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FIFA / UEFA has a monopoly on international soccer. They sustain the monopoly leveraging micronations that effectively gives them a majority in all of the monopoly's decisions. When Germany has the same amount of voting power as Andorra, you have a problem.

Of course, this majority is not secured by good policy, instead it is secured by corruption, payouts to micronations.

I think another league -with different ownership and stakeholders- could make things quite interesting because it would take money out of the system.

However, i'd like for fans or players to own the alternative system, not clubs owned by PE firms and their buddies.
Amost every language has a framework that lets you get some form of quick administration up, but I've found that even with this, developers are still having to do things directly in the database.

This is also just the initial iteration. If you had a chance to check out the demo, all the screens where you manage your workspace (users, data source, etc) are all joins and use the Aidmin to manage itself.
With the death of third-party cookies Google is trying to force browsers to add enough bits of entropy so that the same level of user tracking can be achieved through fingerprinting instead. Simple as that. The fact that Google is rolling this out right now but their plans to reduce fingerprinting move much more slowly, if at all, is telling. This absolutely needs to be treated as the massive privacy leak that it is.
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You shouldn't trust any provider under the jurisdiction of an anti-liberty nation-state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Not sure why Huawei is unique here.
Although Firefox keeps getting worst, it is still a good alternative to Chrome... at least on PC... Firefox mobile stripped too many features from the latest version.
> If your point is that a subsidy will shift demand and increase the price, that is exactly what we want! A price signal to the market to build more housing to accommodate everyone who wants to live there including displaced communities!

As long as that same government is using law (ie. violence) to prevent building more housing, no amount of subsidies can be effective.

What do you intend landlords do? Hire an army to defend cheap housing from the government?
There's a lot of online marketing companies that do a lot of work in this area. It's pretty easy to do if you have any kind of ID or token to link the data. It can be done with credit card numbers, a phone's location services, membership programs, coupons, etc. Here's some of the stuff Facebook does, which just scratches the surface of what is possible:

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1150627594978290
So is the solution to avoid Lambda unless you have to? Don't use it to build regular software, just use it for AWS glue when necessary?
How is the performance “penalty” when running Docker in a VM?
IMO SPA is the natural consequence of API 1st design, of you can do everything via the API why reimplement it all again for the UI, as much as it sucks in some ways, it can yield really good results.
Safety engineering is a matching between user expectations of safety and actual safety. If there's evidence that this treadmill is disproportionately dangerous for it's category, that's one thing. But if it's just "dangerous" without qualification, that's not a reason in itself to be especially concerned about it.
Do you see capitalism as working for/against our future?
I don't know, but there's only one way to find out!

Lots of people told me that there was no use at all in measuring air pressure on scales smaller than the US already does with official measurements. But years later, there are multiple papers published and I think IBM now uses their mobile apps to crowdsource barometer data as it improves their weather forecasts.

I'm sure there will be naysayers who even say crowdsourcing magnetometer data is useless, but I don't really care or think they're right.

AFAIK there isn't a large-scale effort yet to study crowdsourced magnetometer data, so we really just don't know yet.

> Are the effects of solar storms that different over small geographic areas?

I don't know but now I'm extremely curious how small the measurable variations are in solar storm effects on Earth. And amazingly, there are billions of deployed sensors all around Earth right now that are simply not contributing to a central network. A simple code library is all that's needed to know this answer, which to me, is amazing, and a reason enough to try it out.
I would like to contribute an anecdote which turned me from a "google is listening" skeptic to someone who turns their phone off as often as possible, especially during any kind of sensitive conversation. I'm one degree removed from this anecdote, but I have no reason to doubt its truth.

A group of friends were on a road trip, driving for several days cross-country. These are university-aged young males, 20-23. None have any interest in starting a family any time soon.

At the beginning of the trip, they agreed (verbally) to test if google was listening by discussing "nappies" intermittently, loudly and jokingly. They would only discuss nappies in person - everyone agreed not to mention this on any digital channel whatsoever, not to look up nappies for any reason, etc. That is, they deliberately excluded nappies from their online lives.

They chose nappies specifically because they're completely irrelevant. None had ever to their knowledge been delivered an ad for nappies. None had ever purchased nappies or any baby product.

Sure enough, end of the trip - ads for nappies.

I would love an explanation more plausible than their phones were listening.
I understand that's why the government would want to know. My point (thus the word "need" in my question) is that at least in the United States there are very few groups of people (largely healthcare/childcare workers) who are required to disclose to the state. You're frequently required to disclose to partners, but that's obviously a completely different thing. Even then, disclosing where you got it from is not a legal requirement, merely the fact of the infection.
that has moved more to cams now i think
In UK English. American and Canadian English treats groups as singular, even when the name itself is a plural. "Apple has", "The United Nations has", etc.
I didn't quite glean a thorough understanding of the model from the article. It sounds like it's:

1) Public funds provide capital to build a new dwelling; individuals move in at rates similar to market rent.

