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QUIC is what happens when corporations define standards so their own services can be run cheaper. The transport layer shouldn't be 'aware' of what it is transporting. It shouldn't be a gigantic heap of things, even if those things in the heap sound nice (like encryption baked in). It is already impossible for anyone but Google (or another mega-corp) itself to make a browser that works with "modern" sites. This piles on to that.

It is, despite the partial liberation from Google itself by the ietf, still a google attempt to control what HTTP and the web are. Google should not. Protocols should be generic. Layers should layers not just squashed all into one so youtube videos pull up faster on your mobile phone. There's more to the web, and the internet, than fixing mobile latency issues.
Love the idea of organizing different genres of YouTube videos like this. Makes browsing feel a bit more about quality and less about what has the most recent views
I did something very similar with Drupal in the past. Everything was in the underlying forum, but it was possible to promote some topics to homepage with full text and create RSS feeds for those. The site since has been shut down, but I think it was a neat solution.
This definition of censorship is bad and must be changed.

Large general-purpose platforms should be forced do distribute all content which is not otherwise illegal, and only perform removal based through the standard legal system.
Kindly take this as a devils advocate post before you reflexively downvote.

It looks like letting people say anything they want on major social media platforms is only having one major positive effect: a few advertising companies are becoming very rich.

The negative effects include:

- incited violence (gang-oriented gun crime in Chicago is often fanned by social media posts for example)

- bad medical decisions (vaccine/COVID misinformation)

- cancel culture/political manipulation (people taking other people's posts as facts when they are not)

I would like to uphold the principle of free speech and forcing social media providers to be free speech agents even though they are private companies, but it's starting to get hard to defend. I am losing faith that strict adherence to free speech is going to result in a smarter, happier humanity. It might be better if less people speak their mind.
Also in many cases I am allowed to proceed with the +, but never receive confirmation emails because the sending system chokes.
how can you be an open source advocate and still work with adobe & friends? - no question on the quality/productivity of those, just on your argument.

A more consistent argument would’ve been: “open source advocate, Gimp, Inkscape and others run even better on my mac than on linux” (would disagree on that, but at least it would be a more consistent argument)
If you want to build an SDR for HF frequencies that plugs into a soundcard check out the ZetaSDR http://www.qrz.lt/ly1gp/SDR/
Earlier footage indicates the first man shot was attempting to start a fight with the militiamen, but there's a gap in the timeline where nobody was filming before the fight broke out.

The NYT has a very good article on the subject (and I'm a man who's very critical of the NYT)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenos...
https://github.com/Tarsnap/scrypt

Side note, I've seen a number of places (including the Scrypt repo) compare bcrypt brute-force benchmarks without specifying the bcrypt work factor.

It's very frustrating to see this, considering the time to compute a single bcrypt hash can be < 0.01 seconds (ie. work factor 7 or 8), or more than 1 minute (ie. work factor 20).

I'm not familiar with scrypt, but it looks like instead of providing a work factor, you can provide inputs like "max time to compute hash" and "max percent of ram to use computing hash" which presumably scales up as hardware becomes more powerful?
Is allowed under some interpretation of the first amendment. It is not allowed by the first amendement per se.
It's the side effect of allowing a small number of largely unregulated companies to control so much of our communications. TV and radio using public right-of-ways like radio bands are much more tightly regulated to ensure "equal time". That's not the case for social media or mobile platforms and I suspect any attempt to regulate those would be met with a great deal of resistance. Not the least complaint would be that regulation has a history of keeping small players out, potentially further cementing the monopoly of a few companies. I don't know the answer to any of this, but I think it's something that will need to have an answer if our democracy is to survive.
Try Macs Fan Control or TG Pro, you can set custom fan curves.
I just switched my laptop to windows after being on linux for three years and have used three different distros
But now i just want to settle on one thing that just runs out of the box i think I’m gonna go with macbook
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
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Welcome to Linux! ;)

I have been using as my sole OS (except for some very occasional gaming on Windows) for 10 years. The longer you use it, the happier you become with your setup imo.

There is a very detailed blog post about my setup that has grown over the years: https://tkainrad.dev/posts/setting-up-linux-workstation

It is about Ubuntu, but many sections apply to all distros. The most important productivity boost for me has been to switch from Bash to Zsh. Mainly because of some great plugins for Zsh, such as z, zsh-peco-history (better history search), zsh-autosuggestions, and zsh-syntax-highlighting. The blog post has copy-paste ready instructions to set it up.
That isn't the theory. There are almost no rules for the local part of an email address and you must not attempt to "validate" them. Whether a '+' terminates the user name or means nothing is entirely up to the domain operator.
This covers one possible deadlock, but there are so many more ways to do this. More common (IME) is a true logic deadlock, particularly if you are using strict serialization (say, your DB stores a ledger of financial transactions).

