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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

This one's for you if you want to learn or just recap principles of computers (and read on evolution as well). I just started reading it and found it suprisingly easy to follow. It's perfect if you like things explained step-by-step and in a simple way.
You are not supposed to know.

You are supposed to be an income source for American Traffic Solutions, Redflex Traffic Systems, and the city in question. It isn't about safety anymore. It is about money.

Cities are known across the country to make yellow timing extra short to increase the money.
https://www.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-sho...
> the vast majority of climate scientists

"97% of climate scientists!!!" right?

http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html
I’m not a network expert, but doesn’t TLS just cover your connection with a specific website? Since your IPS is often also your DNS, can’t they still see which specific websites you’re trying to connect to? Wouldn’t TLS just obfuscate what you’re specifically sending to and receiving from that site? I’m under the impression that my ISP can (and probably does) see every website I visit, which is in the least browsing history.

I also remember that Comcast did (and might still do) inject code onto websites to display a “pop-up” indicating that you’re reaching or have reached your datacap. It would even pop up on Steam because most of Steam is really just a webview. I’m not sure exactly how they did/do that.

Again, I’m not a network or security expert, so I’m not really sure of how TLS protects your internet history, which I take to mean a list of websites you visit and when.
There's less conflict if you release the features in the same compiler of course, but it's definitely not "perfectly fine".

My blog posts give some more color on that, but also see:

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/the-future-of-ppx/3766 (breakage)

https://words.steveklabnik.com/an-overview-of-macros-in-rust (breakage)

Also, OCaml has had at least 4 different metaprogramming systems -- ocamlmeta, camlp4, ppx, etc. Rust is getting its second one post-1.0 as AFAIU.

There are lots of open problems related to metaprogramming and type system design because they interact heavily.

This blog posts also hints at that: https://nim-lang.org/araq/v1.html

In contrast, in Lisp, metaprogramming is "just programming".
What is the number 1 problem with TikTok?
At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms
Yes, network KVMs are expected of any co-location center. You want to be able to access the console and the power switches of any real physical server without having to send someone out to the center, and is a common feature of most high end data centers.

Even a lot of VM/cloud systems have some kind of virtual management console (Linode has their LISH system that lets you SSH in to console and Vultr/Digital Ocean have similar web based consoles .. AWS surprisingly doesn't. You can get console output but can't send VMs any console input).

Not only should have NordVPN been aware of this hardware KVM, they should have secured it and had version checks on its firmware as an essential part of their security. I could see this oversight with other companies, but not with one whose primary business claims to be security.
> Moving %TEMP% to a RAM drive made the builds noticeably faster and also left the system responsive, even during two concurrent 20-way parallel builds (40 compile jobs in parallel, no loss of system responsiveness).

This matters more than anything else. You can play all you want with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY or whatever else markings but the OS will just not care about them enough.
The question is not what should have been used. The question is what should be used right now.
My home ISP, for example, will replace anything you request on port 53 by their DNS results, with ads and sites blocked by incompetence.
Mark Kern is a gamergater primarily known for his really bad takes, this is not a hasty generalization.

>brand the whole thing as a "ridiculous conspiracy theory"?

Oh no, I just stopped reading after I reached the ridiculous conspiracy theory. My comment is regarding the part I quoted.
The point is, when they're the no. 1 result, they're kind not because there is two or three competitors that shows up as ads above the search results.
His point is completely unrelated to elm-lang. So why does it need to be made on every elm-lang thread?

This is like complaining about Java every time somebody brings up Javascript.
I wouldn't drop a slogan that forces attacks of convulsive laughter (like “don't be evil” does coming from Google). There is no such thing as bad publicity.
The only true diversity in human affairs is Intellectual diversity -- which is the antithesis of the goal of all corporate "diversity" campaigns: Virtual Signaling for Profit.
See also stuff like Paradox's con and MechCon.
Power consumers won’t make the distinction between both scenarios; their power is off in both cases.
I don't know I can say it more clearly. I can sort of repeat what I said.

Instead of two factors (intelligence, and effort), let's just take one factor (effort).

One person works 12 hours a day. We know people can only work 2x as hard as this person. Yet, there are many people who are more than 2x as rich. Hence, effort alone doesn't fully explain the difference.

That is it. You can get that argument right there.

Do you need me to do a computer simulation? Will that make the argument stronger? Even if the argument is mathematical?

Or will you look at my simulation and say, "ah, I think you made an error here by not accounting for sleep efficiency fully, so I think this theory is wrong."
> For one Teavana listing, the top customer review says the tea had a “terrible chemical smell” possibly from spoiled fruit

It seems like an exaggeration, the listing states that the product got a 4.5/5 rating.(https://www.amazon.com/Teavana-Beach-Bellini-2-lbs/dp/B07B3Q...)
Your counterargument proves too much; if "people" don't have agency then you can't blame anyone for anything, including being unable to blame the Mongols for anything about modern China. The concept of blame becomes entirely pointless.

