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And every single Apple phone I've owned so far uses a cable that plugs into USB A. Which is a standard. I'm still using the wall warts I got for my original iPhone. Which have international wall plug kits. Solid, long-lived electronics.

Meanwhile, the burner phones I've bought for when I'm in the EU have these shitty all-in-one wall-to-micro-USB, and I ended up eventually throwing them out. So there's your e-waste.
"At some point they pulled this and made it for students only. But they had a dial-up gopher service for campus information and library access that was actually a telnet session to a gopher client on a SunOS machine somewhere."

Was this, by chance, a .umn.edu dialup ?

Just curious ...
Yeah, I guess the punishment for a bunch of bribes is just having to pay one more bribe?
> To come to a conclusion try putting your SSD to another MB and see wheres the issue

The SSD is soldered directly to the logic board, so that may not be a viable strategy.
This post is complete trash. I'm wondering if this is only on the front page because it takes a shot at a big tech company?

Help, I'm using CPU intensive apps on my laptop and the fan is coming on! Okay, and the sky is still blue?

I'm sorry but I just can't stand this post. One thing that may help the author that I don't see mentioned here is plugging it in. Seems running off AC power is less thermally intensive than battery.
Wow thanks for explaining it to me so wonderfully. Your explanation for the double ++ really helped me since that part never made sense to me before. I guess the ?R probably only works with PHP? I will try to make some more examples for the ?R to try out today so I can learn the full power of it.

Again I'm so grateful to you for the explanation. One more thing I've learned from it is next time a regex makes my head explode, I'll just break each character in one line and write a comment next to it!
Fuchsia has the advantage that Google can force it onto a bunch of phones, Chromebooks, and personal assistants and get instant "market share".

I think it's likely the #1 threat to the Linux dominance in the backend, ironically by hijacking the front end first. Based on market share, it could create an expectation that AWS, Azure, etc, provide backend support. Doesn't hurt that Google owns K8S as well. See, for example, EKS. Google can manipulate Amazon in select spaces.
> Given the rapidity with which the Harvard chemical-biologist was arrested after we received a sample and sequenced it

I'd love to read more. Do you have a link?
If it has poor UX nobody will use it and people will use unencrypted centralized messaging instead.
Watercooling is probably overkill unless you want to overclock. Less complicated than it used to be though, Corsair and similar sell complete CPU/pump/radiator loops for relatively cheap that you just drop in.
This is a false dichotomy. Why not both?
Has never dropped a connection for me. It always reconnects.
U.S. banks could invest in venture capital funds again under 'Volcker rewrite'
Not fractals or like a kaleidoscope. I'm not sure I have the words to explain it in any understandable way, and I'm certain that I lack the skill to do it justice. Usually it starts as blots of colour/brightness, as well as gradients (both radial and linear), and some more exotic images. Then if I keep paying attention they'll start to morph into all sorts of different things. These can be abstract imagery (not entirely unlike a kaleidoscope I suppose), but more often the abstract imagery is just a backdrop or peripheral image. Where I'm looking I'll see the images morph into objects, people, locations, etc., and most strangely, concepts. I'm not sure how to explain that last bit, but sometimes in these visualizations I'll just see something that is very clearly a concept/idea itself. I don't have much control over what I see like this, unlike daydreaming where I have almost complete control, or sleep deprivation induced hallucinations where I have control proportional to how awake I am. What I can do is when I see something that I like and want to see more of, I can focus on it. This generally helps prevent it from morphing into something different, but it only works for so long as I can maintain a strong focus on it, so I inevitably lose my grasp on it after some time.

