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Sure. The audience of online media is much larger than the number of people's grandparents watching 60 Minutes.
Quick background on the great Walt Kelly quote, with images of the comic strip in which it was used.

https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-me...
If they're landing on the launch platform, they've already solved the backpressure issue from the rocket exhaust being that close to the rocket body, haven't they? I'm not sure I see how the catcher's mitt helps. Didn't the legs and platform already have to hold the static weight of a fully loaded Heavy plus a fully loaded Starship, and now it just has to hold up a mostly empty Heavy plus whatever delta V or delta H at rocket cutoff... Is that more than the empty/full weight differential?
You could run your system completely in RAM, to at least limit the duration of exposure.

Persistence is overrated! :)
It would be great if there were a way to ally with multiple 'warlords' to achieve security without having to trust just one of them. It should be possible since there's the hardware level, the OS level, and the application level. At least for computers, it should be possible to build an alliance that doesn't require you to put too much trust in any single warlord.

Of course on mobile, there's so much vertical consolidation (especially on iOS) that you just have to pick one warlord.

EDIT: curious about the downvotes — what part of this do people disagree with? That it would be good to not be stuck with this dilemma? That mobile is vertically integrated?
I love my AirPod pros and they do a great job getting rid of background noise. But I’d love a complete absence of sound (temporarily!)
Speculation: Could there be a connection to something similar to yesterday's story about Uber being defrauded? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858)
For all that "don't read the comments" seems to be common knowledge in the tech community, we have a collective blind spot about the product design choices we make that amplify annonymous, un-vetted, un-sourced claims.

Almost all our tech media products default to treating things as "this is good enough to broadcast to the world until someone proves we should take it down" instead of defaulting to "this is probably low-value dreck that's not worth much distribution."

This is certainly easier from a product design perspective... but does it really make sense?
SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence (2016)
> actually discuss the reasons

On topics where the fraction of HN readership with professional expertise is relatively small, it seems HN infrastructure and culture often isn't able to surface that expertise, to sustain the quality of discussion which exists when the fraction is large.

I wonder if there might be some form of low hanging fruit, like maybe a cultural convention of creating a "professionals" comment tree, where people are expected to apply a stricter-than-usual test of whether they have the expertise to comment? Attempting to create a lump of critical mass professional discussion.
My 'personal standard' is 58 lines of 115 characters whenever I launch a new xterm.

Even then I often extend the width to 150 or more characters, depending on what I am doing.
You can still sue the poster. Section 230 just means you cant sue the service provider for defamation and slander.

Do you think phone service providers should be sued for conversations their subscribers have? Similar thing.

Also without it you could sue companies like cloud flare, aws or anyone providing hosting infrastructure.
>- Now Twitter, Facebook and YouTube can spread defamatory information about anyone without paying a similar price.

Is that necessarily true though? If someone spews libelous content on Twitter, are they not individually susceptible to being sued for libel?
Whats the alternative to a sea wall? Beach reconstruction? Let the water reach the houses?
fun reminder that canonical refuses to use tls on their repos
It would be interesting to see the statistics of the number and percent successful of defamation and libel suits based on source of the info. I don't think those cases are very common since they can be hard to prove.
It's good, but in terms of content, it's impossible to keep up with the government's ever-changing position, lack of communication, and lateness to act.

The gov.uk "Brexit checker" is full of out-of-date information and plain broken links.
Yeah, this is baffling. I'd rather run turn of the century ICQ than Zoom chat...
That's less true as salaries increase. Some of the increased costs like matching social security contributions or 401k matching are proportional to salary (to the tune of ~8-25% in aggregate depending on a ton of factors), and many of the other large benefits like health care are fixed and consequently take a much lower percentage of a large salary (10% would be a large overestimate for total employer health care costs for the salaries listed).

"Double" is a much better (but still probably a bit high unless you're also factoring in HR and other similar overhead) estimate for low-paid white-collar workers. Lots of fields in vast swathes of the country start out around $30k/yr but still have full benefits. A $3k-$15k/yr healthcare benefit on top of the other variable costs can push you close to double.
They simply do not care at all what's being done to them.

