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Censorship here is part of exactly the same greater pattern of suppressing dissent, where dissent includes the discussion of actual levers of power. This is done on various grounds but frankly the technological apparatus created by HN members collectively is deeply responsible for the rapid growth of authoritarianism that these sorts of discussions would draw in to question if they were not so aggressively muted.

It's why I originally left HN and why I owe it to myself to leave again. FYI the reply I was writing before refreshing the post before posting was this:

So the allegation, likely well founded, is that state-affiliated apparatus actually bothered to dedicate resources to monitor twitter, pull him up, and execute such a maneuver. Personally I wonder what the forebears of Israelis who experienced the Stasi would think if they woke up in modern Israel.

On the question of the moral position of Israel, who do you believe: Jewish intellectual greats such as Einstein + Chomsky, the latter who as early as 1992 summarized that he was subject to the endless lies of the Anti-Defamation League and its friends, or a chilling silence still being actively promoted murky behind-the-scenes power structures of centralist media owners in 2021? You be the judge.

... now of course, that silence has reached HN.

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Bye, HN.

PS. Here is a recent quality article by the same author https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/lets-remember-how-aut...
I've upvoted you but wanted to nitpick (sorry) - innocent unless proven guilty doesn't have the temporal connotations that 'until' has.
You get paid to lecture and educate. This was somebody who was asked to do a free presentation (for a job where presentations are likely a secondary responsibility) after making it through two rounds of interviews
This is plastic that would go to landfill. Expect it to contain just about everything.

I don't expect this to be heavily processed. More like melted together with some additions.
Thanks for sharing, that was very cool.
exactly, just imagine the Fb business model is still at the campus level.
"A filter is a computer program or subroutine to process a stream, producing another stream."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(software)
Yeah there is certainly some truth to that, the original logo design came from an open source contributor who mentioned some ideas coming from the movie posters: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/408#issuecomment-2...
So, where do we draw the line? At which percentage of all human electric output do we say, maybe there's something wrong with this picture? 1% total? 5% total? 20% total output? We're at 0.59% now. Of all electricity we generate as a species.
It occurs to me that one of Google's motivations for neutering adblockers could be that something like uBlock Origin might be able to interfere with the system if it had its full capabilities. Google could easily ensure anything about their ad system bypassed blocking, but when you're looking at several antitrust investigations plus the threat of more from this you probably don't want to look like you're giving yourself special treatment. It's a bit late given how badly they've sold this, but every bit helps.
Yeah, comparing with San Francisco/CA (massive income tax, possible wealth tax, absurd real estate, dysfunctional schools, etc) and Seattle (merely very expensive real estate, insane city council, famously unfriendly people, depressing weather, and possibly way more taxes and soon as our legislature can figure out how to get around them being unconstitutional)...

Austin is definitely still a good deal. Sure, the weather isn't as good as California (but better than southern Nevada), and the scenery isn't as pretty or geographically interesting as the Pacific Northwest (but better than Oklahoma), but there are jobs, a good university and Texas doesn't appear to have lobotomy patients as local government.
That's not how it works in regular life. If two parties agree on an arbitrator, then that arbitrator's decision is binding.
Anyone can report the the spammer, admin (bot) can auto-ban him/her after certain threshold?
Well, unless you start inhaling the plastic dust from plastic road.

I am pretty sure that, even if not "forever chemical", the plastic dust will outlive your lungs.
This is pretty alarming. While I knew that it's bad in the subways just from the smell alone, I didn't know it was actively harming my health to the degree that it is. This is a good heads up, thanks.
Companies can outsource all they like but they're going to be missing out on buckets of talent if they abandon the US and they know it.

I wouldn't worry about it much. There will always be work for skilled, motivated people.
True. It's also important to remember that Taiwan is located in a seismically active region ...
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As someone who has spent many years working in defense / government contracting, I think you're touching on a really big reason a lot of people work in this world.

Many years ago, when my career first started, I was an idealist who thought the way I could give back (as someone who couldn't get into the military for physical reasons) was to work in the defense sector. I also tried very hard to get interviewed by an SV company, but I didn't qualify for an interview due to going to the wrong college and getting the wrong degree.

