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> But the laws don't cause the violence, they make it so violent individuals are the only one's willing to fill the supply.

The laws prevent relying of the police in protecting your business with violence. The law creates jobs where violent people excel but those same violent people would not necessarily be violent without it, they may also be really good pianists, it just doesn't pay as well.

If you pass that law knowing full well that it will create a violent black market, you certainly are responsible when it does.
No, wait, I think I was right after all.

Say we have a million urls, and a thousand of them are malicious. Our filter returns a positive result for all the malicious 1000 (no false negatives) and for the safe 999000 urls only 1% will return positive (low false positive), but that's still 9900 false positives. So a positive result only has a (1000 / (1000 + 9900)), i.e. 9%, chance of actually being malicious.

Even with a false positive result of only 0.1%, the probability of a positive result actually being malicious only rises to 50%, so still not in "high likelihood" territory.
You’re not responsible legally/morally, but you did create an incentive for those things to happen
I run a boutique consulting studio in India. Indian outsourcing /offshore teams are beyond Infosys, TCS, Tech Mahindra, Wipro etc.

There are design & engineering teams who deliver amazing value to their clients. These teams are nimble & specialised.
A burnt-down courthouse is less of a threat to civil liberties than actual paramilitaries literally grabbing people off of the streets. We're better off when vandals are the bad guys, rather than state security.

EDIT: I'm not sure why I took your false dichotomy at face value in the first place. A burnt-down courthouse and an informal military occupation aren't the only two options; but even if they were, the former is preferable.
Worse than a loaded gun? That’s insane, the gun can kill you. LSD can’t. There are a multitude of things in every household that a child could kill themselves with (various medicines, cleaning supplies, knives). That is not a reason to ban those things, it’s a reason not to leave small children unattended.
> there is an insidious Marxism to it (and an underlying anti-white racism)

I see this said so much and invariably there is no rational justification provided for these beliefs beyond "A founder made an offhand comment one time in an interview about their educational background"

Maybe I'll get a more thorough explanation on HN.

In what way does Black Lives Matter have an "insidious Marxism to it"? And what is your definition of Marxism?
Well, Threadripper 3990X CPU beats Xeon Platinum 8280 by a large margin. I can't imagine choosing the latter over the former for any reason, really.
It’s a combination feeler gauge/pry bar!
> My friend in China has told me that the crisis has largely been contained in in their country.

You could never know, because freedom of speech and the press doesn't exist there. The CCP jailed the doctors and experts who spoke up about the original Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in 2019, then proceeded to have a public banquet without social distancing or masks in the following weeks, and the CCP celebrated the fact that 40,000 families[1] showed up to it.

You say that the lack of freedom has been a good thing for handling the outbreak, but that lack of freedom stopped doctors and epidemiologists from learning more about the coronavirus outbreak while it could still be contained, and prevented them from informing and warning the world about it.

[1] https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-wuha...
> The creation of the D.H.S. marked a shift in the way that Americans think and talk about the country, and about people.

Oh, please.

We went from being "these United States" to being "the United States" after the Civil War, and not without reason.

A century back, under Wilson, we brought in 16A, 17A & the Federal Reserve.

If there is substantial interest in redistributing power, not wealth, via Washington D.C., then we need https://conventionofstates.com/

Anything less is so much Mary Kay on the swine herd.
The fly in the ointment is that, when Rashida Tlaib gave a speech where she said of Trump, "we're gonna impeach the motherf*er," AOC dismissed Republican objections to the insult as "faux outrage." Despite this, she wants people to be outraged when similar language is directed at her.

I for one am unmoved.
Community colleges offer value to people like myself, who for whatever reason did not succeed in high school and would have no other access to higher education (and perhaps couldn't afford it even if they did). In my case, a few semesters of good grades allowed me to transfer to a state university that I was previously rejected from, and with a scholarship that allowed me to be able to afford it in the first place. I was then able to leverage the benefits of the networking you refer to, and was able to drop out and become a well paid programmer rather than a perpetually broke student who wasn't even learning much because I had to work full time to be able to attend in the first place.

>You can think of a college degree similar to a “certified organic” label on food. It doesn’t really mean anything

Not sure where you're from, but in the US this is not true at all. There are strict requirements for something to be certified organic. As of 10 years ago when I last worked on a farm, it was actually quite difficult to get certified.
Thanks for the catalyst to re-enable my /etc/hosts approach to simplifying my life.

I'm surprised to see that adding:

127.0.0.1 youtube.com www.youtube.com

to /etc/hosts doesn't seem to block youtube, but every other line I added blocked/routed as expected. Is there something special about youtube and chromium?
Except it's quite possible that the LSD supply chain had no violence associated with it, so it's pure conjecture biased by a "drugs are bad, m'kay?" attitude. Those apples are far from guaranteed to be poisoned.

