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Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological battle. The resulting threads are predictable and boring. We've had to ask you not to start flamewars on HN before. If you keep doing this, we are going to have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Intellectuals are no better than anyone else, and often worse, so this ridiculous flamewar started with a non sequitur anyhow.
DAU up 13% year over year to 210M. I thought Instagram Stories had flattened Snap's growth. Does anyone know if the growth is a result of changes to the product?
Meredith MacNeill from the Baroness Von Sketch show does a lot of physical comedy:

https://www.facebook.com/cbc/videos/healthy-eating-is-simple...
> it is a paradox to think a "murdering chef knife" can be discriminated from a "cooking chef knife" when the manufacturer creates it.

You can certainly market your knives with an intention. You can study which knives "murder" best, and not study which knives are best for cooking.

I agree that this should be a harder bar to prove, but I don't think it's paradoxical to say it can be done.

> it is absurd to think the developer will know which it is.

True, the developer won't "know" for any given instance. But it is NOT absurd to think the developer will be trying for one or the other, perfecting it for that purpose (with intent), and marketing it for that purpose, nor is it absurd that such an intent could be reasonably proven. (Not ABSOLUTELY proven, but reasonably)
70+ years ago is not "very recent" when talking about schooling. Public schooling has only been widely available in the US for less than 150 years and only widely mandated for children in the last 100.
Are you saying your own personal experience is a counter to mine?

You keep trying to twist this situation with carefully crafted language into something that it isn't.

I'm not offering you "personal experience", you are attempting to equate our statements here in order to maintain a level playing field. Unfortunately, you are trying to pass off as a generalized fact something which my very existence disproves. You can study me independently to reach this conclusion. I am a data point. It has nothing to do with my own experiences, but the very real and measurable phenomenon that is my actions in the world.
Could be, but there’s a reason to want cachable, proxyable errors here: they’re often very expensive for the origin.
Faster quaternion arithmetic by XORing floating point sign bits
Maybe he just doesn't recall correctly.
Could be a useful resource.

Some of the links appear to be dead though:
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/byu/byu.html
Ok, sure, pick that nit, but even if it's half as efficient as gasoline, where are you going to find gasoline as clean as solar, wind, or hydro.
These are both exaggerated strawmen -- characterizing the benefits of diverse teams as "introducing people that look different magically automatically leads to better performing teams" is disingenuous, as is the assumption in your second example that systemic bias is economically rational.

As it takes an order of magnitude more effort to refute bullshit than to produce it, I'll wait for real arguments before engaging further.
Please stop, and please keep ideological flamewar off HN in the future, regardless of what Marx was wrong about.
The bootstrap part,where it connects to ipfs.io or the "swarm" traffic which is very unique and easy to block.
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> If this were the case, companies would - because they could do an equivalent job to a man for less money - simply hire all women workforces which due to their lower wage bill would outcompete and destroy companies that employed men.

That assumes company made up of perfectly rational human beings. If members of the company are sexist it might not work out that way.
Depends on the CPU. The G5 didn't support little-endian mode. VirtualPC used this for x86 emulation, which is why it didn't run on G5 Macs.
>If the underline indicating a link breaks, it looks like there are two adjacent links

Ah that's what that is. I've seen a few like that and wondered why there were two identical links next to each other not thinking it was underline style.

I'll save myself the hover now!
Well, rejoice. Now that the set of people for whom this breaks got expanded from "you" to "20% of everybody", they will likely fix the problem.
Then why not Svbtle or Write.as? You have lots of affordable or even free choices.
> Another one: women are paid less than men for the same work. If this were the case, companies would - because they could do an equivalent job to a man for less money - simply hire all women workforces which due to their lower wage bill would outcompete and destroy companies that employed men. Yet - again somewhat inconveniently! - the real world refuses to match the theory.

I think you could figure out the sophistry in this reasoning if you thought about it.
I think the question is about gate charge.
I think your analysis isn't quite right for three reasons.

The first is that pollen count isn't fully dictated by green space. Different species of plants give off varying amounts of pollen, not to mention the influence of wind patterns on pollen distribution especially over long distances.

The second is that low pop/greener areas in the US also tends to mean rural. Rural is usually connected with lower income, not higher. And it's usually lower income areas which see a greater percentage of reported crimes.

The third is that your claims are not really related to the article. The research was examining crime rates on high pollen days across cities, which would seem to cover both low and high income areas depending on how extensive their coverage was.
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It's not bullshit when there are plenty of people in the industry saying exactly that.
> And remember that it is in a VPN provider's best interest to log their users - it lets them deflect blame to the customer, if they ever were to get into legal trouble.

Hmmm? If you don't have record of it, the courts don't do much, at least in the US. If they subpoena you, and you don't have logs, nothing ever comes out of it. Outside of fines and things of that nature.

