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I run Firefox + uMatrix, and don't run scripts by default. Medium doesn't harass me without scripts.
I think GP wants to know why specifically Urbit and Yarvin's ideology are inseparable.
"...presumably you couldn't stick such notices just anywhere."

Nor use company resources/infrastructure to distribute it.
Solid post. Any advice for a founder on how to start engaging with users after a few years of _not_ doing that? Luckily we've had success despite our inability to get user feedback, but obviously we need to do better.
I would expect that both of those things will be explained by the healthcare worker administering the shot(s).
> The idea of implement something like reverse-path forwarding on SS7 switches would for example greatly cut down on robo-calling.

SHAKEN & STIR [0] should (hopefully!) eliminate most of the issues which result from "spoofing" caller ID.

From "Combating Spoofed Robocalls with Caller ID Authentication" [1]:

> "[The FCC] adopted new rules requiring all originating and terminating voice service providers to implement caller ID authentication using STIR/SHAKEN technological standards in the Internet Protocol (IP) portions of their networks by June 30, 2021."

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication
I genuinely made an effort to understand this platform, including going to their offices to write some code during one of their events, and I felt like a complete programming novice. Had to implement floating point using their primitives before I could do something and stalled on that.

I think this is a thing that if it takes off like Bitcoin I won't be mad that I couldn't capitalize because I literally don't know how to. At this point I've given up on it.
I like how the subtle repetition of using the word "gain" programs the mind to associate to grain.
It isn't always fake. I used to work in a retail chain store (I won't say its name, but it ends with "xx" and starts with "TJ") and we were trained to use certain codes on the PA when we needed security to come deal with a situation. The difference, I think, is that these real alerts were coded so as not to be understood by the customers.
> Now, Microsoft says, it will removing individual user names from the productivity score entirely. [...] “No one in the organisation will be able to use productivity score to access data about how an individual user is using apps and services in Microsoft 365.”

I'm impressed with their response to this. The promptness and decisiveness suggests the issue was something which fell through the gaps rather than an intentional strategy.
No, in fact the numbers were not drawn sequentially but arranged in order after. The only exception is the powerball, the 10 in this case, which always is last in the draw and positioned last in the final numbers.

This can be seen in the official announcement: https://youtu.be/11RN1pEnrTo
Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/2368/
"Hey Google pause/unpause youtube" and "Hey Google skip/rewind 30 seconds on youtube" work on my android phone. So I don't know why you say it doesn't work.
Why do bubbles occur? That answer will earn you a Nobel.

I'm more interested in why some people don't follow the herd.
to be very clear, shorting Tesla is not the same as being a TSLAQ member. TeslaQ's operating hypothesis is that they can drive Tesla bankrupt. (Hence TSLAQ, the symbol tesla would have if it declared bankruptcy). At Tesla's current level, I think shorting it isn't a insane idea (but most of TSLAQ has been bankrupt by doing so).
That is my absolute favorite Dilbert.
Do not sign a contract with Snowflake
Throwaway to share a cautionary tale about contract chicanery with Snowflake to protect our ID. In mid-2019, I started testing DWH providers for our small data stack. Did the free trial for on demand Snowflake after hearing how it is suited for smaller use cases. After a few months of using it, we had bills in the low hundreds range/month. Their sales rep reached out to sell us on a contract where we pre-purchase $10k credits on a yearly contract (their lowest contract at that point) where we can roll-over any un-used credits next year. I will emphasize here that the sales conversation, rep never mentioned anything regarding new purchases requirements with the roll over, and in fact portrayed it as a paperwork process to just continue the credits. The actual contract clause is pretty vague and just says unused capacity will roll over into the next contract.

Fast forward to now, we need to do our roll-over contract for our unused credits, which due to covid, we have over 90% unused credits because we had to prioritize other projects. Rep reaches out and informs us that we need to sign a new contract for $1k min. to roll-over our 9k credits and we would lose the 15% discount on the unused credits. Losing the discount is one thing, but having to purchase more just to keep what we have purchased was not at all how this roll-over process was portrayed at signing. The rep then said in fact there is a worse policy for newer customers where unused credits will only roll-over if you renew at the same price or greater only. I should count myself lucky that they had the decency to enforce this policy rather than their other arbitrary policy that is not mentioned anywhere.

If you are considering contracting with them and they are promising all these great things about discounts and roll-over, don't do it. I guess since their IPO, they no longer care about their smaller customers. There has been some chatter on HN about how Snowflake is worth so much, well...here you go.
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So yeah, it places a bet on augur, buying as many shares as it can for "no trump wont be elected" which are currently around 90c and will resolve to $1 in January when biden is sworn in. The reason it isnt $1 yet is because some people are buying the other side of the market for whatever reason. It seems like an obvious bet really, so the strategy is to pool everyones money, take the bet, and then after the market resolves pay back the winnings to the pool.

