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After nearly two decades of FOSS advocacy I've come to the conclusion that most consumers (a) already know about their gardens' walls, and (b) actually prefer it that way.

The view that freedom is always preferable over, say, the sense of security that folks get from having an avuncular corporation ensure that the tools in their lives have a limited range of use -- that someone is literally managing the possibilities of their personal devices, pruning them of (supposedly) dangerous apps and ensuring that they are within certain expectations, is a great comfort to people who are already used to their lives being managed in precisely this way by any number of powerful actors.

Stuff like this from the FSF makes me think they just don't understand the user. The user is typically is not an engineer. The customer is not interested in the responsibility that comes with that kind of power, and would pay good money to trade it off for predictability.
And the success of nerfed, general-computing-incapable devices is market validation of this hypothesis.

I'm uncomfortable with this facet of human nature too, and it runs contrary to the prevailing narrative of our industry and even of the Enlightenment itself, but until we accept that many folks just want to be taken care of, we will keep being surprised.

Customer obsession means appreciating all the data, not just the data that is comfortable to behold.
Some thought Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Tarantinos homage to the 60s) was unrealistic because everyone was skinny.

I was like, no - that’s what everyone looked like.
Scala's case class in Python with case matching
Facebook AI Releases XLM/MBERT PyTorch Models in 100 Languages
Your comment is kind of self-contradictory in a way. Or at least, contains its own answer within itself.

You admit that we call extreme cases of slowed reading development a reading disorder.

People with autism do represent extreme cases.

I understand the logic behind not wanting to call it a disorder due to the negative connotation the word carries. And I appreciate the sympathy. But recognition of the condition is far more valuable. Even if a less-desired word has to be used, I'm just glad it's being recognized.
I live in a smallish town (~14k in the limits). For the most part, cycling on major highways is merely unpleasant, there's a nice wide shoulder. Less important highways have less shoulder and less traffic. There's parts of the highway that I avoid, and parts where I won't go, but those are the parts with parallel streets in town, not the parts between towns.

It's also not so uncommon for their to be a trail with similar connectivity to the highway (lots of rail trails do this). I can ride to the next town/village over with about ¼ mile of actual highway riding. That's pretty recent, what with a casino paying for lots of trail and a new bridge being built on the US route, but there you go.
How does DigitalOcean's managed database offering compared to Azure's? We are trying to migrate to Azure at my corporate job, but for some reason, something about Azure's Postgres offering is holding us up. I'm not quite sure what it is.
Eh? Maybe I'm slightly autistic myself, but I would definitely answer "no" to that question (but in a kind tone). I would consider "Do you want to do X?" a pretty rude kind of question, because it is not only requesting you do something, but also making you deal with the cognitive dissonance of saying you want to do something that you don't.

It could also later come back to bite you with the person claiming "But you said you wanted to do that", even though you were just doing it because they were asking.
I know the client key is derived from the server key (So if Facebook's was released, your Google's TOTP is still safe).

I'm guessing it depends on the implementation, are the server secrets normally derived per user or shared across users (Talking about just a single service such as facebook)?
This.

Plus all the new money printing debases the currency eventually (even if you are the world reserve currency issuer). This is what transfers the bulk of the wealth from the bottom to the top. Wages can't keep up with inflation and the new money only arrives at the bottom once its value has been inflated away substantially already.
I think it's pretty clear that this is by the GNU project, under their agenda and that they take responsibility for it. This is not a newspaper or someone publishing a guest article on someone else's blog.
Not sure that's actually necessary.

Ultrasonic/cavitation humidifiers create water droplet mists without a heated element. A piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer membrane vibrates faster than the speed of sound in water, and cavitation bubbles form that throw mist droplets into the air when they implode at the surface.

Propylene glycol (0.042 Pa-s) and glycerin (1.412 Pa-s) are more viscous than water (0.001 Pa-s). But glycerol is essentially non-volatile below 310K, and the vapor pressure of propylene glycol is less than 1% that of water. But if you're not depending on heat-vaporizing the carrier solution, you could add water to make it cold-mistable by ultrasonic cavitation. Both of the usual bases are miscible in water. Your cold-mist e-juice would not be compatible with regular vaporizers.

Maybe an impeller recirculating the fluid through a venturi could also lower the local pressure enough to help induce cavitation. I'm not sure how a laser would help, though.
Fix for backdoor in VW diesel motors also contains a backdoor
While AWS services support multiple routes of control, infrastructure-as-code via CloudFormation JSON/YAML which can be managed like source code is one of the preferred ways.
> Google/Alphabet intentionally broke Revolv home automatic control products that depended on a server to function, by shutting down the server. The lesson is, reject all such products. Insist on self-contained computers that run free software!

