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I see you're being downvoted, perhaps for the directed satire (something, as a Brit, I enjoy… it is our natural habitat:) but it's a legitimate point.

I read a book by Chomsky (I forget which) in which he went through why the American democratic system was corrupt. It was very compelling. His solution, however, would be to "guard the guards" with more state apparatus and a more involved electorate. This is where he and I digressed because it's obviously pie in the sky and open to the same kinds of corruption. Turtles all the way down.

Less is more when it comes to the state - smaller government as a principle can be extended to the police by defunding and not abolishing. Remove their military vehicles, remove their ability to get no-knock warrants and other vast overreaches of power, and strengthen the power of the citizenry. Has that (less government, more individual rights) ever not worked?
With this logic, there's no difference between "our cops will enforce speed limits by pulling people over or sending fines to later" and "our cops will immediately beat or shoot anyone on-sight that [the cops say] are breaking the speed limit".

In the first case, if I choose not to resist (which I definitely won't if I believe I'm in the right and I trust the review/court system), there's much less risk of direct bodily harm, permanent injury, or death, even if I get jailed. If violence happens during the arrest, presumably that will be considered unusual and the cops will be at risk of being in trouble from that, so they have an incentive to not be violent. In the first case, if I'm wrongfully accused, I get to have my day in court, have a professional represent me, and present my evidence to a judge before anything more irreversible happens to me than losing some time. In the second case, I have no recourse if a cop abuses their power because they're reckless or have it out for me specifically. In the second case, it's already established that direct violence is expected, and because it won't be seen as unusual, the cops have little need to restrain themselves.
Thankfully quantum information has been a successful way to smuggle foundational research past funding committees.
A transformer blew about 200’ from my house. Woke me in the middle of the night thinking someone had just bombed my car. Enormously loud.
Strictly speaking, "company drops support for software X" isn't always a bad thing, when it forces people to move on. For example, Windows XP dragged on for far too long, and there's a good argument that it should have been discontinued earlier.
Airvet Raises $14M to Ease Your Midnight Sick Pet Freak-Outs
People get a sense of moral superiority for having one political view or another _after choosing among alternative political views by comparing their relative morality_. What do you do? Treat it like being a sports fan? Flip a coin?

Labelling an entire city as "left-leaning" is a perfectly reasonable and quotidian practice. For instance, if over a period of time, City A generally voted for left-leaning politicians and passed left-leaning referenda, while City B generally voted for right-leaning politicians and passed right-leaning referenda, most people would think it was fair to characterize City A as "left-leaning" and City B as "right-leaning".

I'm guessing by the including of "entire" you are confused about the meaning of "leaning"? It means that on average, compared to some larger (e.g. national) mean, the population of a city has views that are to the left of that mean. It doesn't mean every single person has left views on every single issue.

It's a very widely shared perception that San Francisco was left-leaning for the latter half of the 20th century into the beginning of the current. Early San Francisco was dominated by a relatively conservative patrician elite but over time it earned its "Baghdad-By-The-Bay" (https://www.amazon.com/Baghdad-Bay-Herb-Caen/dp/0891740473) reputation from things like electing the first openly-gay man to political office in America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk) to being the epicenter of the sociocultural phenomenon known as "The Summer of Love" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love).
> It has gotten worse since these policies have rolled back.

And standards of living going backward are (rightfully) a great way to piss people off and make them willing to riot at the drop of a hat.
We all have root, that's the point.

Sure lobbyists have a lot of influence. That doesn't make the United States an oligarchy.
Instead of the idea of universal basic income. I like to toy with the idea of somehow making it so people can work less. Such as a person works every other week and where someone else fills the role for the weeks the other person isn't working. I think it would increase job positions and better mental health. I'm unsure how it financially could work out but I assume money can come from somewhere because UBI is basically proposing income for no work at all.
But we haven't learned from this as modern, non-make based build systems still suffer from terribly slow compiles. Take Rust for example. I don't know a single project that uses make to build (they all use cargo), yet Rust suffers from extremely slow compile times. Much of this (as far as I understand) comes from the LLVM compiler, which is why I was picking on compilers.
Firearms manufacturer Remington Arms Co. preparing to file chapter 11 protection
Who says that only one of those two results actually occurs? Only one is observed, which is a rather different thing.
Show host here, the next episode is going to be interesting also for people not (yet) involved with the Zig community.

The second talk will be given by Andrew Kelley, the creator of the Zig programming language.

From Twitter:
In this episode, we'll learn about why memory allocators are a thing, and how the Zig compiler works plus how to get your hands dirty with it!

https://twitter.com/zigshowtime/status/1276168070780895233?s...
I'm looking at jobs in my area at the moment and being up to date doesn't really help in many ways. If I search for Rust or Elixir there are no jobs. If I search for gatsby or next there's no results (there are plenty for React though).