This particular strategy is just a bet. but other strategies would involve borrowing assets and lending them out to gain interest like you mention. You could say "i can do that myself, what is gained by pooling" and there are two things: 1 you dont have to manage this, the strategy keeper manages their strategy and takes a small fee to do so, and 2 you would be in competition with the pool, less lenders means higher rates so it makes sense to pool the lending.

They get increasingly complex involving taking insurance, lending, borrowing, producing tokens, burning tokens, etc. all from other decentralised protocols, it all gets stitched together across platforms. Money lego is a phrase often used, but really its more like `npm install insurance`

Ah sorry about the link, didnt realise (btw you dont need a yearn account, there is no accounts on these platforms, but you probably do need a web3 wallet like metamask. you have a wallet and that is your account across all platforms, so you hold your user data with you, and can have as many identities as you like for each platform).

Another link to read more on yearn specifically is Andre's blog (creator and one of the lead devs) https://andrecronje.medium.com/ it is one of the interesting projects as it is growing organically, with a mix of public and anon devs, with no specific management, and no VC investment behind it (like some other defi projects), just people coming together an building interlinking code as public goods.
Anyone have a link to the original NLRB filing that is presumably the source for this article?
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I've been very surprised about the vitrol on HN towards cars, which I also experienced recently when I posted some very basic facts about deaths caused by cars vs other means and have seen in some other threads.

I live in an urban area and enjoy not having to drive long distances (or at all) to run errands, but I don't see them as an extenstential threat to humanity as many posters here apparently do.

I still haven't figured it out.
"I'm going to rename 5 to 4 and 4 to 5. If you can't keep that straight when dealing with this community, but not the rest of the world, it proves you're an incompetent dilettante and we can safely ignore you."

Yes, very reasonable.
I’m not great at maths, but back of fag packet let’s say there are 100 suspicious sequences, and there is a 1 in 15 million chance of winning the lottery - that’s 100/15000000 or 1/150000.

Let’s assume that there are on average 2 lottery drawings per week per country, which means c400 lotteries.

So 400/150000 = 1/375 chance per week, so it’s going to happen every 10 or so years.
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Similar-ish story from Bulgaria back in 2009.

4, 15, 23, 24, 35, 42 were drawn back to back weeks live on TV. They also had a probe but nothing malicious have been found. RNG being RNG.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8259801.stm
I can understand if people got upset.
As a tech guy it’s hard to take those metrics as anything but a joke though.
The less I’m forced to use a microsoft product at work the more I’ll produce.
I actually decided to try vaping nicotine to test whether it indeed was a cognition enhancer, and here I am months later addicted like it's nobody's business. Turns out trying this with an addictive personality isn't the greatest idea – appreciate the suggestion though!

Also, the balaclava is interesting: I can imagine the benefit is almost similar to that people get from using a gravity blanket. The weight and "hugging" effect might be very comforting.

Really sorry to hear about the sleep apnea; that's an awful problem to deal with. Hope you're able to find a treatment which works for you.
The alpha geeks of decentralization need to prove they are living better lives. And not just by the virtue of doing so, but by creating combining remixing in a way that is more fun, more interesting, in a way that the staid legacy platforms can not.

It's not about decentralization, to me. To me it was always more about extensibility. About freedom to try new things, to bend tech in ever more interesting ways. There's a wide internet out there, and decentralization wins when it's not just it's own platform, but when that decentralized platform is a part of a wider internet surfing experience, in a way that the walled-garden social intra-nets can not be.
This was my first reaction too, because I remember looking at Hoon ages ago when Urbi came out
Did we read the same article?

You frame that link as a case against Obama, insinuating that his administration was trying to hide presidential records. What part of the linked article supports that exactly?

> The Obama administration already has had several opportunities to indicate its approach in this area, and initial indicators are good—with room for improvement.

> One of President Obama's "Day One" executive orders revised the implementation of the Presidential Records Act (PRA), revoking a Bush executive order that unduly restricted access to presidential records and reinstating the pre-Bush regime for implementing the Act.
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That seems to match my intuition of the halting problem too. Can someone explain why that’s a misstatement? What am I missing here?
> The attacks are trivially easy. You need almost nothing.

Nothing except a connection to the SS7 network, which is not easy to get. You need to be a cellular operator, virtual (MVNO) or real.
Not trying to stir the pot but genuine question - why would national states not approve this?

Samsung (another phone manufacturer like Apple) has it's own Fab.

