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Yev here -> Have you reached out to support about the issue? They are working with our devs to track all of the issues and could use the additional data points -> https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. It's working for most users, so we're trying to whittle down the issue.
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I never give any information to anyone who calls me, apart from people I already know like friends and family. If they say they are from the bank I apologize and say that I will contact them independently via the number that is on my card.
I don't even confirm my name.
Some banks think I am being difficult, but I stick to this principle regardless.
Ken Thompson is a top poster. Busted.
Yes they've got restaurants and shops and stuff.

And soon, possibly the return of duty free.
Nope, quit playing all of them. I'm able to find better ways to waste my life than sitting in front of a television. How many decades has it been since they've released an objectively good game, anyways? WoW was actually a gigantic turd compared to other mmos at the time. It was just successful because it was easier to progress and had vomit-tier graphics. The game was trash.
HAProxy on Docker Swarm: Load Balancing and DNS Service Discovery
Actual article linked from the tweet: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bad-bosses-survey-1.5313294
I'm sure this is legit but I wonder how they controlled for people who just go for a walk and/or get exercise every day even if they don't have a dog?

But no disagreement, if you're a couch potato who is not otherwise motivated to go for a walk the dog will be an ultra powerful motivator, and you're not going for a walk alone.
Wouldn't the protesters simply pick another character to march behind?

The funny part is, if you go by the lore and backstories assigned to each character, the majority of them would support Hong Kong. None of them are (written to be) particularly fond of authoritarianism.

Which is just hilarious that Blizzard's own IP would oppose their decision if they were real people.
Which tutorial did you use?
As someone coming from computer science, I found https://leanprover.github.io/theorem_proving_in_lean/ very approachable as an introduction to ITP in general.
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There are tons of Chinese students studying in other countries. They are organized by Chinese consulate to "flex their muscle" against anything "anti-china".

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3025721/ch...

[2] https://www.apnews.com/7b0f328f266f46c1a498a16a5ad03fbc
Does it support Windows/AD Service accounts? I'm thinking not.
I disagree. I don't think this is at all settled, and in fact is a bit topic right now. The debate has just moved on past personal passwords.

For example, chat systems. Do you want an open one where anyone can get on with a minimum of fuss and participate? Or do you want an open one, with controls to manage spam and harassment so that people are able to be open while using it?

(I work at Mozilla, where we are moving off of IRC because, while it encourages participation from any rando who comes by, it is inaccessible to a number of people because they will be attacked if they log in. Many have moved over to Slack, which is very much closed (but open). Not to mention the channels that have been abandoned because they are overrun with spam, which makes them inaccessible or at least useless to everyone. As someone who does not get harassed, I don't really like either of those points on the spectrum even though IRC works great for me if I don't think about the people who are no longer there.)
>So you're telling me we could come across a series of numbers

This is badly missing the forest for the trees. They are not "numbers", they are magnitudes, proportions, relationships, etc, represented as numbers. But these "magnitudes, proportions, relationships, etc" are the stuff that thoughts and behaviors are made of.

And yes, there is a set of "magnitudes, proportions, relationships, etc" in the space of all such possible structures that pose an existential threat to humans. The question is how likely are we to stumble upon it either by accident or intentionally. But this is just a computational problem.
I am worried that index funds will stop being one of the only mechanisms the middle class have to build wealth over the next 30 years because technology has made them so easily accessible and everybody is starting to catch on participation wise.
This. Obligatory post on divestment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998948
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Are you referring to constructivism in terms of education? Or in terms of proving the existence of an object in mathematics? Traditionally, it is not necessary to construct an object to prove its existence. One can simply assume the object does not exist and prove a contradiction. Requiring constructive proofs does not seem to provide tangible benefits, but it does unnecessarily hinder mathematical thinking.
If you want to do business in China, you have to comply with Chinese laws including those on speech. If you do not want to comply with those laws, you cannot do business in China. Both are fine and both are legal, but you cannot have it both ways at the same time.

You cannot flout the laws in China and continue to do business in China. This should also be reciprocal: Chinese companies should not be able to do business in the United States while flouting the laws of the United States.
I don't think the important question is whether Progress is a myth - it has all the qualities and functions of one - but rather, whether it is a useful myth. Plenty of myths are highly useful, and I would happily argue the the myth of Progress has been a strong net positive.

For one thing, it seems to me that rather than the author's sparring partners having misunderstood technology, she may have misunderstood evolution.
It's a counter point from a valid source, that at best complicates Mark Kern's claim. How is that trolling?
Apple has made massive improvements and regular upgrades to macOS since 10.6. I'm not really sure what you are referencing when you say otherwise, but as a Mac user full time at work and at home, you're simply totally wrong.

