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I disagree as well. The violence is an unintended consequence, but it's also a known consequence, and has to be taken into account. You can't separate the good and bad consequences of a decision and wave off the negative ones because they manifest themselves indirectly.
There's no need. No one knows your savings account number, just your checking account number.
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By the State enforcing curfew for teenagers up to the age of 16? In other words, through authoritarianism?
This is a really clever joke. The OP did say "There's nothing sinister about a copycat."
The laws don’t directly cause the violence, by they do create an environment in which violence is more likely (or violence around drug manufacture and trade).
How is it a “presumed” benefit when we actually did sell access to our APIs to clients? Some of our APIs initially had very low usage during the day until a batch job came in, others saw a spike in usage by over 100% when we bright a new client in.

We were used by health care networks. Can you imagine the increased use post-Covid?

We even had some that were both hosted on Fargate (Serverless Docker) with lower latency, more expensive but slower scaling for online use and hosted on Lambda for internal batch use - higher latency, faster scaling, less expensive for batch use. The CI/CD pipeline deployed to both.
In my opinion the widespread use of pseudoanonymous accounts on Hacker News prevents it from becoming like Quora, which to me seem entirely about personal brand marketing rather than an exchange of ideas.

When people do identify themselves here it's almost always some relevant context. The move to hiding vote totals probably helped, too.
This is great, thanks for building this
Hacker News also has a noprocrast feature that’s designed to keep you away from the site for a while if you’ve been using the site for too long. It’s a little buggy with how it does detection, though, so I have it turned off.
That's irrelevant because once you're infected, you give up your daily keys[1], which allow your random ids to be correlated together.

[1] technically this is optional, but not doing so also means you're not reporting your infected status to others, which kills the point of contact tracing.
I'm surprised this isn't mentioned in the article or any comments, and I'm wondering whether I'm missing something about the significance of this.

But I thought the biggest problem was that Google and Apple didn't build a contract tracing app - they built a framework for local governments to build apps on top of. This leaves the work of marketing the app and driving adoption to each government (as well as building and operating the service, which is also significant).

When I first heard about this, I thought they were going to build a pair of apps for Android and iOS. It would come as part of an OTA update, and everyone around the world would be presented with a yes/no dialog asking whether they wanted to participate. Local governments would then be provided access to a SaaS that would let their contact tracers enter the tokens of known positive cases.

I'm fairly sure that this would've resulted in significantly higher adoption rates.

I have no idea what the point was, to require every government build/market/operate their own version of the exact same app. Maybe so that the backends could be independent? If so, I imagine there would be other ways to work around that, like offering a cloud service and/or an open source backend implementation for governments to self-host.
Agreed. I'm working on a set of specs like this[1] to expand on the mnemonic medium[2][3] work Michael Nielsen and I started last year. I'll be interested to see how the ecosystem evolves…

[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/bringing-ideas-36925173 (despite the URL, this is an unlocked post describing the high-level concept)

[2] https://quantum.country

[3] https://numinous.productions/ttft/
Our parents did not write that you shouldn't use some app.

There was a very specific claim about the Google/Apple approach and its usefulness for surveillance and someone objected by teasing a possible pathway for using proximity tracing for surveillance.

One can acknowledge an approaches inherent risks without making absolute judgements about the approach in general.
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Same. I recall being a kid playing this... take off, buzz the Sears Tower, fly between the antennas, try to land and crash horribly. This replicates that experience perfectly!
It's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.
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No, what is actually funding those organizations would be the profits of the drugs they are selling. The law may be responsible for creating an environment that allows such groups to prosper, no argument there. But an unjust law doesn't make it morally permissible to work with violent criminal organizations.

In any case I think it is unreasonable to downvote someone who is arguing in good faith simply because you disagree with their premise.
But we avoided the Holocaust so far, so we've got that going for us.
Do you not have to search for things online usually?
My understanding is that this is already happening in Arizona with cartel members impersonating police for kidnappings. Don't expect this to get better.
Yes. The attack in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vlKbR3Gcs
And it doesn't just apply to students. The US immigration system is a capricious beast for all.

