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Infantry fire teams have designated team members with machine guns for this reason. It's not at all hard to find service members writing about why infantry squad members don't need fully automatic weapons at all: they waste ammo, they aren't more effective at neutralizing targets, they increase collateral damage, and they're harder to maintain.

My point, then, is that the argument that a weapon is or isn't "military" ("tactical" is the right term) based on fully-automatic fire capability simply fails. It's just not true. Not historically, and not in modern practice. Rather, it's something that civilian firearm advocates want to be true so they can avoid serious debates; it's one of a small collection of "mic drop" arguments like "Heller" or "3D printing" or "sporting rifles" that exist to cut off discussion rather than furthering it.

The "gun violence done with hand guns" argument is another of the same species. Clearly, hand guns kill more people in the US than tactical rifles. Cars kill more people than either, and opioids more than cars, and heart disease more than opioids. There are particularized reasons we care about each of these things, and public policy debates aren't serialized so that we must first dispense with the opioid epidemic before we deal with the problem of military weapons that enable people to barricade themselves in high-rise hotels to kill dozens of people attending an outdoor concert, and that allow mass shooters on foot to stand off beat officers and force them to wait for reinforcements before confronting someone killing schoolchildren at random.

If RPGs were regulated the way tactical rifles are now, you'd have the same argument; no doubt fewer people would die by portable artillery than by handguns as well! Your argument proves too much; that's a strong sign that it isn't valid.
Ah I see there’s the opt in. In that case Microsoft telemetry is opt in too. You bought into Windows and agreed with the EULA after all.
Just the examples you already have in the article.

For example, for "Example 1: nullthrows" there's no code for that example that I can see without enabling javascript in my browser.

Or when you write: "Here's how we could implement that as a function in javascript:" there's no code that I can see there either.

It's the same for every other code block in the article. All invisible without javascript.
Here's what ham radio really needs: transceivers that can be controlled by an easy to use Android or iPhone app. The current user experience is so far behind.

Oh, we also need handheld transceivers that can be charged with a standard mobile phone charger.

The Xaomi Mijia Walkie-Talkie has all of this, but in the U.S. you have have to side load a hacked Android app to get it. Not quite there
I remember once listing some item. I think it was an adapter for a USB-C dongle.

The seller listed the dongle as one dongle per model it covered.

Example:

DONGLE for iPad Pro

DONGLE for MacBook

DONGLE for MacBook Pro 13-Inch

DONGLE for MacBook Pro 15-Inch

DONGLE for MacBook Pro 16-Inch

DONGLE for Samsung Note 7

DONGLE for Samsung Note 7 (GTA Edition)

and so on...

The first four or five pages were flooded with THE SAME DAMN ITEM. It was not the one I wanted. It was one of those "$0.01" parts with a $7.99 S&H.

This makes the "Sort by Price" worthless; and that's what I used to use to get myself into the ballpark of where I wanted to be.
For MX518 lovers, I've got a strong recommendation for G400s. The shape is almost the same and it's amazing how durable it is. The cable issue is still there, just like in MX518, and eventually (I am guessing) that's the reason I'll have to switch to something else.

I've been using both of them for years and years. Amazing.
It’s the fidget spinner among mice. I use it mostly when working on windows where the Magic Trackpad isn’t really an option
I think the way I'm coming to see Amazon is like a street vendor. If it's something I would be willing to buy from a random guy on a street, then sure, I can buy it from Amazon. If I need more assurances... it's a poor source.
For example, AWS China and Azure Operated by 21Vianet (official name of Azure China) are operated independently by Chinese companies, and have incomplete integrations with the rest of their services, because of how hard Chinese govt compliance is. And GCP only has a location in Hong Kong, which means Chinese users can mostly access it but it's unreliable https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/migration/issues/649

This gives Alibaba a huge advantage domestically.
Rest assured they will not sit tight but rush to get customers migrating off of the Google Cloud.
Windows Phone was like the opposite of Microsoft's strategy over the last several decades. They decided to move fast and break things like we're all told to do and they were roundly punished in the marketplace for it.
Exactly. I’ve been saying for years that the key to greater density in SF is transit. Trying to force developers to build high density housing is pushing on a string; make the place desirable for commuters, and density will follow the demand.

