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> First, their interpretation of I/E is not the same that the Big5 label it. The Big 5 also don't look at it as binary.

The MBTI also doesn't look at thing like E and I as binary when it comes to the "type of a person". A single preference is binary under the MBTI, but everyone has multiple preferences. For example, if someone's primary function is "Extroverted Thinking" then their secondary function may be "Introverted Intuition". As the relative strength (degree of preference) may vary continuously, that leads to a continuous grading of "extraversion" when describing a person

As far as I can see, the Big 5 doesn't even attempt to explain what's going on at a sub-person level, which probably does mean that there is little evidence for those parts of the MBTI theory, but it also means there is little evidence against it. In any case, I've seen a lot of people arguing that the MBTI is rubbish because there are degrees of extraversion (and other described properties) in people, and that's a poor reason to dismiss the theory because it predicts exactly that.

> I'm also not sure how to interpret your System 1 vs System 2 comment, as thats also not binary

I suspect there are differences of opinion over this within the academic community, but IIRC https://www.jstor.org/stable/3132137 describes the response to "Wason Selection Tasks" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task) as being remarkably strongly bimodal indicating binary preferences.
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I got that figure from Google, but it's the average residential rate and I guess you'd get the industrial rate for a large operation(my power company charges 5.95 cents for that).
> And I'm not even from the US..

Accessing Facebook from outside the US is likely, through a combination of bad signals, why you tripped the ban hammer. Unfortunately.
I don't think the person (if any) played to run the support bot is nearly as emotionally invested as you are. Voting with your wallet means redirecting your funds, not trying to argue with bots.
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For an architectural overview, view source of the page. Bottom has an ascii diagram of the geometry, and how the program works.

For example: "a hexagon is six equilateral triangles (length h) put together around a common center"

____ _______
/\ /\ « each bisected \ | / (1/2, √3/2)
/__\/__\ triangle in it h \ | /
\ /\ / is defined by \|/ 60°
\/__\/ h the unit circle » (0,0)
The benefit of owned and/or open/free software is that it can be run anywhere with or without connectivity.
The problem with discretion is that it is also a common tool of discrimination. I'm fairly sure I have been given a pass on a few traffic violations that I probably wouldn't have if I weren't white.
While this is broadly true, it's like saying Alexander Graham Bell is responsible for me dropping my cell phone. Yes, if Columbus had acted differently we might not have these problems, but there are countless other situations since then where a different choice may have alleviated though problems.
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What a nicely written manual. Very clear
"oh, we stopped several attacks, but we can't tell you anything about them..."

This!
Vast majority of crypto currency mining is done with excess green energy that would otherwise be rejected by the grid and wasted, as high as 78% by some estimates.
https://medium.com/value-of-bitcoin/bitcoins-energy-consumpt...
You used a word in here that shoots straight into the crux of the issue: this person's approach is actually good in many ways (and I think financially is one of those ways), but it is a giant hassle. If you don't mind a lot of extra planning ahead and hassle, it seems like a good approach to life. But if that stresses you out, then it's an awful approach.

I was thinking about what this person would consider the worst offender on this front in my lifestyle: early in the summer, we bought a teardrop camper trailer. I calculated how many nights of hotels it would take to even out the price, and it was a lot. But it also unlocked a bunch of trips this summer that we would have never taken without it. We could have rented a similar trailer for each of those trips, and we did look into that before we bought the trailer, but again, it was a hassle. In practice, we simply wouldn't have taken those trips. So a straight utilization comparison is not the right one.
To save you from reading the 5000 words waiting for the point, I gave a summary on the 2015 submission. (Linking to avoid copy-paste per HN guidelines and mod feedback.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9561960
No clue. As I have been rather happy so far with my phone, I haven't followed newer phones much, outside of some bullet points of new and improved functionalities.
America is the only country I've flow through (15+) where you are still required to take off your shoes. It's dumb theater and the TSA is pointless.
Yea, I can register a domain name, spin up a wordpress site on some shared hosting platform and point it to that domain, install some nice-ish template, connect an email service, and even get some basic pages, (very) basic content, and a handful of useful plugins on there in an afternoon.

Honestly...what other stack could get you that far in 3-4 HOURS?
This is not about hate speech... Creating new accounts with Facebook often leads to instaban.
> That's not the Buddhist teaching. The Buddhist teaching is apathy to everything via lack of desire.

First, Buddhism is a term that includes a huge range of religions and practices derived from Buddha's teachings.

Second, I don't know what form of Buddhism you are talking about, but Buddha certainly didn't teach apathy, in fact one of the biggest emphasis in his teaching was compassion, which is pretty much the opposite of apathy.

