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Where do you see the upvote/downvote counts on HN?
"Sufficiently Powerful Optimization Of Any Known Target Destroys All Value"

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/does-big-business-ha...

Once recognized as emergent phenomenon we can stop getting emotional about it and learn to build more resilient systems that scale to the next level
Though IMO using Qt for its GUI instead of the native lightweight Haiku ones is missing the point of Haiku a bit.
> The suspicious events included strings commonly used by hackers (e.g. 414141…4141).

I had to look this up. "AAA…" (0x414141… in ASCII/UTF-8) is traditionally used as arbitrary user input that's easy to spot in places it shouldn't end up.

https://security.stackexchange.com/q/18680
There are already some solutions around that try to address this on a consumer level. I recently watched a teardown for a piece of test gear that utilizes frequencies injected directly to the mains supply in order to control home hot-water heaters in Australia[0].

That's the great thing about standards -- there are so many to choose from!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po4b7JhpxKQ
> Rails' implementation of enums is a good example of this.

The advantage of ActiveRecord enums (vs db-native) is that you can change the list of valid values without having to run a whole ALTER TYPE - and all the overhead that would entail in doing without downtime in a production db.
Wait, how does that... ohh, you're forwarding GLX. Ha, that's awesome, I am definitely borrowing that idea :)

The graphics contexts should be well-contained on the host though. That the guest is leaking memory is kind of interesting.
Thanks!

I don't personally think very much of one, but i'm pretty down on blockchain in general. (Also not an expert at it, only have a surface-level IT guy understanding of it).

I could see some role in using blockchain to keep track of _checksums_ of preserved files (nothing in the chain except the cryptographic digests of files stored elsewhere), as a way to have a hard-to-tamper-with multi-party-decentralized preserved historical record that a particular file was stored at a particular time, and has not changed since (whether from error or mal-intent).

Just a record of what was stored when, not otherwise involved in the storage itself. If you want decentralized multi-party storage (which is cool, but I'm not sure it's necessary), there are protocols for that which don't require, or IMO have any reason to benefit from, blockchain technology.

Again just my own not super well-informed opinion, and I'm hardly a blockchain expert (being pretty suspicious of it).
Where's the irony? (Not sure which one is worse.)
The difference is whether the condition on bar is a filter is on the join from bar or baz.
I get your point, but loophole has a specific meaning that implies taking advantage of an ambiguity, unexpected complexity, or oversight in drafting to reach an unintended result. This was not unintentional, and I think that's important to say.
People make two claims for masks.

1) They prevent the wearer from getting the virus from other people.

2) The prevent the wearer giving the virus to other people.

People talk a lot about viral load, and about breathing droplets deep into your lungs. So, (2) doesn't make much sense to me. The person with mild covid-19 infection places a mask around their mouth and nose, thus trapping all those infected droplets, which then get breathed back in. If the mechanism of action really is "breathing the virus causes severe infection" why would you want to trap the virus by your mouth and nose?

> If masks are as completely useless as he claims

They're not saying they're completely useless. They're saying that lots of the people wearing masks expect 100% protection, even if they're doing fucking stupid things. There's absolutely no point in both wearing a mask and going to a football match. https://www.thenational.ae/image/policy:1.998514:1585469410/...

If we're going to force people to wear masks we need to make sure they're wearing them correctly, because an incorrectly worn mask may do more harm than good.
Yes, but you were saying that the impediment was a legal one. I'm asking if that's really true, given that a(n approved) bank can just elect not to provide some services. Surely that can't be illegal.
AI lets you be Albert Einstein or the Mona Lisa on all your Zoom calls
Postgres-ext-WASM: Postgres library to run WebAssembly binaries
You’d be surprised how much rank and file developers can care about observability and reliability. The key to unlocking this is making them responsible for how their code runs in production by adding them to the on call schedule.
> I've got two boys in 3rd & 5th grade right now and I'm actively fighting with both of them the idea that "learning" is a matter of being told the correct answer and then they forever after know the correct answer in its every nuance.

So there is a difference between insisting on being right and acknowledging the possibility of being wrong.

However, this reminds me of the book "Factfulness" where Hans Rosling shows how most of us rely on outdated information (that we were taught decades ago) when asked about the current state of the world. We simply fail to update our knowledge.

The book is highly recommended.
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Everyone said they weren't taking any risk, but all the money was distributed and now they're getting sued by people who didn't get some.
Well said, thank you!

It is much easier than you think. Uncontested races are about half of all elections [0]. Just near me a city election had only 19 people vote in it (covid played a big role though). In front of me right now there is a mail ballot for a local election with half the races being uncontested. Look up what your local elections are like here:

https://www.google.com/search?ei=DnGgXrfZJNa5tQbtpKy4DA&q=ru...

