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> unique IDs

One thing that unique IDs are necessary for, is deduplication. Without a unique ID when talking to e.g. the update server, then their statistics (used to determine which updates should be e.g. CDN prioritized) will be heavily skewed in favor of anyone who has configured their system to poll the server more often.

(Yes, they can partially resolve this problem by looking at the request IPs—but, well, NAT. Sometimes even entire countries are behind a small set of IP addresses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT).

The ideal thing here would be for everyone to have a public IPv6 address, and then that address could be your "unique ID" without really uniquely identifying you or your device, but rather just uniquely identifying "a place to deliver updates to", like a mailing address uniquely identifies a place to deliver parcels to.

(This might not seem so relevant for updates, but a clearer example is in crashes. All OS vendors prioritize the issues in their issue-trackers by their prevalence among users, counted as the number of times a Crash Report has been [voluntarily] submitted that seems to be "about" that issue. Crash reports need to be deduplicated by installation to be useful for prioritization; a piece of software that happens to get into a super-edge-case crash loop and so crash a million times for one user, should not be prioritized over a piece of software that crashes once for a million users. Just the opposite, really.)

> hardware info

If we're talking about software updates, then this is part of the "inescapable metadata." Yes, the OS vendor can stuff each update full of all possible updates for all possible drivers released in the interrim—and that's a workable idea, if you're Linux. It's not workable in the Windows/macOS ecosystems, where "drivers" are third-party bloatware blobs that ship with their own GUI control panels et al. Such a monolithic update, covering all possible bloatware driver blobs, would be hundreds of GiB. It makes far more sense in Windows/macOS to just have the client retrieve the GPU/RAID/printer/camera/etc. drivers (and updates for said drivers) they need, as separate packages, from the server. And that separate retrieval essentially describes, piece by piece, your hardware profile.

> require them to keep logs

I never said it was (or should be) required; only that, if you're paranoid, you should have no reason to believe that they're not doing that, even without any client-side telemetry being pushed. A paranoid person would expect that even Linux distributions keep the access logs for their package servers (incl. gathering them from mirrors), and act accordingly.
I have lately been working on a genetic algorithm system, written in single-threaded Perl. When I started off wanting to do, say, 20 simulations, I just used parallel, and it worked great on the 8 threads of my desktop machine. Now I've done a bit more and want to do long-running simulations that might take a few hours, I've taken to just firing it all at AWS Batch and having a script that uploads the results to S3. Now I can do 1-200 instances at the same time, which my own hardware isn't up to in a reasonable timeframe.
The point of E2E encryption is to make this mathematically impossible. Anything labeled E2E that doesn’t provide that guarantee should be pointed out.
Polish one is also opensource - https://github.com/ProteGO-Safe
Facebook and PayPal invest in Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant GoJek
Democrats were also writing various versions of New study shows Trump is racking up a second body count with his claims about hydroxychloroquine[1] based on this study.

1: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/22/1946903/-Donald-T...
Antimalarial drugs touted by the White House as possible COVID-19 treatments looked to be not just ineffective, but downright deadly.

I think the quote above is what you're referring to. If so, the structure "Not only {small_point}, but {large_point}" is extremely common and used both with negatives and positives.
Yep. They all use Numatic units here these days.
The Lancet is a British medical journal. Swing and a miss.
A little bit of me thinks that smells like a smoke and mirrors show as an aid to selling. Last time we got a washing machine repaired was over decade ago and it didn't last long. Pretty quickly realized that replacing worked out cheaper especially if you don't throw money away on stuff like calgon every wash.
Happy to buy cheaper dumb washing machines.
Illustrating math equations can help students make sense of the abstract
>> Are you comfortable with that single client of your employer having a strong incentive to make your job redundant so they can try to hire you under worse terms (as you suddenly lost your job)?

I understand what you mean, and that situation doesn't seem desirable either, but I think that that is very uncommon when compared to companies trying to retain/squeeze employees using contracts with employment restrictions.
Well, that's interesting and useful to know. Thanks!
"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."

https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/ecc/9/11/s_668011
You mean yearly or lifetime?
What came first, Covid-19, or the desire for remote working? And what comes next
Do you really think so? These stores all have insurance. The deductibles will hurt a little but I don't think it's going to be game changing, especially for any national or international chains.
Well, history shows us where that kind of disdain for the poor will eventually lead. It isn't gonna be good for the rich.
> which costs 400 [not 400 thousand] [dollars] per hour

No, it's $400,000 per hour.

0.009 BTC/PH/day to buy from NiceHash (https://www.nicehash.com/algorithm/sha256)

100,000 PH/day total hashrate of BTC network (https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate)

That's 450 BTC/day to buy 50% of the hash rate (as if you even could, that in itself is a ridiculous notion - NiceHash says they have only 300 PH).