And regardless of Intel latest troubles, they are still the dominant fab for non-mobile devices (desktop/laptop/server)
This is interesting given what AWS just announced (AWS Glue Elastic Views):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25267734
I'm curious if you've ever looked at a company slack or corporate email system and noticed any not strictly work related purposes?
I thought the comment was interesting. I wouldn't assume that all readers are looking for exact tech info or already knows what was said or thought about it.

Perhaps instead of saying 'This related to, but not the same as' the commenter could have just said 'this reminds me of'.

Very few people need to know this or will use the info and if they do they wouldn't rely on an HN comment just reading out of curiosity.
Just use Spotify, it's vastly superior to all other streaming platforms and basically runs the music industry these days.
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it's not very realistic in western countries. we're not very organized as a society. just look at the US government.
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The best rule to follow to avoid getting duplicate numbers is to just not pick them at all. Quick Pick is a common lottery feature that just gives you random numbers, and should give the best odds of choosing a number which no one else has. Any system your brain can come up with to choose “random” numbers is probably one that someone else came up with too!
Fun fact. shuffle doesn't on playlists larger than 25 songs work on YT Music. How did they manage to mess up something so simple as shuffling songs.
That's confirmed cases so take these figures with a grain of salt. E.g. those are (probably) upper bounds

EDIT: Here are the stats for the seasonal flu: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html tldr: 1-2% hospitalization average
IANAL but this strikes me as bad advice.
I've added a few of my own albums to Spotify. It's a tad convoluted but not difficult.
If you're SaaS I'd start with sending automated emails to ask for feedback at key points in your customer journey. You might find this article I wrote to be helpful[1]. It covers those key points and also includes examples to make it easy!

1 - https://www.savio.io/customer-feedback/ask-for-user-feedback...
And as a non-legal argument, it won't hold up in a context where anything non-legal essentially doesn't matter.
Big fan of ripgrep. Use it on Windows to search through 100s of GBs of data really quickly.
I'm still surprised these things have become so ubiquitous. I remember thinking "these things will never catch on", but they caught on massively in spite of their flaws. I guess the ability to do an action without requiring hands is such a powerful draw that it outweighs all the pain that comes with it.
You ask this with a seeming intuition that this is an "easy" problem. Code isn't free. Time isn't free. For now there isn't an economic incentive to create this, I sure as hell don't want to.
The corona virus it self has been around for a long time. The strains we are seeing now are newer obviously. But it's known virus.
This is the same compound ISRIB as this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25273901
> This is simply a modification of a sewer system

Any civil engineers here that can explain why “simply” might not apply?

I have watched some sewer modifications[1] here in Christchurch (earthquake damage, Insituform product), and it looked incredibly complicated and I didn’t see how they reconnected each home’s connection to the main.

A typical metaphor for software engineering is rebuilding a plane while it is running. What is an appropriate metaphor when you are fixing old pipes that carry human excrement and the system mostly keeps working while it’s being done...

[1] https://www3.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/rehabl.pdf
I remember back in ~93, my dad told me that the Mac we had just bought had voice recognition. He warned me -- quite jokingly -- that he had to be careful not to say something like, "mynameisash, please empty the trash" because the computer might hear it and mistakenly delete items in the trash.

Almost 30 years later, how many orders of magnitude faster silicon and countless person-hours of research and I can't get my damn phone (which, yes, _is_ a marvel that way-back-when-me wouldn't believe) to recognize, "call mrs_mynameisash" when I'm using my hands-free while driving. I don't know how many times Google's voice assistant has called some (possibly local?) T-Mobile instead. And my wife's name sounds nothing like "T-Mobile".
This type of identity framing is on par for 2020.
I'm not sure how these subpoenas usually are worded specifically, but it doesn't seem like that contrived of a situation. Like, if you aren't the suspect and are ordered to hand over all devices used to communicate to <suspicious co-worker X>, if you have a separate device you just hand the thing over. If you hand over a personal phone, they are presumably going to bump into your walled off section and have some questions. Plus, you don't have a phone, while they are working on the thing, which seems like a pain.

This is assuming you aren't in a "hand over all electronic devices" kind of situation.
The argument was "At my job (and most jobs, I would think), if you check in any superfluous code, you’re going to be seen as a bad coder. Regressions are real and are highly embarrassing to both the company and you."

That is a bad argument in this case, because a regression in an internal tool is not going to be "highly embarrassing to both the company and you."

This was not a "regression" in any sense.

I welcome any other argument on this topic. But the argument presented had a flaw that I was pointing out.
Huh, fascinating. Re: the salmon roe, do you take a supplement which contains the lysophosphatidylcholine, or do you just down the eggs?

