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The thread doesn't need recovered. If nothing in the story or thread interests you, that's totally fine. You aren't required to participate.

The problem here is that you think other people should be similarly disinterested, and if we aren't, we're "frothing at the mouth". You have shifted the conversation under your comment from anything useful to merely making potential commenters defend themselves from your unprovoked rudeness (if it was provoked, your original comment would have been a reply rather than a top level comment I assume).

I believe nefitty's point is that it is ok to be worried about more than one thing, and it appears that either you've missed that point or you disagree with it (I can't tell which). I think that point is a valid refutation of the comment.

To be more specific, if you're like me and feel that multiple things can simultaneously be bad (even when they are related and comparable), "this isn't a big deal. We kill off patients all the time." is specifically where your comment becomes tone-deaf and even flat out incorrect. Many of us think death is a big deal, and it doesn't have to be a maximal element of some sort of partially ordered set of badness for us to think that.
I enjoyed it. I didn't realize that so many figures in tech had this common meeting point. Also a great demonstration of how being too early with an idea can be detrimental.
Shutting TikTok is a good thing for the society at large.
Can you link the HTML/CSS engine you mentioned?
(i work at aws)

it depends on what you’re talking about. in the context of this article, brendan gregg measured the overhead on nitro as less than 1%.

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtuali...
U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok, citing national security reasons
> only the opposing party usually cares.

The republicans didn't even ratify any policies at the RNC this year.

Obviously you have to support your guy, but if I said to you a majority / near-majority of the speakers at the convention were family and friends of the President would you think of a some backward state or the most powerful democracy in the world.
It worked in the sense that when I was part of recruiting software developers, the resumes we received were all people having previously wrote code in their life. A significant part of them had wrote code in a fashion similar to what we're looking for (c# for a java codebase let's say as an example). A small fraction had used some of the technologies we used already.

My brother in law has a painting shop. Right now he want to recruit a sandblaster. He'll literally hire anyone with enough muscles to pick up the tool and ready to show up everyday at 6am for 8 hours of sweating.

What you call "not an exact match" is already matching precise criteria in fact. I bet you have interviews ! You don't need an interview to get a sandblaster job. You just have to show up a morning at my brother in law company and lift the sandblasting tool ^^

So yeah, SW are recruited - even if we don't see it that way - with pretty stricts criteria. Would you hire someone that has never booted a computer in his life ? Never wrote a line of code ? Never learnt an algorithm in any fashion ? Settling for you maybe is sometimes hiring a java dev for a haskell job. Somewhere else it's hiring a former butcher for a painting one (the guy is pretty good apparently!).
Maybe someone lied to you.
On what authority are you claiming otherwise?

My opinion comes from experience and getting things certified but also common sense and observing enforcement patterns (the latter of which is most important until they overstep and get challenged).

Go back to my example: Does a one-off product need to be certified to be transferred to the people that paid for it? Keep in mind, best case, this will add a roughly >$10k fixed cost to the sticker price.

It's a general principle in common law that the law makes sense. The popular, sophomoric, and extremely conservative interpretation of the FCC rules makes no sense by way of being extremely costly for no discernible benefit, either to the seller, the buyer, or the economy at large.
Where? I thought those cookie popups were "legislated" by the EU or at least that internet giants came to the conclusion that those popups were required.

In reality they are a form of harassment, just like all the other pop-ups that assault computer users continuously. Somebody ought to spend a night in jail for every time you tick a box that says "don't notify me about this again?" that keeps coming back.
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It's also disappointing that Biden apparently has no opinion on this issue?

You would think that this ban would be a topic in the election but as far as I can tell democrats are fully onboard with the whole "china bad" thing and restricting social media.
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There’s money to be made in spectrometers conforming proper spectrum of a given device. The market will be flooded by cheap lights, and most of them will be cutting every bit of cost to turn profit.
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I pine for the days of drop.io to return before it was acquired and dropped (BA-dum PSH!). That was, hands down, the best and easiest way to get files from one place to another.
If someone is familiar with the exploration or mining industry:

Does this suggest that lithium rich brines could be found elsewhere as well and maybe in which environments they might be expected?

Why does it take half a decade to get going in such a case?
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> How many open Trump supporters do you interact with a week?

As I said, about 5-8 depending on how active my group chats are.

Why would I tell my coworkers I'm voting for Trump? I'm not going to. So yes I would feel uncomfortable lying.

I don't think this is the same as bush era politics. How can I exist with coworkers while we do anti racist book clubs, and then announce support for the man who calls black protesters thugs? We don't have room for racism at my company. That's only a political issue because the republican party nominated a racist - I don't see how that's our problem.
Tree tabs is a must-have for tab hoarders like us. You can filter tabs by text.
https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_14/page/n52...

