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>I am a life long atheist however American SJWism has me on the brink of converting.

I've heard that argumentation tactic many times, from people who had nothing better than: "I don't believe in something that we both agree is false, but I'm mad at you, so I'm going to punish you by changing my belief system and believing in it."

That's absolutely childish, and I don't believe you're going to punish me by renouncing your atheism and becoming a Christian just to spite me (that wouldn't be very Christian, would it?), and I really don't care what false things you profess to believe in in order to punish me. Come up with a better argument, or admit defeat, since you've already humiliated yourself by admitting that you'll sell out your beliefs out of spite.

Also, you made it perfectly clear that you're homophobic by writing a sentence that begins with "I have absolutely nothing against homosexuals, but ..." You can stop right there. You already gave away the game.
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Surprised no one mentioned that "this one weird hack saved a cook-mom" clickbait-style of writing. SEO-optimizing writing style was mentioned in comments, still.
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In German "to educate/bring up someone" is "jemanden erziehen".

"erziehen", if translated literally, means "to pull", "er" is something like "to act" while "ziehen" means "pull"

Sometimes it feels like that, that it is necessary to pull someone into a certain direction in order to better that person. And this is usually not easy to do.
Good work - no fluff, straight to the point. I got value out of this in under a minute.
The science is indeed pretty clear, even though many do not like that. You can easily pick up changes in attitudes when men have daughters, and want them to do well, which means they want them to go into STEM or other high paying fields. However, we basically know at birth whether someone wants to build things or play with dolls.

I don't think it's that bad. But I can absolutely empathize with the dread of hearing your son/daughter wanting to take a liberal arts degree. You know, it's not the degree that's the issue. It's the 50 years after of cumulative low salary.
I am still being labelled as a conspiracy theory nutcase whenever I talk about this subject to people.
I wondered how much it was, and did a quick search. Apparently Sundar Pichai (Alphabet) had a total comp equivalent to ~0.13% of the revenue, and Tim Cook (Apple) was at 0.05%. So Mozilla's CEO is at 3 to 10 times more than those two examples, while arguably underperforming them.
The linked blog post seems to have been deleted. At the time I'm writing this, the links has been pointing to a 404 error page for a few minutes already and the article is nowhere to be found in the blog's archive.
but bitcoin wasn't designed to be stable (or unstable). it was designed to match the properties of gold, but digitally. I think it has somewhat succeeded.
Thing is, if people really feel like "I can't support this company while X is there" are they just supposed to be quiet?

Cancel culture is probably toxic to public discussion. But what is the alternative if people want to vote with their feet? If people want to make choices based on their morals, that seems awesome to me.

It's only if people are bluffing things into being canceled that I see an issue here.
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Because getting infected still carries a significant risk of illness, permanent health problems, or death with it, especially for at-risk groups. Getting vaccinated would sidestep that risk.

And even if everybody did recover, there's the economic cost of an infection. Productivity missed because workers are sick at home, or worse in a hospital being cared for.

I'm not sure what the dollar figures are, but I would not be surprised if vaccinating a large population turns out to be significantly cheaper than having a small percentage of that large population in ICUs for weeks on end.
The expectation is that with a "system" package, one can update that one package and (basically) everything on the system now uses that new version. Practical for security and important bugfixes.
Or take it to the other extreme - buy two dishwashers A and B and use A for dirty items whilst using B as storage for clean items. When the dirty one A is full, run it and put dirty items in the formerly clean washer B. This way you save on cupboard space which can be used to store faberge eggs instead.
Since the top subthread comment has been predictably flagged by the clique:

Rewriting is easier than doing original work. If you manage to get people to use "your" new Rust project, you get a huge payoff for comparatively little work with lots of plagiarizing.
isn't pocket owned by Mozilla anyway
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For quite a long time my bank used cargo culted 2FA i.e. 2x things that you know. Pretty embarrassing really. Thankfully they now have a card reader device but it's only used for certain actions (like adding new payees).
In case anyone finds this later: I've searched more, by looking at demo pages of popular status monitoring tools hoping to find GitHub, and I've found one such demo: https://updown.io/d043
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my daughters about the same age, and she's gone from never having kids to the opposite in the space of a few years.

