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The ActivityPub standard and network exists. Nothing (absolutely nothing) is stopping the tabloid from running its own instance on nypost.com

edit: and I wanted to reply to a comment here referring to section 230 but their comment got flagged and I am unable to reply to them. Not really sure why it was flagged but whatever, HN does what it does.

My reply to that commenter would be that there is nothing stopping Congress-critters from standing up their own ActivityPub infra as well. A 'congress.gov' presence on the Fediverse would look pretty spiffy.
Put another way, what's ruining Netflix isn't the cancellations, it's the obsession with extremely long serialized soap operas over good episodes, miniseries and seasons.
So maybe public universities shouldn't be "selling teenagers cigarettes"?
This seems to be true, some of the public high school(and middle school for the most part) are absolutely hell in US.

In Asia kids actually respect their teachers as some honorable adults or even role models, it's a culture thing. The teachers are also graduated from good colleges and earning a decent pay. It's a whole different scenario.

by the way, as for the skin-color-based and gender-based AA admission policies, that does not exist at all in Asia.
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Hell holes? I see a wee bit of exaggeration there. You make it sound like West-Africa.
And Indian schools had capital punishment, you got your ass-kicked by teachers, not sure if its still the same or not?
Warren v. District of Columbia held that police have no legal duty to provide police services to citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Comparing amino acids to proteins is a category error, almost akin to comparing individual x86 instructions to a full x86 Linux kernel binary. The level of complexity increase is not just in size, but it's a fundamental different thing altogether.

The amount of information (via DNA) needed to create a useful protein from the 20 amino acids is absolutely incredible.

So…finding more potential (note: not demonstrated) pathways to create amino acids ex nihilo does literally nothing for producing viable DNA strands and proteins. DNA and proteins are a totally different problem, and we've made basically no progress at all, and the more we look at it, the less likely it seems.

And then people (not you per se) hand wave about the size of the Universe to explain the problem away. I think we should instead accept the problem exists and work to solve it.

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Separately, we have no known examples of any natural process producing what we, as humans, would call "information." DNA is much closer to information than any other concept, to the point where if we were sent something similar to DNA from space in, say, a radio transmission, we would absolutely assume intelligent life had made that transmission.

That is, with our current knowledge, it takes something vaguely "intelligent" to product the kind of information we have in DNA. Maybe such processes exist, but this is an absolute far cry from producing amino acids from chemical precursors, which are not information-like at all (and thus, it is unsurprising that we can do it).
Did it this morning, and can report that I feel great :)
That's only true if they are doing it in bad faith. And if they were controlling information at the source. You can still easily find this story on nypost.com. I agree this is dangerous territory for Twitter, but it's 100% within their rights to do so. They can censor content completely arbitrarily if they want. Consumers will vote with their feet. Either they like this or they don't.
The Yahoo article that you've linked appears to be a republication of an article from the National Review (https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-cites-hacked-mat...). Perhaps it would make more sense to link to the original source?
Users can flag without triggering a full flagging (like during the process) and posts will be devalued.

I wonder if there are manual instances as well or if similar articles effect each other's ranking. Seen this happen with stories critical of China.
OMG, yes. Early in my career a mentor said "whether you can afford it or not, go and get a really good chair". I put a $700 chair on my credit card and could instantly work like 30% more hours. GET A GOOD CHAIR!!! :-)
why is the parent post voted down? I feel what it described is very insightful to me.
In the case of kids getting recruited at <=18 years, I think the question isn't necessarily about letting them make their own decisions, but whether this is a decision they should be presented with at that age. It sucks that physical maturity comes well before mental maturity.
I don't pay for twitter, I don't have any reasonable expectations for a SLA regarding anything including DMs. Just like I have no responsibility to listen to people on soapboxes on street corners, and soap companies have no responsibility to provide soapboxes to anyone to shout from.
Unfortunately being good at computers doesn’t make you good at recognising BS.
>shaped international law

Except they never consider themselves subject to that law, just use it to punish those they don't like.

> democratic values

When have they ever spread this? The amount of democratic governments we've overthrown vastly outnumbers the successful ones we've created. And that's ignoring things like Operation Gladio.

>heavily shaded modern international trade

Which has enriched them far more than anyone else.
Notice that the post is written in Javascript.

Abstraction and composition are great to surface the main characteristics of your algorithm. A compiler then can take those characteristics and verify if they make sense. Different compilers can do that in different amounts, and the Javascript one does the absolute minimum possible. On this case, you get no safety, just more complex code.