One of the problems, at least in English, in understanding Buddha's teachings, is translation. The words he originally used to describe what he felt and what to do about it, have no direct translation into English.

In my case, before reading a book about Buddha's teaching, I understood the goal of Buddhism as the "cessation of suffering". But while reading the book and doing some meditation, I've come to understand it in slightly different terms that I can't fully describe with words because it's a range of feelings and reactions within me (body and mind) that now I interpret as the stated "suffering", even though it is not really suffering.

> Meditation is magic to HN.

I can't speak for HN. Personally, meditation has helped me calm down and be aware of my mood changes. It took me years to take up the practice, trying different things on and off.

Also, be aware that "meditation" is a bit like saying "exercise", there are thousands of different ways of doing it. Some you might like, other you might totally hate.

If you really want to know, I encourage you to dig deeper, there's a lot to discover.
Are you doing tier-1 support for a product that costs less than the support phone call? If not, you are not in the same category.
It has that feeling. It's a western. It's simple.

And it's awesome too look at it: the way it was shoot - with the huge screens as background - it feels and looks REAL, so finally it's not CGI. Augmented reality, one could say.
Ask any room full of adults:

* When was the last time you had a nightmare about school?
* When was the last time you had a nightmare about work?

Regardless of the average age, I would be surprised if you found that work nightmares are more common than school nightmares. The recurrence of school nightmares even seems to be something of a running joke in our society.
Why is there so little call for reform from congress and new administrations etc?

Obama or Trump had no part in building the original system so why do they continue it? Is the political class as a whole 100% on board with authoritarian, privacy invading, controlling America?
The only way this set of rules should be legal is if Facebook is required to refund the money for the headset if they decide to ban you.
Do you have a source for that? (And maybe a list of GPUs that are blacklisted as well, so I know what to look out for with some customers?)
The title is misleading, it appears to me, since the claim "did not prevent a single terrorist attack" isn't backed up with even a grammatically correct sentence.

> a judge ruled beginning of September 2020 that not [one single terrorist attack had been stopped with the help of the NSA's phone surveillance program (sic)

If you trail the linked articles you end up with this 9th circuit opinion:

> The panel wrote that to the extent the public statements of government officials created a contrary impression, that impression is inconsistent with the contents of the classified record.

It's my reading that pertains specifically to the case before the court and not a conclusive determination about the entirety of the PRISM program.
I'm not asking in an accusatory manor, I'm generally curious. What do you think it's real purpose is?
From my point of view the problem manifests in this way: I simply don't bother to invest the time to watch new shows until it's clear that they're going to get a proper run that allows them to finish well (Breaking Bad, Justified; even Sons of Anarchy, which was a real slog for the last 3 seasons, ended well).

I'm tired of investing time in shows that Netflix simply drops: The Expanse (though now thankfully picked up by Amazon), Designated Survivor, and Shooter (although that was total crap, especially after season 1) spring immediately to mind, but there have been plenty of others.

I also won't bother starting to watch shows that I know Netflix have cancelled before they've concluded (e.g., Glow), because what's the point? And this is starting to severely erode the value of Netflix's library to me.

Things that have worked incredibly well on Netflix are shows that tell self-contained stories within a single season, like Narcos or Fargo, or shows that tell have a self contained but are able to tell it in a longer form than feature film would allow. The canonical example of the latter for me is Godless, which is one of the best shows on TV, I think. Genuinely fantastic.

And this last point leads on to another, which others have made: US TV series are too long, typically 18 - 24 episodes per season, multiple seasons, often too bloated with filler episodes, and often suffer from ridiculous over-plotting after the first few seasons, which comes off as aimless thrashing around: Prison Break (season 3 onwards: just utter nonsense), 24 (SPOILER ALERT: I mean, seriously, WTF was that Tony Almeida betrayal storyline all about in, I think, the final season - multiple sharks were jumped and I'm still pissed off about it).

On the flipside UK TV series are often too short: 6 half-hour episodes is still quite typical, so you're only really getting into a show and then suddenly the season ends. With that said, for some shows this has been made to work really well: Line of Duty, or the earlier seasons of Luther.

I do feel like, for many shows, a happy medium would be 10 - 12 hour long episodes. You could then afford to make a much more polished product, whilst still probably investing quite a bit less.
The sugar in American bread is ostensibly to allow yeast to ferment quicker than they would on flour alone, to impart bread-y flavors, not for sweetness. This shortens processing time.
You can get something similar by clicking the location flag with the 8 alphanumeric coordinates in the upper right; that provides a full-screen maximally-zoomed-out map. I agree that it would be cool to be able to zoom out further than currently allowed to see more of the fractal map. The current zoomed-out view is something like Dynmap for Minecraft, I'd also be curious to see the equivalent of something more like Chunkbase that can show millions of cells at a time.

