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"we can use type inference"

Technically you cannot use type inference in Common Lisp, only in a subset of the language. This is not hard to prove: you can embed a language for which general type inference is impossible (i.e. for which some expressions must have explicit type annotations), like System F, in Common Lisp. One of my complaints about Common Lisp is that the type system is really annoying when you have complex types.
Having had some time to reflect...

> Well, we can say firmly that physical ergonomics matter. Bigly.

Can we? I don't think that's the right lesson to take from the story. The story clearly establishes that physical ergonomics matter when split-second reactions matter under unusual G forces. I would be astounded if we didn't find that they matter less in the sort of situations most of us find ourselves in while coding. It could still be more than "bigly"; it could be very little. We can pull in other evidence and experience to try and make a determination, but that's no longer drawing lessons from the story.

I think application to software development tools involves asking whether we find, there, too a high dimensional space; and then recognize that, in such a space (where each is picked from independent distributions), we'll find that each of us is similar in a lot of ways, and pretty different in a few. It doesn't seem unreasonable that this would sometimes impact choice of tool.

As you say, teams are a crucial part of the production of software; it's vital that whatever tools are chosen, they mesh well where there is interaction between individuals.
Chrome's been doing it for a long time too, since version 53.
Somebody that continues to blame the victims for their troubles is NOT reformed.
> how can we work against this on a technical level?

Always on VPN on all devices? Clear cookies? As a side benefit, people will move away from Google too, Google does not like VPNs.
I think the Trans-Siberian rail still runs from Moscow to Beijing (with a link to the Trans-Mongolian rail at Ulan Ude or the Trans-Manchurian at Chita).

From Beijing it shouldn’t be too difficult to find a single link to Hanoi. And from Hanoi there is a single sleeper that runs to Ho Chi Minh (I’ve taken this one in the other direction back in 2008).

So if I’m not mistaken (or out of date) Moscow to Ho Chi Minh should be at most 3 connections (Ulan Ude/Chita, Beijing, and Hanoi).
outcomes in police interactions haven't gotten better.

By which metric?
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Humans have been “futzing with nature’s systems” and transforming or destroying ecosystems since the agricultural revolution, or before. This particular futzing is targeted, subject to careful scientific study, and if scaled out globally, has a fair shot at ending one of the greatest causes of human misery in the history of the world. What exactly are you concerned about?
>> I then discovered cars and started spending all my time and money on that.

Haha, cars seem to be a black hole for all the money people make.

>> I always wanted compilers, but could t afford Borland C++ which meant I was stuck with QBasic and older C/Pascal compilers thag could only make .com files. So my first purchase was Visual C++ 4. Programmed my ass off for a whole week.

Coming from a Java background, I couldn't have imagined people paying for a compiler. Times surely have changed!
Umm, didn't they work with Cambridge Analytica?
Chip and PIN cards are based on a PKI with the payment networks acting as CAs. Used by millions of people every day. https://www.cryptomathic.com/hubfs/docs/cryptomathic_white_p...
Could you cite some actual sources here?
No one at LockMart, Boeing, Northrop or whomever makes bombs today is losing any sleep over it anymore than all those Linux contributors here who made the NSA’s or Facebooks infrastructure be the best it can be.
In re Verisign, did you mean this:

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

Google had nothing to do with solving that problem.
The previous codebase was left at 68 ESR so the team could work on the new codebase. 68 ESR is now EoL. So now the question is do they try to spend time dragging the legacy release along into the future and continue to attrition users (FF mobile is already down to ~0.5% browser share) or bet that continuing to focus on the version based on the new codebase will yield better outcomes even if it doesn't have all of the features of the old version.
Yes, but in this case you can actually rotate those numbers easily without running into any issues, and on top of that they usually consume just one BIN per service.
Ask HN: How do Google calendar notifications work?
My work uses Google Calendar. I'm amazed that I always get notifications for meetings on time and in multiple mediums (i.e., email, push notification, etc).

How is a notification system like this built? I've been poking around for time-based event systems, but I don't think that's the right thing to look at.

Finally, how can you scale this? I'm just imagining a ton of distributed cron-y things, but I know that's naive.
I'm very curious why very smart law team in Apple allows banning Epic's account. This action would works bad for antitrust lawsuit.
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There's a really useful paper called Datasheets for Datasets about this sort of questioning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010
Thank you for your suggestions and suggested reads. Though I think the incentive to de-anonymise or get into stylometry is there only if the post has a larger impact on an organisation or individual. Most of the post on Vigyaa.io are personal in nature. I don't see why anyone will make the effort to figure out who has written it. The whole obfuscation is necesarry if one is blowing the whistle on someone or is posting something offensive. In either case the author will make their own effort to not let their writing style reveal themselves.

