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> If (hypothetically, somehow) ads were outlawed from existence tomorrow, a thriving industry of independent reviewers would instantly pop up to serve the need of product discovery.

Hardly. You buy a domain name, put something on it and then what, wait for an independent reviewer to monitor the registrars? And that review would be discovered how?

> Painting the advertising industry as "humble startup putting up a sign in the downtown square" is also disingenuous. Most advertisements you see are done by big corporations. What's the excuse of Coca-Cola or McDonalds to plaster the streets with psychologically-crafted pictures of their unhealthy products, then?

I have no idea how did you reach that conclusion from what I wrote.
Thats probably the thing I learnt looking through the microscope, or was perhaps made obvious. Life at that level is just chemical gradients and finding bio mass to procreate, so things that don't do this don't procreate and die, the winners are the ones that are the best at this. The asking why is a human thing and is so many layers on this elementary life we can afford to ask these questions, but I don't think life can exist without competition, at least not organic life that has evolved. Maybe we'll make a more pure sort of life that doesn't need competition to grow but not sure about that.
Ok good to know
The indiebound site now directs people to bookshop.org for purchases. Previously, it would direct you to an individual bookseller's website which may or may not have had online ordering available.

Update: The changeover to bookstore.org has been postponed to June 1st to direct as much traffic to individual bookstores' websites as possible.
I have worked in both the public and private sectors. It's not a matter of public vs private sectors at all. Incompetence on both sides at all levels, with the worse incompetence on the private side because there actually is a level of meritocracy on the public side (in non-politically-appointed positions) while on the private sector side ass-kissing is enough to get a promotion.
Some might consider your post to be off-topic or worse a "well, actually" interjection, I found it fascinating to learn the source of the "best minds of my generation" framing. Thanks.
Funny this. Back when I had more time on my hands I liked to do project euler problems. I'd start with the dumbest brute force method to find the answer, and let that run. Then I'd see if I could figure out the math and implement it correctly before the brute force finished. I'd say I had about an 95% success rate at beating the dumb brute force (course it really depends on the problem search space).

What was interesting, is that implementing the brute force solution and running it probably saved me time in the long run, because it managed to turn off a part of my brain that worries about wasted time. As long as I knew the brute force was potentially making progress, I didn't care if I ended up with false starts, or took a long time trying to understand the math, so it was easier to focus on the smarter solution.
Yeah but that's because you're on his site. Go on other personal sites and you will experience the same, no?
Amusingly, I was bit by this today because of some issues that required Cisco's secure email service: opened the attached HTML file, but couldn't log in, since they haven't added support for Same site.

Found a workaround, but I'm glad they're doing this for the duration.
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You're misparsing the sentence: "If you’ve got interesting technical analysis [or optimization] problems". "Technical analysis" is an adjective, not a noun.
The value-add of bookstores is discovery. You can browse a bookstore. I don't go to a physical bookstore if I know I want to buy <current bestseller>. I go to a bookstore because I want to find something interesting on a certain topic.

You can browse Amazon of course, but for some reason it's still an awful user experience.
A great warning of what could happen in any country that doesn't stay vigilant in keeping their government in check.
>However, this arrangement may make Zoom responsive to pressure from Chinese authorities.

Zoom doesn't even have to be responsive to pressure, just a developer has to be. And they live there so yah they'll be understandably responsive.
Author was never tested, so it's impossible to know now what she had. A lot of people are in the same boat.

Keep this in mind when looking at numbers.
There is likely already a simple templating program installed on your linux OS: envsubst. It is included as part of the gettext-base package on Ubuntu and installed by default I believe.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/envsub...

The templating language looks similar to capability to that provided by templ.
Zoom also claims to have end-to-end encryption and yet they don't, their marketing and even their clarification post being a lie.

Companies like Zoom can claim that they are GDPR compliant however truth of the matter is that compliance offices are overwhelmed. And until Zoom will have a huge data leak or something nobody is going to investigate their compliance.

So a company like Zoom might claim GDPR compliance and that's something, but only if you can trust them.

And a company that lies in their marketing and press releases can't be trusted, sorry.

Google's Meet btw is also GDPR compliant, Google tries to be GDPR compliant nowadays with everything they do because they are a huge target. They also don't use bullshit in their marketing and are pretty good at security, so I personally trust them more, even if I actively avoid Google's products out of privacy concerns.
Less of a farce than forcing a native bolivian who won 47% of the votes out and installing a woman who won 4% of the votes as president.

Also, don't you think it is a "farce" because of once again foreign interference? If it is a farce, then let the venezuelans deal with the matter themselves. What business is it of ours?

It doesn't serve the interests of the american people. The only people who benefit are the international banking cartel.

