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Chrome throttles tab CPU activities when backgrounded, but doesn't clear memory for the tab. For users like me who usually have 50-800 tabs open across all my browser windows, that really adds up. I also appreciate (err... appreciated) The Great Suspender because I didn't want all of those tabs active every time I opened a browser, so I'd have scores of tabs that never even got loaded, but were ready to go the moment I wanted to return to them.
He's got a point about history, it's just a story we tell ourselves that only resembles what really happened. There's value in that though, because there are many lessons that can be learned from history. Plus it's just fascinating. We like stories, and history is our story.

However, people put way too much emphasis on history - their personal history - and it affects them in all kinds of unhealthy ways. In my opinion it's so much better to leave the past in the past and focus on making a better future. Learn the lessons that can be learned and then move on (easier said than done.) I'm not an expert, but that's my take on it from my life experience and also watching others struggle with their historical baggage.
Whataboutism. If you have any proof that the accusations of Navalny are true, then come forward with it. Otherwise I just use Hitchen's Razor.
The hypothetical student's sarcastic answer isn't technically correct.

> you can just show them a ruler and
> ask them where does the first centimeter start(s)

The question involves a nuance of the english language, the distinction between a measure of wholeness and the contents of that unit.

Length is a count of the completeness of a measure. The length of an interval must inherently include 0 as a unit to describe taking no units.

A 0 starting index is likewise also required to indicate skipping no storage cells.

Therefore an absolute index start must be zero based, and the Addition of duration must also include the option of zero as a means of describing a point at which to begin, but having not yet used any length.

The subtle trick is that is a point, an array of zero size; this is why the length, or alternately absolute stop point, for an array storing anything is one higher. It isn't actually zero indexed, it's a different property of measure (the size or stopping address).

A centimeter is also a wonderful example since it should graphically contain eight additional ticks for millimeter marks, and naught else, among it's inner span. This aligns wonderfully with explaining that there are targets spots for 8 bits of an octet within that single byte of indexed storage.
> Last summer, after a man died in a Tesla that was using the car’s Autopilot system, which allows for autonomous driving on highways, Levandowski told several Uber engineers that they were not pushing aggressively enough. “I’m pissed we didn’t have the first death,” Levandowski said, according to a person familiar with the conversation. (Levandowski denies saying this.)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/inside-uber-lawsuits...
You may want to take a look at https://fly.io (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616857)
I'm already looking. One of the problems with living 'in the woods' is poor internet connectivity. My job is 100% work from home, so it doesn't matter if I am in SF, or some small town in Colorado.
If still you need to login to access repos, same stuff.
>That's just another convention, though

It is, but it's a widely accepted convention that underlies how computers fundamentally work.
That would cover users who are poor at managing software. Being able to turn them off would require someone to be good at managing software. Why remove control from those users?
I voted for Trump because his policies more closely align with my beliefs than any other candidate on my ballot. I am very disappointed in his response to the election results after it was clear there wasn't proof of enough fraud to change the result, and I'm very disappointed in the pardons.
Lifehack: export your suspended tabs as a flat file through the interface, uninstall the add on, then follow the downgrade as the blog suggests, at the end reimport your tabs from the flat file
Why WOULD Trump pardon assange or snowden?
He was already a billionaire before he got elected. What I find particularly disgusting is how lifelong politicians with relatively meager (compared with the private sector) salaries can become so wealthy while in office. But yes the revolving door is a thing and it should be addressed. Yellen earned over 7 mil in speaking fees in the last two years. It is impossible that that will not have any influence over her decisions when she's back at the Fed.
If there’s anything that Trump is actually good at, other than carnival barking, it’s shielding assets and wealth from bankruptcy, and remaining rich after “insolvency”. Don’t expect him to show up homeless on Venice Beach any time soon.
There are many situations where 1-based indexing is more natural. There are also many situations where 0-based indexing is more natural. And also many (possibly most?) situations, where it doesn't really matter.

