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I hate sophisticated approach to creating addiction in modern apps just like the next guy here, BUT... you know you can just uninstall the apps, right? You know you can set the phone on airplane mode when you come home, right? You know you can block FB or any other server on network level, right? Pause notifications from WhatsApp for a year... and so on and on and on.

Self-training in a bit of discipline is one of the most valuable things one can do with their life.

I've removed FB 2 years ago and couldn't be happier, the idea of being spammed with notifications like I was before is so alien now. I've paused notifications on noisy WhatsApp groups and go there maybe 1x a month. Removed most chat apps. Life is good. Try it.

I mean, if you want to drop nicotine addiction, you don't keep a 12-pack of cigarettes lying around, right?
How do you regulate this away though? The fact that people like to get the latest news or see likes on their posts is vulnerable to abuse by social media, but it also drives a site like HN for what I'd say amounts to a social good. I'd rather we don't outlaw everything that is addictive, because our reward circuits drive good behavior, too.

There's also an absence of morality in these businesses. Facebook and many others established themselves with a giant bait and switch. Get the users, then put the pinch on them by selling every bit of info and using dark patterns to a point just shy of them quitting. That's an accepted way to do things. There is an underlying attitude that any legal and profitable venture is valid. Caveat emptor, greed is good, social darwinism. I'd regulate against that but I don't see how.

You could form some sort of regulatory body that decides itself what practices are acceptable and leverages fines against those that aren't, but that kicks the can down the road and also entrenches big businesses who can afford to interact with such an entity. Barriers to competition help create the monopolies and cartels that prevent consumers from punishing bad business practices.
It's strange that people still believe in internet addiction.
> how is society helped by preventing me, a responsible and productive citizen, from buying some alcohol on one of my two days off from work?

It's a cost benefit calculation. Laws are primarily not drafted for the responsible and self disciplined people. They are there to prevent the irresponsible or vulnerable people from getting so wasted on a Sunday evening that they don't show up to work on a Monday, then lose their job, then become homeless, then start petty crimes to survive on the streets, then fall into drug addiction, then rob you, a responsible and productive person on a Tuesday when you are at work, potentially even harming your kids which might be already at home just to steal something stupid as someone's phone.

Does the alcohol restriction prevent responsible and productive people from having a beer on Sunday? Not really, if they are responsible then they probably did a bigger shopping the day before and have some extra beers stocked in their fridge on Sunday.

Just to be clear, I am not defending a particular law here, just highlighting that there is nothing inherently wrong with a government wanting to draft legislation in a cost/benefit effective way.

In micro and macro economics the one law that all our economic models are based on is that everyone works for their own benefit, so at least from that perspective it's in the governments benefit to look after the people who elected them, so they will get elected again.
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X11SSH-TF 6th and 7th gen Intel chips (current gen is 9th, with 10th on the horizon). Not a bad board, though.
I can't believe this isn't getting more attention! Aren't the leaked NSA tools from 2017 designed to attack these exact Cisco firewalls?
It looks great. Do you know of any good tutorials for Tailwind to accompany the site?
This guy was a CS.
While obxkcd is usually good for a few upvotes, you're probably losing karma because the article included this link.
Firefox for iOS and macOS. I have strict tracking protection [1] enabled on the former, and NoScript + uBlock Origin set up on the latter. I also use Little Snitch on the Mac.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-ios
On the same page you link to they debunk this as a PR stunt: https://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/padded-lampposts-in-lond...
It can also pose a security risk. People are pretty quick to list the tech products they work with (including security products). It's a useful source for info gathering during a penetration test.
Side note: most industrial fertilizer is produced from non-renewable minerals and natural gas [0]. If you want a truly sustainable food system, some amount of "organic" a.k.a. plant and animal-based fertilizer is probably necessary. We know this works, because it's how all farmland was fertilized before the mining of niter and invention of the Haber-Bosch process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer#Production
He was, he is
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We should encourage pasture aminal grazing instead of the current grazing methods. And wished this UN report mentioned that.

Otherwise it is just a liberal green leftist report sponsored by the the meatless meat industries who are encouraging this.

I see a parallel between a sudden rush of beyond meat served in restaurants and this report. Like a concerted effort at play.
Given that recent grads probably male 200K their first year at Google I'd say its probably north of 1.5M which is obviously ridiculous. Top portfolio managers at major Hedge Funds barely make that.
About 4 years ago I actively went through all my connections and only kepted the people I could see myself working with again.

I went from 350 connections to about 80. My feed became clear as a result. I also removed all the recruiters which found there way in.
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In which universe did any Chinese company pull a Tiananmen Square massacre?

Are you confusing the Chinese company with the Chinese government?

