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>No, it is fine if you have wrong opinions. But be prepared to get the flak associated with those.

That's not different than Stalinist Russia, the Inquisition, Nazi Germany, McCarthyism, some conservative backwater, etc.

If having "flak associated" with having wrong opinions is acceptable by your book, then those examples were all about free speech too. Their victims just got some heavy flak for their opinions.

Or is it bad only when it involves an execution? Rest assured than in most cases in those regimes an execution wasn't needed either. Most were just fired, or beaten up, or ostacized, or disallowed to advance etc., so that's ok I guess.

Doesn't even have to be the state to give "the flak". In the case of the Inquisition it was the church. And in other cases it has been an angry mob.
hahaha - the UK government has been insrumental in paving the way in 'banning encryption' and other such laws.

Thankfully they (UK Government) has proven over and over again that they are pretty inept when it comes to doing much with technology. I've worked on a number of Government projects including the recent Test and Trace debacle and they are always a shit-show.
Tesla has thousands of vehicles out on the road collecting data to train it's self driving features. Nobody else has this.
> clickbait

I considered changing the title when I submitted this but went with the HN guidelines that prefer the publisher's title. Admittedly the article's header might be a bit better than the slug in this case (but I was lazy).
It's also worth pointing out that public opinion has swung decisively and dramatically in that intervening time period--at least 20 percentage points IIRC.
It seems to me that most de-anonymizing attacks used human operating errors, physical attacks like snatching a laptop with an open tor browser window from a user, or side-channel attacks based on malware like Finfisher.

Running it from Tails seems pretty secure...but, in the end, who does that consistently?
To be fair, I haven't watched 50 First Dates so you might be right!

In Memento, Leonard also wakes up each day to the "same" day because he (arguably) has anterograde amnesia and cannot form new memories. He keeps tracks of new developments he wants to remember by writing on his own body and on the backs of polaroids (a bit like writing a note with his smartphone! Memento was filmed in 2000, and smartphones didn't exist yet).
> It was understood that the main purpose of education was not to create factory workers, but to have critically-thinking and informed citizens in a republic

Lol. Read Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith... having children was for the purpose of making you rich!

Also, that’s if you even made it to the age of 14. In 1870, survival rate of reaching to the age of 14 was about 30%
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I'm not much of a FOSS developer but it use to be that if I needed something I would just write an extension or a greasemonkey script. It would mature and others would use it. I couldn't get my web extensions to work properly then they got rejected then I got bored with it. It wasn't good enough to replace the hundreds of truly fantastic extensions we had before. I cant even remember the names!

User.script didn't get the love it needed to build a single community. I never upload anything anymore.

The way a website should look is entirely different from the way it should look for those regularly using the website. It says Hacker news at the top of this page. It consumes space on my screen. (This isn't a thing worthy of discussion. I just remove it, others can use the script. In top down design hierarchies this kind of stuff takes endless arguing with people who never tried to use it like that but, from a position of ignorance, seem to want to dictate how you use your computer then enforce it. There is nothing FOSS about this aditude)

There continue to be lots of FOSS projects that would benefit greatly from browser integration.

I was skeptical about Opera's build in bittorrent client at the time. I couldn't imagine such a thing running un-managed. I couldn't have been more wrong. I looked what it was doing after a while and (while not downloading) it was seeding a hundred files in small groups (4-6) at a time, 1-3 kb upload speed. Perfect for rare blocks. It was a tribute to the swarm rather than the parasite I expected it to be.

In stead of webtorrents something like:

<video src="magnet:?xt=urn:btih:000000007005000000005000003d00000240a607&ws=https://example.com/video.mkv" onerror="src=https://example.com/video.mkv">

would do the trick just fine. The legacy central planning circus would continue to work while the open world of FOSS could move on.

I could think of a dozen such examples...

Take how hiding complexity is the norm nowadays. Firefox could in stead be an entry point to learn managing a database.

Distributed search is also doable if you have this many clients. If webmasters can expose their site search they would do it. Ranking is the only puzzle.
If it does turn out to be the old booster rocket:

1. Would it be remotely practical to retrieve this thing and somehow bring it back to Earth intact?

2. If (1) were possible, would there be any useful scientific benefit to doing so?
> Since then, he has been unable to remember almost anything for longer than 90 minutes. ... Without a record of new experiences, the passing of time means nothing to him. Today, he only knows that there is a problem because he and his wife have written detailed notes on his smartphone, in a file labelled “First thing – read this”.

I think it would be fascinating to read the "First thing - read this" file on his phone. I can see why they don't go into more detail it would probably be pretty personal info in there.