This is an ignorant view to take. I'm a pretty dedicated apple user but only because the other options don't have the tools I need and the UX I desire.

Likely many of the flaws apple products have are piling up to a "straw that broke the camels back" situation for users in a few years or decades.

When you assume other's intentions and feelings, bad things happen.
In the long term, you are probably quite correct. In the short term though, the sea-walls give an impression of safety and protection, allowing the owners to sell their properties at great profit before the values collapse.

Here in New Zealand, waterfront property owners have been making legal attempts to block authorities from placing warning notices in the Land Information Memorandum (LIM) documents. These LIM documents are examined by lawyers when a property is being purchased, so to have a warning about your property in the LIM can seriously affect the value of your property.
Yes. I don't know how to extend this answer tobe more informative. Yes.
> What really puzzles me about Apple fans and it's userbase is that they do not care.

Alternatively, they know what's going on and approve of it.

Consider that this blog post frames the issue as one of surveillance, instead of an anti-malware effort. If you are inclined to be anti-Apple-at-any-cost, then you will agree with the blog post. If you are a happy Apple user, you are inclined to go for the latter explanation.

> It's the strongest example of consumer cultism. Absolute in their exceptionalism and ignorance.

Now you're being ridiculous, snobby, and insinuating that you are of course immune to such motivations. Sucks to see this on HN.
I absolutely agree that faces should not be an available option.
Additionally to RHSeeger@'s note, in some countries even if you did not join the union, you still have to pay the dues, and take on the new contract.
> What really puzzles me about Apple fans and it's userbase is that they do not care.

They are hardly alone. There are so many issues to worry about you can really only afford to pay attention to a few. Water pollution, food pollution, being able to to be housed and fed 20 years ago...the list goes on and on. And computer security is obscure and way down the list.

And specifically addressing your case, the same is true of Windows and, TBH, all Linux distros. You've checked everything on your machine for back doors?
Fair enough, and it's great that you're in a position to walk to if you don't like your employment situation. With that said, workplace bullshit can sneak up on you, and looking for a job can be pretty time-consuming. IMO a good union is a form of insurance. Usually you don't need it, but when you do it's very nice to have
That's why I bought EFX stock on the dip after the hack, I knew there would be no consequence to their business. I've made 60% off of that bet, beating the S&P 500 over the same time frame.
What a crap
AMD has overturn Intel for nearly 3 years!
By "replace SMTP" I mean the whole email protocol stack, not only SMTP. I'm not proposing to replace it for all situations overnight; of course SMTP etc will be used for decades.

TMTP also covers most IMAP/POP use cases. And it allows short, plain-text messages (see Ping) to make first contact with others -- necessary when that server has less restrictive membership requirements.

Authenticity is a double-edged sword. For certain confidential content, you want the recipient to know that it originated with the sender, but you don't want anyone else to know that in the event the content is leaked or stolen.

I believe the extinction of email for person-to-person & app-to-person correspondence is a foregone conclusion, due principally to phishing. The question is what should we do now, and the answer is clearly not chatrooms (which are of course useful in certain circumstances).
Please specify what in this article is wrong. Debate is more interesting and informative than asserts by fiat.
With regards to SoundCloud's future, their revenue is growing, they're profitable, and they've recently raised. I'm also one of the developers working on it. Can't speak to fraud as it's not my area + NDA, but earnestly, thank you for reporting what you see.

Source: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/soundcloud-revenues-s....
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What would a sensible alternative be?
Oh my god. That 1950's 'rocket catcher' patent image, catching a rocket nose first with a collapsing tube... chef's kiss
He's a very eloquent writer.

As far as I know, the door isn't quite shut on macos, and maybe a ulysses pact is sort of in place.

But if they could do that for ios, I would be so. happy.
The houses are doomed. Anything built right next to the ocean is temporary, and if you were dumb enough to put millions into a fancy house there, that should be taken as an expensive lesson.

In the absence of seawalls, the beach will advance as the ocean rises, but the loss they're describing is far in excess of anything caused by sea level rise.
My samsung tv is like this. All I want to do is turn the tv on and switch to HDMI 1. Something that used to be fast and trivial now takes ages of waiting for laggy animations.
LinkedIn is unusable without faces. It's often the only way to know that you found the person you were searching for.