Would love to hear your prospective further.
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The "register account" flow also allows for user enumeration, but you don't hear people complaining about that security hole.
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I understand I can remove that. Do you think that MIT license makes sense for this (type of) project?
The original Reddit post somewhat overstated the nature of "several people expressed concern." Nobody told him outright that despite what he might think, he did not really know Scots. That one screenshot'd, anonymized conversation was the one time something like that happened in seven years - but that could very easily be read as a criticism of those specific translations, not of his work as a whole. It seems as if the Reddit OP was the first person to notice the editor's systemic incompetence and failure to understand the degree of his lack of fluency. So... no, I don't think he ever made this "second and bigger mistake", aside from general massive naivety. After being told explicitly now, he's certainly ashamed and horrified at wasting so much time on his own personal dialect of Scots.
In different countries, the same law with the same penalty has different rates of law-breaking, so you can't necessarily draw a clear line of "this works, this doesn't" in every country/case. Yes, being harsh can have results. Does that mean its results are better than a different tact? The evidence of one method alone doesn't show you that, you have to experiment or study the same situation with both methods.

There is evidence that, for example, treating prisoners more humanely and giving them trust and responsibility can lower recitivism rates, while there's also ample evidence to suggest that harsh fines and imprisonment for minor crimes creates greater recitivism. But this may vary by country and implementation.
Yeah but that's not the primary means of card number theft.
You can write an article about something from afar, but can't photograph it. Leaves you trying to find Creative Commons images or licensing something. Writer isn't paid enough to do that, I'm guessing.
This is a very, very complex question.

To start of with, the belief that only plagiarised work can be copyright infringing is incorrect, at least when it comes to Australia.

A lot of reverse-engineering work is not done inside Australian borders, because the current interpretations of copyright law aren't favourable (as well as some other related laws).

For example, if there exists a proprietary protocol, then the protocol itself may fall under copyright, and simply making a tool that speaks to that protocol may be considered infringing. This is because our copyright laws, or rather the interpretations of them, speak to the 'substance' of the tool being copyrighted, rather than the work itself.

(And yes - copying a painting copies the 'substance' and can run afoul of our insane copyright regulations. Depending on how much the original artist cares.)

As I said before, vague and far-reaching. And the courts have never been consistent in the way they hand down their case-by-case judgements.

Australia is not well known for intelligent tech laws. Iterating public IDs can be considered hacking, forcing a secret backdoor isn't considered a systemic security weakness, etc.
So that is what Kip was doing in Italy while being on the lam from the law. He is really dedicated. I wonder if San Quentin allowed him to code while he was incarcerated.
If I got a dollar every time I heard that ... Id had like 6 dollars now.
I think most of us work in software. Asking for consent isn't hard.

Telemetry won't tell you nobody wants a feature you haven't implemented yet. User research might.
> Founders deserve the credit for their startup's success not the VCs.

That varies. Often founders are truly independent. Occasionally a founder is a glorified employee of the main investor. In these cases the investor may also bring customers, technology, and/or employees, but the products tend to be less interesting.

I only bring it up because it’s an interesting thing I didn’t expect until I participated in SV.
Like many of the comments in the article said, I don't think this would be safe. Diamonds can be shattered and they do burn.
Best way to get people to do the right thing: pay them to do it.
Like Bryan Cantrill?
Pollarding(removal of the upper branches of a tree, which promotes the growth of a dense head of foliage and branches) seemed pretty responsible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding
I'm continually stunned at how many people believe this obviously false fact. The USPS is not required to fund 75 years worth of pension payouts. They are required to set aside money to pay the pension liabilities they have incurred.
That is why Kip goes by his middle name now. He also moved from California to Washington.

This was big news in SF Bay Area when it happened. It was FreeBSD's Hans Reiser moment.

Another gem, Kip kicked one tenant in the chest while he was sitting on the couch and threatened him with a gun.

I am curious if he ever reimbursed his parents after they drained their retirement savings and offered their house as collateral to pay for his $500k bail, which was forfeited after Kip and his wife Nicole decided to skedaddle to Europe instead of appearing in court. Kip continued to work on FreeBSD while on the lam in Italy with full knowledge of the core team, with many members actually defending his behavior. Kip and Nicole also never showed for the civil trial and lost by default.

The original plea deal offered by the DA, before they absconded, was 6 months in county jail with charges reduced to misdemeanors. Instead, both were sentenced for 4 felonies and got 4.5 years (reduced for good behavior), with Kip ending up in San Quentin -- a maximum security prison housing California's death row.

I remember ABC News did an interview with Kip while he was incarcerated and he blamed his tenants for all his troubles. At least he can no longer (legally) possess a gun since he is a convicted felon.
Ah, here's the real explanation! Interesting.