I was a dependent on an H1B in 2006 when I accompanied my parents to a consulate (outside of the US) to extend the visa. The State Department placed a "security check" on my parents and we ended up living for months on vacation pay and credit cards, with electricity stolen from the nearest power line and no hot water until my mom started going to the consulate every morning to bother anyone within earshot. We had been in the US for over a decade at that point (getting PhDs, paying taxes, etc.) and just like that we almost had to abandon our entire life here - pets, friends, careers, and all.

The ultimate irony was that we couldn't get work permits as illegal immigrants in Mexico to carry us through the ordeal.
You can install NextDNS and use their blacklist feature to block distracting websites.
The last impeachment failed though.
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But it is part of Europe.
Maybe they've just recently managed to make the technology work and they're still operating at the edge of their capabilities. Earth is just the first zoo they've decided to visit before moving on to more important worlds.
A few days ago spanish media reported that one of the latest outbreak in Lleida affected a residence. They tested all inmates in the residence with PCR, and found 8 positives. 5 of these 8 had COVID-19 a few months ago with the first wave (I guess march / april).
It's particularly depressing considering the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 had figured out how to _not_ let terrorists win before 10:00 AM the morning of 9/11/2001.

It was later that we decided, oh no, let's let the terrorists win by throwing the bill of rights on metaphorical fire.
He explicitly stated his point before the enumeration; your phrasing of the original comment is both technically inaccurate and reeks of your biases to such an extent as to sour further engagement with you.

You're technically inaccurate because 58-60% is not an "overwhelming majority".

I'm not a US citizen (or resident), and I find it almost unbelievable and absolutely unacceptable that you don't have some form of universal healthcare, for example. I probably agree with you politically way more than I disagree with you, but the other posters points against you still stand.

EDIT: I realise my first paragraph here might sound a bit harsh, that was not my intention - my intention was to make it explicitly known to you such that you might take it to heart and it might possibly be helpful to you to realise.
How do individuals meet their obligations to society (if any)?

Do they do it through voluntary exchange, altruism and compassion.

Or do they do it out of compulsion because they are threatened with violence?

The latter is obviously not what we want, but its the State we have. Reducing the size of the state therefore sounds like a good plan, since it should reduce the amount of threatening with violence that has to be done.
A more charitable way to look at it is that there are many companies that need programmers but can’t afford market salaries anchored by mega corps who make their money by outlying economies of scale.

Not saying that’s the truth of the matter, but it’s a perspective you might consider on a case-by-case basis.
The media team do not know and should not be expected to know the exact minute details of how URLs can and cannot be validly formatted. Especially given that common parsers handle these cases in violation of the standards. Nobody ever uses URLs ending in a ., and for 99.999% of humans it is completely reasonable to write http://example.com.

It's a different thing to say that they should have at least tested it first.
> Backend engineers don't need to know about cross-site scripting, CORS and a bunch of other things that have been standardised and built into browser security

I agree that frontend and backend development are deep enough on their own that they require specialization for complex projects. But lacking even basic knowledge of how other parts of the stack can by an issue IMO.

You mentioned CORS for example. One time I had to explain to a co-worker, who was a senior level backend dev, why the browser’s calls to his API were failing due to CORS. He couldn’t understand why the fix had to be on his end. When he tested the API with Postman the same requests were succeeding after all. It was shocking to me that someone at his level was not familiar with what was happening. Sure, it requires knowledge of browser behavior but it’s still relevant to the person writing the API.

Beyond that, I find that having a little full stack knowledge helps with inter-team communication.
Which programming languages do yo know? There was a recent post by someone that applied to a Clojure position, and got a take home project in Python, and unsurprisingly it was evaluated as a Python project.
They didn’t want the PR risk of owning the app
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Universities are starting to sound like car salesman.

Look at this great deal! Now we’ll just add on the winterization fee, rust prevention package, delivery fee, admin fee, admin recovery fee, tag fee, boat payment fee, tire rotation fee, coolant flush and closing costs and we’ll get you on the road in a jiffy!
At least for now, I also have the choice to not have Google Maps on my phone and keep location disabled, which I do. So there's definitely room for things to get worse.
>When the US decides to do something together, especially in the modern era.

No. This is wrong. Freedom divides, Lack of freedom unifies by definition. Unification and freedom sound like words that go together but they are like oil and water because freedom involves the freedom to be divisive.