I recommend it, it makes your life chaotic and costs money, but its the best thing in the world, you'll never be the same. Think about how you'd be in your 50's or later with no kids, I don't know anyone that said they're glad they didn't have kids, but I do know a few that are sad they didn't. Just a random internet guys opinion.
I thought sleep cycle length is variable to an extent. I once calculated my own to be around 110 minutes per cycle, rather than 90 minutes. Using that as a base for calculating bed time has worked well for me. If cycle length variability is indeed a thing, it would be an interesting parameter to add to the calculator. Thanks for sharing!
The author lives in Austria and the phishing attempt itself was targeting a major Austrian bank, but I don't know if this is legal or if that's a gray area
Sure, but it does mean due to her following her personal convictions her family has 2 million less to spend.
That's a bit redundant with current top post, but I think this site is really cool, not because of the calculator.

I think the calculator itself isn't really useful, though I could be wrong. (The reason why I think it's not really useful is that I think the "90 minutes" cycles varies quite a lot between people, and the time between going to bed and to sleep can vary by half that length between people)

But what I really like, is that it is kinda (reasonably) click-baity, while it actually is a short, sourced, clean, no-ad, straight to the point, FAQ about sleep, which is useful to raise awareness of those issues.
I work with collagen glues and boiled linseed oil all the time, and they work great together. I have made wafer thin all-natural composite materials using wood fibers (thin plane shavings) as the substrate, hide glue to hold it together and thoroughly impregnated with boiled linseed oil with a beeswax top coat. The result is a rather strong material that's lightweight and thin enough to let light through.

It is plausible that they would have used boiled linseed oil instead of or in combination with hide glue or other materials commonly used in that era (bitumen, beeswax, etc).
Maybe that ought to be fixed as well.
I think the post is dramatized a little. Mentioned SA_RESTART should fix the EINTR problem for most synchronous functions and is used for default signals.
Silicon Valley is so far up its ass that they can't see the light of day. There is good talent in the high COL metro area, but that doesn't mean all of the best talent is there. And it's definitely not all cultivated there.

At most it's just brain drain from around the world (and around the U.S.) due to capital concentration NOT talent concentration.

There's this belief that anybody who isn't willing to move to high COL metro couldn't cut it there because having a worldview outside of living in SF or similar isn't something that can be fathomed.
As much as I think things like this can be fun, depending on your jurisdiction (and tbh the US loves extraditing people for silly computer crimes), it might not be advisable. This is all but certainly illegal at least within the US. I’m sure most competent security experts have been tempted to do things like this, or SQLi a scammer’s form and nuke their DB, and usually bad things won’t happen to you, you might find that you’re hacking something you weren’t expecting, and might piss someone off other than a scammer.
And the is-odd package.json requires is-number! Jesus...
Funny thing ;)

> Mozilla and Google are expected to extend their current search deal for another three years, multiple sources have told ZDNet.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-expected-to-ex...
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For every job, market rates are a thing. Yes, of course you will be able to fill just about any c-role at just about any rate. But, somehow, just as with any other job, the good people – those you will actually want to fill that role – want to be paid what the market tells them they are worth.

And yes, there are other factors at play. Mitchell Baker brings it up: The kind of work you do matters not only to you but also to c-level people and will be priced into the pay.

Who around here (who is also actually qualified enough, that mozilla would want them) would switch over, taking a 50% pay cut over their current pay, right now? Don't tell me you couldn't. Of course you could. Would it mean changing your life style? I am sure it would. But then again, that's a apparently cool to randomly ask of people who (I am assuming) earn a lot more than you do.

There are two reasonable options: You either come to terms with reality, or you change reality. The later means, in this particular case, enticing someone qualified (which includes a) being capable b) willing and c) in a social position to actually "apply" for the job) and to do it for less. Good luck.
> The science is indeed pretty clear, even though many do not like that.

It's evidence for how much political influence is in academia today. In my country of origin, Sweden, believing this kind of science is very politically incorrect.

It's stupid, of course our brains are wired different it is the most important organ in our bodies. Who really cares if we prefer different things? We should celebrate our differences, not fight it.

It's funny when people try to fight our biology, it's a loosing cause and you will most likely make people unhappy.
If Brendan Eich didn't want to be fired from Mozilla, he wouldn't donate towards the attacks on human fucking rights. Homophobia is unacceptable, and combatting it is not totalitarianism, especially because every single totalitarian country out there was and still is homophobic. Period.
Silicon Valley very often falls into this:

Step 1: Claim you're disrupting an existing industry (or creating a new industry that didn't previously exist because it was unviable - eg, electric scooters).

Step 2: Claim that this is going to make you far more profitable than that industry has traditionally been. Get Angel Investment.

