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The thing with monopolies is that they tend to abuse the privilege of being one.

You are a consumer, buying their wares, and they could care less because you really only have one option. They made sure of it by buying most of the significant competition years ago.

Welcome to the modern era of internet monopolies.
I understand how this might be cool and exciting for the Rust community, and even for the enginnering team who might be more inclined to work in a Rust codebase.

I worry that every risk taken to improve Rust, might have a severe cost by alienating Firefox userbase, and with that Mozilla get into troubled waters.

But as you have clarified, inner pieces are being slowly replaced, which is not as bad as rewrite the whole thing from scratch in Rust, while at the same time, leaving the current C++ codebase without any improvement.

Anyway, from the enginnering perspective, kudo for you guys, for being able to make the browser work with all this complication going on under the hood.

Hope it all works out even with all the complication, challenges and risks taken, as we all need good players like Mozilla to lead us to a better future, as we rely more and more on technology to improve our daily lives.
Hmm, apparently the people behind this have been behind quite a few high profile Twitter account hacks recently. They also hacked the account of a gaming YouTuber called Etika, as well as others like Shane Dawson and James Charles:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/chuckling-squad-hacks

Wonder if the affected users all used the same system in the past?
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" I've always wondered about the data behind the graph, but with Mann not being willing to drop the data, I gave up.

It's like the great graph that in the 70's showed the birth rate over the last 50 years and the stock market and how that they oddly matched. They matched because like Mann they used heavily smoothed data.

There have been a plethora of data busts in the last few years where people tried to claim a correlation. Sometimes r is not your friend.
So what? So they'll pay consumption tax. They're rich, after all, they can afford it.
> learned that every plane crash can be traced back to a single, simple cause.

That's silly, but if I were playing that game, I'd say the single, simple cause was a failure of Boeing and the CIA to keep abreast of A320new development.

Boeing were caught flat-footed by the launch of he A320neo and, facing a loss of potentially thousands of sales, were forced to quickly develop and release a modified 737 rather than create a new plane altogether.

Corporate espionage would have prevented all this.
Yes, but that's hardly a surprise.

Buying or selling a stock is a low effort action explicitly a predicting the future.
It's a BMW X6 so I don't think aesthetics or practicality will be of any concern.
Don't forget the far left.
Well, it's not definitively established to be a fraud. It might just be idiocy. But it's definitely true that there is no reason to think it is anything but false.
Strictly speaking, if you have control, yes. Fraud protection, cash back, etc. are all really useful.

But, if you can't control spending, just use debit. In fact, the only place I wouldn't use a debit card if I could avoid it is a gas pump (magstripe fraud)

I have not found a credit card UI that helps control spending and budgeting the way that Simple (checking) does. I haven't tried integrating with Mint or others, but the realtime tangible money-moving aspect helps me realize the money and swipes I'm spending are real.
Would it, in that particular case? Don’t get me wrong, I agree with your general point (imagine a police department account tweeting a photo of someone while accusing them of a crime), but given the Tweets of his that people quote I get the impression that even if Trump’s account posts open declarations of war nobody would do anything?
The Datasheet has a diagram indicating that but the User Manual claims there's a bus matrix which provide SRAM connectivity from the CPU I/D ports and DMA units. The documentation is... not amazing.
While I don't particularly like ads in Node.js libraries output, I do not like that NPM has anything to say in regards to whether ads are permitted or not.
Think about it, why is should a distributor be allowed to ban a producer?
I promise I'm not trying to be flippant, but is this still actively around? I see there have been two seemingly-minor releases this year, the first project activity since 2017.

I had insomnia a few weeks ago and was re-reading a bunch of "whatever happened to OLPC" stuff to remember that utter disaster, and AFAIK, the Sugar project is basically just a few people, its now under the auspices of the SFC and its really barebones with almost no hardware support (the last OLPC devices were sold years ago). Even the base image of Ubuntu it offers for the USB stick reached EOL more than 18 months ago.

We can all say this was a nice idea -- but this certainly isn't an active project in the sense that there is developer or monetary investment.
Using phones is fine, using phone numbers is the problem. TOTP is great
There are situations where different people use the same machine to access Facebook. And indeed, where they also (foolishly, I know) expect that Facebook will preserve mutual privacy. Partners. Parents and children. Siblings.

