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Why do you assume that inequality somehow is responsible for a decline in quality of life?

The existence of the top 0.1% essentially has zero impact on grocery prices, healthcare, housing, etc.

> One could call gasoline tax "confiscation" bridges toll "redistribution" and, on the other side, call rent "theft".

Rent is voluntary, taxation is not. A bridge toll charges for use, so it’s actually fair. You don’t get charged $3000 to cross the Golden Gate Bridge because you do it in a Porsche.
A vigilante does not need to do illegal things. The literal meaning from latin is "watch stander".
> All I can say is I now understand how the next door neighbor to a serial killer

Hey, i get it, its a little surprising and scary. But this is just a quick reminder that we do the whole innocent until proven guilty thing here in the US. He hasn't been convicted yet, just keep that in mind when thinking about your colleague.
> there are other sources for apps.

From my perspective, your threat model is strange.

I'm most concerned with (1) the device and the OS preventing me from accidentally installing malware in the App Store, (2) preventing drive-by malware from the web browser, (3) secure against physical tampering. High assurance authentication (Touch ID, Face ID, etc) is nice, although the account+device registration+provisioning does prevent me from being anonymous to my phone manufacturer+provider, but I have no expectation of that on a smart phone anyway. If I needed anonymity, I would prefer a prepaid burner be a feature phone with no apps at all.

I don't use iCloud because I don't think it fits within my current threat model. That which is synced to Apple servers (beyond my account/authentication info) is banal stuff. If I needed a more secure communication system, I would use an app specifically designed for it and not owned by an Apple/Facebook, although I'm not sure any lawful company can resist something like a National Security Letter. The best policy is simply not to hand over the content, so it's not subject to the Third Party Doctrine (as flawed as it is).

If a nation-state is attacking me, the best option I have is not to have a listening and tracking device on me all the time and probably to use offline-only devices.
Jokes and silly comments are often downvoated, flagged and even against some of the rules here. Sure,HN is not Reddit ... so when something like this makes the top, it actually does feel kinda nice.

It may be silly, but it gave me a chuckle in an otherwise sad and terrible world. That is worth something today, I think.
Here’s a link to the actual pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/pricing/

This doesn’t show up for me when googling “AWS savings plan pricing”.
Would it be possible to eradicate it from the simian population as well since they are so similar?
I assume it would highly depend on how it is eradicated in humans, but the difficulty in finding and treating them would be balanced by what is I imagine a much lower population.
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A proxy can't cache the ressources anymore.
SSL overhead, CPU used by both parties to do the encryption.
But the ISP can't alter the page.
There's usually a difference between statistics and probability theory, so I was also expecting the measure-theoretic foundations of probability (the advanced point of view). Things like "Covariance, Correlation and Regression" are not about (advanced) probability in a literal sense.

Or, to provide another perspective: The field of stochastics is bigger than just statistics. It includes probability theory as its foundation and then applies it to different domains, including but not limited to statistics.
I think you're the one doing the false equivalency.

I'm not defending Saudi Arabia, which is indeed as backward as it gets, but in the case of Israel, if you want to talk about discrimination and human rights abuse, you cannot ignore (like you did) the way the indigenous population is treated, in what is effectively an apartheid state.
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OOP is just a tool, to be used where appropriate. The only thing wrong with OOP were people who thought, as the article starts:

OOP is considered by many to be the crown jewel of
computer science. The ultimate solution to code
organization. The end to all our problems. The only true
way to write our programs. Bestowed upon us by the one
true God of programming himself…
I wonder if the only part that changed is now the have a user-facing way to deactivate: https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

iMessage was launched in 2011 and archive.org shows that page first showing up in late 2014. I remember hearing very few options for removing your old phone early on.
Isn't that just a mailing list?
Google is a hyperscale version of my often ephemeral attention span
Those who do the replication are also very unlikely to get published, both in success and failure.

My impression is that replication efforts often happen when one group tries to build on another group's work and they get frustrated enough to retry the original assumptions.
its not that simple though. chances are you probably have some sort of sugar in your diet. sugar is a drug/stimulant, just like coffee too
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GraphQL has a very specific cross-functional advantage: it provides a spec for data access, to cut down novel design (of APIs) by backend and frontend.

If Backend have few data entities, or the requirements are extremely clear, your team is not likely to get the full spectrum of benefits.