Ice baths: that's for mental acuity, or overall physical health? I know it's used frequently in high-level sports for recuperation purposes.
Links for that? It sounds logical but I never heard about it before now.
Can we define an order of "specialness" on the set of sequences? Because in this case, you have a subset of the non-special sequences which are the least special of all. Which makes them special.
This guy went the extra mile and put ads for himself at the end of each track.
This far into the thread, it changed to justifying two phones for reasons of possible deposition. I was explaining why it’s a good idea to do that.
I found what you said interesting (my other comment) and noted if you had said 'this reminds me of' probably others would not have jumped on you for the phrasing. (I thought it was fine and I learned something I hadn't known or thought of.)
Yep, and case law dictates what is acceptable participation. Generally, using company time and infrastructure to perform concerted activities is prohibited. That's why union voting and meetings are done off the clock and off-site. Once protected by union membership, the protections tend to increase since you're not acting alone.
It's a query of which you save the results in a cache database table, so next time when it is queried, you can provide the results from the cache.

Typically, in a traditional RDBMS, the query is defined as a sql view, which you either have to manually refresh, or can be refreshed periodically.

Using streaming systems like kafka, it's possible to continously update the cached results based in the incoming data, so the result is a near realtime up to date query result.

Writing the stream processing to update the materialized view can be complex, using SQL like materialize enables you to do, makes it a lot more productive.
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Spotify does let you upload your own music. (I’m a paying customer though so you might need that.)

Overall I’m very happy with Spotify but experience has shown that within a few years it’ll begin the slow and unstoppable turn towards Villainy.
Haha thanks for this.

So lost I was. Never heard of Spaceballs.
This is a pretty good primer on this peculiar new problem.

It's kind of a case study for future text books about how if there is a certain incentive, it will be embodied and satisfied no matter what. If the names and labels have to change, they will, but the essentials will somehow turn out to not have changed in any meaningful way in the end.

It's if anything worse now than before. At least before you were allowed to own your inscrutible black box and use it indefinitely. There was sane persistence like a chair. You buy it, and it's there for you as long as you still want it after that. maybe you don't want it any more after a while, but it doesn't go poof on it's own.

One way things are actually better now though is, now in many cases the saas outside of your control really is just a convenience you could replace with self-hosted good-enough alternatives, thanks to decades of open source software and tools building up to being quite powerful and capable today.

I think this is a case of the rising water lifting all ships. If the proprietry crowd gained more ability to abuse their consumers, everyone else has likewise gained more ability to live without them. Both things are true and I tell myself it's a net positive rather than a positive and a negative cancelling out, because more and better tools is a net positive no matter that both sides have access to use them for crossed purposes. At least it means you have more options today than you did yesterday.
Depends on the application. We run Blackberry UEM, and good luck it seeing profiles. The application just wants to take over the entire phone doesn't matter if it is an iPhone or Android.

I walk around with two phones now, one for work and my personal one.
Not having to care about implementation details seems like a positive thing to me. There's a reason RTFM is a meme and "read the fucking source code" is not.

Anybody claiming they need to know everything about their dependencies is being unrealistic.
So not much has changed since Apple's Newton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6qxixgQJ4M
With satellite TV, you need only receive and controlling who can do that is a matter of DRM which the transmitting companies struggle to implement securely. In the case of some satellite TV broadcasters, no DRM is employed. With satellite internet however, centralized control is trivial because merely listening to the satellite is not sufficient; the satellite must also accept data you transmit to it. This means that it will be trivial for the American government to regulate Starlink. Whether other governments can regulate Starlink as well will depend on a few matters, not least of which will be the American government's willingness to facilitate their regulation. And even in some countries the American government dislikes, access to Starlink will likely be blocked by mandate of the American government (I wouldn't expect feds to tolerate Starlink selling subscriptions to Iranians or providing service to stations located in Iran.)
> I remember that case. Yeah - she deserved to be fired. She used an internal security tool to push her personal political views. How could that not be a fire-able offense?

If you read the next sentence in the linked article, the NLRB disagrees:

Spiers was fired after she created a pop-up for Google employees visiting the IRI Consultants website. “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities,” the notification read, according to The Guardian. The company said Spiers had violated security policies, a statement that hurt her reputation in the tech community. Now, the NLRB has found the firing was unlawful.
I think there is still a pricing problem with reusability because spacex doesn’t have any competition that is reusable.

There is no downward pressure on pricing because spacex only has to be slightly cheaper than the cheapest non-reusable rocket. So for a marginal cost of, let’s say, $2m for a reflown booster, there are still able to charge $50m+.

But since their customers are seeing prices of $50m, space is still expensive... nothing much has changed.

(I’ve simplified this by omitting the fact that the upper stage is not reusable)

A lot of BFR development is being done in the open in Boca Chica, and you can follow along because it’s being live-streamed almost 24/7. BFR has had small incremental hops recently and will try for a 15km flight this week. We’ll see what happens.