There are plenty of Java jobs though.
I have follow up question:

- How much does it cost to run HN?
Eye Tracking on an F1 Car
Wonder whether two home pod would do the same?
> Uhh, have you seen the CHAZ/CHOP?

Don't live in Seattle so not personally. I do have a people I trust who live there who have been to the center of the "CHAZ" area he it's fine. They haven't even burned down the Police station which would be target number 1 if they were out-of-control.
Yep. Melbourne - Sydney (440mi) is the second/third (depending on whether you count passenger volume or aircraft movements) most trafficked route in the world behind a domestic Korean and domestic Japanese route (152 flights per day on average, 9.2 million passengers/year).

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_air_...)
Policing the Internet: A Bad Idea in 1996 – and Today
That's impressive. FAA ASRS seems related, on the civilian side.

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

ASRS provides some protection for crew and others to share any proactive observations related to safety, as well as to acknowledge mistakes without reprisal under certain conditions. (Sounds like the USAF Flight Test related policy you mentioned goes even further.)

All the data and information coming from all these many forthright reports is analyzed and shared in various ways, and used to drive improvements.

I suspect aspects of institutions like this would resonate with a lot of dotcom people, were we aware of it.
> There's a worrying trend in the conversation these days that has shifted from "there's a serious problem with racism in how police go about their job" to "we need less police".

The conversations aren't about less police, they're about defunding the police and putting that money to better use. If the police choose to reduce their numbers in order to afford riot gear, tear gas guns, armored personnel carriers, warrior training, and all the other BS well then there won't be armies of them assaulting the public.

> Folks in neighborhoods living with the constant threat of gang violence don't have the luxury to sit in their aeron chairs and argue about defunding the police. They face the very real threat of themselves or their loved ones being shot on the streets and statistically not by police.

Throwing police at the problem of gang violence hasn't solved it. It hasn't made the neighborhoods safer. If overwhelming violence quelled violence, why has the Taliban outlasted two first world armies back by trillions of dollars?
Yes, and I feel like the internet is no longer a place I can visit without some form of protection. Things got so bad recently, that I had to switch from GNOME Web to Firefox, because I simply needed more protection than the default GNOME Web blocker could offer.

Right now I run a Pi-Hole[1] for my entire network, and on Firefox I use Clear URL[2], Decentraleyes[3], HTTPS Everywhere[4], Old Reddit Redirect[5], Privacy Redirect[6], and uBlock Origin[7], configured to block third-party fonts, and JS as well — which I whitelist when needed.

When I just want to read something, without having any form of interaction with the page, and I know it works well, I usually just use w3m[8] on the terminal, which I found out because of aerc[9]. Pretty cool browser for the terminal.

Am I super duper secure because of all these hoops I jump through? No. But it does not get in my way, and make me enjoy browsing the internet again, so why not?

[1] I have it set up on a dedicated server with Hetzner, with the server itself being the DNS provider for Pi-Hole using DNSCrypt.

[2] https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls

[3] https://decentraleyes.org/

[4] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

[5] https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect — not really privacy, or blocker related, but I find the new Reddit interface a dumpster fire

[6] https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

[7] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

[8] https://github.com/tats/w3m

[9] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc
Question? Could something like this explain "dark matter"? Like, is it possible that space is more full of matter than we think? Or is my understanding of dark matter just way off.
> where the young are already wise.

Could you elaborate on this?
> There is a massive, massive oversupply of PhDs.

There clearly isn't - since there's such huge competition to hire them. If there was a massive oversupply they'd be unemployed.
I mostly only buy if Amazon is the seller... at least returns are pretty consistent that way, though still subject to mingling. Same goes for using newegg... was really sad when newegg added 3rd party sellers, it muddied the site.
Most “x weeks free” are limited to luxury buildings and 8 weeks is on the very high end of those offers. And even before COVID you’d see 4 weeks free advertised reasonably often. IMO the rental drop isn’t nearly as drastic as you’re suggesting.
"The actual bandwidth used by a 300M customer and a 1000M customer is usually the same. The provider's upstream contracts would not change much if they put every one of their customers on 1000M."

Correct. I have a gig/gig symmetrical connection and a family of four information-devouring people. In the last 30 days we used 1 TB of data... which is to say, an average of just over 3Mb/s. We probably peaked at about 600Mb/s a few times.
Or we could address the root problem behind the vast majority of crime; systemic poverty.
The Tor Browser Bundle is just a tweaked version of Firefox, so Firefox extensions should work for it. https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/4771 implies that it works, maybe with some bumps. I would expect that the Tor Browser Bundle works by configuring Firefox's proxy setting, which should apply to all traffic including extension traffic, but that's certainly worth double-checking.
Had a relatively close strike happen during a thunderstorm, a thunderstorm that was intense enough that we had to stop the car entirely as you couldn't even see the hood of the car through the waterfall like rain.