I've seen the same argument about cannabis, and while some may come from cartels, much of it comes from indy growers and that supply chain is more than likely violence free.

As mentioned by another, the whole element of criminality is manufactured by the state and was designed from the start as a tool of oppression, not to "keep us safe".
This is just a frequently repeated meme. There is no evidence for it.
I've been using it since 2011 and no problems with anything. Over 200k photos.
I agree in general, but I should have made it more clear just how low some of these offers were.

If their full-time salary is too low for me to keep an average apartment in a slightly rural village, then I'm not sure who can do the work and have a normal life. Kids living in their parent's basement? But they would lack the requested experience...
The response should be proportionate to the act. Its inappropriate to punish many for the acts of a few.
The issue is sending a bare URL. They should have said, “To visit our support page, click here.” With “click here” being a link. If they’re concerned about people with email clients that don’t support HTML mail, they should also put on a line by itself the full bare URL. This is email communication 101.
Everything in your post is oft thrown around conjecture. Do you have sources?
I don’t think Bush meant “setting fires to federal buildings” when he was talking about “freedom” here.
By all means. Pleased to meet you.
You can run a one-node etcd cluster for testing, but it's not recommended for any real usage.

Most companies won't be running their own etcd clusters anyway, except for on-prem clusters. Cloud users will generally use a managed Kubernetes cluster. If you do need to learn how to run etcd, you can learn the basics in about a day. In our org, the etcd portion of the training is less than half an hour long thanks to good documentation.

For a homelab, consider running something like k3s which can use a SQL database instead of etcd.
> I'm glad we agree that property owned by large corporations and covered by insurance is not something to worry about.

I did not say I agreed with that.

> since we must constantly distract ourselves from the goals of protests that are manifestly mostly not those things

I am doing no such thing. I am simply drawing an important distinction that you appear to be unwilling or unable to draw, between justified protest and unjustified violence.
I'm 99,9% positive demand for LSD is not higher than it has ever been in the US because of the hippie era, when it was huge.
The problem with LSD as a product is not only that few people use it. Amongst those that use it, most won't use many times.
Compared to my social circle I'm a pretty heavy user, had around 30 trips in the span of almost 15 years. Most people I have met didn't trip more than 3 or 4 times in their lifetime. A few from 5-10, and only 2 or 3 over that.
The only reason LSD is and was in the past cheap is because of how easy it is to scale it's production + how high the barriers for production are. Otherwise a hit would cost very very high, considering the economics of the matter.
Everyone responding here shared a similar opinion regarding the idea of laws being responsible for the violence, so let me share another problem where the laws play a role, namely legal dangerous fake substitutes. Take for instance 25I-NBOMe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25I-NBOMe#Legal_status It remained (has remained?) legal in many places for more than a decade.
How come we hear about dangerous meth-heads and crack-heads, but not about coke-heads?
Disabling access from /etc/hosts has been very useful for me, though my similar [1] productivity script did not work as well as I wanted it.

For quite some time I had been using hostess [2] to enable/disable specific websites, yet this too had a couple of problems.

1. Docker Desktop (macOS) keeps appending on my /etc/hosts without asking me when I start it. This requires usage of `hostess fix` to remove duplicate entries.

2. Changing /etc/hosts requires sudo access, which means I have to keep inputting it when I need to make any changes.

Eventually I just `vim /etc/hosts` instead of `sudo hostess fix && sudo hostess on news.ycombinator.com`

[1] https://github.com/sirodoht/productivity.sh

[2] https://github.com/cbednarski/hostess
Oh, my timing was definitely wrong. :/
Try an American Express savings account. Usually the same rate as Ally, but allows much higher transfer limits. And you don’t have to have an AmEx credit card to open one. It’s my go to “middle man” account between ones that have ridiculously low transfer limits. I don’t know why these limits aren’t set as a percentage of the account balance at least. If it’s for reducing fraud, then how about implementing proper two-factor auth for logins as well as transactions over some threshold. The banking system in the US is such an embarrassment in many ways.
It's almost like banking is a business.
That’s the thing the puzzles me. Some of these universities’ annual tuition amounts to a healthy 1 year’s salary. How did they operate when this wasn’t the case?
There was definitely unreasonable fear around LSD. I remember my parents not allowing us to use temporary tattoos because they were concerned they might be laced with LSD.
gasmask on mac allows you to swap /etc/host files also.
> So what banks are actually competing over is the people who happen to be shopping around for a new bank- something most people do only a handful of times in their life.

It's worse than that. I shopped around for a new bank based on my needs -- I picked Capital One specifically because of their advertised "no foreign transaction fees". [In fact, there's a fee around 1%, it's just not called a "foreign transaction fee". But 1% is low enough for me.] Interest on savings accounts didn't register at all.

