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> HN is for all intents and purposes a single community with a stated set of values

In the sense that we all value curiosity, yes.

We are all also very different. When political posts go up you see it; value, perspective, economic, and educational differences are all highlighted simultaneously.

I think what keeps us from destroying each other is that the binds that bond are curiosity, and those bonds are strong enough for now. dang also sacrifices his sanity going around and nudging people back in the right direction.

Those bonds are nothing to be understated though. I've tolerated some edgy opinions on this website, and probably given some too, but I also come here to learn about different perspectives and genuinely do enjoy them even if some offend or hurt me. Other people see those differences and talk about making lists.
Hi, I can assure you that it’s very much still in the works! It’s taken much longer than we wanted or anticipated, as we’re addressing a lot more than just self-hosting (though that’s an important piece). But we’re on the home stretch. Stay tuned.
Activision Is Suing Warzone
I wouldn't be upset if they just did it as a separate app with some level of Signal integration.
To add some opposite perspective to this, jobs interviews are extremely stressful, and it's really, really, really hard not to psychologically trigger people. Even if you tell people ahead of time that you're going to ask a lot of questions about a variety of topics to get a well-rounded picture of their skills, including a lot of things that aren't strict requirements for the position, even if you tell them it's a conversation more than a test, even if you tell them that virtually all successful candidates have gaps in their knowledge that will come up in the interview, even if you explain all that and do your best to come off as easy-going and approachable, still.

Still.

A lot of people will panic and freak out the instant they hear something they're not prepared for.

In an ideal world you would only ask questions that no qualified candidate could possibly have difficulty with, even under severe stress, but there's no way to do that.

An additional complication is that interviewers can't just walk away knowing whether the candidate can do the job. They need to give a more complete evaluation of the candidate so the hiring manager knows what to do if the candidate negotiates for a higher salary or asks the company to match another offer they've had. This often depends on "nice to haves" such as advanced SQL skills or the ability to quickly assess the big-O complexity of an algorithm and figure out how to improve it.
Only a few of the items in Gebru's "controversial" paper are even worth discussing - do we really need an Ethics department to calculate the carbon footprint of training a model, or point out that a model based on scraping the internet won't necessarily align with trendy shifts in vocabulary?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...
> I don't see how the entire FLoC concept can succeed.

It probably doesn't need to. What is important is that Google can show authorities that they tried to track less, honest guv! It's the market that won't let us!
Yeah, 90% of the time I'm in a linux VM.

I don't buy apple products anymore because of the walled garden bullshit that permeates apple's vision of the world.

Linux is a fine dev environment. That interviewer was an idiot.
What is up with people thinking he's not "come clean" about his relationship with it? He/Signal have noted they own no MobileCoins, and that he's been a paid advisor to MobileCoin. Doing anything behind the scenes feels like it'd be inviting SEC attention, which MobileCoin seems to want to actively avoid by trying to keep Americans off of it.

What lack of transparency do people feel is missing (beyond the server source not being updated - I agree that's a big miss)?
This is the ideal, and the original point of such questions (I was at a FAANG and interviewing candidates when they started becoming popular), but the inevitable result is that the test becomes interpreted more literally as it becomes more common.
This makes you wonder if we might see a resurgence in old school control systems without processors, and def no networks.

The Manhattan project was able uranium purified to get a bomb working without PLCs and networks.

All else being equal it's more expensive, but not compared to being unable to keep your network safe from attack. You need to reconfigure the line? Send eight techs down one by one to set new parameters and octople check the first tech's work.
Is there even a point to comparing output? I bet the only thing in common between those factories is the floor space.

What I meant is that they are selling a car at $38k that outperforms the competition on range, efficiency, safety, space, performance, tech, driving assists; it includes features like the panoramic roof that cost an arm and a leg as optionals on every other car. So clearly they are doing something different in their manufacturing.
Tmux 3.2
Random checks at random time.
Suspicious of an invite? Back around my college years it was very common to get an unexpected invite to a game. Usually friends decided they wanted to play a game and then want to grab whatever other friends are available to fill out their team. In that case you just spam invites and take the first people who accept it.
There is no reason to expect that side effects from the vaccine are not present or actually dramatically higher from the live virus. An infection by the virus, even if asymptomatic, will likely introduce way more alien genetic material and viral proteins into your body than the non-reproducing vaccine ever would. So one should trust the FDA panel of experts on risk unless there's strong evidence pointing otherwise.
Read your comment after a whole day of desperately troubleshooting an i2c bus on (way too) long wires. I already held an mcp2515 board in my hands thinking about how to retrofit every device with CAN, knowing this would take weeks until robustly running. Maybe adding LTC4311's will keep the system running until I truly have time for the conversion.

