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I'm a white middle aged man who lives in Canada. Late one night I went to a nearby gas station to pick up some snacks. The attendant, a young man of Pakistani origin, gave me a friendly greeting which I returned.

A moment later a woman in her mid-twenties entered and immediately started criticising the attendant. She asked where something was and he calmly walked over and pointed to it, but she didn't seem to care. She just berated him more.

That's when I clued-in to her unprovoked hostility. I told her she was extremely rude and to leave. She left without buying anything.

I paid for my snacks and apologized to him for her behaviour. He looked completely deflated from the experience and said nothing. I left the gas station feeling sad and stunned at what I just witnessed first-hand.
Just further up the coast is Marconi Beach in the Cape Cod National Seashore - same sharks.
>real Enums added as a language-feature along with type-hinting are almost 100% on-par with statically typed languages

sorry i don't understand this. i'm not trying to be pedantic but: statically typed (and type-checked) language will fail to compile ... not just warn you. that's not a 1% difference that's the entire difference (because lots of people will miss or flat out ignore ide hints).
> the same math that allows a javascript library running in a web browser to extract the private key being computed in a VM elsewhere on the machine

I am not entirely certain whether I was clear about the point I made in my message, however I have asked a very specific technical question and you are making some generalised sweeping statement about privacy in the most widely used case.

We could not decrypt any ancient languages, for example; if we didn’t have an equivalent of a Rosetta Stone for them. Thus you should not be able to do the same for the encrypted database I assume.
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This isn't 5Gs fault - this is an argument against anything new and better than the the previous version. The real problem is that consumers are not charged the true cost of cleanup for their phones.
I don’t think that’s a very useful way to think about resource allocation. It’s not practical to only focus on what is deemed the single most important problem facing the world. Even if it could be done, it’s likely not even the most efficient way to solve problems, due to competitive advantage.
Built a Slack bot to get notified whenever someone schedules or cancels a Calendly event.

Received lots of feedback initially, and the project is roughly feature complete.

Should invest in marketing but haven't been doing that at all ...Does that qualify as not talking about it? :)

https://calenduck.co/
Wow, lots of generalisation in one single comment.
I can't get anything done with music on if there's any vocals, but its still difficult to get anything do e with any noise. I used to be able to but not really any more. Even jazz can be distracting. I won't what the distribution of people looks like that are able to vs. are not.
I had a similar thing from my teachers in school, my hand writing is illegible.

In the past decade or two, I've used a pen for precisely 3 types of thing; greeting cards, signing documents and pub quizzes.
This is good info. Thank you.
I have been in the Bay Area for 12 years, but still cannot get over how beautiful the bridge, Crissy field, Presidio, and Marine headland is
This machine was made by Moore Special Tool Co, using the techniques that they document in detail in their famous book Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy.

It's unfortunate that such a business couldn't survive making such products to the modern day, and these days the remaining Moore machines -- in many ways works of art -- can be found either rusting in outdoor lots, or being auctioned off on ebay for less than the price of shipping.

Remaining Moore machines continue to be used to make the precision parts, such as air bearings, that underlie our semiconductor factories and other industries: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tst_1oCuWqw
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Gmail ignoring a '.' character in the email address has resulted in some interesting situations for me. Someone registered for an Amazon account with a version of my email address that was only a '.' different from mine to use a gift card, so all of the email came to me.

The number of places that let you register for an account without verifying the email address is huge.
I always make side projects to learn new things and they periodically make me a small amount of money.

From most recent to oldest:

Https://brand-kit.net

Have not made money yet but just launched last month. Basically it is starter business branding at a very affordable price wrapped into a service.

Https://scrape.email

Launched at the beginning of the year and making around 100/month now. I used common crawl to index emails across the web monthly making it easy to find all emails for a given website.

Https://appdoctor.io

My most ambitious project from 2 years ago. Appdoctor is an app monitoring platform with automated tests, status page and a bunch of extra stuff..makes around 150/m now.
Yes, you know that small organization, Linux; who manages cgroups that everything else calls through with.

I have only tested it with Docker, again, that company Moby with this very little used software.

How dare their core systems have any systems that are not extremely simple to understand and have caveats.
For related prior discussion:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22you+are+posting+too+fast%...
I said “relax the condition” and also said “they know nothing about the information stored in the database”.

I am trying to see whether I am missing something and you’re adding things I removed back into the equation.
> I was empathetic

This.

It removes boundaries, barriers even. Holding on to empathy is hard work, but it does pay off.
Tip: intend is a verb. She intends to win the election. What did you intend? Paul intended not to lose.