So Facebook, if it's relying on hardware/software fingerprinting, might compromise multiple users to each other.
What sort of applications would this be used for? I see in the article housing electronics, but isn't plastic pretty good for that? Aren't ceramics super brittle?
interesting perspective
the overwhelmed PM is one instance of the bombardment with questions and requests from multiple sources.
this will not fix organizational issues but it should assist knowledge workers with staying on top of things to be done
For someone without experience or the context of manufacturing, could you clarify why we will see a “manufacturing revolution”?
Working for someone else is a last resort for some of us once all of our other ambitions have failed.
Morals don’t pay the bills.
our thoughts exactly.
I believe most if not all smartphones also have a magnetometer in them, apart from the GPS or the metal components in general.
Except the odds are that it wouldn't be exactly like my other cards. Like I said, my other cards have been daily drivers for years and only one has the slightest hint of discoloration. OTOH, Apple Cards are apparently becoming discolored after less than one month.
I find it especially ironic given that Steve Jobs was so fond of jeans.
Such is life when dealing with the public. Some people will need individual attention. They may well cost you more than you make from them. You make it up with the averages. If you don’t like it, don’t sell to the public.

Your local grocery store has far better customer service than this despite razor-thin margins. Payment problems? They’ll work with you. Product is bad? Refund. Sale not ringing through properly? They’ll fix it. Surely Google can afford to have some actual people to help you when you have problems.
There’s a good discussion of the legality of RAM copies here http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise20.html

Note that there is an exception for such a copy when it’s necessary to run the program, I believe this exemption was added because otherwise running an executable on a personal computer would have been a copyright violation.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html

> a) Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy.— Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:

> (1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or

> (2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful.
Thank you for the less -> fewer correction. OMG, I am horrible at grammar but for some reason this one drives me crazy and I hear it all the time in our industry.
This is what I find so interesting about Amazon going into the ads business.

(Bias note: I am employed by Amazon, but not involved in ads.)

Google make a lot of their money from online advertising. But they have a reputation of not giving a shit about their customers, giving canned responses, etc. Amazon, criticize it as you will, has a reputation for good customer service (I literally give "Customer Obsession" training to new hires). What happens if enough Google ads customers get fed up and try out the competitor?

20 years ago, Google found a hose that money pours out of called "online advertising". All they do now is improve that hose and desperately search for another one. If someone comes along and siphons out a fraction, it could actually hit them hard.

"If", of course. We'll see.
JSC has had a set of large metabenchmarks like JetStream2 for a while. We have been the fastest for a while but V8 is gaining, so the current advantage is significant but not earth shattering.

The last time V8 had their own benchmark, they retired it right after we beat them on it and made a post saying that benchmarks are bad because people cheat on them.

Around that time I stopped seeing google.com claim that I should switch to Chrome “because it’s faster”.

So basically JSC is fast enough to have made V8 ragequit benchmarking. Hope that answers your question!
I have conserns about privacy pass protocol. Can't the server abuse the protocol? What if sT is always 2T?
For the record, I don't like captcha.

About fingerprinting "budget", asking users for consent is useless to protect users that can't for any reason change to another app
If someone got into Zuck's facebook account I'd be interested in knowing.
As per the principle, the lack of failure is how success can be measured.

ie Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one where every possible deficiency has been avoided.
What are the security implications of this action? For example, when the Valerie Plame was outed by Karl Rove/Scooter Libby, it was clear that a group of companies/networks were immediately compromised.

Does this current action have immediate repercussions?
No point. All trades made can be reversed especially based on false news
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@RealDonaldTrump is already disastrous without a hacker, no need for one now.
That makes perfect sense to me.
An excellent counterargument. Yes, one might concede that protocols have not and probably will not win out over platforms in a free market. But if we're advocating that the big tech utilities be required by law to open source their protocols then your argument doesn't apply, as of right here:

> Overtime, the most popular client will get a quasi-monopoly and will become incompatible with the rest of clients, no one will notice except for us nerds on HN.

As soon as those popular clients get incompatible, they cross the line into a new protocol - and we force them by law to open-source license that too. Sure, the major platforms will still own 90% of the traffic since the public is mindless (for now, until its educated over generations), but third party options will again be possible.

So all this advocating for protocols is still very relevant, it's just probably not going to happen by itself or from some magic invention.
This problem has nothing to do with Jira or agile, but with bad management.
In general, you shouldn't ever reuse a password for multiple things, no matter how complex the password is (see https://xkcd.com/792/). If your password is leaked (which might not even be your fault), you don't want the attackers getting access to everything.

