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> Well, exactly. It's kind of funny because it reminds me of the early ages of industrialization, the stories from the factories were pretty horrific. ... A lot of large scale tragedies, because there really wasn't any concept of worker safety, because it was all new. As a civilization, we didn't really quite know how to handle that yet.

You could argue that it was hard enough just to make the machines work without having to also make them safe. You could also argue that workers hadn't yet figured out how to organize (unions) against their bosses, and that consumers hadn't yet figured out how to organize (boycott) against producers. But at some basic level it's because the factory owners just didn't care enough to make the machines safe. All of which are true today as well.

Different point: As technologists we are implementing someone's vision. It might be ours or someone else's, but it's either contributing to society or it's not. It can be building power for the powerless, or lining the pockets of the already rich. We as technologists can choose whether to take this job or that job, or whether we continue working on a project once we know the ethical implications of it. Unfortunately the ethical choice is usually less lucrative.
great article, but it's criminal that they don't mention Mass Effect at all, which to me is the all-time exemplar of this idea (in the modern era) (we all pretend like Mass Effect 3 didn't happen lol). it's the only game I've ever played that felt like it could be a Neal Stephenson novel.
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Can you turn off Apple's "XProtect" feature? I don't think so.
That’s what’s so crazy, TPB doesn’t host or distribute any content. All they do is serve you a “magnet link” which means when you put “Titanic” in the search box they give you a string that uniquely identifies one specific copy of the movie. You then paste it into other peer-to-peer software.
When I started this project I also had that feeling that we were running out of trees.

But my motivation never was to alarm people that we were running out of them, my intention was to make actual deforestation data accessible and approachable to the public so they could decide how big of a problem this was. I have myself learned that I should probably worry less about it than I used to thanks to this bot, and that's fine.

I also think you are not seeing the big picture here. 30 years is pretty much just the minimum for the average tree to grow to a size where it can foster other biomass. On the bigger picture:

"Forests cover 31 percent of the world’s land surface, just over 4 billion hectares. […] This is down from the pre-industrial area of 5.9 billion hectares."

-Earth Policy Institute. http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C56/

1.9 billion hectares down in about a century and a half.

My viewpoint now is that there is a deforestation problem in the sense that we destroy forest dependant biomass faster than what it takes for it to recover, but we are still in the time window where the already made harm and the future impact of our deforestation can be reversed, from the viewpoint of Hansen et al we seem to have reversed the negative tendency in tree cover.
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Places without gravity don't have matter, which makes forming life hard to imagine.

Places with low gravity, such as Io, could easily form life just like Earth did, and would have an easier time to get spaceward if evolution ever got that far.
Totally agreed on the overall criticism of the typical mobile game model, but the specific example of Fortnite is at least not really pay-to-win (afaik the only arguments for buyable benefits in it are that some skins are harder to see than others, and that some "dance moves"/"emotes" can be used to duck behind cover?)
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Oh, did they add that? Interesting, do you happen to have a link with more details handy?

I remember some GPL projects having license exceptions to allow app store usage.
I have a sacred USB thumb drive with the Windows 10 installer on it. It is sacred because it took me hours to figure out how to make it bootable. If I recall, Microsoft's own tool for _expressly this purpose_ did not work (after having to set up a virtual machine to use it, etc. etc.), and was apparently a known problem.

I think it was WoeUSB that finally worked for me, not plain dd or Rufus or Apple's Boot Camp utility. Ventoy looks impressive, but unfortunately too many tools don't work.
I would disagree. Before iPhone, all the phone vendors and telecom vendors tried to create their own sketchy "platform".

Also I would say "apart from gamers, people just don't want it" is the same reaction as people who didn't understand what a "horseless carriage" would be used for when it was invented.
French unions bargain on behalf of the entire sector, and the government enforces the deals even for non-union workers. Comparisons between French unionization rates and US unionization rates are not entirely valuable.
I was very unimpressed with his democratic primary model, which he basically fine tuned every week when new data came in in order to get a result that was closer to his own preconceptions of the race.
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Ashton-Tate did it with Framework in 1984.

Though my memory is that it goes back a few years earlier to Valdocs on CP/M machines, but I can’t find any pictures on the intarwebs.
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BTW I can buy new and used games at GameStop
Does an AppleStop exist?

Let me tell you a little story about game call Tekken x Street Fighter. Back when I bought it was $40 from GameStop. But when you bought the physical game, 7 or 8 characters were locked until you paid for them digitally - another $15 in Sony’s “walled garden”. Guess what happened when you bought the game used? The next person still had to pay the $15. So sure you can buy the disc used but you can’t buy half the content.