It’s actually really hard to test that your DB is using transactions correctly, since the error cases tend to be races which don’t show up under low load.

We built a prototype tool in Python where you can monkeypatch the transaction context manager, and pause the primary thread’s execution just before committing, so that you can then do evil stuff like running a competing thread of the same or other DB operations to try to break invariants. But even this won’t catch everything; there is a combinatorial explosion of test points and you can’t compare them all in a large app.

I haven’t seen any folks writing about this, another approach would be to wire up some him thing smarter like Jepsen to direct the anomaly search, Kyle said some folks have reported doing this but nobody has published. I’m interested to know if anyone has had success with this sort of transaction/correctness testing.
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This is so nice, we did that with an adhoc script for the first one!
I really doubt google cares about federated applications at all. I suspect they're just trying to avoid a potential future shitstorm where they're accused of facilitating something nasty because they "approved" apps to be on the play store.
Enterprise Authentication for Percona Server for MongoDB – LDAP and Kerberos
That's about 1000 people's worth of carbon, based on a rough average first-world carbon output. They need to use huge fans to do this, and had to build a power plant and so on to do this.

Is this going to scale? You'd need millions of these plants to take on the world's personal emissions, never mind industrial and transport emissions.

What about the cost of building these plants, both monetary and material? What about the carbon footprint of that - how long does it take the plant to cancel itself out?

I do like seeing that it uses geothermal power to spin the fans, as that helps with the problem where you might be using coal power to spin fans to capture the coal emissions back again.
And yet. There's a certain "side" that wants to have that both ways

Private companies can't censor "bad opinions"

But private companies can also arbitrarily refuse service for say, making a "gay wedding cake"

How is this disconnect rationalized?
Even if an app is banned from the play store, the developer can distribute it through f-droid.
Even if an app is banned from the F-droid main repository, its developers can distribute it through their own F-droid repository
Even if the app is banned from their own f-droid repository, the dev can distribute his source code and users can build the app with Android Studio.
Even if Google bans your Android Studio account, you can use another compiler.
Even if the internet bans you, you can mail the code via a handwritten letter to your users, who will copy the code line by line and build it using their own compiler.
This is a bad faith argument. Twitter and Facebook do a lot to take down hate speech from their platforms (with exceptions made for "public interest" cases like high level politicians).

Some servers on the fediverse specifically allow unfettered hate speech.
TL;DR: if on the fence about replacing a MacBook Pro with a ThinkPad, give the 2020 MBP a try. It's bought me another three years of time to stick with the Mac and see how the ARM transition plays out.

I wanted to let others in my situation (longtime Mac user, avoided the butterfly keyboards so much that I considered a Thinkpad with Linux) know: the new keyboard in my 13-inch 2020 is amazing.

I upgraded from my 2015 to this 2020 a couple of weeks ago under duress: my old machine failed me during an interview videoconference and I couldn't have that happen again. Ran out to buy a new machine and return it if I hated the new keyboard (I expected it to be somewhere between the old keyboard and the terrible butterfly, but at least it has an inverted-T.)

It's spectacular. Key travel is awesome, and it's nice to have inverted-T and dedicated escape key back. This machine is also way faster than my old one thanks to (2x as many cores [thanks to 2018 model]) and the 10th gen stuff (much faster RAM and graphics, etc.).

ARM is coming soon, but there's a lot of uncertainty about that transition and I'm happy to have a highly performant machine that will last me at least three years (when my AppleCare will run out).
The fascinating history of clinical trials
Hi there, lead dev of UL here (we didn't post the link, HN just found our beta :)).

That top-level repo is just our packager/samples, 90% of our code is open-source and available on GitHub (released under LGPL), see our WebCore [1] and AppCore [2] modules.

The product as a whole contains two proprietary modules which are indeed non-free but allow free use in non-commercial and commercial projects up to $100K in gross revenue.

* [1] https://github.com/ultralight-ux/WebCore

* [2] https://github.com/ultralight-ux/AppCore
What do you mean? You're not paid as a student, you still have to get some income from somewhere.
Oh but all 787 will be most likely.

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-charleston-consolidation-imp...
For industrial and production settings, Dhall is my favourite. You offload to the language / type checker a lot of tribal knowledge that would usually end up ill-specified in a README or learnt through countless deployment incidents.
This looks extremely helpful for when one is digging deep into nested structures, I'm definitely going to have to give it a go. Looking forward to the C# support too.
Ask HN: Insert USB drive, image entire HD to USB so USB is bootable clone?
Do you know of any tool that could enable this use case?