Or 18.75 BTC/hour. Or $185,000/hour.

Of course, you're not going to buy 50% of the network's currently running hash power. You'd likely need closer to 100% of the network's current hash power to gain 51%. So, $400,000/hr.

I mean really, does it pass any sort of common sense test that you could 51% the bitcoin network for $400 per hour?
Setting up efficient workflows with ESLint, Prettier and TypeScript
My experience running Fedora Linux on a Thinkpad P1 Gen 2:

It's mostly very good!

- I'm running Fedora 32 and using Gnome. I love it. Gnome continues to improve a lot with each release, and overall the operating system feels very stable. I can't think of the last time I saw any error.

- This machine doesn't have great battery life regardless of what OS you are running, but after properly configuring the GPU, battery life on linux is on par with Windows if not a bit better. I've also undervolted the cpu, which is easy to do and provides even better batter life.

- I was able to install all the software I needed using a combination of the Fedora rpm repositories, rpmfusion, and flathub. I actually have come to prefer flatpaks over other installation methods for software like bitwarden, spotify, riot, slack, etc. I don't notice the same performance issues I have seen with snaps on Ubuntu. I install Steam from rpmfusion, and am surprised at how nice the linux gaming experience is these days.

There are a few things that are less than stellar, though.

- It takes a little work to get decent battery life because of the nvidia gpu, and the setup isn't perfect. External displays must be run of the discrete gpu, so you can't get them to work if you are just running off the integrated intel chip, which provides the best battery life. In fact, external displays don't work when using "prime offloading" either. You need to set the nvidia gpu as the primary gpu to get external displays to work. What this all adds up to is that I need to change a config value and log out/back in depending on whether I am plugged in to an external display or not. I have a script that does this so it isn't that bad.

Interestingly, with the latest kernel release the nouveau driver is working for my nvidia card and, at least according to powertop, is able to dynamically switch from power-saving to primary mode when an external display is connected. I am also hopeful nvidia will resolve this in the next release.

- Docker is still a pain to set up on 32. There's no docker-ce repo, but you can install from the Fedora 31 repos, and to get it to work some system and firewall configuration is required. This is all pretty well documented in a github issue now, but it took a lot of troubleshooting at first.

That's my experience, and it has improved a lot since the machine first came out and I was running Fedora 30. There were initially several serious firmware bugs which took a long time to get resolved, and the OS/driver support was not nearly as good as it is now. Overall, I would recommend this combo if you need a powerful machine.
If would have been best from a Canadian perspective if the provider was Nortel but Huawei and its predecessors stole all of that IP a couple of decades ago.
Suppose "c" were true. I invest considerable time, effort, and (possibly) talent to produce a creative work -- let's say a novel. My neighbor purchases my novel and then makes a free copy available to anyone who wants one. Naturally, getting it for free is better than having to pay for it, and so everyone who wants a copy gets theirs for free from my neighbor. And so I sell a total of one copy -- then my book effectively ends up in the public domain. Does it make financial sense for me to write novels under this system? Absolutely not! Creators become disincentivized from producing creative works. The public good suffers as a result.

Jefferson's point was that in most cases, Person A's sharing of an idea with Person B doesn't take away anything from Person A. If I know how to tie a necktie and you don't, my teaching you how to tie a necktie doesn't deprive me of that knowledge. It just puts more knowledge into the world, which is a good thing. But there are certainly cases where this is not true. If I run a business and I freely share all my trade secrets with my direct competitor, and they use that knowledge to drive me out of business, that's bad, and it's not what Jefferson is talking about. Similarly, if I'm a creator and depend on sales of my creative works to make a living, giving away all my creative works for free means I've not only screwed myself over, but also I can't continue to produce more creative works, which deprives the public of their benefit.

That's why "c" doesn't appear plainly true to me. Copyright is meant to advance the arts and sciences by giving creators a mechanism to be compensated for their efforts for a period of time, while also protecting the public interest by limiting that period of time. Both of those considerations need to be balanced.
Wait, so if there were some elites in charge of everything, and if they felt personally threatened, you are suggesting that their response would be to decrease the power of their security forces? Wouldn't they want to make the police even more powerful?
>> Because of this less people are going to believe "science" and more people are going to just retreat to their echo chambers and believe whatever they want.

That's true. There are people who want to discredit science as a whole. Reality tends to get in the way of most hidden agendas - that's why they're hidden.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/architect-of-s...

> Sweden’s chief epidemiologist and the architect of its light-touch approach to the coronavirus has acknowledged that the country has had too many deaths from Covid-19 and should have done more to curb the spread of the virus.