Still as a mental exercise, its interesting to think about what I would write down in that file for myself.
Every time I see an Intel 10nm announcement headline I get very excited, followed very quickly by getting very disappointed.

When will they finally launch some high performance 10nm?
I can attest to that personally. I am reasonably intelligent yet I absolutely flunked by IIT exams because of 0 guidance.

None of my family knew what IIT was and for some reason they chose not to send me to a big city for a decent coaching class
And I want a billion dollars??

If they are behind a foreign VPN, you cannot unmask them.
It made me much better at deliberately remembering information. I also believe it improves imagination. In the first place ( incidentally a phrase that originates in mnemonics) you are practicing making mental images. The less quotidian the better. Secondly you are required to put together wildly different objects to make easy mnemonics
You oppose enfranchising ex-felons who've otherwise fulfilled all their social obligations?
> EU home affairs officials have grown increasingly concerned about international paedophile networks and in July unveiled plans to force technology companies to take greater responsibility for reporting them.

"Think of the children" cliché will never die.
Almost all climate change articles get flagged on HN.
Damn, 6 months? Well the pandemic will definitely be over 6 months after it started so no point in ramping up production.
"I will state firmly and resolutely that my account has been truthful. I do not claim it has been impartial."

I believe Craig Murray's account because

1. He could be called out at any time for any fabrication

2. There is no, literally zero, mainstream news sites reporting this trial in any depth whatsoever.

The Guardian. Happy to break his orginal news and happy also to bow to the UK Govt in keeping pretty much silent on trial.
Yes, they have mentioned it is happening, but they say little else.

My faith in UK journalism is zero.
They are servants of the Govt.
Did you hear of the Edison board? Sank like a stone. And like many things Intel lost interest.

Intel is culturally incapable of doing long-attention-span products. They only succeed with fire-and-forget products. Sustained effort over the long haul is just not in their DNA.
And awful Linux support. Many people with x86 tablets hate them.
Imagine waking up and seeing an iPhone for the very first time. In 2005, the latest phone he probably had was some flip phone.
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I'm still amazed everyone isn't outraged that the best we can do in this pandemic is wear cloth masks created by our local quilting clubs.
I think it's the difference between those who look for similar people versus those who prefer complementary people.

Naturally everyone does both but in the RPG of life some rogues tend to hang out in the rogues guild in town while others want to be out in a dungeon alongside wizards and warriors.
and more reboots required.
They are both large problems which is my point but given the choice between two hard problems I can understand why they chose the one that has the potential to solve the entire surface instead of just part of it.
I wonder if maybe one of the differences is this has always seemed "temporary"... Or at least that is how it has been portrayed. We're just in that period before we have a vaccine, and everything goes back to normal. When you think we're only a few months away, making huge investments like that doesn't seem to make sense.

But WW2 was an existential risk, if we didn't pull together the war will come over here and our country will be destroyed.
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> Something more like "Man suffers anterograde amnesia after routine dental surgery"

"... he'll never know what happened next"
This attitude is terrible and exploitative. Employee's have a duty of fidelity and good faith to their employer, sure - but highly skilled and in-demand engineers should demand better of their employees.
Isn’t that the UK’s line
You oppose debt jubilees?

There are many organizations, governments, banks which buy and dissolve debts.

Even John Oliver does it.
Manufacturing has changed. Back then everything was done by hand - vast changeovers were much easier..

Plus the machines already existed. They weren't making tanks in textile mills....they were making them in car plants.
It's quite clear they have decided they are a 'force for good'. It just so happens to also be very benefical to the bank balances of upper management.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
“Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse”: terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and money launderers.
I heard that the upper teeth are close to the brain and tooth infections can cross the blood-brain barrier so that was my first thought, but it doesn't seem to be the case here (the transition was instant, the damage doesn't appear to be local or getting worse).
Thanks. I will review it!
I'm not a native english speaker, and I'm curious. Mozilla's CEO is a woman. Why are you referring to her as they? I know about the gender pronouns debacle... But isn't it OK to call her a woman?
I'd agree that outsourced national infrastructure initiatives that are either ad hoc or politically-motivated tend to be debacular in their nature - but I have a sneaking suspicion the real power houses that focus on all thing cryptographical (ie. our security services) are possibly world-leading.
>spent his personal money (...) THAT IS "bringing it in the office"

This must be some novel notion of "bringing it in the office"...

Note the weasel phrasing "so that his gay and lesbian employees" -- to imply that he did it specifically to target his employees.

If he gave money in favor of e.g. stricter weed laws, would he have done it to target his "weed using employees" or generally society's use of weed?
A decade and a half ago, I signed up for a 10 week trial of the SF Chronicle, fancying myself as someone would get up early and peruse the news in the morning, in this romantic vision of days gone by.