Perhaps this site doesn't need that functionality though.
I cannot wait to see them iterate on testing this. That's gonna be some epic footage
Nice to see Audrey Tang getting props. There was a similar interview with @miyagawa on rebuild.fm that is a good listen.
I believe you are refering to Vietnam.
What about the definition of cartel doesn't match what a union does?
Healthcare in the United States is complicated with lots of different players. The article seems to hint at a key issue they faced:

>But insiders claim that it will allow the founding companies to implement ideas from the project on their own, tailoring them to the specific needs of their employees, who are mostly concentrated in different cities.

Medical services is mostly a localized service, so each city is its own individual market. As large as Amazon, JPMorgan, and Berkshire are, their employees are spread out geographically, and even in their headquarter cities, they do not represent a significant number of people negotiating for medical services. Without a way to control the actual medical service supply (i.e. doctors and hospitals), their programs will have to negotiate at market rates, meaning there really is no way to achieve significant savings.

Amazon released their pill pack service, which helps because drugs can be shipped across the country, so there are efficiencies to be gained there. However, drug costs are still a smaller percentage of overall costs [0], albeit growing.

[0]https://www.ama-assn.org/about/research/trends-health-care-s...
Last year i skipped FOSDEM after attending the previous 5 years.

Every time i felt miserable on the day with less interesting talks - it is just too overcrowded and if you do not commit to a room for the whole day without leaving the room you are basically screwed. This is the only conference where i weigh my biological needs against talk topics - is topic XYZ worth suffering or should i go pee?

I think limiting the number of participants would greatly benefit FOSDEM, even if it means that some people miss it.
Search me. Perhaps there are other factors influencing compatibility; perhaps these lists were created before the forgoing of the engines.
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> By that logic, it would be sensible to lament that, say, a particular daycare is staffed entirely by women, or that

This is a non-sequitur; neither of those are communities in the sense under discussion.

I'll agree that there are some cases where a lack of diversity doesn't indicate any weakness in the community, but that is not the general case.

I don't know why you are bringing "intervention" into the discussion as I did not, nor did the OP. And who said anything about top-down governance? I noted only that the case for more diversity in HN is quite defensible, and it obviously is. NB I didn't claim it was correct, just defensible which is a pretty low bar.

So beyond "bizarre" being an overreach (ironically, verging on bizarre even before the ex post facto introduction of intervention, etc.), this is exactly the case-by-case you are asking for.
The only thing he announced, the only change, is that some (not all) schools are closing. The fact he spent 10 minutes and didn't quite manage to communicate which schools/kids were affected says it all really...
What should concern you most is that they didn't disengage when they were informed that she was a Senate staffer discussing legislative work and in fact seemed very bent on getting details about the legislation in question.
Those who care mostly never used Apple in the first place. So naturally those who use it usually don't care.

There are some refugees from Apple periodically though.
I'm more than willing to accept that. I'd clarify that terrorism is the bigger concern to the American government, not that it necessarily should be.
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My take on this is the old unions aren't decrepit just because they're unions and they've existed for 100 years. I don't think it's built in to the nature of unions to eventually become decrepit (no more than any other institution anyway).

Their problem is not that they're old, it's that they're not powerful enough anymore to be the kind of adversarial force they once were. They're shrinking instead of growing. Their strategy, if they even have any, is built around defensive self-preservation and survival. It's a siege mentality.

There's a reason for it, and a history to it. In the first half of the 20th century, upstart unions were on the rise, growing all the time, taking over everything, expanding into new sectors, gaining power. There really was a time when it was reasonable to think eventually just about every job in the country would be union, and that's just how things are. Perfectly normal. (And generally speaking, those young unions were more spontaneous and democratic than their progeny today. They were more "bottom up", less bureaucratic. Also much fightier.)

But capital isn't stupid or defenseless and they fought back. The result, for a while, was the Fordist paradigm that ruled the postwar years. The idea was union leaders and management leaders could work together and reach compromises that were acceptable to both sides, and overall productivity and quality of life would be optimized through this kind of give-and-take. We're all Americans, right? We all have the same goals (even if I own the factory and you work in it).