For instance in SF here is the page on how to run for office: https://sfethics.org/compliance/campaigns/candidates/running...

This takes about a lunch break to get through. Please consider it, democracy only works if you do.

[0] https://www.governing.com/topics/elections/gov-uncontested-l... Per the article, there is a LOT of variation here.
How about the following:

- When to use JOIN vs a subquery?

- When is a subquery actually a correlated subquery? Will this destroy your performance? Or is it a critical feature?

- Should you put constraints in the JOIN or in the WHERE? Will the distinction drastically affect performance?

- When do you use WHERE vs HAVING?

- Is the NULL from the join because no joined row was found, or because the joined row had a NULL value itself?

Etc. etc. The basic concepts are simple, but the implementation details quickly become very complex, particularly when you're ensuring high performance with indices, and making sure the query uses the indices.

And all of the questions I pose above have clear answers... but the answers certainly aren't obvious from SQL basic concepts.

And also, while JOIN seems like it ought to be intuitive, in real life it seems like it's like pointers in C -- some people get it pretty quickly, other people struggle forever.
This, the only way to prevent stuff like this from happening is to actually decouple the system from business interests. These kind of incidents repeat themselves over and over because it is based on a flawed logic where if you help businesses it will have a trickle down effect that ends up helping productive people. Same thing that happened when GM got a whole bunch of money and then they were using their private jets and collecting the nice CEO bonuses.

Governments by their very nature, and democratic ones especially, are supposed to be about charging taxes and redistributing that wealth for the better good. There is this big concept about having a powerful middle class which in turns make the extremely poor or the extremely rich a problem for the system to deal with.

The SBA could have helped all of those businesses directly through a coordinated effort with the IRS. Through the IRS they will know who is effectively a small business doing real work recently. How hard is it to just phone or email people asking for their bank account and fund the small business directly? If 6% of funding was all that was available at least a public raffle would have been a fairer system.

But even this stuff doesn't solve the question of what do you do with people that are out of a job, have a disability, mental issues or in general people that are unable to work like the elderly. Do you just let them die out of starvation out in the streets?
It's not politically feasible. The Republicans have been trying to kill off the USPS for decades now, and would torpedo any effort to expand it's scope in a way that that the USPS might be competent at.
On the other hand, I haven't been in the first category since I was unemployed and only worked on side-projects.

Once I worked with teams, I started encountering things like difficult merges, long-running divergent branches, etc. that make GUI useful.

If there are more people in the first category, it's only because anyone can start a solo repo but only a subset of people work on teams.

Either way, who cares? Use what is useful to you.

Throughout these comments is this weird assertion that other people are using the wrong tool unlike us enlightened HNers. It's like people get offended that others prefer other tools. As if it's like "What, is my cli git preference not good enough for them?!"

I'm low-key convinced that's what's actually going on in all these cross-examinations.
Even so, Qt has a hell of a lot less of a footprint than Electron.
It implements a proposed feature to the c language, which is the more interesting part of it.
Larger customers will have relationship managers at the bank who guide them through the process step by step. Their customers likely even have their cell phone number so communication is good and low friction. With the support of accountants and lawyers who will have all information available to hand, I'm sure the application was a breeze.

The current crisis has been a real eye opener. Our entire government and economic system is bailing out corporations and preserving the wealth of asset owners at the expense of taxpayers and society. This should be a perfect opportunity for smaller companies to step in and win business from corporates who have engaged in monopolistic practices for years and engaged in excess risk taking. But that isn't being allowed to happen because corporates are judged as too big to fail. I find this whole system intolerable.

It feels like we need to add more restrictions against corporates. Restrict their ability grow via M&A, restrict executive compensation to a multiple of median income and stop them growing too large. I say this as a capitalist.
I guess the issue I have is that you have mentioned "cheap gamble" and "if things work out". This is not what they are claiming, except in the fine print.

Institutions that last a long time plan for changes in management. Contracts are part of that. I think I understand their vision, but they need to put themselves out there and be willing to be hauled into court to make "permanent" happen. If that's not what they are saying, then I guess I just don't understand.
Paying for DNS registration one year at a time is actually a good thing, it makes sure your renewal method is put into test every year. Way better than realizing your DNS contact is gone and you can’t renew your domain ten years later.
> 2 year olds aren't adults and shouldn't take on adult responsibilities.

While this is true, I think we often don't give kids enough credit either. Around that age they can be quite capable.

I think we've gone too far the other way and just don't push kids whatsoever, so now most 18 year olds are completely clueless as they head into college. This is compounded by USA's growing anti-intellectualism where we're proud to be bad at math, argue about having to study literature, and so on.

