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It's not about making information disappear, it's about recognizing that humans are very susceptible to mass manipulation (see cults, mass hysteria), and it is becoming an increasingly powerful strategy and weapon in our age of rapidly growing new communications technologies. How to combat this is debatable for sure - I don't think this Youtube stuff is the most effective solution - but I don't think we can just apply old principles to new problems without first acknowledging the real challenges it's meant to address.
looks up from writing a fancy Azure function that manages a blob store

Hey!
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The linked article, an official press release on FDA.gov, uses "the FDA" no less than 12 times? Am I missing something here?

> The FDA has determined that ...

> In making this determination, the FDA can assure the public ...
The smallest routable IPv4 network on the Internet is a /24, which is 256 addresses. Regional Internet Registries won't assign you smaller than a /24, but individual ISPs might. Even if you have an assignment, maintaining it requires payment of annual fees to your RIR, unless you're a lucky "legacy" address holder from before the RIRs were formed.
Sales tax is by state. Supporting VAT by state for ecommerce would be a nightmare.
The iPad Pro is not a development machine, but it so easily could be
I haven't used Lynx in probably 15 years - this is my first time using it to submit a form, actually. I'm really enjoying it! I spend most of my day in Vim and Tmux otherwise. Thanks for sharing
Show HN: I made a beautiful purple theme for Jupyter Notebooks
No, not really. If a new organization needs a large block of ip addresses, they just use IPv6. The biggest reason IPv4 persists is because deploying IPv6 can be very expensive for legacy users: new equipment, retraining, hiring. For a large organization, planning and executing such a deployment can take years. There are a lot of fresh new telecom providers in India who do not have that kind of baggage, so they chose to deploy IPv6 networks from the start for their cellular internet. You'll notice that if you're on a cellular network, even in the U.S., you will have an IPv6 address. If "the market" ever tries to price gouge for IPv4 addresses to the point where deploying IPv6 becomes the cheaper option, then organizations will just use IPv6 instead.
Puzzle games seem like the perfect example of an entire genre that strives to get the difficulty level “just right.”

I think Stephen’s Sausage Roll might be my absolute favorite recent example of this. The Talos Principle and the Witness are also other great recent examples.

Also, to your last comment about adjusting difficulty in the UI: many, many single player action/adventure games have this. It’s been a commonplace thing for quite a while now. It also enables cool things like maximal-difficulty speed runs.

I recently had a great time watching someone speed run Metal Gear Solid 2 at its absolute highest difficulty level (that I don’t think the game even offers to players until the first play through is completed). I believe it was a recorded speed running-for-cancer event or something like that. I’ll have to try to find the YouTube video.

Actually, here it is: https://youtu.be/3DDMhcxUoAc. Obviously not something to watch if you ever want to play the game and haven’t yet. Another excellent one for MGS3: https://youtu.be/jUMDBOasRbA
> IMHO you're not interested in free speech unless you're willing to defend speech you find repugnant.

Defending speech I find repugnant is not the same thing as defending a nonexistent right to post lies on Youtube.

Host the lies on your own website. Create flyers and pass them out. Talk to people in public settings. Write to the newspaper (they might not post your lies, but you're free to try to get them). Hold conferences. Do whatever you want. As long as the lies don't violate a few well-established exceptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...

But the right to have your lies hosted for free (and given a valuable, far-reaching audience) on a private platform, no matter the consequences to others or to the platform itself? It doesn't exist.
Well, then, let's make lies illegal, if that's where you're drawing the line.
Nine years of a long exposure pinhole photo taken in a beer can
Plenty of doctors prescribing benzos seemingly unaware of the cessation issues with them
I recently went through something similar, except I approached them before a promotion happened. I was able to outline the position I wanted but the process showed me several concrete incidences of dishonesty on their part. I turned down their offer and ultimately it cost me the job.

Know your worth but also know your employer. A good honest employer will listen and work with you. You may not get what you want but you'll be heard and understand each other.

Respect yourself but know when to move on and try to think several steps ahead.
she was fired for toxic behavior - demanding to doxx colleagues, calling for sabotage in mass emails, throwing ultimatums, slandering people on social media.

It was a good call to let her go, way overdue in fact, but very badly handled PR-wise.
It's a matter of relative power to spread the message, not absolute. So it's not a question of whether any single random person could reach the whole country, but rather how many people can that single random person reach, and how much can those who control the means of mass distribution of information can use that to reduce the reach of a single person.
The stuff I get downvoted for boggles my mind (e.g. get downvoted for saying thank you this was a good post).

They should rename HN to HM, HiveMind.
This post doesn't mention the main reason (in tax policy circles) that sales tax is seen as preferable to a VAT, which is that consumers know how much money is going to the government. With a VAT, you don't know, and it's easy for the government to increase the VAT without purchasers realizing it. In fact, VATs are sometimes referred to as "money machines" — as in, you can just crank them up to generate more tax revenue.