I wonder how big the incentive is, and if anything changed to enable this. As for the incentive, I'd guess they get transaction fees cut from some ~2.75% to 0.5%ish with their own card, and then some kind of additional cash (maybe $50-$300?) from the issuing bank for gaining a customer?
19 instead of 16? That's better but seems too little for the long run.
any usb gadget should require root, otherwise there are serious security issues. my concern with drivedroid is that it is closed source, which is highly worrisome for a root app.
Amazon could also afford to fill the Panama canal with dirt and reunite the American continents, but why would they? A dozen angry (potential) customers on HN is hardly motivation.
> when they hide what they are doing from their voters

This is literally the premise of clandestine agencies, and it’s not a new concept. They’ve been around for 50 years now. This isn’t some bait-and-switch, voters have always known what a clandestine agency is.

I understand that there exists some voters who don’t believe that clandestine agencies should exists. Unfortunately, such voters are in the minority. And unfortunately the majority of Americans find clandestine agencies (and in general, a strong defense) to be “socially useful”.
One thing we’ve been able to leverage with cryptocurrency is that the “wallets“ have standardized some public-private key cryptography.

So some aspects of our products dont “need a blockchain for this” but the proliferation of standardized signing tools and size of the niche has made it extremely viable to cater to that market.

PGP had 30 years to get anywhere, and all we have are some pretty bad, cumbersome businesses releasing poorly integrated signing software on modern OS’ that even privacy advocates can barely tolerate for their email and other messages. People want to try to say the same thing about cryptocurrency over half of a decade or a whole decade but they’ll just have to wait for the Ivy league business school case studies to start coming out about the rest of us that have already figured this out for business.

Turns out changing consumer behavior isn’t hard when there are economic incentives to do so that benefit the consumer.
Yes, they still haven't caught up to what extensions could do as of 2016. Like remapping controls without waiting for a tab to load.
Google pushing this does more to normalize the practice than anybody in this thread who 'tinkered with an equivalent idea a few years ago' or whatever.
I know this isn't necessarily a logic-based conclusion...

My first thought was "Chief Medical Officer? Huh? No. Thanks. I smell bs."
I should be clear, that's a reaction to pages like this one:

https://web.dev/web-bundles/

There are similar ones.

These are suggesting people want to share or access web sites in some other way than links. I don't think that's true in any significant way.

> ...they want the things they can do with that technical feature...

I agree. But the problem with all of the alternative transport scenarios is they have the user managing transport through some additional actions on their part. People couldn't care less about HTTP. What they like about it is they click/tap or copy/paste a link and that's it. Additional steps, like going through a specialized UI to share files via bluetooth is not going to interest very many people. That web site actually suggests people may want to share/access their website through the sneaker-net. That's just not a very important scenario.

To take your photo sharing example. That could be done using a web bundle. But it could be done in a variety of ways that would look the same from a user perspective. Keep in mind a network (with servers) is needed to share the data, whether there's a web bundle or not. So the remote servers are there, regardless.
A billion requests-per-day is not much actually.
1B / (24h * 60m * 60s) = 11.5K qps

Let's say 2:1 between daily peak and trough, and call that 23K qps peak.

10 years ago a single server could do 30Kqps of DNS:

https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/shared/DNS_performance...

So ~40 boxes 10 years ago would have been able to handle 60 billion queries per day.

I'd expect a single modern server of reasonable size to easily do 100K qps, and probably more like 200-300K qps, if not exceeding a million qps (though a single box may hit the packet/s bottleneck).

So Verisign is complaining about a single digit to low double digit server box worth of traffic.
I have a hard time imagining this being more than a rounding error for them.

EDIT: Updated to directly reflect 60B queries per day figure.
can you share the name of the insurance?
True for small tech companies, but major tech companies routinely flaunt CA loopholes to lay claim all sorts of employee-produced IP, and prevent moonlighting. If an invention is similar to something your company makes or might one day make (which could encompass anything for a major tech company), then they can lay claim to it and prevent you from moonlighting working on it.
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This.

Use a complex password never written down just like you do with a master password for a password manager.