Intent is a noun. That is her intent.

Intent is also a verb: She is intent on winning the election.

You wanted "intent" as a noun in both your usages above.
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The chewing issue is part of it, but far from the whole picture. I recommend reading Jaws, as it's relevant to anyone whose kids will have dental work (which is basically everyone).

Part of the thesis is that braces and wisdom tooth removal are overapplied. People who disagree with that have to answer why ancient people and animals don't need similarly large amounts of dental work (answer: their jaws are a lot healthier than ours due to their environment.)

A related but separate issue in children is mouth breathing, and the chain of causation is also explained in the book.
I'm not following this thread at all. What "exhaustive search" are you guys referring to? In a switch/case block?
Python doesn't have that, unless I missed it while living under a rock.

I.e. if you're working with python Enums, you type-check for that Enum, and then the IDE does it all for you. If you want to "check" for a specific enum, then you cast to it and the runtime Enum implementation does that checking for you by throwing an error if you try create that Enum with an invalid string value. And if you've got a raw string, before it goes too-far into your code base, you cast it into the specific Enum type, and when serializing you serialize it to the string value. Easy-peasy.
I have a dedicated, very generic sounding domain name just for signups.

I use a custom email for each service. Like xyz.amazon@my-generic-domain.com for Amazon, xyz.ycombinator@... and so on.

All email is forwarded to a single catch-all account from a good provider, so it is just as convenient to use.

But it is trivial to isolate what emails came from which service, who has leaked my email to spammers, to just block a individual recipient, ... . It also makes it easy to have multiple accounts without the annoyance of a fallback email.

I wish I had switched to this method much earlier.

Ideally that domain would be used by at least a few hundred people to prevent associating via domain name though, with different prefixes (see xyz above) for each user.
It's not so much ideal as a nice compromise. I'm still earning much less than I would with similar experience doing similar work in _Seattle_, but I get to stay in Canada and earn more than I could easily manage working for a local company.
We actually ran out of oil reserves when the price dropped to zero earlier this year, because reserves are defined as "oil that can be extracted at cost at current market prices".

It didn't make the headlines because "oil reserves depleted" would sound illogical while gasoline is cheap.
Same. My go to has been to use Qubes if you at all can, because it's actually secure, and then to use Ubuntu, because it actually works. To me most of the bad reputation of desktop linux seemed to come from people refusing to use Ubuntu for demented reasons... But I have must not have been following distro news at all in recent years, because I only just now learned snap is not fully open. That's quite the cynical walled-garden power grab and bad enough by itself to drop Ubuntu.
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Can you commit 10 min/day to being a better ally to the Black community?
> Isn't this a big assumption?

The standard resilience criteria for modern multi-purpose encryption suppose that your scheme should be resistant to adaptive chosen-cipher attack. Chosen plaintext is a way weaker attack (the hierarchy being: known plaintext < chosen plaintext < chosen cipher < adaptative chosen cipher).

It may be OK for some situations, but it requires to be much more cautious than with regular crypto (which is already error-prone…).
> I've never had my phone stolen, and I don't know anybody who has even just lost their phone more than once.

Errr, to be clear, the reason that phones don’t get stolen is that there are anti-theft measures in place.

People steal similar types of item (e.g. car stereos, game consoles, Blu-ray players) all the time. There’s no reason other than anti-theft measures that phones as a type of item would be stolen any less than these other categories. (They’d actually be stolen far more, since they’re small/easy to slip into one’s clothes/not a weird thing to be carrying around; and are often found just left on tables at cafes or hanging out of people’s back pockets. They’re like cash, basically.)

It’s the same reason that people steal bicycles more often than they steal cars. Bicycles, despite being worth much less, are just much easier to steal.

> The majority of the world is honest.

Do you live in a city? I’ve had my bicycle stolen five times now. I’ve also been mugged twice. I’ve never had my phone stolen, though—because it’s worthless to the sort of dumb criminals who steal things just to hawk them on the street, rather than to fence them.

It doesn’t require a large fraction of the world to be dishonest, to result in most people in the world having crimes committed against them. A thief will steal from far more than one person in their thieving career. Especially in regimes where the computed ROI for going after certain types of thief (e.g. homeless, drug-addicted thieves) is negative (i.e. their prison housing costs society more than their thieving does, apparently), and so they’re never held for more than a day or two.
So, what you're saying is that 5g is basically an improved wifi? (Shortish range so uses another transport, very good throughput)
I have a lot of experience training people in interpersonal communication skills. I have come to the conclusion that good communication is based on a set of attitudes. You start by assuming that the other person is reasonably intelligent and well-motivated, and that they will see the point of what you are trying to say if you just explain it to them in a clear manner.