And I have worked on some seriously badass programs and with some really cool systems and people. In my older age, it's funny because I've come full circle. I'm actually using my experience, and the new all-remote world, to interview with some tech companies. I'm also starting to sour a lot on working with the government and military because my idea of "giving back" has become much more cynical. EDIT- I meant to say here that I've become much more cynical, and working with the government no longer feels like "giving back." Nowadays I give back by working on social issues.

BTW, I'm also upvoting / interacting with your comment because (a) I think you're getting downvoted by people who disagree with you, rather than by people who think you've broken some rule, and (b) I think your perspective represents a pretty common way of looking at SV from the outside world.
What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it
Knowing nothing about Austin's climate, of course, I'm assuming that it's reliably hot and dry?

Austin isn't in the desert. It gets ice storms, tornados, hurricanes, and the epic Texas thunderstorms that have various names like Blue Norther, Possum Stomper, and Toad Strangler.

I spent five years in Texas, near Austin, and my college meteorology classes came back to me.
+1. Also upvoting the original comment because no one seems to be disagreeing with it with any words.

Solving really hard problems is valuable. Little gets easier, but you can get better at it.

You have me wondering .. Does expertise from experience (whether compressed into a few years or a lot) qualify as reverse ageism? Is anyone being excluded or denigrated?

It seems plausible (but not exclusively) that the more time and effort you apply to something, the better you will probably get at it. Time alone isn’t a measure of experience and expertise but it doesn’t hurt.

It’s just describing what the experience of someone who has been at something for a while.. might end up like.
Nice!

I still miss the generated patterns that were available for backgrounds on geocities.
Yes, but how much pollution to accommodate is a decidedly political question. Science cannot answer how much is too much. If your answer is that no pollution is acceptable, that's not science either (frankly, it's more akin to an ideological position). But presuming you're willing to admit that the benefits of certain activities outweigh their impacts to the environment or human health, particularly when our information is imperfect, then the question becomes how much is too much. And every human has their own utility curve and risk preferences. Science cannot answer those questions. Like the parent, I agree that this is decidedly a question for policy makers (preferably accountable to the electorate) informed by science.
I found this out with my ASUS motherboard on my desktop. There's a UEFI option which bootstraps an automatic installation of their own software called Armory Crate which then invokes itself to install a load of "junk".
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So the menus rotate about once per month for most restaurants. And all of a sudden diners have to scroll through a ton of menus to find something they want. We can't use item-to-item collaborative filter because we always have a sparse data problem on the new menus.

So instead we are trying to create NLP embeddings on the menus and then ranking new menus based on similarity to old menus the diner liked.
Arizona has a long tradition in and worker base for semiconductor manufacturing.
I'm not sure I buy this, but it depends how we define targeted attacks. If we include getting access to the device, which I think is reasonable, it obviously doesn't stop targeted efforts. Not to say it doesn't make it more difficult. Remotely, are we only talking Signal or the system as a whole? AFAIK nothing is unhackable, only difficult to hack. But as long as we're playing the cat and mouse game I'm happy. Improving defensive technologies shouldn't ever be stopped or hindered. I'm not sure why this isn't seen as a national security issue but that's a bigger discussion.

But my main point is that most people are afraid of large organizations of terrorists or bad actors will be able to discuss things without the ability for the FBI to surveil them. Well you can't have "large" and "vet everyone to an extremely high degree." Sure, this will make it more difficult to stop small groups, but those have been notoriously difficult to find and stop in the first place.
After all, we frequently pave playgrounds with fl\ammable material made out of shredded tires. Wait,really? Could you point me to some material about it? I know it was tried several times in many countries but IIRC everyone returned to just pure alsphalt, but I don't remember what was the actual reason.
Yes, it is similar to how creating inflation by the government is just a way to tax poor and the middle class, without actually rising taxes.
> and we're stuck with an inferior Lisp/ML, especially in the scientific sector.

You will love Julia.

Here are some links:

https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3276490) <= This is great and surprisingly approachable.

https://opensourc.es/blog/basics-multiple-dispatch/

And when you start finding things that you miss, Julia and the community got you with excellent Metaprogramming support.

https://github.com/thautwarm/MLStyle.jl

https://github.com/MikeInnes/Lazy.jl

https://github.com/jkrumbiegel/Chain.jl
Blockchain?