Windows 10 is quite usable, it's in use all over the world by millions of people. The home versions force a reboot when upgrades are required, but even those upgrades and the associated reboots can be delayed 35 days. The enterprise versions and pro versions can be completely controlled as they should be. Forcing upgrades is probably the best thing MS has ever done for the general security and health of the internet.

Linux is still today a piece of shit, as it has always been.

Apple ships zsh, not bash. If you want an upgraded version of bash you install home-brew and do brew install bash. Done. Or just use zsh because it's better.

If you are an xfce linux on the desktop user, you are very out of touch with modern operating systems.
Hey, "editor" here. When I started working as a developer a few years ago, I barely considered that there were people devoting their free or paid time to all of the open source software I depended on. Of course, every piece of software you depend on has one or more humans behind it, and they have stories to tell which might be instructive for others. Hence this site (the framework for which is heavily inspired by IndieHackers).

I have 3 main goals with SourceSort: 1) discover and share best practices (and learnings from failures) for other open source maintainers and developers 2) promote the projects and maintainers I interview and 3) Satisfy intellectual curiosity. I hope I've managed all three with this first set of interviews, but I'd love to hear any feedback.

And thanks to all of the developers who took part in this first set of interviews, all of whom have been very friendly and generous with their time.

(p.s. if I interviewed you and it isn't up yet, don't worry - I'll get them all finished before the weekend)
And they are not even hiding it anymore.
Removing End-of-Life Relays from the Tor Network
As someone that has learnt German for other reasons, it definitely helps. There is a lot of word play in German in his writings that I feel translation loses. As well as emphasis in word choices stemming from German as a language that tends to either get glossed over or overlooked.

But in the end, no you don't, but it helps in the nuances of what is trying to be conveyed.
This is not widely known I think but there are significant tax advantages now available in the UK for low emissions/electric cars provided as a benefit in kind/through salary sacrifice schemes even where the car gets no business use at all.
If feels sinister because the company didn't need to borrow money.

A business that was adequately servicing investors, employees, and customers, has been destroyed because a small group tried to extract more wealth from the company than it could sustain.
Cormac McCarthy’s Three Punctuation Rules (2013)
I think it's more likely that some scammers think you're being difficult. Shouldn't that be standard procedure for a bank?
Yev here -> it may be that something "ate" the auto-update process, could be A/V, a Firewall, or a break in the connection. He can grab the latest build from here -> files.backblaze.com and support can walk him through the process (live chat from 9am-12PM and 1PM-5PM Pacific).
Edit -> support (https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/requests/new)
Specifically, we can conjecture they narrowed the search space to "lowercase+numbers+a few symbols", excluding uppercase letters.
Opium wars happened over a century ago. It was a crime against humanity, but it gives no moral right to anybody to repeat the same thing in the modern time. It's like saying Israeli should have a right to demand that Germans be gassed today because of Hitler.

Chinese public puts up with their government because the standard of living rose in the past years thanks to WTO and liberalization during Deng Xiaoping and Hu Jintao presidency. Now that Xi Jinping decided to undo the progress and double down on building authoritarian ethnostate it's a matter of time before public opinion shifts again due to economic hit.
Wearing a mask. I know they banned it, but it’s not like they won’t come after you because you didn’t wear a mask. I mean, that’s exactly the point of the facial recognition. Instead of disappearing today, you’ll disappear tomorrow.

If you’re not into the “liberty or death” thing, you might want to flee China instead.

Either way, good luck.
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How many five-year-olds in power can the world handle and//or survive?
A system where power is dictated by a set period of every X years where, for one day, everyone biological person is issued exactly 1 unit of "voting currency" that is equal in value to the 1 unit of "voting currency" every time period before to determine that power shift; is not comparable to a system where biological people and non-biological constructs are continuously exchanging "voting currency" which itself has fluctuating value and can be accumulated such that a "later vote" is often unequal to an "earlier vote" which can lead to highly unequal power concentrated where there is high "voting currency" concentration, and there is never a set time where power is designed to shift.

It's a long winded way of saying "I don't believe the analogy holds up to scrutiny".
I can design the same dark color scheme for iOS and Android, but I've still got to code it twice.

Or use the same dark colors for mobile-size and desktop-size in responsive, but still need to test it to make sure I got all the <div>s that appear in mobile-size but get hidden and/or replaced by other <div>s in desktop-size and vice-versa.

Or discover we thought we'd covered everything, but when you use the normally-touch interface with a trackpad on Chromebooks, the default hover state is still light-mode.

Etc.
They provided the funding, but he pushed the cost of manufacture down so low that new things can be done with the same resources.
I just answered someone above with something similar but... I go camping a lot but very rarely get a mosquito bite. Sometimes if they're really bad I will end up getting a couple of bites, but the bumps are highly delayed, and I cannot recall the feeling of ever actually being bitten.