And really, interest on savings accounts shouldn't register for anyone looking for a bank account, because savings accounts are a terrible, terrible way to invest your money. If you have money in a savings account for the purpose of earning interest, you're doing it wrong.
Not in the way most gun-rights advocates portray it; the 2A grew out of a vision that a particular danger to freedom was a standing army, largely because it became a separate subculture and would inevitably be used for internal oppression as well as external defense (modern police forces—standing paramilitary forces devoted exclusively to internal use would be a more extreme example than they had considered) and protecting the RKBA was designed to preserve a model where such forces were unnecessary as the states, individually and collectively, would rely on mobilizing the general militia for security (internal and external), rather than standing professional forces, not as a tool for individuals to resist such forces.
You're not confused, but there is a nuance. I'm trying to walk a fine line of not criticizing them for discovering this late into their process (maybe they knew all along but were busy inventing), but also questioning why they couldn't see this sooner. Trying to get to the heart of what took this innovation/recognition/learning to happen.

I am making an observation - when each new "fad" or "hype cycle" tech starts, it seems as though the pattern knowledge of what came before is discarded, or, disregarded as "legacy" or possibly even just forgotten. It feels like a knowledge transfer is missing. It would be terrible if, we, as an industry aren't passing down knowledge and reinventing hard won pattern discoveries efficiently.

Did this pattern Uber discovered come from studying onion architecture, DDD, etc first, finding the limitations, and then scaling them?

Or did this arise from throwing away everything that came before (or not knowing about it), forging an undiscovered path, and then rediscovering the old patterns could be applied? If the latter, what can be learned to make this process of discovery and linkage to existing patterns more efficient?

I think this article shows innovation is tricky, or, the risk (and potential reward) at the bleeding edge. Leaving behind design constraints of what came before might be necessary.

Maybe I'm trying to say, as an industry we need to balance exploitation of previous knowledge and our attitudes about how we feel about "legacy", with the unquenchable thirst for the next new innovation?
How would it be possible to work for your own company while on STEM OPT?
I didn't realize Bloom filters were used in this way. Thinking adversarially for a moment, doesn't this provide an easy way to get a target website marked as a false positive?
How to make a machine truly intelligent?
It's an SMS, not email.
> would allow the three-letter agencies to track movement of a single device regardless of whether or not you try to sever its connection to the cellular network

They can do this without the contact tracing platform.

Regarding PR, that too can be done very well without a contact tracing “success story”. Also, forcing people to unlock their devices is not an element of the the contact tracing platform.

I’m not sure why you’re convinced the contact tracing platform is a necessary or even helpful step for any of these things you worry about. But it isn’t. You will be able to take more fruitful actions against these things once you understand that.
The easy solution is for Unis to take an L for once and to cover costs with their enormous savings from the last 30 years of exponential growth. Those fees obviously are over actual cost to cover contingencies, a pandemic was inevitable on the time scale of a university. They probably should have gotten insurance, what do those admins do anyway if not plan for things such as this?
Are the people tags saved to the photo's file metadata somehow? I've thrown about 130,000 photos up to google photos for safe-keeping but want a second set of redundancy.
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I feel like this argument is an example of gaslighting. The people who are calling to defund the police literally mean defunding the police.

Presumably the ones that make this call are hoping an ideological paramilitary arm (such as antifa) can fill the power vacuum left behind.

Those that want reform are asking for reform.

Don’t be gaslit.
But it does make it a heck of a lot cheaper to build and scale. You need far fewer cameras and can spread cheap bluetooth beacons densely across the area. And you can put beacons in places you can't use cameras.
For better or worse I spend more time in the browser than in the terminal or on the desktop. It bums me that browsers aren't more easily controllable without a mouse. It bums me more that you can't easily plug into <textarea> browser behavior so I can get emacs control while editing text in the browser. Workarounds exist (opening an emacs window that inserts the buffer back into the textarea on close) but they're super clunky!
You are conflating valuing something with thinking that no one else has it.

Also traveling to china has nothing to do with understanding what the government can and will do citizens that dissent against it. You don't walk around a city and prove a negative by not witnessing any disappearances or live organ harvesting (there are reports that you can -schedule- heart transplants).

That is like picking up snow to prove that global climate change is a myth.
Will Garmin pay $10m to end outage?
Last I read, those endowments have many restrictions on their use.
The equivalent here is asking for the resignation of the DHS secretary. Unfortunately, that has already happened when ICE separated children from their families. A second resignation would only make the president look bad.
Forget about nonpartisan. Everybody has a bias.

Most "real" news doesn't happen everyday. If you follow it less often you'll miss out on most fake stories and the ones that matter will still be around.