If you have a large number of existing Backend data entities, or expect a large number to be created - GraphQL is a very handy spec. But if the Frontend/Product are EXPLORING how use the data, and unsure exactly how to best utilize the data types, OR they are supporting many permutations of APIs, GraphQL is a game changer. Write a python decorator to generate resolvers...

- and BOOM, Backend and Frontend will never have to negotiate over a rigid & novel API contract again.

The other stuff, like introspective documentation, sophisticated Frontend state management, and so on are great conveniences, but are not the point.

As far as HTTP2 and Frontend goes, I'm excited as it solves a fundamental networking problem. And theoretically saves us from having to bundle. But this is not what I personally consider a big Frontend problem.

In most large webapps with network-connected components, you don't want each component to make a discrete network call and pump its data straight into the component. Often you will want to use the response and update a global state, to ensure nothing is out of date. This encourages you to colocate your network logic, with some facilities for this. The GraphQL ecosystem ticks this box. Additionally network requests are a complicated flow, due to APIs having different semantics, needing to shunt value objects through promise/callback chains and the need to covering various edge cases. This encourages codification of network logic, which again, GraphQL does a great job of.

This is of course quite complicated stuff, and if you don't need the Frontend magic - you can just put your GraphQL query on a fetch, and use it like a REST endpoint.

And of course - if you don't really need the spec, I'd say think very hard before adding GraphQL.

That said, big fan of HTTP2 (although last I looked, the perf envelope created by plotting no. of connections against speed, the shape told me "don't rely on this yet").
It says more about investor stupidity than it says about Adam Neumann. IMO, most investors are pretty stupid. Like herd animals.
It was unreasonable.

1. You can build systems in a way that every access is strictly logged and audited.

2. Many companies like Facebook or Google employ engineers who could be possibly spying for Russia or China. But the systems and trust models are designed with this in mind.

Here we see unrestricted access to user data, not even sure there’s audit logging in place.
Cheaper than TV per eyeball, typically no, minimum spend on TV is higher because of the minimum purchase (i.e. number of impacts for your demographic for a spot is typically high).

TV typically caters for the big brands who want the mass public to know about their brand/product.

Targeted advertising is starting to emerge on TV, where you basically have the digital model of targeting and ad at an individual, the cost per individual is then higher than broadcast ads.
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I did some consulting for a Telco on their billing run. It ran on a very, very large computer for its day. The run typically took 16+ hours, sometimes as many as 22 hours, leading to some very white knuckle moments when it threatened to delay the start of the next day's run.
Just TY!
You seem like a fun person to have a conversation with!

I kind of feel to be in a bit of a similar predicament.

If you're up for it, my email is in my profile.
if I remember correctly (at least a few months ago) you had to enable a flag in Firefox to make it work
This is traditional spycraft and HUMINT. Targeted intelligence collection of persons of interests will always be a problem, but it's not problem threatening the whole society as mass surveillance is.

Twitter (and Yahoo) deserve kudos for fighting back and being uncooperative. Twitter refused to join PRISM.
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Every fraudulent paper adds to the scientific noise rather than to the scientific information.

Not only are they wasting their own funding, they are also wasting other people's time and money who often can't afford to ignore prior work. At the very least such papers come up in peer review.

And apparently, fraudulent papers can get cited quite a lot in practice!
Fingerprints can be stolen. A fingerprint is an obfuscated username, it's not a replacement for a password.
So I'm an entrepreneur and I think this is a negative and unhealthy attitude. It also just doesn't make sense. If you're an entrepreneur, is everyone that helps you build your company a loser?

It comes down to risk tolerance. Some people can tolerate more risk and desire more automony. For me, I view my company as a combination of many dreams. I don't make all the decisions or come up with all of the ideas. I actually find encouraging autonomy and mastery, my employees are more productive and happier.

It also seems wrong to morally judge people for living a life they want to live. For too many people simply having a stable job is a dream.
I have ordered from Thriftbooks dozens of times. The only two things that happened was one package theft (obviously not their fault, but they re-sent the books for free, no questions asked), and one extra shipment of books I had not ordered (this was probably someone else's order that they sent me).
> I love fun toys like this and would love an awesome list of them if anyone has one.

From the Bastard Operator From Hell series:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl

https://meyerweb.com/feeds/excuse/
She should get funding from someone like the Gates Foundation. After all, she could save them money and time.
Chances are, whatever laptop gets made with that new chip will just have a thinner battery and the same battery life unfortunately :(
> the people who are getting screwed here are the advertisers

and the readers / users
Worst writeup on the subject I've seen so far.
Your analysis completely ignores the capital costs associated with building out a variable demand system. Every battery built will tie up a certain amount of money into fixing grid pricing variability, as well as depreciate in value and usefulness over time.