2) Rather than rents paying a landlord, rents act like principal payments on a personal mortgage - e.g. I own $10,000 worth of shares of the property after paying $1,000/mo for ten months.

3) Eventually, I own enough of a share of the property that I no longer have to make payments, similar to having paid off a mortgage. I'd be responsible for upkeep (e.g. roof repairs), property taxes, that sort of thing.

What I'm not understanding, though, is how this passes down. If I'm a partial owner and move, doesn't the next buyer have the same issue raising capital that the model tries to address? Does it not also mean that I could become a landlord in my own right, and begin renting to another occupant, who stands to build no wealth themselves?
Can’t you just switch to a Chromium fork without the FLoC? If they were closed-source, I think I would agree.
It's quite limiting on:
1. It only mocks API Gateway, and not accurately (ie. IAM permissions). You also need to use a bunch of other similar plugins to mock DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, etc.
2. You need to change your code (wrapping your aws-sdk to connect to localhost) to use these mocking plugins.

I posted elsewhere in this thread but checkout SST (https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack), it lets’ you work on your Lambda functions live without having to mock AWS services locally. Here’s a short demo (https://youtu.be/hnTSTm5n11g)
What is their reasoning for blocking reader mode by default?
> the Thyssen-Krupp Multi has been in development for quite some time now and the result partially resembles Paternoster, but adds things like per-cabin independence and freely routed (also horizontal) movement to the whole idea.

Finally someone is working to make turbolifts from Star Trek happen.
I don’t think any injuries would be common and that paternosters are safer than stairs and escalators. Intuitively it seems that crushing accidents on the extremities would be quite a bit more likely than elevators, along with tripping accidents when entering/leaving the paternoster.
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In that particular case, because people will pay money for them, and in the other cases in the article, because people agree with the political messages or like the appearance of the approved graffiti better. More to the point, though, the conceptual distinction which the article is trying to draw between "graffiti", as opposed to "street art" is just made up philosophically bankrupt nonsense.
Was there a question? I only read assumptions
Obviously, such as tracking who opted out of marketing based on their credit card spend.

The question is what unintended (and specifically undesirable) consequences that poses to the members of the list.
If you read the Avalanche paper, you'll see early on that all of its claims to being BFT stem from an assumption about the distribution of message arrival rates in the system. That is a very generous assumption that can easily be wrong. Also the original BFT literature makes no assumptions about the arrival times or even reliability of the network -- BFT constraints apply even if the network is 100% reliable. It only gets worse from there; 2/3 honest votes is the best you can do under ideal circumstances.
Super nice! It's only missing auto-complete and it'll be light-years ahead of other tools on terms of usability
Go read up on the three plate method to manufacture surface plates.
> If it's a type you're having to invent as part of writing the code, writing it out everywhere it gets used can be a lot more work.

Not really; you write it out fully once, when creating a type alias/definition, and then just use the name later.

> Meaning, not well documented compared to APIs in other languages?

Yeah, I’ve found Python to have a pretty good documentation culture (docstrings especially facilitate this), often better than some statically typed languages with ecosystems where signatures are regularly mistaken for adequate documentation.
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We've (my wife and I) had a few odd ones like this too. That being said, no-one has substantiated this - which, to me, doesn't mean as much as people thinks it does.

Suppose you were building this capability. Would you necessarily leave it on 100% of the time, and if someone started acting 'weird' around their phone ("hey, I'm sitting in a lab, and someone is just talking to me a lot") it might be a good time to turn off the capability.

Plenty of malware knows to turn itself off when someone has Wireshark installed (or a number of other "tells" that the malware can get that you might be running on a security researcher's machine). Even simply running microphone-based data gathering infrequently might be enough to confound a journalist or researcher with limited time budget.
Does nobody consider the carrying capacity of an area, that only so many people can live in an area under given zoning regulations, and that further increase of population density necessarily causes fundamental change to living conditions? Romantic as the notion of avoiding displacement is, either density increases or price increases - both unpleasant. Exponential population increase in a geographically limited mostly-2-dimensional area can’t retain the same quaint culture.

