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> Perjury for example might not seem like a free speech issue, but under the most extreme versions it must be allowed.

If your perjury gets someone else punished when they shouldn't have been, you are an accessory to that unjust punishment. Conversely, if your perjury shields someone from just punishment then you are an accessory to the harm they caused their victim, and potentially future victims who would have otherwise been protected. Once again it is not the speech which is the problem but rather the actual harm which you helped to cause.

> This then gets into issues like should flag burning be allowed which blur the line between message and medium.

That isn't even a question of speech, just private property. If it's your flag then you should be able to burn it, for any reason or no reason. Banning flag-burning on the basis of the message the act is attempting to communicate would obviously infringe on the freedom of speech under even the narrowest of definitions. If you're burning someone else's flag then that can be punished as theft and destruction of others' property independent of any speech which may or may not have been intended. Freedom of speech is not a "get out of jail free" card. If in the course of making your speech you also take actions which harm others then you can be punished for those actions; the fact that they were accompanied by speech is no excuse.

> Thus simply saying you support free speech is a rather meaningless statement.

I kind of agree with you here. Freedom of speech only takes on concrete form when combined with consistent support for private property rights, in which case you get freedom of speech as a natural by-product. The question becomes not "Is this speech?" but rather "Does this action cause injury or otherwise infringe on anyone else's property rights?"—something that speech per se can never do.
Good bit of fraud by a major retailer there. That sort of thing needs serious punishment.
Yep, one company I work with closely made something like $16M through subleasing or leaseback (I forget the exact arrangement) in early 2019 after they decided to reduce their office footprint.
I think connecting two separate pieces of knowledge is usually called intelligence.
It’s ridiculous that Apple takes 30% of a transaction between two independent third parties, one of which may have no idea their virtual attendees are even using iPhones.
I'll think about you while I'm playing video games today

pours some Monster energy drink on the floor
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I am okay with it.
Authors your age are still writing. Highly recommended:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/24/cicadia
You are literally confirming his point - we need charging stations at all parking spots.

If you own the parking spot, you can usually install a car charger.
In effect, it's an advertisement for a competing retailer. Very few retailers are going to allow you to use their facilities to advertise for the competition.

Is that something they should be forced to do in the name of the consumer? If Black & Decker wants to print "cheaper directly from our website!" or "cheaper at Lowe's Home Improvement!" on the packaging for a drill, should Home Depot be required to allow that?

The situation is a bit different here because Apple's app store is the only game in town if you have an iPhone. But that's a problem of monopoly or other excessive leverage, not one of what retailers in general should be required to do.
> (and potentially many programmers) never attach _any_ emotional value to my ideas

I do attach _some_ value to my ideas, but I do my best to wait with that until I've thought about it a bit and scoped out its feasibility. Bugs I don't mind at all - they're either mistakes (which just happen due to complexity) or indications of insufficient understanding. What I find a bit discouraging is discovering, after starting to work on an idea, that it's bad, infeasible or requires an order of magnitude more work than initially assumed. But I try to see it as gaining knowledge about problem domain, not defeat.

I suppose I could frame it slightly differently: it's not about not having emotional attachment, but about not making an idea part of your identity. When someone points out a flaw in a cool idea you had, you're sad because the cool thing won't happen. When they point a flaw in your idea, it feels as if they're pointing a flaw in you.
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> Add a very small tax to each device with such battery (in the order of cents) [and pay it] back to whoever brings the battery to a recycling plant.

We do this with the likes of glass bottles and beverage cans and lot of them just end up in the trash. It only makes sense economically because consumers can bring them back in large batches, but even then the money you get back often doesn't justify the extra hassle economically.

If you're going to raise the price until it does you've just recreated the cobra effect[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
The Church-Turing thesis claims (and is believed to be right) that a Turing machine can solve (compute) any problem that can be solved (is computable).

For now at least, we don't know of any counter-example to the Church-Turing thesis. Humans are certainly not able to tell whether a program in general will halt for any input it recieves. If you believe otherwise, please tell me whether the following program halts:

Foo():
if P = NP:
return true
else:
Foo()
Given the choice between EST all the time or AST all the time I'd choose the latter, but it's still not ideal b/c it require school-kids to go to school in the dark, which is potentially more dangerous than the problem we're trying to fix. The counter-argument is something like "kids in Alaska do it" but I don't find that super convincing -- they do it b/c they don't really have a choice, doesn't mean it's the right choice for us.