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> American companies can’t freely operate in China

McDonald's, Nike, Boeing, Microsoft, P&G, General Electric (to name just a few) all hold dominant market share in China. I have no idea why people constantly repeat this claim so easily debunked. US companies are everywhere in the country and making billions.
I'm hoping that someone will come up with a plugin that detects and eliminates "HTML popups."

I've tried to do so myself, but I can't find a way of determining if an element is going to occlude another.
Is Sharia law not a religious authority ruling folks who do not belong to that religion? What exactly is Islamophobic about calling that out?

The exchange between Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and Ben Affleck[0] is a great example of hamfisting Islamophobia into completely legitimate criticisms of Islam, Islamism, Sharia over secular society, etc. Not every criticism of Islam (and truthfully, the vast majority of criticisms of Islam) are not racist of Islamophobic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60
Thankfully people (other than those very into QAnon) have given up on the n-dimensional chess theories for the most part, but if we needed any more proof nearly incriminating himself in a phone call with Bob Woodward (who keep in mind has already written an extremely critical book about Trump) while trying to woo him (in effect) is the most recent disaster.
If you’re concerned about your carbon footprint and live within 2.5 miles of work, you might want to consider a bicycle instead! Regular cycling has made a profoundly positive impact to my life, and I would highly encourage you to explore that as an option.
I disagree. I'm looking at the most likely scenario here, the same reason I (and most people) believe Jeffery Epstein was murdered.

-Crowdstrike said it's likely someone internally hacked the server

-Seth Rich was in the position and time to do so and had a direct grudge against the DNC

-He was murdered almost around the exact same time the server was hacked in a wealthy area with no history of something like that ever happening.

You can come to other conclusions. I've come to mine. It's not certain of course, but it's the most likely with the information I have now. If you think it's more likely he was randomly murdered, that's possible but it's not the most likely.
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No use to whom?
This was used against them in a previous ruling (CA?). The ruling stated the funds need to only be used to maintain the access system, not anything else.
His argument here seems to be that "if Russia hacked the DNC the NSA would have captured and stored all the packets and that would be evidence"? With all respect to the guy, he seems out of his technical depth here.
This is a big win for big government and busybodies who will come up with new ideas on how to screw with our lives.

Before it was just as bad privacy-wise but it wasn't as annoying (for customers and developers) or expensive (for businesses trying to comply or work around these nonsense laws).

What is the outcome of all that? As always with more government meddling, it is more bureaucracy in both public and private sector, crappier and more expensive services, lower quality of life.
Maybe, but the Guccifer example seems like very basic stuff, and there's an established pattern of deniably advertising the they did the things.
It's more nuanced than that. The government decided that a population with access to grenade launchers is bad and so they banned all grenade launchers. The law to ban this type of weapons was also approved by the Congress and was not an executive order.

As I said, if Congress passed strict privacy laws that resulted in the ban of TikTok then there would be virtually no outcries.
I actually don't care that much about the parties acting like they're not just clubs with arbitrary rules - they are and always have been.

But yea the major party duopoly is gross and has been for a while now. The dynastic families are insufferable.
To all the people pontificating about who they'd rather have spy on them:

This isn't about spying. This is about money and trade relations with china. The fact that the business in question has a side effect of spying is nice but it's not the primary motivator. TikTok is the first Chinese tech platform to strike it rich in the US and the administration sees itself as trying to give them a dose of their own medicine.
They do? You just listed most of them lol.

As I understand it the DoD is just the department these agencies fall under (unless it's the DHS). The actual agencies you've just about covered, surely? CIA, NSA, ICE being the most problematic, then FBI and, what else?

I mean yea they suck but I don't think it's necessarily a hydra.
We don’t all agree they’re harmful.
Sharia is bad and people should be ashamed about defending it.
Politics is generally considered off-topic unless it's "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
C-corps form the context of my comment because they are discussed up thread. Sorry for assuming that you didn’t need clarification.
I just skimmed a mueller report. All instances where mentions of the hacking group names/numbers were, contained just assertions of what the group did. There was no to very little mention of how this information was determined in the surrounding text.

Yes, I guess it's a report. But it contains just assertions, so it's only meaningful if you trust the institution making it. I've read reports that actually contained the process the core conclusion were arrived at, like various opensource investigations from Bellingcat, etc. And these were indeed more convincing.

