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I believe that most members of the US military believed the second Gulf of Tonkin incident was real at the time -- one hand can believe lies the other hand tells.

I'm also not arrogant enough to believe anything with 100% certainty. I think we're probably looking at the US government (and potentially the Soviets) not admitting to saucer shaped crafts (whether or not in preparation for a false flag), but I'll grant you that there is some hard-to-pin-down chance of genuinely weird shit going on. Even if we're going down that road, I'm betting an aquatic origin is more likely than an extraterrestrial one.
There's often some poor journalism involved too.

If archaeologists have only come across tool X in cultures which engage in (say) year-round agriculture, they'll fairly naturally come to a weakly-held belief along the lines of "cultures which invent agriculture tend to also invent tool X soon afterwards".

Then evidence comes along of hunter-gatherers with tool X, and someone trying to make a rather dry press release into something more exciting writes "archaeologists are stunned because they previously believed that hunter-gatherers were foolish primitives who couldn't possibly have invented tool X".
Maybe he hates bloat?
Great article. I was curious about the game mentioned towards the bottom:

> At M.I.T. next door to Draper, some of the undergraduates play a game called “Space War.” To play “Space War,” you need a television screen, a computer, and a working knowledge of Newtonian physics. The TV screen shows a planet surrounded by spaceships. Each player fires torpedos from his spaceship, aiming them according to the laws of orbital dynamics. The torpedos must destroy either another spaceship or the planet. The game is enhanced by programming the computer to include such factors as time warps, so that a spaceship can disappear “for years.”

Thanks to the magic of the internet, I found a few versions of the game (actually called "Spacewar!"[0]), both the original[1] without time-warp and the more advanced version described in the article which includes it[2]. However contrary to the article's description it seems only the ships follow Newtonian physics, the projectiles always travel in a straight line, and I wasn't able to blow up the star or planet you're orbiting, though perhaps a version with these features exists and I simply wasn't able to find it. Interestingly, the circular layout isn't just for the game, the screen of the PDP-1[3] Which ran it was circular because it was originally a radar screen!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar%21

[1]: https://spacewar.oversigma.com/

[2]: https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-1
Why is it "ridiculous" to use a 10Gbps (or 40Gbps if you're spendy) bus to carry data?

'Cause I just sit down, plug any of my laptops (all of which have USB-C in, and everything just works. Windows, Linux, Macs (n.b.: this required a bit of a hack because they don't support MST, but it's not a huge deal)--sit down, go.

Vendor-locked lower-bandwidth docking ports are an antipattern.
It's clearly not any sort of random sample for US as a whole. Could even be synthetic data--the write-up isn't really clear.
> Of all things though, I'm not sure that it's worth the effort relative to other things.

So its not easily solved...
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It's not really that big of a problem. In an ideal situation, sure, the union could represent union members and the non-union member would be banned from receiving any benefits bargained for by the union. Unfortunately, if the union has to represent everyone then everyone should pay, which isn't much different than if the <1% in leadership positions at a company makes a dumb decision costing the company money and people their jobs, the entire company is forced to follow the decision and totally uninvolved workers pay the consequences for it. At least in a union, the workers have say in how it operates and what its goals are.
Commercial DVRs already sign video as its recorded and have for years.

It's more about chain of custody/location and time verification. Video authentication can't be used to tell if a video is real because it may just be a "real" recording of faked content. But you can say with some certainty that a video came from DVR X at Y time.
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Hot take: If your comment starts with "Why don't they just..." then it's almost certainly something stupid that assumes everyone has the same ability to move jobs/uproot their life that you do. Don't even bother saying it.
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Making mistakes from fatigue is the tip of the iceberg. As designers and implementers of software, we don't just have to redo the few minutes of work that making the mistake took. The consequences can be much worse:

* Missing key insights which would shave a large percentage of work off of the project.

* Making mistakes in architectural decisions, which require hours of extra mundane boilerplate work.

* Introducing difficult-to-reproduce bugs which require hours, days or weeks debugging

* Destroying key hardware which needs to be re-acquired (if that's the kind of thing you work on).

At this point in my career I'm of the opinion that asking teams to pull late nights and weekends is actually detrimental to project timelines, over anything longer than a single day. All it does is reassure PHBs that maximum effort is being made.
Been trying out FreeCAD recently (0.19 development), but there seems to be a lack of coherent story about "how to put more than 1 part into an assembly".

eg the Part and PartDesign workbenches seem ok, but there seems to be no stable way of assembling multiple parts together.

Instead, there seem to be several competing assembly modules, all incompatible with each other. And none of which are stable.

