (not blaming) let alone something as abstract as CORs.

What are you going to do? Some things are just complicated and it's hard to find good people who actually bother to understand these systems, it's what separates the best from the rest.
Of course he's concerned. This type of thing could potentially displace USD as global money. Pretty unlikely but the idea of it is reasonably terrifying to the federal reserve.
I wish they had waited until the riscv-formal work was a little farther on. I have a distinct feeling we're going to uncover some goofiness in the spec from that work.
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Curious of the most functional, enjoyable API's you've encountered on projects and why it was chock full of awesome, whether that was ease of use, sensible design, integration of other services, etc.
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I do, 4mi each way in Oakland, CA. Most days except really bad rain since driver's are terrible and I was almost hit by a truck last winter.
I think the author is confused or biased. Corporations cannot use corporate funds to make donations to political candidates. That's why PACs exist; and they are entirely funded by employees.

I suspect that while a lot of its employees are left-leaning, (just like in the general population) there are some right-leaning as well, and the PAC cannot prevent those from making their donations to whomever they choose.

Microsoft doesn't donate any of its own money to anyone (they would be breaking the law if they did). Microsoft employees do.
Canned arguments like "whataboutism" break the site guideline against shallow dismissals and also the one about calling names in arguments.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20404173 and marked it off-topic.
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> C++ lack of modules and package management

What exactly does "modules" mean to you? JS modules, Ruby modules, Java modules, Python modules? Those are substantially different ideas. C++ namespaces are Ruby modules, sans inheritance and runtime representation.

> package management

Does every language now require its own bespoke package management? npm, gem, pip, CPAN, OPAM, composer, maven, ivy, NuGet, Cabal, Cargo, CocoaPods, Quicklisp, LuaRocks, CTAN, Anaconda, etc.
I work with granite/marble slabs. Currently only people who are intimately familiar with the industry and have seen many many slabs can differentiate and remember the names of colors.

But there's no way for a consumer to know the name of the color. They often come to us with a picture of a granite color wanting something similar.

An ML project would be to correctly identify a granite/marble color based on a picture.

You can check out some colors here: https://www.stonelandinc.com/inventory/

Note that there are 100s (1000s?) of granite/marble colors.
My alternative to slapping them on a laptop or laptop case:

https://imgur.com/gallery/TTlSdKK

Grab some magnet sheets, place sticker, and cut out. Makes them a bit more durable in that you can move them around, rather than only being able to stick once.
I'm a little confused by this, though I see your link picks it out as still speculative.

You're planning to put the olivine on the beaches, the nickel accumulating plants will be planted above. So presumably they'll be as exposed to the action of the sea as the olivine. The document talks of use in poor soils, but no mention of coastal or beach. You've identified species suitable for that level of salt water exposure? If the plants are beyond the high tide mark, won't most of it get into the ocean first?
A program that surreptitiously reinstalls software when you uninstall it is by definition malware.

A piece of software that lets any website activate your camera without your permission is a security vulnerability.
Ah, good point. I guess neighborhood age is the bigger indicator than density (though they're often loosely correlated). Newer cities and burbs have driveways and garages as first-class citizens, and wealthy areas have space to spare (vs having to convert your garage to another room, etc).
> Similar functionality to an Echo / Google Home / Apple whatever. They'll be listening for "hey siri" or "ok google"

This seems to be a pretty big assumption, without which your whole argument falls apart. In my case, at least, I have no such functionality enabled. You could argue that the manufacturer of my phone could push a software update that enables it without my knowledge (in fact, they likely couldn't, because I don't have automatic updates turned on), but even if this were true we're now arguing about a very different thing - the theoretical ability of MegaCorp to spy on me as opposed to actual known spying.
If there is a SC3, a logic rule/AI element to the competition would be super cool.
Wow, this is great - I wish I'd had this book a year ago. I actually ended up making ICE plots (book chapter: https://christophm.github.io/interpretable-ml-book/ice.html) without knowing this was something people did.
They're videos, not GIFs. Right-click and select Show Controls and you can scrub to wherever you want.