Sales tax, on the other hand, is more salient because product prices are typically shown pre-tax. That means that when you buy something, you know how much of your money is going to sales tax, and people would realize if all of a sudden their $10 purchases were costing $12 with tax instead of $11.
How late was it that there was still wide disagreement or variance in spelling?

Even when the printing press arrived and dictionaries were published most people who knew how to read/write outside high society, monks, scholars, etc would have used phonetic spellings or whatever spelling was used in their area for a very long time.

Spellcheck has done more to freeze spelling than anything since the Dictionary. I don't know if that matters but I do find it interesting. In the past if a prominent newspaper or popular writer decided to spell a word differently it could catch on. Now the spell checker pushes back against such changes.
MoneyWiz https://wiz.money/new-in-moneywiz-2020 it can sync with a lot of banks
I build things for phones (natively) and also often for the web. It’s sad to see mobile apps perceived this way due to greedy and questionable tracking practices in the industry. To me a really well made Android or iOS app that takes full advantage of the platform is a satisfying thing to build.
>I find it really disconcerting how many people on Hacker News want a corporate entity to decide what information is deemed acceptable to know.

You're saying the label on a forum for the shitshow that is corporate VC & the race for billions is incorrect? That it doesn't embody an authentic hacker spirit? Surely you jest?

Anyway, know your audience. There's no shortage of corporate bootlickers who love their billionaire overlords and the antics their privacy/competition/small business/ethics/human rights crushing companies get up to posting on here all day every day. Some even feign giving a fuck about these things but unsurprisingly not enough to actually do something about it.

Then you've the statists who, well, love the state although it often has the caveat of which side of the coin is currently pretending to run the place.

Then you've got the union of the two who often rear their head and they're... well... fucked, but what are you going to do?

Anyway, as I've said on here before as someone without skin in the game and who is at a safe distance, what seems like the final season of the hit reality TV show "USA" is most certainly an exciting one to be watching.
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Yeah, it's kind of weird. The technical (and many other discussions) are often quite insightful here. It's always fascinating to get into some obscure topic and have a world-renowned subject-matter-expert suddenly drop in to give their two cents or clarify what they meant in some quoted piece.

I'm quickly learning to just steer clear of the political discussions though. They're usually a very jarring reminder that intelligence in one or several areas does not preclude intellectual dishonesty and intentional ignorance in another.
Looks good ! Well done on launching it.

Side Note Tip (VSCode):
I was amazed the other day,that I can "search inside" the VSCode terminal window with "grep -rn mystr *" and then Ctrl+Click on the file results and VSCode will open it on the line numbers !
> HN votes more on delivery style than substance.

It's much worse than that.

Because most HNers have almost no actual knowledge or experience, you have to provide two links for them to read to get up to speed on virtually any topic.

I've done experiments on HN readers where virtually all of my posts are downvoted or flagged, but adding 2 links will usually get them upvoted. No difference in tone or opinion.

So if you read HN, you're also my personal guinea pig. Thanks! :)
Well you need something to negotiate with, and historically it should be tubular and percussive.
More like "The larger contiguous chunk you have for sale, the more it is worth." Like diamonds, unlike gold.
Would be even more fun though if it was secure. And fun does matter.
Connascence – a taxonomy for different types of software coupling
Wow, that was salty. Better wash it down with some whine. Oh, wait, I see you already have some there.
mRNA vaccines are fantastically specific in their biochemical action because of how they were designed for use as treatment for specific instances of cancer and this and their significant history of testing gives me high confidence in their safety and effectiveness.
I found The Witness perfectly balanced. None of the puzzles were insurmountable but some took plenty of headscratching. The way that if you get stuck you can go and try a different area of the island made it - I might have lost interest if I'd been stuck with no room for manoeuvre.
Absolutely. I don't think that private censorship per se is problematic - the problem, rather, is that it amounts to monopoly abuse in the present configuration of the market.

(Although I'd prefer an economic system that makes monopolies fundamentally impossible or very unlikely - i.e. one that constrains the ability to concentrate capital.)
There was a strong racist undertone to the campaign. In my family we used to joke about my kids grandparents being mildly racist. The leave campaign helped turn that up a notch.
“If the virus changes substantially, particularly the spike proteins, then it might escape a vaccine. We want to slow transmission globally to slow the clock,”

Is this why some are saying we might need a booster shot in a few years?
From what I understand, the problem is in routing them. If you could buy a single IP address then all the routers need to keep a record of where that IP address goes to rather than a simple rule of this whole block goes out port 5
To be fair, there’s also an auto-centering mode, which will move sound source to be in front after your head has been still for a few seconds. But I get it, sometimes you want to just put sound somewhere and want it to stay there, and you’ll need button for that in Mobius or additional hardware in AirPods
Most job contracts have no-moonlighting terms, non-competes, or mandatory IP assignment clauses.
> I own 2048 IPv4’s myself and their value is ever increasing. Like digital real estate, without the fluctuation of crypto.