That said, I don't think the concept of "the entire map" makes sense. I expect it's functionally infinite, probably capable of scrolling to 2^32 or 2^64 cells, only allocating new regions in the database as people scroll there and start working. On that scale, you probably wouldn't see any activity at all.
So? I'm sure you could understand the words just fine on cassette. Wanting to hear a bit less hiss in your recreational music listening seems like a pretty "first world problem" to me...
That's pretty fucky, especially since their 2FA doesn't go through SMS for me (it's a system popup). FWIW, there are (or were) other apps which provided similar functionality without going through Apple's hoops.
The majority of Facebook users access it from outside the US.
These are definitely valid points. Unfortunately your last example (3rd party web services easily discovering when I need an oil change, or what days I've been driving aggressively) is the kind of hypothetical I would want laws actively preventing.

Arguably, it's not this law's job to introduce such a protection! But best I can tell, no other law covers it in MA. It is perfectly legal for 3rd parties to sell this and other data without my explicit consent or even an opportunity to opt out (I think only CA has such an opt-out [0]).

Granted, manufacturers already have and can sell this data with no recourse. But at least manufacturers have national brands which could be hurt by selling or leaking massive amounts of data about their customers. Perhaps some brands could even make privacy a selling point. It seems like this law erodes that thin shell of protection.

[0] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...
I have been giving Netflix a try for a couple of months now and I am really thinking of dropping it because of this. I think I’d rather rent something from one of the on demand services and watch what I want, than being forced to watch whatever Netflix happens to have on offer this week. Especially because I generally prefer to watch a movie over a TV series.
Ask to speak to their manager, or research executive support or track down corporate salaried employee's contact info online.
I share your questions on the show's quality. I ultimately chalked many things that made me tilt my head to some idea of the show's 'style' and decided to re-suspend my disbelief, but still.

On the bounty hunder droid...what about it came across as an immaculate AI? It had machine-precision with firearms and apparently a pretty interesting social-relationships module, but the re-training montage showed a lot of it's limitations.
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Each bitcoin transaction costs about $50 now. They're quite a bit more onerous to use than cash, thus people use "exchanges" which are controlled by for-profit private interests.
They're not going to tell you about wins or loses, it would be silly to think otherwise. I'm not saying I agree with the program in any capacity, but those of us that have worked with government have a simple saying "loose lips sink ships".
>But it's basically an impossible problem to solve

This is not just possible, but relatively easy to solve. Applications can be sandboxed by default. Signing the application or user granting it extra rights can remove some restrictions from the sandbox.
Man, I really hope this is just a temporary peak of insanity in the industry history and a total change is going to happen soon. You know, there were times in history when horrible, bizarre things were norms, and somehow the societies overcame those. This is our only hope.

> Given that I connect the iPad to the Mac via a USB-C cable, it's not clear why iCloud is required at all. They're just intentionally crippling their expensive devices.

I believe they just want to make you get used to that so one day you would't even think about using any of your devices/apps without iCloud. Their vision probably is to make all the devices merely interfaces to iCloud and to make "offline usage" sound as ridiculous as using a toaster without electricity.
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Don't have to take your shoes off anymore if you precheck.
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I watched season 1 and the first episode of season two. Stopped after that, I didn't want to ruin it for me.
I think they meant to not ship secrets inside the container using the Dockerfile keyword ENV, because they're retrievable. If you must ship a ENV value in an image to the public (it's quite useful for config values that need a default), then know that it isn't secret anymore.

If you need to provide a secret value to an image and it needs to remain secret (like a database password), you most commonly would set the env values at runtime or volume mount a config file at runtime.

On a different side of this, if you need a secret at image build time (like an SSH key to access a private repo), you can use build arguments with the ARG keyword and they won't persist into the final image. Multi stage dockerfiles are also a great way to keep your final image lean and clean.
Typically, it's because most of these businesses have some extra requirement. They need a brochure site + some complicated multi-step form, or some integration with a third party API. Wordpress is popular because if there is any platform for which there will be a turnkey plugin solution for these extra bits of functionality, it'll be wordpress.

The API will have an official plugin, or someone will have written one because their client needed it and the dev decided to support and sell it. Complicated forms can be turned out with plugins like Gravity forms.