When the lightning struck the thunder felt instant. It was however clear from the admittedly blinding flash that it was still a ways off. Probably some hundred meters.

But as you said, the sound. In a car, in a torrent of rain, it was the loudest and sharpest sound I believe I have ever heard.
By the sound of it I could have sworn it was inside the car as couldn't tell it had been muffled at all by either the torrent of rain, or the bodywork and careful sound dampening in any modern car.

There had been lightning all around us for a while, but we barely heard the thunder of those strikes through the thunderous murmur of the sky falling down on us. The difference was truly astonishing!
The problem with your solution is that the representatives we vote for don't include every combination of sides of every issue. You can vote for the best person regarding internet privacy, but they might have terrible views regarding welfare and transit. Everything is a compromise, it's so unlikely as to be labeled impossible that you'll find a representative who will vote the way you would on everything--and this is disregarding lobbying entirely.
One of my favorite teachers in high school created an experimental class based on Connections. Sadly it conflicted with my schedule, but several of my friends could speak of little else all semester.
We left out some detail here to keep the post readable. In reality, we can handle 16 Tweets per millisecond per partition. We have tens of partitions, so that makes the edge case less likely. If we do see a gigantic growth in Tweet rate, we would need to increase the number of partitions anyways, so we decided this edge case was acceptable.
It is not for no work at all. You would be free to work and earn more money, so why wouldn’t you? It just guarantees a minimum income not a comfortable income. And it would encourage people to do exactly what you want, work less.
Right, so why do you think consumers wouldn't want level 3 if you think a lot of people would use and enjoy it?

I definitely agree it won't be perfect, some people would indeed have a real bad time, but that still doesn't mean an improvement over the current status quo wouldn't be a seller. Perfect is the enemy of good, after all.

Current level 1 and 2 systems wouldn't have been nearly as popular as they are if consumers didn't want them. Honda wouldn't have made it standard on all their cars, etc.
This might be better framed as D&D's chaotic good alignment.

I find it weird to say good founders should 'delight in breaking rules', as that is a really consumer tech biased (and frankly, privileged teenage male) point of view, where external stakes are relatively low.

That attitude can be pretty counterproductive in a lot of important industries. It may be necessary to break certain rules to achieve a larger common good, but to bias toward breaking them (rather than to see it as simply sometimes necessary) represents one of tech's worse qualities, and probably does a lot to filter out a lot of potential founders.

Also take issue with the idea that successful founders are 'usually good people'. At least in my experience most are in the chaotic neutral camp where they generally don't care much about externalities as long as they're not too bad or seriously affect them, and their ideas about 'changing the world' are generally indistinguishable from their own personal success.
Three people were recently shot in CHAZ, and it's why loads of protesters left.
Whaa? I know you are not the person who made the book I was talking about.

I was agreeing with the other comment that, having been burned by 'alpha' books in the past, I'm disinclined to use the model again in the future. I similarly feel the way about video games. I'd rather pay for a finished product than a speculative one.
> Censorship of speech is not okay! No matter what!

If someone handed you a a stack of flyers and told you to post it everywhere, would it be ok to not do this and just throw it away? If someone on Facebook types in a message and hits post, would it not be acceptable for them to not send that data to anyone that connects to them, and instead just delete it?
I can't find reference here, but I remember a discussion with an Apple engineer who said that AirDrop had been blocked in a certain model, "due to incompatible wifi", but that the wifi card mentioned was not one they'd ever heard of being put in a production Mac, i.e. "ass-covering BS".
I think you're underestimating the size of the PC gaming market. And most PC gamers are building their own computers. I think what has really helped PC gaming in recent years is Twitch streamers who are predominantly playing on PC. The kids see this and eventually make the switch to PC.

The PC building section at micro center is always packed with all sorts of people buying full parts for a gaming PC.
and my immediate reply to you was that its not about violent crime

It doesn't exist in isolation

There is no “culture that commits violent crime”

There is a marginalized population from overpolicing for nonviolent crimes

It cascades

It can be fixed by acknowledging this component
>They realized they can go into software engineering and, as a new grad, make more as a BS than a semiconductor PhD.

Good observation. I wonder if this bill should simply allocate all of its funding to supplementing the PhD education and salaries of US semiconductor engineers. Increase their compensation to more competitive levels vs software engineer wages. The bill might actually make some impact that way.
Swedish exceptionalism has been ended by coronavirus
Re: Azure.