Typing this all out now I realize it sounds strange, and I haven't heard anyone else talk about this in particular. For reference I have low-grade synesthesia (among a whole host of mental abnormalities compared to my peers), my family has a history of mental illnesses, and I'm just about the most neurotic person I know. I have never used any illicit drugs (including marijuana, which is fortunately now legal in Canada). I've considered trying LSD or psilocybin, but I'm worried about having a bad trip. I have however experienced many sleep deprivation induced hallucinations, as well as several fever dreams, dissociative episodes, and panics attacks. I've been told by a trusted source that fever dreams can be somewhat similar to using psilocybin.
Bribery or (MCAS and Bribery)
Put it on its own subnet.
Yes, 75815 individuals in Wuhan on Jan/25, with 4-6 day doubling is a more reasonable number. Better fits end of January, 3/200 of Japanese evacuation statistics and 4/400 of the Korean one. Assuming ~11M Wuhan population.
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I did and so much was going on (US politics-wise, and Brexit-wise), I was kind of sloppier than I generally am. I will try to recover and post within a day.

EDIT: Because it was me hypothecating (generating hypotheses), it will be more than one link that may turn out to be unrelated.
RHEL themselves vendor RHSCL -- https://developers.redhat.com/products/softwarecollections/o...

For CentOS and friends there is https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/

https://access.redhat.com/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/... are maintained by RedHat directly.
I think corporate donors are held to the same limits as individuals: $2,800 per election to the candidate, $5,000 to their reelection committee. The rest (which still totals less than $500k) goes to state and federal party committees.

Where the unlimited contributions come in (think Citizens United) are Super PACs, but those aren't technically affiliated with candidates, and they can't contribute to the candidates. The freedom of speech angle on this is that corporations or individuals can spend this money on political ads, but it has to be independent of the candidates.

> is it illegal for me to agree?

Yes, or it was illegal for them; this exceeds campaign contribution limits.
Who could possibly criticize the EU for mandating something which has a history of being successfully used by some of the producers to fuck over the rest?
Look into some of the people who have set up fake CP sites on the dark web or who have posed as young girls on public social media. It's incredibly easy to create a honey pot to ensnare sexual predators. There are many articles on such experiments and they are highly effective.

They don't need back doors or hacker hanky panky to catch sex pests, just creative but conventional police work.

This is an issue that gets dragged out to scare the public but the authorities really don't care much about it. Reports of sex abuse from real victims are often ignored and sexual predators get shorter sentences than people convicted of minor drug possession or other stupid crap.
Yawn. This is how this works.
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That's a problem with the internet in general really. eSNI or not, "don't stand out" can only work if you aren't standing out in regards to the source and destination IPs your packets have.
I don't know which theory is bat shit crazy, a virus with suspicious resemblance to SARS, HIV or just EATING bat shit is crazy

this outbreak proves humans are doomed to repeat the same mistake
Hypocrisy is real. This is coming from a very biased entity who once doxxed Zero Hedge. Read the last paragraph. Bloomberg is not a trusted source imho.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zerohedge-suspended-twit...
Great, a phone charging semantic designed and mandated by a committee of EU bureaucrats. The jokes just write themselves here. Apple will no doubt bravely respond by removing the charging port completely. Wait until these folks hear about the Qi Standard!
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I am really struggling to see your point here. Here is a decent link about what is happening in Virginia regarding gun rights: https://wtop.com/virginia/2020/01/faqs-what-is-happening-wit... . If all those measures pass, guns will still be extremely available for purchase or trade by the citizenry.
"My local deli doesn’t bribe anybody."

You sure?

I mean, I agree with you that "every company" is certainly hyperbole, but bribery happens on different scales. Its not all national level and involving 6+ figure sums.

I know someone who worked at a local restaurant where the owner bribed someone at the local health inspection office to be tipped off before "random inspections" giving them a couple of days notice to get things sorted out prior to the inspection.