Also set it to wipe your phone after 10 tries so that thieves can never obtain your details like this.
If only dentist would follow this practice
I see the applications/overlap with driving down the costs/size of multi-mode precision-guided munitions: guided missiles and drones that use a mix of laser, radar, and infrared sensing for all-weather accuracy. I'm not really a hardware guy but I'd love to prototype something Spike-sized with COTS sensors, then try to setup a factory in a developing nation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAVAIR_Spike
This is Japan we are talking about - a place where many people still rely on fax machines.
My Citi card comes with a desktop app that can generate new numbers for online payments all the time. Beyond one-time use, I can generate a number that will work only with ‘x’ company for ‘x’ number of months. When I saw that, I assumed Citi+MasterCard must have at least 10,000s of times more numbers than customers
the us has had nfc and chip for years. we still support swiping too. your statement was true for a few short years when europe did chip first. which was much easier there, since credit cards were not as common, and didn't exist since 1950 like in america.

we don't use a pin, because that doesn't help with fraud. most fraud is either online, or someone at the store, who can easily skim or see your pin. online you can use 3dsecure, which has a pin.

processing a transaction doesn't mean your money's gone. you can dispute any fraud charge for 2 months. so the pin doesn't do anything. and for bank accounts, where it's debit, and your cash is immediately taken out, we've had a pin since before europe had an atm card.
Pocket replaced Reading List. I only mentioned bookmarks because they said there was no reason to complain about Pocket any more than bookmarks.

Why would using Pocket for bookmarks be a terrible experience, out of curiosity? Pocket doesn't have folders but Firefox makes tagging bookmarks easier than using folders anyway.
I’d recommend tests, also you may be able to return the promise directly instead of wrapping it in essentially a promise constructor. It could also be more efficient with an (ordered) set or linked list instead of an array. Otherwise looks fine but I’ll keep using rxjs ;p you should check it out. If you search my name on YouTube I made a whole playlist. The official docs are good too.
No one has or likely will. Mozilla might not be perfect but they are the only ones who give half a shit about an open web.
Isn't that kind of the point of most public infrastructure though? That its losses can be subsidized because the net economic gain and overall improvement to people's lives is worth it? How many companies depend the "loophole" of roads and public transport being publicly subsidized in order to operate in any capacity whatsoever?
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What does this do to users of PiHole?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea...

A similar story that I found absolutely amazing is the story of the screwworm and its eradication from the US. Not the whole world, mind you (which feels foolish long term).

I am not trying to make a point. This discussion made me think of it and I wanted to share.
We don't know how old the author's mother was when she died. My grandfather died of cancer at 79. While it was sad (and I still feel sad when I think of it) I wouldn't ever describe it as a 'tragedy'.

Only commenting because I feel this word is overused these days.
> If I want only monitored stuff I may as well switch to Google...

I was thinking this to myself. I use firefox on android because I have a set of addons that I refuse to browse the web without. If firefox can't run the addons I want, I might as well switch to the builtin browser instead.
> The entire idea of your infrastructure not being tied to your provider is completely lost when you are at any type of scale

Pretty categorical statement and I don’t find this to be true at all if you avoid using anything managed except block devices and vms themselves. That is unless “any type or scale” is tens of thousands of VMs and petabytes of storage in which case it is indeed a moot endeavor since someone who is still on public cloud at that point apparently likes to give all their money to cloud vendors anyway.
Totally unrelated but my current favorite breakfast is a peanut butter banana milkshake. < 2 mins prep, well balanced and doesn't ruin your tastebuds. Add some protein powder if needed. The bestest breakfast on earth.
While this is even more true for consoles, the difference is in a specific purpose vs a general purpose.

General purpose platforms that become overly closed have roundly been rejected or been forced to open up: Carterfone, AOL, Windows, carrier locked phones, etc.. even iOS itself didn't allow apps at first and now does.

Closed platforms for a specific purpose like consoles, kindles, rokus, etc.. do a bit better because they are 1) more likely to have competitors, and 2) have more limited impact from being specific purpose platforms, though are still capable of maintaining monopolies/duopolies.

The phone market is a iOS/Android duopoly, and both are being forced to open up more. Hardly surprising.
> it's obviously because of racism so feel free to riot

Posting flamebait on inflammatory topics will get you banned on HN too, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a straight up ponzi scheme.
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Either the payments aren't enough to cover everything or the service wants to make more.

Anyways, the only "theory" is that costs need to be paid, and you can't have no ads and no payments and expect that to work.
You were the one who brought it up to support your argument. Your argument doesn't seem to rest on what the public preception is but in what is actually happening.

So yes i would say the veracity of the statement is relavent here.
Is there any way to get this to work with spatial audio instead? I bought a $99 device that adds head tracking aiming to simulate surround sound audio by tracking my head movement, but they no longer support their software and it's super buggy!
What, like, tear gas people for a photo op in front of a church the cunt ain't never even been in?
Hi,
Great Job, but When I tried to validate my account the page says "Not Found The requested resource was not found on this server."
The more abstract the benefits are to consumers, the more even a little friction becomes hard to overcome when changing behaviors.
Have you ever considered that you might be the problem?

When I was younger I may have written a very similar comment about some places I've worked... and while I still agree that the environment wasn't my cup of tea... my intolerance of others was a bigger problem.