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> So you agree we(you and us) can't agree on a definition of "trustworthy reporters" but we(China) should accept reporters that you deemed trustworthy, and that really sounds alright to you? seriously?

Yes, seriously. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

I mean: you're acting like you have something to hide, so I'm going to grant far more credibility to those who make claims you're hiding something. You're basically helping your opponents make their case.

> You're implying we're oppressed and you're not, if you're American(US), try saying "All Lives Matter" out loud, my point is, both of us are oppressed, just in different ways.

That's what we call a "false equivalency." Also, again, I make no claims that America or Western countries are perfect.
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I’m betting hard against a big corporation like SpaceX to do the right thing. By nature, a corporation’s sole purpose is to follow the money and make as much of it as possible.

Take a look at Activision/Blizzard bending the knee to China to avoid losing its Chinese user base.
Often they go directly outside. I once was seated near such an exit when someone who had apparently left (and left something behind) started hammering on the exit door.

This was years before the Aurora shooting, and after looking around at everyone else who didn’t want to make the decision either, I let him in instead of letting him continue to distract from the movie.

Bad decision, one I’d definitely not repeat.
Source code. If they don't like it, they can audit it themselves.
This maybe an odd workaround but I've found the Airplay support in Zoom screen share to work quite well. Not good enough for video, but very reliable for showing the screen of an iPhone or Mac.
My first startup was in the equipment sharing space (specifically camera equipment). Back then (in 2013), getting insurance was either going through brokers and spending $ to get them to craft a policy for you. I would have loved something like this that's instant for the end user & plug & play on the business side.

Fantastic idea, good luck.
It really depends how much the coffee costs. Like with Putin's palace, people wouldn't complain about the toilet brushes if they weren't gold-coated. Is the coffee bought from Mahers cousin? Sure, I'd like to know that.

Parties do not have to be funded by the company. During my lifetime, I never went to a company-funded party. But I have been doing fine, funding my own parties. What do you need? A stereo and a disco ball. Anyway, how can you spend $9M on stereos and disco balls? It warrants scrutiny.
Signal is American controlled. Encryption in general is not.
Tesla is competing on European market with 10% tariffs.

Wait for cars made in Giga Berlin that will be exempted from tariffs.
So the question is: "if we removed Churchill from the equation...what would the effect be on human suffering".

I think what you might be missing is that things could have gone a whole lot better if Churchill became PM even earlier in 1935 - perhaps leading to no war at all. In hindsight, Churchill greatly reduced the risk from when he became PM when he did. The Halifax scenario would have allowed Germany to grow even stronger, and ended up with a lot more people killed in camps, etc. That is, more suffering.

So maybe another way to look at this "Great Man" reading of history is from a risk/probability perspective. If you replayed history again - from a risk perspective - would you want to remove or keep? For me it seems pretty clear in we consider the probability and volume of human suffering.

> It's quite a leap to go from there to state that Fascist Europe would have stood till today.

Indeed, but I would argue the authoritarian nature of the Nazi party machinery (e.g. the SS) with a disregard for humanity (e.g. the holocaust) would have allowed them to enforce quite an unshakeable control over the region. When you don't have to worry the people you conquer being fed, and have no qualms with mass extermination - its hard to see how rebellions would be possible when you are restricted from any kind of military force - and there is no other country to help supply the equipment.

Look at China and Russia - unable to shake authoritarianism as much as they would like to even to this day. Yes, slightly different because they are not occupied nations I guess. But also look at Vichy France - this situation could have lasted for a long, long time.
Is Godot still using its own Shader language? When I tried it it was a little annoying to use coming from elsewhere.

Tangential - I may just be lucky as I've effectively come the long way round, but I find many if not all of the graphical programming (Like Unreal Materials) systems in this area extremely jarring and an unnecessary context switch away from using my hands to type (and having such joys as version control...).

With Unreal Engine specifically it's a little annoying that I see all these features that I want to use in the engine, but I'm funnelled through these blueprint-first APIs to use them - Just document the C++: I don't like C++ but I've spent a lot of time honing my skills in it, let me use them easily.
I'd be reluctant to have an employee work regular 16 hour days, much less two in a row. It's not impossible that that 16th hour would be productive, but I'd put the burden of proof on them. Especially if we were talking about any kind of creative work, including programming.

I'd rather have an employee work 2x12+1x8. I'd rather they give me 32 productive hours than 32 productive ones + 8 dubious ones.

I'm aware that we frequently make doctors and nurses work those kinds of shifts. And people die because of it. I would much rather we reoriented the system so that we didn't have to require that of them.
The page you linked is not actually ambiguous, though perhaps a bit tricky to read. It says:

1. If you're compiling Objective C in ARC mode, you can't use NSAutoreleasePool directly, and must instead use @autoreleasepool.