My 2 cents: it isn't really that important. As long as the developer is aware of whether the language they are currently using 0 or 1 based indexing.
The fuel pumps are literally powered by the rocket and use high pressure tanks to prevent vacuums from forming in the tanks. How do you plan on achieving that on the pad?
Show HN: Brandkey – Logo API
Excellent post, if only for the fact that its a great way to share "what works for me" at a time when most of our local JS/Web meetup groups have been put on hold due to the pandemic, or gone onto Twitch / Zoom, so its harder to have those casual "I'm really loving such-and-such" conversations now. Thanks for sharing. FWIW I also like the general keep-it-simple / YAGNI approach. I switched from TypeScript to straight up JSDoc and with the right IDE setup it works beautifully.
There is no need to be pedantic about technical or legal definitions. We all know that the word 'concentration camp' is used to conjure up images of Nazis killing jews en masse. But I'm arguing they're not killing/enslaving Uyghurs en masse. I base this on my own research and sources.

If you go by the more flexible definition of 'large number of people in a small room' regardless of what actually happens to them: I can't independently verify how large rooms are but I agree that people should be treated as humanely as possible.

But in all of this, you've completely neglected the fact that China has reeducation camps (real reeducation camps, not "reeducation camps" in quotes) is because of terrorism influences from Afghanistan. If you watch the video I provided, there's a testimony that says that the US were in Afghanistan in order to make use of Uyghur extremists to destabilize China. What is China supposed to do, do nothing and let people continue to walk around with bombs and machetes? China isn't doing all this just for fun, terrorism is a real problem that has no good solution without collateral damage.
quality of life can be so much greater but it does come with the caveat of what you find to improve your life. for me it is the distinct lack of noise and what noise I do hear is of a different quality. followed by less light pollution and overall feeling of calm.

for some the need to feel like they are in the center of everything is the primary requirement and what I see as detracting from the experience is just background noise that they may not even notice.
Ask HN: POTUS pardons Levandowski, supported by Peter Thiel, good or bad?
No argument there.

The story of Levandowski appears to be a story about consequences being something other people experience.
Surely the congressional IT dept would require/implement full disk encryption right?
The case for vaccine challenge trials
As an introvert, I wasn't as much bothered by lockdown but friends and family complaining about it was more draining than lockdown itself.
Having watched the vid, he goes into specifics of why he thinks Oumuamua is 'not a rock' based on geometry and reflectivity. It was quite fascinating.
I'd say from a mathematical perspective, 0-based indexing makes more sense, simply because the Peano axioms start with 0 for the natural numbers. Also, thinking of overflows makes more sense this way, because it's just modular arithmetic.
Carter was effectively offering a pardon to any eligible person who wanted it. Affected people still had to request the certificate for the pardon to have any legal effect.

An example: https://www.dcourier.com/news/2019/nov/10/veterans-day-dan-f...
I just finished The Three Body Problem. It's the best science fiction I've read in a very long time. It is a trilogy so it'll take some time, but completely worth it.
Leave the party for, what?

I'm not sure they have many other choices to maintain their power / assets at home / etc. I think most of them are effectively without much in the way of alternatives.

As it is infighting inside Russia can be pretty brutal / risky. I can't imagine losing any political clout would be a good choice.
Musk has mentioned using Hyperloop to transport people to the launch platforms. I don't have time to dig up the interview I heard it in but I'm pretty sure he said as much at one point.
Need something like this for Emacs/org-mode
> Disable analytics tracking by opening the extension options for The Great Suspender and checking the box “Automatic deactivation of any kind of tracking”.

> Pray that the shady developer doesn’t issue a malicious update to The Great Suspender later. (There’s no sensible way to disable updates of an individual extension.)

Does Debian ship packages for individual browser extensions?

I mean, if they do I'm sure it's not scalable and-- after spending time reading debuild manual-- a giant, archaic pain in the ass.

On the other hand, all these app delivery systems are so damned pernicious and require constant vigilance. We may have arrived at a moment in time where this is actually a difficult decision:

* pay somebody a living wage to burrow down into Debian's WoT bureaucracy and add at least a selection of this functionality without phoning home

* continue playing the most tedious game of whackamole with a whackamole game that mines all our data in order to learn how best to beat all users at whackamole
Not really that either, honestly. I know/have heard a lot of writers who just use Word for that, too, Brandon Sanderson for one. Scrivener is widespread and well-loved, but it's very optional.
Unfortunately off-by-one errors can be insidious and non-obvious to debug, having different systems only complicates this. 0-indexing makes sense for systems and computer programming while 1-indexing makes translating math more straightforward. Inter-converting between the two systems is unfortunately non-trivial, even if the cost isn't that high.
link - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-pr...
> Who is "equating"?