Also, you keep forgetting that the US has been trying to destabilize venezuela since chavez got elected. So, the election being a "farce" or not doesn't really matter.

One has to wonder, why do you care? What's in it for you? Where is the sudden surge of anti-venezuelan propaganda coming from. Certainly, if you care about elections, there are far egregious cases than venezuela around the world. Bolivia being an obvious one. Have you been pushing propaganda to oust the "unelected" leader of bolivia?
You might want to enable cargodist: https://wiki.openttd.org/Passenger_and_cargo_distribution
> our society seems to be less sympathetic to a man fleeing an abusive partner or violence than it is to a woman in the same circumstance.

I agree with you wholeheartedly on that point.
I waded through a 2 hour long presentation by a dozen doctors at UCSF. One of the things that came up was herd immunity. The epidemiologist basically said herd immunity won't happen for this virus because r0 is too high.

My thought is people that think herd immunity would be a couple of week long thing have no idea what they are talking about and are working from a place of denial. Consider MERS, MERS is still around and they're playing whack a mole with it. Let COVID19 run free and it'll become endemic.
It’ll take a new CEO before people will trust them again, kind of like what happened at Uber.
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The dropdown buttons appear to have customized the background color but not the text color. This leaves the text color at `color: buttontext`, and this color value changes with macOS Dark Mode.

This is probably also why clicking on any of the buttons causes the text to vanish during the click. It's turning white, because the default for an active button is `color: activebuttontext`.
Maybe I got I wrong, but then again I originally heard it from a physicist so they may have deliberately changed it :)
This is really good. I've tried time tracking apps before and the UI was usually a pain trying to categorize things, this feels almost intuitive. Do you've the code for this up on github or anything? Would be cool to customise it and dig into something like exporting the data.
I do consider my desktop towers keyboard "permanent".

I don't swap keyboards, I always use that one.
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Sorry to hear that.
Always keep in mind that if the recruiter has placed or is looking to place mutiple candidates at a company, and the recruiter is paid a fee by the company--Then the company is really the recruiter's client, not you.
Good luck in your search.
The persistence is what tells me its fraud. A regular bank would just tell you the number to call and say "have a nice day."

In fact my bank recently did try to reach me for fraudulent charges and they did it by text and at the end it said "call the number on the back of your card" so I would suggest just like the IRS will never call you directly; assume your bank will never call you. They might text you, email you, have their app send you a notification but never a call. and they will always say "call the number on the back on your card"
https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack

It's based on using an AWS instance; build times are in the order of:

"1.75 hours on a c5.4xlarge.
5 hours when Chromium is also needed"

Also, https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack#costs
I wrote up the blog for this study, and I agree it was poorly written and an incremental finding at best. To me, the most important point is that the IDSA/CDC has been recommending doxy for decades knowing that other drugs are more effective. To PragmaticPup: There is, however, lots of evidence supporting the point that Lyme spirochetes easily survive 2 to 4 weeks of doxy through the formation of blebs. Look up the primate studies by Monica Embers @Tulane and the mice studies by Barthold @UCDavis. Borrelia, like Syphilis, is notoriously hard to culture, and Barthold says that persistence is the "rule rather that the exception." I think there have only been 7 randomized double blind clinical treatment trials on humans since the 1981 discovery, and they all tested single drugs, rather than the drug cocktails, which might address both the spirochete and bleb forms of the bacteria. Michal Tal at Stanford is doing groundbreaking work on ways the Lyme bacteria evades the human immune system. I don't want to steal her thunder, but we definitely need new approaches to treating this formidable disease.
Woah, super cool project! I just finishing building a project [1] that is super similar, but for me it was to learn React and Next.js! Love the simplicity. I had searched for a simple time tracker for my own projects and used just about all of the ones of the first page of the Google search results but found every single one of them bloated with features I did not need (billing, accounting, team support etc).

[1] https://forty.app
First off, ~12% of hospitalizations here in Canada are people under 40. It's not a laughing matter even for the young and healthy. Secondly it's causing severe damage to your body which could manifest as permanent damage, or just as having expended some of your limited capacity for self repair, leading to earlier failure in old age. Nothing is for free.

If you're deliberately getting people infected for herd immunity, you actually speed up the spread to all manner of people, including the most vulnerable. And you make the burden on the limited health system all the more acute causing additional unnecessary loss of life. Remember you need something like 50-80% of people infected to achieve herd immunity. Just doing the math on that and the burden to the medical system - it's not pretty.