Well, that's all gone now. From the 70s on, the formerly powerful unions got totally pulverized. One major weakness they had is their own leadership had, in the compromise period, gotten pretty cozy with management and formed a kind of "labor aristocracy" whose interests were more aligned with management than the rank and file. This is basically the state the old unions are in today.

In other words, the developments were contingent on dynamics of 20th century history, not the only thing that could have happened. The problem with 20th century unions is not that they have some innate structural flaw, but that they lost the fight.

I don't think we need to re-invent the concept. The boss owns everything you need to do your job, and you have to have a job. You lack power and control over your working conditions. As an individual you can't do anything about it. Banded together with the rest of the workforce, you can. This is a concept everyone can relate to already and I don't see any utility in renaming it for the new generation or something.

I used to drive a 30 year old beat up car. One day somebody crashed into it and smashed it up. I tried fixing up everything I possibly could, but eventually I realized the engine was completely shot, the block had been cracked, and the thing just wasn't coming back. I didn't rebrand and go get a hoverboat or something. I just got another car that wasn't wrecked.
Do you have a source for that? AFAIK all of the GPL'd apps in that list don't have GPL dependencies made by other people, so they're free to release the code under the GPL and distribute it on the App Store without following those terms. See Signal's 2016 post about it: https://signal.org/blog/license-update/
That’s like saying your vote doesn’t matter, so why vote?! I will still be a millionaire one day regardless of my ethical views because I know how to invest money well; the only question is when. Tesla and Nio are up in a large part because investors just want to see Tesla and Nio in their future. It’s a nudge towards green energy like all the green energy stocks. It’s not the little guys pulling the strings, it’s the big whales that have more money than they know what to do with and that brings a different kind of incentives. Look at SeaWorld Holdings. Not the best financials and doesn’t always make a profit but people love going to Busch Gardens because it’s a wonderful paradise and they want it to stay in their future. All 3 of these companies I mentioned are outperforming that surveillance and spying stock for good reasons.

You might not be convinced yet so here’s some further evidence. First look at the websites of Morningstar and see how much of the screen real estate is dedicated towards ethical and responsible investments. Years ago, this didn’t exist. Look at the returns of VOO vs. ESGV now. You’ll see that ESGV has outperformed VOO!

Do you know what sucks more than being on the bad side? Being on the bad and the loosing side. :)
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The thing is the core idea of smart TVs is good. I _do_ want to be able to stream content to my tv. Its just that TV OEMs can't pull it off or support it for the lifetime of the TV so I would rather nothing than something that makes the tv worse.
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Probably all three, if you include sand pumping. (I guess that's beach reconstruction said another way)

Hawaii might be different to the continental shelf abutting changes i see here in Oz. Its driven here by a northward sand flow, combined with erosion. Sea walls and groynes and channel guides and dredging for river access are a dastardly trio which wreck the natural beach as does building on sand dunes.
The title claims it’s worse as we learn more. I personally didn’t learn anything from that article which wasn’t announced when the breach was initially discovered. The public still knows very little. It could certainly be bad, but no one is telling us how bad.
Reminds me a bit of "Serving at the Pleasure of the King" - Coding Horror, 2011

https://blog.codinghorror.com/serving-at-the-pleasure-of-the...
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I was simply replying to

> Except his autism spectrum disorder isn't going to get better

As someone diagnosed in the spectrum it totally can.
I don't want to come across as contentious but will. you. please. just. use. a. real. database.

A flat-file architecture only scales so far. This is probably the only forum on the internet where a thread passing 500 comments is an actual problem - and remember, you're planning on getting rid of pagination, which means no theoretical limiter on request sizes. In a few years when 500+ comments threads become the norm among another million users, disk I/O is going to be more and more of an issue.

Racket has a perfectly good database library, just kick the problem upstairs and be done with it.
How did you handle the issues from your marketing people if i may ask?
Interesting post, I’m working on a whole graph classification problem at the moment. If GNNs aren’t the future, then where else should I be looking?