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Silly thought experiment. You’re a Stone Age hunter. You use a slingshot. Someone says they can make you one that shoots a little bit faster and weighs a bit less and has a sweet mammoth bone inlay that will impress everyone. You’ll have to pay a couple days of hunt. Would you do it? It’s a thing you carry all the time and it’s a big part of your “equipmental nexus” and thus your life and your real daily experience. Is it ridiculous to think of your phone as similarly crucial? Maybe.
The internet doesn't need more hot take reactions to headlines. The internet needs more people who read articles and comment on their actual content.

What's more, simply by reacting to the headline as you've done, you've validated their choice of headlines. Journalists are more worried about apathy to an article than anything else. Any engagement is preferable to no engagement.

Finally, complaining about headlines on HN is not effective. It is essentially preaching to the choir and little more than virtue & identity signalling on HN at this point, since it happens on every single mainstream article that HN discusses. If you believe that headlines of this type are pernicious then your time & energy will do far more good talking about them in other contexts. For instance, with your family over dinner or with friends while pursuing a mutual hobby together.
> low-end Xeon and workstation non-Xeon lacking ECC

To be fair the single socket, low core count Xeons are not that pricey unless you try to match clock speed with the consumer chips... But, priorities, right?
I would like to see that traffic series from Las Vegas starting in July when the Microsoft Ready & Inspire happens just to compare...
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Agreed. However, it also needs fewer headlines designed to invoke visceral reactions based on bad statistics.
Jakartan (Indonesian) here, we use Hongkong (Cantonese) amusingly.
Now imagine if the gunman had been complaining about restricted access to guns...

That would have been a more suitable situation, I’m sure.
> The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.
> they are operating a real time service that requires near perfect uptime 24/7 and work across multiple timezones in multiple languages, payment methods, and currencies

Uber is present around the world, but I don't see much reason Uber India needs to interact with Uber North America in real time. Operationally, they're completely independent -- no one is going to connect a ride in Canada to a ride in India -- so why do they need to be strongly coupled in terms of the software service? What would go wrong if Uber India only handled one timezone and didn't really support French?
At least for Americans, (a) is presumably very uncommon and (b) is never really a problem in my experience. Even if you're on a tourist visa, answering a work email or phone call isn't an issue. (Attending a conference or setting up in a co-work space for a few days may be, depending on the country, of course.)
> Surely the advantage would be the same as for an IC engine.

No. The two types of motor are fundamentally different.
Combustion engines need transmissions because they produce relatively constant torque (within 50% of max torque). Electric motors on the other hand produce relatively constant power.

This makes total sense when you think about it. An IC engine is powered by explosions; every explosion produces roughly the same force on the piston regardless of speed. You can't get more power without more explosions because you can't cram more air in the cylinder. You can only speed up the engine.

In an electric motor, you can cram as many electrons into the wires as you want. You are only limited by how much heat is generated. Increasing speed increases heat slower than increasing torque, but you can still basically increase either as much as you want.
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“Wordplay” is too generous IMO. The original russian proverb is also double speak, as we would say now.

It’s obvious when applied to trivial situations:

“I trust my wife, but I take the time to verify her phone every night and check the private eye report of her day”

We wouldn’t call that “trust”, pretty much the opposite
Yes.
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I never bought this argument, but I'm not confident about it. Isn't base 10 inherently intuitive because of the obvious reasons? IE an order of magnitude is just another 0?

Since I learned about base 2, etc, long ago, I always thought there was something magically elegant about base10 and never understood this? The explanation I've always heard, being 10 fingere, doesn't seem to explain all the elegance with base 10 being easy to work with?..?
The country was founded after an ~8.5 year long Revolutionary War from a colonial owner with a large, well-funded, well-equipped, occupying army. The founders (aka the treasonous colonists) had a general "the people are individually and collectively supreme to the federal government" attitude (no doubt significantly in reaction to the monarchy that ruled over them immediately prior) and wrote the following text into the founding documents:

2nd amendment:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

10th amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The first 10 "amendments", which are roughly/essentially contemporaneous with the original document, are referred to as the "Bill of Rights".
> Chinese and Russian governments already got access to every local device, even from Apple itself,

We'll really need sources for claims like that...
I am a polish native speaker and only after I have met my french-speaking girlfriend, I realized how insanelly difficult my language is, for all the reasons you have mentioned.
Does someone know a tutorial for people like OP? Someone that knows programming but not modern web dev.

I want to write such tutorial.

> It's hard to build a mental model when things are happening at 4 level of abstractions away

I feel you.. the JS ecosystem needs more guidance. I'm trying to do that with Reframe: https://github.com/reframejs/reframe. The goal of Reframe is to precisely to guide you through web dev and give you a good and simple start.