2. In manual reference counting mode you can use either NSAutoreleasePool or @autoreleasepool, but the latter has lower overhead. (This may matter if e.g. you're draining the autorelease pool on every iteration of a loop to reduce memory spikes.)

Under the hood -- at least on the version I disassembled -- NSAutoreleasePool's -init and -release methods wrap the CoreFoundation CFAutoreleasePoolPush and CFAutoreleasePoolPop functions, which in turn call the runtime's objc_autoreleasePoolPush and objc_autoreleasePoolPop functions, which are the things that @autoreleasepool will cause the compiler to emit directly.
Are you sure about the necessary regeneration? Let me hand wave from the dark skies here for a moment:

1.) Think of the precision mirrors in the so often mentioned EUV-lithography equipment from ASML for latest generation chips from TSMC.

2.) Now imagine something like that on board of a satellite, maybe smaller.

3.) Have 2.) moveable with sufficient precision to bounce the rays from satellite to satellite in realtime, without having to regenerate them in any way for about 4 to 5 hops.

4.) problem solved by purely 'optical' mesh while signal is 'in orbit'.

kthxbaiiii!
Yes, this is an oversimplification: the original statement seemed to be based on getting a fact about trigonometry backwards, and I was just trying to resolve the underlying confusion.
I've never bought this, I use Haskell and Nix all the time for GUIs and other nerd-phobic tasks. And it's definitely the most practical way I know of doing things.

Most people just want to cargo-cult what others do, and most things initially get popular because some way of deploying software requires it / makes it the path of least resistance. None of that is about practicality, just short-sightedness and ecosystem effects.
You've hit on the key design challenge for mass market networks with massive content libraries: how can one build the best product for the largest audience without being boring to the niches. It's why Facebook uses algos to recommend content, which spurs another interesting question.

If algos are the tool for recommending the best version of content, the idea of 'archive' and 'preservation' of original forms falls by the wayside. The FB feed you see is different than mine, as are your Google results for the same terms. How would we deal with your Tom & Jerry or other content being different? For the most part it would just be funny quirks (like film edits for airplanes or cable TV).

This gets even crazier as contemporary tools for creation can capture and store countless takes that would usually be discarded on the cutting room floor. Now they're just waiting for an alternative cut.

I wrote about this 9(!) years ago, but the issue has only accelerated: https://dbreunig.tumblr.com/post/13923466229/multisignal-too...
I attended some emergency training a couple of years ago, and the instructor drove home one point in particular: always identify the exits when you’re in an unfamiliar building.
> It's been convincing the world that an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone on the Internet is a credible and neutral source of information.

This is not wikimedia's job at all. The public can decide if they trust the content.
the diff-based code review emphasizes very local changes to code. it inherently directs one's attention toward what has changed, rather than how the changes affect the larger system. I notice this a lot with the (browser-based) tool we use at work. if I expand the view to see the whole file, rather than just the diff, it tends to make the page lag.
Also it’s one thing to test some techniques than put it all together.

According to official timeline and amount of stones they should place one in every few hours. You realize that you have to be absolutely perfect with the stones, as if you make little mistake near the base then the tip is not going to be in the center. But it’s so precisely in the center it would be a amazing achievement even today.

Dimensions and proportions contain speed of light, size of Earth etc. It’s aligned with true north being just fraction of a degree off, something we need satellite data to do. And so on..

And there are those rocks in the desert we could not transport today. But everyone can believe only what they want to believe. I want to believe we are not very advanced yet comparing to our ancestors. It gives me hope.
One of my first jobs was for a small engineering shop. Paid about 55k a year in 2010 dollars. It did pay overtime, that should have been my first warning. They hired me with the promise of 4x10 work-weeks. What happened in reality is that we came in at 7 am, worked to 6pm (or whenever "the boss" was ready to go home) with a 30 minute lunch, and then on Friday, ..."well we are behind so we need to come in again this week"... almost every week (there were a few exceptions) we worked all day Friday as well. Oh, and how about a half day Saturday many weeks. Once during my short time there, we had a solid week or more (hard to remember due to sleep deprivation and depression fogged recollections of this time) going at 90+ hours per week on a project.
It was absolutely insane and I got out as soon as I could, trying to convince as many co-workers as I could (in practice only the young guys) that they were being gaslighted into thinking they had a good job. Luckily I was underemployed for my education level, and single; thus it was easy to get out of this, for there was no way to think sharply, keep proper food in the house, work out enough, etc., at this pace.
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The edge is getting to be really important for high quality interactions, but there are some caveats.