> It's shown in 180 countries worldwide and very popular internationally (Including Russia):

I can make this same argument about a Korean tv show called Running Man, which is indeed popular abroad... to niche audiences, like me. :-) I probably wouldn't argue with a Russian person about what shows are popular in their country, though.
The End of Grand Strategy
High level synthesis works perfectly fine, just not from C. HDLs have chugged along too, it's just the toolchains are ridiculously expensive and risky to change. That's why hardware tech stacks lag behind the state-of-the-art.

I share the skepticism of high level synthesis from C as being a bad motivation. The workflow is more like metaprogramming, and C is terrible at that.
At least it wasn't a Sparcstation SLC ("Silly Little Computer")!
No, left joins were intended here. They mean different things.

With inner joins the semantics are the same. If the performance is different, the database query optimizer is broken.
This looks so good, especially the fake monitor effects
>> "hence domestically popular tv shows like Big Bang Theory which have 0 audience in countries that value intellect"

> It's shown in 180 countries worldwide and very popular internationally (Including Russia):

You are confusing popularity with agreement with the anti-intellectual undertones.
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Mm, but it's not just the towering Mount Ararat and the river of Hrazdan that make Yerevan obviously Yerevan. The name of the city has remained extremely similar for about 2,000 years, the language, the writing...

Nice, in my opinion (I've only been there twice) has very little connection to the Nice of old. The geography is not very unique (travel the Mediterranean coast and I promise you you'll find plenty of places that look nearly identical.) It's cycled through plenty of languages and was even originally 2 different cities (Cemenelum and Nikaia.) Put an occupant of Cemenelum in modern day Nice and I doubt they would know it was the same place. The once large river Paillon is dried to a part of what it once was and covered up by concrete; the language is completely different (and has changed many times) - hell, Nice wasn't even part of France until the late 1800s!

In Marseille, sure, an ancient inhabitant would recognize it due to the islands if nothing else. But as much as I love Marseille (one of my favorite places in the world, actually) - I get much less of an "ancient" feeling there than anywhere in Armenia or Iran, for example.
>it's pretty trivial to create your own signing keys and enroll them in the MOK

Aleksa, I know you are probably aware, but if keys can be added by a user then the mechanism is not really achieving verified boot. The keys need to be burned into a read only portion of memory if we hope to protect against evil maid style attacks. Unfortunately this conflicts with the "user freedom" side of the hardware. Wish there was a good solution for device owners and only device owners to own their keys.
I missed that interpretation, but upon rereading the post, it sounds like you are correct.

That being said, the central bank (at least in the US) is structured much more like a think tank and policy center than anything close to a customer-facing organization.

Personally, I'm not a fan of that idea, but I completely agree that banking policies/regulations need to be overhauled.
Additionally, Jamie Dimon is on the short list for a Biden cabinet position[1] - reach out to his campaign and express that given the action he's undertaken he is absolutely unsuitable to advocate for the American people.

1. https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-cabinet-vice-president-picks...
40K records of mock personal data (France, Germany, UK, US)
> EME encodes the video content

EME encrypts the video content, yes, but I don't see that this changes things. Netflix uses HTTPS (TLS) encryption over the top of the EME encryption, as this thread's title states.

> even metadata is encrypted.

I don't believe so. If you're delivering EME-encrypted blobs over insecure HTTP, an ISP will be able to see which blobs you are requesting, simply by their URL.

Aside: I recall reading that Netflix's CDN servers ('OCAs') store EME-encrypted blobs, so only the HTTPS encryption burdens the delivery server's CPU. Unsurprising, of course.

> without eme you can basically extract the video via tcpdump

Six years ago, sure. Today, no, as the stream is sent over HTTPS.

> in this case serves as additional privacy since video metadata and content get's encrypted, no matter which transport layer is used.

Perhaps unencrypted streams are still used to support legacy devices, but Netflix are committed to maximal use of HTTPS.

I don't see how EME's additional layer of encryption changes anything as far as privacy and unscrupulous ISPs are concerned.
You can create pretty complex SQL queries with SqlAlchemy's ORM, without going back and forth to the DB.
Not a popular opinion but considering the effort involved, should they not have earned fees? Should they have donated their time and resources? I'm sure it took a monumental effort to pull it together with the lack of clarity being handed down and the volume of loans to process in a short period of time. If the government wanted to do for $0 fees they would have figured out how to do it themselves. If a private business has to do it then they should be paid. If we are complaining about this what about 3M and everyone else making tons of money off of PPE? Obviously it isn't very palatable to hear about others making money off of this kind of thing but we need incentives for people to step up and help.
Thats nice. What about the oldest school, though?

Garbarnmumg:

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

28,000 years of teaching the next generation agriculture and animal husbandry.
In a more general sense, what level or standard should advertised privacy claims be held to? How are "privacy" and "security" quantified? Are there any real-world tests they have to pass? Or is it simply: "Yup, our product is secure" (TM) And if it does get breached, should they release a statement correcting previous claims? Or need to hold off on running any privacy ads until it's fixed?

