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This is very good insight and I definitely agree. With regard to your first point, I'll look to add a limit to how many users a person can message per day.

I spent some time already and plan to spend a lot more on moderation tools to mitigate the effects of your second point. Ideally fake profiles can be both reported and detected, but as of yet I have not invested too much time into these efforts, other than adding basic reporting features and a moderation page for those with sufficient power.

I tried to mitigate your third point by only allowing users to see your total cluster vote as opposed to your individual card votes. As a result, there is a bit of plausible deniability as your vote for each card is somewhat masked by the average. This could be furthered by reducing the cluster count and thereby making each cluster larger and mask more individual card votes.
I picked up CDK & built out the same essential setup + DB, an EC2-ECS instance for ad-hoc stuff and a bunch of things to appease Config & Security Hub in ~420 lines of quite sparse python, that builds out to ~3000 lines of cloudformation yaml.

I feel CDK has the mix between optional granularity & high-level constructs just right, while this plugin looks nice for a quick MVP standup i'd be surprised to see it in use for production workloads
Are you referring to the episode[1] (posted May 10th) or was there another, more recent one?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ
I support Japan's right to keep their distinctly Japanese culture and way of life intact indefinitely. I live in one of the more multicultural cities in the Western world. I have seen little evidence to suggest that even second and third generation immigrants assimilate into the host culture to a more than superficial degree. I have seen plenty of evidence to the contrary, which I will not list here due to the risk of this being mistaken as malice on my behalf. I harbour no malice towards other ethnicities or nationalities.

The recent wave of immigration, including a large influx of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa, to Western Europe has demonstrated many of the challenges I speak of. There have been numerous interviews, news features and articles which have demonstrated that the new immigrants are largely ambivalent, often outright hostile towards the Western culture and way of life.

An objective look at America's present situation without any prejudice could very well prompt an outsider to take the view that the experiment of multiculturalism in the West is not working, or at least not working well. The American left and right wing ostensibly seem to agree on this fact, based upon their media. Continuing the very generous American example, African-Americans have largely not assimilated into the wider American culture since their emancipation. From my outsider perspective, it appears that they constitute their own distinct culture. Their own media portrays them as suspicious, if not again outright hostile, or at best ambivalent towards the wider White American society.

If Japan were to look objectively on at the Western world undergoing these challenges, why would they come to the conclusion that they would benefit from multiculturalism, when the abundance of evidence points to the contrary? Would they presume to think that they could make this experiment work, when it hasn't worked demonstrably well anywhere else?
> bangs (put g! or !g anywhere in your query to search on Google, !gem searches on rubygems etc)

Which you can do inside your browser too.

> searching via POST requests (so that your searches are not saved in browser history)

That's not a benefit to me.

If I want less browser history I'll handle that locally, thank you.

> I heard many people like DDG's browser for iOS, as a dedicated incognito browser

That's not a benefit of the site.

Better privacy and better infoboxes sometimes are what I would immediately list, but purely on features that's not very compelling.
My understanding is that the infrastructure for Amazon Logistics was added to help scale for the weekend Prime deliveries and Christmas/Black Friday season. But I guess just like AWS was born out of Amazon building internal redundancy for scalability of their compute, Amazon Logistics is paving their way towards being more independent with shipping
Of course that’s what they do, in most cases. The real trick is to get your mind enrolled in the intricate fiction of how.
Only 50%? I'd put it much closer to 100% tbh. Why people are so eager to funnel all their traffic through some of the shadiest businesses on the Internet is beyond me...
> it might have taken until 2013 for someone to measure its g force

To be fair, measuring this sort of thing was pretty hard in the past, when cheap miniaturized sensors and memory didn't exist.

I expect we will see more and more activities being re-evaluated now that tech is easily wearable.
No it's an incredibly onerous requirement. No it doesn't make sense.

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

https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis...
Why do postal services even need to be handled by an agency?

It's just a normal service like any other. Normal companies do that just fine. As evidenced in lots of history and in other countries around the globe.
DDG has a Reddit bang which does the same: !greddit
The crazy part is that their special Amazon tariffs seem to not really cover costs, so individual package delivery goes up in price instead.

Amazon might make up 20-30% of volume, but they also pay only 20-30% of the normal price for delivery. Which is crazy when you consider that most of the cost for delivery comes from the actual delivery to your door. That doesn't magically scale and get cheaper per unit because Amazon hands over a large amount of packages.
I believe this is something that already happens in certain countries with Coca-Cola bottling plants, where when local droughts happen, the plant is protected over the local population.
> Where do you get the fingerprints to check against?