Go ask a Haskell developer and the first reaction you will get is probably "wait, you were running getData inside the original function?!"
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spelling mistake. I added a YouTube link. Its sort of like humming and blowing a raspberry.
Live and let live for most things, but the talent pipeline hardly starts with adults. You get parents pushing kids through peewee league and the pressure just ramps up from there. High school and college football is basically a religion in some parts of the country.

Speaking of MMA, it's no secret the rules favor striking. From the fat gloves, the aggressive stand-ups, the lack of clothing which makes explosive escapes much easier...
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Do you oppose tests for performance (perhaps) enhancing drugs as well? Seems like they should also fall under the "So let everyone make their own decisions."

Seems like even without them, the intense training for even non-contact sports can be destructive, and for some (e.g. bikes) differences in equipment can exceed differences in human performance, so excluding drugs seems arbitrary to me.
If you think Apple phones are too expensive, you don’t have to buy one!
So, if I choose not to do so, is my choice political?
There's also the whole issue of universality of USB-C chargers and the like. Do you ship a big 100W charger with an iPhone? This issue has existed previously with USB but it seems trickier at the moment. Maybe better to punt from the perspective of Apple. And at least "we're providing a charging cable from an increasingly common standard plug."

(And yeah, if I bought this phone, I'd have a couple USB-C chargers but no cable though would probably use USB-A/wireless charging anyway.)
I don’t think so. I wasn’t looking at media. I was looking at Apple content. Is the lowest priced iPhone $699? No it isn’t. What exactly does “from $699” mean when the cheapest one is actually $729?
While I don't necessarily have as pessimistic a take on this, I do agree this article is evidence as to why I am so often against social activism by companies. Companies, all companies, the "good" and the "evil", will only ever engage in activism that is not a threat to their bottom line. Given that constraint, it means the activism is incredibly cheap in my opinion.

I mean, look at all the recent BLM support from large corporations. I mean, on one hand I'm glad to see them doing this. On the other, I know the only reason they are doing this is because it's pretty easy for them - it's largely already supported by their employees and the bulk of their customers see it positively. I can guarantee if it could negatively affect their long term prospects they wouldn't have done it.

For example, I remember quite clearly that in the late 80s and early 90s you'd hear nary a peep of support on LGBT issues from corporations, and even some of the more progressive companies had to do it with coded language (language gays understood but straight people were oblivious to). It was only when gay rights were already largely supported did corporations jump on the bandwagon.

Again, I'm not saying this is totally a bad thing, but I do think it is a cheap, easy thing. And if you know a company is never willing to do the hard thing, why put any weight into its opinions on these topics in the first place?
What happened at the Indiana DMV?
Keep in mind this entire article is based on players from the 1980s, before CTE was even named, let alone well-known.

A think a big part of the ethical issue is whether organizations like the NFL/NCAA 1) knowingly covered up information, shrouding the risk (presumably to protect their profit) and 2) whether they have a responsibility to the players whose health is sacrificed for those profits

* I realize both organizations are technically not-for-profit. IMO, it's a bit of an absurd classification and a big can-of-worms to open in the discussion
So I've been casually doing some research into this in the past and was just updating my list so here's what I have so far. If I have missed any, please let me know.

* Azure App Proxy

* Google IAP

* Amazon WorkLink

* Cloudflare Access

* Zscaler Private Access

* Duo Beyond

* Hashicorp Beyond
They tend to get dust packed into them that you can fix with a pin.
While status signaling is certainly a part of the purpose of jewelry, it also serves aesthetic purposes that earphones generally completely fail at. Those Airpods don't match your necklace, or harmonize with the green accents in the pattern of your skirt, or with the blue of your eyes.

Earrings can also signal higher status than Airpods; any middle-class schlub can spend $250 on earbuds. That pales next to the numbers that earrings made from precious metals and gems can quietly whisper to anyone who notices them.
It's the customers' problem because they choose to use Google's services. Nobody is forcing them to do that.
As someone who just recently joined Google and took a training on this, I can confirm this is still pretty much the gist of the messaging.
The difference between the telephone company and Twitter is that the phone company was (historically) a monopoly - the only game in town. Use their wires or get lost. It required common carrier neutrality by regulation.

Twitter (and every single commercial social media space) is not the above, and can do what it wants on its service. It's not a public utility.
The cliffhanger is a relatively recent innovation that is for retention. Episodic tv was just that, episodic.
The NY Post editor is Sohrab Ahmari, and his account https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari remains unsuspended.
I can't really wrap my head around about how shortsighted of a move this is.

Just two weeks ago(!) there was a hearing about Section 230 and Facebook and Twitter were saying it was necessary, and they submitted testimony about misinformation at that hearing.

They've now blown any credibility they had left with half of Congress, possibly more, and have attracted 10x the attention and 10x the perceived credibility to the article.