This may, in fact, be true. But in this specific context, it's an argument that proves too much.
True. Otherwise the "Internet of Things" becomes the "Botnet of Things" as time has already shown. However, once a botnet is used for sex trafficking, it's sure to be taken much more seriously.
Other than B and C and D and K, what other 1 letter languages are there?
That's not "funny" enough, unless the "!!" is replaced by an emoji.
Just looks like it thinks it's printing to terminal due to misconfiguration. Check out what went wrong or find the appropriate ansi --color/--no-color toggle.
There’s a lot of room for survivorship bias in this rosy picture...

A classic counter example is how long it took for hand hygiene to be accepted as an important aspect of medical practice. The cost was just about zero. The benefit: thousands of human lives saved. Still took a hell of a long time.
More importantly, don't do anything private on a networked computer. As the daily breaches show, there is no such thing as computer security in 2019.
Lifestyle is a threat to gut bacteria: Ötzi proves it, study shows
IQ numbers are normalized which should make it no surprise that histogram of IQ numbers form a normal distribution. It's in the definition. IQ numbers only indicate a relative position to the rest of the population. Basically (110IQ-100IQ) != (120IQ-110IQ).
They could argue that they don't have proof that the exposed private key led to a personal data breach.
> I don't understand this argument as the fossil fuel industry is worth many trillions of dollars, so the argument is much stronger in favour of them being the ones not wanting to change.

Those vested in the success of fossil fuels have much bigger issues than what the public thinks of them. Their markets are much more efficient and global.

Things like controlling prices through limiting supply, currency manipulation, trade routes, economic sanctions, etc. are top of mind for fossil fuel producers.

I think it's fair to say that the challenges faced by climate protection interests are probably a few magnitudes smaller than what's faced by fossil fuel interests.
IMO, the device should require MFA to be configured before working, using it without one should be left at most as an “advanced setting”.
As a professor of political science once told our class...

"How do you solve long-running civil war?"

"Murder all the grandmothers."

His point being that they were (a) the only ones who survived into old age (everyone else getting murdered) & (b) were thereby the ones educating a new generation in the hatreds of the old.

He was only half-joking.

But it really made me think about, as you say, just how long it takes for institutions to be built in a society. Which is order-of-"the time it takes for mindsets to change (usually via death) or new generations to rise into power (~40 years)".

I'd never really thought about it that way before.
the inverse square law always applies, hence the law part.
Calling it incompetence lets them off the hook I think. This was a deliberate choice to keep customers in the dark, which is worse IMO.
Being such a person is totally fine (I’m one myself). What’s damning is the fact that this list is largely composed of just such people (plus some that are less qualified).
As an aside, I've been reading the Matt Levine newsletter over the last few days, and I've really enjoyed it. Does anyone have any recommendations for other good newsletters of this kind?
I find NordVPN's marketing reprehensible. Too many claims and broad strokes about the "anonymity" their service can provide.

While I certainly would recommend that US consumers use a VPN router to prevent their ISP from selling data, I think NordVPN really overplays the role of changing IP addresses in the age of browser fingerprinting.
New Way Found to Use Alexa, Google to ‘Voice Phish’ and Eavesdrop on Users
At the same time, Saudi is also a country that is basically dependent on expats. You've labours who are mainly from South Asia (who are treated like shit, btw) and majority of the technical/exec jobs are held by expats as well. If you were to take all the expats away tomorrow, there's no way that country is able to self sustain. I spent 5-6 years in Saudi Arabia growing up and if you have ever lived there, you know this is true.
Can you describe the basis for your "Google sic the police on the homeless" comment? There was a shitty local magazine article about this but my personal experience does not match this perception at all.
I think it's fair to disregard the analysis at that point since the author demonstrates they cannot necessarily be trusted to interpret the facts.
Yeah, I think that's their only option actually.
Podchaser Releases a Newsfeed Feature to Discover Podcasts
> kidney pain

I've had trouble finding good studies on this. I don't think it's true. I've been on pretty hard keto for over two years at a time. I know other friends who have and have never heard of kidney trouble.

You occasionally have a day or two where you eat out with friends or have some fried chicken every month, and initially there is a period where you feel sick for a week as your body withdraws from sugar, but other than that I've never had kidney issues and my blood work has always come back fine.

With Adkins you do start reintroducing some carbs eventually, but you still keep it under a limit, and go back down if you start getting unhealthy.
Avast Network Breached as Hackers Target CCleaner Again
Do they have to admit it though? Is there any way an observer of the event could actually tell that the questioners were all plants?
Your comment does not contradict parent, it supports it.
Simple guide for ensemble learning methods
Yeah, I clicked this assuming (with a bit of surprise) that Google's IoT device security is as paper-thin as all the rest, but this was 100% user error. I don't know what he expects Google to do about it.
I wish this kind of opinion would've been spread more widely within the Arch universe (wiki / IRC) so outsiders can understand what we actually gained from switching to systemd.