Any serious cloud/VPS provider will offer a way, leveraging HTTPS.

On EC2, the Linux distro writes the SSH fingerprint to the instance's 'system log' which can be securely viewed over the AWS web dashboard.

On Linode, you can use a web-based terminal session (over HTTPS of course) to run a command to show the fingerprint.

I've discussed this in other replies in this thread.

> "Verify" just pushes the blind trust somewhere else.

Not really. If my cloud provider is compromised, it's game-over anyway. Provided there's a secure channel to communicate the fingerprint, and provided we really do check the fingerprint (most people just don't bother), we should be ok.

> write the public key to a block device, detach it from the new host, attach it to a verification service host and read it there

Yep, that's pretty much the Amazon approach!
Named arguments are great where you can't do it without them. It's good that language provides you the tool. And it's your job to as a developer to not abuse it.
This argument can be made about every technological advancement ever made. "Don't fix it with technology, just throw more people at it". That isn't how you make progress and it doesn't benefit everybody it just encourages stagnation.
Like all other "neutrality" laws, this would be fundamentally anti-free-market, anti-consumer-preference, and pretty dumb. The USPS should give people what they want, otherwise the other delivery companies will put the USPS out of business.

If that happens, there will not be any delivery company that is required to bring mail to everyone, no matter where they live. Let's give the USPS the ability to survive so people in rural areas can still get mail.
There's already a paid, curated search engine Google can't beat in certain verticals: Westlaw and LexisNexus, but they are based on vast curated and annotated data sets of legal case law that deliver enormous value to end users of those services.
TL;DR: start a business that sells a (possibly premium) hosted version of the project, sells training/support for the project or try to extract sponsoring from your users.

It's less a "pay your rent with your open source project" article (as the title suggests) than a "start a business that happens to produce open source software" article. Also anyone with one or two smallish libraries need not apply, this is about projects with person-years of effort invested in them.
Urbanization can result workforce exploitation, and in large parts of land being drained of it's work-force, driving up the cost of living as more food needs to be imported and as it will be more expensive to get a roof over your head.

It's all a worst-case scenario, of course, but the risk is still there.
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For a variety of reasons, there is a deep seated animus towards the post office held by key donors to the Republican Party.

It doesn’t make particular sense.
Yeah, I didn't do full builds from there because it was often unreliable knowing what was in stock but to pop in for one part it was very convenient. As long as you had a backup part or three in mind :)

I'm sure there used to be a bunch of cheap stores around the UNSW area but they might've all closed now.
Some emulators support things like upscaling, texture filtering, anti aliasing etc there is usually a debate between purists and those who want to take advantage of what modern hardware can provide without having to change the actual code of the games they emulate.

I think the motivation is still primarily preservation and for the heck of it, emulation development is probably one of the best ways to learn/improve your programming skills since it requires you to learn and understand a lot of low level concepts that are often abstracted by even low level languages e.g. opcodes and interrupts, also it somewhat forces you to continuing being aware of hardware development because new hardware tends to brake VMs/Emulators quite often as ISA implementations change in a manner that usually doesn’t impact most other applications.

Backward compatibility isn’t really available outside of remasters and “retro” versions that are often have some minor changes that can impact gameplay (e.g. vsync/frame rate changes can have impact on games that use immunity frames) and most importantly they don’t allow you to use your existing library of games.

The PS2 production ended somewhere in in 2012 (which is insane) and even with 155 million units sold it won’t be out there forever so people want to ensure that the games could still be playable in the future.
Sometimes it's okay to recognize something is a social good. Large swathes of the rural population of the US would be underserved/overcharged (in regards to current levels) for similar levels of service.
Einstein would probably have liked to live longer, but I don't think he did much important science in his later years?
Apple was going out of business until Microsoft invested ~190 (or was 90) million in Apple to bail it out. IIRC, it was late 90s.
Yes AWS is crazy expensive, their business model is simple yet super effective and they are swimming in money, power to them, make custom services with custom APIs, make it very cheap/free for low volume use and then crazy expensive when the usage goes up and the customer is vendor locked-in into their services + push enough money into marketing to so it is everyone's first choice.

Not only AWS is very expensive but also rather hard to use and all their forms and services pretty difficult to navigate as well, it put me off the cloud hype for very long time until I actually discovered reasonably-priced* cloud providers like DigitalOcean (or linode, vultr,...) with also very easy to use platforms.

