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The mosquitos that cause malaria are invasive and not native to Florida. Eradicating them is returning the environment to it’s pre invasive state.
This "random capriciousness" is perhaps the primary concern which keeps me from developing for Apple systems.

If I invest my own time and capital into developing a product, which can only be sold through a single outlet, and which could be arbitrarily banned at any point in time, that's simply too much risk to bear. Apple, as the arbiter of what is sold through their store, have far too much power. Why would I put full control of my business into their hands? I, for one, wouldn't.

Multiple competing stores are the solution to most of the problems. It would certainly de-risk selling on Apple platforms. And it would allow for proper competition over pricing. Customers could purchase from the store which provided the most value. As would allowing "sideloading" so that users who wish to have proper control over their own property.
I know, I just like using Python "None".

I'm not asking about an opinion news, I'm asking about people's opinion about it. Example you can respond: "Biden is in great mental health and doesn't seem to be deteriorating compared to Trump".

Please no amp links.
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looks like an opportunity for an SV unicorn startup to revolutionize shipping.
It's definitely All Cops Are Bastards.
I find it informative that you want to fuck "him" over with intentional planning for the continued oppression of women.
Also ivp4 in the sense that they have 16 digits, but have reserved 6 for card type and similar minutia. If they used all 16 digits, they'd have billions and billions of numbers available.
Genes don’t “jump” like that.
Why would anyone be 'for that'?

Defunding the police in high crime areas will only result in more crime.

Most Black communities are underpoliced, not overpoliced, and they don't get a response often enough when they call 9/11.

So many areas have called for 'more policing' - we saw this in the UK/London where crime rates came up in the last 24 months due to cuts in policing.

What we want are police that avoid having to shoot people necessarily.
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How do you handle on call?
This is a good article and it would be great if people felt an obligation read the source papers more, but the nature of sensationalist journalism and gamified social media means in all practicality they never will. The journalist gets views by writing stories that fit into an emotional narrative regardless of the actual facts. Social media gives users reinforcement for telling people what they want to hear. That echo chamber drowns out everything else. There is almost no room for nuance anymore.
Of course they do. But they want police, people that are professional and courteous and a net positive for the society they operate in. Not the power tripping racist scum that seems to make up a good portion of the police in the USA (and; unfortunately; elsewhere as well).

Police is a good thing when implemented properly, and a dangerous component that can easily get out of control when allowed to.
Kind of. The federal rate is 25% for long term holding. But it’s at that higher income tax rate for holding less than a year. In the best case for a CA resident it will be 25% + 13%. But the worst case is as described.
After recently re-watching the original Jurassic Park, I definitely agree with you :)
Not give a slice of the paid subscription pie to videos containing ads.
See Plan.io
I was excited to look at the company, but turns out they pivoted away from doing log processing :(
> Why would Google have hosting everything on their domain be an end goal?

To become the internet! Much like AOL was in the past, kind of like how Facebook is now. Each of the big tech corps is trying to set up a walled garden that you never leave.

In the beginning, Google Search was not a destination, it was merely the way to find your destination. But now a large percentage of searches never actually leave Google. The data is re-presented by Google Search.

Google has a search engine, DNS, browser, email service, office suite... oh yeah, and a mobile platform. All of which have millions or billions of users. They just need to host web sites too in order to create their own web-on-the-web. The Google Internet. It's about controlling the entire "experience".

Think about it: the web is supposed to be "free" (as in freedom), but increasingly web site owners have to design everything around Google: ranking high in Google Search, having the right format for AMP, rendering "correctly" in Google Chrome. Even being forced to adopt https (read Dave Winer on that issue) or be erased.
Really depends on the country. And in a country could friend on the city. For example, in the Soviet Union, Moscow was off limits to the people who did not have a permanent place to live (as registered in the internal passport). They were forced out but not necessarily imprisoned, just moved to "the 101st kilometer" (outside the 100 kilometer zone, that is). I think Leningrad was like that too. Even in the USSR it was uneven: Russian and I think Ukraine were like that, the Baltic republics were not, not sure about Central Asia.

These are all historical anecdotes, nothing more. No claim about it being or not being intrinsic to the socialist society etc.
This is his private life. It has nothing to do with your allegations of "bigot", "liar", etc.

If this is your references, you end up having denigrated him.

About your allegation of J. Cousteau having protected marine life "by blowin' it", it is his work that has raised the current awareness of the richness and fragility of marine life. Compare his positive achievements at the scale of the whole planet (or at least Western world) versus some small part of a coral reef he blew up.
I don't think that's so unusual. I've often seen interns get the kind of cool, scoped and unordinary task where half of the team was like "damn, I wish I could've done that" - but the reason is usually very boring.