Change happens. Stability can’t be decreed.
Here are some rules I have been pretty successful with (opinionated):

0.) Prevent meetings whenever possible

0.) Don't do meetings longer than 2 hours, better 1 hour

0.) Invite only people, that have to be there

1.) Set a topic and max. 3 goals per hour BEFORE inviting

2.) Prepare yourself BEFORE the meeting

3.) Repeat the goals visually at the beginning (on a board)

4.) Focus on the goals

5.) At halftime, revalidate the achieved goals

6.) Take the last 5-10 minutes to verify, the goals have been achieved

7.) Don't exceed the time limit (not even 5 minutes)

8.) If you finish earlier, leave the room earlier! (Don't talk about something else, because you are all there)

9.) Write an email with a SHORT summary to everyone, who may care
Learn the technical stuff you are avoiding. ideas are cheap, execution is hard. Understanding the depth of the problem your team faces will make you a better project manager, increase their happiness by knowing they’re working for someone with technical depth, and ultimately make you more valuable and harder to replace than just another product owner/scrum master. I get at least 10x more resumes for PM/PO that those with engineering skills. Guess what we don’t need more of...
It could be done at arms length through an API. Then it would become an issue of reading data they shouldn’t be.
For my own enlightenment, why a GNU implementation? What does it bring to the table?
How many people who use Chrome can or will even know to do so? Tech oriented people already have alternatives.
There's an element of rental housing which is an act of pure consumption. Real estate taxes (either paid or foregone), maintenance supplies, maintenance labor, common area utilities, paying the bond used to build the building, insurance, etc.

Plus, there is a notion in the article that this would be an incoming-producing asset and that income is presumably coming from the rents paid. Unless this is a massive Ponzi scheme, there's consumption going on (and therefore you're not building equity with all of the rent payments).

There's no realistic way you're going to have 100% (and likely not even 50%) of a rental payment going to building equity.
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Considering people now tend to change phones every couple of years, do you mean by "long term" something even shorter than that?
> Why is this bad? As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains in their post “Google’s FLoC is a terrible idea“, placing people in groups based on their browsing habits is likely to facilitate employment, housing and other types of discrimination, as well as predatory targeting of unsophisticated consumers.

All of this has been happening with tracking cookies, fingerprint tracking, pixel tracking and so on. And will continue to happen.

I find it so bizarre it took Google to talk about phasing out 3rd party cookies and replacing it with a much lesser technology in the face of FLoC, for people to suddenly be all up in arms about it.
In your opinion what's a "reliable" cloud provider (AWS excluded)?
tl;dr: come talk to me about this project which turns HN posts (like this one) into live audio discussions at this link (very meta - I know!): https://hackernews.roundtable.audio/live/show-hn-hacker-news...

I'm Seth, creator of roundtable.audio (formerly discourse.fm), a web app for hosting live, unmoderated audio discussions.

I recently created an extension to the site (hackernews.roundtable.audio) which pulls stories in real-time from HN and gives folks the ability to drop into a live audio discussions rather than comment threads. You can then post the link back to the comments on the actual HN story to invite others to jump into the discussion. This isn't meant to compete with HN comment threads, but rather extend them in a new and useful way. You can see the original post I made about it here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26096634.

I'm reposting because I wanted to share updates about the project, give this a little more visibility to interested folks, and I messed up posting last time (didn't include the URL with the title - oops).

The most notable update is that I open-sourced the code for the project which you can find here: https://github.com/sethkimmel3/roundtable.audio (and renamed it, too). In short, I'd like to see roundtable.audio provide the ability to turn content on any site with highly synchronous text-based content into live audio discussions. This includes sites like Twitter (see https://twitter.com/RoundtableBot), Hacker News (this post), Reddit, blogs, news sites, and more. If you like WebRTC and modern web apps, this could be a great project to hack on, and I'm excited to have community contributions!

Why this project? I think live audio (relative to text) decreases political polarization while increasing engagement, vulnerability, and serendipity. We can often learn so much more by talking to one another than hiding behind a keyboard. And in general, we can learn more from conversations that are pegged to some interesting topic.

I'll be in the roundtable for this HN story for the next few hours: https://hackernews.roundtable.audio/live/show-hn-hacker-news...

Come pop in and tell me what you think!
Yes, subsidies should be paired with dezoning.

Yes, law includes the threat of coercion, I don't see what adding that little tidbit does to improve your point.
It sounds like you're committed to Lambda, but we've spent extensive time across both Lambdas and Google Cloud Functions, and my off the cuff, somewhat biased opinion is that GCF gives a significantly better development experience the Lambdas. I note biased because a majority of the work we do lives in RTDB/Firestore.

However, in response to your specific pain point - after initializing a new functions project you can immediately run an 'npm run serve' and have local execution firing for any scaffolded endpoints. These - by default - will connect to a project associated RTDB/Firestore instance without the need for additional service account/IAM configuration.

I've always enjoyed that this was a part of the mainline dev flow - and it removes a huge barrier of entry for me (mostly mental) to spin up little toy projects or test endpoints whenever the thought crosses my mind.
Nope.