Thanks a lot for your comment! (Just created an account to write this!)
This is petty and very awkward to read, sounds like something you’d find on someone’s Facebook feed. I wonder who proofread this and thought “yup, this will bring us good publicity and solidify us as the good guys”
I did think I’d made it extremely explicit that I don’t think any of that at all, but perhaps not (although the way you throw in a rather childish ad hominem sneer suggests you’re not thinking very clearly). What I actually wrote is that though (of course!) there will always be some bad behaviour, we want to minimise it (I compare it to malware, for heaven’s sake), but moderation might not be the best way to minimise it, and we might need different models.

As it happens, I would suggest that the idea that somehow we CAN just stop all of bad human behaviour online would be the most extreme techno-utopianism possible.
If anything, Apple's environmental impact and their advertising around it is a staggeringly courageous amount of bullshit considering how hard they make it to service, upgrade, and repurpose old devices.
Too much of a dystopia for my taste. I wish that we had solved climate change, stopped a few useless wars, and fixed a big part of the cronic health problems.
We are much better than a hundred years ago, but we have much more to improve.
No, I like doing what makes sense based on the information I have to the best of my ability. At the beginning that was an assessment of claims about mask supply being based purely in fear and unconnected to any ongoing issues. The hospital isn't buying masks from the grocery store. Everyone buying packs of n95 on amazon ought to exhaust the same supply chains the hospitals use, but thats irrelevant if the threat is real, since the supply would (and did) simply ramp up to match demand.

Time goes on and the reality of the virus sets in, I have friends who get it, a number of elderly people I know some quickly trying to follow CDC and WHO guidelines to a T, others saying it doesn't add up and they'll go about their life as afraid of it as they are of a cold or flu. And so more time goes on and I'm checking in with these people, those who got covid, it certainly wasn't pleasant but they never complained about symptoms that were anything more than typical of getting sick, and the elderly people I know, those who are all about following the rules to the T, seem to be full of anxiety about it and declining in (primarily mental) health as a result. Wheres the others not believing in it as much (one lady I know strongly anti-mask, another just sort of blase about it) seem to be enjoying their lives day to day far more.

So thats some of where I'm coming from.
Got rejected from a FAANG job, because the interviewer didn't like Inorder recursive approach of tree traversal , he asked me to redo the question in O(1) Space. The interviewer specifically mentioned that , recursion or a stack can't be used.
Telegram is not "just better" from a security perspective, which is the one that should matter.
> And this adds to the PIN & cloud "features", insistence of a phone number

the PIN & cloud features are explicitly designed to facilitate breaking the phone number requirement.
Show HN: DDoS Is Not Dead: Building a Scalable DDoS Framework
What a gross way to get your name into the conversation. I've never heard of Wix, but I'm sure to never pay them for anything in the future
It's great to see that I'm not the only one with this opinion. As an engineer who consumed design work from figma, I hate it.

* Slow is an understatement. And huge. Like 100Mb to start working on a medium size design (~20 frames?)

* It's impossible to figure out what part of the design to code to. Like you said, the best way we figured out how to work is to take screenshots and export them.

* It's impossible to follow comments. We just take conversations to slack.

* There's no easy way to track design revisions. What's changed? Who knows?

I miss working with designers who use sketch. Even better, those who just send me a full versioned spec that I can review offline. Design changed? Just send me an updated spec? Figma design changed? I have no idea where to even start looking.
That’s what I keep saying! People are saying it’s 1 in a million chance, but unless all the people who got the vaccine were women than it’s not. The instance could be far higher but it’s not possible to know without knowing how many were given to men vs women
Here's two articles from within the last calendar year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/domestic-terrorist-gro...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...
Kept good care of my Surface Pro 6 - wireless/bt chip got damaged somehow and now it won't even recognize it has those capabilities most of the time. Otherwise was a fantastic experience.
> The main benefit of challenge trials is to speed up development as I understand it not to broaden risk estimates.

Right, which is why it was crucial to have such trials a year ago. We could have shipped vaccines 3 months sooner and saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

Unfortunately, no health authority was willing to risk blame for any disabilities or deaths stemming from deliberately exposing consenting people to covid. So we had to use much larger sample sizes and wait longer to know which vaccine candidates were effective.
wont disk swapping use more power than extra RAM?
I feel like this is a microcosm of tech and life in general. I always wonder how toxic people get so far, but then I see the path of destruction left in their wake, and I'm like, oh that's how. I think every job I've had has had at least 3 people of the toxic golden boy type in everyone company that people just deal with.
I absolutely detest when millionaires trash talk each other. WordPress and Wix are not competitors.