Every morning I opened the front door to leave for work and had to kick yet another bundled up newspaper into the corner of the entryway.

Finally, after 6 weeks or so, I had to call and tell them no, I don't need a refund, just cancel. It felt SO bad to basically say the newspaper had a negative value to me.

I kept a few magazines going for some time, but finally had to cancel them a few years ago as well. I just feel too bad about the waste, and that's worse than the value I get from fancying myself a reader.
How much do these machines cost?
He wasn't CEO when he made the donations in 2008, of course. Nor was he CEO when the donations came to light in 2012. Everyone at Mozilla knew about them when he was appointed CEO.

> I suspect (based on board members' and Eichs' own statements) that it was the pressure from the employees that made him decide to resign.

I worked on Firefox from 2000 and full time from 2005 to 2016. Your suspicion is completely wrong. All employees I knew, mostly on the engineering side, were happy with his appointment or at least didn't express any wish for him to step down. That includes the gay employees I knew.

The only Mozilla group that I know of who expressed a desire for him to step down were a handful of people in the Mozilla Foundation (who would not have been part of Brendan's org since he was CEO of the Corporation). They went public with it and got a big PR splash, which I think spawned this meme that there was a clamour of Mozilla Corp employees demanding Brendan's resignation. There was not.

You have posted many comments in this thread but apparently you weren't there and you aren't aware of basic relevant facts. Please show some humility.
That's unfortunately so true. The thorough and strongly regulated engineering results in good quality for mechanical products, but is detrimental for the fast paced software world. SSL3.0 is from 1996. That's the life cycle of 2-3 cars and much less than a building, so "not a long time ago" in engineering terms "when it still works".

I joined a German engineering company and made the naive assumption that proficiency in engineering is correlated to proficiency in software engineering. I will not make that mistake again.

The reality is that the classical engineering disciplines (mechanical, civil, etc.) and software engineering are very different in practice. While waterfall/V model is discouraged in software, it's a very valid approach for physical goods with high iteration costs and nearly no option of upgrade after sale.
It's literally harder to produce N95 masks then to churn out rifles and ammo.

Want to produce a rifle (in the 1940s)? Milling machines and operators. That's a factory order, done. Ammo? Couple four stage presses and some armorers, not even hard to train civilians instead.

Want to produce N95 masks? Ok, well there's a custom built machine that produces the correct kind of fabric, there are only two builders in the world, and the machine has a meaningfully high failure rate... and requires special shipping, assembly, maintenance and so on...
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>the amount of books in a household was a strong predictor for IQ. Background matters a whole lot...

That doesn't follow at all. IQ is correlated with parental IQ, due to genetics. Equally plausible, if not more so, than "books cause high IQ" is "high IQ causes books". Smart people a) like to read, and b) have smart children. I don't think it's likely that kids are boosting their IQ scores by cracking open their parent's book collection.
It's been sitting at about 300k pageviews a month, which is not that much considering. If there are high-profile blogs running I may have to consider upgrading.
I'll say it again: If Eich remaining CEO would have resulted in Firefox bundling a cryptocurrency (not to mention ads) like Brave does, then I'm really glad Eich left.

I'll also note that Brave went for Chrome's Blink engine, and while that calculus might have been different if he were running Firefox, it doesn't give me confidence that he would have preserved the Gecko engine.
no one spending 7 dollars a month for a pure hobby would balk at spending $14. The difference is between nothing and anything.
Ironically the problem is due to extreme demand by the general public due to virtue signaling by wearing masks.

However, when you compare wearing rates vs either reported or estimated infection rates three weeks later, there is no correlation at all.

It seems all the general public gets out of wearing masks is warm fuzzies and virtue signaling and implementation of authoritarianism.

Another novelty is fake news sites like http://covid19.healthdata.org/ have consistently for more than half a year displayed projections of the death rate where doing nothing will go exponential next month, wearing masks will flatline in two months, and the history now going back six months regardless of public behavior in lockdown or freedom, don't wear masks and save them for first responders or everyone should wear masks 24x7 ideally, its a boring flat line around twice the death rate from automobiles.

Clearly someone is operating the 21st century equivalent of the:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

The only question is who is funding it, and why?
I don’t mean to be glib, but it’s a common fallacy to expect consistency.

Consistency might happen for a stretch, even a long one, but the first principle is to keep and acquire power.

The people who don’t prioritize power above all don’t hold office long because they lose out to people who do
As far as random every day folks out and about, are cloth masks vs N95 a huge difference as far as the overall outcome?
They knew. People like polarizing, that's why Howard Stern got an absurd pay check to go to XM way back.
This is what happens when the free market becomes the accepted cultural answer to all problems. We forget that the defining quality of good government is not efficiency, but effectiveness.
> Yeah, regional American accents are dying, unfortunately.

