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I’ve posted plenty of times on HN about the danger of the government being overly involved in tech and the last thing you should want if you value your liberty is more government involvement.

I’ve also warned that giving government more power to “protect” people from big tech would come back to bite the very people who for some strange reason trust government.

Every time I’ve been downvoted to oblivion.

Now the chickens are coming home to roost.....
Conspiracy theory: The NSA hamfistedly contributed to various leaks in the same way the CIA gave guns to terrorists, i.e. by providing various groups with the tools they'd need to break into American companies.

Now they can capitalize on it - "see, tech companies can't be trusted with your data. Trust us instead."
That plan seems predicated on the assumption that COVID-19 will burn itself out and disappear in a matter of months. But there's no current evidence to suggest that will be the case, and if we look to similar diseases, they have been around for tens of years.

Even if it depresses in the summer months, it will return in full force next winter (see e.g. flu, common colds, etc).

Best case scenario a working vaccine is invented. But nobody currently has a proven working one (regardless of a few headlines to the contrary) and even if they did that would be 18 months minimum before mass manufacturing could begin.

What I am saying is "bomb shelter"-style hunkering down will likely be ineffective if there's a mass spread in your country because the disease would out-live whatever supplies you have.
A blockchain alone is a horrible data structure for random access lookup. There were so many hacks that had to be done to make Bitcoin work efficiently on BerkeleyDB and LevelDB.

Ethereum lets you do general purpose computing, so there are nameservers that just use a hash table. That's how ENS (.eth) works. But at that point it's not really "DNS as a blockchain"; it's more like ICANN but running on Ethereum miners's computers instead of 8.8.8.8.
Addressing Temporal Memory Safety
How much of that 20% goes to pay malpractice insurance and lawsuits?
The GNU tar man page is explicitly a shortened reference, because the real manual is in info format.

Info manuals are often examples of documentation done well, and the tar manual looks pretty decent.

For example it has sections like "Some Definitions" and "What 'tar' Does", then a tutorial, followed by the formal documentation.

It looks like it also separates the coverage of what the program does from the description of how to request those things on the command line. That's also often a sign of high quality documentation.
Sure it could be even worse, but is that supposed to be a rationale for accepting his approach? Just don't understand what point you are trying to make.
So thats how panic looks like.

Great.
Playing the meta definitely requires opponent modeling, but I don't think it's exclusively opponent modeling. In the example of Splendor, I think meta is best explained as the interaction between emergent strategies. An AI may not need to think of it as a meta as is the case in chess, but an AI may still be playing strategies that match elements of the metagame.

I think European style board games are great examples. Euro board games are often designed in a way where there are 3-6 different "currencies" in the game that are vaguely interchangeable in terms of progress towards the victory conditions, but these currencies have situational tradeoffs. It's usually a safe bet to play a T-shaped strategy where you focus on a few currencies but dabble in the rest enough to influence the game conditions to favor you. Scoring mechanisms often explicitly reward being T-shaped and gameplay mechanics often explicitly favor T-shaped strategies, so regardless of whether the AI is explicitly trying to play a meta strategy, it's probably going to look like a meta strategy because the meta is T-shaped.
I might be ok with this, but not while incompetents like Trump are at the wheel.
Yeah, I was gonna say, this pretty standard /r/buttcoin fare. The main difference with BTC (pick your flavour...) is only that the pyramid hasn't toppled (yet?).
My favorite interview over the last few weeks is from NPR when a guy in law enforcement said that police don't even use that type of encryption (that normal people use) as if he forgot that his police radio, payroll, camera footage, information storage, are all most certainly protected via encryption.
Hard Startups
https://archive.md/Ml4oM
What are the top reasons an PWA wouldn't cut it?
How about https://www.textfixer.com/ and https://textmechanic.com/ ?
I think what you’re describing is what we would call a controller, and management / senior ICs would still demand 90% line coverage by unit tests.
I'm curious; what do physicists think of the use of quantum information theory as a tool that could shed light on quantum gravity? See Patrick Hayden[1] for one person trying this. He told me that his work using quantum information doesn't require string theory.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~phayden/
Multiple weeks of uptime (on a laptop that is used daily and hibernates at night).
Dang, mind changing the title here? "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Feels important for YC's submissions to follow the guidelines, otherwise it tells everyone else - hey why bother following them yourself when the people associated with the site don't follow them.
I'd be interested in how you calculate it. Sounds like a great project. I've seen others that point out due to how the board is laid out which properties are most likely to be landed on, but don't think I've seen theoretical value based on rents.

An even better calculation would be how much it's worth to each player based on what they already have as well!
I don't often say this outright, but that's a dumb idea.