- it's not guaranteed to succeed at all
- it's not important enough to put someone on it for a few weeks or even 3 months
- it's not touching production code
- it's a greenfield project where you can let them start and not have them understand your huge code base

Yes, this may not be true for the ones listed there, but for example the Wireshark analyzer is probably used for debugging, so it would be "better than nothing" even in a half-baked state and then can be improved gradually. The scheduling thing can at least be tested beforehand, and rolled back. Scoped and usually low-risk, doesn't mean not interesting or not hard.
A scan of Lobachevsky's work, as republished in western languages:
http://books.e-heritage.ru/book/10070448

Lehrer's technique here was a common Cold War trope: one daren't mention any second-world achievements directly in english works, but cloaked in enough pejoratives they'd slip past the censorship of the crowd, while people who could evaluate for themselves did.

Looks like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobachevsky_Prize has suffered some endo-mathematical drama recently.

- the inspirational Danny Kaye sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXI2djKeerQ

- and, lest anyone worry about the exhaustivity of my case analysis, Bergman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIk_A115Src
("the squaw of the hippopotamus")
If you use a Firefox sync account and then switch browsers after they have detected you haven't logged in to the account for a while they will send you actual spam trying to get you to switch back.
I am looking at with a different perspective:

I am thinking Apple is like a union for their users. And they are regulating developers and they have huge negotiating power because they are gateway to user’s phone. I don’t see them as market participant, I more likely see them as market regulator.
I would say the negative perception extends pretty far past unix-like tech circles, now at least.
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In English speaking countries, sure - why not.

But it'd take at least 3 generation to use in non-english speaking country since in different languages same letters might be pronounced vastly different. Then you have immigrants and foreigners who might now know this alphabet so clerks would still be able to recognize ad-hoc and NATO alphabet. In the end, it would extend requirements while not providing universal benefit.
What exactly is your solution?

If you're talking about reparations, I think you might find that the math doesn't really work in this case.
GF paid 18K on student loans last year, but only 2500 deductible on her taxes.

I had 28k in margin interest last year, 100% deductible.

US is greatly skewed to the rich
It may be annoying if one is not used to take care about own transactions safety and is willing to shift this responsibility to some other entity - of course this convenience has a cost.
Yeah, removing 3000tons of fertilizer with typical truck would take 8 years if you could steal one ton daily every single day. Can you imagine stealing one ton every single day? Also in 2015 bags were already ripped, so probably very hard to lift with forklift and probably already in one solid piece, so no shoveling. Stealing all of this would required big organised action with too much bribery. I don't say nothing was stolen, but probably less than 10 tons over 5 years.
There is nothing wrong to sacrifice your freedom to convenience, it is like living in the city and delegating protection to police, or living in the wild and taking care of yourself.
Because you think of it as a computer? Where as most of their think of it as a smartphone and don't give a thought to a root user or wonder why they need it. Eliminating a huge security risk that has been a bane for general computers for all time.
Just lost my HN account thanks to this update. I can't remember the password and my firefox logins have not been migrated. Apparently I was supposed to disable the master password before the upgrade. Silly me...
Aside: I think you can unlearn riding a bike to some extent - or any deeply ingrained actions; but it seems you need a similar activity. If you switch the gearing so you pedal backwards, and the handle bars to move opposite, then ride that bike until it becomes second nature (years probably) .. now get on a normal bike, you'll have to learn to ride it again. You've "unlearned".

I've had this experience recently with a video game: played for a decade, switched to another game for a few months, moved back to first game - unlearned the controls (instinct is to use controls of second game). Interestingly now I've re-learned my ability seems to have improved.

I think it works with optical illusions too: sort term as well, if my kids are anything to go by (they might have misreported seeing the illusion - eg lady in hat|hag with big nose).

N=1~, but across various activities. I'm a bit older, so brain plasticity is not what it used to be.
Moon Pools have been the cool thing since at least 1989. Can't have a water tentacle in your habitat without a moon pool.
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thanks. I've not been back for over 7 years, and that could have changed. I worked retail, and a few banks supported contactless at the time, but not many people actually had it (or perhaps not many used it).
That's where our ignorance comes into play. We have no idea. It may even be a spectrum where some functions are more important than others but almost everything has a degree of effect on cognition. Brains don't play by the same rules as computers.
I’m from Austria, so I speak german, but I don’t think we buffer. We guess through out the sentence what the next part might be and slowly move that assumption to the final meaning of the sentence. That’s why I have to reread a sentence, when I was wrong. Same principle as in jokes.
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15 digits can make for 1,000,000,000,000,000 different card numbers, leaving 16th digit for checksum. This is a completely made-up problem, caused by chopping the number into card type, bank id, etc.
Humvees and tactical cops make up a tiny fraction of policing costs.