But is it also possible that they have things on their own side that you need to hear and understand. And so on the basis of all that you come up with what you need to say, and also how to listen and ask questions.

All the specific rules, like reflective listening and Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication, are just putting these attitudes into practice.

However, it is also the case that sometimes the person on the other side is not well-motivated, either because they are a bad person or they are in a situation where in order to get along in life they have to screw you over. In that case clear direct communication can fail or even be dangerous. So you have to make a judgement as to whether or not it is smart to go ahead and be direct.
The repeated comparisons to (grocery) store house brands is entirely disingenuous.

Most consumers know those brands are associated with the store, and the store makes no effort to hide the fact.

"Amazon Basics" makes no effort to hide it's association and I'm okay with that.... But many of the rest of Amazon's brands seem entirely designed to obfuscate their association with Amazon itself.

As a matter of fact, Amazon doesn't even provide a complete list of its house brands. Pretty telling if you ask me.
Related top level comment in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440929
What size are you looking at?
Why would they single out black people out of all people of color and other disadvantaged groups?

A lot of minorities are running restaurants.
There's been a ton of improvements over time. That doesn't make it any less foot-gun-y, unfortunately.

I had the exact same problem with Kubernetes (and even just straight up containers), I just want to make sure folks are extremely aware of how big of a footgun it is, and to really, really, really test it well.
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I guess there aren't all that many companies that can build such massive bridges. Now I'm wondering where else I might have seen a bridge made by the same people.
Why is this less reasonable than having wifi in nearly every home? Mentioning Instagram photos is not a strong argument for fast internet access not being a valuable component of infrastructure.
The vast majority of stolen phones see their parts sold. Of those that don't, I know of a few people in major phone theft hubs that will change your IMEI (to name them, Derb Ghlef in Morocco, though I am sure it is also done in Shezhen and other such similar places). How they do it exactly I am not sure, I imagine that involves flashing the baseband through JTAG connectors. In any case, that is quite a cheap process.

You will notice this happen - If your phone is stolen in Europe, it will almost invariably end up later in North Africa, then disappear entirely shortly after. Similar stories for stolen phones in NA, I'm sure.

As for iOS anti-theft, that also can be defeated in various ways.

In any case, anti-theft is not a proper justification for IMEIs being unique. Any anti-theft in a device that has been integrally stolen will be bypassed. These phones get fenced to people in third world countries with very very good reverse-engineering and electronics skills, and it only takes one to find out how to bypass any given issue. And worse comes to worst, they will sell the parts and still make a few hundred dollars out of your phone.
At the company where I work, if a team runs a widely depended on project, there's a better than even chance they'll host a contrib directory for exactly this purpose. A solid idea.
Pretty sure that's not going to happen due to the sheer expense.
MM-waves used for 5C also work via VGCC activation. 5C is designed to carry extraordinarily high amounts of information per second and is, therefore, extraordinarily highly pulsed. The electrical parts of these MM-waves do not penetrate well into buildings, such that millions of 5C antennae are planned in close proximity to our home, schools, churches, businesses, etc, such that it will be nearly impossible to avoid exposures. Given the high pulsation level for 5C radiation, even short exposures may well produce severe biological effects. In addition to this, the finding that 5C systems involve output power sometimes like 30 times higher output than did previous systems, we have an strong argument for disaster (Human exposure to RF fields in 5G downlinI Nasim, S Kim - arXiv preprintarXiv:1711.03683, 2017 - arxiv.org)
> Do you see street lights as "littering", too?

Yes, actually. Light pollution is a real problem. Have you seen as many fireflies lately?
The concern is that poor practices are masked by chlorinating the chicken. That could be things like poor slaughter hygiene, handling and worker safety, and poor animal conditions leading up to slaughter.
I can see how it might seem that way — I'm Steven Black.

I can point to thousands of combined...

* issues https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...

* ...pull requests... https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Acl...

* ... and commits https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/commits/master

...that indicate, it's not so easy.

The sources we use are all vetted. Some sources are remarkable in terms of activity, and responsiveness to problems as they occur.