Can I buy the Carlton dance on Fortnite used? Can I sell all of the virtual items I bought on Fortnite? Can I buy items and use them on the “Fortnite platform” without giving Epic a cut? Epic has just as much of a “monopoly” on the Fortnite platform as Apple does on iOS.

See how silly it sounds when you just arbitrarily use the term “monopoly”?
Can you share some examples of large infringements on freedom of speech that happened in well developed European countries?

Given the examples of police brutality related to protests that I've seen in the US just this year I doubt you'll be able to provide any examples that are more worrying than that.
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Military robots like drones are ironic because they are created essentially to force humans to work like robots in an industrialized social order. Why not just create industrial robots to do the work instead?

Nuclear weapons are ironic because they are about using space age systems to fight over oil and land. Why not just use advanced materials as found in nuclear missiles to make renewable energy sources (like windmills or solar panels) to replace oil, or why not use rocketry to move into space by building space habitats for more land?

Biological weapons like genetically-engineered plagues are ironic because they are about using advanced life-altering biotechnology to fight over which old-fashioned humans get to occupy the planet. Why not just use advanced biotech to let people pick their skin color, or to create living arkologies and agricultural abundance for everyone everywhere?

These militaristic socio-economic ironies would be hilarious if they were not so deadly serious. ...

Likewise, even United States three-letter agencies like the NSA and the CIA, as well as their foreign counterparts, are becoming ironic institutions in many ways. Despite probably having more computing power per square foot than any other place in the world, they seem not to have thought much about the implications of all that computer power and organized information to transform the world into a place of abundance for all. Cheap computing makes possible just about cheap everything else, as does the ability to make better designs through shared computing. ...

There is a fundamental mismatch between 21st century reality and 20th century security thinking. Those "security" agencies are using those tools of abundance, cooperation, and sharing mainly from a mindset of scarcity, competition, and secrecy. Given the power of 21st century technology as an amplifier (including as weapons of mass destruction), a scarcity-based approach to using such technology ultimately is just making us all insecure. Such powerful technologies of abundance, designed, organized, and used from a mindset of scarcity could well ironically doom us all whether through military robots, nukes, plagues, propaganda, or whatever else... Or alternatively, as Bucky Fuller and others have suggested, we could use such technologies to build a world that is abundant and secure for all.

So, while in the past, we had "nothing to fear but fear itself", the thing to fear these days is ironically ... irony. :-) ...

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The above is from: "Recognizing irony is key to transcending militarism" -- an essay I wrote in 2010: https://pdfernhout.net/recognizing-irony-is-a-key-to-transce...
Perhaps you could elucidate me as to how money given to a school to secure a spot for your child should reduce your taxable income by fraudulently categorizing it as a donation.

I’m pretty sure if I start deducting expenses from my taxable income that aren’t deductible, I would be accused of tax evasion and therefore stealing from all other taxpayers.
I got lost at the point where an easy Nat connects to a hard one. Ok, the hard one can reach the easy one with the info obtained from the stun server, but why does the easy one have to do port scanning on the hard one? if the easy one receives the packet from the hard one, just send a packet back to the source IP:port? the hard one should have created an entry in its Nat map and firewall at that point since it just sent data to the easy one. What am I missing?
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The difficulty is if the mirror itself is behind, Cloudflare's cache for that specific endpoint will be correct (functional, working) but out of date compared to another mirror.

Example: around the end of June this year the mirrors.kernel.org infra was failing to sync (DNS issues of some sort) the latest content, so your upgrade would appear to have no new packages because the stale content was a valid repo, when in fact there were many updates and other mirrors were in sync.
the way you wrote this comment, with the sources fully visable at the bottom, amazing. I will start doing this myself.
I bought a standing floor mat ($40) to use with my standing desk. Very comfortable and I can routinely stand for 6+ hours without feeling tired.
I think wadkar means part 2 - deep learning from the foundations - which you could do optionally after finishing the 'main' course.

It USED to live here: https://course.fast.ai/part2
but has disappeared, I reckon as part of the new course relaunch. Perhaps there'll be a new version of this part too?
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One doesn't have to resign in order to influence managers. In fact, it's easier to not resign. Simply tell management flat-out, in front of co-workers, when what they ask would amount to a crime or other ethical failing.

It's not pleasant, but it works. Akin to giving up a paycheck, this is certainly wagering one's wages. But keep in mind that we're not being mowed down by machine guns in the streets, either; we have nice workplaces and personable managers, and we should press that advantage.
Those are normally iso-hybrid files.

I.e. files that are at the same time a valid .iso and a valid disk image.

Basically you can add to a normal bootable .iso a MBR taking advantage of the fact that the MBR is first absolute (512 bytes) sector of the device whilst the CD/DVD bootsector is the 17th sector (2048 bytes).