HN’s average level of discourse on housing policy tends not to be particularly intelligent. Mostly folks who read the first chapter of their econ 101 textbook, then got bored.
I sell my trash on eBay as most of it is in pretty bad shape when I get it. Any ideas where to get better quality trash than Bed Bath and Beyond, Staples, Harbor Freight ewaste pickups and transfer stations?
Google is quite the opposite, they only do things that scale. Making customers happy isn't something that scales, so they avoid it actively.
No change to the American system is being proposed. They are instead advocating that workers use the rights they have already been assigned, the same rights that have been exercised in many other American industries (electrical, auto, steel, etc) to form unions.
If you are interested in a bunch of ethical commentary regarding self-drving. Radiolab did a very interesting episode awhile ago:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/drive...
I've tried both and imo mattermost has the edge when it comes to hooks and integrations. It's also insanely flexible with the configuration options it gives. The one thing I don't like about zulip topics... Not really my thing...
Not directly related, but as a philosophy undergrad at Berkeley, I was disappointed with the lack of classes/studies dedicated to the field I call: Philosophy of Technology.
We've changed to the Reuters article from https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/bloomberg-lp-fi.... Thanks!
Used Alexa to Play Board Games and Now I Never Have to Play with My Family Again
And how did they make billions? By helping patients.
The sad state of personal data and infrastructure
The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf]
Honestly didn’t realize I felt this way until I read that. We need social networks that actually allow you to meet people, not compete with your friends for likes. It’s not the same because the social networks are focused more on consumption than creation.
The MX anywhere is not meant to compete with the MX/MX2S/MX3. The "Anywhere" is a portable mouse, hence the laser cover. The MX 2S and 3 are meant to be left on a desk.
That may be true in the context described in the article, but right-wing populists, racists and neo nazis are definitely having the upper hand elsewhere using EXACTLY the same playbook Trump is.
I always love a new map, and I can only judge New York City, but for that city, this isn't an improvement.

It'd be fine in Manhattan, but it makes it look like the Queens and Brooklyn lines are super close, even walkable, when in fact they're miles apart.

Someone may look at this map and (correctly) think that walking from the 4 to the N in Manhattan is easy, so you can also walk from the J in Brooklyn to the R in Queens, which would be, I don't know, at least an hour's walk.

I think it's prioritizing aesthetic beauty over function.
I heard they banned the sale of vape products. They aren't throwing people in jail for vaping.
Can confirm, San Diego along the coast really does not need neither A/C or Heating. Go inland 10+ miles and it is a different story.
> There is a theorem which says that given any chess engine, it's impossible to decide if that chess engine is playing in an optimal way.

Careful with that formulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game

Several major strategy games, notably checkers, have been formally solved. That does make it possible to prove that some engines for those games behave in an optimal way (although it would still be impossible to verify whether an arbitrary program is equivalent to an optimal engine, because the arbitrary program could do something else first whose outcome couldn't be foreseen by the optimal-engine detector).

Although chess has a higher branching factor and a greater depth in various ways than games that have been solved, nobody has found a theoretical barrier to solving it, which in turn means that we can't rule out the possibility of a proof that a particular engine is optimal.

From the formal computation theory standpoint, the situation is even more extreme: the game tree given the threefold repetition rule is finite, which means that we can immediately write down an explicit game tree brute force engine which is guaranteed to perform optimally in every position. This is probably just a handful of lines of code! While this engine can't actually make a single move in a human timescale, from an algorithmic point of view it plays perfectly and we can be sure of that.

The theorems on undecidability of program behavior don't include time constraints like this because they're established using models of computation like Turing machines, where physical limitations of real computing devices are no issue.
No, "bin" explicitly has no format, but it's interpreted by the bootloader/whatever on the board - you can see the linker script setting this up manually here:

https://github.com/ferrous-systems/zero-to-main/blob/master/...
In other words, "open users up to social engineering attacks to make my web-dev life easier".
Or we could change local zoning laws that prohibit denser housing where the jobs already are.
23 and me isnt sequencing anyones DNA...
Thanks. These images are very large which is great. The Paris one was 5000x5000 pixels.
What would be the units? Number of gas chambers?
Really wish the MX master 3 had a USB-C receiver. Bluetooth just doesn't cut it sometimes
I don't have any data on this, but anecdotally it seems like most residential buildings in San Diego built before ~1980 don't even have AC. The same goes for Los Angeles and San Francisco. Heaters are required but you'll almost never use them.
Epilepsy Foundation Bombarded with Seizure-Triggering Twitter Posts
Show HN: A christmas story (with programming and logic)
Why did we wait so long for the cotton gin? (2017)
Quick, someone stick the navier-stokes equations in.
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> The only people without AC in SD are the homeless.

Depends where you are in San Diego. If you are within 10 miles of the coast, you can get away without either A/C or Heat.
So, let's walk through the reasoning here.

Data is simultaneously Google's greatest strength and its biggest liability. If an employee uploads data to a not-known-to-be-secure third party, it can literally cost Google billions of dollars depending on the data locality. Or, it could plausibly cause a severe security breach (if e.g. an employee uploads a security token into a third party decoder).