Essentially you insert a sufficiently high capacity USB stick into your laptop, entirely clone the drive encryption & all as appropriate so that the USB stick becomes a full clone of your system, bootable from any other PC.
I’m no fan of Google’s self-aggrandizing and narcissistic drive to divert internet standards towards its own needs and preferences (see also: squatting the A record with HTTP like its the default service, an offence as egregious as QUIC and DoH in my book, along with their membership of the conspiracy to assassinate XMPP), but still let’s play the ball not the man.
Because this is really Google's problem. If someone gives you an email address you're not supposed to touch anything before the '@' and assume that if the inboxes aren't exactly identical then they are separate addresses. Because on some (most) mail servers they will be separate.

Humanity is guilty of not actually verifying ownership/control of the inbox before letting the person attach it to their account but they were absolutely right to treat it as a separate address.
I just got a System76 Darter Pro yesterday with at least those specs and it was less than $1100. Pretty happy with them so far.
This site listes Parler and Voat which have rampant, unchecked antisemitism and racism. I would love to see a non-censorious site that takes hate speech seriously but they don't seem to exist for some reason...
This sort of sloganistic un-logic that constantly gets up-voted here is a great reminder that most tech people aren't mature enough to make decisions about how the rest of the society communicates.
RTL-SDR is a TV tuner, not a sound card.

You could build a radio that transmits on FRS frequencies, but it would be illegal unless you submitted a radio to the FCC and received type approval. FRS radios must be type approved, limited power, and with non-removable antennas.

I think GMRS radios must also be type approved, but they can have removable antennas. You need a GMRS license to operate one legally. FRS does not require a license.

"...breaking in on the Chik Fil A drive-thru attendant..." Seriously? Come on.

Other than those nits, you do have a lot of good information in your comment, so thank you for that!
Older discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781959
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I'm a volunteer admin for tilde.town and I also run trash.town

We mostly monitor resource usage, and built in a way to ban users from our django-based administration app. We have begun screening users more before allowing them to sign up, asking them things about what they want to use the town for.
https://gab.com/

Just decide for yourself. Literally the first post I get at the moment comes from "QAnon and the Great Awakening" and is in support of that right-wing vigilante shooter in Kenosha, calling the district attorney who's prosecuting him "evil".

The next few posts I see mention either "arresting the dems", some anti-vax stuff and so many crypto-fascist dogwhistles that I'm getting tinnitus.

If you need more proof I'll let you ding into this.
The original argument for needing to charge for this data was made in the era of Xerox machines and faxes where you literally were paying someone to flip through a filing cabinet and make photocopies or run it through a fax machine. It's why we see like a crazy per page cost and other nonsense - those things make sense when you are literally printing a copy.

But in the digital era? The price of duplicating a pdf or a textfile is a few processor cycles and a spot of ram. If you really need to charge for it, charge a few dollars a year as a flat subscription across all systems. Or alternatively, allow someone like the Internet Archive to make it available on their dime.
Al Jazeera reported about the horrible South Carolina plant issues six years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os
Big tech is directly influencing people today in the way so many screamed "The Russians" were influencing us in 2016 (and back during McCarthy).

I have a 500GB microSD card on my phone with all my music. I've been collecting it for decades, many from artists I meet in bars and pubs. I buy off Bandcamp when I have to, which only charges 15%, compared to Google/Amazon/Apple which charge 30%+, or streaming services that pay artists pennies.

Take control of your music. Download it, buy it DRM free, save it, back it up.

Take control of your video feed. Subscribe to YouTube channels using an RSS reader. Use 3rd party frontends like Invidious.

If you're and tech and know how to do this, than do it, and help write posts to show how others can too.
Install PostgreSQL 12 on Ubuntu 18.04 with DirectAdmin
The Periodic Table of UX Elements
You need a Mac to build for macOS / iOS, yes, but it doesn't have to be your Mac. There are services like Codemagic that have free CI/CD macOS build services [0].

[0] https://blog.codemagic.io/how-to-develop-and-distribute-ios-...
Not to mention, many cyberpunk ideas just became everyday life, from social networking and "always-connected" being the new normal, market dominance by technological megacorps, and cybercriminals scoring big payouts right down to minor terminology like hashtags and life hacks.

The other day an ad for "Mom Hacks" played over the Walmart store intercom. It doesn't seem so long ago that my own mother warned me that normal people only understood the term "hack" to refer to cybercrime. Somewhere between then and now, ideas from our little corner of the world colonized the rest of it, and I don't think I realized how thoroughly it had happened until "Mom Hacks" made me reflect on it.
I've sent a physical letter, when I got an electricity bill with a home address.