Microsoft is lucky, more than anything else (Azure is a very nice platform now, but it was very feature-anaemic in comparison until about 5 years ago)

AWS is king, so anyone with any reason to not use Amazon will automatically use the next-biggest/next-best Cloud provider - and that’s Microsoft. Which is odd: someone waking up from a 10-year coma would presume it would be Oracle or IBM, or from a major vendor of webhosting or VPS. Oracle was slow to get in, and IBM cheated by just buying Softlayer and then spectacularly cocking it up: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/09/ibm-cloud-suffers-prolonge...
Yeah, the article really seems to be missing an important point. It's written something like

- we never observe any super dense thing between 2 solar masses and 5 solar masses

- 2 solar masses is the maximum for a neutron star, because otherwise it would collapse and become a black hole

- 5 solar masses is the minimum for a black hole, because...?
I wonder how long can Telegram owner Paul Durov keep financing telegram. It seems to be huge now (at least one some countries), ships new features very regularly and must cost a lot to host.

They don't have ads. I guess TON was a way to make telegram financially independant but now that it's over, I wonder how they will keep going.

I hope they can manage to keep telegram running because it's a fine app. Much faster than WhatsApp and others, nicer UX, first class desktop apps, integrations are really easy with bots..
There is almost no competition to hire them, as far as I can see.

Maybe top-flight CS PhDs from Stanford, I’d believe that. But your average biology or chemistry PhD? Every single one of them that I know struggled mightily in the job market.
Does your IDE and Sonarqube really have the ability to detect that certain code is never run in production? I don't believe static analysis can ever truly do this, especially for a dynamics language like Ruby.
That doesn't mean that works for them. I hope the vast majority of purchases of Dove, Breyers, Klondike, Lipton, Vaseline, etc. can't be connected to social media impressions.
Hey everyone. I am Nuno, the creator of PHP Insights

First, thanks @MindGods for sharing PHP Insights on Hacker News!

To answer some question on the comments:

The goal of PHP Insights is not to perform type checking, for that we already have PHPStan and Psalm. And both already work great by default.

PHP Insights wraps tools like PHP CS, or PHP CS Fixer, putting each check/sniff within a specific category: A missing blank space is related to coding style. On the other end, having mutable objects can be considered a code quality problem.

So, once we have those checks performed, we show a well-designed console interface that shows developers the results per category in a human-readable form: with a score, percentages, etc.

Besides, it's designed to work out-of-the-box with Laravel, Symfony, and others. In other words, we have prepared a set of presets, that represent the conventions per framework, so when people launch PHP Insights within a Magento2 project, their project will be analyzed following the Magento conventions.

Long live PHP!
> those who seemingly leave the workforce are actually doing something quite different: namely, they're temporarily shifting from formal employment to working towards human capital acquisition, or else providing care for others.

Providing care for others is a great use of labor. Working towards human capital acquisition sounds great, but then you realize you still need people working the bottom jobs.

Bottom jobs suck. If people have legit UBI, they won't do them. They'd be stupid to do them unless they truly believed they could not do better with self investment. But we need those jobs to be done.

So maybe you raise wages. So prices rise a bit, cheap foreign labor becomes even more enticing where available, and the UBI is not Universal-not-quite-Basic-Income. What do you do when your UBI isn't quite livable?
Maybe is different for countries, but in general reputation is slowly gained but quickly lost.
They are to some extent, but so many security updates are coming and breaking apart that it makes no difference.
Why can't there be a shared conduit for cables underneath or beside a road?

Because the city doesn't want to pay for it.

What needs to happen, IMO, is that the last mile should be utility infrastructure, and ISPs should connect to that

...so, the cities won’t shell out to build conduits, but they’ll happily pay to build out conduits + fiber?
Not sure how that would work out in practice. We kind of rushed with the experiments in any case - maybe we could let the methods train for longer. In the end the adversary might learn any regular patters that appear, therefore forcing the generator to come up with something that cannot be detected easily.

(We trained everything to 1M steps. Perhaps letting it train to 2M would solve it.)
I'm interested in the excess mortality that ends up accumulating at the end of the year, would be interesting to see if a large chunk of the pandemic ended up being like the reaper coming a few months early for the most elderly and vulnerable.
Lots of discussion about censorship here. I would like to ask a slightly off-topic question: Does China have the same kind of social discord that America has? Chinese online communities are subject to considerable censorship and moderation. Does that help prevent the spread of insane ideas and conspiracies?

Why is this worth thinking about: People who look to a more moderated future for our social networks might look to China to see if such moderation is effective. The downside is obvious; the state can promote insane conspiracy theories using the same moderation tools. But we could at least see if moderation on such a scale works at all.