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>unless you are thinking about high level things, like "lots of traffic" -> "something going on", but tor won't help with that either

But is an embassy always only "phoning home"?
I can pick and choose which driveways I wash; Uber drivers have their trips opaquely dispatched to them. Furthermore, I can decide not to wash as many driveways as I want, whereas Uber drivers have said they get "fired" for declining too many rides.
Making catenanes and a molecular trefoil knot from para-connected benzene rings
How can countries even be accurately detected? IP lookup table? Blindly guessing based on the Accept-Language header?
I work on some software of which the oldest parts of the source code date back to about 2009. Over the years, some very smart (some of them dangerously smart and woefully inexperienced, and clearly - not at all their fault - not properly mentored or supervised) people worked on it and left.

What we have now is frequently a mystery. Simple changes are difficult, difficult changes verge on the impossible. Every new feature requires reverse-engineering of the existing code. Sometimes literally 95% of the time is spent reverse-engineering the existing code (no exaggeration - we measured it); changes can take literally 20 times as long as they should while we work out what the existing code does (and also, often not quite the same, what it's meant to do, which is sometimes simply impossible to ever know).

Pieces are gradually being documented as we work out what they do, but layers of cruft from years gone by from people with deadlines to meet and no chance of understanding the existing code sit like landmines and sometimes like unbreakable bonds that can never be undone. In our estimates, every time we have to rely on existing functionality that should be rock solid reliable and completely understood yet that we have not yet had to fully reverse-engineer, we mark it "high risk, add a month". The time I found that someone had rewritten several pieces of the Qt libraries (without documenting what, or why) was devastating; it took away one of the cornerstones I'd been relying on, the one marked "at least I know I can trust the Qt libraries".

It doesn't matter how smart we are, how skilled a coder we are, how genius our algorithms are; if we write something that can't be understood by the next person to read it, and isn't properly documented somewhere in some way that our fifth replacement can find easily five years later - if we write something of which even the purpose, let alone the implementation, will take someone weeks to reverse engineer - we're writing legacy code on day one and, while we may be skilled programmers, we're truly Godawful software engineers.
Ok? This sounds like a good thing to me.
I made a Microsoft account to use Skype. Twitter too recently. Both sent me messages immediately saying I had either broken the terms of service, or had been potentially compromised, and needed sms second factor to log in.

Since I had never used either account before this happened, it’s just a thinly veiled requirement that they can connect my account to an identifiable human.

Perhaps twitters bot problem is some justification, but when they warned me about violating their rules I just deleted my almost-unused account. It was insulting
Sounds like short selling is a pretty healthy mechanism to promote efficient price discovery.
Hackers breach 62 US colleges by exploiting ERP vulnerability
If you’re renting to young person or couple, there’s a better chance than not that they will voluntarily move out in a few years. And pro-construction legislation means the cap on rent will likely not mean much if you’re starting at a market rate rent today.
Telemedecine for Pets
Synthestech – the ICO for cold fusion alchemy – pivots to dietary supplements
According to the inarguable science of taking the first google result for my questions…

The sun releases 3.846×10²⁶ watts.
The sun has a volume of 1.4×10²⁷ cubic meters.

Therefore the sun releases less than one watt per cubic meter.

Scanning a 2010 article: Energy from Waste: Reuse of Compost Heat as a Source of Renewable Energy it looks like composting facilities make about 1 to 10 megajoules/kilogram over a fortnight. At 10⁶ seconds per fortnight gets us 1 to 10 watts per kilogram of compost. At a minimum of 100kg/heap (anything less is a pile, a mess, or a spill) it is a trivial exercise to show that compost is orders of magnitude more energetic than the sun.

Now if Hacker News would just allow stick figure cartoons maybe we could lure Randall Munroe into answering these questions for us.
Frontier: ORNL's 2021 exascale supercomputer will run on AMD CPUs and GPUs
"That gives a few select datacenters where sniffing and correlating network traffic"

Uh,

This was the whole premise of Carnivore... installed in room 641A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

(Btw - this is the room that Twitter was originally routed through...)

Basically I take the defeatest stance at this point...

There is NO privacy or anon. It doesnt exist any longer.
I agree fixing knowledge holes is something I expect a senior engineer to own. Overall, I think what stands apart senior from junior engineers isn’t just the skill or the act of fixing the knowledge hole but -

1) having the right judgement
2) being a force multiplier

Good judgement is important. For example, a knowledge hole could exist, but is it the right thing to be working on now given other knowledge holes or other problems? Is it something another person on the team could pick up while the senior engineer focuses more on another, more ambiguous problem?