Seriously, human and social problems are not solvable with more apps or sites for complaining and shaming. You will have to deal with incompetent, corrupt, and malign people, and systems that don’t always work fairly. More technology won’t solve any of those things.
You can side-load builds onto your iPhone/iPad and they expire after a while (maybe 30 days).
Dunno if it's enough, for example:

https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-63-150-141-224-1.html

is Facebook's range not included above.
There are a very large number of 100+ year old wooden homes in the eastern half of the US. Check out Zillow with the "year built" filter. Even if you set the filter to limit results to 1899 and older, the vast majority of homes are of wood construction.
Plasma gasification is overkill, obtaining complete combustion is a matter of reaching sufficient heat and mixing adequate oxygen, that, and not allowing particles to escape before combustion is complete.

Basically, the difference between a fireplace and a rocket stove.

There are plenty of ways to construct an incinerator which does this, it's a fairly mature technology.
> Which honestly is exactly what I want and seems like what we want in a free and open society. Monitoring shouldn't be the default but only happen when there is a warranted reason to monitor, preferable with a literal warrant.

Its more than warrants, though. The evidence of the last few decades is that warrants aren't enough to block dragnets. Warrants can (and are) avoided through parallel construction. Unscrupulous agents will go off on "LoveInt" missions if it suits their ethics.

Universal encryption uses economic force to make dragnet surveillance infeasible where ethical force has failed.
I'm with you that I doubt there are GANs running in real time here, however I don't know see why they wouldn't be using similar models for offline static asset generation.

As far as scans go, it's much cheaper than you would imagine to get high quality face scans. Rigging them for animation is the real challenge, and I'd be really impressed if they were using GANs for rigging.

For state of the art in this space.. check this out: https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1311832183078879232
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Isn't it the case not just in tech, but literally in any field that is male-dominated? I strongly doubt that the problem you describe is any less prevalent in finance or academia, for example. Not a comprehensive list, of course, those were just two off the top of my head.
As another comment just made points out, this is not something the vast majority of Mac users will, or should, be doing. For the rest of us, we're likely to be doing it often enough to remember the shortcut — it's second nature to me now.

The big problem is discoverability, as you imply.

> all possible options ... nothing is hidden from the user

This is the key bit. Showing all possible options would go utterly against the mac ethos.
If we're going to nitpick I think HN is the place that this is acceptable, especially when done in a good manner. I do think you make a good point since "until" implies that anyone is guilty given enough time. I'll try to adopt this change into my vernacular. I updated my comment in an effort to acknowledge and support this idea.
When you get used to seeing it, the types mostly disappear from view until you look for it. I got to that level with Java, and Kotlin for the most part--never with Scala it always looked like line noise.
Not to mention there are so many different types of concrete tailored to meet specific requirements that it's very unlikely anything could even make a dent in our need for concrete.
> Devil's advocste: why can't the US do that via Taiwan as it does currently?

I think TSMC was working on a similar deal.

> Won't we also need "rare" earth metal supplies to of it is a vital industry we can't cope with being overseas?

Rare earth materials are available in the US but due to cost competitiveness, all the mining happens overseas. Also the mining process has environmental impacts some countries choose to ignore.

> And then there is the fact the fab machines all come from Belgium.

Which company in Belgium make the fab machines. The biggest manufacturer of semiconductor fabrication equipment are Applied Materials and Lam Research, both in the bay area. ASML from Netherlands make the critical Photolithography equipment however. Beyond this, there are hundred of mid and smaller companies involved all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_equipment_sales_...
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> In your estimation, how much Bitcoin is purchased in hopes of gaining freedom

Not a lot, but it's definitely a thing. Speaking about majority, these days, most people and companies are accumulating Bitcoin only because in 5-10 years it'll worth much, much more. And that makes a lot of sense if you think about it. The shift to a digital form of currency will eventually happen anyway. I do not believe Bitcoin will ever become a global currency, but I strongly believe that it's going to stay with us for quite a long while. The blockchain technology is in its infancy and is experiencing a lot of research on all fronts.
There are UV inhibitors that are added to plastic. They give you more time in the sun, though eventually you are done.
So what? Almost all transactions are going to be significantly smaller than a billion people usd. You are just focusing on an edge case. Bitcoin is a horrible system for conducting the vast majority of transactions.
Do you know what Aave is or any of the other decentralized finance protocols?