So, when I create a part intended to be a reference design, I can't use it in any assembly as it'll then be incompatible with every other one.

How do you do things with FreeCAD, as the above assembly problem seems like a complete blocker for any real world use? :(
I've worked once in a non-union shop, where I wasn't allowed to move my computer from my old desk to another. I was expected to unplug all my stuff, label it, put all my personal effects and peripherals into a crate, label it, and sign out. Then, I was supposed to come back the next day, and set everything up.

In one of these moves, my new desk was twelve feet away from my old desk. (In seven years of working at this non-union shop, I have had my desk moved 9 times.)

What conclusion can we draw from this anecdote, combined with the one by the parent poster? Why does one gather positive karma, while the other negative?
Every one of those also famously enforces a closed shop for the positions most people have in mind when they think of "high performers".
> I often meet people who are intelligent and technical, but either do not understand security, or understand it in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA triad) and flounder when thinking about anonymity.

Can you suggest any resources for a technical user who would like to learn more about this distinction?
We can technically support non-US. It just would be prohibitively expensive right now. But we can keep you posted!
As a customer I would never use this. I'd much rather email someone than have to chat with them. I always look for the email contact option.
Controllers abstract transport-layer functionality away from application logic. It's not really about "DRY" as it is about "Why should my services have to care about HTTP status codes?"
Maybe they cannot change the database schema, but surely they can change the UI so the password is not shown to the call-center staff.
I don't work there any more, but back when I was at Google Cloud we developed our own benchmarking suite, partly to answer questions like this. It's open source, you can run it too: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker
An easier way may be to anonymously message a tech savvy media company or security firm, maybe via snail mail even. You can do it anonymously yourself but it'll take some work and a mashup of:

- VPN service where you pay with cash (Mullvad)
- Temporary email (Protonmail?)
- One time use computer (cybercafe, pay with cash?)

There's layers you can apply like a TOR browser usage but it'll take more effort/learning.
> Researchers are developing a process to dry the wood and preserve it without deformation using sugar to reinforce the wood's cellular structure.

Now I have a reason for eating so much sugar
Realistically, how well will someone with a nonspecialist knowledge of biology be able to contribute to these projects?

That statement's not intended to pass judgement; I'd really like to know as it'd be great to contribute to a good cause.
The clipboard can’t tell whether the content is “right” nor can the copying be done by the OS/clipboard itself.

In general the application is the only thing that knows what is selected (e.g objects in a cad program) and the OS has no idea of how to serialize these into the clipboard.

Even a text editor has to tell the OS what is selected and the OS can only trust the app to tell the truth.

The only way to “verify it” is to show the copied content to the user (e.g in a notification after the copy). Obviously for anything but plaintext this verification doesn’t help (I can’t tell serialized cad objects from something else - it’s just gibberish). I can however verify that it’s not a script that will erase all my files when pasted into a shell (btw executing on paste is s a horrible behavior by a shell. Pasted data must be treated as untrusted and verified before acted on. Immediate shell execution breaks that).
No. Everything east of the German / Austrian / Italian border was part of the Eastern block, which was the east / west clivage for about half a century.

What's coming back is the pre-cold-war delineation where areas of orthodox primacy north of the black sea are eastern europe, south of it are south-eastern, and the catholic areas are central, northern, southern and western (with the iberic peninsula often being split out as southwestern).

Basically before WWII "Western Europe" was France, the British Isles and the Low Countries.
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Another great resource is this map: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h... put together by John Hopkins University.
I thought the CMB value for H0 (measured by the Planck satellite) was already known to be incorrect as the measurements for it did not take into account that the earth is moving through the CMB and only measured in one direction.

This is the big discussion in the astrophysics field at the moment.
+1 so much.

In my opinion, the mistake the OP makes is in not realizing that the dogmatic application of a design pattern is the fundamental issue to begin with.

So then the solution offered is another design pattern that can be dogmatically followed.

If we know that you need a UI (view), and we know that you need to represent your data in an expressive manner (model), and you need something to pull those things together for a user, a router and controller does not automatically come to mean “put all your logic here!” Instead, it means something more like “here’s where you can tie things together in whatever way makes the most sense for your application”, which lets you e.g., use AOP to handle auth (like Django decorators or middleware), delegation to a service like a REST API (e.g., Django REST Framework), or basic one-off views for simple tasks.

If something like this MOVE was to become the next big thing, I think there’s a good chance we’ll be rewriting a lot of projects to use MVC in 10 years.

Don’t blame bad code on a proven and very flexible design pattern that solves a very real problem. Blame bad code on bad coders.
There is nothing inherent that makes dictatorships violent. Yet they are. But maybe there is something inherent that makes them violent after all? It's simply not obvious at a glance that they're going to be violent.