Being a force multiplier I think is critical. Yes your experience and expertise matters, but how well can you scale yourself? This can actually be very difficult and even demoralizing. When I first reached a senior level, one of the teams I was the lead on at the time had an issue where other engineers literally were not motivated. They don’t want to move on because it’s an easy environment but they don’t put in even 50%, and management was focused more on managing upwards than managing downwards. Heh some interesting lessons learned there.
Interesting; TIL. Do you happen to have a link handy for the docs on setting that up?
CloudFlare runs a (free!) reverse proxy that obfuscates the identity (e.g., IP address) of servers that sometimes host copyright-infringing material.

As a copyright holder, your only choice is to request a DMCA takedown to CloudFlare. There may be no other way to identify the host than to ask CloudFlare, as they pass all traffic to the host.

CloudFlare responds that they are not the host of the material, merely a "CDN" or "reverse proxy". Perhaps they respond with the identity of the host, perhaps not.

If they do not, how are they not contributing to copyright infringement? And even if they do identify the source IP of the host, how does their obfuscation of the host not provide some direct (contributory) benefit to the host for distributing copyrighted content?
I definitely agree with most of this but I have to challenge the web browser analogy because that's a scenario where the concept of the view (visual, screen reader, etc) being interpreted from the textual representation is built in - as in, there is no end user who consumes the raw markup as-is. So different end users working with different views is a completey natural and expected thing.

I guess that's what's missing to make this work for code. The raw code is intended as the final representation to the end user.

Maybe what you'd need to make this work is to build in the concept of formatting to the source control itself, so all the way through the tooling you could 'render' the code as you'd like to see it, and do all operations on it using that view (including diffs, etc). Maybe sort of like you can with syntax highlighting, except with positional formatting instead.
That is a good point but wages from labor are not a profit. It’s a trade. Your time and effort for the money.

So it’s even worse than you portray. Companies maximizing profits is not a trade that they suffer for. It could simply be theft out of the employee’s pocket, or in the form of harm done to the environment.
A Short Cartoon Explaining Nietzsche’s Central Idea of Eternal Recurrence and
Does being an upstanding, church-going citizen prevent becoming addicted to the most addictive drug known?
Firefox distributes the source via an open source license, but if you want to distribute binaries, you can't use trademarks not covered by the source license without Mozilla's permission.
Until there are 2-3 more large scale hailing services, they are employees, at best part-timers with 2 jobs. It isn’t really contracting if you have almost zero choice of client or the terms of your contracts

...might be a fun foss project to make a distributed alternative so people could be real contractors. GNUber or something
I guess what benefits do you get out of that, and at what cost? I just don't see the amount of privacy I give up worth losing the convenience of the features.
À la carte means you pay for the ITEMS you consume. This is absolutely not à la carte. This is multi-prix fixe pricing.
What are some other jurisdictions that have this tiered approach?
The Mueller Report with Linked Footnotes and Accessible
The (Surprisingly Funny) Code for the Apollo Moon Landings Is on GitHub
> And let's be clear, there is no other way to implement a policy like this because the criteria is totally subjective.

There is a way to implement this in an objective way. Simply heavily tax everybody who earns over a threshold amount. No judgement about what it is that they are doing. It doesn't matter.
If I recall correctly the AMD hardware is competitive or better in raw compute than their nVidia counterparts but Cuda makes developing software so easy so I’m curious what ORNL’s take on that is.
It's open source, so if you set it up yourself you only pay for aws costs (I think it can also run in Google cloud, not tried myself though).
Engineers are often ready to scrap things and start over, but sometimes it’s worth having a couple senior/principal/staff level folks do a quick evaluation and figure out if you’re needlessly duct taping an unmanageable piece of service/application/whatever abstraction and actually scrapping it might be the better option.

From my own experience, you don’t actually know how the existing system works, the expected business rules were never documented, etc, and so even starting over isn’t really a less ambiguous path.
I have yet to find a Japanese source that talks about a Japanese concept called "Ikigai". Even the Japanese Wikipedia page refers to western sources. The Venn Diagram that is commonly associated with it originally had nothing to do with "Ikigai".

https://www.sloww.co/ikigai/

Let's not disregard that Japanese society is highly conformist and anti-individualist and that social isolation is very common, with birth rates among the very lowest in the world. If there really is a philosophy of "Ikigai" in Japan, it doesn't seem to be working.

On the flip side, here's my 1-2-3 recipe for your very own "Ikigai": Take any pseudo-profound concept, slap a "Made in East-Asia" label on it, then become a motivational speaker. Tell people what they want to hear, make them feel better, pat yourself on the back, and get paid.
It's funny; I think that Spotify is an insanely good deal. I would absolutely pay more for the service, a lot more. I'd probably use it more if I were paying more, too, so maybe it wouldn't work out for them. But in my opinion, they're underpriced.
No. The first link itself gives examples why you can't just 'have faith' that things will work out. Increases in our impressions on our world increases magnitudes without guarantees of sense/direction.