How did they not expect this to blow up in their face?
Isn't the problem that you're only looking at the system in a single world W, when viewing all solutions requires viewing it in multiple worlds?

I mean, I get that time is a little different in that you will eventually experience and remember all possible solutions as you stand there watching the system, because classical time is a linear chain of events. In the multi-world case, it's a branching chain, and your experience and memories of the different solutions are stuck in their own branches.

That does make worlds weird and different from the other dimensions, but we accepted time as being weird and different from space for a very long time.

> Now, if we try an experiment where the interaction at time T1 happens with a particle, and you have detectors at positions X1, X2, Y1, Y2, you will find it with equal probabilities at any of the 4 locations. However, if at X and Y there is a detector, and you detect the particle at X, it will never be found at positions Y1 or Y2. You have to update the Schrodinger equation after you find out that the particle is found at X, which is never how classical mechanics work.

This makes total sense if it's actually a wave and the particle is merely a solution for a particular world W. The detector didn't change anything about the wave. It just coupled you to the wave system earlier, so now your branch of the many-world tree can only see the subset of solutions that correspond with whatever you detected. The only thing that has changed, though, is your ability to see the other solutions. You branched earlier, so now each branch you exist in only sees a subset of the full solution.

That said, I am not a physicist. The many worlds explanation was just the first thing that actually made sense to me about quantum mechanics. It's so conceptually simple.
Shouldn't the process of hiring be more like an interactive proof system?

Prover (the applicant) and verifier (the hiring manager) are both interested in proving the applicant to be a suited candidate.
It should be in the hiring manager's interest that suited candidates can act as valid prover that can convince the verifier!

With this thought, this book should be financed by both the hiring manager and the applicant. The hiring manager should help applicants to write good resumes. And the applicant should help the hiring manager to accept their proof of suitability.

Also, do you think this book will get more people a job (which would effectively create jobs and reduce unemployment) or just improve the candidate selection?

If it just improves the candidate selection, the rejection rate and thus the average happiness of applicants would stay the same (or even drop, as they paid money for this book) and the only beneficent would be the employer, as better candidates are hired.
This is great, I hope where I work never implementes it :)
Getting access to everything in "one hop" is mighty convenient.
Especially now that one hop involves 2fa and finding my phone down the back of the sofa while production has a sev one.
I read this article yesterday. This year I've started reading more sports writing and even though I'm not a big sports fan, I often find the stories very well written. I wish I had realized this decades ago.
Couldn't the same logic be applied to every issue? How different is your argument from the one advanced by "states rights" segregationists in the 1960s and earlier?
Same but I ascribe this to some kind of ambition. Startup founders figure the investor wants a huge ambitious startup.

“Deliver ice cream on demand” is too narrow, and anyway its just what they do now. In the future they’ll deliver all frozen food, then food, then other stuff, and then they’ll expand to moving stuff around for companies... really, they solve motion problems.

So you get a tag line about solving motion problems, or mobility solutions and inventory solutions and of course that means financing, and finally you see a video and notice all the examples involve ice cream.
If the context of this thread is Analytics, do you need to ask? Why not check it first?
To clarify: this covers both internal and external communication.

This kind of training is not unique to Google, either. I got very similarly themed training at Eaton (a manufacturing conglomerate). In both cases, I was left with the impression that the employer had been burned in the past due to otherwise-irrelevant employee communication in some lawsuit.
> The only things that the education system there is geared to do is have kids cram stuff and regurgitate it and create assembly lines of mindless robots.

How is any better to have most robots pointlessly soil 90% of the raw materials they are put to work with, with the worst of them launching vicious attacks against the few robots that do anything remotely close to what they were programmed to do in the first place?

> You can criticize the American school system as much as you want, but for the most part it does a pretty good job.

It does a pretty good... scratch that. A passable job for the minority of students that have developed the academic skills to some amount of critical thinking. Most teenagers cannot do that, because their brains need in the ballpark of 5 more years of maturing. What most students learn out of that kind of education are two things: "I am stupid" and "Academic fraud is Ok, everybody does it".

Classical education recognizes that fact, and instead of trying to push for a level of abstraction that most cannot yet achieve, they train for concrete skills that will be useful now and in the future. It is Ok to plant the seeds of abstraction and critical thinking at a young age, but you should combine it with specific examples of people using those skills. You learn the results of abstraction first, then you get to see how abstraction was applied to get those results. Much later, if you are so inclined, you will be presented with opportunities to do some abstraction of your own.
What a bizarre story. Unidentified person drops off a damaged computer at a repair shop and never comes back. Hard drive contains lots of salacious info about Hunter Biden. Repair shop decides the correct course of action is to give it to Rudy Giuliani. That is fishy as hell.
https://smallstep.com/

One example. I have been testing smallstep, which puts IDP around ssh (with group management), and also includes a dynamic host catalog (hosts run an agent that phones home to your identity provider).