This is why lots and lots of sites are still built on wordpress because the ecosystem around it lets people do a lot of stuff quickly without touching a line of code.
Top 1% of articles on the theme of "how to be a better programmer"

It's practically a "visual novel" has been unrolled into a PDF from which you might conclude:

* C/C++ is too b0rked, use another programming language

* you learned some interesting details about C and C++

* you learned something about how to build capacity for better programming for yourself and the people around you
I understand that it is impossible to prove a negative, but at the same time given the scope of the surveillance dragnet I'd hope they'd have something they could point to. At this point I would even circumstantial evidence as to the programs efficacy would go a long way, but it doesn't look like they even have that.
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Every nuke on earth would not do that. The Earth is really big, and even a nuke would not affect a large portion of it.
Because it works ? I did that for our business unit to fully leverage our internal network infrastructure (SDN) , so I could have pods as first-class citizens working along with components deployed on bare metal, without all that vxlan/calico fuzz ; and did some other enhancements, all in less than 1000 lines of Python and Go.
It has been argued that PRISM was more about corporate espionage under the ruberic of counter-terrorism than anything else. In the book The Shadow Factory, James Bamford points out the ridiculously low prices that were available for overseas traffic to be routed into the US and then back to a neighboring country, sometimes even a different region of the same country... anything to get overseas telecoms to route traffic through a PRISIM splitter (the allegation Bamford makes is that bribery was involved to get these routing deals in place as well).

It’s certainly a fanciful story but does anyone really doubt that the post 9/11 US government would do this?
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Yes, that's me. If/when you give it a try, feel free to ping me[1] with any questions or issues.

[1] boris@build2.org, berium on reddit, boris-kolpackov on internals.rust-lang.
You can say it about anything, in 5-10 years it'll be better. But in 5-10 years you'll be old and won't be able to fully enjoy. Things are never ideal.
But, if they stop an attack, say from XYZ country, is that data public? Is there any place where the failed intent of the attacks is listed?
A note about not running as root: In certain systems if you break out of the application and have access to a shell, it might already be game over. An attacker probably already has access to secrets, to the database, and all the assets worth protecting.

On the other hand, changing the docker user to non root might introduce some failure scenarios (eg file ownership) which might lead to other problems like availability incidents.

Security should start with threat modelling, and taking a risk-based approach. You can spend hours fearing that someone might break out of the Docker virtual machine through a zero day, instead of using that time to fix much more likely and plausible threat scenarios. Pick your battles.
I left a reply to another comment on this topic. To recap that here though, advertising is a non-technical medium generally not bound to literal correctness, especially when the claim is understood by any reasonable person to be an approximation, given that taken literally the claim is obviously impossible.
Quite a lot of hit shows just need more time to incubate than others. Most Star Trek series didn't get decent until the third season. Looking even further back, something like Cheers would have been axed almost instantly.

Back when I used to give a damn about television series, I followed a lot of the inside baseball, including incidents that might lead to a series getting cancelled. Some networks were just more prone to cancellation than others. For a while, Fox was particularly eager to take a sackful of new kittens down to the creek; I recall one series didn't make four shown episodes before cancellation. The Sci-Fi Channel (later SyFy) had a particularly brutal streak for a while.

It's clear that whatever any network promises at the outset, they exist in a huge tension with the actual show creators and runners (and yet more tension with the actors). All negotations should be performed with that in mind. I wonder precisely how hard an "exit clause" would be to wrangle. You know, you cancel the show, we get four or six episodes, at such and such budget, and such and such filming time, to wrap things up.

Since about 2005, my television series selection is what I call the "vulture strategy:" I wait until a series is cancelled before I watched. Then I wait for the hype to die down (the carcass gets more juicy). If it is still appealing after all of that, I stick my beak in. I just cannot get invested in something that might have the lifespan of a carnival guppy that could be flushed down the toilet at the first sign of listlessness.

Netflix in particular has been very clumsy in the execution of its shows lately, even once I filter out the endless annoyance of its dark UI patterns. Very "message-y;" I got a bellyful of that with the Christian types. And that's without them going and retroactively editing their old shows. Netflix is turning into my last pick when I want to look for something random to watch.
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Yeah. Much of this list simply comes off as arrogant and narrow-minded. Whether or not it was tongue-in-cheek, I don't know. This one in particular:

> It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

is at best a hyperbolic joke. I dearly hope he wasn't being serious.
I do now prefer the "mini-series" approach. Like "Good Omens". Take a good book and turn it into a mini-series. There are so many good books about - no need to create crappy multi-season series.