The second link is irrelevant as it's pointless to talk about heat-death-of-the-universe timescales.

The future is what you make it.
Judges tend to be less impressed by technicalities than seems to be commonly believed. If you know that a network operator intends to route traffic only for paying customers, and you intentionally trick its router into routing your traffic without payment, the judge will probably see that as intentional unauthorized access.

I think that's legally reasonable, almost. It's the intent that matters here; if my use of Cloudflare DNS instead of what your DHCP server provides for performance and privacy reasons happens to bypass your insecurely implemented captive portal that asks for payment, there's no intent. If I employ a complex tunneling scheme specifically designed to bypass your payment check, that's theft.

Where I do have a problem with the law is that its digital nature is given special treatment and greatly enhanced penalties. If I walk into a store and steal a USB Wifi adapter worth $20, I have committed a misdemeanor. If I'm caught, I'll probably be given a summons, not arrested, and my penalty will probably be a fine or community service. If I use that adapter to steal access to $20 worth of in-flight Wifi, I've committed a felony, for which the penalty includes loss of civil rights, and probable incarceration.
It's a nice theory, but also a very well tested one. Just read an article on bloomberg about the policy being a wash in San Francisco, with some concerns that it may have had some other effects they weren't able to measure.

It's akin to the minimum wage; why are people so bent on capping prices? Why not work on the underlying problems instead, ie what's causing those prices?
Not really. At the very least, bacteria and archaea engage in lateral gene transfer as much as they do in reproduction, making any exercise in building a universal tree pointless.

The phylogenetic tree you may have seen is based on trying to trace inheritance of a very particular piece of molecular machinery that's unlikely to be lost and reintroduced through lateral gene transfer. There are many such pieces, and the trees drawn for each of them are completely different from each other.

Nick Lane's "The Vital Question", mentioned downthread, makes a big point about that.
"STOP BEING MEAN TO RACISTS"
What if you’re a clown and you show up in jeans and a button down with normal sized shoes and no makeup?
Their site, their rules
Perhaps true, but it takes quite a bit of capital to demolish and rebuild? What would the ROI of doing that actually be?
How much? What percentage of their 30% take do you think they're spending?

<1% ?
Back un college se used as fandom seeds the first word and page number of a dictionary someone left behind long ago....

SSL certificate passwords were easy to remember as long as nobody removed the bookmark no that useless dictionary.
If it wasnt a joke they uncovered two new things to learn. I didnt know about Waiting for Godot only the game engine.
Prediction: If Amazon/MS/Apple/Some-company-that-does-not-exist-yet were to go ahead and create 100,000 dev jobs in Portland over the next decade, Oregon will have the exact same housing crisis, regardless of its laws.
It is not trivial for publishers who have years of adding advertising and analytics tools to their website to come up with a strategy for peeling these back or checking compliance. If I had a blog, it would be easy for me to check and decide what to remove or modify. But being part of an organization means that most of the shit on a publisher’s network is a manager’s baby project and is going to require meetings, ego stroking, and if you suggest a change then revenue drops, you will be prime suspect. Not to mention months of managers saying — “well we used to have this really great analytics platform that helped me steer this company but now I can’t do my job because so and so deactivated X”. For many of the tools you might have a contract with a company to provide service. They have people specifically hired to be persuasive calling your leadership to try to keep the relationship going, so they will fight to keep you as a customer. I think the interesting thing is that you can’t pass the buck, you are ultimately responsible for providing compliance, not just choosing tools that claim compliance.
I’m not sure whether they fall under ‘calamity’, but: breaking your neck playing polo? Dying in a helicopter crash? Car accidents at over 300 km/hour?

Inheritable diseases that richer families can survive easier, making them more prevalent in richer families, such as Haemophilia may be better examples.
Why do people dislike taxis so much? I’ve never had a bad experience, though I always avoided them to save money. Am I just sheltered where I live?

Same with hotels and airbnb
I would say John Walsh as well. On the one hand, he didn't want others to go through what he went through. On the other hand, he scared the poop out of an entire generation of TV watchers.
Fun fact: there's a vaccine for Lyme disease too.
You could pay someone for years and year just to watch and make sure the fan stays on... for less than the price of the consultant they paid. If that person can also do other things, even better.
Yes, though speculative investments can last for a long time. There's also the confluence of macroeconomic factors: the emergence of China, continuing massive savings rates in Japan with little to invest in domestically, the decision by Saudi Arabia to open a massive sovereign wealth spigot and the quantitative easing that occurred after 2008. Financial capital is incredibly cheap by historical standards.