I suspect companies committing bribery are the minority, but it can and does happen at the local small-business level.
FOSDEM is the Free and Open Source Developer Meetup, a yearly conference with around 10,000 participants and more than 800 talks. Many of them will be streamed starting at 9:30 CET (8:30 UTC).
We haven't "declared" wars in my parents' lifetimes, yet somehow millions have died at our hands. "Apocalyptic" violence in USA is partly an echo of our crimes overseas, but mostly an obvious result of the constant fear-mongering and dehumanization our media performs in order to justify those crimes.
I always wondered why they're not collected and fed to chickens. Seems like a flock of fowl of any kind would gorge on these juicy bugs. Even a small inset net should harvest a good amount.
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That's the way it work now. If they get caught it just means they pay the government a bribe[1] to stay out of jail. With the other peoples money no less. They themselves never pay a cent.
Well, I certainly don't. I'm just amused at the level of whataboutism I'm observing in these responses.
I suppose this is a fundamental flaw of 'online communication' having low bandwidth when it comes to conveying information.

We humans spent most of our history interacting with people in a more direct way, and having out 'gut' conclude things about another person based on what they say, do, how they look, how they sound, and so on, was and is important to our survival.

If I meet a person face to face who says 'Bush did x', I might also notice the tone of voice, that the have a Southern drawl, that they're wearing camo and a red hat with MAGA on it. In this situation I'm not likely to conclude that they're pro-Obama despite their critical statement wrt Bush.

I've noticed this flaw in myself as well, and it's frustrating and takes effort to counter. When I see a politically loaded comment on HN, I really have to make an effort to not jump to conclusions.

All that said, I have a little plugin that allows me to tag users and while plenty of commenters surprise me, I find that most are almost shockingly consistent when it comes to which 'bucket' I put them in (right, alt-right, conservative, liberal, socialist, libertarian, evangelical, etc.). So perhaps it's not so strange or inaccurate that many of us jump to conclusions based on very limited information.

(not that I think it's a good thing to do so. I do agree with your comment.)
You might want to check out where it is a crime and what agreements big parts of the world have made to make it a crime. The article we're discussing makes these points. Or you could read about them on Wikipedia.
No, be an above-average professional driver that can predict accidents based on driving behavior.

It's a thing.
I’ve been considering a similar move and would also love to hear more about anyone who has made such a transition.
The EXIM bank can be viewed as a subsidy (and unfair trade advantage) for companies like Boeing. I assume there's an EU version of it that will do everything it can to put you in an Airbus today.
Good point. The world would be a better place if we at least learned /who/ to trust when it comes to expertise...
Lightning is actually worse in most ways. For instance, it doesn't have the bandwidth to transmit even 1080p video uncompressed (USB-C can do 4K - one reason they put USB-C on the iPad Pro).

The only debatable advantages to Lightning are in the physical form factor, but that's hard to quantify (you mostly hear anecdotes "my USB-C port is a bit loose after 6 months" which could just come down to manufacturing quality rather than the design of the port itself)
People are shooting (downvoting) the messenger (you).

Not only are you describing the situation accurately, you are not advocating that the West just pay bribes as well.
> US and UK authorities are considering prosecutions against individuals.

Perhaps it'll happen. :)
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All APIs have conventions though, and jv's is quite simple. It's very difficult to get it wrong and not crash immediately, though it's easy enough to get it wrong and leak. Having (unfortunately) had to use C a lot, I must say that the jv API is among the nicest I've had the pleasure of using. Sure, it's not Rust, but neither is C++, and yet that's the topic of this thread. But I'd use a jv-like API in C++, and I think that would be peachy.
If it ain’t free I ain’t interested.
> Releasing a product before it is done is can of worms in itself

Perhaps, but a programming language which is released when “done” is essentially dead on arrival. I’d guess the people who created amazing things with Odin helped the language move forward, right? Nothing wrong with keeping something to oneself, but promising for a long time to move something into an open source model with no set date.. I’ve rarely seen that end well. Hope I’m proved wrong though!
Exactly, they need to actually do their jobs instead of trying to cheat by taking away everyone's privacy and other rights.
The primary reason I bought my iPad Pro was the pencil and to take mathematics notes. One of my last professors at University had the iPad Pro and he would display it on the projector and write in the default notes app. It was for computational geometry and the teacher was more pseudocode focused, so he did lots of written algorithms and didn’t type or write code. I was very impressed by the functionality and he was able to share the notes with us which was nice. He would have used the whiteboard but it was a distance education class so some of the students who were at different campus locations couldn’t see very well when he wrote on the white board.