Not sure why hacker should just go by blind trust to institutions, lol.
I really hope this is true, but there as been absolutely zero clear communication from Mozilla VP and above managers about being committed to Gecko. Why is Firefox CTO not writing a blog post about that?
I know masks were not that popular in America before (especially compared to countries like Taiwan) but I have hope that after this pandemic masks will become more commonplace, and as a result cut the spread of common colds and flus in the years to come. I for one am having a great time not having a single cold since the lockdown in March started.
That's fair. Russia does seem to enjoy the grey area of borderline ridiculous plausible deniability. Perhaps I overstated.
Rapid, unannounced & disruptive chaos. Massive harm to the citizens of all the world, injurious to our ability to communicate. Done by fiat, with no precedent, the flimsiest of legal pretenses, & only the vaguest attempts at remediation.

Thank you, well said kodablah. This conflict-seeking behavior, this sudden slamming the door: it's a threat to functioning world order & against civic cause.
Create a cryptocurrency that is awarded based on how little energy your computer expends mining it.

I know, it probably wouldn't really work or have any effect, but it might be a fun little humorous side project.
Existing deforestation is already done to collect solar energy, to power crop growth.

>Today's temperature doesn't allow calculating anything relevant to global warming.

Yes it does, it allows us to calculate the extent to which global warming has progressed... to date. Just like the current global energy usage lets us calculate the progress of energy use growth, to date.
Thought the same, until I bought a tiny drone, which you access by connecting to an unsecured WiFi access point it provides, over which one can access an open telnet server giving you something in the shape of kernel debugger for the RTOS it’s running.
Working with Robots in a Post-Pandemic World
This is a pivoting moment for the world economy. USA, the dominant market in the world, defended free trade over all other considerations. The rise of China seems to be changing that.

It would be interesting to see the answer to this from other economic blocks like Europe.
Yes, which makes political appointee DeJoy’s moves to reduce capacity during:
1) an election cycle, that is dependent on vote-by-mail, whose 2) suppression just so happens to favor the politician who appointed him, whose 3) job security hinges upon his reelection, and 4) his non-zero chance of facing criminal charges for his role in this.

Is there an interpretation of this situation that they were acting in good faith? Sure, but given the brazen, unchecked corruption of the last 3.5 years, such an interpretation, to put it mildly, is undeserved.
"5150 - serial to TCP
Mysterious service. netcat connects but the server does not seem to react to any input"

Pretty sure that would just be something that implements RFC2217. Virtual serial ports. Maybe ser2net. It's not going to react to input if there's nothing connected to the real serial port, or if you aren't implementing the protocol.
Maybe don't to straight for code examples?

They have a pretty good write up about the design of the language.

Programmers are all hung-up on syntax, when semantics are key.
This seems reasonable to me. The hack could have been done by “Russians” but not state sponsored. Or at least the Russian state wasn’t involved from the start.
How about an investigation into CIA hacking?
>Today, an individual having an unchecked pardon power is a bit of an anachronism, and very dangerous.

Of all the things a ruler with unchecked power could do, I'd argue pardoning people is possibly the least dangerous. "Oh no, please help me, the evil dictator is going around flagrantly pardoning people, hope he doesn't pardon me!"
Commenters on Reddit seem to think this is a big deal, but I doubt it will have any impact. Not only are newspaper/magazine endorsements virtually irrelevant nowadays, historically they barely moved the needle as well.

It's also hardly surprising that a group of journalists in 2020 would endorse whomever President Trump is running against. I call this a publicity stunt.
Facebook is the company that disables copy and paste in their web app to stop you sendings details to non-users.

Meanwhile they still gather shadow profiles on the same non-users.

They regularly use dark patterns to trick users into more tracking.

Theses are not conspiracy theories, over the top or otherwise, they’re just things Facebook do because they have no moral boundaries.
I guess it's the quotes you used: "compiler".
The comments are - surprisingly - on topic and cogent!

They suggest that you and I need to watch the video, where your question will be answered.

It appears to boil down to how "music theory" is described, vs. what it actually does.

One comment: "As an outsider to music theory, this is kinda mind blowing. I assumed that music theory was like linguistics but for music. A field of study that attempts to explain the structure of all types of music from around the world. Now music theory seems to be more like teaching Spanish and then saying you know everything about all the languages."

That is, what's called "music theory" should be called something like "Western Classical Music theory" (as one commentor says it done in South Africa).

Another writes: "As I commented on that 12tone video, this really reminds me of freshman seminar discussions of the literary canon, and efforts in the 60s-80s to open it up. It would seem that music in the academy is going through a lot of the uphevals that other humanities disciplines went through in the last century. "
>>After he discovers that Ms. Solnit’s latest book was about the British photographer Eadweard Muybridge, he cuts her off, to pontificate, relentlessly, on a “very important” Muybridge book he thinks she should read.