If electric overproduction is an infrequent enough condition, it may well be cheaper to waste energy than to build a battery that just sits there 300+ days a year doing nothing.
Plenty of people are saying it should be purely biometric. For example, iPhones. (Though they do it better than the vast majority of implementations!)
Problems from "one IO device to rule them all" standpoint? Sure. Problems for capturing a huge chunk of the market and being generally useful? Not really.

> The lack of any outside visibility is a huge problem for families. It is anti-social.

Come on. This way you could say most of gaming is antisocial, because a lot of interesting games (most of them, to me) are single-player experience. There are many people, people with families, for whom playing games (or watching movies for that matter) is about games (and movies), and not about an excuse to be with other people.

Also, you can always stream the game to another device for other family member(s) to watch.

> Small kids can't be near you while you are using VR.

I guess it depends on how old they are, but my wife and I divide forces: one of us watches the kid, the other plays, then we switch.

> Pets can't really be near you.

My pet doesn't mind. It understands that the person standing there in the middle of the room (which is weird behavior) with a box on their head is ignoring it, and making sudden moves.

> It's very difficult to share your experience with other people.

Experience? Not really. You just stream the game. Interacting with other people while playing, Twitch-like? That's more difficult, so the showbusiness part of the gaming market has a problem, but this doesn't affect people who want to actually play a game.

> I also question the accessibility of VR. At what severity of physical impairment does VR become unusable?

VR requires sight, and some control over hands; depending on the game, this may expand into total motor control. The requirements for most games is fundamentally the same as for "regular" games you play with mouse+keyboard / gamepad.

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Working AR will obviously have more total utility than VR, so it's good to pursue it. But VR exists here and now, while AR is still science-fiction (HoloLens beginning to scratch the surface, and no, overlaying stuff over image of the world captured by a camera doesn't count as proper AR). However, VR can be used to simulate, experiment with and prototype future AR applications, so it's weird to just abandon it.
Some of the drugs HIV+ people are put on could have long term effects on the brain and other organs:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/07/16/1566929...

Some of the older drug combinations were very troublesome. They've gotten better and people live longer, yes .. but they could have a lot of long term toxicity that's hard to judge until we can study groups of people who've survived on them into their later years.

You can control and even reverse type-2 diabetes by cutting sugars and starches from your diet if you do it early and are diligent. HIV infections cannot be reversed. Once you have it, you'll likely be on drugs for the rest of your life.
Personally, I like WebSub a lot more than ActivityPub for this use case. ActivityPub seems really complicated (there's inboxes and actors and objects and activities and like twenty different message types), while WebSub is pretty much just a way to broadcast "hey, my feed updated, go download it if you want":

https://indieweb.org/How_to_publish_and_consume_WebSub
A space that doesn't qualify as a bedroom is typically referred to as a "bonus room". Finished basements are one example.
> allow us to side-load apps

It's a feature to me that I can't accidentally download an (potentially hostile) app from a (potentially hostile) app store, but a bug.
“Plastic sarcophagus” is going to make me chuckle all day, thank you.
There is also a reason people lock themselves in their rooms to play games and watch TV shows, or schedule those activities around the time everyone else in the family is either not present or asleep. People like both social and individual activities, and I don't understand how VR serving primarily the latter is to be considered a problem.
Ask HN: Is there a browser-based Android app development IDE?
I don't particularly enjoy Android Studio as an IDE.

As I see the rise of browser-based IDE like VS Code online (see another post these days), maybe there would be a ready-to-use Android dev environment in a browser?

Maybe with cloud based compiling?
Yes but a lot of users with real world experience.

"Getting your VR legs" is definitely a real thing.
Well that's patently stupid. Hard to believe more than 5% of attendees would be willing to pay a penny for a signup.

Also, the $200M valuation is bonkers, there's no moat and no reasonable earning potential. Meetup should be a small scale self-funding service.
TLS takes considerably more watts of power on the basis it actually does more work and shuffles more electrons around the CPU. I suppose that loosely converts into carbon footprint.

