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This is completely off-topic, but you either seriously overestimate the amount of censorship in Russian internet (which includes not only Russian citizens, but also Russian speakers elsewhere, of which there are many), or - more likely - seriously underestimate the amount of censorship in popular "global" social networks.

Among popular (non-Chinese) communication tools, Facebook is the most censored. It censors based on ethics, politics, commercial interests, it censors both public posts and private messages, and it does not allow anonymity. The level of censorship in, say, VK (which you're probably thinking of) is not even close to this. And yet, so many people perceive Facebook as a "free" place where FSB can sow whatever they want, and want even more censorship there. Yay freedom...

Also, if you think that Russian internet is more "orderly" (in any definition of "order") than the "global" English-speaking one - I'd say you're misinformed about that too. It's even more of a mess, to be honest...
I am skeptical but hopeful as the technology can make a big personal difference for me. However i think one must be happy that someone is tackling the problem in the way Elon is doing.
Sure you can, but that's like saying I am for freedom of speech as long I have something to say and against it if I haven't.
Others will follow Apples lead and walled gardens will spread.
The whole internet and computer thing becomes more and more like an oligarchy and we are the peasants who must choose with lord we follow. Apple-shire, Google-shire, Facebook-shire.
They built their own ecosystems with iOS, Android, Oculus and totally controll it and if we don't "behave" we get locked out.
People are buying it today, a lot are first time users, without legacy data.
I know a few pharmacists and they hate GoodRx. Why? Because of the added fee on top of the discount. They often end up underwater (losing money on the Rx).

I've even heard of some pharmacies doing a "cash price" match of GoodRx. Customer is happy (still get lower price) and the pharmacy is happy (they don't pay the GoodRx fee).

Makes me wonder about the longevity of the business model.
I find myself commenting on this more and more often, but check out what freeandfair.us is doing in the voting space.
> Which hash you choose slightly tweaks the margin

Yes, but only if you assume that an adversary's power is stable over time, and that it's safe to amortize the risk over an extended period of time, both of which are wrong assumptions.

> If your users have strong passwords (e.g. a 20 alphanumeric random password from a typical password manager) it makes no difference at all

Yes, except that is not the world we live in, which makes this a pointless argument.

> If your users have very weak passwords then once again it makes no difference. Scrypt password hashing doesn't prevent me guessing that Steevo412's password might be something obvious

> None of this makes you any safer from inadvertently leaking the plaintext passwords, which your system unavoidably needs to know during authentication

Yes, if you frame the question as "being able to defend against threat models you can't effectively defend against under this authentication model" then indeed none of this matters, but that's a self-propelling argument, and also not the discussion we're having.

The discussion we're having is that given we know password-based auth is a bad security model, and that people have shit security practices, how do we squeeze the most value out of whatever entropy is given to us, in a way that will last as much as possible, since passwords are often recycled, rarely rotated, and you can get pwned decades into the future because of a leak that happened in 2004.

Password-based auth is a reality, and will keep on being for a long time. It's just not a defensible position to argue that there is no point in leveraging given entropy to the max because "we're all doomed anyways", or that since it's a bad model we shouldn't care.

The goal is explicitly to protect knowingly reckless users from themselves. Saying that "if they all used random passwords from a password manager it wouldn't matter" is not realistic or helpful.

> If security actually is important you could deploy something that's actually a clear improvement such as WebAuthn

I don't think anyone at any point in this thread defended passwords as a solid threat model, and I made this same point in another comment. WebAuthn is awesome, but passwords are a reality and will keep on being for a foreseeable future, we just have to deal with it
I don't know why you would use an extension for this since the behaviour is already built-in to chrome. Click the padlock next to the url -> site settings -> javascript off
Except when discussing free trade.
Correct I don't by a Playstation and then cry that Stadia is not available for it.
Wouldn't this have the same effect as DST in upsetting people's cycles and sleep?
"That person just lost $12k to fraud and has no recourse at all."

Did they ? Why is it fraud ? If you kill my orc in WoW and steal my gold, is that ... what ? Theft ? Fraud ?

Are liquidity bots fighting over broken ethereum contracts more or less abstracted from reality than WoW gold ?
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Do you know if this applies to epyc as well?
Something I'm not sure is clear from the article is that not all legacy is bad. The definition of the word 'legacy', essentially, is "something that is handed down [through generations]". You can hand down good things and bad.

Banks often have incredibly old systems because their products don't change. A savings account in 1940 is pretty much the same as a savings account today. They basically have no need for DevOps, because they have no need to provide fast-moving, competitive products, and silos are a natural fit in a world of sensitive financial information. So some really old systems are pretty much fine as-is, as long as the hardware can keep running, and a few over the hill programmers are on call.