And so the security team builds an extension in order to very loudly alert employees when they're on one of these known-to-be dangerous domains. And, as it happens, the implementation of the loud popups could make it a general browser notification platform whenever an employee visits a particular domain.

Is it a good idea for teams to start using it as a general notification platform?

No, not on any level. On top of being annoying for employees, it breaks the security UX. When someone sees one of these popups, they know they're important and that they should be very wary of whatever they're doing. But if it starts being a popup that can be triggered by anyone in the company who can convince themselves that they're providing value by sending out the popup, people start ignoring it. And there's no going back at that point, because employees have been trained to ignore the popup because of it staying stupid shit like "Happy Birthday Sundar!" and "Read these NLRB rights!" and "You can go grab a burger at the cafe today!" Everyone's been made worse off, and the original security problem has come back.
> Is the thumb-wheel on the MX 3 "clickable"?

It is not, unfortunately.
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Visual neurons don't work the way scientists thought, study finds
Frege started Logicism, so I don't think he would say that mathematical sentences lack content. Where are you getting this?
Gitter was acquired by Gitlab, not Github.
Yeah, no

>We're happy to see a modular SSD, but not happy knowing it's bound to the T2 chip, meaning user-replacements are a no-go
Once it was Oracle, the trust issues were vastly larger even if they did end up executing.
So let’s look at the raw marketshare. It’s 10% of AWS.

Also revenue != profit. If it was profitable enough would management be complaining?
I seem like i'm alone in this but I think I would prefer the CPython handling of this "Syntax Error".

I am not a "Programmer" so having feedback on the original problem line would be more beneficial than returning the second.
I'd love to hear from anyone who's run any of the Beyond* architectures at non-Google companies. Pritunl/zerotier both look super neat, but are both not trivial to implement and introduce interesting problems into integrating with existing infrastructure.
The Chicago map not only includes the CTA (the "subway"), but commuter rail lines in the city as well (Metra). This is actually a very useful feature, especially for people using these lines coming in to the city as there are multiple places you can make a direct transfer to the CTA.

Perhaps there are maps targeted to tourists or suburbanites that show it, but none I've ever seen as clearly as this: http://www.inat.fr/metro/chicago/
> You are buying trash on Amazon

There, fixed that for you. Or maybe it should be:

> You might be buying from trash - Amazon

To be less facetious, though, Amazon is one of the corporations which scares me the most. It seems to be sucking up so much of the economy, and only getting more voracious over time.
How do these DoH partnerships work with DNS split views? If folks are running an internal copy of "something.company.com" and it's expected to resolve to RFC3330 space "on the company network" ... that depends on folks computers and devices using the corporate DNS. If Firefox is going to a public DoH endpoint, they'll get the public IPs instead and connect to the wrong copy of the service, or it might not even resolve if it's an internal-only record.
Same in Sweden, about 10k pre tax to take home 5k. I looked up median salaries for CEOs in Sweden last year which was $7600 pre-tax where only service and the industrial sector is over that, industrial is the highest with $9150 pre-tax, that is at the CEO level, putting your take home salary with tax bracket 34 at about 5k/month, so it's probably a bit high for a high level executive at a mid-sized company.
We are on the verge of a future where automated systems trawl through exabytes of genetic data, lazily analyzing it and spitting out promising results for further, focused, research.

The first steps are being taken today with similar systems for automated drug discovery, and the same amount of effort should be thrown into genetic research.

Not only do I want my DNA in a database making up a genetic version of DigitalCorpora.org, freely available to researchers (commercial and non-profit alike), I also want it available to law enforcement so that when a familial match pops up for a sample in a rape kit or crime scene they can catch the person.

If a critical mass of genetic information could be gathered and sufficient computing power thrown at it, live-saving discoveries could become so routine they aren't even reported on anymore.

I am excited, too.
Unfortunately no. Had I realized this companies return policy, I never would have shopped with them.
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The "$work" notation could be mistaken for the Slack stock ticker. The "$" is how you commonly denote stocks, and "WORK" is the ticker for Slack.
Can you share links to these other technical venues?

Not being snarky - I want to check them out!
She did not abuse any sort of security tooling. She was working on a application designed to serve notices both security and legal to Google users. She added this notice because as part of being legally compliant with the law people have to be informed of their right to unionize.

The rest of your argument is massive projection because she did nothing of the sort. She added a notice which linked to internal Google documentation which was reviewed by her peers and by any account incredible benign. Acting like this was some severe security violation is out of line.
DOJ expands Native American tribes’ access to databases to fight crime, abuses
Philosophical arguments aside, Gödel himself was absolutely, even evangelically, a mathematical realist. He believed any meaningful statement about mathematics had an objective truth value, axiomatic systems be damned.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel/#GodRea
Median hourly wage, Computer and Mathematical Occupations, San Francisco: $56.18 ($112,360 ann.)