Are you comfortables with USA government staging illegal Iraqi war (one of many), that resulted in close to a million death (at least)? With direct complicit help from many USA based companies?

What exactly are we comparing here, or are we cherry-picking ignorance?
You asked for, and I supplied, a citation about trust in healthcare. What is bad faith about that?

I don't know what any of the other border stuff or law enforcement theories your talking about has to do with trust in the healthcare system, but feel free to continue making noise about it.

No one has said that open borders and no prisons prevents diseases.
I've long deleted my Facebook account. Tried LinkedIn recently, thinking it won't suck much time and will be a bit more privacy respecting than Facebook and the like--but boy was I wrong. I found LinkedIn more aggressively attention and details grabbing. I felt that it nags us to comment on others post and update our profiles recently. The e-mail notification frequency was so high that I thought to delete the account right away but then found out that we can turn it off selectively. I don't know the plight of Facebook now but it shows us even more reasons to glue to our profile/upgrade to the premium plan like "You've been searched X times this week". The more data and attention they get, more can they make from premium accounts. It's no better from Facebook and such from these two perspectives(attention and privacy).
You must have caught Impossible on a bad day. Prepared right, an Impossible Whopper is indistinguishable from the real thing
Interesting but (at least in my area) I wouldn't eat anything growing in bushes (like berries). The amount of leashed dogs I see peeing all over them makes me gag just thinking about it.
Hmm, sounds like the argument used to justify social conservatives who attempted to impose their conscience / morals on the others...
"It used to be my go-to, and now I’m like, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to get today", all the good things must come to an end at one point.
He knew someone would comment on it and use a smiley emoji.
> quickly become an expert on a topic you know nothing about right when you need to be

This simply doesn't happen for anyone.
I think it makes sense to use "claim" to describe statements as sweeping and general as that one. I think Apple claiming iOS is "more powerful and secure than Android" would be met with a similar level of skepticism.
I'm extremely satisfied with the performance of my system and that's with good availability of software packages but relatively little Power-specific optimizations. As these start getting added, I expect it to get even better. As it is I don't distinguish much, if any, performance delta between this and a conventional x86_64 workstation and it has been my daily driver almost since the day it arrived.
Software landed the rocket on on a floating barge. The hardware is just holes for hot gas to come out.
Basic economics have moved far past supply and demand curves, imo.

Also demand is not the same as consumption. You can manufacture demand.
That's what a pipe does though. If liquid had its way, it would fall straight down. Pipes force it in another direction.
>“You talk on LinkedIn the same way you talk in the office,” said Dan Roth, LinkedIn’s editor in chief. “There are certain boundaries around what is acceptable.”

On that note, I've heard of creepy people treating LinkedIn like it's a dating site. So it's just like an office in the bad ways too.
which broader implications you are concerned with ?
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>Because at that time people didn’t distrust medical authorities like they do now (anti-vaxxers among others)

I recommend taking a look at 'The State as an Immoral Factor' by Maria Louise Ramé--pseudonymously written in the late 1800's. Distrusting medical authorities is not a new phenomenon. Here's a small excerpt:

A few years ago nobody thought it a matter of the slightest consequence to be bitten by a healthy dog; as a veterinary surgeon has justly said, a scratch from a rusty nail or the jagged tin of a sardine-box is much more truly dangerous than a dog's tooth. Yet in the last five years the physiologists and the state, which in all countries protects them, have succeeded in so inoculating the public mind with senseless terrors that even the accidental touch of a puppy's lips or the kindly lick of his tongue throws thousands of people into an insanity of fear. Dr Bell has justly said: 'Pasteur does not cure rabies; he creates it' In like manner the state does not cure either folly or fear: it creates both.
Notably this was on the Nordschleife, an ~ 23 km track (most modern F1 tracks are around 5 km). F1 stopped using the Nordschleife portion of the Nurburgring in 1976 because it’s considered too dangerous and it’s extreme length makes it difficult to adequately staff all portions of the track and be able to respond to emergencies quickly.

The Wikipedia mentions that they had F2 cars also racing at the same time. Again, this is likely due to the Nordschleife‘s length (longer track means you need more cars for viewers to watch. Otherwise they are stating at an empty track for most of the time).
WebRTC services are much better than app based, quality adapts even if you have bad wifi.
Now I'm switching from Skype to something web-based (+ webrtc). I think those are examples of the best videoconferencing software.
What you say is logical, but... have you opened your web browser's task manager recently?
Adam Wathan (creator of Tailwind CSS) is working on an excellent screencast series about using Tailwind: https://tailwindcss.com/screencasts. I highly recommend watching it.
Healthiest way to go about it is to go low-fat, high carb. The body uses glucose for energy most easily. Whole-foods plant based diets, as shown in documentaries like Forks Over Knives, have been shown to let people lose weight and reverse diseases like diabetes. A cooked carb like a potato or rice is like 1 calorie/gram, including the water. Oil is 9 calories/gram. Without oil, sheer food volume and fiber will make you feel full. A huge portion of the world thrives on grains and legumes as staples.
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In this traditional rural diet "extra protein" (in addition from what protein you get from potatoes and grains and legumes) is mainly supplied by dairy and eggs.