Actually, now that I re-watch an ad [0], they're not even making any claims about the iPhone's privacy. It's just showing a bunch of people doing private things, then posing a hypothetical question:

"If privacy matters in your life"
"It should matter to the phone your life is on"
"Privacy. That's iPhone."

Notice "It should ..." How many rounds of legal do you think that text went through.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_6uV9A12ok
I think we're past that point...don't get me wrong, it can help and is part of the answer but very clear it is not the solution. It's naive in this day and age to rely on such an archaic method and expect permanent or fundamental change.
They fixed autopromotion rules:

> if a Binary expression involves operands which are both _ExtInt, rather than promoting both operands to int the narrower operand will be promoted to match the size of the wider operand, and the result of the binary operation is the wider type.
Ignoring the obvious and glaring differences between our two political parties isn't constructive or illuminating.
QUEL[1] was like that, but thanks to Oracle SQL won.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
Use it. Love it. Looking to add the call-in feature next.
A database is also exceptionally good at doing transactional stuff like atomically incrementing something. I'd even say: This is something that belongs in the database and not in some brittle application logic.
Sweden resisted a lockdown, Stockholm expected to reach 'herd immunity' in weeks
Ah, makes sense. Thanks!
That's disappointing, it would be nice to see a true open source robot arm. I believe Covariant is separate from the Blue robot arm though.
Or, who from 50 years ago is still around to be trusted? The list to choose from is short. IBM, HP, GE, TI...
I’m speaking about starting a new bank, and obtaining a bank license to do so.
Plus there is a non-trivial amount of pressure to keep government out of things that the private sector could do, both politically speaking and from the private sectors that stand to profit.
Not from the bank, they just roll back the transaction. Some merchant might end up on the hook, though.
Greyed out means zero or below.
Completely agree, you just say parking is only for 4 hours or 8 hours, hell 12 hours.
TIL San Diego is the oldest city on the West Coast and the birthplace of California!
Note that the rule separately exempts franchise models.

This is a bit different than that. This exempts restaurants and hotels that are all owned by a single entity, as long as the individual restaurant, or hotel is a subsidiary with fewer than 500 employees.
That is exactly it.

To me, that seems like an odd culture for universities to encourage/perpetuate, given that most top professors at top universities are unlikely to be particularly athletic, and the word "intellectual" is often used as almost an antonym of "athlete".
I like this browser and use it on and off. But hope you guys take a lesson from Brave. Integrated payments SHOULD have been a part of every browser from day one. Now it can be and there's no reason it should be built in at this point.
Not only they are not taking risk, they get to pick who gets the funding so they further optimize their bottom line, by say favoring bigger loans or loans to their most indebted customers. I hope there is a reckoning but I am pretty sure there will be bonuses to the CEO's instead.
One of the downsides of B2, especially for people located outside the US/Europe, is that they only have datacenters in the US west coast, and in Netherlands.
"Ssl added and removed here".

Not everyone treats long haul as secure until they learn the hard way. Few are big enough to find out.
>>Banks are basically being compensated for doing paperwork.

They're really being compensated for having the network to do what the government wanted to. No one else has the capacity to give money to small (and some large) businesses in a record amount of time.

I'd pay 5% to get the stimulus cash a few days after the bill is passed...and I guess the same for the government /taxpayers. Corona loans that go out in October are no good, so you pay a fee for performance. Call that $10B a Bank Stimulus Act
Soundcloud's great for finding new music, too; I have currently 1842 tracks and mixes that I liked over there.

MixCloud [0] is another source for finding a lot of new electronic music tracks; the absolutely nice thing about MixCloud is that the player shows the track ID at specific timestamps within a mix, so most of the times you don't even have to use Shazam to ID a track :)

[0] http://mixcloud.com
I've been fairly strongly anti-mask. I'm not sure the linked paper is persuasive.

I prefer the papers mentioned here (which argue against my anti-mask position and are changing my mind a bit): https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/13/masks-summary/
Right, you need more reps who support protecting and expanding public goods like the USPS, regardless of political affiliation.
How to Store Data Forever
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But it was severely devastated by 2 earthquakes. The first was in 1531. The worst was in 1755, an huge tragedy that left marks in European culture (creation of seismology, a bit discussion on the vindication of God within the Enlightenment,...)
70% of voters support a ban on immigration in new poll
Good idea, but I can't help but see this as marketing spin over the alternative title of the same story

"Google: Data centers now perform LESS when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing"
Noticed a typo: "Turn then On/Off instantly" then should be them
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I still remember one of the amusing sound bites it would play if you crashed your plane while filming a stunt:

"Wait a minute, uh... up is down, down is up, and left is left... right?"