It still feels like many people hate systemd but the reasons that are presented all sound totally valid from a programmers' perspective.
And they are extremely profitable, unlike WeWork.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/business/saudi-aramco-pro...
I do find that interpretation of nosql vs sql very interesting. Personally I believe that the difference between them is slowly fading. E.g. at FaunaDb which most would probably categorize as a no-sql we do offer joins and other typical relational functionalities (and we do offer SQL as well). I'm particularly interested in how developers today look at what is the difference between SQL and no-SQL.
Macy’s Reduces Product Returns with VR
"To recap, in early 2018, one isolated datacenter in Finland was accessed without authorization. That was done by exploiting a vulnerability of one of our server providers that hadn’t been disclosed to us. No user credentials have been intercepted. No other server on our network has been affected. The affected server does not exist anymore and the contract with the server provider has been terminated."

Not sure what you're asking for? If someone doesn't understand that, then they probably aren't using a VPN.
IQ and income are correlated fairly strongly. It's obviously not a perfect correlation.

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/06/correlation...
>Blizzard made a mistake and they are refusing to learn from it.

That's the standard Blizzard MO in everything from business decisions to gameplay patches in all their games.
Microsoft Tackles Election Security with Bug Bounties
It's not like you're running a website on there - all you have to keep secure is SSH and your VPN. Keeping up to date with security updates and using a strong password (or better yet, private key) is essentially all you need to do.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to random non-technical people, but I figure most HN users could figure it out.
What about if its a robot AGI testing humans. And what if the AGI is planning on using sentient physical robots to kidnap the baby?

And WHAT IF, that robot is going to be the next robot. Solf and marketed by google amd amazon as you home security robot designed to prorotect your beby from being kidnapped.

Its the robots!!!!!
>retreats for the next 30 years to build strategic power while the rest of the world gets distracted by the next Thing.

You could argue that China may have worked like that in the past, but they don't under Xi. Dictators are never very patient. They are too concerned with personal power to put long term interests ahead of personal gain.

Just look at the HK situation for evidence. All they had to do was keep going slowly and wait till 2047, but Xi couldn't handle looking weak.
And, where else are people "driving through" supposed to get fuel, exactly? If not for the towns they pass through? Good grief...
This is called Hypochondria.
It really stands out with Elm and Rust and is much appreciated.

A human/e interface to compiler errors is critical to me. It means the difference between the compiler being an ally and the compiler being an enemy (or maybe a teacher who thinks you're just a bad student and is going to give you a bad grade no matter what, not that there's any scar tissue there).

Matters the world to me personally in terms of my enjoyment and flow and represents the kind of computing I want to do.
If you're running your own VPN, fine.

If you're using something like NordVPN, you're just swapping one shady outfit for another. Worse, in many cases.

Might be better to just wait until you land.
> You have to keep two ports locked down

That's what NordVPN thought as well
Pitney Bowes Hit with Ransomware Attack
Looking into it. Can be a connectivity issue.
> "things I did not consent to be sent away or billed externally."

This may be the thing that most baffles me about this: how can you be held responsible for costs you never agreed to?

Mysterious medical costs popping up that you were never aware of and never agreed to, sounds like a recipe for fraud and extortion.
Wait, do I hear you correctly?

Google and Uber have to be ethical because we expect them to be, and Blackwater does not have to be ethical because we don't expect it of them?
So, Winnie-the-Pooh outfits for everyone?
And those noooooo screams when your speedcode generator writes all over memory crashing the system and you did not save for an hour...

Luckily memory contents (including source code) was often still in RAM after reboot.

RAM disks were pretty common that time. Especially if you had lots of fast RAM, but no hard disk. It also usually survived reboot.

Other common demo writing tools included CygnusEd (text editor), Directory Opus (file management), Deluxe Paint, various crunchers and packers, graphics conversion utilities, Noise/Pro/whatever trackers and of course X-Copy.
Yeah, the word for this is 'negligence'. Sounds like someone should get sued at the very least.
No that is an entirely different beast :)

Both projects took the inspiration for the name from the same thing though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
Imperva: Data Breach Caused by Cloud Misconfiguration
Still the comment about citing one unique sample to overthrow a general assessment from much larger sample size...