* of course still pricier than dedicated hardware/VPS, however the premium for hourly billing and infrastructure maintenance is reasonable
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Is that because there's cross-subsidy from non-rural folks or because you think USPS is more efficient than a private sector alternative would be?

Also, even if we accept that the government doing mail delivery is good, why does it need to be a federal agency? Wouldn't this more logically be something for the states to do?

But I guess you don't have subsidiarity in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity
On technical side, I think GP meant stuff like this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.span-1.-c...
And this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
Or a week's vacation
How can you tell what is crap while crawling, is there enough time? How can you tell what is crap for the next person, and what is not crap?

It's not an easy question.
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Does this mean that these keys inserted actual instructions instead of a string of characters into the source code?
Providing a level playing field for non-Amazon sellers is extremely important for the economy. Amazon is approaching monopoly or near-monopoly on many things, and getting preferential treatment from logistics companies will only accelerate that.
Most people's lives through history was super hard. Just read some novels on XIX century or earlier (but not on lives of elites) and you'll see impressive young people being able to cope with conditions that would cause typical western XXI century person to crush under depression.

For example, even my grandmother, during German occupation of Poland, was able to take care of her younger siblings and bedridden mother, while being 14-16 years old. And, by "taking care of" I mean plowing the (small) fields they had, feeding the cow, making sure the siblings aren't starving, fending off Germans and their random executions of Polish commonpeople etc. By today's standards it's absolutely extraordinary, but it wasn't really uncommon back then.
You can even afford luxuries such as a porsche when you're 70 and nobody cares
>So if you move to a world where selling your data for services isn't available, then you're forcing them to pay and since we've determined they can't pay, all you're doing is removing the choice from them and forcing them in to the no-service option.

Like this is the only option... We already see a lot of services that sell multiple tiers of their products, with power users or larger companies paying significantly more.
Maybe the office is helping you hide a life that needs changes.
Cork in two parts - one that you can push all the way through, put the lock on, and then pull out and connect the outer part.

(this also match the twine in the cork)
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“A simple low pass filter” is a favored tool of HN commenters who know better than the experts.
It’s not fine for some other people. How can we as a society come to a fair proposal for delivery of mail?
Well, its all relative.

Today's technology makes it easier to analyze and discover causative agents very easily for such issues (consider how quickly we were able to identify, sequence the current coronavirus... a virus!). The harder problems lie at the edge of where our current instrumentation is able to take us.

In the article, it took several years to identify the agent that prevented blood clots, today it would take days. But there are other things that take as long because we don't yet have the technology yet.

So at every stage in humanity, the "low hanging fruits" are so only in retrospect. For the people in 1920's, this problem was definitely not low hanging : )
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Has the distribution of the population changed that much in the last decades? The eastern parts of Germany are still more sparsely populated and less strong economically than the others for example, putting the eastern edge of this area at the same place as it used to be.
> And Amazon experimented (or is still experimenting) with building a logistics company to no longer depend on DHL.

In the UK it's been a very long time since I got many parcels from Amazon that weren't delivered by Amazon Logistics.

DPD, Royal Mail and other deliveries happen once in a blue moon but Amazon is mostly things on its own now in my experience.
Arguably, a slower course could be made more technical, and therefore be a better test of skill over split second reactions.
Yes it is. The driver uses the original sqlite3.c code mechanically translated to Go.
The more I think about it, the more I think the search engine problem has no (currently known) solution. The options are:

1) Word-based crawling/indexing: quickly abused by spammers.

2) IA/ML-based: I think this is the current model (?), but after a while the machine got "clever" and it makes Google to think it knows better than me about what I am looking for, and returns result for "most people" tastes. The problem is when you are not "most people", and/or you are looking for some niche topic/work related/tech stuff/etc. Simply trying to discover new things like an interesting blog or a small shop it's impossible.

3) Paid-based: as in the article, and might be a good idea. But I think it has to run on a custom indexer. Why would I pay for Bing results?

4) Aggregators: a search engine that returns results from a bunch of other search engines, like DDG and others.

5) A mix of the above?

So unless new ideas come to the rescue, I think it's always going to get worse.
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Rape sells clicks, but is not their only mating strategy. There is a high plasticity in their individual behaviour.

Grandmas and mothers will try to chase off young adolescents doing undesired advances over young females so most attempts will be stopped probably. On the other hand, known older males will be recognized and accepted by females (and chased off by males).