The last two sentences seem a little pretentious. The people who bought these products don't know (or want to take the time to learn) how to use git or edit config files or install docker. A consumer IoT product that provided an easy GUI, uses device discovery, and of course was only LAN would be a big win for privacy conscious people, but I'm not aware of something like that existing.
Translation via DeepL:

The diesel scandal thus begins all over again: The Düsseldorf Regional Court has ruled in a remarkable ruling that the software update with which Volkswagen intended to end the exhaust gas manipulations also contains an impermissible shutdown device. This means that many hundreds of thousands of diesel owners could now be entitled to compensation.

The case (Az. 7O 166/18) concerned a VW Tiguan Diesel with the scandal engine EA 189. This vehicle was fitted with the software update offered by Volkswagen, which, according to the company, removes the unauthorised switch-off device. But in fact it turned out now in the procedure that VW also uses so-called thermal windows in the software update. This ensures that exhaust gas cleaning only works at outside temperatures between 10 and 32 degrees Celsius. If it is warmer or colder, the exhaust gas cleaning system remains switched off.

According to the Düsseldorf Regional Court, the software update also has an illegal shutdown device. This is particularly true because Volkswagen did not inform its customers about the thermal window. The car manufacturer thereby intentionally harmed the plaintiff in an immoral manner.

With this judgement a completely new capital is opened in the Diesel scandal. Because if the legal opinion of the D?sseldorfer court applies, then the Diesel vehicles, which already received the software update, are further illegally on the way. This applies to Volkswagen as well as Audi, Seat and Skoda. Owners of these vehicles can therefore claim damages.

And a second aspect is explosive: If the software update is illegal, any discussion about a limitation period for claims for damages is over. VW had previously argued that such claims could be time-barred three years after the diesel scandal became known. But the faulty software update now means that the limitation period starts anew.

Owners of vehicles from the Volkswagen Group (VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda) now have a much better chance of suing for damages or for the return of their vehicle. This applies in particular to cars with the Schummel EA189 engine, but also to other diesel vehicles. [...]
I don't disagree with you, and actually phrased it as a 'possible' situation, not a definite one.

There is also another way of looking at it, that I actually believe, which is that immigrants create more jobs than they take in the long term (not talking generations). If you look at the big startups right now and even the Fortune 500, you'll find that many are founded by first generation immigrants, and a lot more second generation immigrants.

However, your Joe six-pack doesn't see that far, and neither has the long term health of America in mind, because if he did, he would venture out to think more critically. He's worried about what is going to happen to his job a year or two from now. Unfortunately, that affects policy to a greater effect, because that affects who he votes for and what political platform he agrees with.

I'll end this discussion with my opinion that specific immigration policies like the H1-B can hurt avg. salary because they tie the employee to the company. And the company can abuse this by paying a lower wage than market rate.

The solution to this is to allow free movement within companies without fear of being kicked out, and you won't see the abuse everyone brings up when they talk about H1-B. I haven't seen a proper discussion about this on HN. The discussion almost always oscillates between two entirely different topics, one of which is if we should allow immigrants to come in and work at all, and the other topic being how staffing companies abuse the lottery system and inflexibility of the H1-B visa.
> Why? If I've got money to burn, why? Who cares what some one does with his money, if he's already payed taxes? What right have you to dictate how I spend my money? It's mine, not yours, you have no say how it's spent.

Because voters decide how the school system works. Here the equality of the school system is a political goal (that even the political right stand behind because of popular support).

The police functions similarly in the US too. No matter how much you want to, you can’t buy better service from the police. If you want extra security you can hire a bodyguard (which would be analogous to the tutor).

So why have voters here decided that the lack of liberty in spending your own heavily taxed money is a price worth paying for having a more equal education system? I don’t know.

Voters could decide this in any country (in many they have already), just like they could decide that publicly funded universal healthcare is a good idea. Importantly - if they do decide that, then of course it is the job of the government to provide it (because I hope we agree that the real job of government isn’t to provide some god given laundry list of minimal services but to actually serve its citizens).

It’s not like a large welfare state would be “unconstitutional”, even in the US.

You are right that even with free higher education, kids to white collar parents are more likely to land high paying jobs. But it’s not like trying to maximize equality in schools and providing free higher education doesn’t help improve the situation at least.
How to undo

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NYC was without power for 2 days in the Northeast Blackout of 2003 (the event the article was describing), and it generally brought people closer together. Folks went outside and chatted with their neighbors rather than hole up inside with nonexistent A/C to watch blank TV screens. A number of blocks organized impromptu barbecues to use up all the meat that was about to spoil, since grilling was the only cooking method available to many people.