Step 3: Raise money at a ridiculous valuation due to step 2. Series A.

Step 4: Use that money to undercut competitors in the existing market and gain marketshare whilst taking huge losses. Series B, C.

Step 5: Realise that you've just built another company that's exactly the same as all the existing companies in that industry with no real way of making a profit. IPO.

Step 6: Having thrown so much money at the problem that you've now got enormous market share (and driven the traditional companies out of business because they can't operate at a loss), pivot to using your monopolistic position to drive down costs and inflate prices.

Step 7: Slowly melt-down as investors realise Step 2 was all bullshit and regulators start catching up with step 6.
Buy why do one group prefer some things over others? Is it because that’s what’s been available to them, that’s what they’ve been told to like etc.? I’m not going to enjoy Computer Science if I’ve never been exposed in any way to computers, or seen anyone else in my group in that industry etc.

By the way this is a genuine question. I completely believe that it’s not controversial to expect there to be differences amongst groups. It’s just that with issues like gender there seems to be so many different things at play that it’s hard to pin it down.
How can it be illegal sending a few fake data to a website?
And anyway I doubt they will ever sue you, at most you could be targeted for some revenge attack if they are really pissed off and you don't hide your traces.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tOB1K9...
"required to use 2FA" for login, or "required to use 2FA" to conduct transactions?

I'm asking because my (German) bank only very recently changed to requiring 2FA every X days for login. I'm very curious if they are actually compliant, since I used to be able to log in just with 1 factor to see my current balance (but not conduct any transactions).
Huh, for the first couple of weeks here in the UK some things were harder to find, but since then I've noticed no items not in stock at all - Where are you based?
If they are already sending you an SMS maybe they can try to fake that as well and access your account immediately with the expiring token.
If you really want to talk about SJWs, go back to 4chan. Bigotry has no place in tech industry.

Besides, your point is complete bollocks bc Google also funds said initiatives a lot.
I agree. Adding it in
I imagine it's illegal but I also assume that for it to be prosecutable, there would have to be a complainant. Good luck to that guy trying to prove that DDOS-ing a phishing site is worse than the phishing itself!
This whole ideology of "the user should get all their software from their Linux distribution" and it's implicit consequence: there's no clear difference between system software (internal tooling) and application software installed by the user (Audacity and friends) should just die already.

I want my OS to just provide a decent interface over which I can install application packages myself, packages that I get from my own sources, just like on Windows. if those packages are statically linked, fine. I know most Linux users disagree, but I don't want the relationship between software vendor and user to be distorted by some distro maintainer, or having to be limited to a package manager. I want to be able to store application installers in my filesystem.

I also want my distribution to hide it's Python binary from me so I can install my own Python without breaking the OS.

Basically: stop assuming that I want to live under your wing. I just want you to give me a nice desktop environment, a terminal and a well docomented way to install third party software.

I know distro developers don't owe me anything, and it's fine if they do something else, but this is the actual reason why Linux isn't used in the desktop.
Yeah. "I disapprove of what you say, so your employer must fire you and we'll destroy your career", so people know to keep their mouth shut about their views. Nothing totalitarian here, right.
Waterfox is already a thing, check that out.
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Coinbase is supported by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan[1][2] no wonder they told them to start giving loans and turned them into a bank. Satoshi wouldn't like this; you can make smart contracts directly on the blockchain and give loans if you want.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20130109041534/https://blog.coin...

[2]https://www.wsj.com/articles/jpmorgan-extends-banking-servic...
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I know some childhood vaccinations are required here, but I’m not aware of any adult vaccinations that are generally required. Possibly flu shots for health care workers?
The line is not supposed to be taken at face value, and certainly not as a history lesson. In the movie Harry Lime was a criminal selling fake penicillin on the black market thereby killing many people including children (he acknowledges as much, as far as I can remember). The quote is just him trying to justify this to his old friend who is horrified to discover his scheme.

This is like when people take "you cant handle the truth" or "greed is good" or "to thine own self be true" at face value, completely ignoring the context around the lines.

In any case it is a non sequitur. Losts of places throughout history had murder and bloodshed without producing the Italian Renaissance. (And Switzerland did not actually have peace for 500 years anyway although they did stay neutral during the world wars.). But Lime was not a historian, just a cynical criminal trying to justify stealing penicillin.

It is a great line though.
> It was a fully graphical 800x1024 (or 1024x1024) system running on 1982 processors.