In systems in which there is common shared state between all participants (e.g. Fortnite), you fundamentally must have a form of centralized authority somewhere. In these cases, you do not gain very much by pushing things to the edge if most interactions require taking a round trip through the business state machine.

This realization is why I really enjoy the renewed push for server-side hosting technologies. Accept the fundamental physics constraints, bring all the state under 1 roof, and think differently about the footprint of a global-scale application. AWS solved this problem by making their regions more-or-less 100% standalone. The only major thing that really spans all regions is account/session management, but consider that there arent serious UX constraints around a login attempt taking more than 150ms.
From what I've seen on computer graphics, most of the algorithms are tricks and hacks... I think that in the end a good engine should acknowledge that it is hard to support everything, so just having a hackable interface is good enough.
Well there are 3 prominent warnings on the top of that page
The title seems completely unrelated to the link provided which appears to be about "Death and Digital Media"
> Source: That IT guy worked for me at lockheed, the IT CIO was my boss at Lockheed - and I know their level of corruption....

Jesus. Hackernews is one hell of a website
I'm not sure I understand your meaning?

Endowments and foundations are different things with different objectives. Many foundations may have endowments of their own, and may use them to issue grants to non-profits. From a legal and financial perspective though, there's a difference between a non-profit having an endowment itself which provides restricted funds for specific operational activities vs how foundations typically create and structure endowments for external giving.

Both concepts have been around for decades, so I don't think either is particularly disruptive.
Why should Wikimedia need a significant nest egg?

What do you do with the money, when people have stopped valuing Wikimedia enough that they are no longer paying for it to exist?
That’s okay, if they go bankrupt, someone more competent could take over, and easily run Wikipedia on less than a tenth of their current budget. Look at their financials: Wikimedia Foundation is part jobs program, part grift.
You were so busy asking if you could, no one stopped and asked if you should.
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Not at all true. Try http://www.president.ir/en
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Volunteering, gardening, fixing up old cars. I'm sure I would pick up some old former hobbies and/or some new ones; for instance I'd like to learn to play drums. I don't think I would do much with computers, at least in the way of programming. I've done plenty of that and there is a lot more to life. With volunteering as well, I wouldn't want any of it to be computer-related.

I have been thinking about this quite a bit because I hope to exit the workforce soon. I'm very tired of working in tech, and corporate America generally.
I think people on HN are mostly North Americans, they are generally very ignorant of the workings outside their own suburbs/city (we live in the best part of the world they say!)

So there is this bias towards other 3rd world countries. To many they are still a backwards, technologically illiterate countries yet somehow North Korea routinely dominates other wealthier nations in cyber security.

India's intelligence agency has always been competing with Pakistani, very much like the Iranian security forces & Israeli intelligence, these guys have been fighting battles the rest of the world will never hear about, so its foolish to underestimate their capabilities like we do on HN.
In Europe a megabit is usually written mbit
I'd be a little cautious about this, as it seems to be plug-and-chug from CWE, followed by a breakdown of the "CWEs least and most likely to be detected in code review". I don't think CWE is a particularly good taxonomy, and, in any case, apart from obvious cases (yes, use of banned functions is easy to spot), it's pretty much orthogonal from the real factors that make vulnerabilities hard to spot in code review.

I haven't, like, done a study, but I have done a lot of security code review, and my instinct is that the basic issues here are straightforward: bugs are hard to spot when they're subtle (ie, they involve a lot of interactions with other systems outside the one under review) and when they involve a large amount of context (like object lifecycle bugs).

Which, another issue with this study: I get why Chromium OS is an interesting data set. But I don't think it's a particularly representative case study. Another factor in effectiveness of security review: how much of the whole system you can fit in your head at once.
and this thought process is why we take off our shoes at airports
And the point myself and others are making is that you can get that without using blockchain. Blockchain is a specific technology that requires proof-of-work among distrusted actors for modifying a cryptographically secure distributed ledger. It sounds like you just want a cryptographically secure distributed ledger.
No, core project costs less than $5M/year to run. They spend more on processing donations (credit card fees etc) than they do on web hosting.
What if political dissidents don't want to give their phone numbers to the former head of Twitter security on the eve of President Biden's re-engagement with the Islamic theocracy of Iran?
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You are my software twin. I'm using Winamp 2.95 this very moment, and Spacemonger 1.0 which still works fantastically. Both have slight crashes in rare edge cases now but perfectly usable day-to-day. You wouldn't perchance also be using an old version of UltraEdit before the heavy focus on subscriptions?
Knowing Google they'd be happy to restrict every other company from having tracking access so they can have a monopoly on it -- just like the solution to third party cookies they are working on.
Can you please share your config? I find configuring coc quite painful.
One of the important components of online hate is that it requires zero justification or logical consistency.