You seem to be blindly lucky and do not really appreciate that...
A simplistic "computer model", interesting. But not science.
One hundred years is way too long to predict, but Pynchon. Perhaps Delillo and Murakami. Roth. Also Bolaño, though he died in 2003.
After you stopped having problems with the bread did you ever try to log in with another account and buy it with another credit card and send it to another address - I just wonder if the seller retooled and put in an array of accounts that must not be screwed over because they complain too hard. I guess I'm overly paranoid.
The 'requires extra work from the developer' would be the main way to improve on NetlifyCMS. You have to create a schema, and then translate the schema and any changes into an editor component. How does Tina do it without this?
It's in python3 https://github.com/jimktrains/ffsyncsearch I just pushed some of my last changes and it'll grab and decrypt all of the collections stored. Like I said, I hadn't got it to a point where I saved and indexed everything, but my intent was to start with postgresql's full text search and go from there. I also wouldn't mind some help cleaning up the code some as it is more proof-of-concept right now.
The Notebook Anti-Pattern
.WAVs Hide Malware in Their Depths in Innovative Campaign
It also ignores that some VPN services have proven their no logging claims in court, multiple times.
The Internet and the Third Estate
"The Rust Programming Language" https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
What if nord vpn is a government operation? Why wouldnt it be?
> SSL isn't really designed to protect the content of your connection anyway: due to size and timing attacks, people have deployed practical implementations of stuff like "figure out where I am looking at on Google Maps" and "figure out what movie I am watching on Netflix", and while I haven't seen a practical implementation of it yet, "learn too much about my search queries due to find-as-you-type".

A VPN won't protect you from these sidechannel attacks.
>It's as though someone just finished explaining why vaccines are believed not to cause autism, and you respond "actually, this particular study you cited surveyed 924 people, not a thousand like you said. Looks like the pro-vax cult can't seem to stop lying!"

That'd be a mistake, or just poor wording. It kind of sounds like you're accusing me of some kind of silly pedantry here?

There's simply no way one could mistakenly arrive at the conclusion that this post might have originated from China, Mark Kern absolutely knew what he was doing when he dropped that insinuation. There's simply does not exist a single shred of evidence to support the "possibly China" claim.

Had he just left it at "overseas" then you could absolutely dismiss this as a mere mistake, he did not.
> What is the utility of atrocity memories, for those who were subjected to them?

What do you suggest the Congolese tell their children happened for that block of time? What should they tell them when they ask about the mass graves? Their relatives who didn't survive, or the ones who did who just sit quietly in the corner and jump every time someone picks up a belt?

The traumatic history is their only history for this time period. That's not to say that nothing good happened anywhere, but this is akin to saying that the German curriculum should just pretend nothing happened between 1935 and 1950. Just because it was horrific doesn't change that it happened.

> I absolutely own my first world, non-minority entitlement here.

Are you, though? Because this is exactly how people talk to victims of rape or other violent crime; there's no use in recounting your trauma, just move on. As though that never occurred to them. As though that's not what they're trying to do, literally all the time. An emotional wound does not have a logical solution.

And the problem is impossible magnitudes larger when the victim wasn't a person, but a nation. I don't pretend to know what the average Congolese feels about this, but I have to figure those who know the history see the evidence and the landmarks of colonialism everywhere. And those who don't still suffer under it's long term effects.

> Stories should be told to move people forward. And if they don't do that, then aren't they themselves tools of oppression?

I would say they're effects of oppression. When you receive a really bad wound to your body, it leaves a scar. It probably doesn't hurt, maybe just feels strange when you move it just right, but it's there. Every time you see it, and for the rest of your life, you'll remember how you got it, whether it was a fun drunken stunt that went wrong, or whether you were ambushed in a park at night and nearly gutted for $12 in your pocket. You'll remember, you can't not. To say that the Congo and countries like it should just stop talking about their nation's collective injustice and just "get over it" is catastrophic simplification of a lot of human pain and suffering, and I'm sorry but when you're more closely affiliated with the side that did the oppressing than the suffering, it sounds a hell of a lot like trying to whitewash history because you don't like how it makes you feel.

If hearing this stuff makes you feel shitty, good. That's the correct reaction to learning about horrific events that have contributed, non-trivially, to the lifestyle you have. Now the next step, if you're inclined, is to get involved in activism that seeks to at least attempt to make these countries whole again, to share the benefits that the developed world has seen, and not just in the "whatever falls off the table is yours" way, but to find them a seat at that table.
Ask HN: How do you handle blocking on your site?
I'm interested in how people are handling blocking of ads and javascript on their various web sites and web apps.

I have uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and selective javascript blocking on all the time and occasionally notice it affecting the sites I'm on, understandably.

How do you prepare for users doing this type of blocking?

Do you test for third party and javascript blocking?
When you don't publicly dissociate your company/party/whatev from statements that are made by people associated with your company/etc, people will take that as tacit acceptance or approval.

Blizzard's initial response was awful, and they've done little IMO to walk back from that. However, they do have a right (and the responsibility) to enforce their policies. Hopefully, if this same situation occurs again, they respond with something less than the nuclear option.
Developer Relations and Developer Marketing they aren’t the same thing