A week later I got an apology email, and the incorrect emails stopped.
It's also likely wrong, see dr robitaille's work, sky scholar on YouTube.
It just runs Julia under the hood, so I would expect it to be simply as fast as Julia (assuming that the data processing is the more significant bottleneck compared to the HTML output that is used to present the results). Performance more likely affected by the way the data is processed than the language's speed.

From what I understand, results of cells are cached though, and they don't update unless something upstream changes, so there is a form of memoization happening. Which of course also has both implications for performance as well as memory usage.
OK. You're looking at total cases; thisisliff is looking at mortality. So Spain had more people die, but the US had more people get it. So, 1) the US has a healthier population, 2) the US has a better healthcare system, 3) the US did a better job of detecting the disease among those with less severe cases.

1 or 2 support your position; 3 doesn't (because we don't have accurate data to tell whether it spread more in Spain). And we don't have enough data (that I have seen) to tell the difference between 1, 2, and 3.

So I don't know where we are. But you did in fact have data to support your position, and (since the question was the spread of the virus, not the mortality) you were citing the correct column in the reports.
The fediverse is very split, you have some servers that are run by people who post straight up Nazi symbolism on their admin accounts, and you have some servers that have admins who will happily participate in piling on someone for appearing Insufficiently Woke. I block both kinds on my server because I just want a nice quiet place to talk with my friends, and that's a definite segment of the Fediverse too.
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Preliminary Summary of the FAA’s Review of the Boeing 737 Max [pdf]
Unless there's a limitless supply of witches somewhere, the more witch-hunt-free towns there are, the more the witches will be distributed among those towns, because witches aren't a homogeneous group either.

So in theory, voat & co should either shrink or get less radical the more reddit-alternatives there are. That is, unless reddit is turning normal people into witches that will then populate the new alternative platforms.
Doesn't PLA get dimensionally unstable with heat treating?
In Europe this is not a problem. The GDPR would forbid usage of the data for a different purpose than for which it is collected, you simply would have no legal basis for this.

I am aware of a UK police officer that sold data from the registry to PIs and he got sentenced to several years and jail and lost his job. This sort of thing should never be institutionalized.
I would add that if voting/protesting isn't enough to feel like it's "doing something" there is always the option of fixing things from within. I know that's a bit of a fairy tale idea for many, and few seem to have the convictions to actually do so once they are in a position to, but that doesn't mean that YOU, dear reader, would fail the same way.

Seriously, run for city council or something. Fix the bugs the same way you would an interconnected system: find where things (money, proposals, solutions) drop out, find where things are miscommunicated, optimize, upgrade, and secure the edge systems that directly interact with the client (the people).

It might take a lot of effort and people doing this, and many many years, but I think it is a more viable long term solution than waiting for things to magically get better enough that you feel like a vote will suffice.
Emergency braking and automated cruise control appear to help a little but lane keep assist has no safety benefit.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/benefits-from-advanced-driv...
Ask HN: What is a good source to learn short-term equity trading strategies?
Technological Addiction: A trend rooted in generational analysis?
I'm gonna to be down voted but vast majority Uighur propaganda has been debunked. Its all US fabricated propaganda. Grayzone is good source. Like believing in WMD it will be obvious in retrospec considering who is running the show Trump, Pompeo, Steve Miller. CIA is able plant media in any source.

The 2 main studies of Uighur are based on
(1) Survey of a total 8 villagers. Paid by US NGO
(2) The Adrian Zenz study based FOOD subsidies. Zenz associated with right wing think tank and has history of far out views.

To give you example of nonsense. Early on in Corvid, propagandist wanted to question how China recovered from Corvid by extrapolated Cell Phone Cancellations. They saw millions of cancellations must equal millions deaths ignoring the obvious that people were just cancelling to save money. Its pretty damn obvious that the entire asia handled it well
My previous MBP and 4k monitor would, on every other connection, not recognize the USB devices. So every other time I plugged into the monitor, I had to un-plug & re-plug to get the peripherals.

I also have a Linux Thinkpad. It's not perfect either, but it is definitely better.

The Linux Thinkpad also more reliably associates with my Bose headphones. It was hard to pair them the first time around, but after that, they've auto-connected. The MBP will occasionally get into states where it won't find the headphones or the headphones don't find it, and I have to request they manually connect. The MBP does this with my old phone, too…

I do have to agree with the article on the points about the touchpad (MBP's is superior) and on the emoji support. (It's getting there in Linux… but slowly.)

I'd recommend Terminator over gnome-terminal, though.