"Insectivorous bats in particular are especially helpful to farmers, as they control populations of agricultural pests... It has been estimated that bats save the agricultural industry of the United States anywhere from $3.7 billion to $53 billion per year in pesticides and damage to crops."[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat#Economics
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It's not just property values/landing percents. If you can get a "low value" monopoly more quickly through the auction, because combined players happened to land on all the orange spaces first time around the board but they're all "rationale" and "know" that orange is low-value (I don't know if it is, just an example), then that opens up an opportunity for you to swoop in.

That might not happen every game but it is advantageous to get a monopoly sooner rather than later. Like I said earlier you can also factor in how much money your opponents have when deciding whether to go to auction or pay list price. If everyone is cash poor that opens up opportunities for you to get deeds for low cost, increasing the properties future rate of return.

The randomness in the game means you can't just pick one optimal strategy and apply it to every game and every opponent. And if your opponents change strategy (or your opponents change), you need to adapt your strategy to accommodate for that as well.

edit: As far as the math goes, here's one such article that goes over it: https://ideas.ted.com/heres-how-to-win-at-monopoly-according...

another edit: There's also a limited amount of houses/hotels the bank has, so there's strategy around getting houses first and leaving your opponents unable to build up their monopolies (another frequent house rule is that there unlimited houses too buy from the bank). If multiple players are trying to buy houses at once and there's not enough, the houses are auctioned again to the highest bidder (hello capitalism housing shortages).

You can also sell properties you own, or choose to stay in jail (frequent house rule is that you can't collect money while in jail, but this isn't an official rule).
They certainly made a simple killing look fuzzy and complicated with all the arguments.

But even murdering people for fun on the border seems to happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cHqI1PGRNg

Outrage happens too. But reprecussions?
Why does this say that the DOJ has been pushing for this since 2016?

They have been pushing for some variation on this since basically forever. I first became aware of it back under Clinton with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip. And the debate has been essentially the same since.

Law enforcement wants to be able to break security, and promises that their super secret, super safe system will provide everyone else protection from evildoers while letting law enforcement find the bad guys. Cryptographers have maintained that when you create a back door, it is a question of time until it is found and publicized.

And the back door doesn't even have to be found to be abused. Because it will be made available to law enforcement and the courts. Which are surprisingly easy for third parties to subvert. And which are happy to build programs for themselves that break the rules that they are supposed to follow. (Snowden anyone?)

Success has gone to both sides. But on the balance, the cryptographers have been right.
Government can quarantine you for coronavirus with almost no personal recourse
It sounds like a majority of the students had no idea what encryption was and because the authority figure (the professor) asked them whether or not it was bad they just went with it? I'm having trouble understanding why people would say mathematical functions are bad.
What was the class about? What sort of majors were the attendees?
I don't recall reading about their rationale that way. Only the unholy way in which they defended it, while swapping it out then sequestering all iota until claimed through centralized means.

Sadly, I don't think that the blind defense of flawed security is that bizarre and is all too common today.

That said, it was corrected and seems solid to date.
I'll pay you $300 to rewrite and clean up the HTML & CSS for my site.
> Microsoft now finds themselves in the same position their competitors found themselves in the IE6 era.

Could you please give some examples ? Did windows ever blocked a competitors product ?
If you're doing anything in the cloud, yes, it is a very good idea to configure one for your project. It really isn't too complicated to set one up, and there are a lot of good articles to walk you through it.

DevOps pro tip: Take the time to script out your VPC configuration, and then don't think about it again. You'll thank yourself later for having a more secure, and scalable solution, that you can reuse for various projects, or on new jobs.
Singapore is literally touching the equator, and the coronavirus there keeps spreading. Local transmission has outnumbered imported cases a while ago. Temperature & humidity really isn't going to help.
I can serve ~533k visitors (~927k pages) of my sites/month for free with Netlify
Whether or not coronavirus turns into a stop-all-of-society-for-weeks event, China already stopped much of their society for a while. That means that things made in China are going to get scarce in a month or so. I therefore am paying attention to what things that I regularly use are made in China, and buying a few extra now, so that I can take a month or two disruption in the supply.
Ask HN: What do you do for lunch as a remote employee?
As a remote employee, what do you typically do for lunch?

I work for a fully remote company (i.e. we have no office so all our employees work from home or locations of their choosing).