However even if it is an issue, most sites sending 6 meg of JavaScript crap down that gets recompiled on every visitor’s machine, autoplaying videos and advertising would be doing more damage. So if anyone is going to complain they should probably start there...
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Towards the end of the article there is discussion of coming factors that may eliminate the negative price shutdowns: a) construction of grid interconnects to New South Wales, and b) new pumped hydro storage to enable time shifting (i.e. using daytime power to enable nighttime generation).
Just a few minutes ago I had a very similar situation, although at day time. I was going at about 40 kmph straight forward my lane near a bus standing at a bus stop at the right side of the street. At the moment I was passing the bus, a young person almost jumped out in front of me, maybe 15-25 meters away. They were hidden behind the bus, so I had no way to see this coming in advance. Fortunately they realized I was coming and backed off and I also managed to stop completely before them.

So if my reaction was 5.7 seconds, I'd definitely have applied brakes far too late. I conclude the total time from classifying the object moving into my way and applying brakes was less than a second. (And btw, my car has emergency braking / pedestrian avoiding system and it didn't trigger, so I was faster).
Atlanta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Atlanta

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Right. Forgot about the obvious. This is how the headset knows where it is in the world, and also how it remembers designated play areas. The UX around it is a bit buggy, but I've successfully worked with one "walking" area in one room, and another "sitting" area in a different room, and the headset would usually remember both, so I didn't have to redraw them every time.
This is exactly why TV advertising is still important to those brands!
makes you wonder how it all stopped rather
Do prions actually lead to Alzheimer's? I've read a lot of conflicting articles on that lately.
For every telecom company I worked for, billing was a mess.
> It doesn't for people with spouses and children.

It works perfectly well, to the extent that any single-player activity works with spouses and children. Source: I have a spouse, a child, and a VR headset.
> If only life were all twisties and race tracks, but in reality it’s mostly traffic jams.

Even if this is the case, you're better off with an econobox daily driver and a second specialy fitted track car with the correct safety equipment (5 point harness, Hans device, roll cage, fire suppression).

Source: I'm an amature race car driver. High performance cars for everyday public road driving is silly and wasteful (both financially and in terms of underutilizing the vehicle).
Take a look at the full-size image: there's plenty of clear clone tool action going on in there. The red blob is particularly damning.

https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/11744616805808824...
Lol, when I took psilocybin (Amsterdam, truffles, one dose, legal), I couldn't even follow any instruction let alone meditate. Up to a point, I even lost my language abilities.
If only there were a way for people to improve the article.

(Spoiler: I just did)
My blog's ActivityPub system is both pushing content out (similar to, but not quite the same as, RSS) and accepts responses as comments (nothing like RSS).

(My blog's currently down due to too much unrelated tinkering).
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"You won't learn"? Learn what?

That is just elitist talk about thinking there is a correct way to use those drugs. "Abusing drugs" while listening to calm music is not better than "abusing drugs" while watching a funny movie. There is no higher purpose and there is so much myth around these drugs that people say to make themselves feel good.

The best way to ensure a good trip is to be comfortable yes but to be alone with your thoughts listening to some calming music that they usually not listen to is not comfortable for a lot of people. That is how people end up thinking they must think about rough stuff, end up in negative thought loops and as they are not used to the drug it scares them and they cannot easily get out.

If they instead focus on just enjoying the serotonin and fun visuals while doing something that you almost certainly know you will love it will usually work out better. That could be watching a movie, listening to music they love, chat about fun memories, watch a tv-show that they have seen tons of time before but always gives them comfort.

If they then become uncomfortable their brain will be back on topic quickly because they are doing something that love. Meditation and shit like that can come later when they know how a trip is, know it will end, know how it can feel in their body and mind.
I find it kind of funny that 5 (?) decades of Intel - AMD competition still haven't persuaded you to not call AMD "off-brand".

It's a bit like calling Pepsi "off-brand", in my opinion :-)
Humans are very unlikely to go completely extinct in the next decades.
That's even better -- I imagine that those systems can turn on and off much more quickly than smelters.
Thanks I'll take a look.
You can but most don't, even Twitter size, that's the lesson. And audit doesn't protect from leakage.

Please note, I'm not saying Gitlab response was appropriate, I totally agree with your second point. I'm saying the demand was genuine.
The question of VR motion sickness is not something you want to ask developers, but actual users.
Aspiration is a large part of advertising.
It's not just that you won't go out but that Mercades, most of us never will be able to afford one, but we all know its a luxurious product, a sign of wealth and 'doing well'. That's in large part because of the brand image, if you bought the same car with a Ford badge would they be able to charge as much?
We understand psylocibin a lot better than many think, a lot of three knowledge has just been ignored for a long time. In the fifties they achieved great results in the treatment of addiction that are just starting to be rediscovered now.
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