It just needs to feel gratifying.
We are a combination of software + marketplace (i.e. licensed insurance broker that provides full transparency to the clients).

Qover is cool, the overall concept is similar to ours. It looks like they don't allow the companies to customize the insurance products, our platform can provide more tailor-made products
sadly I tend to avoid walking through parks at night for this reason, even though it ought to be a more pleasant (and often more direct) route. there's nothing good about crossing paths with a crowd after dusk where I live.
>The harms of social isolation and screen learning, on the other hand, are well understood and being inflicted on great masses of children...

I don't think this is true. I don't think we know how this generation will be affected by Zoom 8-4 every day.
People have a natural aversion to consultants. They're expensive and accomplish things that feel like they should be easy but in practice are hard. It's also difficult because the opioids work is bad, and there have been other things that are just bad. I don't think its especially representative of the work most people do but its still there and the harm is real. A piece of bad work is probably 12ish people doing their own thing that the majority would tell them not to do. I feel good about the work that I do, not just in that it doesn't harm anyone but in that I think it has positive side effects for society. The opioids work doesn't really affect me, and was hardly financially relevant for the company (before the fine). To give a throwaway fictitious answer, if my job was aiding COVID vaccines or helping education in poor countries, things that I don't have direct knowledge of, but would probably guess McK is involved in without any particular knowledge, I don't know how many "bad" actors or incidents it would take in other unrelated aspects of the firm to get me to not want to work there anymore.

There's no big picture. I can't say my work "enables" others to do other work that I may disagree with. On the whole of it by my personal set of values, I enjoy being able to make the contributions I do and would be wary of loosing that. So long as the tone at the top of the org is condemning of things I consider bad (and it is), I think it deserves a level of understanding for how difficult it is to run a network of thousands of partners and avoid things like this. I'm optimistic that the newly enforced sets of checks and balances will prevent such at least some of these kinds of studies from happening again. For now at least, it feels less like "McKinsey" did the bad thing and more like "a group of people who work here" did. Others will disagree, and I get it. I know a couple folks who left on ethical grounds and they retained the support of all their colleagues.
"Open image in a new tab" to the rescue! The extension I use (Dark Reader) didn't force dark mode for images, which means I can see the labels just fine in these cases.
> I don't care too much if mouse company gets more money

While these are, indeed, shorts featuring a cartoon mouse, I would guess that "mouse company" is intended to refer to Disney, which is not, in fact, involved in this particular back-catalog streaming fiasco.
Sure, but I would think generating significant amounts of revenue would tilt the probabilities towards "consultants do actually do something".
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This is just awesome... Congrats on the launch. This product seems to protect really well websites that include many third party JavaScript. On the other hand ,if you are one of the third party offering the JS, I would advise you to implement Subressource integrity. Or, if not possible to monitor constantly any modifications made to your JS file. I developped a service that does that and there is a free plan : https://www.guardscript.com/
1 mB = 1 millibucket
In Polish locating something is "lokalizowanie", I guess that's why the word "localize" was used.
You say that but every debt company will say that very thing. Miss enough credit card bills, and they come for you; and, in states that don't protect the house, that's fair game.
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Well... the list is alphabetical.
I think you do have to ask yourself if the need for the charity can outlast its time in the sun.

The Red Cross needs to stay frosty all the time. They get money every time there’s a disaster, but the money to deal with the current disaster needs to have already been spent before the checks clear. If we haven’t had a big disaster in a while, we all know there’s one coming, because they always come, and when that shoe finally drops it might be huge. But donations are down because nothing is blowing up.

We still need Wikipedia even if someone cures cancer. Because you don’t cure cancer, you cure a cancer, the moment you’ve cured two or three, an avalanche of money will arrive to fix the others. Money that might have gone to something else like the Red Cross, WWF, PP, Wikipedia, or really all of the above.
You could do all that and the code would still not have any intrinsic worth, because if a company gets their hands on it they don't automatically get a team of developers with domain expertise to maintain it going forward. That's where the real value is. Knowledge and experience can never be codified.
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Sounds like everyone is guilty? Not a very useful perspective imo
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This is really interesting. Thank you for the explanation.

I'd love to hear about how you crawl and store the data.
Doesn't shopify block you as you are hitting there servers soo much for all the site?
> Airplay doesn't offer multi-room audio; AirPlay 2 does

That seems strange. Because I remember buying several used Airport Express base station to build a multi-room audio system. It worked great. That was around 2006/7, if my memory serves me right. At that time the protocol and the feature was called AirTunes.