I don't have the exact source but I believe research has shown the opposite. When cable television started becoming more common about 20 years ago, there was a belief that a common "source accent" would flatten out regional differences in accents. Apparently, it has made accents more distinct as people, consciously or not, were using those accents as a "tribal marker" to differentiate themselves from the rest of the country.

On a broader note, I remember reading an OpEd in the late 90's that predicted that because people were going to be getting all of their information from a common source (aka the Internet) that it would eliminate debates between regions of the US. The idea was that with shared common information, we would all have shared beliefs. Obviously, this completely missed the ball with regards to personalized streams of information (e.g. Netflix, Pandora etc).
Nice ! Look promising ;)
I'm confident that the very tiny number of people with the expertise to build/maintain these melt-blown fabric machines is extremely busy right now. This is very different than building a tank where most of the parts can be built in basically any machine shop.
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This is a sad comment, but indicative of where America is today.

Past generations put men on the moon with less compute power than an iphone. Manhattan project, WW2, space program, interstate highway system, etc. This country has done great things (operative word being done).

Our generation doesn't want to produce its own health care products because it may not be cost effective. What a lack of ambition.
Indian here. Extremely common for the CEO to be part of the board. In fact the CEO equivalent "Executive head of company" designation in India before globalization made use of CEO fashionable was 'Managing Director'.
Especially given the abysmal state in cross border law enforcement. The Europol is mainly a purely administrative entity; police has to fax stuff around and gets results via physical mail.
Nginx may need tuning for high numbers of server blocks, so it's not completely immune: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html#optimization
Corporate greed is at all time high I’m afraid. 0.1% may be all the companies that have an altruistic bone in their body in the US right now. Everything is tied to bigger and better profits because God forbid your stock falter even the tiniest bit in this era. Your CEO salary tied to its performance might go down!
The London Crossrail project (underground railway) specifically disallowed any employee to look at the dirt they were digging, just incase they saw a bone or an ancient pot. They put extra covers and opaque screens in the conveyor belts for dirt so that none could be seen by accident.
Sounds like a sociology assignment/project to query bias in the tech sector
Thanks. Looks very interesting
We’ve been dealing with the pandemic in America now for more than 6 months, and even the most optimistic timeline for a vaccine will leave us with a long period of time while hundreds of millions - really bullions - of doses are manufactured and distributed.

Imagine if we had ramped up N95 production in March.
Will definitely check it out!
Yeah, I'm realizing my mistake now with this spike in traffic. It is a free project which generally has 1/100th of the traffic it's receiveing from HN right now, but the autoscaling is worth the extra $14.

Thanks :)
The Intel Edison, Galileo, Curie, and Joule boards were roughly similar to what you propose. They were all discontinued in 2017.
I'm not building a strawman (at least not intentionally!), and I don't mean to imply malice. Believing in violent overthrow of a tyrannical government is a perfectly logical belief, albeit one that will get you in trouble with said government. For most people, there is a point at which they would take up arms against their own government. That in and of itself isn't a bad thing.

Is there any other way to take the comment in question?
We didn't run out of masks during H1N1 because we had a decent stockpile. We never replenished that stockpile. From the article:

> the H1N1 flu epidemic depleted 85 million N95s from the national stockpile — and the supply was never replenished. In 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017, public health officials published alarming reports warning of a “massive gap” in what remained.

COVID-19 is not a black swan.

> “The Black Swan” was meant to explain why, in a networked world, we need to change business practices and social norms—not, as he recently told me, to provide “a cliché for any bad thing that surprises us.” Besides, the pandemic was wholly predictable—he, like Bill Gates, Laurie Garrett, and others, had predicted it—a white swan if ever there was one. “We issued our warning that, effectively, you should kill it in the egg,” Taleb told Bloomberg. Governments “did not want to spend pennies in January; now they are going to spend trillions.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-is...

The mask shortage isn't even a black swan, it was both predictable and predicted.

> The trade group for manufacturers of personal protective equipment in mid-2009 urged “immediate action” to restock N95 masks. The International Safety Equipment Association warned of “significant shortages” if another pandemic caused demand for masks to surge.

> A nonprofit representing public health agencies, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), echoed industry’s appeal in a 2010 report funded by the federal government, recommending the repository of masks be “replenished for future events.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/face-masks-in-...
really makes me want to commit more time to the class war.
Come to the US where our journalists are definitely not servants or beholden to any of the two particular political parties of our government.