Turns out, it was her book. And he hadn’t read it.

lol
Yeah, nothing good will come of the discussion here. It's too polarizing of a topic.
Why do you think they are squeezed out by Huawei? Ambarella has been continuously releasing improved products for surveillance cameras. Many of the top vendors of video cameras (Axis, Avigilon, Hanwha) either never used HiSilicon chips at all, or only used them in lower-end products.

HiSilicon has been the SoC of choice in many lower-end and consumer oriented products, but they were far from a monopoly in the space.
People/studios trying to make money releasing games written with Unreal engine.
Most comments seem to revolve around if the source of the leaked emails was Russia but does it really matter? Wether or not it emanated from Russia does not change that the emails were genuine. It is maybe a catastrophy if Trump got elected because of it but it is nevertheless great that those became public. We can only hope that Trump being the steaming pile of sh* he is, we will learn about it in the same manner. Such as that Reuters piece of news for example. I can only understand how sorry many of you gringos must be for having Trump as president but blaming Russia won't solve any of your problems. A more democratic voting system and more transparency maybe will. Democrats are not crazy as Trump but they don't seem like a solution, sorry.
Thanks's for pointing out the stunningly obvious ... Captain obvious! Nobody thinks CCP means well let's try: Catholic Christian Party? Clear Catholic Principles? I've wasted enough time here.

The point is that strongly ideological bents (here coming from Religion) tend to conflict with economics. Correct, CCP is not a religious organization rather eschewing it. But what they both have in common is that economic activity is secondary and non-strategic. Or as another HN article put it quoting Drucker: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast."
http://www.grain-media.com/html/press/20170103_eng.htm Grain Media surveillance SOC sold to Novatek https://www.novatek.com.tw/en-global/Milestone/aboutus_miles... https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20200916PD203.html
> The full program examples are zipped up and I'm not going to bother to download those.

They could at least link to a Git repo.

When I click on the GitHub icon on "Download" it doesn't take me to GitHub.

When I click on "Contributing to Blech" the page is empty.

A repo with a README.md and bare uncommented source code would be more useful.
So, if American companies quietly send user data to repressive governments, that's totally fine? What if it was sending voter data to Russian state actors?
> ... or should they block Google and Facebook?

Probably yes? :)
It is strange to see the concepts like "regeneration" and "mining" in the same sentence
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They probably should have used CCP but it’s pretty clear they are talking about the Chinese government and not Chinese people. America isn’t a person but you had no problem with its use?
+1 for realistic dialogue
The hygiene hypothesis makes sense to me for allergies, but not for viral/bacterial illnesses. I'm sure that modern humans are exposed to a lot more colds and flus than prehistoric humans were. Colds and flus spread and mutate a lot more easily when we have a population in the billions along with rapid transport.
From their Github repo, Deployment: "Optionally telnet, to be able to quickly check your installation"
Online Casino Roulette – A guideline for pentesters and security researchers
I hope that you're right in the long term, but in the short term it's an uphill battle.
This made me install Fennec from F-droid.
Perhaps because of opportunity cost. Compared to how dependant on Google they are currently, maintaining a comparatively low-revenue service whose existance must be justified to a board, may be worse than doing the 'startup' thing of just pivoting _again_ and using those same developers to try and find something that _can_ sustain Firefox; something that can be a core offering and keep Firefox relevant in the market, rather than a small add-on subscription service.
It's also not known to be correct. https://theconversation.com/early-exposure-to-infections-doe...

Current researchers advise to avoid the phrase "hygiene hypothesis" entirely, because it's misleading, and the most recent formulations are not that we need more early exposure to bad things but that we need more early exposure to good things.
Could you explain how you know he had a grudge against the DNC, and how you know he had access to these materials?
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> How does the relay server work?

Basically the relay server is a dumb switchboard. It waits for a connection to established with an identifier. When two connections with the same identifier are found, the relay server pipes the data between them.

Security is ensured by having each connection to the relay use PAKE. Once the two clients connected via the relay they establish their own communication securely using PAKE, so neither the relay (nor anyone else) can decipher the transfer.

If you use croc locally, you actually don't use the public relay as the two clients can automatically discover themselves with peer discovery. [1]

> does the developer maintain and fund it out of pocket? That seems to me to be quite costly.

Yes, I've maintain it and funded it out of pocket for a few years. Recently, I've gotten Github sponsor support that helps. [2] It's not too costly.

[1]: https://github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery/

[2]: https://github.com/sponsors/schollz
If you compare to the US Supreme Court, note that all of the filings at that level are available for free. See, e.g., https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/....