That said, I find myself using one of the classic defences of a confident prognosticator: I am right / I will be right, except about the timing[0]. But to make more verifiable predictions I would need to start assigning probabilities to particular dates.

[0] Tetlock's Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? is still a brilliant and amusing empirical study of opinionated forecasting: https://www.amazon.com/Expert-Political-Judgment-Good-Know/d...
>Take any pseudo-profound concept, slap a "Made in East-Asia" label on it, then become a motivational speaker.

Why not? It worked for "bushido."
Same. To get a gift certificate for a local taxi company I had to drive to their local office and use an atm to pay with cash
That Apple was/is even tolerated by app developers to forcefully use their payment options, is surprising. Devs should've simply refused payment via Apple channels, and forced consumers to their site, as they're doing now.

By tolerating a tyrannical middleman for short term gains, you justify their unreasonable claims of value addition
I took it to mean List<T> etc of standard or other container types vs aspect-typed etc (e.g. Persistable<User>).
> Bullshit. It's trivial to implement. Don't store my personal data. Done.

Tell that to the dozens of engineers that spent months on GDPR compliance at my company.

I personally spent two weeks making sure my systems had both export and deletion capability. These systems were engineered for soft delete data retention and maintaining change logs across writes. In several different databases. And offline data warehouses. And feeds consumed by downstream systems.

> But the blanket statement "GDPR compliance can be extremely expensive to implement" is on its own extremely misleading in this context.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Every system out there handling personal information needs to be re-engineered. Soft deletes, change logs, feeds, plumbing between microservices, data validation logic, primary keys and foreign keys with PII, on and on... it all needs to be changed to handle new APIs: delete and export. That requires a lot of work to do correctly and capture all of the surface area.

> Perhaps, but this is not relevant to a news organisation publishing a general article online from the USA

Maybe they can't afford to change things? Sure, they might be collecting too much information in order to sell ads, but they have to decide if the EU traffic is worth rebuilding what they already have in place.

Don't take a gut value judgement about GDPR being the right thing to do and equate it to being inexpensive. It is not.
I really love the fact that the media is readable with reasonably available tech.
The license that Mozilla uses has such restrictions. But this isn't the case with the GPL.
If you’d like to read Wittgenstein but don’t know where to start I would recommend reading “How to read Wittgenstein” by Ray Monk, as an introduction before moving to “Philosophical Investigation” (rather than starting with his first book, the Tractatus, which is really cryptic). I saw this advice on another HN thread a while ago and for me it was it spot on.
I also read Ray Monk’s bio of Wittgenstein but found it a lot less interesting.

I can’t pretend I understood 100% of his Philosophical Investigations but it definitely made me see things differently. I like his approach to try to “turn unobvious nonsense into obvious nonsense” and show that a lot of the seemingly “natural” ideas we rely on to describe our mental activity rest on very shaky grounds.
What bioaccumulation occurs between pre-consumer food and post-consumer food? It's the same -- already dead -- substance.

Are you worried about chicken bones getting thrown away along with lead and mercury, and picking those metals up before being fed to the ants?
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The profit margin for luxury addons is always insane. That doesn't make them unethical. In fact, there's a very good argument to be made that luxury pricing is positively ethical, as it allows the base experience to be offered for a lower price to more price-sensitive customers.
In that situation, opening the doors without paying is illegal. It would be treated as trespassing or theft of services. You don't have the right to use other peoples' stuff without permission just because it's easy to do.
What we have is a normal summer heat wave being pumped up as a natural disaster. It's completely normal for all of the affected areas to experience humid, low-90-degree days in the summer. Pull up a weather map right now: The only 100-degree readings are in the lower plains, where they're expected in the summer. It's not even a remarkable heat wave, let alone an indicator of a spiraling climate. The climate is spiraling, but it's not helpful to conflate seasonal weather with climate.

The troubling thing is that when the media and weather service cry wolf, the public is conditioned to not take their warnings seriously. In years past, the weather service would issue a Heat Advisory for a heat wave like this, not an Excessive Heat Warning, which is reserved for the most dangerous conditions. The warning was issued too early, with insufficient forecast confidence; temperatures have underperformed in the midwest. A warning for a truly dangerous heat wave will eventually go unheeded.
Companies stick to a narrative of a tech shortage, lobby government and universities to help import/train more talent, supply of talent increases, wages drop.

I disagree that this is what is happening, given my own experience. But I'm not sure what the solution to the problem is. The smartest people I've worked with are motivated to learn more every day. You can offer the best training, but if someone doesn't care about inproving their skills or expanding their knowledge, you can't do much. Also, working effectively in a team environment also requires some soft skills that some people just don't have nor do they care to develop them. Again, can't force people to care.
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