However, slaughtering a pig or two once a year in the autumn also doesn't imply eating pork once a year, for a single family a single pig provides a quite large amount of various cured/smoked/dried meat products that are consumed over the winter, so you still have some meat products (not in large quantities though) on most days.
I'd say these people are out of touch. If sites aren't funded by advertising, that means people need to pay to access. See all the efforts to workaround paywalls because nobody wants to pay every single site that they visit $5 a month, and plenty of people simply couldn't afford paying to access the internet in that way. That's enabled by advertising. But somehow nobody here wants to hear it. Advertising is incredibly important to enable open access to, well, the entire internet. We see with the Linux Journal how well subscription-only services work out - they live by the skin of their teeth for a while until they go under. But somehow we're better off because they didn't use advertising for funding? Now we don't have any LJ at all. I don't see how that's better.

Not that I'm advocating for ads that track and profile you and everything that you do. We should be making an effort to create an infrastructure for ads where they can't track and profile us. That's what Brave is trying to do, and I don't understand why people are against it. Like, how do they expect sites to be financed?
I believe this to be a marketing stunt for Silicon Valley. Look at the carrier in the iPhone image...Hooli.
Ask HN: Do coding bootcamps mostly teach JavaScript?
I run a bootstrapped SAAS company and lately have been interviewing developers who are entry level. Getting quite a few bootcampers which I don't mind but almost none of them have any experience with a backend server side language like PHP, Python etc that are still widely used in real world. I see quite a few of them hitting the whole MEAN stack thing keeping everything in Javascript. This is troubling because it seems like most bootcamps are looking to make a quick buck keeping everything in Javascript and students are oblivious to what actually happens in real world.

I have talked to a few and they had no idea that there is anything else other than React and Node and they are hoping to get a job quickly. Am I crazy or what ?
> Birth rate seems to converge to 1-2 children per couple in advanced economies anyway.

This is incoherent. You can’t converge on extinction. Any population that doesn’t even replace itself will die out rapidly.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051381...

> The heritability of fertility makes world population stabilization unlikely in the foreseeable future

> The forecasting of the future growth of world population is of critical importance to anticipate and address a wide range of global challenges. The United Nations produces forecasts of fertility and world population every two years. As part of these forecasts, they model fertility levels in post-demographic transition countries as tending toward a long-term mean, leading to forecasts of flat or declining population in these countries. We substitute this assumption of constant long-term fertility with a dynamic model, theoretically founded in evolutionary biology, with heritable fertility. Rather than stabilizing around a long-term level for post-demographic transition countries, fertility tends to increase as children from larger families represent a larger share of the population and partly share their parents' trait of having more offspring. Our results suggest that world population will grow larger in the future than currently anticipated.
It is established that it is russian and hypothesized that it is a spyware. Personally I include in spyware all apps that "only collect metadata" or only do "personalized ads" because for me it is equal with spying almost by definition. And people like Bruce Schneier have the same opinion (2).

(2) https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/metadata_surv...
Even weight lifting is changing, with one of the top weight lifters being vegan: https://www.greatveganathletes.com/patrik-baboumian-vegan-st...

Dairy in particular can be source of inflammation. One of the benefits of the vegan diets for athletes cited is a fast recovery time after workouts.
OK, I was wrong. I will look into links provided, thank you.
> As far as I understand it, AMD doesn't natively support thunderbolt and that's an emerging standard that people really like.

Thunderbolt has been an "emerging standard that people really like" for almost a decade, with virtually no installed base outside select Apple products.
I guess it depends how paranoid you and your girlfriend are. See https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ypwkwk/the-nsas-undetecta...

Short of physically replacing the drive, I don't think there would be much you could do, in that particular circumstance.
I closed my LI account last year as I don't derive any benefit from it and was irked by the constant Social Network -like prods it gave me.

32 days later - 2 days after they say they'll permanently delete your details - I found myself having to sign up for it again as someone in Asia had decided to promote themselves as a director in my business. The only way I could get him booted off was by joining up again so I could prove who I was (no such proof required for my apparent boss..).

The odd thing was, it still had quite a lot of my details kept on file, despite having suggested they'd all be deleted.