Until the day when ipv6-only connectivity becomes practical/commonplace. At some point ipv4 market is going to crash when they are simply not needed anymore. Of course that inflection point might still be quite far away, but I wouldn't count on ipv4 stock being a retirement fund
"Yet the Chicago Strangler [1], who is still active, still operating to this day, 50+ victims, few have heard of....because he attacks marginalized groups like black runaways rather than white people."

Your implication is that white people can't be marginalized. Economics cut across skin color.
Turning down the promotion is certainly an option. I tried this and it ended up getting me laid off. Don't be surprised it this just forces their hand.
Agreed . Yet we all benefit from these past resets.
Understood, this is the reason I suspected and have spent considerable time in the past optimising state updates to forms in React and Redux projects so can imagine how this would become an issue in much larger teams than the ones I was working in.
They're not banning all allegations of fraud. They're blocking a specific set of claims that have been shown to be false, for instance that Donald Trump won the 2020 US election.
It's helpful for some network policy issues.
That is by design. You should upvote/dovnvote good/bad ways of expression, and if you disagree with something then argue why you do.
The linked twitter thread describes some of the fake NGOs and news websites that the campaign had setup - a very entertaining read:

https://twitter.com/DisinfoEU/status/1336642899006681088
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Try to prove electronic computers/TPU works like an organic human.
>It's about combating weaponized misinformation.

Nah. It's about whether or not we are okay with giant corporate tech companies deciding what is and what isn't "weaponized misinformation". I'm fully up to speed on the history of the United States using information as a weapon abroad, but what makes me uncomfortable about this situation is that tech folks seem to have dropped our usual skepticism about that strategy, and are somehow now okay with this happening domestically. Maybe I'm being naive, and this skepticism was never really justified, or is easily overrided by feelings about "making the world a better place". Whatever. It's still going to be weird to me to watch my friends who work in tech, who in literally any other circumstance would be freaking out at the prospect of tech companies deciding what you get to see on these gigaplatforms, jettison their skepticism in order to "protect democracy".

>And if you think the "American spirit," or somesuch nonsense, makes us immune, I hope we won't have to find out.

Not sure this invocation makes the point you think it does. Seems to me the "American spirit" you're invoking in the negative is one built on a mythos of telling totalitarians, be they government or corporate, to go fuck themselves. Recent history gives one good reason to be skeptical, give the corporatism and financialism rampant in the US economy. But that's still the mythos. I've still got a little Faith left.
I don't know what kind of anesthesia you were on, but a quick google suggests some kinds of anesthesia cause difficulty swallowing. I also can easily pull up a link suggesting that dehydration is a common cause of sore throat following any major surgery.

So this may not be entirely about the physical contact of the tube.

I am not a doctor, just someone who has seen too many of them over the years for my own medical dramas.

Edit: Just to be crystal clear, I am absolutely not trying to suggest anything for you, medically speaking. The above observations are food for thought concerning the problem space under discussion. That's it. That's all it is.
Right. It’s not the move that matters. It’s the “tell(ing) them to never contact you ever again” that matters. In other words, setting a boundary.
You imploed that mutation is the same as a „change in any way biologically”.

Coronaviruses mutate slowly, and the majority of mutations chamge nothing in the way the virus mutates.

So far, out of all the strains, only one has been shown to modify it’s behaviour.
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Most routers I have seen do not leave ipv6 unprotected. By default they block incoming connections like nat would.
Definitely. At our company our network provider decided that it's better for us to use ipv6 from now on. For one day the customer support couldn't figure out what was wrong with our network. They even suggested that the recent heavy rain might have damaged the lines. Finally after a few struggles they mentioned in one sentence that they switched our region to ipv6 only, and that was when we, the customer, realized what's wrong. And obviously, we have a business plan. So that was one day of work without any internet.
Some more context - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXn9O-Rzb_M&t=2424s
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They're private platforms. You can send those links via many other routes which would be legally protected speech.
So it's finally okay to say there's multiple strains with different infectiousness and (possibly) severity?

Back in February-ish (I forget exactly when), we had confirmed community spread in Washington (West-coast state in the US), with the belief that it had been spreading for weeks and no one noticed, because of how few cases there were, and no bump in hospitalizations. This was likely the Wuhan strain, which likewise had been spreading in Wuhan for at least a month and a half before it was detected.