If I want to spin up a WordPress instance, I have to put in much more work than creating something with Wix. I have much more control, I don't have to worry about having to completely rebuild my website to switch host.

That's sad, Wix actually isn't all that unique. A multitude of cheaper website builders exist, like for my products I'm ultimately not building a website. I just need a web page to host my privacy policy and it serves a landing page if you Google my product.

For my needs even Wix is too much. I like

https://zyro.com/

Fraction of the cost and gets the job done.
`0xbor(11)` is 11

`11-0xbor-11` is -11

and `11-0xbor-0xbor-0xbor-11` is -11, too
Put down the torch, pick up the scalpel: The Future of the FSF
I think GP is talking about data privacy rather than security
For the record, I did look it up (back then) and I know how to do it. It's really simple. I still think it's stupid to ask about in an interview.
A phone in your pocket is not wealth, hard to believe this example comes up so often in these discussions.

It's a gadget, a depreciating asset.

Actual wealth produces more wealth, which is why the very rich get richer even while they sleep. A gadget makes its owner a tiny bit poorer every day as it depreciates.
This is good too, there's a lot of history to take in.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/
Isn't it standard for quitting senior employees to be paid to sit at home on their notice period? It seems like a bad idea for someone leaving to retain their systems access for 2 weeks... That's Google right really, so unless her last pay cheque was short 2 weeks money, she quit and "worked" her notice from home.
Apparently wordpress also powers Wix, so attacking them is really pretty dumb.
Agreed. I am quite ok with being a "fool", if it means working for a FAANG tier company and collecting FAANG tier compensation.

I am not going to disadvantage myself by refusing to participate in this on some questionable principle. While I agree that Leetcode-style interviews are not the overall best, I am yet to come up with an alternative that addresses all those issues without introducing massive new ones. So it is a compromise. And as long as this compromise stands, I am fully intending on getting the most out of it.
Of course the FLoC team would want browsers to throw an exception, since that wouldn't damage the perceived legitimacy of FLoC. But as a user I'd rather feed them false data if possible.
Soldering "everything" is not specific to Apple.
Yeah, it feels like the "golden age" in some way - there's lots of developments available on both sides.

I expect things will "calm down" over the next fifty years as defense-in-depth and security become ingrained into how we work. Compare a "modern network" with the first ARPANET.
Analog is the future. Steampunk nuke ops.
That implies that Dunning and Kruger percieved their work as better than it was.
I thought the same thing, you indeed have to scroll a ways down, but it is there.
There is a better explanation here https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22358287/privacy-ads-goog...
That runs contrary to good public health policy for C19 where even the fully vaccinated should follow many precautions such as masking in public and limiting number of households in close contact.
Hear Hear. What's worse is that corp software generally comes with corp governance and the ever so fun 'we can wipe your phone remotely in case it gets lost' policy.

No. Way.
The only valid point of contention here is the demanding removal of her name on the paper.

My game theory'ish take on the demands.

Gebru
1.The demands were reasonable so she herself should have no issue sharing them. Vindicates her position against Google and proves herself and her theories correct, scoring a huge victory for her AI research.

2.Even she know her demands were so ridiculous she is not comfortable sharing them.

Option one has not happened so that leaves two. Google really has no good outcome in sharing them it could be considered all variety of violations HR so they likely never will without her permission.
> A good precentage of people would see the deaths and still avoid going out to shop or whatever.

That seems hard to believe, since significantly more people die every year of all causes than could possibly have died of Covid, even if every single person in the world caught it. Most people probably wouldn’t have noticed anything was different.

> even if 10 or 20% of people changed their behavior that would still impact the economy.

Maybe so, but the economy is not the only or even the most important casualty of our Covid response. The importance of human social gatherings, the freedom to leave one’s home and go wherever one pleases, the education of children, and so on cannot be measured in economic terms.

> The problem is the virus, not the government reaction to it.

Places where there were very few or only brief restrictions, like Serbia, Belarus, or Florida, largely avoided the issues I described above with only a small or in some cases unmeasurable increase in all cause mortality for 2020.
What lots of covid??? Is there some new source of information I'm not aware of?
Christ on toast! Is "baizuo" becoming the "SJW" for the 20's now? Ugh.
It's pretty obvious that it's done for gatekeeping. Besides that whole insulting idea that lower middle class will trash your property.

Much more important question is that who has the right to live in a city. Maybe most of the people living in there, people who give that city its purpose and take care of it, want older cheaper flats.

Maybe these companies misjudged their customers and are just forcefully trying to feed on peoples need to live somewhere.
There is something about restrictions and subscriptions.