> The $10/month that you're paying for your VPN service doesn't even pay for the lawyer's coffee, so expect them to hand you over.

How do you think insurance works, or why airlines habitually overbook?
A trivial word problem if you will:
If you had 10,000 users, you were subpoena'd and only 100 users did anything worth prosecution, that's what. For one lawyer, drinking a $10 coffee (or two $5 dollar) every week day for a month. that's 20 days, $200 a month. $2,400 annually. Assuming in this example only 1% of your users need defending, that's 99% of your coffee budget you don't have to worry about! For 10,000 users, a yearly subscription pulls in about $1,200,000 (we aren't doing any adjustment for taxes and all that garbage). If 99% of your users are behaving themselves.. or at least not doing something bad enough for the courts to take notice (which in the digital age, things like piracy are white noise) that means you still have $1,188,000 to help you in those, typically blanket cases (i.e. a court case in which 20 of your users were downloading illegal movies, and MGM got really upset). Since if you aren't logging, these infractions are dealt with in aggregate usually, since it can't be quantified. So number of lawsuits < bad users.

That's not bad, if all your lawyers needed was coffee monthly, then you could support, with 99% of your users cash, 495 lawyers coffee for a year! more than enough coffee to defend your business. Don't forget you can still use the "blood money" you got to buy them coffee!

The basic principle behind my oversimplified, and somewhat tongue-in-cheek example was to remind you that insurance is a lucrative business. I wonder how they survive if your monthly cost for liability (up to $500,000) isn't $500,000 per month!?!
It's twofold.

1. breathing polluted air sucks, and we can improve that by replacing gas vehicles with electric vehicles.

2. global warming is awful, and we can improve that by replacing our generation activity (solar, wind, hydro, nuclear) -- but if we replace it all and there's still lots of gas cars on the road, we've still got a problem.

Electric cars are part of solving both problems, although in all honesty, we probably need to accept a lower standard of living, ditching the private car, switch to e-bikes, e-scooters et all and have a robust car hire scheme for when vehicles are necessary,
I'm with you in the sense that I don't buy the proposition that you have to have 50/50 gender balance of say... database administrators, data engineers or devops engineers because otherwise your technology or company will be not as effective as it can be, because you're missing out on that.. something... There's nothing about those roles that is gender specific.

The only argument I can see being sensible is that you want to hire from every available pool of talent, and if the only people working in a specific specialization are white/asian dudes, then it's tougher for potential candidates to see themselves belonging there, hence the business misses out on great employees who go for other careers or others employers who makes them feel more included.
If the preferences have run off to 10th place; the first 9 choices are controversial enough they wouldn't have legitimacy either.

Look at America - the president has so gained so much legitimacy from FPTP that the House is trying to eject him from office. Voting system doesn't help with that much.

That is an argument like the Chinese claiming democracy wouldn't work because China is different. In theory it can't be instantly debunked, but in practice it seems to be a non-issue (compared to alternatives) when IRV is tried.
Religions are very different around the world. Though my gods do not forbid anybody to 'very carefully verify the stored persistent data, and re-create the state from it' even if persistent data is stored in... persistent memory.

Well, just kidding, I'm agnostic, there's no such thing as my gods. ;)

Key point is code that 'very carefully verifies'. Forced RAM nullification on reboot does not help per se.

And there's no need to reboot in any case. If you feel you're busted, in persistent env you still can clear all state and recreate it from some other state.

It's just very traditional to think of files, not RAM as storage.

Memory mapped files, btw, are quarter a step to Phantom.
There is nothing wrong with this. Plenty of people have the info before it’s released (under NDA/embargo). Being one of these people AND trading on it before it’s released is a different story.
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Me: Full stack game dev.

You: Business dev, ideally with connections in game industry.

Product: AR collaboration tools and games built on Unity.

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Based in Chicago currently, visit SF frequently, open to remote and relocating depending on opportunity. Culture fit is the most important ;-]
I think streaming is up and coming.

The problem is I'm not sure how big the market can grow or the upper bound of it.

People are making software for streamers out there but at the same time there is only so much money. All streamers are at the mercy of subscribers.

The two software that stand out are statistic/dashboard and the other is bots. As for hardware the only one that stands out is irl streaming, it's a backpack with a day worth of battery and 4 mobile data plan for high quality streaming.

I personally feel like it's a gold rush like the mobile app early days before it got saturated (remember flappy bird?). But I think the market is much smaller.
You're absolutely right, U235 reserves are only enough to last a couple hundred years at current consumption and exploration. We could probably sustain a long time with burner LWRs but it will require massive investment.

Breeders however (whether you go with Th-U or U-Pu fuel) both should be able to take us to at least another 10,000 present-equivalent years on a wholly nuclear powered economy.