A BIOS will chainload the MBR on hd-like devices (including USB sticks) or the CD/DVD bootsectors (on optical media), then Syslinux/Isolinux, or grub4dos or GRUB2 (among others) will do the rest (chainloading the kernel and initrd and boot the Linux.
That is exactly the design used in the Russian T-14 tank.
> No. We should not respond to tyranny by being a tyranny

How responding back by blocking companies is tyranny? Who had oppressed if TikTok it's blocked?

> is why Bin Laden and the terrorists won 9/11

How ??
Tut.by was down during 9-10 events, while telegram appeared to work with some kind of VPN workaround (Belarusian, but living in the USA)
Unlike rain there can be a causal relation between predictions to election results. I.e. voters (and campaigners) can react to predictions.
This is very straight forward in that the blockchain was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto to solve the Byzantine General's Problem, double-spending, and a decentralized ledger. We can go much deeper into what Bitcoin can do, but all other chains wishing to do other things this guy mentions always were a cheap piggy back on Bitcoin.

I'm here to tell you Bitcoin works, and does not need anything else. Bitcoin is not slow like many folks will tell you all day long, either. Bitcoin does not have high fees, either. Bitcoin is very sound "money," and not a great currency. If someone wishes to transfer money to someone else anywhere in the world, they simply tailor their fee to be low, and they send it for 40-60 cents and understand that it will confirm over the next day. (Yes, the mempool surges during times of heavy use, and yes it may take a little while longer, but just the same, millions of dollars can be sent with no third party for under $1 fee)
The time itself for this does not really matter, as this could never be done prior to Bitcoin. Ask those sending money home to the Philippines or folks who are unbanked how many days a wire transfer takes, and how many third parties take a massive chunk in fees. Nobody controls your money in Bitcoin, and nobody takes a fee. (Nobody is taking your money from a BTC fee, the paltry amount is paying into the system to keep the miners mining)

It's nothing else beyond this, and nothing else is needed.
Anyone can argue about this endlessly but Bitcoin solved it's problem it was designed for, and all else is just garbage tacked on by other people trying to strike it rich.

I have used Bitcoin regularly since 2011. I have purchased real, legal goods from folks in other countries over forums in escrow that could not be done otherwise without incurring very large fees. I've paid 30 people simultaneously with one multisend transaction, and one fee.

Everything else is irrelevant. Bitcoin is revolutionary. Just Bitcoin. It works and it works very well. You can continue to beat around the bush and apply fetishism all day, and Bitcoin still works the way it was intended.
It's too bad the apple story is the only one the public imagination latched on to. Newton was so much more than that. Granted a lot of his discoveries were hard to explain without math, but he deserves a lot more credit for human history.

I bet writers of children's stories had a hard time explaining Euler too.

But somehow they managed to insert Einstein into the public imagination. And almost no one I know understands the photoeletric effect or the theory of relativity. I myself have the vaguest of understandings.
Not sure about the resurfacing, but the concern is legitimate. When you're splitting atoms to get heat, the leftover smaller atoms have what's called nuclear afterglow. This afterglow is most hazardous the moment the reactor stops and slowly becomes less hazardous with time. In any case, a nontrivial fission power reactor vaporizing in atmo would be akin to atmospheric nuclear weapons tests from a radiological hazard POV. We've done stuff like that before in remote areas, but no one thinks it's a good idea.

To do it again, we'd have to basically convince ourselves that no matter what shot the plane down, the radiation containment system would survive the hit and the crash.
It definitely was super cool. The windows had types, could be resized, had titles, dropdown menus, and form controls. The editor had syntax highlighting. And most importantly (at least for me at the time), there was a language reference included with the help system which had hyperlinking, so you could click through pages about the supported syntax and various topics, gleaning a wealth of information. All on DOS!
The incomprehensible vastness in terms both time and space, combined with our own flittering existence, mean that even a universe utterly teeming with life would never see two advanced civilizations actually cross paths.
Thanks for the details! yea i picked up a generic chinese camera and did not at all like the required login to their servers... I’m not confident enough in my sysadmin skills to make sure this thing isn’t spying on me.

I’m considering spending 4x-5x the amount on better hardware..
Looks fun like that on iOS Prompt, too.

Must be looking for ANSI instead of VT100.