Telling the state in no way keeps you from giving it to others. The existing legal requirement to disclose STIs to partners is targeted at that. In terms of actual epidemiology, the government just needs to know O() how many new cases have been found in a population, not specifically who has been diagnosed with what.
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Ah come on. The FLoC proposal has built in ways to turn it off. If you don't wanna be put in a cohort you can just configure your browser (even chrome) to say you don't have one.
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> As surprising as this may seem, there are a lot of companies out there that are not undergoing massive or dramatic change.

By definition, every company that exists has a "biggest" problem internally. That is the point of the question. To say "Nope, no problems here", is either a bold-faced lie or a level of oblivious-ness that would signal to a candidate to steer clear.

Nobody's demanding to hear about all the skeletons. Acknowledging that every business has problems and could improve is not an admission of guilt. "Things are generally pretty good but moving to Salesforce has caused some frustrations that we're working through" is not"massive or dramatic change" and still satisfies the question.
I don't understand - are you claiming it's just more common to use the American grammar in all venues? Yes I'm sure it is. But it doesn't make it wrong to use British English that you need to go out of your way to correct them as if they're making a mistake and don't know any better.

Or are you claiming it has never been commonly accepted British grammar to make company names plural? If you think that then I'm afraid you're just factually mistaken.
Seconded that Localstack is pointless. So much of what I want to do isn't supported and/or throws weird errors that are nothing like the AWS service.
> Does a site exist where programmers can submit useful findings? Similar to stackoverflow, but rather than asking for questions, you just submit answers. I would think being able to search across such a crowdsourced utility would save programmers a ton of time.

SO kind of lets you do this. You can write a question and immediately answer it yourself - there's an option in the question UI for it.
To my eye, pieces attributed to Banksy have a unique and appealing aesthetic, and the art generally is thought-provoking. He also has a knack for pushing all sorts of buttons. See his immigration piece in Clacton-on-Sea [1] for an example of all of the above.

A paint splash hastily thrown on his art is less compelling to me, on all these dimensions. Perhaps it’s a particularly well-splashed bit of paint, but even so, the closest it can really come to commentary is something along the lines of “Banksy works in a transient medium, and all things in life, including street art, are destined to be painted over” or perhaps “this, too, is art”. But at this point, that is a not particularly original bit of expression, and I’d just as soon have the Banksy on display.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-29446232
This sounds like horrible advice, flames don't "blow out"
off base question, i suppose inspired by porch sitting + reading gwern's case studies: https://www.gwern.net/Search#case-studies

i think i would have found most of the examples gwern listed, maybe not as quickly. i go wild on google iteratively before jumping to another search engine

but, is there a tournament or contest along the lines of 'producing some result via searches' quicker than others? im thinking a form of this might exist at defcon/thotcon/similar

ironically, instead of searching, im asking here haha
The obvious one (getting half in the car and getting crushed) is likely relatively uncommon - as it should be possible to make the engine weak enough that it can’t do major harm.
There is also one at the main česká pošta by Brno hlavní nádraží. I was excited to try it but I had the same feeling - it's not a place for more than one person. And I am glad I read your sentence about touching the lift shaft before I did it myself because I would have 100% done the same thing.
Yeah, seems like a straightforward choice.

> Paying the bonus.

Gimme, gimme!

> Improving office amenities.

Not bad, but... it would depend on how much money we are talking about, and what office amenities it would buy. For example, once I got a new $1000 office chair that felt less comfortable than the old cheap one -- I definitely would have preferred the cash. On the other hand, once I had to work with a barely functional mouse, and I would gladly spend my own $5 to buy a new one, but that would be against the company policy, so I couldn't.

In general, greater computer screens, more memory, more disk, better mouse -- good idea. (I have no idea what makes many software companies try to save money on this. It is a fraction of the developer's salary, and it can have huge impact on productivity.) Expensive chair, expensive table, art or whatever -- I would probably prefer its worth in cash, because companies typically buy stuff way more expensive than I would. Fit ball could be fun, though.

At the end of the day, the cash remains mine, especially if I invest it wisely. The office amenities that company gives, the company can take away. And I can't bring them to my next job either.

> Buying each employee an expensive present.

Just no. If it's something I want, I can buy it myself. If you buy it without asking me, there is 99% chance it has zero value for me.

> Funding a family vacation for each employee.

Again, I can do this myself, if you give me money. And I prefer to keep my family separated from my job, thank you.

> Making a sizable donation to a worthy cause (collectively or for each employee).

Another thing I can do myself, thank you. Also, high chance the "worthy cause" will be something super politically correct, and I don't want to be that bad guy who publicly opposes it.
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