Most policing is just policing,

The 'tactical cops' should be punted for reasons other than cost obviously, but that's not it.

This is exactly the OP's point - it's 'luxury thinking'.

Usually when police presence goes down, crime goes up. We see this in London over the last few years.

We want more, better, police in rough ares, not less.

And good jobs, obviously, parents with stability create better conditions for their kids.
Ask HN: Is it possible to verify a phone without SMS or a call?
Hi,

I am curious why there are no well-known services that replace phone verification despite the fact that so many products spend much money on verification of their users' phones...

I see two possible directions of solutions:

1. Technological: deep understanding of android and ios possibilities to somehow connect to user's sim-card and verify phone. Or in general, doing it with any other protocol or request that does not require a call or SMS.

2. Iterative with existing options: to create a product that tries verifing via sending free imessage (if it is iOS). If it doesn't work, it tries verifing via What's up and so on. If nothings works, it uses the most expensive way - sending SMS.

Can you, please, recommend some technologies or services that are now state-of-the-art solutions of this problem?
Yeah, you know.

This might not be the best move, right after they had to let go so many developers.
I love this comment deeply, because it is a view into someone else's world, someone who is chipping away at real problems and making "the future" happen. A future where more people are saved from death through incredible-yet-easy-to-use technology.

Kudos for advancing the human race.
> You'll be literally voting for the person who sent _thousands_ of people to prison for relatively minor offenses and kept them there for slave labor, and the guy who wrote the laws under which she had done so.

Actually I wont, as I'm not a US citizen / don't live in the US. But I certainly think it's a valid criticism that the two party system leaves little choice in elections. I live in the UK where it's not quite so bad, but a proportional electoral system is still #1 on my list of political desires.
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Last week there was that opponent of Putin who got poisoned and was sent to a hospital in Omsk and I was like: "Why do I know the name of that random Russian city ?".
You'd think youtube would be onto this, as a service to the community...
>Without review, publishing an app with a sandbox bypass, or simply abusing entitlements, becomes trivial.

A sandbox that can be trivially bypassed is simply broken.

Granted, it's not easy to define what apps should and shouldn't be able to do within the sandbox. Permissions systems are difficult to get right. But whatever the rules are, they must be enforceable.
Five cards per person is less than a billion cards, vs a quadrillion possible combinations of 15 digits. A drop in the bucket
Many so called "enlightened people" will discard any data that doesn't fit with their opinions if that opinion is seen as virtuous/fashionable.
Not sure how much of a news story it is. I also want to build the ISS of the sea, I always did. Now, I don't have a famous granddad with whom I share my last name, but even if I did it's not like it's enough to build ISS of the sea.

The article is written in a very dreamy tone and contains very little substantial information. It firmly assures that "Proteus will be" such and such, as if they are making the finishing touches already, yet "Proteus is still in the concept phase". "Fabien is raising $135 million" (which, TBH, seems quite a conservative estimate for this project on the one hand, and on the other is a pretty huge investment for something that doesn't have any ROI projections attached), but there's no discussion about what else except for his surname this Fabien guy actually has to have any chances to succeed.

So, yeah, I would prefer if journalist learned to provide something more factual and informative in their stories, instead of telling me how cool deep-sea exploration is. I know it's cool, alright? I don't know if a project like that can actually happen in the observable future.
If you need that kind of memory bandwidth you'll probably know already, and maybe this will even look cheap.

HBM not only has lotsa bandwidth(tm) but also much better latency?
But if the seller doesn't fulfil their end of the bargain, the bank will do a refund AND the seller will be kicked out of the system or prosecuted if they're actually defrauding people.

Banks have developed and signed off on the ideal system; THEY are saying the system is safe, therefore THEY are responsible if something goes wrong with your payment.
Pod 6 is jerks!
> I also think that crafting positive, uplifting messages requires a certain level of societal support.

The opposite of guilt-tripping is not "positive, uplifting." Let's take a contemporary example:

Guilt-tripping: "when you don't wear a mask you're KILLING grandma."

Positive, uplifting (and also BS): "those new designer masks are so cute and trendy!"