Another example of useful legacy is old physical infrastructure. The Frankford Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia is a 73-foot long stone bridge that's 323 years old, and carries a substantial amount of car traffic. But it's also not being maintained like it should be, and the more-than-expected wear over time is slowly eroding it. That's the bad part of legacy systems: when you know they need maintenance and they don't get it, so they rot.

Modern infrastructure can suffer the same fate. Concrete bridges, wooden houses, cars... they all need maintenance. So do modern computer systems, where they need to get regular security patches. So the problem is really just a maintenance problem, and we happen to let older systems go to hell more often than we replace newer ones.
The law says that jailbreaking is legal, but it doesn’t say that Apple can’t stop you from doing it. Apple’s jail is also legal, and you can only break out of it when Apple makes a mistake. I wouldn’t defend antitrust as a “consistent legal theory,” but if Epic wins this case, all iOS users would have the freedom to use alternative app stores, not only those who manage to find and exploit vulnerabilities before Apple patches them.
Not defending apple here at all but they do give special treatment to both Netflix and Amazon.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17334627

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6581253

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4357002
We don’t want 50 different app stores to install 50 different apps.
From what I can tell GC376 is preclinical in cats, but it's been around for a while?

"When given to younger kittens, GC376 interfered with the development of permanent teeth."

https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2020-01-15/fip-drugs-continu...

A subsequent compound was developed called GS-441524 that showed greater efficacy, and has been making its way out of the Chinese black market to desperate cat owners, which vets aren't thrilled about.

https://ccah.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/cats/resources/general-felin...

I smell the next hydroxychloroquine with a future run on black-market Chinese GS-441524.

Edit: From Wikipedia - "The public health advocacy group, Public Citizen, in an open letter urged the DHHS and Gilead to investigate GS-441524 for the treatment of COVID-19, suggesting that GILEAD was not doing so for financial motives related to the longer intellectual property lifespan of Remdesivir."
Idealism has a price, but then there is the NIH syndrome on top of that.
Also unlike many other business leaders Musk has demonstrated his exceptional technical knowledge of the fields he works in as demonstrated by his Physics first principles approach.
In Chrome, you can do this with chrome://settings/content/javascript which lets you blacklist JS on certain domains.
Firefox Sync is end-to-end encrypted, so Mozilla is not able to access your Firefox history.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
So we won’t need to install 50 app stores to get 50 different apps.
Python has a sorting HOWTO at https://docs.python.org/3/howto/sorting.html . I was the original author, back in around 1998 or so. This new article covers a subset of that HOWTO.
Elon Musk showed the new Neuralink, the chip that is implanted in the skull
This imaginary problem can be solved by having a hardware off switch.
Can you please provide context? Which results? Which rules of political correctness?
> I was not in any way coerced into buying said device, and there are a plethora of other options

My apologies, but I don’t see what options I have? Either I go with Apple, or I go with Google.

Going with Google is akin to giving away all your privacy, going with Apple is akin to giving up all your control. Neither is really a great option, so we need the law to step in and correct what the free market (apparently) does not.
It's Apple. 'Nuff said.

(More specifically, it's Apple and Fortnite. Two very popular franchises.)
The difference being that (in all cases I'm aware of) you get some sort of representation in the HOA (ie voting on things). Also there are almost certainly limits in any given jurisdiction on the sort of rules an HOA can impose.
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Not really, it is an implementation detail not exposed to users.

Even Crostini relies on containers and virtualization to expose a second kernel, WSL2 style.
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It gives liquidity to employees as well as initial investors and it gives the public the ability to buy shares.
I don't care which we pick but I personally find a centrally managed shift in everyone's daily rhythm twice a year highly draconian, i have the somewhat luxury that I don't really need to shift my sleeping pattern immediately but it's highly disruptive to have to shift my daily routines.

So yes please let's all stop this archaic ritual.
I'm wondering this too. If I want to specialize in something, what subfield has the most ROI?

- Distributed systems

- ML/AI

- Crypto
You can use localStorage.clear() in the dev console to clear this info and chrome://settings/content/javascript to blacklist JS on a domain in Chrome.
I worked with PBMs in the past and it's more than just the dispensing fee.

Typically a pharmacy will enter into a contract with a PBM and the PBM will reimburse the pharmacy for each drug at a set amount. That amount does include a dispensing fee, but the pharmacy can also make money off the margin between acquisition and reimbursement.

So if a months supply costs the pharmacy $30.

The PBM might pay $23 for the drug, $2 dispensing fee and tells the pharmacy to collect a $10 co-pay ($35 total).

Pharmacy makes $5.