There are certain latitudes where DST makes sense and for the rest of the country it's just an annoyance. It seems like people in the rest of the country don't really understand the benefits or why some people embrace it.
Technically true, but kind of ridiculous. How many people can't get food, but have a computer, electricity, internet connection, a reasonably quiet place to work, deep knowledge of web technology, and enough free time and mental energy to try to build exploits of computer software against an uncertain and distant bug bounty payout? If you're really desperate for food, you should be looking for a salaried position or something more immediate and certain.

More importantly, human history shows that ethics really are important. If you ignore ethics in the name of people starving, you build a society where even more people suffer and starve. If you want to build a society where everybody is safe and healthy, you need to pay attention to ethics now, not "someday".
Reading about QUIC (the basis of HTTP3) a little more, it looks like it is attempting to replace TCP entirely. It does this by making the reasonable assumption that all connections should be secure (via TLS), and so it merges layer 7 TLS protocol down and integrates it at the transport layer. It also has its own flow-control and reliability mechanisms, like TCP. If QUIC "wins", I don't see an obvious use for TCP.
That's a pretty normal price for an XSS.
Yup. That's what they do with lead and batteries and their core charge.
I'm 35.

When I look at the people I follow on social media, I feel bad, because they're much nore successful than me, often even much younger too.

When I look at the people I meet in my daily life, I'm doing quite okay.

I haven't set an alarm for work in years, can buy what I want without too much consideration, mostly work when I feel like it, and the work I do is often interesting.
It sounds like you got $1750 for an XSS-equivalent attack. That's high for XSS.
One interesting thing I hear repeated from a lot of my friends is that having children somehow makes you very good at getting things done, which @pg alludes to in this post. You get very good at making things finite, because your child is a natural marker of time.

If you are in a married relationship where children are off the table and you are hopelessly bored, what do you hope to get out of the marriage? I mean this sincerely. I know a lot of people for whom a married relationship with children off the table where you get the opportunity to be "hopelessly bored" is their idea of nirvana. No relationship drama, no children to manage, all the free time to take to travel or shared hobbies or shared life experiences. Perhaps I sense this may not be the case for you?
Hmm, that describes me but without reimbursement. Is there a handy website / reference you know of? I'd like to bring this up with my employer.
I think it's allowed to respond to someone else's post without answering their questions.
There’s a difference between what you think you want and what you really want. I think people generally work toward what they really want. If you aren’t progressing toward your goals because you’re busy doing other things, you really want those other things more.
I don't know what made you believe this, but humans are not magical. We absolutely can't solve the halting problem, and by definition nothing can decide an undecidable problem. As far as we know so far, the human mind is a (limited) Turing machine. In fact, as far as we know, there is no computing system more powerful than a Turing machine.
I don't even remember that from 'The Player of Games', perhaps I need to re-read.
I bet this game was only built as “See? You can game on Linux” and it just stuck around
Biofuel for land vehicles is largely dead, or rather limited to legacy systems (Brazil etc). Whatever EVs can't do (if anything) will likely be taken up by hydrogen.

Biofuel for airplanes however will probably be around for a while. Unlike cars, airplanes are usually built to last for decades. It might be possible to fly planes fuelled by hydrogen or ammonia, but many of the planes currently flying today should still be flying in 2050 -- not necessarily a bad thing because building an airplane isn't exactly low-impact. Synthesizing jet fuel from plant matter is probably easier than starting from "scratch" (syngas).
>> Ask you that same question in a different way and you have no idea. Never heard of it. This is why whiteboard interviews are hard – questions that you know, but out of context

In my experience this is true. I "test" my friends on these and most of them always screw up an answer to the questions I asked them just a couple of days ago when the question is slightly different but the underlying principle is the same. This is also why I spend hours on a question I get an answer to easily. Because it's important to understand the principle rather than getting the right answer. You can also conduct this test. The simplest and the most basic test is to ask someone what "binary search" is. Obviously, every developer knows what it is but when you ask them to apply binary search in a slightly different context(pick up any medium binary search question on Leetcode, Hackerrank etc) they will fudge it up. I get the hate "trivia" algo interview questions get on HN. However, I just love them because I have always loved "puzzles"
But today Microsoft e.g. has to put Excel in the App Store. In your proposal, Microsoft might move it to their own store. I don’t want that. I like that Excel is in the App Store.
You make the sale of non-replaceable battery devices too onerous in California.
Legally you absolutely could. It’s like anything else you expense in the course of doing your job. In fact your HR/exec team is falling down on the job if they haven’t announced new policies, since your office is closed.
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Step 2. JK
Exactly. I do not think Google is in a position to lead the conversation of ethics given how much they covet user data

An ethical AI needs to be able to function without gorging itself on users' private data
Then I can just state huge respect to your moral standards and hope you getting paid well enough to continue doing what you do.