A large website is made up of many different complex, interconnected components, and it would be quite possible for an attacker to compromise a public account without gaining full control of the backend infrastructure is unaffected.
In other words, “black cars get dirty real fast”.
No it's not. They're compressing the libraries and sending them all upstream. They're also eating into data caps (probably they're doing this only over Wi-Fi) let alone flouting all kinds of copyright laws
I realize this doesn't add to the conversation but, it is losing, not loosing. English is strange. Lose is unable to find (or the opposite of win), you lost your time, you're losing your mind. Loose is the opposite of tighten. Not sure loosing is a word. If you're not tightening it, you're loosening it.
I believe they do keep close tabs on high profile accounts. I happened to notice it in my feed when the news hadn't broken out yet (took a couple of screenshots out of surprise too). The team quickly took all of it down as and when they were being posted. It lasted for about 10minutes or so. The hackers were adding mentions to other accounts which were immediately suspended by the folks at Twitter too.
Bear in mind that anthropologists are not historians. Anthropologists are dedicated to the study of human culture, which is related to but no the same as the study of human history. Guns, Germs, and Steel chiefly argued that geography was a much stronger determining factor in the development of human societies than culture. Unsurprising that those dedicated to studying human culture weren't a fan of this framing. Contrary to the claims made in that subreddit, Diamond's high level points have been widely influential and positively received by historians. The claims made in that subreddit are not at all representative of the attitude my university history professors had towards Diamond's work.

Furthermore the claims that the book promotes a racist outlook is absurd. Guns, Germs, and Steel is one of the most anti-racist explanations to the disparities in levels of development that there is. One of the chief points of the book is that these disparities are due to being in the right place at the right time rather than racial superiority.
Plastics don't work well in some environments, space and medical situations usually. This might make for some better (less bioreactive) and cheaper (instead of titanium) implantable devices. Plastics in space tend to have a few issues that I know of, off-gassing and UV degradation in particular.
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The article was absolute garbage, as one might expect from the magazine for "dollar shave club." It is definitely a misrepresentation of what Stocicism actually is, assuming Seneca and Epictetus count as Stoic philosophers.

I have no idea what Jordan Peterson says, but the dipshit who wrote this is probably mistaken about that as well.

The author should concentrate on his strengths; writing articles on whether or not it is appropriate to wash your hands after jerking off. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/should-you-wash-your-han...
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Right I think it’s been a trope since a while ago (decades) that we could read headlines on newspapers (Daily News type) from satellites... Are they saying it wasn’t true till now so it was a secret?
They covered the explosion yesterday. Today, they covered Trump's use of likely classified images and potentially revealing sources and methods.

The president has never been discreet, has declining mental health, and has revealed sensitive intelligence before.
Yeah and not loosing the accent isn't that strange since Finnish is one of the few non-indoeuropean languages in Europe and compared to English it's definitely not an easy language to learn.
I've been taking money from government, family, or wealthy friends most of my life. Yet I've also given more than I've received to most of the friends I've known. I've thought much about how selfish or generous I was. You can get really cynical and say that altruism doesn't exist at all if you really get cynical and that people are just trying to fire off pleasure receptors in their brains.

Ultimately though yes people who give to others are altruistic. Some people you will give money to will keep every penny, some will give away every cent they can. The former are selfish the latter altruistic and there is no need to overcomplicate things.

I've only become more self-sufficient over time and today am a net "giver". Did I just become less selfish over time? No I've actually started valuing selfishness MORE over time because it became more appealing as I became stronger. Focusing on results confuses things because people in bad situations CAN'T be as giving as somebody in a good one. Somebody in a good situation can be generous enough to change people's lives without any meaningful personal sacrifice.

A person who is a taker and has no desire to stop being one is not truly altruistic though. Selfishly taking from others and being performatively charitable is selfishness in the veil of altruism. The desire to be seen as the "real giver" is also selfish.
Agreed. Trump's Twitter account is a bad example of things that people read that might have real world consequences.
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"World object" seems pretty self explanetory to me, implying the holistic embodiment of an object in every dimension in which it exists. It's in the same family as "world model" (for robotic systems) or "world reference point" (for dynamic systems), etc.

Introducing a new term "unum" seems an unnecessary abstraction, but I like thinking about the superpositional nature of virtual objects. That's a pretty fascinating topic and probably an area that can be mined to achieve efficiency improvements.
Great show from Nova on this very topic...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/decoding-the-great-pyram...
It’s e-sports. There’s teamwork, your physical condition matters a lot. They’re competitive. They’re social. They can train a lot of skills that could be as useful in life as being able to outrun the competition (think analyzing the best build for your character with a spreadsheet, or flying a war drone).