To increase facetime with friends (and people in general), I generally make lunch plans either inviting other friends who work remotely over for lunch or go out with friends who work nearby.
That stat says "IE + Edge." MS is aggressively pushing upgrades to Edge which means Chromium would be the system engine, yes?
Another reason Bootstrap > Tailwind is consistency & context. Adding the class `alert alert-danger` to a div tells my coworkers that it's an "alert" & it will look like an alert everywhere. If I want to change how alerts look, I change the CSS

With Tailwind you'd have `bg-red-100 border border-red-400 text-red-700 px-4 py-3 rounded relative`. Then I'd have to change my HTML everywhere to update the appearance of alerts & its not always obvious that I'm looking at an alert in code.
Good start! Looks like it's still missing a lot of stuff I use daily, like staging chunks, ediff etc. I can actually imagine in 10 years that VSCode is going to be impossible to ignore even for die-hard Emacs users, so I do hope people keep iterating on this stuff, and Microsoft on the platform underneath it all.
It's only used to determine it in a way that's divorced from the business context. If everybody understands the business context, that's no longer useful. Ditto if people are collaborating with actual discussion, rather than trying to mediate communications via a database.
Liquidity is a thing, and trades are a combination of properties and cash passing between people who already have holdings of properties and cash that affect the subjective values of the properties being traded.

I think you're underestimating the complexity of your proposed calculation, and think is simply boils down to calculating how often particular spaces are landed on times the amount paid when they are landed on. I mean, it does, but the second part is not so simple.

What you have is a fairly complex strategy game, and the rest is pure luck (called dice.)

edit: I'd really be interested in seeing what you come up with (or imo, at what point you'd bail out) if you were to attempt to solve Monopoly. I'm at pessimizer@yahoo.com
Smart Vacuum Security Flaws May Leave Users Exposed
>each application embeds or streaming-downloads the exact [ABI] version of the runtime it needs

Except when they don't. Took me way too long to accidentally install the right redist to have fn-key OSD (volume up, mute, airplane mode, et cetera) on my ThinkPad.

Because why bundle it with the drivers? No error messages either. Just mash the buttons and have no visual feedback.
That depends on who the researchers are working for.
South Africa's economy is a mess, and worsening rapidly. The finance minister was due to present the budget today; I haven't checked up on it. Debt to gdp ratio doubled over the last decade. Moodys was the only remaining non-junk rating - may be about to change too.
‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially
I'm assuming decent initial placement (EVERYONE gets a pick at one of the 4-best spots in the game, and the player who get's 4th pick gets 4th AND 5th pick). Everyone has at least one good pick in my experience.

The situation where you have a clear "dead man walking", even when you did everything correctly, is when opposing players block you in with roads, preventing your expansion.

Once one of your initial 2 villages are blocked, the 2nd village becomes a target for blockage, because everyone knows that blocking your 2nd village will effectively eliminate you from the game.

Not "really eliminate", you're still a player and are kinda forced to play. But you can't make a 3rd village, and basically have no pathway to victory. A few unlucky rolls, or an opponent's lucky "Road Building" card, can bring up the road-block strategy extremely quickly.
> Due to the use of static keys, an authenticated attacker can trick the server into deserializing maliciously crafted ViewState data.

Many years ago I was shocked that ASP.net will deserialize arbitrary (potentially unsafe) objects from the client and relies on signatures to ensure that parameters sent by the client were in fact round-tripped via HTTP POST from the same server.

How is __VIEWSTATE not a horrible idea???
Communism has no state or government (and thus no politicians), which are the key features of his game.
> There's still a hell of a lot of market under socialism

Completely agree. It's frustrating, because with words like "capitalism" and "socialism", why use words at all? Nobody means the same thing -- yet most people want the same thing -- it's really frustrating. I view it as a really important failure of science and philosophy. And a great opportunity for simulations in the service of empirical morality.

Which reminds me: Adam Smith's advisor wrote a whole tract on "Moral Computation" back in the early 1700s
MITM-as-a-business has been nothing but a slow motion train wreck destroying individual liberty. FAANG may bicker with the DOJ/NSA (and Ma Bell) about who is in control of all the surveillance data, but none of them are fighting for we the people. They're all just jockeying over who gets to rule.

The sane response to corporate totalitarianism is most certainly not government totalitarianism. Sadly with how the two political salesteams frame a false division merely over different flavors of authoritarianism, this has a good chance of working.

As always, the true answer is trustable software running under the control of users ourselves. Unfortunately, we will have to see how bad things get before most people are driven away from all of these centralized attractive nuisances.
If each class does one thing, what's the advantage over using inline styles?
So, you can't trust the government to oversee the tech companies.

You can't trust companies to protect privacy.

You can't trust voters/users to make good decisions on voting for the government or choosing the "right" companies to support.

That doesn't leave a lot of options, unfortunately.
> It used to be known for prematurely wearing out SSDs by constantly writing stuff (cache I think?) to disk.