The 12.9 inch display allows me to easily splitscreen a pdf and the built in notes app. I’ll also sometimes split my notes with brilliant.org’s app. I use it quite a bit to read PDFs by themselves as well. I finally found a good markdown notes app that lets me add katex into it too. So, I can type my notes if I want them to be formatted well. I use iCloud a lot and pay $0.99 per month for 50GB storage. iCloud is where I store all my notes and PDFs, because I’ll buy pdfs in bulk from Humble Bundle so they are easier to sync across devices with iCloud.

Since I’ve purchased the new iPad Pro I’ve really appreciated their upgrade to the usb-c port. I have a MacBook Pro as well so I had already invested in a usb-c dongle which works for my iPad Pro too. I hear you can use storage devices now too from the usb-c port.
Me too. I like Twilio, but Anveo.com is worth checking out as well. They have a visual call flow handler that's pretty cool/capable, and like Twilio, are pretty cheap.

The UI is a little 90's looking, but it's very powerful. For me, I spend less time fighting an API, python, etc, and more time tweaking the flow to get it right: https://www.anveo.com/consumer/features.asp?code=ivrcallflow
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Ohhh emmm geee! Thanks for posting about my book! I'm so honored and appreciative! And as an author of an unknown book, where did you find it?!?
i looked up the discussion you mentioned, and a comment right next to yours came to an opposite conclusion, also based on some BLAST result (all of them now expired). I am just a confused laymen.
If I forget, within 48 hours please bump me - I do have it around here somewhere! :-)

Besides, we're moving into a weekend; This is the time for clearing off decks.
Making life convenient is kind of one of the things that governments should do for their citizens. And intervention is the only way to make that XKCD strip about standards not true.
Yes, That's what I mean by going straight from H to e first. The geoid is that conversion.

Although for rtk, the delta isn't to any of the sats, it's to your base station. The deltas to the sats cancel out of the equations, which is where most of the gains in accuracy come from. But it still needs to be tied into a known elevation benchmark.

That said, most field crews will still be shooting a differential to a published benchmark, or plugging the geoid file into the data collector, or dialing into a vrs or cors that already is adjusting for the geoid. For them, H is just an extra data point asking to be plugged into the wrong data field.

Unless you're doing static observations or geodesy or manual network adjustments or direct gravity readings, the new way (22) isn't all that different from the old way (83). There's just different underlying theory of MSL and different math to adjust the network. And if you are doing any of those things, then you generally already know what you're doing.
Our senses are not objective, and our mental processing of said sensory input even less so.

While generally I do agree that trying to be 'objective' in the way you describe is a solid approach, I've met plenty of people and had plenty of experiences where this backfired because I or others had too much trust in the ability to be 'objective' about something, overruling our very subjective but also correct 'gut feeling'.
You have presented your credentials.
> I'm not confident enough to "roll my own"

For local net, setting up pi-hole is do-able, whilst setting it up over a VPN involves a bit of additional tooling.

A 100% uptime DNS on public internet is tricky, but if you're okay with just DoH [0], the https://workers.dev free-tier would you give you a 100% uptime "anycast", low-latency DoH enough for a single device's worth of queries for a month. At $5, you'd have enough for a 100 devices.