Until this post, I didn't even realize people actually "felt" the bite as it was happening.
It's a trendy language. It will increase in popularity (e.g. developers want to learn it because it's new) until it eventually wanes. Remember when everybody wanted to write Ruby?

This page shows job postings per programming language from searches on Indeed.com: https://www.codeplatoon.org/the-best-paying-and-most-in-dema... Go isn't on the list. The TIOBE index has Go at #17: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Of course the local police department isn't likely to investigate it. That doesn't mean no one is.
Mathematics of course. Theorem provers work nicer with constructive mathematics.
For what it's worth, I'll take a tenth of the funding and promise to deliver just as much.
Just ask for an extension to reach them at when you call their public number.
This is like saying that backend's gone crazy because people are loading MBs of frameworks just to print "Hello World" on the screen. Well, yes, but those are just examples, they're meant to be simple to understand, not a realistic use case. React is a tool for building complex web apps and in RL such app would do a lot more things and then it'd start to make a lot more sense using it. If you do something this simple, then by all means don't use it.
Competent lawyers, doctors, engineers, and teachers spend time improving and honing their craft through continuing professional development (CPD).

Sometimes it is required by licensing and professional bodies for those occupations, other times it is optional.

Sometimes it is compensated by employers and other times it is not.

It can include: participating in conferences, meetings at informal local professional organizations, independent study through journals or other professional publications, coaching/mentorship, and personal time spent working on career-related research and development.

I expect my doctor to spend at least some time during the week while not seeing patients and attending to administrative tasks browsing professional journals to stay abreast of the the state of the medical art.

I don't understand why there is a reflexive revulsion to software developers having a github where they throw up stuff they've tried out.

Unless software development is less of a professional occupation and more like wage-slave drudgery.

Grocery store cashiers don't typically spend their down time reading the quarterly "Proceedings of the Supermarket Checkout Professional" to stay up-to-date on cash register developments.

Civil engineers do typically read civil engineering journals in their spare time, at least all of the ones I know do. A few nights per week, for a little while, they'll sit in their recliner after dinner and page through a civil engineering magazine and occasionally jot things down in a notebook that interest them.

I don't think programmers are exposed to a level of stress that requires more "rest and recovery" than a physician.
I would argue that having passwords made up by users and having access to a user's work account is a little different. In the former case, I see what kind of password they use and can guess that they reuse the password (or a variant) elsewhere. I can also take knowledge if I get fired, but my admin permissions are revoked.
Probably not very many. According to XKCD What If? [1] a modern keyboard takes around 2 millijoules to press a key. Typing a full novel would take a few kilojoules. Even if an old mainframe keyboard took 10x more power to press the keys you would save less than a AA battery worth of energy over writing a full novel.

[1] https://what-if.xkcd.com/102/
Saying this....as the US moves ISIS rebels from Syria to China's Western border while pressuring China on the Uighur issue.

It's nice to live in an information bubble, they tell me.
Reminds me of the old science fiction trope... "We asked if we can, we never asked if we should".

The technology will happen, because sensors and AI and IoT are just... stuff. Stuff that's useful in non-threatening ways. So the question is, when does society push back? When do we start banning this sort of surveillance? Or will we?

No, it's not inevitable. But that doesn't mean it won't happen.
Many, many years ago when I was in college at the University of Rochester, I found a paper in the computing lab with the root passwords for about twelve machines at Stanford. I emailed them and told them I'd destroyed it but that they should be much more careful. I got yelled at.
Its a common feature for PBX'es to rewrite their outgoing caller ID on forwarded calls to match the origin caller ID. Say you've got an office desk phone that you have set to forward to your cell phone while you're out. Someone calls your desk phone, it forwards the call to your cell phone, what caller ID should be displayed? Technically the call to your phone is coming through your desk phone (well, your office's PBX), but doing that would mask who is actually calling. So the PBX rewrites its caller ID info to appear to be as the origin when it calls your cell phone.

This is technically spoofing caller ID, but is clearly not fraud.
Yev here -> if you don't want to use the UI (meant for non-tech savvy folks) we do have advanced exclusions via XML - take a look -> https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/220973007-Advan....
I don't know that it's racist to have universal jokes with two stock characters and to choose common names for them? I'm sure some of those same jokes showed up on a McKenzie Brothers skit or Sanford and Son or Flight of the Conchords or Rahmens or Alternatino without loss of generality.

It's because the context is always "these characters are stupid" not "people like these characters are stupid."