There still are a lot of people who are not gonna be okay with said situation for long. Anyone can get more cynical and cruel / indifferent with age due to bad experiences: not getting paid well for reported issues, being cheated or getting into legal trouble for "doing the right thing". Some of us really love security research and want to make it their profession, but it's really easy to end up both without stable income or in some kind of trouble.

So I think it's important to raise awareness about it in developer community since many people don't understand how much effort is going into being white hat. It's just like the story with OpenSSL before Heartbleed: half of the world used software, but there wasn't even enough funding to pay properly even for single developer.
XSS isn't ordinarily RCE, and XSS is generally much more common than the attacks that do reliably give RCE. It's notable that un-hardened Electron elevates XSS to RCE, because it means there are a lot more opportunities for RCE. That's the subtext of the comment you're replying to.
I've been mentoring CS college students and new grad SWEs for a while. It's shocking to see how many of them perpetually feel like they're overwhelmed and short on time, yet they can't account for where they've actually spent their time. It's not uncommon for new grad SWEs to complain that an 8-hour work day is somehow consuming 100% of their weekday hours, leaving them without any time to do anything else. On further investigation, they're just being pulled into Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, TV, and video games for far more time than they realize. It's almost like those activities are subtracting 6+ hours out of their day without them realizing it.

Nobody likes to be told that they're wasting their free time, but I've had mild success encouraging people to use basic time tracking utilities like the Screen Time feature in iOS. It's eye-opening to watch people estimate their daily screen time around 30 minutes and then be shocked when their reports come back at 2-3 hours or more.

Of course, some amount of leisure activity is necessary throughout the day. It's important to not shame people for spending time on things they enjoy (Hacker News, video games, Reddit, Twitter), but it is important that they can be honest with themselves about how much time they're spending on those activities.

Measuring time spent in leisure activities is the only real way to start closing the feedback loop. Structured procrastination (Spending 5 timed minutes out of every 30 minutes on leisure activities, aka Pomodoro technique) is a good way to start getting a handle on this.
On February 25, a director at the CDC held a White House press briefing in which she said that the CDC anticipates that lockdowns will be necessary to contain COVID-19 [0]. In response, President Trump held a press conference on Feb 26 in which he said that the number of US COVID-19 cases is going to be 0 within a couple of days [1].

What I'm saying is that you can ignore and disparage the experts all you like and sometimes get away with it. But then sometimes reality sets in.

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/25/cdc-expects-community-sp...

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...
Yes because it impacted local people as well. Not as bad as in the US but it’s not like there are no racists here
Roger Penrose argues that human neural computation is indeed non-algorithmic in nature (see his book "The Emperor's New Mind"; 1989) and speculates that quantum processes are involved.

I don't quite understand the role of neural nets in that context, though. Those just classical computations in the end and should be bound by the same limits that every other algorithms are, shouldn't they?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301332
Well, you don't see me make fun of Parler as much because they're honest about their intentions. Gab originally claimed they were about "freedom" so it seems pretty fair to me to call them out on moderation that is clearly political.
You're a lower enlisted. You live in an apartment complex, sharing a stairwell with 5 other lower enlisted families. One of you is tagged as stairwell coordinator. It's now your job to get everyone in that stairwell to clean the area regularly. If you fail, your boss hears about it.

You get promoted, you're now given duplex housing in the NCO housing area. You now have a yard. Your grass grows too long. The military police ticket you, and notify your supervisor.

You goto the store on post. A coworker is there. He's with some girl who isn't his wife.

You goto the dining facility. You have to go to the dining facility because your paycheck is automatically deducted $300+ a month because you are forced to have a meal card, regardless of how often you eat there.

Just a few examples from people I know. Everyone tries to get statement of non-availability so they can live off base.
If you've got a system where you can tweak the ram timings and/or voltages (most desktops will let you do at least some of this), it's pretty easy to induce failures, if you haven't run into bad ram naturally.