You're also right to suspect fertilizer, I feel the same way. I've seen some of the phosphate mines around the world and it's kind of horrifying, so I'm hoping asteroid mining can fix our metal extraction problem.

I heard C-Type asteroids have plenty of phosphorus, but I'm definitely not an expert on asteroid mining. If they do, though, it will likely be enough to sustain us for quadrillions of human-years (humans * years) because the asteroid belt is just so damn massive compared to the Earth's crust.
> If someone can figure out how to do crypto without burning through thousands of CPU-hours of compute...

I will freely admit that I'm only passingly familiar with many of the concepts of cryptocurrency, but - isn't that precisely the point? If coins are easy to mine, then they're valueless. I must be missing something...
The original title ("Don't use VPN services") is appropriate. The article talks about more than just anonymity - it also explains why you shouldn't use VPN services for greater privacy or security.

The article does say it's OK to use VPNs for accessing internal networks, but that wouldn't be a VPN "service".
If there’s an accompanying NDA then it is legally binding. Same thing happens with the Fed, EIA, USDA, BLS, etc
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That would be if the SEC was on top of their game and investigated every public mishap.

Doubt the SEC will do anything in this case.
I think if you had figured out the sophistry in this reasoning you would've explained it instead of dismissing it without making any real point.
Please keep ideological flamewar well away from HN. These inevitably repetitive and angry discussions are the last thing we want here. Worse, they are destructive of the thoughtful, curious conversations we do want here, so we have little choice but to ban accounts that post like this repeatedly. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart, we'd be grateful.
It's coming to Chromium soon

> We have plans to start implementation work on this before the end of the year.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=785230...
Switching to googleDNS 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 bypasses the affected DNS servers and will resolve the simple URLs (no region in url). Still really surprised this isn't making bigger news yet.
In Australia we write the rank number in boxes, I'm unsure what happens if you double up a number or the OCR machine can't figure out what it is.

The ideal solution IMO is a touch screen machine with a list of candidates, you drag and drop your order of preference, then when you're done it prints out a paper ballot which you can double check is correct then drop in the ballot box.
Then you should be able to start a company in the same industry as these sexists, abuse this fact, and run them out of business because your operating costs are lower!
Good, this was my takeaway as well. My range was loosely rounded since 716k was something like the 85th percentile.
I'd argue physical comedy is more difficult than spoken comedy, because any fool can deliver a line but it takes a master to sell you a fall. Is it any wonder that physical comedy was more popular in the silent film era?
The most pressing problem for humanity is global climate disruption. Arguably, working on anything that doesn't help there is not just wasted effort, but actively harmful.

Wind, solar power, energy storage still have huge room for improvement.

Direct solar or wind -> liquid fuel will be essential to adapting fast.

Windmills can drive production of liquid ammonia on farms (needing only air and water inputs), for use directly as fertilizer and fuel, without need for a grid attachment and without blocking sunlight needed for the plants. Ammonia is not a very dense fuel (e.g. terrible for aircraft), but that doesn't matter for farm machinery.

Direct solar -> hydrogen has been demonstrated, with bio-reaction for hydrogen + CO2 -> liquid fuel suitable for aircraft. Direct hydrogen-fueled aircraft are feasible, and more efficient than with kerosine, but the design cycle is too long.

Wind turbines will be wearing out as the blades erode. No-moving-parts screens might be the next generation, extracting power by releasing ions to be carried away from an electric field. The old towers will still be useful, and the rare earths can be mined out for other uses, probably vehicle motors.

Batteries are a very material-intensive storage medium. Underwater air storage does not need exotic materials or tech, and the pressure at depth makes the strength of materials needed minimal, other than piping.

We need to replace huge amounts of refrigeration equipment with versions that don't rely on HFCs, and get the HFCs incinerated. One gram of HFC traps as much heat as 2500 g of CO2, and lasts centuries in the atmosphere. Once vented, it cannot be recaptured. Ammonia-cycle systems need to be made safe enough for general use, and HFC versions outlawed.

Without massive progress in the next decade, civilization will probably collapse by 2035.
I really hope this kind of thing takes off. As it stands right now ~2,000 of our ~2,600 addresses have a hard time getting a diverse secondary circuit and when they do it is either really expensive or so slow/unreliable it's only really useful to verify it's the main circuit that is down not the power.
Oh $SNAP
Any founder interviewing for YC tomorrow wanting to meet up?
Dozens of us are coming to Mountain View to interview for YC tomorrow. Just wonder who are doing so as well. Would love to form a group to meet up and maybe practice?

You can also ping my email khangv@talktomira.com
Yourself.

One of the most complex areas, having lots of users, that need to be fixed, is human beings. Spend all your time to know who you are, why you are like that, and change this world starting from the most promising thing it has on it: you.