Case in point, our dysfunctional president was elected based on a highly divisive voting war between people who have the freedom to think he's dysfunctional and people who have the freedom to think he's not dysfunctional.

>Our dysfunctional president has actively fought against creating a consensus that we should move as one against this virus.

This is freedom by definition? He and other people have the freedom to fight against consensus. In China, you are punished if you don't wear a mask which is the very definition of oppression.

>we do it incredibly well mostly without sacrificing human rights

Like the human right to stay alive and not be killed by people deliberately spreading covid? How many human rights were sacrificed when a bunch of people decided their freedoms were more important? Everyone has the right to believe that covid is a hoax just like how freedom of religion gives you the right to believe in scientology and cults.

Meanwhile in other countries that lack freedoms, what's going on? In these places, where cults like falun gong and scientology would be viciously stamped out if they existed, secret police are patrolling the streets walking around and arresting people who don't wear masks and don't follow the rules.

There are two sides to every coin.

I think it's a pretty biased and narrow viewpoint whenever a US citizen reacts so negatively to things like "secret police" or "destroying our freedoms" to a topic that is so much more complex than your typical black and white / cops and robbers scenario.
>Did the US internment camps violate the rights of others?

Definitely. Was that your only point?

"But America..."
>As for the "unmarked cars" picking people up, what is actually happening to these people? Is it catch and release? It seems pretty tame to me.

Its illegal to detain people for no reason. How will you feel when it happens to you?

> Should they just let the protesters/rioters burn down the courthouse?

That is an interesting perspective. And its one that a lot of people currently hold toward the police. Does one (or even a few) bad apple spoil the bunch?

Do you think that protesters like the Navy Vet, Naked Athena, the Wall of Moms, and even the Mayor of Portland really want to burn down a Federal building?
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Government policy: prevent people from ruining their lives with drugs by ruining it for them with prison.
You don't know what's happening to the taken people, but it seems pretty tame to you?

>Should they just let the protesters/rioters burn down the courthouse?

You're implying a binary, which is a common fallacy. It's not helpful, and is in fact provocative, to respond to critics of some behavior to the effect of, "So, what, they should do the extreme opposite thing?"
You can turn any peaceful protest to a chaos if you overwhelm the protest with riot control or law enforcement officers that look like battlefield soldiers.

Obviously what you get after it is more chaos and vandalism. But, is it fair to blame protesters for it?

The argument isn't that there is no chaos happening right now, or that there was zero vandalism before this. The argument is that it was mostly peaceful before. And question is what turned that into this chaos?

This requires root cause analysis. There are some big criticism against riot control tactics in general. Lots of experts are discussing it.

You build wide streets and invest less in public transport. What you get is traffic. Now, is it fair to blame drivers for it?
That's different. It's just marketing BS to artificially suppress the advertised price, which does float competitively.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23946999
On your latter point, we don't need to go to China to know about it. The fact the great firewall exists is an affront to human liberty. All other freedoms are downstream from speech.
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I think it depends what you measure. If you only look at metrics like GDP per capita (in USD), Japan might seem to be doing poorly.

If you look at metrics that actually matter, like quality of life, income inequality, education, crime rates, public infrastructure, life expectancy, etc., it's up near the top--and is certainly doing far better than the US in many important areas.
Come on guys the Comedian shoots a guy with a tear gas canister and then says “what happened to the American Dream? It came true!” That’s pretty on the nose.
If the programming language is compiled and modules are distributed as binaries across teams, they have no means than to comply with modularity.
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Disagree, I think the author is just being very terse and also possibly not a native English speaker (or a poor proofreader).
Banks will pay as little as they can get away with and charge as much as they can get away with.

Only competition stops that being nothing and loads.

There is no “passing on”. There is only what the market forces on a bank to survive.
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I don't see any incentive unless they have a brand name and do repeat business.
> "Can I see your badge?" doesn't seem very effective, given that a badge can easily be faked, but more importantly you'd probably, for good reason, be too afraid to even ask

There are thousands of videos on the internet of Americans being harassed, beaten or arrested, sometimes illegally, by cops who refuse to identify themselves when asked.

Even if they carried a badge, what reason would a jackbooted thug have to reveal their identity to their victims? The government already gave them carte blanche to shoot, maim and abduct citizens for exercising constitutional rights to assembly and speech.
It doesn't really matter whose bug it is. If you're sending urls through a lossy medium, and you want them to work, your server needs to be accepting of trailing garbage and (where possible) truncation and case insensitive.