I've looked into in that. Blit was monochrome, had an 8Mhz processor, and a relatively large 256KB framebuffer which could but directly written to. There were only a handful commands, mostly concerned with copying (blitting) bitmaps around.

Rob Pike only wrote the first version of the graphics routines - the slowest version, in C(!). It was rewritten another four times over, by Locanthi and finally Reiser.

I don't think any credit should go to Pike for implementing the performance-critical parts of that system.

https://9p.io/cm/cs/doc/87/archtr.ps.gz

> Perhaps not but it does mean you've "written a program where performance really mattered" which I believe was the original claim?

No, it doesn't mean that. You can be wasteful on constrained hardware as well, performance doesn't necessarily matter even on the simplest chips, if what you want to do doesn't need the full capabilities of the system.

However, I am specifically replying to the claim that "Rob Pike probably knows a thing or two about performance". As you can see, Rob Pike handed off performance-critical work to someone else. He probably didn't know how to write optimal code for that particular platform, but even if he did, most of that knowledge wouldn't transfer over to modern systems.

At the very least, he didn't care about optimizing that stuff, or he wouldn't have handed it off. He would've enjoyed optimizing that stuff. And that's all completely fine, not every programmer needs to care about performance. I just refuse to take advice from these people about performance or "premature optimization", because it is uninformed.
Note the update:

> […] however, in a response post-publication, Mozilla confirmed our report and provided the following statement:

> "Mozilla's search partnership with Google is ongoing, with Google as the default search provider in the Firefox browser in many places around the world. We've recently extended the partnership, and the relationship isn't changing."
Yes academia is very competitive, even after you get tenure you still need to write grants all the time to be able to do your research.
Anyone have access to the paper? As far as I can tell, the young children were perfect convex utilitarians, in deciding that more than "enough" stickers were not worth the more fun of clicking around.

How were the adults rewarded? Did they also get something intrinsically valuable at the end of the experiment, or did they just collect virtual points because they were told they were supposed to?

Working dogs have been specialised by breeding for overexpression of the various initial phases of the wildtype hunting sequence: herding, retrieval, etc. Does "sex sells" indicate we may have been bred to overexpress the "identify attractive potential partner" and "do things they (appear to) like doing" phases of the wildtype reproductive sequence?
This can be classified as denial of service attack because of the rate your are sending the requests. Depends on the law (and on the interpretation as well). I doubt that the phising guys behind this will file a complaint though.
I didn't miss the qualifier. Discord is a chat client with very restricted servers. It's really not that hard as technical problems go.
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Off-topic: whenever I see a post here with much more comments then up-votes I suspect a train wreck of a comment section. Looking through it confirms my suspicion. I wonder how many unique commenters are here, and whether unique commenters to overall comments ratio is also a good indicator of quality.

From my perspective the best links have not more then around 350 up-votes (often less then 200) and less then third of that comments.
To stay in the context of React (although this applies to pretty much most JS-related info) : Back when components were class-based I first heard of hook-based components on Twitter (and later watched the talk, again, through twitter) which allowed me to 1) be informed of where things were going, 2) be better prepared to migrate when hooks-based components shipped and not be taken by "surprise"
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Ask HN: What do you do during the dead time while programming?
All those times, when you need to wait a couple of minutes to build / compile stuff, but starting to work on something in between is not worth it / impractical, but still - you don't want to get completely distracted, so you can jump right back quickly - what do you do?
Arch does this best. If you are displeased with the official repos, you can use the AUR.
I'm reminded of a paper about an AI system with curiosity. Basically, the AI would learn to predict the effect of its actions, and would prefer to take actions where its prediction error was large. That way it would gather more data about stuff it didn't know yet.

This works well to learn to play video games without defining an extrinsic reward. However, there is a problem when the system encounters the equivalent of TV. It then gets stuck watching the unpredictable stream of events.

paper and code: https://pathak22.github.io/large-scale-curiosity/

Coverage by "2 minute papers" youtube channel:
https://youtu.be/fzuYEStsQxc
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Absolutely. It usually tends to be either more visible, or less visible though - some pdf files have a literal watermark on the pages, while other formats like epub contain a guid or other watermark content in the source (epub is zipped xhtml)

https://gizmodo.com/harpercollins-is-now-using-digital-water...

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/everything-you-need...

Amusingly, I believe if you use calibre's ebook conversion to replace stylesheets and add toc, it may also actually remove those markers that have no actual content and only exist to provide a unique ID.