I've given this some thought, but I think it's a horrible idea.
`envsubst` is not POSIX, but my preferred tool for such things: https://linux.die.net/man/1/envsubst

it's part of `gettext`: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/envsub...
I honestly love Elon Musk and much of what he tries to do, but how are these tests still running? Are rocket scientists and engineers immune to the coronavirus?
Attacking the wetware would have been worthy try :) Would hypnosis work to recover the forgotten password?
He's been getting a lot better lately.

Model Y was early, Model 3 was pretty close to on time, Starship is progressing well.

Will be interesting to see how Cybertruck, Semi and new Roadster stick to their timelines.
The outbreak that invented intensive care
HTA still exists. For new apps? No thank you.
Millions of people are filing for unemployment right now. Do this first. Like, reasearch over the weekend and get to filing first thing Monday morning.
> After years in the making, Guix recently gained support for running natively on the GNU/Hurd operating system.
Why? It’s not in the spec, how am I, the developer, supposed to know that the browser is being non-compliant?
RNA isn't very stable, so I wouldn't be hopeful
Look from the inside in the middle: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/politics/coronavirus-b...
Exactly.

Made painfully clear with the messaging that “hey, a lot of people die from car crashes and the flu every year” directly followed by quotes of “these great American companies such as Boeing are NOT replaceable”.

IOW: old and/or poor people are commodities easily replaced.
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My favorite to do/ time tracker app. There have been some major updates recently. Now there is support for jira, github & gitlab and much more. Curious to hear your thoughts about it!
This was the argument of why an Apple controlled app store was so important. But they seem to be actively pushing people towards those high profit, user hostile, apps.

There is a cohort of games that is 10x worse than anything you'd find on the web. Unskippable 30s blocks of ads every few minutes, that just promote more crappy games.
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Blender, Maya, Unity, UE4, Substance Painter, Photoshop, Krita, node-based shaders

Portfolio/Resume: https://penny-art.com/

Email: find it in my resume

I'm Penny, a 3D Artist with 5 years in the tech industry, including experience as a Software Engineer and a Technical Artist. My cross-disciplinary background helps me establish asset pipelines and find solutions for any art-engineering collaboration problems.

I'd like to focus on creating fantastical props and environments, but will also continue being a generalist for interesting products that need a hand on the creative team.
What EHR is she using? It seems like a lot of this data should be easy to capture there (not necessarily by the end user, obviously).
Insert applause here. I second this.
absolutely - I was asking why a poor encryption scheme would be considered acceptable just because the data is compressed.
that is basically a mini-os :)
hope they nim developers, port a lot of python data science tools e.g pandas, numpy etc so they can increase adoption in the language. Julia is supposed to fill that space, but feel strongly nim is better positioned
I heartily recommend trying out some CityBuilder servers. You claim a small town and provide it different types of cargo as it grows. It really tests your TTD skills, as you need to provide constant streams of cargo every month to keep the town growing.

There are probably several CityBuilder servers, but I mostly played on the BTPro[1] ones. Everyone starts at the same time and the goal is usually timeboxed to 3 hours, after which the server resets with a new map.

I haven't played the game for a few years, but these goal servers kept me hooked for months.

[1] https://openttd.btpro.nl/
I'm not on £130k but I'm in London and also doing some development aa part of my job. Most of the knowledge I gained over the last few years will be rendered useless in a few months from now because there will be hordes of 10 times more experienced desperate for jobs. So be it. I'll pull out my plumbing tools, I haven't used for years, and start providing different services. If that won't work,will have to figure out something else. This will be a massive readjustment for everybody..
Sure, that is fair. My point is that Bank of America itself would never extend loans to these businesses. It must mean there is some fundamental issue with the economics of the business. This is the same Bank of America that was expert in packaging dogshit BBB bonds. The fact that the latest stimulus bill enables these types of loans means a lot of these businesses that do not have a profitable business model will stay afloat. These are malinvestments enabled by the government. Shitty management will never be punished for their incompetence. Don't you want a world where incompetent managers are punished by the market for their incompetence? I certainly do.
Since when does a foreign government performing espionage give a crap about the target country’s laws? It’s naive to think some adversary is going to see “hacking is illegal” and just throw up their hands and say gee whiz I guess there goes our plans...
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Another missed red flag is when the scammer told him his last four of SSN. No legitimate company who has your DOB or SSN will ever tell you it over the phone. I'm pretty sure that's a violation of compliance laws. Agents are trained to ask, not tell.
> "I've seen some quote unquote valid vulnerability reports," Laurens ("lvh") Van Houtven, principal at Latacora, a secops and cryptography expert, tells CSO. "If someone asked me 'should I put this in my appsec report?', I'd say 'you can put it in there, but I will never let you live it down.'"

Is there any reason that someone who works for a company that wants to be perpetually hired by startups to do security would poo-poo a bug bounty program? This comment seems pretty motivated.