In the meantime, try to carry out activities that you like (ride your bike, walk alone or with real people). Do it disconnected from any device or social network.

Do things that make you feel real and unique, without layout, template, guidelines, best practices. Ignore any negativism (fortunately you are introverted, it should help). Recognize in every moment that you have to learn a lot. Learn a lot and repeat.
A company I worked for built this almost 10 years ago. Here is our video from SIFMA where we gave a joint presentation with Microsoft. Interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KBaX_t_hvM
If anyone wants to start a business selling suitcases of money from hyperinflation countries, I really really want to buy one large suitcase full (preferably money with English writing from a known county, Zimbabwe seems a likely candidate!). Or perhaps prop money (although it needs to seem like a realistic Western currency). Or maybe zero dollar banknotes?
How many non-technical people read things on github? I'm seriously wondering, because whenever I see a link to something posted on github I always assume that it's intended for an audience with some technical understanding. I know that some laws and what not have put up onto github to provide easier access, but it never seemed like that non-technical people started using it.
Why are tracking pixels still even a thing. Wouldn't this all be solved is the top 3 mail providers would just decide to hit all embedded resources at the moment a message is received and proxy or even cache it after? This would render this method ineffective for the vast majority of receivers
This will be a perfect way to teach my children about online privacy, how computers and the internet work and how to circumvent surveillance.
I don’t think that’s how media embargos work, meaning no signed NDAs. It’s usually just a journalist telling a company rep a verbal “yes I agree to the embargo”.
> Unless they're a (natural or artificial) monopoly, like... pretty much every ISP in North America is. Comcast has the reputation of, well, Comcast, and they're doing just fine.

Once again, that is an extremely US-centric view.

> Yes, that's a good thing: it means that VPN providers, unlike telcos, are under selection pressure. Which means that for VPN providers, unlike telcos, reputation actually means something; the top VPN provider is striving much harder for your dollar than the top telco is.

Except that isn't how the industry works, at all. Virtually all "reputation" that VPN providers have originates from paid product placements (see: the myriad "VPN reviews" that are chock full of affiliate links, YouTube ads, etc.), and providers are assumed legitimate unless shown otherwise by default.

This means that said "reputation" is 100% reproducible under a new brand without ever having a single long-term customer vouching for you. There's no competition on quality; the competition is on marketing only.

Exactly why the industry has turned out that way and doesn't follow the "competition breeds quality" narrative that people on here love to put forward, is left as an exercise to the reader.
Your second paragraph basically posits that 1950's America would have been filled with companies hiring minority workers at lower wages to achieve superior financial results, but this didn't happen to any significant degree. Was life for African Americans in 1955 one of manifest equality and fairness?
For others who arrived here, it was not 'pointed out' that I read it wrong, it was suggested that I read it wrong. The discussion continued from there, and I think I explained my point quite clearly, and I definitely did not read it wrong.
I still maintain sea level rise is not accelerating and my logic behind that was not proven wrong.
Instead my discussion partner started pointing to other sources.
We could have adjustable rings of reflective shielding orbiting the Sun and throughout the entire Solar System - well before then. Potentially even be capable of slowly moderating the Suns evolution. A billion years has unfathomable potential for technological development.
They mostly overlap and the author references this one from that one. We have a weak preference for niche sites as compared to platforms like medium.com. Most importantly, though: threads are incredibly sensitive to initial conditions.

The current article has a more crisply defined scope. If we start from something generic like "false beliefs about gender discrimination", an unsubstantive, angry flamewar is guaranteed. But if we start from something specific like a well-reported study that turned out to be wrong, there's at least a chance that the discussion can keep its head. Edit: especially if the first comments don't chop it off (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21329159).
Well, of course - these are 'Blockbuster' films, designed with high budgets, like AAA games - they need to be guaranteed to make back a significant investment made into something with such high production values.

South Park recently lambasted this in S26E02, 'Band in China,' where we saw a host of characters on their way to China - part of a group the series was lambasting on selling out to China with regards to censorship. The characters had been 'selling out' to expand their financial markets to China.

A film usually needs to make back twice its budget in order to be deemed a 'financial success.' If that film has a budget of $80-180mil, the execs are going to want it to fly with the lowest common denominator. If it happens to actually say something as well, and become critically-acclaimed, such as Joker, or the Dark Knight, well, that's an exception.

tl;dr: High budget superhero action films need to be guaranteed to make their budget back. They are made to hit the lowest common denominator and sell tickets. If they happen to be brilliant they are an outlier to the rule.
I'd love to hear some contrasting viewpoints on these posts. It seems like they have a reasonable stance at first glance.
That is why there are no fair wages in capitalism and everyone is underpaid