Also: "the management of large amounts of money, especially by governments or large companies" it literally is shuffling money around.
Yes, I meant affine types.
I have an iPhone X and I have it set to not use FaceID for unlocking the phone itself.

But I temporarily enabled it now to test. Maybe I am pressing the power button wrong but rapidly pressing it five times does not prevent it from allowing FaceID to unlock the phone. Whereas power plus volume up button does indeed.

Btw, when I normally have FaceID disabled from unlocking the phone, does it wipe in-memory encryption keys when locked with a single touch to the power button or not? I was assuming that it did, but I realized now that this assumption might not be correct.
I wouldn't. I would rather a world where people are strong enough to deal with "tone", which seems to be a highly subjective thing. How about giving someone else the benefit of the doubt instead of pointing out "negativity"?
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> Almost every single one of your statements here reflect a misunderstanding of my argument, basic economics and/or your own Austrian philosophy.

You think I don't understand my own thoughts (which aren't Austrian but merely mine). Meanwhile I think you don't understand what I'm expressing. Thus, we agree to disagree. Thanks for the conversation. Bonne chance.
> Plug the bootable installer into a Mac that is connected to the internet and compatible with the version of macOS you're installing.

Why does it have to be connected to the Internet? The point of using a USB installer is for it to work offline.
Interesting. I wonder if this is an attempt for North Dakota to attract software developers/companies to their state. Seems like an odd thing to come out of ND!
Both norms are rapidly changing.
It's extremely hard to tell. As iainctduncan said I will need to do some A/B testing.

I believe that more than 100 books a month will be enough to make a comfortable living.
Of course it's in Texas, not in SV. And TSMC going to Arizona.
Giving a talk is normal for many academic and "scientist" level positions. Being interrupted with questions is also normal, and I'm personally completely fine with it. The only annoying thing is that the company canceled at the last minute, but that's probably because they had multiple candidates "in-flight" at the same time.
>There are some JVM languages that are better and have similar performance.

How about a single example?
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>The only reason I use Paw instead of the countless alternatives is because it’s not web-based.

Same.
Neither of those require a fleet of GPUs powered by a hydroelectric dam to balance the accounting.

The former point almost certainly makes small disposable servers in a variety of jurisdictions a requirement. There might be many millions of crypto users around the world, but there are very few running their own nodes, and fewer still actively mining. Block generation is practically as monopolised as the banking system it supposedly replaces.

To the latter, I worked a cryptocurrency casino and the provably fair algorithms were implemented using the core Node.js crypto libraries and completely independent from all the blockchain nodes. The sheer frequency of by users completely rules out any chance of leveraging a smart contract or block data as a base for the RNG.
I dropped Amazon because their return policy has lots of quibbles nowadays.

I ordered a book, they sent the wrong book. They argued over whether it was the right book (they had different isbn), they made me buy an envelope to ship it back and only refunded my money once they received it and cleared it.

So I was out the price of the book for three weeks.

Old Amazon wouldn’t have screwed up, would have mailed out a replacement book immediately, etc.

They seem to be stupid in handling exchanges and cheap now.
I (living in California) usually use "PST8PDT", which does what I want, all year round (for some irrational reason I refuse to claim that I live in Los_Angeles[0]). I believe there's also "EST5EDT", "CST6CDT", and "MST7MDT" as well.

But agree that this is just a grab bag of confusing garbage.

[0] I suppose if CA does away with DST (or keeps it permanently), I will have to change...
> Your comment is supposition. Likely correct, but not guaranteed.

No, the paper was very clear that Apple Watch was used to measure Heart Rate Variability (HRV). There is absolutely no mention of any unique advantages that Apple Watch provided in the given scenario. The study is about using the HRV data from a wearable device to identify indicators of COVID-19; it is not an endorsement or an advertisement for Apple.
"But they are private companies and free speech doesn't apply to them, they can ban any kind of speech they don't like!"

— typical Hackernews in any other thread about speech being suppressed.