On the flipside, when it reached Italy, it hit that country hard. It wasn't clear why, but I remember a report sometime during the summer that the most prevalent version of the virus in Italy was distinct from the Wuhan one, and could possibly be labeled a different strain because of its increased infectiousness, that mutation apparently occurring somewhere in Europe and spreading out from there (France was also hit hard at the same time IIRC, but Germany for example was not).

Not long after that I remember a cross-country comparison that said the primary version of the virus in New York (US East coast, also hit hard) matched the one in Italy, but not the Wuhan one, and that what we had in Chicago was a mix of the different strains with (at the time) no one winning out over the others.

Nice to finally see confirmation about there actually being different strains that are shifting over time, but unfortunately the timing makes it look like lockdowns may have selected for the more virulent version and caused the pandemic to be worse than it otherwise would have been (see the graphs in the "G strains take over" section, where the cases spike only after, well, the "G" strains take over and the Wuhan "L" strain has been pushed out).
We are out of ipv4 addresses. That is why amazons stockpile is worth $2B, that's how we are reduced to trading the existing addresses at ever increasing prices instead of getting new fresh ones essentially for free
You can turn on the show "show character and other hidden formatting symbols".

You can also do a search for double spaces.
IIRC fluorine is/can be a more potent oxidiser than oxygen.
Why does it have to? If you define “learning” as “being like an organic human”, then sure perhaps it isn’t “learning” under that definition, but that seems like a poor definition, and I don’t think it is how people use the word.

What does “learning” mean?
Typically not (but I guess it's possible). CGNAT is expensive to run, but carriers do it because it can be less expensive than getting more IPv4 addresses, and it's faster to add capacity than to get addresses. IPv6 addresses are very low cost and quick to ger assigned, so if you're supporting IPv6, and you run low on addresses, adding CGNAT doesn't make sense.

It's much more typical to either have cgnat IPv4 and public IPv6, or just cgnat IPv4 and no IPv6 than to have cgnat both.
Ah yes, you're right. I forgot we sort questions based on their upvotes.
> The actual study design was nothing particularly impressive.

Now that vaccines can be designed so quickly, I wonder what if anything can be done to speed up the testing of their safety and efficacy.
And for completion, here is Alfred performing the same search: https://imgur.com/iIkGdO1
I'd guess that Musk personally moved to TX because he's planning on moving SpaceX and (possibly) Tesla HQs to TX.

TX has lots of cheap land, low taxes, business-friendly politics, low cost of living (for employees)....CA is basically the opposite and getting worse.
I'm inclined to agree, but I do think that 95 needs to be on that list as well simply because it was such a massive step up from the MS-DOS plus Windows 3.1/3.11 era. 98 itself was a bit of a misstep, but I do agree 98SE was the next major improvement point.
Ok, let's burn some karma. This is a question of lesser of two evils, or ends justifying the means. Not everyone agrees with the far left (the faction doing most of the rioting); being from an ex-socialist country I quite literally, not exaggerating, think they are morally equivalent to nazis. I think the US constitution really needs a "self-protection" amendment that would remove the first amendment protection for an enumerated list of ideologies explicitly hostile to the rights that it gives (free speech itself, freedom of/from religion, due process, to some extent racial/gender equality/private property/gun rights, etc.), then make them a crime and throw anyone marching with a hammer and sickle (or swastika) in jail; but you don't need to go that far to think roughing up rioters is justified as a deterrent. Kinda like shooting a burglar in your house is a justifiable self-defense, although shooting a burglar who is running away is not.
links and elinks are actually two different browsers.

elinks started out as an experimental fork of links but these days they’ve diverged a little. For example, links supports a whole plethora of operating systems, including DOS! While elinks is POSIX only.
Sounds like something a censorship advocate would say (or someone who dislikes the actual things being censored as of the current climate). Will you still believe the same way when the pendulum swings and it's the left that is being censored?
Or how about the government step up and do its job looking into persecuting these groups? Facebook is not a government, they can't and should not police/persecute people. Are you going to shutdown car manufacturers because a psycho used his car to plow though bystanders on a bus stop?

Everything facebook has been asked to do is utterly futile. Sure, they can remove a post or two but the person making those posts still runs free.

Fabeook is a victim of their popularity. Because of their size they're easy to blame for pre-existing problems government neglected for too long. Government just doesn't want to deal with any of that for real and so will just throw an angry finger at FB and shift blame.
I’ve had that happen in Europe so I don’t think it’s just poor countries doing that.
Oh, a literal blast radius.

This feels like old news. I remember reading about Google making its own network hardware 5+ years ago and putting parts of the data center in shipping containers. When you're operating some of the largest datacenters ever made, you're going to build a lot of your own stuff.