Now I just ignore its regular emails, including the 10 desperate pleas I've had this year asking if I know someone I once interviewed with about 18 years ago and who evidently still has my email in their address book.
Whoa, i had never heard of Reflectacles[0]. Beyond apps, these are the kinds of physical gadgets that we need nowadays to help protect our privacy! Certainly, more growth in this area will evolve these products to be more...subdued and subtle. Nevertheless, I'm encouraged to see that this type of thing exists.

Beyond rfid wallets, these glasses, and the clothing/jacket the author mentioned in the article, are there any other cool apparel-related gadgets out there, which a privacy-conscious person could look into (without spending the equivalent of a 3-letter agency budget)???

[0] = https://www.reflectacles.com
The information that LinkedIn has about me isn't something I care to keep private, i.e. my accomplishments. I don't share any personal information on LinkedIn, and LinkedIn doesn't really ask for any, other than maybe email and phone, but they are hardly important to the overall functionality. I got my most recent job through LinkedIn.
Electric taxis, metro etc.
> Usually the tabs just lay there and cost you a lot of memory. And forget to find this one tab you were looking for. It’s impossible. The time has come for a change.

I use bookmarks.
The issue then is that there is no reasonable primitive format to store a “real number with a small decimal precision”. Arguably storing these as ints would be better but then everybody would need to agree on the denominator.
Even if your implied assumption is correct, and they haven't taken meat off the menu at UN HQ, being a hypocrite doesn't mean you're wrong.

And in any case, it's likely the scientists putting out climate reports aren't the people running the cafeteria.
It has to be done as a group. Both at family/work/friends circle.

It started with my team at work getting together one day (almost a year and half back - some Trump BS was unfolding) and saying, if it gets too bad lets decide as a group to block ports/sites/apps etc on the company network. Slowly the list of things to block started growing.

It was really surprising how easily one could get consensus, that something specific was too distracting, effecting people and group productivity. Nobody wants to be the guy who says HN is addictive. But once someone says it at a meeting everyone starts nodding. News sites were the first to go. Then video. Then social media and most instant messaging/irc. We have moved to Signal to avoid some of the dark patterns in other IM/chat apps. And everyone is using the google/apple well being apps.

Almost everything is done on email or face to face these days. And almost 70 people now in what we call the noise cancellation club.

Right now things get unblocked during lunch time for 30 mins and after 5pm. There are common areas where things are unblocked, but they are intentionally pretty public spaces.

People of course can use their phones, but the fact that there is this environment available where it has become socially acceptable to be phone free, has definitely made a difference.
Maybe, then maybe not.

I had no wlb for quite a while after school, by choice. Some people just like to do what they do.
I agree. LinkedIn is actually a good example about how stricter boundaries in one area can lead to a relaxing or loosening boundaries in another.

I've received linkedin connection requests from people I have only met for a couple hours in a meeting. I've sent a few here and there as well. These requests in a business context are standard fare, but friending someone on a social media network (like Facebook) after a brief meeting could be considered odd, and perhaps in some circumstances even inappropriate.
"I see you were a janitor for three months and you also worked part time as a hand on a construction site during high school. Well based on your experience I thought you would be a great fit for an opportunity I have right now for a contract Maintenance Professional at $NAME Regional Vocational School. If you think you like variety in the work you do, have a great work ethic, and are not afraid of a challenge please contact me at $EMAIL!"
Yes -- which is why you'd do better to read these books than 95% of the links on HN. These are books about how objects work and how EVAL is defined. These are the meat-and-potatoes of computer science. There's no "Linux distros, networking, web dev, dbs etc" here.
Agreed, but debasing a valued asset for short-term gain is as old as the human species. In the past, it was coinage that was shaved and alloyed. Stanford's reputation and the CS degree's reputation are valuable assets today, so it's hardly surprising that some amoral administrator decided to trade them away for increased enrollment.
Is the delusion that this issue is worth caring about in any way?
I disagree. I've worked/create gambling sites, pro-gay, religious sites and those all conflict with each other. I'm not really for or against their mission and nor should I be.
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Which calculation on lat/lon coordinates would make an atom-scale error grow, say, a million times to millimeter-size?
I have too. I've also been in the opposite scenario where not having swap caused run away service kill and restart scenarios. Reading between the lines it looks like Rachel has too. Which is why she advises a "not too much" swap approach. As is usual the answer is not one or the other extreme it's much more nuanced than that.
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What numerically unstable algorithms are ever performed with geolocations?

Moreover, given the author's point that real measurement errors exceed the false precision of published data, if such a calculation were performed and did provide "arbitrarily large" error, it would indicate that the result should in fact be nonsense.
Why should it be cheaper than Intel? The performance is similar. The fact that it's cheaper for Google to run doesn't mean it's less valuable for the end user.

If anything, they should cut prices across the board. AMD just cut the price of an x86 core in half.