If you send a link via sms, some number of people are going to type it in a url bar while looking at their phone, that's a lossy process. In addition to whatever terrible things happened during sms transmission.
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> Is America really such a police state now that you are just supposed to submit to anyone in a uniform?

I guess what really surprises me every time I see it is... how can I put it?

The level of militarisation of said police; I mean these federal agents look like they're on their way to storm Faluja, in full battle dress, and that makes me really, really, really uncomfortable.

Its not quite the same here in the UK, although I believe we're getting there, albeit slower. But yeah, seeing those dudes dressed in battle rig with no visible badges of rank/name etc gives me the creeps.
In the Netherlands a police raid lead to the discovery of a soundproofed shipping container in a warehouse equipped as a torture chamber, complete with a creepy old barber's chair replete with leather straps, handcuffs suspended from the ceiling, and an assortment of pliers and other tools. They prevented the crime syndicate behind it from executing a carefully orchestrated plan were a team posing as a police tactical unit would 'arrest' a competing drug lord and take him to their newly prepared torture chamber.

They had the van and the appropriate uniforms all ready for use.

The idea that the police squad busting down your door might not be the actual police is downright scary. Of course this is an extreme case, and involving something most of us are not involved in, but it does make you wonder what recourse the drug lord would have had (except for the obvious 'don't be a drug lord, dummy' solution of course).

I doubt 'can I just check your badge for a moment?' would work even if the actual police showed up.
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M-x eww.

(Then you discover M-x eww https://news.ycombinator.com, back to square one.)
Regarding mass-production: I once saw an exhibition entirely devoted to brands in ancient Rome. Here's an article in English about it

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Better/original source: https://puri.sm/posts/apple-has-no-tolerance-for-webcam-cove...
I liked ColdTurkey software back when I was using Windows.
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> If accurate, this undermines the legitimacy of the deployment

I am perfectly comfortable questioning the legitimacy of the deployment without any speculation about which individuals we the tax payers ended up paying to be there.
> Its illegal to detain people for no reason.

I agree and I find these events troubling. But I also want to put them in perspective.

> Does one (or even a few) bad apple spoil the bunch?

I don't understand the point you're making here.

> Do you think that protesters like the Navy Vet, Naked Athena, the Wall of Moms, and even the Mayor of Portland really want to burn down a Federal building?

As another commenter said, there are about 3 different groups with different adgendas operating in the area.
It depends who you want to take a bath, the universities by abolishing student loans or the taxpayer (government) by allowing bankruptcy.
Oof. If terrorizing protestors that are leaving the protest while having committed no crimes and only exercised their first amendment rights is “tame” to you, there remains some questions about your tolerance for tyranny.
I understand where you're coming from, but it doesn't seem so clear cut to me.

Let's say:

I have a choice to outlaw drug X or not. I can infer with near certainty that this policy will lead to a black market run by violence that gets people killed. Nevertheless, I outlaw drug X. People get killed.

What responsibility do I bear?

I honestly don't know, but neither "none" nor "100%" sounds right to me.
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How did they do it before? The fees widely outpace inflation. It’d be nice to see state schools be affordable to kids on a part time job —which used to be the case. That’s not been the case for a few decades.
is it a case of it's hard to do a job badly so we need more resources to work badly more ?
> shonky Nimbus machine

Ah, Nimbus.

In my teens I was briefly root on our school's Nimbus network after tampering with a boot floppy on a server that wasn't physically secured...

Was a great feeling for a few hours ... then I felt very guilty and 'fessed up to a teacher :)
Server hardware is designed to run in server environments, not home environments. Maybe if you had a basement or something, but the noise on those fans is going to drive you nuts. Off the shelf home desktop hardware is better, but amazingly inconsistent. The NUC platform isn’t a bad way to go if you have the cash.
Reminds me of my friend's '09 senior HS project at the art school we went to. She made a graphical Java app that would generate a random Mondrian design[0], and it would also generate a random "artist statement" too. That last part was my absolute favorite, because the disillusioned student I was felt like a lot of the "artist statement" assignments were just BS.

[0] https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/all-works#!#filterN...