Median hourly wage, Computer and Mathematical Occupations, Durham-Chapel Hill: $42.77 ($85,540 ann.)

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41860.htm#15-0000

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_20500.htm#15-0000
The right to repair in a computer age requires the right to root. This is the biggest sticking point for me, and why I still think open source is the future, and in particular copyleft open source that doesn't allow itself to be tivoized, which is why I have spent years making the vast majority of my stacks gpl or gpl compat.
> Personally, I’d muuuuch rather work on a mundane problem that immediately improves someone’s day than an issue that is in and of itself more interesting

Don't get me wrong, helping people is great and I do in fact find it one of my greatest motivators, especially for things I would otherwise consider boring (or indeed, mundane).

But something this is in and of itself more interesting? If you wouldn't rather work on that, doesn't that mean it's just not interesting enough? :)

I guess everybody is different. Even though I have found that helping people is for me probably the strongest motivator there is, if there is one thing that can make me procrastinate on that, it's problems that are in and of itself more interesting :)
If you used less regulated CB in the old days and heard what a garbage dump it could turn into, you might appreciate more regulated frequencies. Or maybe not, I don't know.

As far as your encryption concerns go, you have to go to extra effort for any of your ham transmissions to be heard by the whole world. Generally it's just a mile or two radius, line of site, only to those who are listening during the short interval while you are transmitting. Far, far different from posting something on the internet.
The only difference is that if there's something wrong with it, you can easily return it. And their returns process is worlds better than any brick and mortar.
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>but people's opinions are fickle. Who gets to say what is counterfeit, unless you have a trusted authenticator looking at every item?

Correct, that's what I mean by a decently-sized QA department. I would never base the score directly on end-users opinions, although the opinions of end-users could certainly be used to initiate the verification process:

Customers say something is fake --> raises ticket to QA department --> a few automatic orders are placed to different "fake" addresses over a period of weeks and months --> these delivered items are authenticated --> Reputation score modified --> customers are followed up with by the call center agents.
I think it boils down to the definition of "philanthropy", to a lot of people (self included) that's something billionaires do, the rest of us can try "charity".

Kind of like the old saw about only the poor are "crazy", with enough money you become "eccentric".
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2 of the 5 reactions were from associates-of-associates, without his knowledge. Those 2 reactions were excised from the video.

That's a really, really far cry from "was faked," IMO.
Yeah. But. https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/6320 Non-admins can delete/archive any channel #6320
Anyone making stuff like this for Google side of the fence (Google Assistant) ?
> Intentionally giving anyone HIV should be against the law.

If you consider a pregnant mother transferring HIV to an in-utero fetus as a human giving another human HIV, then to be logically consistent you must consider abortion as one human killing another. The size of the debate is irrelevant. Whether you carve out exceptions is a different story (I.e. self defense from health complications) but that is simply a justification for the killing, not changing the act itself.

Edit: To complicate matters more, if a parent passing on HIV were illegal, should people with Down syndrome be legally allowed to have children? After all, there is a very significant chance the parents would "give" the child the syndrome as well.
Congratulations NextDNS! You've been relentlessly executing on every front [0] with super-novel solutions [1] that a few, if any, incumbents have matched [2].

That said, I'm surprised Mozilla doesn't look at the uptime metrics before partnering with TRRs. I've been using NextDNS ever since it was announced here [3] and have been subject to a fair share of "outages" including once when everyone at home thought the internet was down...but couldn't remedy it [4].

Cloudflare's data-plane availability with 1.1.1.1 is a tall-order to match for anyone that's not Google or AWS [5]. The NextDNS founders built DailyMotion, so I'm guessing they know a thing or two about high availability and hopefully fix whatever they need to before they GA with Firefox TRR.

I must point out that Adguard DNS [6] is a viable non-configurable free alternative, which is what I now recommend to folks not savvy/bothered enough to configure NextDNS. It would be wonderful to see them added to TRR.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21543038

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21604825

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20851626

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012687

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20785712

[5] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/category/networkin...

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788410
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I'm a fan of DoH, but I'm also a Chromecast owner, so I get to experience the downsides of application-level DNS resolvers. Chromecasts will ignore the DNS servers set by DHCP, and will cease to function if they cannot communicate with Google's DNS servers[1].

That means my network-enforced DNS preferences that block ad and malware sources are ignored, and I see more ads than I want to. It also means that when Google drops support for my Chromecast model like they did with the older Chromecast models, I'll be slightly less secure than I would be if I could enforce my own DNS preferences.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671
If the wheel is 90% faster it seems like you don’t need page up/down shortcuts.