I'm not sure that there's nothing inherent in unions that makes them promote mediocrity. There could be - the fact that unions add more layers to the bureaucracy and slow things down could very well have the effect of promoting mediocrity.

Generally, if you want people to do the best work, then the people need to be motivated and they need to have as little friction as possible. Unions add friction. In a company where things work, unions would probably add friction and cause more mediocrity.

Note that I'm not saying that unions necessarily cause this, but I am saying that they might be a cause for it. Claiming otherwise with no supporting arguments isn't convincing.
I have to confess it's the first time I read about MOVE but MVC seemed old news for almost a decade to me. MOVE seems to englobe concepts I work with like DDD, read/write segregation, event source, etc which can all live under its umbrella
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There's two elements of prep work that anybody can and should do: 1. The cheap stuff that you may never use, but if you don't, isn't that big a deal: First aid kits, a supply of disinfectant, masks if it isn't already too late for that, etc. 2. Stuff you're going to buy anyhow, like canned food you already use, stuff you can easily freeze in advance without it being too big a deal, etc., that, again, you would have used anyhow. This is just pulling purchases forward rather than spending new money.

After all, just because COVID-19 may in fact end up contained doesn't mean you're not going to be in a serious earthquake next week or something. Having this stuff widely distributed greatly increases the resiliency of society against all sorts of issues, means you'll be one less person draining valuable resources in case of some disaster, etc. Being at least a bit prepped is the socially responsible thing to do.

Also, don't forget some of the specialized things for an extended in-home stay, which a lot of prep lists don't necessarily focus on (as a lot of them are assuming the problem is that you don't have a home anymore): Toilet paper, paper towels, salt & spices, etc. Anything you don't want to have to suddenly run out and get.
Glad it's been able to help! Please let us know if there's anything else we can do.
People like full keyboards for gaming so they can shit talk in chat. Though you can type "gg ez" without your right hand...
...so that they can be used?

Those numbers across the bottom are your bank's routing number and your account number. I'm honestly surprised I don't hear more about e-check theft done using those numbers.
According to Wikipedia, a browser is an "application for accessing information on the World Wide Web (...) retrieves the necessary content from a web server and then displays the resulting web page".

Why do you think he didn't build a browser?
Nice article with trends and data references!
This distinction was relevant for a mere 45 years, a period which ended almost 30 years ago. It's time to get it over with. The Czech Republic is about as Central European as it gets.
> current test kits have upwards of 50% false negative rate

Is there any source for this?
Look at it this way - banks will continue to support check payments for the foreseeable future, and checks violate every single security best practice by today's standards. The infrastructure to support checks without fraud burning everything to the ground was built up over centuries and works fairly well, this infrastructure works and has been extended to deter electronic fraud - so why waste time on technological navel gazing?
FB has many jobs that require degrees in psychology, and there are also many scientific studies showing negative mental health effects of FB use

https://www.glassdoor.com/Jobs/Facebook-psychology-Jobs-EI_I...
There's a discussion on this Twitter thread about why it could become a problem: https://twitter.com/SuperMugatu/status/1229229188273627136
> Led by Sherry Suyu, the H0LiCOW (H_0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL’s Wellspring) collaboration uses gravitationally lensed quasars to independently measure H_0.

OMG I love physicists so much
I strongly encourage everyone to stock non-perishable food, drinking water and whatever supplies needed to survive at least a month as a matter of course.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
That's a fair point and some things take time. But government officials change over time. New ideas come in. I'm not sure who I trust less, FB or the government but government moves more slowly. Companies can (and have... and continue...) to manipulate us on a constant basis. I trust them less.
good opportunity for you to learn about something new then. ActivityPub is a W3C recommendation and is the protocol powering a diverse and healthy ecosystem of social networking sites.
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I dream of new browsers not just built on chromium.
It's better than when everyone was trying to sell port extenders as "docking stations", even though they don't support power to the laptop.
> Those numbers across the bottom are your bank's routing number and your account number.

Those aren't secrets, are they? Isn't your bank account protected by separate secrets and or physical authentication tokens? You can't just take money out at a bank by giving a bank account number, surely?
I don't understand it at all.

I'm kind of in the same boat, though I actually kind of lean toward some kind of organizing. Those I know who are members of a national union complain about the union spending most of its money on things unrelated to the employment of its members.

But at the same time professional organizations like the AMA and ADA seem to benefit their members (unfortunately sometimes at the expense of the public).

I think the questions to ask are what's the bigger picture? What is the framing used in the current discussion to limit our view of that bigger picture? Who is doing the framing?