> Sweden’s death rate per capita was the highest in the world over the seven days to 2 June, figures suggest. This week the government bowed to mounting opposition pressure and promised to set up a commission to look into its Covid-19 strategy.

> Sweden’s 4,468 fatalities from Covid-19 represent a death toll of 449 per million inhabitants, compared with 45 in Norway, 100 in Denmark and 58 in Finland. Its per-million tally remains lower than the corresponding figures of 555, 581 and 593 in Italy, Spain and the UK respectively.
Yes, it's much easier to be weird but not feel bad about it when there is a community of like minded people. Weird is just different from the norm. I've always known that the norm is mediocre anyway
It hurts insurance companies, but it's great for anyone who fixes or repairs windows.
Cash, Kisses and Karaoke: Why the War on Covid Must Not Become a War on Cash
Thanks for the information! It's disheartening to know the afterlife has so much bureaucracy.
I wonder how they manage not to have accidental taps on the touch screen during liftoff and or re-entry. As I understand there are a lot of G's and violent vibrations and I would assume it's hard to keep a steady hand?

(Atleast this is my understanding from watching Apollo documentaries/movies etc.)
"An authoritarian culture, however, can get work done much quicker while staying with a razor-sharp focus."

Disagree. A team can be coached to commit to a common goal.

A dysfunctional authoritarian culture is probably faster than a dysfunctional democracy, for sure. But then you are comparing which broken system is less broken, not what would be the optimal setup.

Take a sports team. They are not micromanaged. They are given a common task, a common strategy, guidance, but in the field they are alone.
Wait, hold on. Won't this be easily mitigated by a native programmer tech lead working overseas?

Say I was born in X (low income) and raised there, and then move to Y (high income) and work there as a programmer for several years, then it should be easy for me to hire programmers from X and be the bridge to management at Y?
... or the poor.
They will keep getting smashed up. People don't like to shop for luxury goods in a shop with boarded up windows.
+1 Comparing wages to corporate profitability, valuations. Drives me nuts when these aspects are treated as completely unrelated.

I'm still deeply ambivalent about redistribution, cashectomies, etc. But it'd a lot easier to remain neutral if there was (a lot) more profit sharing.

Also, I have a hunch that gross inequity is related to the "missing productivity". I'm hoping someone is researching this.
Calling up congressmen and senators hasn't solved anything. This has been an issue for thirty years, and no progress has been made. Violent crime is down, police use of force is up. What's going on wasn't working.

If you think this is one man, think again. Give me a city and I can give you the unarmed black person killed by police - Dallas, it's Botham Jean. Miami, it's Trayvon Martin. New York, it's Dwayne Brown. Years and years and so little done.

And now, people are now in the streets in reaction to police violence against people in the streets. If you see protesters being shot with tear gas for the crime of kneeling and shouting, people are going to come out and make their voices heard.

And this is working. Minneapolis Ward 3's district commissioner is calling for police abolition. For once, for absolute once, the media is actually on the side of the protesters, because once they got over the shock, they saw their own being attacked by police just as much. So before you say it doesn't solve anything, look at what it's already accomplished, and look what it can accomplish soon.
Zoom is not encrypted today.
I would view racism as a marketing problem. Some (most? all?) people associate certain races with bad traits. That's the underlying issue, and to a certain degree it is also a subconscious thing that people can't easily change, even if they want to.
Protests won't make any difference, nor will public statements. Riots only make things worse.
The best, and maybe only thing you can do is to show black people in a more positive light. You need marketing. It may sound stupid, but promote that you are a black leader at a startup and do valuable work for society.
Yup! If you're playing with two, I might avoid the Voidwarden. My favorite class, and it's playable with 2 players, but definitely harder with only one ally. All other combinations work very well together at 2 player though
You've mentioned that you can still view it yourself so have you tried youtube-dl with the username + password options?
1A doesn't extend to riots. Peaceable assembly is what it covers. Not burning down gov't buildings, shooting people trying to protect their property, or throwing Molotov cocktails in police cruisers.

Peaceable assembly is what the anti-lockdown protesters were all about, but those people are grandma killers, right? Unlike the Antifa thugs that are assaulting women in wheelchairs.