However, I am very excited about Boundary as it seems to be a much more comprehensive solution.
I'm not too worried about those Chinese kids who have done nothing but hit the books with their lives.
Not having the exibition is at least as bad as changing it to satisfy chinese demands!
Helpful there, but gutted a really nice existing product. There isn't a viable alternative still and it makes me rather sad.
Just because it wasn't on Biden's "official" schedule, doesn't mean it didn't happen. My point is that saying "the meeting didnt happen" is less suspicious than saying "We checked the official schedule and find no record that the meeting happened"

Bc, of course, light bribery probably does not go down when you're on the official schedule
Why would you write such an article and not show what the actual _recommended_ practices look like?
My home state and city (at the time) spent half a billion dollars on a blood sport stadium. I could vote but i didn’t really have the option to not pay for it.

Go to texas where football is nearly a religion and ask yourself really how much those kids are opting in for brain damage well informed and without illusions.

You’re right though, I don’t care if MMA fighters beat each other to death, they’ve got the freedom to make those choices, but keep your blood sports out of high schools and universities.
Why not just work with Mongolia? They are a sovereign nation. The photo on the article is from "outer" Mongolia.
Hearing aids that don't look like hearing aids sounds like a great idea. Almost too obvious (only now you've said it, of course!) - I wonder if any companies already do anything along these lines?
A step in the right direction, but it wouldn't help with the other problem of device-as-a-service, which is the company going bankrupt.
Ask HN: Would you rather optimise for quality or delivery?
Hello all,

> I did not mean for the title to be a "click bait" but rather tried to sum my question to fit into the title's limit

I was part of an interesting discussion today across our Engineering organisation where we debated applying strict standards (tools, code styles, deployment methods, etc.) across the engineering teams. I can see lots of value to have guidelines and standards from promoting a sense of unity, maintainability, code reuse, etc. On the other hand, I can see how teams (especially those who have not participated in creating those standards) see these imposed standards as bottlenecks which will only slow them down into achieving their goals and ultimately decide not to follow them.

This becomes apparent especially with the rising trend of "you build it, you ship it you own it" where teams are encouraged to own their code from the "inception" point up to the deployment bit. Teams start to find what works best for them and might ignore completely anything put in place in favour of being agile, fast and modern (use the coolest and latest tech).

I am wondering what the larger engineering community feel and if there are any best practices or pieces of advice that people can share especially when applying to a growing engineering organisation.
I used to hum a lot when I had bad sinusitis or sinus headaches as I guess the head vibrations just feel soothing... I don't do it as much anymore as it's a good way to drive everyone else crazy.
> So, after 5 years you can just do something stupid to get banned and get a full refund?

Yes. They should be able to ban you from their online platform if you misuse it and don't behave yourself but they shouldn't have a right to brick the device you've bought, no matter what you do.
Just to be a pain... as an instrument-rated pilot could the widget have the cloud heights on it visually? Maybe the top of the widget is 5,000 feet or something.
Courts don't look kindly on obviously bad faith legal hacks.

Using such hacks would likely be interpreted as evidence that the documents should be interpreted more maliciously than normal.

The legal system is not computer code. Instead it is interpreted by judges and people.

Judges who will simply rule against you/fine you/send you to jail if you act in obviously bad faith.
Google BeyondCorp?
You don't have to have an essential item to price gouge, though, you just need to charge more money than you otherwise would have to make extra profit. Whether the choice to remove the adapter in this iPhone was just for the profit margin can't be known for certain, but the fact that they removed it in other phones while keeping the price the same makes it seems like it was.
There was a predecessor name to Shellshock of "Soldier's Heart" back in the American Civil war. In such a brother against brother civil war it wouldn't have been judged shameful but with later militarism could have implied "weakness" against the propaganda dehumanized foreign menance. Assuring memory held to WWI and it wasn't an independent rediscovery/reinvention "shell shock" dodged the character image driven denial of having it or its existance by implying more physical damage as even valiant brave men are not immune to bullets and explosions. Men were facing charges of cowardice after fleeing vast trauma and it eased accepting "the man who fled after a many months long bloody stalemate isn't a craven but bearing invisible injuries sustained for his country so executing him would be a terrible wrong". Thus ironically shell shock could be called an ego saving euphemism itself.

And well authoritarians have no sense of irony - what they think is "ironic" is presenting their true self when it unacceptable and passing it off as a joke. Thus they destroy freedom to protect freedom the same as they destroy the village to save it.
Pipernet and Son of Anton isn't (quite) nonsense