It's new and work-in-progress though.

Feel free to hit me up on discord (https://discord.gg/kqXf65G) if you have questions about web dev. I'm happy to help.

Also, I'm looking for people to write such "modern frontend for backend developers" tutorial, if someone reading this would be up for it.

----

As for your questions:

> What is a minimal set of JS/CSS frameworks, templating engine, deployment tools, IDE I need?

If you need an SPA then I'd recommend https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel. There is also https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app which is super popular but I don't recommend it. (Because it's based on Weback and I believe that Parcel will eventually become the state of the art to build web assets.)

If you need SSR then https://github.com/zeit/next.js.

If you are not sure whether you need an SPA or SSR, let me know. I'm happy to elaborate.

Another option is to use to the web framework I'm building (https://github.com/reframejs/reframe). The nice thing about it is that it allows you to build an SPA as well as an SSR app. And even better is that you can start with an SPA and easily switch to SSR later and vice versa. This means that you can start hacking today while later deciding whether SPA or SSR is right for you.
So my (biased) recommendation would be to use Reframe. Although Reframe is new and if you're not an early adopter, then it's probably nothing for you right now.

> a plethora of frameworks, transpiled languages, etc such as: Gulp, Typescript, JSX, Dart, Angular, React, Bootstrap, Babel, Wordpress, Drupal, Flutter, NPM, Web assembly, Vue.js, Minification of code before deploying, jQuery, and a gazillions others

I recommend to start with the simplest setup possible and later decide if you want to add niceness to your stack. That is: JavaScript with Parcel, Next.js, or Reframe. You'll eventually realize over time what you need or not.

And I wouldn't even start with bootstrap, instead I would use CSS flexbox.

As for API between your frontend and backend you can use https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api. It's another thing I built and it's much much easier than GraphQL and REST. Which is neat to get up and running quickly.

In a nutshell: start with minimalistic simple stack. You'll figure all the rest later while building your app.

> Auth support (custom and Google OAuth)

Just curious -- why do you need custom auth? Why not social login only?
Getting kids ready for always being under surveillance in an authoritarian society.
They still have intakes and radiators, maybe just not quite as large. Plus it seems to be stylish to put giant grilles and even fake vents on some cars nowadays.

Here's a great video showing the Chevy Bolt's cooling and heating systems:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ILkLUE3Zxc

This channel has some awesome, in-depth videos. There is a whole series going over the Bolt's components, including the drive unit and battery.
To be fair other developed countries, with exception to China, do not spend what the US spends on its military as a percentage of their GDP. Many NATO members, for example, contribute less than their required percentage of GDP on national defense.

https://time.com/4680885/nato-defense-spending-budget-trump/

There really does seem to be a correlation with the supposed excessive obsession of a nation's military praise to the percentage of funding allotted to that military. I don't consider praise to be excessive obsession though.
>Escape rooms

Referring to a form of structured entertainment; not to be confused with "panic rooms" or "escape hatches".
Free now (Formerly mytaxi/hailo) has 70 million passengers and 100k drivers: https://www.daimler.com/products/services/mobility-services/...

This compares to Uber at 90 million passengers and 3.9m drivers: https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/uber-statistics/

Now unfortunately it's hard to assess Free Now's methodology as they're not a public company (they're owned by BMW and Daimler) so we only have their marketing claims to go on.

Also the majorly divergent passenger:driver ratio is likely down to mytaxi operating primarily in markets where taxi drivers are licensed and Uber's disruption not tolerated. This means they're pulling from a smaller pool that is more likely comprised of full time drivers.
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Claudia Dreifus, who happens to be Jewish, interviews Ira Glass, who happens to be Jewish. In the opening, she quotes NYU professor of journalism Jay Rosen (who happens to be Jewish) praising Ira's work. She opens the interview with:

"When we first discussed doing this, you asked if I had heard a recent Terry Gross [happens to be Jewish] interview with Howard Stern [happens to be Jewish]. Why was that?"
Am a noob in Erlang studies but i have settled on the following three books.

1) Introducing Erlang: Getting Started in Functional Programming. - Just to get an easy intro.

2) Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong himself.

3) Erlang and OTP in Action - This one seems to be the advanced book.
Still the case, or at least it's taught in compliance courses.
100 Wp is $60-$80 if you look around
> It’s easy to have 5 9s of uptime when you’re not shipping any new features.