It's a crapshoot which way society goes when the infrastructure disintegrates, but Lord of the Flies is definitely not a given. Historically people seem just as likely to come together as beat each other apart.
I just moved from the middle of a walkable city to the country and indeed I've put on some weight. Key factors:

* I used to walk and cycle as my only means of transport (well, 99% of it at least).

* This is kind of a desert for decent food. The local shops have candy, chips, cakes, beer, and some almost-rotten bananas and apples.

* .. well actually that's about it. Though everyone else being heavier probably hasn't helped on a subconscious level.
What do you think makes a good manager vs a bad one?
One can argue that the FSF was absolutely spot on of raising privacy issues and the tech industry did utterly nothing until Snowden released how bad it really was.
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Not really, my point was that the typical male, while able to run faster outright, typically will slow down. Professionals of course will know their limits and run at a pace they can keep. The typical woman tends to run slower, but more able to keep a consistent speed and thus could come out in front.

But this is for the average case and not the professional case, where men tend to dominate anyway.

https://blog.mapmyrun.com/are-women-better-than-men-at-long-...
Bummer, I was hoping we were going to all memorize quaternion coordinates and visualize travelling around the globe as moving along a 4 dimensional hypersphere.
Forget Scooters – Now You Can Rent Paddleboards with Your Phone
Thanks - very good point - Added more description to the bear case. It is unclear to me why WeWork is being valued the same as Marriott today when its business/financial model is clearly unproven.
Do you have an example of an R automatic differentiation package which has an ecosystem of compatible tools like PDE solvers, automatic sparsity detection, convolutional neural networks, and global sensitivity analysis? If you have one I'll add it to the list. But the ones that I know are things like madness [1], radx [2], and TMB [3], all of which are good AD systems in their own right (the latter most having some good parallelism), but are missing most of the relevant features for a discussion of scientific ML (but would be great for standard ML). I could also point to autodiffr [4], but that's using Julia to autodiff R.

But if there's one I missed I'd love to hear about it and start tracking the project!

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/madness/vignettes/in...

[2] https://rdrr.io/github/quantumelixir/radx/man/radx-package.h...

[3] https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v070i05/v70i05.pdf

[4] https://non-contradiction.github.io/autodiffr/index.html
Sorry to nitpick: GNU is a project, the foundation is the Free Software Foundation. There's no GNU Foundation.
AWS was a novel offering. WeWork appeals to dad followers and people so green that they don't know Regus and others exist. It might be attractive from a SV VC social perspective, but it's not meaningful as an business-model proposition. It's like opening a chain to compete with McD and Wendy's with the value prop "we have an efficient quick-servoce hexagonal burgers". The valuable part isn't new, and the new part isn't changing fundamentals.
If you were previously entirely on the free tier, what provider are you moving to that's cost-competitive even against $35 a year?
Apple planning $4.99/month price for Apple Arcade
Saudi Arabia implements end to travel restrictions for Saudi women
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Paying for bandwidth is simple and straightforward. You don't accidentally exceed your bandwidth and suddenly have to pay out the nose because some application wasn't behaving like you expected. I can imagine a lot more ways that ISPs can get tricky with pricing on data usage as opposed to bandwidth involving peek time pricing, zero rating some usage(as opposed to "fast lanes")etc. It just feels dystopian and bad for consumers.
These are basically tiny hardware security modules. The premise of an HSM is that you have a hardened processor that contains the secrets and performs asymmetric crypto operations on request. Ideally, the device is designed such that the secrets never leave a crypto boundary. The big expensive ones will offer facilities to transfer keys, but only over an authenticated, encrypted connection to another device certified by the manufacturer[1].

Yubico has some FIPS certified devices[2], which means that they've presented a design that shows the device has mechanisms to prevent secrets from being extracted, and they're only using algorithms known by NIST not to leak secrets.

> Also pardon me if I confused two-factor as the Google Authenticator app.

Multi-factor authentication is about managing risk, and discussions about risk are naturally fuzzy and vague.

I'll try a concrete analogy; consider firearms safety.

Some typical rules[3]: 1. keep the weapon pointed down range at all times, 2. keep your finger out of the trigger well, 3. treat the weapon as loaded at all times.

Each rule is a factor, and to accidentally hurt someone you have to violate all the rules at once.

Multiple factors work best if they are orthogonal, that is, when a given action results in only breaching a single factor. That's why factors tend to be phrased as "something you know," "something you are," "something you have".

The authenticator app and a Yubikey are doing the exact same thing: they're establishing the "something you have" factor.

Since the two factors work when an attacker must both obtain the device and get your password, if your phone has both passwords and authenticator apps, the additional factors aren't minimizing that risk.

[1]: The automatic vendor lock-in makes it a great business model...

[2]: https://www.yubico.com/business/product/yubikey-fips

[3]: There are many more, but take a class on it rather than depend on the Internet.
The OP did a month's worth of business in 2 days, and the subsequent goodwill generated and publicity gave him a permanent business boost.