Using social proof without guilt tripping: "as more and more people make the effort to wear mask, we stand a chance to stop this deadly disease."
For my bank, I scan a QR code in the bank app. Then, on the phone it shows me who I'm paying, how much, and an appove or deny button. It also allows me to select the account that the money will actually come from.
Being smart makes confirmation bias worse because you can reason yourself into believing your confirmation bias away.
Nah, think again, in either the merchant's or bank's perspective: how can they tell you are really who you claimed to be? That's the core question and why all the hustle. And again, even some design can perfectly solve that problem, there are additional problems to resolve: how to implement that change with reasonable cost, within reasonable time frame and with good user experience? And most importantly, does not break existing facilities. That's exactly how we get into the current situation, there are simply too much historical burden and while someone is trying to make things better, there maybe more organizations are putting sh*ts into it. For example, I really don't know if there were any banks ever used 5 digits PIN, but there are POS machines only accept 5 digits.
Overdoses is far more of a problem of poorly regulated supply than use. You don't see the heroin users with a clean, stable supply that they can afford very often because they're mostly functioning members of society who hold down jobs, and they rarely OD or are on the streets any more than you see alcohol users as typical wrecks - you see the small portion of the worst of the worst. The popular image of a heroin addict is a complete fabrication that only works because so few people are aware of heroin use among people they know.

Heroin is by no means a good drug to get dependent on, but it is vastly more dangerous when users don't have a stable, clean supply. And a typical heroin addict could satisfy their addiction for $10-$20/day with medical grade heroin. We know this because the UK NHS buys heroin both for addiction management and for post-op pain management in some hospitals as an alternative to morphine.

So your "extreme" solution isn't extreme at all, in fact, and it's a massive shame that politicians still rarely dare address this.
Heroin prescription to addicts tends to not just improve their quality of life massively, but also reduce crime substantially, because it frees addicts from having to try to finance their addiction.

As for the opioid epidemic in the US, blame Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin, and the Sackler Family who owned it and leached it dry before the company was forced to settle claims over OxyContin and went into bankruptcy. Basically they're some of the biggest drug lords in the world.

Purdue Pharma extensively misrepresented how to prescribe OxyContin to make more money, in a way that left people dependent. That's a far bigger reason for the opioid epidemic than illegal drug sales. The rise in illegal opioid use is a consequence, not a cause.

The rise in heroin use in the US is largely because heroin is cheaper than black-market oxycodone a lot of places, and so people who have had their OxyContin prescriptions cut, which idiotically often happen when they exhibit signs of dependency, instead of helping them off it, often end up transitioning to heroin.
Direct debits have all of the dangers of credit cards and then some - you have to give out a numeric identifier, and unlike a credit card that number allows pulling directly from your bank account.
People aren't idiots. If you're just replacing "you're wrong" with doublespeak people are gonna figure it out real quick. There is no substitute for engaging in Quality(TM) communication with people even if the end result is disagreement.
Couple that with the fact that these protesters have been violent toward white people, their own race or historical government properties (statues).

I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump re-elected.
I can’t imagine it’s the most attractive job. Most people with options are going to do something else.

The pay is generally ok in a lot of places but it’s a job where you’re going to work bad hours early on and for the most part you’re dealing with the uglier side of society. Your whole world view is going to be shifted negatively as you encounter so many people with drug issues, mental issues, violent people, etc.

Who would want that? Who would want to spend their life interacting with this part of society day in and day out? I can only assume for many that take that job that it’s the best they can do.

I interact with thoughtful, nice people every day to the point where I take it for granted. I’m not exposed to the desperate, degenerate, or depraved part of society. And I wouldn’t want to be.
If he complained about not being able to breathe beforehand, and they responded the way they did instead of calling an ambulance, that makes it worse, not better.
There are various types of architects, such as dat architects, software architects, solutions architects, etc. These also vary between companies and seniority.

For example, at my company a data architect helps a project by reviewing the data they plan to use and suggesting where to store it and how to structure the data. They might review a team's plan and provide suggestions. The data architect also might help a team if they are having trouble getting the data they need.

We also have software architects that review projects and consult for the project teams to ensure that the proposed system architecture follow best practices and be efficient. So they might recommend using SNS+SQS instead of just SQS because they see a future need for other projects to access those messages and they could all subscribe to the SNS topic then poll their own SQS that is fed by a filtered subscription to that SNS topic.

Here is a general link for solutions architect. https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/solution-architect/
The first iteration of the aforementioned EU directive was published in 2005 [1]. Before that, individual countries had tightened their individual rules.

The Wikipedia page on money laundering [2] details the consequences of 9/11 on regulation quite well. The keyword there is the "Financial Action Task Force", whose recommendations the EU directive aimed to implement.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering#History
The barrier is of course much higher for the consumer to take on such a case.