5 9s of uptime is five minutes and fifteen seconds of downtime per year. That's difficult to hit reliably no matter what, because pretty much anything that causes any amount of downtime can easily cause more than five minutes of it.
Nah, I'm pretty sure I'm getting downvoted because people don't want to answer questions like, what if it was people killed who mattered to you, or, exactly what other avenues of evidence gathering?

I get that elsewhere too - ask about the limits of self-arming and bingo, downvotes without answers, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20606212

It's the online version of turning away with an angry huff because they don't like where this is going.

OK, back to your point, and thanks for a decent response. The encryption issue is difficult and I made it clear I was ambivalent eg. "I care greatly about privacy...". I fully understand the implications of a legal backdoor, and I don't want it [x]. But if phones are the main comms tool now, and if further killings are pending and can be prevented, at least ask the questions.

So I'm wondering if there is some compromise or something. Some way of putting a backdoor in which a 2nd party has a key to (not the gov't). Or something. Yes I'm aware that gov'ts may unfairly lean on the 2nd party. Is there some way through this? Let's try to be creative.

Perhaps this is a mathematically way of proving, based on some assumptions, that I can't have what I want then we can stop wasting time on it and we can get on with the fight against government strong-arming.

Can we at least have a conversation on it without angry, downvote'y silences? This isn't a constructive. It gets us nowhere.

edit, add clarification [x] that if a compromise can't be found and I had to choose between the government having backdoors or not, I'd fall pretty rapidly on the side of Fuck, No. They will be abused. I probably know this better than you.
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The article explains that the death rate went down when they hired appropriate medical staff. The stats are there to see.
Yeah, converting via the 5/8 ratio is how I've always done it. I traveled to Florida a number of times as a kid, and for whatever reason I have a permanent memory of the speed limit signs showing "55 MPH / 88 KMH". It's weird what one's brain seems to fixate on sometimes...
@sigfpe in a reply to the tweet mentioned

Fₙ in ≈ Fₙ₊₂ cm

https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/1158465136891269121
Adding: There are a number of measurements that aren't necessarily obviously related but are actually the same thing in terms of units. Heat, work, and energy are all newton meters or kg m^2/sec^2 in SI units.
My point is that risk taking is a prerequisite of success
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Does not seem to be very convenient for figures which are not the product of one of the first few members of the Fibonacci sequence and a power of 10, at least compared to multiplying by 1.6.
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>"This. Every step in fabrication has limits on its resolution beyond the resolution of the machine exposing the polymer resist."

I didn't quite understand what you meant here. Could you elaborate on this? What are some of those limits?

>"These things are very small and if we could make the corners sharper, that would remove one major barrier to making them even smaller. And then they wouldn't look so tidy anymore."

Aren't these contradictory? Did you mean to say "And then they would look so tidy"?
That's deep, bro... * rips bong * .
If you get the laptop back, you can probably sell it to security researchers for more than the cost of replacing it. If you're going to try to secure it yourself and continue using it, I hope your countermeasures will be effective against a hardware keylogger.
What stops LEO from contracting with a digital forensic company or consultancy?
> This is accidental.

Of course it is accidental. I wrote that to highlight the difficulty of getting admitted to a hospital, not to argue that this is a good way to get admitted.

> I'm not going to go around stabbing people just in case someone looks at them in the ER and notices an early melanoma. But you could write a comparable "ironically" if it worked.

That wouldn't really be ironic, that would just be stupid. It would be ironic if you went out stabbing a person in order to harm them, but as a result you actually helped them (relatively speaking).

For further reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg
> as a reward get all of their work seized by people who do not want or know how to use these "means of production".

This is only true in some kind of socialism, counterexample: mutalism.
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It's just slightly badly worded. They're saying that we won't stop emitting until 2050, so until then we'll be heating, because a given CO2 level (assuming it is static e.g. no feedback) determines an equilibrium temperature.

> at net zero, the rate will stabilise

should read something like; at net zero [emissions], the temperature will stabilise.
i think this is the big problem with escape rooms. zero replay value. now imagine that the puzzle/escape is custom build, for you, each time.

you can literally play the “same” room hundreds of times. how about designing the room and having your friends bash their heads against the wall. this space is ready for disruption!!!
Anyone who wants to commit a serious crime with the help of others will physically destroy the evidence that leads to those helpers before committing the crime. Getting the phone data after the crime has been committed is not going to help preventing these crimes.

Terrorists have been on the radar of secret agencies and police in countless cases. Unfortunately, if the police interviews a potential terrorist or mass killer for "behavioral irregularities" or whatever you call it, this will only radicalize the person more and prevent nothing. Or, at least, it is not a very effective intervention. If there is no crime, the police cannot do much.