However, what I've heard is that it's never that simple. PBMs are constantly trying to pay as close to acquisition cost as possible and when you have multi-source drugs (generics), they often just pay the lowest price.

So I've heard from pharmacies that some drugs have a 50% margin and other have a -20% margin. The PBM tells them it "all evens out" which is BS. The PBMs also have DIR fees, where a couple quarters later they claw back additional money, again arguing that the prior reimbursement was too high. The PBM model is really trying to squeeze pharmacy margins as much as they can.
https://archive.is/SKK4v
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort

> In the worst case, Timsort takes O(n logn) comparisons to sort an array of n elements. In the best case, which occurs when the input is already sorted, it runs in linear time, meaning that it is an adaptive sorting algorithm.
It's not. Folks have ethics about who they take their money from. I agree, it's not the same, but a dollar isn't just a dollar. Who it's coming from, and what their ethics are, do actually matter.

In this case, I see that minorities are underrepresented in startups. Insomuch as it's all about who you know, there's strong reinforcement of systemic trends of enriching primarily white men. Diversity at the top unlocks hidden talent in their networks and overlooked markets, so picking folks to maximize cultural competency is kind of a no-brainer.
Unions and union-shops set the standard that non-union shops have to match. If they didn't people would just go across the street and work at the union shop with better benefits and breaks because of the nature of markets.

So in a sense employees at non-union shops are free loaders that reap the benefits of union shops without paying into the organizations that create them
> provide marketing campaigns that help publishers get their games in front of users.

It would be more accurate to say those campaigns help get their games in front of other games in front of users. Advertising is an arm race, a consumer is looking for a game to play, the only question is which game will catch their eye first. But if you phrase it this way, it becomes obvious advertising and app stores (that function mostly as advertising in this case) don't provide nearly as much value as they claim, and are mostly parasites.
> When I was a kid I used to wonder about this. Is life actually short, or are we really complaining about its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel life was short if we lived 10 times as long.

This reminds me of Parkinson‘s Law: „work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion“. So if we know we will be travelling in three days, we need tree days to pack our stuff. And if we get a message from our boss telling us we need to travel this noon, we‘ll quickly pack a few things and get a toothbrush at the airport.

If we had 10 times more time to live, we wouldn‘t necessarily be getting ten times more out of it. We would just - my hypothesis - need that much more time to accomplish our milestones.

I read somewhere about putting Parkinson‘s Law in reverse: Committing to return the assignment in a week. That way we have a limited time budget, a boundary. That pushes us to move quickly.
What is the incentive to use an escrow instead of dealing with the owner directly? How do I know the escrow won't run away like a crow with my money and the house?
They don't want the warnings from Android yet don't want to put the work/money in to build their own OS, even using AOSP (Android Open Source).
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So now all housing companies start doing that, and we’re living in some unauthorized bread dystopia. That doesn’t sound like a world I want to live in.
I am honestly baffled at why anyone uses medium, I just flatly refuse. Their stance on binding arbitration, and that in any disturbed claims that I agree to pay for the legal defense but give them total control over the defense.

These terms are growing ever more common, and I certainly use services with similar terms. But I mean this is a fucking blog site, it take very little time and effort to throw up a WordPress site.

their demands for this service, far out way its value, at least to me anyway.

I think people have gotten far too dependent on sell your soul for bread crumb services.
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This happened recently to someone I know. They were offered a significant pay bump and a leadership position in a well-respected organization that lines up with their personal goals, but the new employer doesn’t offer insurance.

They eventually decided to take the job, but having to even consider healthcare access in that calculus is ridiculous.
So that 2 year timeframe mentioned earlier means very little?
I promise you if machine learning can be used to teach a robot to fold and put away my laundry you'll get some fucking impact all right.
An important aspect of Ham radio culture, which I think underlies this discussion around the morse requirement, is the degree of self-reliance that you have to demonstrate in order to get a license.

What happens if the power goes out? What happens if you suddenly can't get those cheap PCBs, laptops, and phones from China? How are you going to communicate with someone a long distance away if you can't access a computer or an internet with all the bandwidth you could ever desire?

I think many people (younger hams included) have grown up now with the assumption that all of these things will just always be available. That's a risky approach, and doesn't make for a society that is resilient to external shocks.
> Forget Google, does a person with a personal website that allows comments get to control what comments they want displayed on their site or not? Does that person get to choose what work they want to accept from a potential customer?

Why would you ever want to ignore Google in this situation? Unless you don't want to earnestly debate the real topic?

Their size, control, and the fact they run massive platforms for publishers to post content, whose consumers often can post their own content, with multiple centrally controlled areas for control for hundreds of millions of people at any moment, makes it pointless to ignore such important context and semantics.