The gov't should use all it's resources to put an end to these riots, which are more insurrection than riot. Hence the surveillance drones and planes. Get used to it or stop rioting. And the gov't will go back to their normal surveillance state. So yeah, we still need strong encryption.
Economies of scale from computing power and reduced demand for labor due to automation is not US specific.
We got lots of underqualified candidates and the few that did have anything more than a couple of years experience were all male. Where should we have been looking for more "under represented" candidates? And why should we be looking for under-represent candidates?
I think one of the failures in thinking around project cost and outcome is that not enough people realize that the effort around a project scales logarithmically, not linearly. This really means that small projects don't "scale down" as much as you think they do. Some for instances - You are not really going to spend only 1% of the time in meetings for a $10K project compared to a $1M project. There might well be 100X the code but it's neither going to be 100X as complex nor take 100X the the man-hours to write. A couple of the "Challenging" features might be substantially more challenging in the $1M project, but not 100X so, nor will there be 100X as many. Most importantly, is that in the $10K project the expectation isn't that you'll get 1% of the quality... but that's exactly what often gets sacrificed in order to make a $10K project cost ~ $10K.
It's amazing how big of a mess this is:

- NEJM and the Lancet published (and "peer reviewed") this article, or apparently just rubber stamped it.

- The company doesn't have any semblance of having the capability of doing the work it purports to do.

- The article has severe inconsistencies, for example, do you really have data on 98k hospitalized patients? http://freerangestats.info/blog/2020/05/30/implausible-healt...

- The company apparently was founded in 2008 but no data from them was used in any peer-reviewed journal until this year. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/covid-19-surgi...

And governments and the WHO bought this, hook line and sinker?
having a decent breakfast.

it charges me up and generally improves my mood. its'a lot easier now that i'm working from home.

i used to have a cup of coffee for breakfast. now i have a cup of coffee and milk + chocolate cereals.

i'm a simple person.
What, like a child porn ring can't pay for the version to get E2EE?
Politicians, police, corporations, media... the institution is trying to pushing the idea that protestors == looters. And therefore the protests should be quelled. Several states even went so far as to declare, without any evidence, that the majority of the people in the protests were from out-of-state troublemakers... which makes no sense. Even more fitting, President Trump called the protestors thugs and terrorists. It's all part of a design to stop the momentum of these protests.

It's not the people who are 'ignoring' the inequalities. With 40+ million unemployed, unable to feed or pay rent, watching their tax dollars get gulped up by big corporations from the 'small business loan program', unable to get their unemployment checks, and getting beaten by police for no reason other than race and deep pocket money from politicians/rich elites. People at the bottom know exactly what's happening, because it affects their personal livelihoods very deeply, and the combination of those issues is why they are on the streets protesting day and night, while computer people like HNers who are generally well off are still behind a corporate desk with no unions, and only observing from afar.
Honestly I don't know, I imagine Apple should be able to solve that.

A couple of years ago before DSLRs could be able to record video I used a RedRock adapter [1] that allowed to use photography lenses with digital video cameras. It was super clunky but it worked.

https://www.provideocoalition.com/redrock_micro_alters_indie...
I am not applauding this. I just point out how corporations work now.
> They have a poor record frankly with this kind of thing, Andrew Wakefield et al chief among them.

Would you care to name some others?
>But it doesn't change the fact that everyone should be upset when their politician starts doing experts' jobs

The experts were mostly using the drug already as an experimental treatment for Covid-19 all over the world at that point. As was their job, while Trump's was to give people hope.
Also insider trading
Business culture in the US is also quite authoritarian. There have been decades of strategic peeling away of labor rights to put labor in a more leveraged situation, leading to restricted freedoms. Sure, you can tell your manager/director/CIO/CTO their choice is idiotic but the fact is, you'll be fired instantly and depending on circumstances, you may be in a bad situation financially and future career wise. The very hierarchical structure is authoritarian with layers of authority built in.

Most people are very hesitant about giving honest feedback even in US businesses because of these pressuring forces. If your manager wants to put diesel in a gasoline car, you often have to agree, then have a sidebar conversation directly with that person so their negligence, ignorant mistake, or intentional malice isn't put on a large group or public display.

Very few US workers are in positions to give blunt feedback. This was pretty common in software development due to leverage developers had but it's, IMHO, been on decline.
There are a million reasons that traffic gets blocked such as parades, funerals, road construction, and traffic accidents.

And I didn't hear anyone make the argument any of those things should be banned to prevent the potential loss of life from someone trying to get to a hospital while not in an ambulance.

It really seems like an isolated demand for safety.
> why do people refer to me as a cannibal? I think it’s my woodwork that defines me. Why not call me a woodworker?

The long form of this I've heard goes through about three extensive accomplishments or deeds, as:

"You see the roofs on all those houses? I thatched every one of them. But do they call me Johnny the Thatcher? No."

And on for brick-layer, et c.

Then ends on:

"But you fuck one sheep..."
Watching the launch, I noticed they seem to have finger rests below the screens. I wonder if this is the reason.