Sure sure, income inequality is a growing problem, and perhaps the cause of the decline in high school athletics, but really, people are just playing more e-sports.

There are leagues. You don’t need a lot of money to fund trips and infrastructure.
"Either way, Panda notes that a small redaction in the upper left-hand corner suggests the intelligence community had cleared the image for release by the president."
> I didn't know exclusively licensing a colour was even possible.

Yahoo! did the same with a specific Pantone shade of purple.
From your images it looks like there's a Spotify integration (logo in avatar's top right corner). How's that work? Does clicking it send you to the user's music stream, or can you join the stream, send you to their profile? Anyway, I like the idea - brings a personal touch to the user's virtual office presence.
> One obvious pattern to look into is a pure peer-to-peer model, where all presences are equally authoritative and the “true” state of reality is determined by some kind of distributed consensus mechanism.

Makes me wonder if you could model Mage: The Awakening as a distributed reality consensus MMO. Sybil attacks would be the primary weakness. Though, if it was a paid game you'd _somewhat_ mitigate that.

The thoughts about clients being authoritative on different unums is very interesting. For larger worlds, it could lead to some interesting scalability results. If I'm exploring a region with no one else, the server can simply let the client decide whats happening and offload that work. For more dense situations, clients would need to communicate with each other. A server could detect cheaters via sampling, maybe? Of course, the problem might be that a cheater might only need to cheat a proportionally small amount of time. For sparse situations, you could just do the full computations later and punish harshly if cheating is detected. For dense situations, it becomes difficult to determine how you could roll back fairly.

It's very interesting. I'd love to build something like this. I think it could have very compelling, novel gameplay mechanics. Not quite sure what the story would need to be to drive players into those mechanics though.
So I have one. It is quite nice to hold and is well made, however because I cannot really carry it in my wallet or pocket, it stays in the desk drawer. I also have the Amex Platinum which is also metal. No issues on carrying that one. Here is a look at for those that care:

https://thepointsguy.com/2017/04/unboxing-platinum-metal-car...

No relation to the site, just first good hit with details on the card itself, however I still have not found out what kinda of metal it is.
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Yep!

The main thing is not wanted to show potential adversaries the extent of your capabilities. It also allows them to glean information on how to counter the newly disclosed capability as well.

For example: If this was a satellite, the specific one is almost certainly outed. Satellites are tracked constantly and by the angle of the photo and approximate time you should be able to figure out where in the sky it was and what satellites were in orbit. With that you now know to not do anything when those are present.

If Iran isn’t capable of doing that sort of analysis, certainly every other major power in the world is.

Frankly, I’m betting it was the X-37B or a previously unknown spy satellite hiding in plain sight as a commercial satellite.
Android trivially gives you all the apps on a phone just by asking
I'm sorry I can't find it either. Maybe it was a different podcast. I'm trying to think of other podcasts. I don't think it was RadioLab. Could have been another NPR show but I can't think which one would address this issue. HB seems like the best fit. I can bound the date of when I listened to it. Was definitely between 2018 and 2015. My intuition says 2017, because that was the height of my podcast listening. The time is probably why I can't remember in high detail.

Basically the story I remember is that there was a sports athlete that was in the lower ranks and then got a prescription, that they actually needed, that also improved their performance. Then I think it got banned? So they start buying it from another country like China or something. They then started buying in bulk because it was cheaper. Their friends started asking for some because he was getting it for cheap and he didn't think anything of it because he was just helping them save money too. They're his friends after all and he was already buying the stuff. So what difference did it make if he just ordered a little more? Then it started being friends of friends. Before he knew it he was selling tons of this stuff and to people he had no real previous knowledge of.

I now really want to listen to it again so if someone can help find it let me know. I think they might have also talked about Lance (I'm not sure if they interviewed him or that's another podcast I'm thinking of).
> now that I post statistics from Google they are “nonsensical”.

Your statistics are for a nonsensical metric as I have repeatedly pointed out. The correct statistic is how quickly Android devices that are known to get updates get updates because those are the only devices that anybody who cares about security updates should buy.

> Because in your world, it is more secure to not be able to update the entire OS than to have to do a reboot.....

Once again, you are completely ignoring the point. It is more secure to have a device that updates the base system quickly and updates the apps instantly without the user noticing. There are devices that do that, and there are devices that don't. The devices that don't are so inferior to the devices that do that they shouldn't be used.

Do I need to draw a Venn diagram for you, or do you finally understand?