To be clear, the NSA could probably easily eavesdrop into all cell phone activity within the US and collect heuristic indicators, and it's very likely that they could predict most of these mass shootings quite well based on these indicators. The problem is that this would be unconstitutional and based entirely on thought crimes like "conspiring to commit a terrorist attack". The laws for this are in place and used against international terrorism, but they are highly problematic and shouldn't be extended to domestic terrorism.

Social workers and maybe mental health support by people who do not have to report to the police probably work much better against radicalization and decrease the probability of an incident. I might be wrong but my guess is that in the US almost zero efforts are spent by social services to improve the social situation of right wing gun nuts and de-radicalize them. Again, no need for getting what's on their phone.
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I'm not the OP but its hard to be particular about alternative means of gathering evidence that is itself hypothetical.

For example if you wanted to know who the person associated with he almost certainly communicated with people in a way that could be obtained by serving a warrant to his ISP.

If you want to know what influenced him looking at his web traffic would be advantageous.

Instead of working backwards from hypothetical lets reason the correct way. What evidence do we have that compelling evidence exists on this particular device.
the author barbara demick is remarkably prolific especially in that part of the world and an especially gifted writer. if you enjoyed this article, i recommend her book "nothing to envy" likely the most revealing books written about daily life in North Korea.
>Freedom

Freedom for the government to do what it wants with the help of corporations, and for individuals to decide to join those activities and participate freely.
While it's not an equivalent phrase, many a Slavic language calls Germans "mutes" (нем/nem — mute, Germans: Немци/Nemci). "Slav/slov" comes from a "word", and then you've got these other folks nearby who can't really speak :-)
An Uber competitor, Hailo, did this. Rather than adapting their services to support multiple languages, time zones, etc, they instead just ran a fully separate instance of the service for each region.

Their costs, downtime, and tech debt spiralled out of control, mostly due to this architecture decision, and then spent a year or more rebuilding to try to get it under control.

Uber probably have the better approach, at least I don’t hear bad things about Uber’s tech where I have heard multiple horror stories about Hailo’s.
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It's not an approximation...

To convert from m/s to km/h you need to divide by 1000 (there are 1000 meters in 1 km) and multiply by 3600 (there are 3600 seconds in 1 hour).

So 3600/1000 = 3.6
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I wonder what the problem was. The article states that the robot first ran over the child. Are the sensors scanning only too high? How does it avoid low obstacles then?

At the peril of sounding heartless I’d say that it is quite probable that the kid ran into the robot because they were not watching where they were going, it has happened to me several times that a kid ran into me from the back.
Life does not ask “why?”, it only asks “how?”. Just enjoy being alive! :)

Looking too hard for meaning, even if you zoom out a little to the context of our solar system is a sure way of getting depressed.

The meaning of life is to experience life, in all that it has to offer.

If you have made your arrangements well, then your job is a part of that. Otherwise, at the very least, it is what you need to do to survive at whatever level of comfort you need - don’t knock it, it’s not a small thing!

From experience, this “dark place” is entirely self-manufactured by your own mind that is not taking instructions from you. Working to address that is he way out.
> Uber and Lyft really are better experiences than random cabs most of the time

For the passenger yes, but not for the drivers, and they are people too.
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I'm currently only sporadically on-line, but I'm the author of the linked paper, and would be happy to answer any questions.
They are trying to build up material to drive their eventual lobbying for extending IP rights to lifetime of creator plus 2000 years. They are just looking back through their portfolio going “what’s easy to remake somehow” and going with photorealistic remakes of all the animal movies was an easy one.

Remember. Disney is a theme-park & toy company that does movies as commercials/branding. But the first two businesses are critically dependent on retaining all the IP rights for the movies in perpetuity.
Yes, I have visited China on multiple occasions during the last few years. It has been an utterly chilling experience. I know xenophobia when I experience it, and South Africa during Apartheid was actually better.
I highly recommend Nextcloud. It started as a FOSS Dropbox clone, but they have since implemented easily installable server plugins (which they call "apps") that allow your personal Nextcloud server to fill the role of many other SaaS products.

https://apps.nextcloud.com/
I can see Turing tests becoming ever more useful (and annoying) going forward.
Fahrenheit to Celsius: (100F -30)/2= 35C
I haven’t used Uber enough to hit the problems that others mention (e.g. drivers playing chicken with your pickup hoping you’ll cancel). With that said, there’s nothing I’ve seen from Uber that Hailo didn’t give me when I was traveling in Dublin 5 years ago.
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> There are as many jobs are there are people who want to work.

What?

In the face of large short-term changes in labor supply, that's a bonkers claim to make.

It might be true over a very long time horizon, but even that's arguable.