You are, in your post upthread.
R packages on CRAN need to be able to install without internet connection so I'm skeptical that that's the case. CRAN packages also don't allow for dependency on R packages that are (only) on github.
Until I have a post-EOL OS option for an M1 mac, I'm not buying.
While there are temporary monopolies, great products win long term. Without capitalism we would live like monkeys in the forest. That would be an interesting life as well, but far not as interesting than what we have now.
you're saying because Trump's pardons weren't influenced by the EFF or ACLU, nobody should support those organizations?
Chrome does discard the memory of tabs that haven't been used recently and Great Suspender can be configured to make use of that functionality.
I think it was supposed to be a comparison to Typescript. Since TS is a strict superset of JS you can simply rename a file and refactor into TS as you go.
My Republican friends are all angry that the last minute pardons are white collar criminals and hip-hop stars. They were really hoping for an Assange/Snowden pardon to stick it to the "deep state". But honestly at this point they're acting like drained husks and just feel so let down.

I personally look at the pardon list and I'm at a loss for words. What a weird mix of scammers and celebrities.
After their killing of CentOS, I hope anyone who reasonably can avoids RHEL. I'm positive they're going to change policies again in the future and fuck over people who decided to go with this zero monetary cost RHEL offering.

> When we announced our intent to transition to CentOS Stream, we did so with a plan to create new programs to address use cases traditionally served by CentOS Linux.

This is a load of bullshit. If that was their plan they would have announced both of these changes together. It's not like they were under time pressure to get the announcement out.
This is silly on so many levels that its not even funny. In India whatsapp is used as a tool for public dissemination of govt propaganda but that is not even the whole thing.

WhatsApp admins are made to "register" their groups with local police station and I have a relative who manages one group. Had to frequently visit the police because of his "posts" which are only news forwards but they want their views put to public.
I read on twitter the police install that WhatsApp malware on their phones so it can propagate through these news groups. No confirmation on this but just saying.

Then you have this crackdown on dissent whereby forwards and messages and statuses crticial to govt are arrested and literally tortured.
I know because friends have taken a beating on more than one occasion.

This is damage control by govt on behalf of the company because that allows their users to not jump ship and govt can maintain surveillance

Edit1:

https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/big-crackdown-ag...
Edit 2:

http://thekashmiriyat.co.uk/after-facebook-now-whatsapp-star...

https://kashmirlife.net/youth-arrested-for-misusing-social-m...

> “He has been also found involved in misusing of social media platform by creating fake accounts and posting seditious and provocative posts for antinational activities which are highly prejudicial in maintaining law and order,” he added.

So speak anything critical to govt means antinational and sedition and that needs arrests?

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/india-launches-fresh-c...

This one while not directly related to WhatsApp does makes a point to explain how the govt is using social media in most productive manner which is benefical to the society.
As an infosec person with no CVE's stories like this make me feel like a complete failure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Women want to be with AND to be impregnated by the top 20%. If they realize that longer-term relationships are bogus anyway

Have you run that idea past a woman?
Yes, for this administration it's a manual. Did you read the list? Mobsters, corrupted politicians, etc..

The ACLU and EFF should also find a way to give Trump money / favors under the table to get pardons too in the name of the ends justify the means?
Elected representatives get to try to make rules then the other side can chuck lawsuits at it for a decade trying to overturn it. The power to determine what rules are valid and how those rules are interpreted is a very powerful lever on how the country is run.
...which they dropped like a used tissue, yes. That was the entire point of the exercise.
What this analysis misses is the role of individualism. Probably because individualism = unquestionably good is perhaps the single most foundational belief of modern Western civilization.

Twentieth-century totalitarianism could only have arisen from an industrial world in which the local social networks of family, village, and church were destroyed in the process of urbanization. Subsequently the less local social bonds one has, the more one becomes susceptible to mass political movements and extremist ideologies.

Unfortunately the internet has only exacerbated this, where it’s not uncommon to have more social interaction (even if it’s only watching someone else) online than in person.
If they get rich by selling books and speeches I have no problem with that, and am surprised by the number that do. People might not like that, but it isn't corruption.