Additionally, a vulnerability is a vulnerability. Plenty of companies get owned due to pretty trivial vulnerabilities.

> Moussouris, now founder and CEO of bug bounty consultancy Luta Security, questions how much of HackerOne is real.

Again, could be motivated.

> The bug bounty platforms' NDAs prohibit even mentioning the existence of a private bug bounty. Tweeting something like "Company X has a private bounty program over at Bugcrowd" would be enough to get a hacker kicked off their platform.

Sure. How many traditional pentesters are signing NDAs?

> Consider a finder who spends weeks or months of unpaid work to discover and document a security flaw. Someone else independently discovers, documents and submits that same bug five minutes before the first finder. Under the rules of most HackerOne and Bugcrowd bounty programs, the first submitter gets all the money, the second finder gets nothing.

How are we proposing this alternately works in a way that isn't gameable by having control of multiple accounts?

> The lack of vetting of bug bounty hunters, where anyone, including this reporter, can sign up for a HackerOne or Bugcrowd account with any email address, is the key sticking point, Antokol says.

> Bugcrowd declined to elaborate on what the process of pre-vetting researchers actually looks like. So, this reporter signed up for an account and had immediate access to all public programs without any additional steps.

What is really the point of this so-called journalism? In the preceding paragraphs we were complaining about NDAs stopping people talking about private programs, then complaining about the lack of vetting, then saying we gain access to the PUBLIC programs when we sign up, then saying the bug bounty companies refuse to talk about their vetting methods??? What is this? I can see why Bugcrowd and Project Zero refused to talk to this person.

> Mature organizations can and should run their own VDP in house. If they are ready for an avalanche of dubious bug reports, they might optionally choose to run a bug bounty.

I have a feeling that this journalist is pretty in bed with the traditional pen-testing industry. His history of articles is pretty focused. Bug bounty programs use a customer's real money to pay out bugs. Bugcrowd, at least, triages those bugs before any payment is made. It is in the interest of nobody involved to submit "dubious" bug bounty reports. The only way I can explain that opinion is to think it comes from the mouth of someone with a grudge.
BofA sucks. They won’t give you a COVID-19 SBA loan unless you already have a loan in place with them before February 15th.

I’ll remember that the next time they need my money to bail them out....which will probably be this summer.

Selfish effing management.
it is a meme and is meant sarcastically, see the linked tweet.
BMWs are a straw-man argument. We just had one-time $1200 checks, there is discussion of more. No one is talking about buying BMWs, or servicing BMW-level expenses.

To put this in perspective, consider the monthly carry on rent+COBRA+food+honda (+ student loans). A one-time $1200 check wont go far.

Those who leased or bought BMWs arent really the subject of the conversation here, if they are relying on a $1200 check to get thru this, they are going under regardless (and possibly rightfully so if they got a luxury car rather than store a reserve/emergency fund.)
Bummer, what kind of work are you wanting to do next?
> this is maybe my least favorite bit of transit-related pedantry

I'm most impressed that you've stack-ranked your various bits of transit-related pedantry.

But, in the interest of science, what is your most favorite bit of transit-related pedantry?
> Somehow, you've got to get folks up and down from there

How is that different from underground railways? You still need to get people down and up from them
Situations where you have enterprise setups have users measured in the 10s of thousands.

There will be existing tooling around ACL management (typically AD). User Access Management groups, geo-separated local account manager, multiple help-desks to allow for disaster plans (pandemics, fires, localized grid failures).

Access can be as simple as:

- my application will use a system-account, and we'll manage access

- my application will pass user credentials (based on AD), these are the groups (based on AD) that have read/write/delete access; regional team leaders will request access using existing UAM, regional managers will authorize requests, your existing tooling will process those requests as you are the designated authority over those groups

Changing this requires either exceptional levels of observable returns on effort, or extreme will-power and political power.

During evaluation of MS SQL / PostgreSQL / whatever, fitting into existing UAM will be a requirement.
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The fundamental needs omit "power". Perhaps "security" is the analog, but "I will keep my job" is not quite the same as "my competitive standing relative to my peers and superiors will remain at least as strong and ideally improve". Let's recognize that the author strives to steer organizations in a direction of open productivity, but once anyone in the org is good at managing up it becomes an arms race. No org of >400 people can ignore this factor, and an org of any size can have it.
That sounds like the Hacker News that I know. It's worth trawling through the comments because you get gems among the dross, but it should be a trawl.
My guess is the GP misunderstood and was speaking about the Prolog programming language, not the web framework mentioned.

To address your question, the only complete back end web framework for Nim that has significant traction (that I know of) is Jester. Karax for the front side. The Prologue framework looks interesting though.
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