Overall I think this area is far more dynamic than many realize. Some good people curate the lists we carry.
When I visited Japan last year, I drove a mountain road one day with these guard rails/posts that were specifically made so that as cars pass by they emit a tone of a simplistic song (if I'm remembering correctly it was "Itsy Bitsy Spider"). Thought that was super interesting and a cool experience; a literally cool experience, since it was snowing and my friend told me so I made sure to have my windows completely open so I'd be able to listen.
It sounds like fundamental research into quantum mechanical things that are completely impractical to just calculate or simulate from knowing the equations.
Is “behaving like cyber criminals” bad though? Just because it’s doing something out of the ordinary in terms of tech doesn’t mean it’s bad. Fighting cybercrime is always a cat and mouse game akin to counter terrorism, counter espionage or even plain cops and robbers. You need to think like your enemy, have informers, etc etc, while not harming the good citizens. That’s what is going on here.

Are there cops who misuse their power? Absolutely. Are there spies who use information for personal gains? Sure. There need to be checks and balances that make it bad for such people to go rogue.

Privacy acts aim to do some of that. They bring accountability but also an ability to opt out (the latter is hard though - akin to ostracizing oneself from a community).
Here’s a mod’s recent comment on feature requests to give some context on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062
Could you explain what is the difference between being direct and being blunt?
Every bit of control taken away from the user is just another avenue that can be used to make money from them.
More than that though, it's a way to ensure only select people can be creators, the rest must be delegated to consumers.

Computers as they've been for the last few decades has enabled more people to create so many things than any other time in history. For one of the first times in history, the last 30 years or so has allowed any single person on this planet, with enough money for a computer to do amazing things.

But, this upsets the status quo. Businesses and I guess the 'powers' for lack of a better word, that profited off society as it was have been threatened and in many cases overturned in a short time.

However, they're catching up faster than the average person and through a combination of marketing and just market control, companies are closing hardware platforms faster than what it's taken for most people to begin to utilize all this amazing technology.

And it's sad, I know my kids won't have the experience of booting up an atari computer and laughing as they use their first loop to make a bunch of random things appear on their screen over and over. They won't have that experience cobbling computers together from spare parts and getting on the internet for the first time and just being amazed at all the things out there. They'll never get that feeling of really being free to do anything because they have a computer.

As a kid, even when everything else was really shitty, being able to just turn on a computer and do anything, whether I was supposed to or not, just really helped me through so much and honestly, I don't know how my life would have turned out if I couldn't have done that.

By the time I have kids and they're old enough, unless I buy some retro computers and set it up or something, everything they end up using or seeing will be a locked down device the sole purpose of which is to constantly track them and market to them. The internet is corporate, sanitized, and locked away in these little bubbles provided by platforms.

So much has been lost and slowly but surely, the ability to just pick up a computer and create anything we want is being stripped away by hardware vendors and these huge dominating platforms that control every aspect of the computing experience and feel the need to profit off of and dictate everyone's computer use.
No.

My original comment intended to discuss mental health by pointing out that the author skipped several fundamental aspects and instead packaged general advice points and tried to sell it as "investing in mental wealth".

My criticism is that the article could have said:

Here's some great basic overall advice that helps you day-to-day. But let's acknowledge that mental health isn't shaped in a vacuum. Environmental and societal issues do have a big impact on the experience of individuals. And unless there's an honest debate about that, many people will keep on struggling.

Equally, it's perfectly valid to talk about preventative dental care. But let's also acknowledge that dental health doesn't exist in a void and that it is very much tied into one's socio-economic place in society, and the affordances that allow one to maintain their dental health in the first place.
It is impossible to draw a "bright-line" for anything, anytime, anywhere. This is, in fact, why the legal system employs things like juries, standards of evidence, standards of care, and the "reasonable man". And they do pretty well in most cases in handling "reasonable mistakes".

The point here is that none of those are allowed to operate: the police are extended extensive immunity for criminal actions by the structure of the system, as well as immunity from individual civil liability for those actions.

All government officials should be free from nuisance liability suits for their job-related activities. But if a majority of police require immunity from the consequences of criminal activity, you are going to end up with much more than three million dollars of damage.
Nice way of thinking about things, though

> The answer, obviously, is that neither of them are right

I'd say both of them are right, they're just looking at the phenomena at different levels of abstractions. That's what makes our lives so complex.
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Trust me, the #1 reason why phones don't get stolen is because they are physically difficult to steal. If a well-connected thief steals your phone (and there are a lot of well-connected thieves), they will not have much of an issue getting them sold. Then the phone will either be parted out or flashed out of any anti-theft, depending on market demand.
I see... but in any case, those are still sorted by karma rather than by age. I'm just wondering who are the oldest users that are still active ~daily
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