Mismatched emulator modes reminds me of BBS days.
Is culture software, or is culture the operating system?
Exactly democracies have lots of problems but they don't compare to the totalitarianism of China.
Excepting the user to have to clean cruft to install the software they want is a terrible philosophy and not in line with Unix at all, now you've created a situation where to install "sponge" you need to place 10 other random binaries onto your machine and know enough about the process to know to delete them...
These days, it takes me a moment to realize that term also stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
> If we put half the energy we use up arguing about Oumuamua into detecting more interstellar objects we would have the data to end this debate

This HN comment was just the motivation I needed to get off my computer and rededicate myself to polishing eighteen 1.32m gold-plated beryllium hexagonal mirror segments.
I agree regarding Amazon reviews.

What if there is an independent 3rd party company that is able to collate the reviews from verified purchases from different vendors like Amazon, Walmart, etc.

Not sure of the business model.
We are in fact, sadly there. Poe’s Law in action. I totally thought you were being sincere. I was becoming more indignant with each sentence!
Sometimes you’re obliged certain volumes. Maybe I don’t want 100 widgets night one. Dropshipper has the relationship with supplier and can drop ship me one unit.
The link for "Lovecroft" goes to the wrong page, and I can't find this tool (for mailing lists). Anyone know what it is or where I can learn more?
Don't try this at home, but IIRC from my mis-spent youth you can light the ammonia gas in a half-empty bottle of household ammonia solution and it will burn off quietly.

According to Wikipedia (which suggests that my memory may be faulty in this case):

"The combustion of ammonia in air is very difficult in the absence of a catalyst (such as platinum gauze or warm chromium(III) oxide), due to the relatively low heat of combustion, a lower laminar burning velocity, high auto-ignition temperature, high heat of vaporization, and a narrow flammability range."

Unlike nitrate compounds such as ammonium nitrate, ammonia contains no oxygen, and disassociates into hydrogen and nitrogen only.
I note that my core point, that you can't legislate other people's fun, is not tackled in your response.

Like, I mostly agree with you on the quality of many (maybe most) F2P games, but FIFA wastes your time far more than Candy Crush (and indeed, the people who buy sports games every year seem very strange to me).
you might also be interested in vimv and vimcp

https://github.com/thameera/vimv

https://github.com/danieldugas/vimcp
1. this only makes interfacing with C++ libraries safe, not with C or the C-ish subset of C++. So no C pointers without unsafe.

2. many C/C++ library bindings in Rust ship the C code with them, so no need to install the library, only the compiler.
> Are we expecting for Apple to always be 5 years ahead of Google on privacy features? Or did Google shift priorities with Android 10?

Good question! My personal impression is that Google, being primarily a tracking company, reluctantly added just enough privacy features for people not to flock to Apple. (I think people have grown more privacy-conscious over the past few years, and Apple has marketed their privacy features heavily.) Links like this [1], listing the iOS 14 privacy features that will arrive in late 2020, appear to still be ahead of what Google has done yet – and e.g. Facebook’s reaction to the cross-app tracking block appear to indicate that this isn’t something they’ve encountered from Google.

But being an iPhone user now, I of course notice more easily what’s happening in the Apple world than Google world. If you have an overview of new privacy features in Android, which aren’t in iOS, I’d be very happy to be proven wrong. I’d love to see a full arms race between Google and Apple on privacy, with both parties introducing novel features.

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-14-privacy/

> Does Apple still have special permissions for their own apps which allows them to run unobstructed, but other apps need to jump hoops with callbacks and other workarounds?

Unfortunately, yes. There is e.g. no way to get as reliable background sync with things like Nextcloud and Resilio as you do with iCloud, since there’s no “run in the background” permission. Not sure about this, but I don’t think any other app can take over the lock screen in the same way as Apple Maps. You can’t set a default browser than Safari, but I believe this is changing in iOS 14.

While I respect Apple for their stance on privacy and therefore use an iPhone, I do disagree with some of these missing permissions, and hope that a new round of anti-trust investigations may force them to open up on this.
What’s the emoji for “escalate to the Denver office for these issues, Chicago for those issues; otherwise I’m not here man”?

Because you see I had the palm tree emoji. AND a bit of text. Still got PMs and calls.

The emoji didn’t seem to matter.
This, so much.

It's only one person's experience, but over time I've learned to speak up when I hear plans that I don't agree with.

It can be surprising when you make a stance how much reasonable people are willing to hear it.
If it's not sold by and dispatched from Amazon, I don't wanna know about it.
Hey natcombs, OP here :) Just fixed up the link so it should point to github.com/thesephist/lovecroft which is the correct link! Thanks for pointing it out.
That viral email was complete junk from early in the pandemic
Disaster mitigation products and services. Tools that enable better management of things that go bad. Nat disasters are obvious but also think ransomware, medical disasters, covid of course. Think insurance but also detection, contact mapping, probability models for fires, resource dispatching, hedging for financial impact, remediation planning.

Disasters seem to be regrettably a growth market these days.