I don't have answers there, but it definitely seems like there's some important hidden variable that is omitted from the framing of either side of this debate.
I use this. I like it. Upgraded the SSD and added the motherboard max of 32G RAM. If you are using Linux on a laptop, you have a choice between dealing with NVIDIA's proprietary garbage or bad integrated graphics. AMD GPU on a laptop is a godsend.
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If it gets serious enough for Japan to cancel, nobody else is going to be able to host it either. It's supposed to be a worldwide competition, there's no point having it if half the world can't attend and the other half really, really doesn't want to.
How do we bring back the national enthusiasm for space again? Enthusiasm that spans across politics.

Maybe I'm out of touch, it seems to take a lot longer to get things done and get something flying into space than it used to. I don't think we can be world leaders with projects like the SLS that never get off the ground anywhere near the expected date. Seems like we used to take more risks or have less bureaucracy or ???
I worked (years ago) for the UFCW as a worker at a grocery store. All of the union that was exposed to me as a part timer was:

- hours go out by seniority

- raises happen at set intervals regardless of quality of work

- that guy selling pot out of the backroom will be protected until they catch him stealing a rotisserie chicken

- 0.x% of my paycheck goes to the union.

- I got paid less, and received raises less often than I did when I worked at Walmart.

Now there's lots more to them then that, but they certainly failed to sell me on the concept as a teenager, despite having me as quite the captive audience.
Pushing files around with silly and unusual methods
>Gmail is somewhat a special case.. forced to accept inbound Gmail

Unless I misunderstood, the person you replied to literally says he has emails from @gmail.com throwing in his Gmail spam filter. So not sure why you mention Gmail is special here (regardless if it's true or not).
Nope, that's total garbage. H0 is defined as the rate of expansion now.
What? 10 € or 40 € EVERY month just to use a browser? Are you out of your mind?
Because I can lock my laptop to the docking station, because it can also transfer power, and gives me access to many more ports than regular usb based docking station has.. and back in the good ol' days you could have a docking station with such ancient devices like cdrom and floppy - something that I don't need to carry around, but would be nice if I could access while sitting at my desk.
Just wait till season 8.
Companies don’t have the power of law to enforce anything. The government does.

How hard is it to click “logout”? Do you really need Big Government intruding in every little area of our life?
I'm not sure the prosecution part is as important as the public's image. The fact is that someone can ruin your life with a fake video, and the tools for doing so are becoming easier and faster to use. Regardless of if the court believes the video or not, your social and professional life could already be ruined by the time they view the video.
The problem is really the regression coefficient rather than the fact that it's quadratic. Nothing is that clean in real life.
Wait, why do you need IIFE in post-ES6 JS? Just use let/const.
"How I built my own browser, starting with nothing but a browser"

Next up: how I painted my own Impressionist masterpiece, starting with nothing but a high-resolution camera, access to a museum, and an inkjet printer; how I wrote my own operating system, starting with nothing but Linux (ahem, https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos doesn't have a kernel yet); how I built my own sports car, starting with nothing but a Lamborghini.

Claiming that you've written "a new web browser" because you've stuck your own URL bar and tabs on Blink is absurdity bordering on fraud, like claiming that Shiva Ayyuradai "invented email", that tempered glass ovenware is "pyrex", that physics and chemistry are "not philosophy", that submicron gold particles are "nanotechnology", or that Ayn Rand is "a philosopher". It's the kind of claim that can only survive by redefining a decades-old term to mean something much more trivial.
it is a horrific rip-off! nobody should spend a penny on this!

20 years ago I put a browser together with 5 clicks using Delphi and gave it away for free, dude.
It can be quite hard to detect. A lot of this services will not have an easily recognizable marker.

It can be for various reasons:

* They can use these services themselves

* They can support full customization of domains, including for the "message-id" and the "received" headers.

I'm working as SRE in a fairly large marketing provider (not sure in term of %, but we provide services for quite a few large brands sending several millions emails per day), and we do this full customization by default. There are other way to recognize us (other headers in the email or the pattern for the tracked url for example), but the one described in the article will not work.

It would also be interesting to be able to detect which MTA is used by these service providers. Is it an in-house one or an off the shelf one? The two off the shelf ones I know for mass sending are Momentum and PowerMTA which are both owned by Sparkpost but they might be others.
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Well, OP's example is using it, but I think it's for top level async/await (not a JS dev here)?
A comment on #2 would also be that you should organize and enshrine your rights when you have the power, not when you're weak. Developers are powerful now, can possibly become weak later.
Trouble is what goes into the models is not well defined at all.