I've one setup with adblock forwarding queries to 1.1.1.1 and I see e2e latencies as low as 50ms regardless of location. This setup is a bit involved: You'd need to convert blocklists (the one I use has a million entries) to either a long-string, custom LZ-compress it (~6 MiB) [1] and do a boyer-moore needle-haystack search on it for incoming questions (v8's native String#index impl uses a variant of boyer-moore) [2], or use a json-map at a cost of higher RAM usage but blazing-fast lookups (~25 MiB), or use succinct radix-trees for optimal RAM usage (~1.5 MiB) but relatively slower lookups, or use bloom-filters with low false-positive but fast membership queries at extremely frugal RAM usage (~200 KiB) [3].

That said, the simplest way to ad-block would be to point the workers instance to adguard-doh.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598413

[1] https://github.com/pieroxy/lz-string/

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5562297/fast-search-in-c...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22017868
This music will destroy you. He barely survived it himself.

Very skilled though... Hit it a time or two on YouTube, then move on. Don't linger!
Surely they wouldn't collect, or create data based on, things that aren't here!

/s
I miss the days when one chat app could easily connect to multiple protocols. I didn’t care if my friends had AIM or Yahoo or ICQ or whatever, they all showed up as a tab in Adium’s window and a name on its floating buddy list.
Many mass-distributed compilers have hand-crafted lexers and parsers since (a) they aren’t hard to write and (b) hand crafting gives you complete control over error recovery.
They don't even need Cloudflare. Just a typical cache plugin would allow a WordPress/Django/Rails/whatever site to survive HN. Every page request being 90 database calls to satisfy "related posts", "wordclouds", "previous", "next", "related" and whatnot just doesn't scale :) Yey abstraction.
I'm sure everyone's setup is different but I did this for about 8 years and had to stop recently due to a variety of problems. The first being the lack of support for group messaging. I couldn't send group messages at all but what was even worse was that when I was part of group messages I would receive the messages individually as if the person was texting me directly. My system could mark them as being group messages but I couldn't see the other recipients so there was no way of knowing who else was in a thread until other people started texting and then could piece together the group from context.

Also some services straight up refuse to send SMS to cloud phone providers meaning you can't sign up for certain services that needed a verified phone number (unless they had an option to receive a call with the verification code which worked like 25% of the time).

Dialing was another huge issue, you can somewhat intercept outbound calls on Android but the system is buggy so I had to find other methods. Since I had integrated my SMS/MMS messaging with Slack (one slack channel per phone number) I created a /dial command that would call my phone and then when I answered it would transfer me to the person I wanted to call.

Happy to answer more questions about it but I highly recommend people think about all the consequences before moving their main number over.
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If it's structured like that, sure, but it'll not be done that way.

One approach is for a politician/candidate to hold a fundraising lunch/dinner/whatever, and charge for seats. Lobbyists and other folks who want to get access to the senator will buy those tickets and get their couple of minutes to talk about whatever issue is important to them.

Any direction on bill will almost certainly be of a more indirect nature.

It won't be: "Vote against municipal fiber rollouts, and $ISP will give your campaign $10k".

It'll be more along the lines of: "We'd find it difficult to support the campaign of someone who wasn't seen to be acting in our best interests. We think that this municipal fiber rollout is bad for $ISP."
"and many other massive industrials have survived so far."

Because they are paying bribes.

It's rampant, and almost out in the open.

Major Western corporations keep 'sunshine funds' off the books, in offshore companies, for bribes high and low.

'Bribery' as we call it, is normative in most of the world, and it's how it works.

And this is not just corrupt leaders, it's anyone in a position to benefit, from bottom to top.

As I said: the issue is how the Western public is going to deal with this information coming to light because they're completely naive to what's going on.
I talked to Twitter's CTO, Parag.

He said the move is to specifically reduce fragmentation in public conversation.

I'm in the decentralized (dWeb) community (we have 10M+ users monthly, in-production, running thru GUN) and admittedly, I think we all get distracted with the war cry of privacy, p2p-for-sake-of-p2p, etc. but is not many other people's end goals.
What production languages are context sensitive? C++ surely, Java and C# only when dealing with angle brackets for generics, what else?