If, on the other hand, a president makes his presidency about doing favours for the rich and powerful then he won't have to write books and speeches afterwards.
I just wonder why. It seemed like pardoning Assange and Snowden could win him a huuuge bonus to popularity among people all over the world. Perhaps that was considered "too much" and could probably imply worse consequences so he hesitated to.
Perhaps outside of display servers altogether, implementing an authentication system that keeps track of what user currently owns what v.t., and allowing only that user, or root, to switch to that v.t..
Snowden overdid it. He found illegal behavior in a spy agency, but he also exposed legitimate activity. Sure, NSA was spying on Angela Merkel and other allies. You might agree with Henry Stimson, that "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail", but the reality is that countries spy on one another. Snowden might deserve whistleblower protection for some of his revelations, but not all of them.
Intuition depends on what you're used to.

The ancient Greeks didn't think 1 was a number; as late as ~1500CE Isidore of Seville was saying "one is the seed of number but not number". After all, if there's only one thing you don't need to think of it as a set of things, so there's no counting to do.

(I think in some quarters it was even argued that two isn't a number, but I forget the details. Compare the fact that some languages treat pairs of things differently in their syntax from larger groups.)

But it turns out that mathematically it's a really good idea to count 1 as a number and allow sets of size 1, and these days everyone does it and no one is very confused by it. (Well, maybe by the "sets of size 1" thing. Exhibit A: Perl. Exhibit B: Matlab.) And because we're now all used to thinking of 1 as a number, it's hard even to understand how anyone might have found it unintuitive.

If we all started counting from zero and taught our children to do likewise, intuitions 50 years from now might be somewhat different from what they are now.
This is the first time I’m hearing about this blog post: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...

I use Firefox but don’t receive their newsletter, follow their social accounts or any kind of communication, and I’m guessing this is true for a lot of FF users, so I’m wondering how you learned of it?

Did Mozilla try to shove their brand of politics down your throat in-browser? Via the new tab or a similar mechanism?

If not, I don’t think its enough—at least for me—to jump ship.

Stackoverflow did the same by injecting the immediate past CEO’s brand of politics into the side bar. Even with push back from the community, they didn’t stop or apologize.

In spite of their actions, people still derive value from the large cache of answers that is their Q&A product to get work done. Lots of people will keep going back to use their product, even if they disagree politically.
I think people on the right and the left are perhaps skipping over just how much McConnell was manipulating the admin not just over the last four years, but esp since Jan 6th.

I am fairly confident that even if Trump had specifically wanted to pardon Assange or Snowden he could not have.

Edit: lol, this will have been the most successful lie by the media and GOP... getting people to believe the GOP and Trump were friends. They never wanted him. McConnnell picked Sessions and Barr both who did little for Trump. McConnnell picked the 3 Supreme Court justices, and the federal judges who when given the chance refused trumps election fraud cases, McConnnell dropped the mask the second it was clear Trump no longer had power. Ffs, they stuck him with Reince Preibus at first.

This is the thing I’ll never understand about GOP-Haters... not understanding Trump was fighting them too. Literally everyone had to pretend that wasn’t the case including Trump if he wanted to get anything done at all.
true, good point. And having the power to ignore the convention is good, too.
Trump won't hand Biden the nuclear football
In other news, you also can’t say ‘ass’ on the radio.
I wouldn't travel on a ship steered only by shipwrights, and I wouldn't travel on a ship built by sailors alone.

An engineering company needs engineers at the top levels, but we all know at least one brilliant engineer who is puzzlingly naive in other aspects of life. The business of engineering is more than "make good devices and sell them at for a profit." A good engineering business needs shrewd businesspeople to keep it running. You need solid management and solid engineering throughout the entire hierarchy of the business.

> It just doesn't follow that all people who went to Harvard are better than all people who went to some state school.

I totally agree. The capability of a student transcends the imprimatur of the institution where s/he learned.

However, business school is also about connections, and learning in an enlightened group often gives rise to a sort of intellectual critical mass that begets even greater learning through discussion and the interchange of ideas. If given a choice, I'd rather study engineering at Cal Tech than some middle-tier school, and I'd rather study business at Harvard than some less reputable school.
Humans were living like monkeys in the forest prior to 1700?
The concept of fuzzing is similar...ish
I don't think the question is about control but rather whether automatic updates, when intentionally activated by the user, contribute more positively to the system's security than negatively.

Without automatic updates, you might be more inclined to put off a patch which turns out to be urgent. Or you might be more likely to lose track of which patches have been applied across your various systems.