I've run enough systems with ECC ram to say the vast majority of ram works and will continue to work, but over time, a small amount will fail, again the vast majority is a single bit in the whole chip, but some will do multiple bits near each other (uncorrectable ecc error usually halts the system), or man single bit errors all over (many machine check errors per second makes the system go so slow, halting would be better).
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When did a content consumption device turn into a general purpose computing device? The former used to be a thing not that long ago, among techies. I see the tables have turned now, when it suits their argument.
Revenue share and price parity are standard clauses in most department store lease contracts and not at all unprecedented, at least in my experience. My company is routinely told that if we want the lease, we must pay a fixed percentage on sales (usually 25%) as rent, must not list a price higher than can be found elsewhere for an identical item, and all payments must be handled by the department store themselves.
It’s ridiculous that people point to Apple when 5 other big platforms are doing the exact same thing and form much longer too.

People just like to pile on. If it's a general issue, make it a general quest for a general solution.
I think that friend of yours is almost certainly wrong, and for decades now there have been notable researchers who disclose publicly and immediately.
See, I can absolutely see myself in that first image as the person saying you should try yoga -- because that's exactly how I slipped the ropes tying me to the burning stake and didn't burn to death.

But there's no getting people to see that because they will see it when they believe it and their position is they will believe it when they see it. "The key is in the safe."
I misinterpreted the rules - developers are actually allowed to charge whatever they like, they're just not allowed to say "Actually you can save five quid if you go -> HERE".

Back in the real world, sales assistants may not be allowed to offer deals unless asked first - I know that my partner was basically given very heavy hints to ask if the sales assistant "had any special offers" before he could offer a deal on a new motorbike. I guess this is the same, without the helpful hints. Some people scour the web for coupons and deals, other people pay the full price (and then get extremely cross when the first screen they see in their new app offers a 25% off coupon, yes you, Capture One, you bastards)
A quick google found a law firm that analyzes it from the employer perspective, but it’s a good guide to the law and whether or not you should be covered:

https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2226/2020-0...
Around the time that program was introduced, Microsoft was promising to eventually level the two. I am certain DirectX is fully supported. Not sure about access to all memory though.
Apple started it.
It is, ∆v-wise.
Indeed. Of course it has to be pointed out that 70% of the population can barely afford a smartphone, so they get the cheapest ones, which are obviously not going to be an iPhone.
> I know people in other countries don’t make the same salaries but they are “mostly” doing pretty well for their region

here's some job postings for software engineer in Bordeaux, France: https://www.indeed.fr/Bordeaux-(33)-Emplois-Ingenieur-Inform...

It's around three times less.
Do you disagree with the severity? I assess it to have a 6.5 (medium) CVSS score.

https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L...
When did a “content consumption device“ turn into a “general purpose computing device”? The former used to be a thing not that long ago, among techies. I see the tables have turned now, when it suits their argument.
You’re focusing too much at the micro level and missing the wider problem I’m describing. The change being discussed requires everyone in the country to agree to the change in unison. Having a few parents pick different daycare isn’t going to instigate the change that is being recommended at the start of this tangent. Hence why I keep saying it is an idealistic but ultimately unrealistic premise. If this kind of change were to happen organically like you described then it already would have and thus this conversation would be moot.
What's with the obsession of calling everything 'tax'? It's not a government and it's not doing anything else than making money on provided services, and therefore it's not tax.

This whole euphemism and emotion thing is just getting in the way of reality and proper discussion.
Chains have many advantages over small businesses that give them more durability during downturns.

They have deep pockets, and greater ability to borrow. The location today is unprofitable, but they can afford to look out a year and decide to eat losses, expecting to make it up. Small businesses, especially retail, are much more susceptible to cash flow disruption.

They also have economies of scale that let them run at higher margins, so they often will be losing less during tough times because they are spending less.

You can see it in action in almost any trendy neighborhood. Each downturn kills some small shops, and chains survive. A unique shopping district in 2007 now starts looking like an outdoor Westfield Shopping center.

Is the Apple store in Brooklyn closing down because it isn't profitable today? They can sit on the lease for two years with zero revenue if they want. Meanwhile the boutique denim shop or tea house is already out of business 2 months ago.
Google helping on ethics: the blind leading the blind!

Some fun history: I thought the phrase originated with the Christian bible:

> "when the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch"

but Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_blind_leading_the_blind traces it to the Upanishads:

> "Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind."
Definitions and theorems to prove are (in some sense) more interesting than the proof of a given theorem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor says 1968–1989, but it does seem a little early.

Condor, the musical: https://imgur.com/a/3b65X
Leechblock?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng...
>For the tiny fraction of people who need to change battery, just do the labor. Everyone else can enjoy a better phone until the OS is obsolete and the device is physically degraded.

You are a corporate tool. Congrats on spending more money for the same item every year.
You think the idiomatic C hello-world is poor form because of format string attacks?