They were constantly vacuuming some SQLite database.[0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/for-f...
There's nothing wrong with making cool woven textiles. I suspect if someone had a problem with your comment, it's because it sounds like you're workshopping a startup idea. I get that this is a very startuppy place, but even other startup founders probably get exhausted by all the business ideas shared on this website. (As the saying goes, ideas are cheap and execution is what matters)

I'm not saying you did anything wrong. Just sharing why I think your comment was downvoted.
It is in my house.
Agreed. Non-neurotypical people may or may not need to approach understanding the context differently than neurotypicals. But it's not like we're incapable of understanding the context!
I knew a ex-friend in school a few years back. He has schizophrenia.

He tells you that he knows people in the chines government and other stuff.

You know what the problem here is? You just don't know who is posting.
Semantic-UI is a perfect example of the atrophy that I fear with combined CSS and JS frameworks. I'm pretty bullish on utility-CSS (I prefer tachyons since it's much simpler than tailwind). I don't think frameworks should necessarily combine the JS and the CSS. Ideally you would have a competitive market of people selling themes, using utility-css components so you're not limited by framework, and then you can just use your own javascript that you're going to have to use anyway (alpine, react, ember, angular, vue, etc)

I think if utility-css frameworks get popular someone will abstract the components from the frameworks and things like tailwind ui will become unnecessary (rather it will just be utility-css-ui and will work with any css-framework that implements the "interface").

Semantic UI is the perfect example of why you shouldn't go with something that's generic. Unfortunately the project just became too bloated for one person to handle. Your concern about sustainability is a good one and that's exactly why many of the frameworks' authors sell themes. However, themes usually require a lot of work and are difficult to implement using the actual css framework. tailwind ui is different because if you had the theme it's really easy to recreate it because it's utility first.
> you're allowed to protest a system that you are forced to participate in

First of all, nobody is forced to participate. Moving elsewhere in the world is easy. I mean, you can literally drive to Venezuela if you want to.

And, yes, you are allowed to protest a system, but not with lies and fabrications. Socialism is best at creating misery and that's about it. That's reality.

Let me make an imperfect parallel. "Building a house is easy". OK. If the person saying this has never built a house, not even designed one, the statement is far more likely to be ridiculous than to be valid. Who, in this case, would have a valid opinion about house building? More than likely architects, contractors, construction workers or people who have actually built homes. It is, in fact, not easy.

Politicians like Bernie are selling something they know nothing about. They are selling ideas that infected their brains decades ago and refuse to allow reality to correct their thinking.

> all the anti-leftist posts from Venezuela/China/Cuba/etc. that I've seen were from the 0.1% of their respective countries.

So...you actually think people in real socialist nations actually love to live as they do? Friend, you need to come of of the cave and realize the shadows you are being shown are not reality.

My guess is there's nothing I can say to convince you that your world view on this topic is just plain wrong. Having lived and traveled across South America extensively for quite some time I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that your views of Socialism are skewed towards a fantasy that does not align with reality at all. If you want to live in human tragedy, go ahead and move to a Socialist nation, because that's all you'll get out of it.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_i...

> "It's pretty clear we need to make sure Windows 3.1 only runs on top of MS DOS or an OEM version of it," and "The approach we will take is to detect dr 6 and refuse to load. The error message should be something like 'Invalid device driver interface.'"

Microsoft isn't the gorilla it used to be, but never forget it is a gorilla, and knows how to play the gorilla game.

If Google becomes sufficiently annoying, Microsoft can say "Well, sure, Google's Chrome isn't very fast on Windows, and crashes every so often. Google must be slipping. Here, Edge is just as good, being practically the same technology, and it's from us, your friend, so you know it won't crap out at the worst possible moment."
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> Pretty sure your makeshift gauze mask would be largely useless at stopping anything.

That's a pretty bold statement. As someone who grew up in a less-well-off part of the world where medical supplies were not always available I have personally seen makeshift masks made and used by both doctors (rarely) and visiting relatives (more frequently).

The key problem with homemade masks is durability -- they do fail much quicker than a professional surgical mask that lasts many hours. But then, unless you are a medical professional, you do not need to wear them for hours. Wearing one in the open air environment is almost always an overkill.

First link that comes for me (below), when Googling for evidence, seems to indicate that homemade masks in some small trial were worse than professional but still pretty decent (1 hour with homemade ~ 3 hours with professional mask), although I barely skimmed it and might have misunderstood the results.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...
If your system relies on "the right people" being in charge but does not guarantee that those people are in charge then it is a terrible system.
Fork-able web content (e.g. blog posts, class notes) is something I've been looking at, but you would still need to rely on an online service like Github or Gitlab.