Debating the role of these major gatekeepers at a cultural, rational, and moral level - in the context of the position which they actually hold in society - is an entirely valid, and essential to any useful arguments.

Just because there are some weak analogies to governmental constitutions, or small business's/independent publisher's/individuals website's freedom to choose what people post directly on their site/app, doesn't mean it's a useful position to judge what self-imposed limitations should be employed by major monopolistic companies who run entire portions of the internet.

Great power requires great responsibility.

The difference here is basic common sense.

The fact people keep resorting to these reductionist analogies, ignoring critical context and arguing from positions of fundamentally different levels of power/responsibility, in order to push some pro-censorship and expansive moderation of speech, shows the weakness in these arguments.

If you need to ignore significant amounts of context to make your points then you're being deceitful, whether intentionally or not.

I'd go even further to argue this intentional ignorance of context and semantics is a fundamental tactic used by pro-censorship activists - despite the fact context and intention are fundamental to almost all human communication, verbal or otherwise.

At a more local level it's commonplace for these activists to ignore the obvious intention and context of the speaker, and critically the tastes and tolerances of the specific audience itself - who are entirely voluntary consumers. Making whole words, phrases, and concepts totally off limits, regardless if it was used in intentionally and rationally derogatory or offensive ways.

It's basically intentionally missing the forest for the trees. All for some vague greater good. No matter how many false-positives, unintended side-effects, misunderstandings, or wasteful side-shows it creates.
What's wrong with using a pair of quaternions, as described on Wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotations_in_4-dimensional_Euc...

AFAICT, this shouldn't gimbal lock.
> Case in point would be self-driving cars, which are hilariously underregulated.

Why is it bad?

Self-driving cars kill less people than human-driver cars per mile.

If we heavily regulate self-driving cars, we will slow down self-driving cars development. Cars will probably be safer, but the number of cars will be smaller, thus number of deaths will be higher.

No, we don't need self-driving cars regularions at this moment.
No. I think Hanlon's razor applies; Apple has a policy against duplicating features, they add more features, existing apps that have these features are now in violation of that policy. It's Kafkaesque, not premeditated.

Hackernews has a regular postings (a few a year) from app developers who's long standing apps are suddenly rejected after a minor update with no recourse and they're appealing to us for help. This isn't rare, it's a regular occurrence. And those are just the ones we know about.

It's users and the developers who are losing out. You never know if Apple's going to destroy your business or nuke your favorite application and it doesn't hurt Apple at all. I doubt they even notice.
Starlark is not configuration, it's a Turing complete "feature-challenged" programming language. If this is what you mean by dynamic configuration, this looks like an unfortunate outcome of someone's urge to try on humans what they learned in the PL class (or in SW methodology class :-) ). After suffering few thousand lines of a bloody mess created in this language, I can certainly say that Python, or Java would have been much better in this context. Pants (Twitter's version of Bazel) looks much better architected system in this respect.

The problem with what you call the principle of lesser power is that people fail to accurately predict "suitability" of their solution and choose wrong tool for the job. They start with "I just want to set a couple of variables" and end up with full-scale development system with IDE, debugger and profiler, badly designed and partially implemented.
Linux is mainlining Snapdragon anyways, Linux is coming to phones with or without these projects. PostMarketOS was stated before and runs on some other hardware and these phones. You can run the Samsung phones with DeX and get Linux with good performance (until they killed it, there's others Linux on Dex projects though). The rockchip seems too weak for a phone, too weak for a laptop (even with 4GB) and an ok SBC although it's also lacking there too with new hardware.

At this point I don't know what I'd want a Linux phone for anymore, and with that performance when would I use it? This will at best run as well as a $100 2GB pinebook since it is the same specs and that runs Linux poorly. Now I have to install custom scripts with a Bluetooth keyboard or ssh from my computer, with power savings so it'll be even slower. Linux on phone sounds like the equivalent of installing Gentoo on a desktop. After installing PostMarketOS on one phone I found out that you can root Android, ssh into Android, run a browser that can use desktop chrome extensions and be pretty happy with Android. Not sure what the killer app would be with those qualifications satisfied.
But we still have choices: Microsoft Teams, Rocket.Chat, Google Meet, etc. As long as it's not the only viable option, I don't think there's a need to worry.
Insurance is involved with a PBM, just not directly. Insurers are the end payer. They just hire the PBM to manage their pharmacy coverage and spend.
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I have all $1000s invested in XBox platform but I want to play on the PS4. Can I sue MS?
That's a minority of people and they are chastised for it. The vast majority of people DO wear a mask. So yes, this is REALLY a likely an realizable scenario.