And thinking about it more, I think the key difference is they have a name. That alone makes them a unique person. It's not "black guys do this, white guys do that" or even "an Irishman walks into a bar." Giving them a name means you can distance yourself from them and not feel offended that Sven is stupid, whereas if it was "A dumb Swede" you'd be offended.
A Controversial Plan to Encrypt More of the Internet
Putin owns this strategy. He did a photo shoot of him riding topless on a horse after Internet memes accused him of being a closeted homosexual. He even joked about meddling in U.S. elections, which is what the West accused him of:

>When asked about concerns the Russia might interfere in the 2020 US elections, he replied: "I'll tell you a secret: Yes, we'll definitely do it," Putin said. "Just don't tell anyone," he added, in a stage whisper. [1]

Nowadays you can claim Putin is evil, but nobody really believes he is weak or has problems with self esteem. He uses humor to build himself up.

[1] https://cnnphilippines.com/world/2019/10/2/Vladimir-Putin-Ru...
A Machine Learning Classifier Can Spot Serial Hijackers Before They Strike
Apple Angers China by Approving Cop-Tracking Map App for Hong Kong
I consider rechargeable lithium chemistry batteries just as crucial to the 21st century as the internal combustion engine was to the 20th. And we're only two decades in.

1) Practical electric cars.

2) Practical and scalable (both directions) and geographically independent grid storage.

3) High performance cellphones and smartphones.

4) Practical laptops and tablets.

5) Other wearable smart devices (smartwatches, portable VR/AR, fitness trackers, etc)

6) Medical devices (insulin pumps, CPAP, wearable artificial kidneys, portable oxygen generators, portable artificial heart, etc)

7) Electric trucks.

8) Electric aircraft (low range now, will soon be 1000km range, eventually will get long range and full size using more advanced chemistries like lithium sulfur, lithium anode, or even lithium air in a few decades).

9) Battery electric trains (including things like Hyperloop or Loop people movers).

10) Battery electric ships.

11) E-cigarrettes.

12) Various personal mobility devices like e-scooters, those funny hoverboard things, e-bikes, etc.

13) Lightweight spacecraft energy storage.

14) Aerial Drones. Both the ubiquitous quadcopter/DJI types and the more advanced winged flight delivery drones like Zipline is using to revolutionize high speed medical product delivery in places like infrastructure-hobbled Africa or rural India and may eventually become commonplace in the rest of the world for more products.

15) Greatly enhanced submarine propulsion, especially for underwater drones. (I have a feeling we're just scratching the surface with this one.)

16) Robotic prosthetics/assistance devices.

17) Animal or humanoid robotics like Boston Dynamics.

18) Ground based delivery drones.

19) Other ground-based drones like more compact robotic vacuums, those silly robotic trashcans, etc.

20) Secondary power sources, like for hybrid cars or APUs for aircraft or launch vehicles (such as SpaceX's Starship).

It's actually remarkable how big of an impact lithium ion batteries have already had. In some cases, it's just significantly extending the performance and convenience of things already marginally viable using lead acid or NiMH batteries, and in others it's truly enabling. And we're just getting started.

I truly believe the impact of the rechargeable lithium chemistry battery in the 21st Century will be just as great or greater than the internal combustion was for the 20th century.

So this prize is well-earned.
Going to the logical absurd conclusion is a good thought experiment and part of why I too hadn’t formulated an opinion yet. However, it’s Blizzard’s follow-up actions such as this:

https://ps.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/dfauww/american...

That makes this a moot point. Players have voiced opinions before. Nothing extreme, but within Blizzard’s rights to invoke that rule. However, deciding to start filtering content because of multiple players talking about the same topic?

That’s when Blizzard lost their neutrality stance. As bystanders, it’s not possible to swap in other topics for thought experiments because it’s become clear that it’s a specific topic that is being targeted. And thus, we now have to look at the content of what is being said to draw conclusions about Blizzard’s motivations.
I built a news aggregator (a Hacker news lookalike) in Django.

The aim is to power a community aggregator specific to the Python community at https://news.python.sc.

If you want to participate, claim your invite here: https://forms.gle/TJSNLXD8fgyFYUaFA

Of course, there is not much content here, so you’re all welcome to contribute ;-)
If feels sinister because the company didn't need to borrow money.

A business that was adequately servicing investors, employees, and customers, has been destroyed because a small group tried to extract more wealth from the company than it could sustain.

But I would probably agree with you that just because something feels sinister, doesn't mean that it actually is. And "Toys R Us" would have been destroyed by Amazon within the decade no matter what. Gary Vanderchuck talked about how terribly poor the management was, and their failure to do any significant innovation or participate meaningfully in any of the trends around children's entertainment.
Depends on how it ends, I just can't see any way for them to win. I fear China will just slowly escalate their heavy handedness until nobody is left.