Someone I know had a family plan thing with restrictions on their kid, but then got automatically charged for an app subscription somehow. Maybe install free app is ok, but auto-subscription bypasses restrictions?
> There's more important shit than money,

For someone who doesn't want to spend their lives doing stupid shit like cocaine fueled parties and megayachts, at 100k USD (currently) buys you one life-changing event - basic lifelong security, you probably won't have to worry in the long run. At about 300k (currently) you can buy into a level of security that is probably resistant to major worldwide economic or political catastrophe.

If you want to change the world, say by doing an ethical capitalistic startup or meaningful nonprofit, you probably want to start with $5M all-in assets, it's unlikely to be easy to get there quickly on a 300k salary at a FAANG. You will want to roll the dice at startups paying you back in the 100k-150k range.
> The MobileCoin transaction fee is currently around 50p ($0.60)

It costs 1 SAT to send money over the Lightning Network, but you can't run a pump and dump on that so "MobileCoin" it is
Generating UUID and persisting them on a device is perfectly fine. However, once you send this UUID to a server (i.e., the owner of the server collects it) without consent, that becomes illegal.
> What do data scientists do?

The title is very broad and it could mean a bunch of different things at different companies. But it almost always involves a solid understanding of statistics, hence the probability questions in the interviews.
Right. He says that glass is the same as quartz, but it isn't. It's got other stuff in it to reduce the melting point and improve other working characteristics. Most everyday glass is soda-lime glass or (less commonly than in the past) lead glass ("crystal"). Lab glass is often borosilicate glass. All are pretty durable, but not anything remotely approaching pure quartz.
This is super interesting, thank for you sharing! I am curious - how does you handle symptom management? Are there antihistamines in the drops, or, perhaps some other form of system/method for controlling response?
This is written in the style of someone who spends 20 straight hours at a time edit-warring on a wiki.
https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPKGbg16ulU
> You need an organization and leadership in it that is focused on their mission.

This is exactly what Signal had, until the leadership changed their focus onto more lucrative prizes.
> was stymied by this for a full day

Oh it took a while until I noticed the extra ';' :- ) It'd likely have slipped past code review o.O

> impossible to assemble parts any way but the correct way

Hmm make me think about database constraints & foreign keys :- )

> As time went on, this warning became commonplace in other compilers

Nice that different languages can help each other become better :- )

> D is better because so many unnecessary things in C and C++ are minefields

I remember long ago when coding C++, we had to add a bunch of macros in each C++ class, to remove dangerous-by-default C++ auto generated things (like the copy constructor that copied pointers). I guess you know a lot about such things. D and Rust seems nice :- )
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NFTs in simple words (and should you invest in one?)
Before considering investing in NFTs, It is very important to know the main groups that will benefit from NFTs.

Artists: They are looking at NFTs as a way to generate new streams of income

Speculators: They fall in love with any buzzword they hear and just throw money at it, just not to miss the latest train of opportunity (even if it takes them to doom)

Investors: They are looking at this space and trying to figure out scalable ways to benefit from it in the long run

Celebrities: They are having fun/experimenting with NFTs and selling them not because of their intrinsic value, but because their name and brand image is attached to it

Skeptics: They are not rich, celebrity, or an artist and also not foolish enough to jump into a new hype without understanding it

We will reference these groups of folks when diving a bit deeper into the valuation analysis of NFTs.

Basically, we are going to answer few basic questions here:

What the heck is even an NFT?
Does NFT have a value and future?
If yes, how should you invest in it? ...

https://www.kasrakhosravi.com/nft-in-simple-words/
Yikes. At first when reading this, I wanted to give Wix the benefit of the doubt. However, I can only imagine they hoped people would never see the original events that transpired around this.

See the post it’s responding to:
https://ma.tt/2021/04/wix-dirty-tricks/

And even worse, this article about their off-putting ad campaign that they brush off so quickly:
https://wptavern.com/wix-takes-a-jab-at-wordpress-with-bewil...

Simply put, this post doesn’t need a follow-up. It needs to be taken down. Period.

Should Wix see this thread and think it’s a good idea to say, jump in here and try to defend yourself... it’s not. This is not a good look.
It seems that there's also some lack of defense-in-depth going on - if the centrifuges need power to power down, why isn't that built into each one?

It's interesting that the Manhattan project had to build everything themselves - which if Iran was NOT using off-the-shelf parts and instead was developing everything in-house they'd be less susceptible to certain types of attacks.
I argued that content moderation probably isn’t the answer and we need to something else. I really don’t know how anyone could possibly read what I wrote and believe I was saying we shouldn’t do anything. Frankly, I struggle to see that as anything other than deliberate bad faith.
Really informative read, thanks!