The simple explanation is that what we see is the expected normal expression of testosterone in a young mammal. Cetaceans have relatively long adolescences to polish their survival strategies and are curious and (often) very social. That alone would explain their desire to join a group with other playmates. The probability of a young bottlenose to mate successfully is (probably) low. They need to full develop physically, but also psychologically, before; and is a slow process.
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I can't speak for other countries, but the US Postal Service has a mandate to provide mail services to every single resident in the US - "Universal Service". You can see some info on that here: https://about.usps.com/universal-postal-service/usps-uso-exe...

Essentially, a private company has the option to not provide certain services to you or even decline to serve you at your address entirely. The USPS does not. In many cases a carrier like UPS or FedEx hands things off to the USPS to do last-mile delivery in an area their delivery network doesn't cover, because the USPS is already built out to handle it.

Normal companies cannot do this "just fine" because it's a money-losing proposition. That's why the postal service has to be an agency instead of a for-profit company traded on stock exchanges, it is necessary to have universal service even if the country loses money doing it. Essential things like vote-by-mail, mail-order pharmacies, etc become impossible without it.
iOS seems to be more privacy oriented (for the western market, where the government does not yet have the power to force them to comply) by default, while android needs more work put in. If you did as much as you could to secure both I'd agree with you that android is more secure.
Well they can pay for priority mail as well if they want that level of service.
What do you guys do when admining a server to make it so time-consuming/bothersome?

If you just host static content you don't even need to care about security updates. Just deploy a new instance, "apt install nginx", done, forget about it. I would say less work than setting it all up on AWS.

When is the last time there was an remote exploit for nginx serving static files or in Linux kernel? You dont even need to worry about security updates in this scenario.

> I’m sure a large part is that he wants to maintain a personal account to learn/hone skills.

Yeah, he seems to be responsible for OpenShift (marketing?) at Red Hat and he only learnt how expensive AWS is when he got a bill? Bit embarassing.
It's hard to say how unreasonable it is without knowing what the API you're supposed to implement looks like. Regardless of how objectively unreasonable it is, there is also the issue of how much you want the job, and if that is outweighed by the unreasonableness of the request. Perhaps you should also consider this an early red flag that XCorp might not be so great.

I would look at it this way: if you want the job and can spare the time, give the assignment your best shot; otherwise if you could spend 4 hours looking for other jobs to apply to that have more reasonable application procedures, do that instead.

However, whether you decide to do the assignment or not, you should tell the company that you consider the assignment unreasonable and why. Our sector is filled with shitty/unreasonable hiring practices, and I think as candidates we have a responsibility to provide feedback about those practices to provide pressure on the industry to change them. If XCorp starts hearing from a lot of their candidates "Sorry, that's unreasonable, I'm not proceeding", then they will need to revise their hiring process if they want to keep their potential talent pool open. If you decide to continue with the process and do the assignment, then the feedback also works to your benefit by signalling that you are an independent thinker who is willing to give constructive feedback on internal processes: if the company doesn't like that then, well I really wouldn't want to work there anyway.
> As mentioned, you end up with a geometric distribution. I covered a similar phenomenon in a blog post I wrote last year[1]. See Theorem 3.3 in this paper: https://kconrad.math.uconn.edu/blurbs/analysis/entropypost.p.... But in short, the geometric distribution has maximal entropy over (0,∞) given a known mean (in our case, the mean will always be 1000).

Another reply already told you that's irrelevant to Elo, because Elo can go negative (and if it couldn't then the mean wouldn't always be 1000). It's probably going to be normal, and drawing an actual histogram of a simulation like yours comes out looking pretty much like a bell curve: https://imgur.com/YBDp4uI .

As far as I can see none of your claims about Elo stand up. Why do you think you've shown the things that you're claiming?
I think the dichotomy is because he separates emails he sends to friends or family, and "business emails".

As in "I sent one business minded email where I detailed my investment thinking and strategy to a third party".
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I’m taking the opportunity to play digital nomad a bit.

Pretty modestly & locally though given that major intl travel isn’t a thing right now
You could do it with a weight on a spring, and a little pen attached to the weight.
It's less a matter of efficiency and more a matter of whether service would exist at all. If serving small rural communities isn't profitable, why would a company like UPS or FedEx choose to do it? You'd need to compel them with regulation, they aren't charities.

If each state did postal service piecemeal you'd have all sorts of nightmare state-specific pricing, size regulations, delivery schedules, etc. Nobody would benefit from that. Each state would also have to bargain individually with foreign nations about international shipping.
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You are engaging in a not useful sematics argument.

Money coming from that is still money.

And 10s of millions of dollars being paid to the university would still allow them to fund more things, and accept more people.