His preparation was very well rewarded.
2 days and weeks are not in the same class.

Just like not eating for one day (fasting) is not the same as not eating for weeks.
Disagree. I just climbed the highest peak in this part of the state. Assuming my FitBit data is accurate I was 2,500 calories behind that day--the next day I ate normally. That's more than half a pound of weight loss. It's not my first time up there, either.
Beorg works very nicely. I recommend it.
Throw away account here. Writing on mobile so excuse the short sentences. Been dealing with Lyme disease since 2011. Main symptoms have been fatigue (both mental and physical), brain fog, headaches, migraines, cold extremities.

Anyone reading this dealing with Lyme has I'm sure heard of many different treatment protocols to get better. In fact, I've got a list of over 50 treatments from doctors and patients I've saved in a spreadsheet.

To keep it short, I've tried many different treatments and have been very skeptical of most of them and most have not had any meaningful improvement.

Talked with a contractor who was doing work for me who had to close his business because of chronic Lyme. He tried all different doctors and protocols and he found a solution that cured him. It's going to sound crazy and I'm sure it will get downvoted but I'd rather get the information at least out there for anyone to consider. The contractor mentioned this guy called the Medical Medium. This medical medium guy says science actually is wrong about Lyme being bacterial, but is actually viral. I know it sounds crazy. I know there is no science behind it. Try to keep an open mind. I eventually read the theory behind it, tried the protocol, and am now 5 months into it. Best I've ever been in terms of symptoms.

Again, I'm a guy who only follows science. I don't try to get into stuff that is considered out there, but I was desperate enough to at least consider it and try it. Maybe read it and consider it. And please don't say I'm spreading unscientific information. I know that I am but for people who have an illness without a defined solution, I think it's sometime good to being open to considering an unconventional approach.

https://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/herpes-viruses
I had seen a lot of Myxozoa previously. I remember being thrilled when the origin of Myxosporeans were disclosed. It was a "in your face" moment. The cnidarian traits were clearly there for anybody to see it.

But I agree that many have just too complex life cycles to be a cancer. The idea of a microbe using a TASER like weapon is also really bizarre if we think about it. They are also too numerous to appear just by chance (again and again), and then evolve to attack seaworms, and later evolve again to invade fishe's hearts, muscles, gallbladders, gills... too much stable complexity for a cancer.
Slack grew, because anybody from your organization could just acquire the tool. No need to talk with IT.

What if same thing hapoened for office space. BYOD and support for remoting allows people to work anywhere. If marketing finds the company HQ unattractive, they could just move elsewhere.

Does it actually make sense for different teams to be stuck in one location. Should they instead work close to customers or partners?
You may have missed my point, which was not about the default or intent, but about the amount of control they let me have on my actual computer; the ability to change its behavior to make it do what I want.

I have done what you say about having a look at the telemetry feeds, and as such I know that a simple run of 0&0 ShutUp 10 allows me to stop it. Not a complex kernel thing or whatever, just a simple user land application that has like 3 buttons to click and doesn't even require an install.

So I stand by my opinion, which again is not intent or what they do by default, but how much they allow me to change it on my own hardware.
I'm not advocating for Germany to go all MMT here, but negative bonds are a clear indication that government has ample room for debt financing. Germany has notoriously poor internet service, investing in broadband infrastructure could help them transition into more of a service economy, which would be a smart hedge as the slowdown in Chinese consumption led to a slowdown in consumers buying German cars and a contraction last quarter. Also as mentioned, all the European players are big on tackling climate change -- why not fund solutions? Instead, Europeans leaders like Macron have gone with the politically infeasible route of higher petrol prices.
What did you eat while stuck in the cabin? My arm chair theory is that pre-electricity societies didn’t have food as dense/rich as we have it today, so they didn’t have the energy to feel bored.
I wonder if the industrialization of food and agriculture and the increase in processed foods is part of the reason
I hear what you are saying and I agree with you.

In the case of this post, however, my understanding was that the discussion revolved around the employee that had a full workload and refused additional work in a way that was, perhaps, too blunt for their supervisor. In this case, while the employee may be more work for their manager, they do not sound like so much work that they need to be replaced.
iOS 13’s new Bluetooth privacy feature is important–but confusing
Thank you. Indeed it ranks top. Followed by.. a Java framework (es4x) ?

The D one (vibed) doesn't shine much. Alas.

Maybe you're right and I should take the dive with Rust.
> The police functions similarly in the US too. No matter how much you want to, you can’t buy better service from the police.

Not directly, though funding politicians who set policy for the police who will favor your interests is definitely a way that it can be, and is, regularly done (both with local police and broader-scope law enforcement.)