If you really want to follow the daily rumor mill you can try Twitter. Don't follow too many people and you will develop a sense for who's got good calls and who's total noise. Also many people will actually link to authoritative evidence/source, unlike most news websites that don't want you to ever leave their domain.

Generally speaking for everything that news outlets cover Twitter should have better coverage as that's where all the journalists hang out in the first place. For things that don't get covered, don't expect Twitter to do much better.
Archived version: https://archive.vn/tgbbY.

Long story short, the State imposes curfew on people up to the age of 17 and The Atlantic is lauding this as an incredible policy to be copied by the USA. The support for this policy by The Atlantic (and others in the comments here) is absolutely terrifying. If you are in support of a blanket curfew on all citizens up to the age of 17, you are absolutely illiberal.

Lastly, this isn't tech related.
Judging from the number of offers I got in recent weeks, it seems the number of job openings currently is higher than before. Shouldn't that drive up prices?
It is hard take an idea, spend the time to build, and make it live. Congrats on doing this!

I'm not the target audience, so I can't comment on the value proposition. I'll just point out a few things I noticed on the site:

- The "Free" signup button brings you to the login and not register page. Also the $5 pay link goes to login too. I used the $5 link and then clicked register. Registered and was never asked for payment.
- On the register, suggest not asking for username creation unless you really need it...just use the email as the username.
- The step-though-guide last step has "next" and doesn't do anything. Should be close. There are a few good step guide packages out there you might want to consider.
- In the app, clicking "Upgrade" give a 500 error.
- If you try to create a card before creating a deck says need to select a deck. People probably will first click on create card first, so suggest have a default deck that you can select right away.
- Created a single card and says I have 2 cards when studying. I think counting both sides of the card.
You should remove the unwarranted "nefarious" slam. It's simply incorrect; the actual reason the browser does not send the URL to a central service is user's expectations of privacy do not allow their browsing history to be logged like that, even if the purpose is for malware protection. They have not given proper informed consent, and fortunately don't need to in order to detect malware.

From "Google Chrome Privacy Whitepaper":

Chrome checks the URL of each site you visit or file you download against this local list. If you navigate to a URL that appears on the list, Chrome sends a partial URL fingerprint (the first 32 bits of a SHA-256 hash of the URL) to Google for verification that the URL is indeed dangerous. Chrome also sends a partial URL fingerprint when a site requests a potentially dangerous permission, so that Google can protect you if the site is malicious. Google cannot determine the actual URL from this information.

https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#malwar...

(I work for Google but not on anything like this.)
I think it more accurate to say they make people question things
Same here. Video of the arrests the last few nights don’t seem out of line to me.

The feds stay locked up in the courthouse, the “protestors” breakdown the barriers erected, start fires, then the feds rush them and grab who they can.

These are not “innocent” protestors just exercising their 1st amendment rights. At least not in the videos I’ve seen.
You don't earn interest on your money while it's in transit (seems to be around 1-2 days). If you're constantly shuffling money around, it might not make sense unless the rates are significantly higher. You'd have to do the math. Here's a calculator I found: https://www.mymoneyblog.com/the-ultimate-interest-rate-chase...
This is all based off of rumors/employee tweets, but it seems plausible enough, given the length of the downtime.
Like other people here have mentioned Ubuntu touch/UBports is probably not the most Linuxy thing you can run on this phone, and there’s a wide choice of distros to choose from. It’s almost like real Linux! ;)

That said I love seeing the momentum and attention the PinePhone is attracting. Can’t wait until my order arrives.
Good point. You also don't need to be a drug lord to have ruthless enemies. Even Gandhi and MLK got assassinated.
Yes and it’s even worse than most clickbait, because the way it accomplishes its attention grab is to misleadingly throw shade on bloom filters themselves, which the content in no way justifies. Leaves me feeling a little sick to my stomach. Ugh.
Surely they mean userfacing/surveilling/influencing software.
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It’s a cartel. Good luck with a consumer-driven fix.
I believe that it should not be necessary to fill out paperwork in order to exist. So I don't do it.
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>I can’t imagine many republican leaders are actually very happy about this whole mess, but very few of them are willing to publicly break ranks

I think this is one of the most fundamental factors in the breakdown at higher levels of discourse. Most liberals I personally know used to put a strong emphasis on benefit of the doubt and pragmatism when it came to judging Republican leadership - there was always plenty of strong criticism, but there was also a lot of "well, in such-and-such case, they are just doing what they honestly think is best for the country". But that attitude is now utterly gone, because of the silence of such leaders on the incredibly overt hatred and unreasonableness of Trump and other proponents of spite-motivated authoritarianism. They still have plenty of good faith for Republicans, but what's changed is that they now have absolutely zero for Republican leaders. What's happening is awful.