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Please don't cross into personal attack on HN, for any meaning of $person. And please stop creating accounts to break HN's guidelines with. You're damaging the community you're part of by doing these things, and that is self-defeating behavior—especially if you consider how fragile this place is. I'm sure you're not the kind of person who would drop lit matches in a dry forest or even litter in a city park. Please stop doing the equivalents here.

The odds are high that the internet converges to suckage. We're spending a lot of energy trying to stave that off. Since you're such an active community participant, wouldn't it be in your interests to help that effort, rather than hurt it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In a global perspective, it’s defined privilege if you are a white male in Europe or North America. You already have more opportunities than 99% of the world population.

But I wouldn’t use the words unfair advantage. Most of us didn’t cheat or do anything immoral to be born in this position, and trying to make our lives worse won’t help anyone else. The point isn’t to try to make us feel bad (not how I interpret it at least), but that we try to remember that we are very lucky people being born into this position, and that the overwhelming majority were less lucky than we are.
Well you missed the first part of the argument, which is that ads can be intrinsically useful for discovery of things you didn't know you needed but would actually be useful in your life.

With regards to the second part, which you addressed, it's one thing to say "this is bad we should replace it with X". It is an entirely different thing to say "this is bad I have no idea what we should replace it with". Because nothing is black and white, so it doesn't matter how bad ads are if the thing that replaces them is then worse.
In practice, crypto does not free people from centralization. That's one of the problems highlighted by this thread.
Would early App Store iOS be an example?
You just used softer language to say the same thing I said.

Also, their organizing rhetoric, i.e. "Stop the Steal," did not imply an attempt to be annoying and temporarily delay the election.

Protests do not stall free elections anyway.
Anyone know what the purpose of the mov edi, edi instruction there is?

Edited to add: I understand that it's a NOP, but why would the compiler emit one here?
The article is clear about deferring fully to GnuPG on this difference of opinion:

“gpg signaled an error; the applications didn’t adhere to the API contract. I have to agree with the GnuPG developers, …”

yet making the additional point that if your API leaves room for a difference of opinion to result in a serious security vulnerability, your API might have room for improvement:

“… and add: gpg’s interface was (and remains) a disaster waiting to happen, because it doesn’t guide the user to do the right thing.”
I'm out of touch with current contract rates and salaries, but when I switched from contract to full time in 2012, I figured that a nominal pay cut was actually a 30% raise based on the full time perks: paid vacation/holidays, 401K, stock purchase plan, paid healthcare (this was before Obama care) etc.
This is an absolutely fascinating project. I'll be keeping a close eye on it for sure!

I had hoped that Go would eventually kind of serve this role in the PLT world, years ago when it was first announced. Sadly, it's morphed a lot over the years into something entirely different.
Perhaps tie into bluetooth instead. If your Watch or iPhone goes out of range, lock the machine.
It is slower than we'd like it to be but the breakneck pace of the first couple of years with a new hero ever 3 weeks wouldn't have made sense in the long term either. It was necessary early on to fill out the roster but what the game needs at this stage is regular balance patches and reworks.
Got a newer Mac from work and upgraded it to Big Sur—Big mistake. If I hadn't installed Little Snitch from a recommendation here I'd have not known it runs dozens of chatty network services by default with no way to disable them. Many communicating and uploading metrics to services like icloud and local bonjour, whether you use them or not.

Not only that, but with the system volume is read only, so there is no obvious way to disable them from running without defeating other security. Any tips to disable these easily on the latest OS?

All in all for company that touts privacy, I found it all a bit shocking really.
> what do you think would have happened if the rioters captured every single congressperson? what if they were all killed? if you think the answer to either of those questions is "the rioters assume control of any part of the federal government" then im not sure we have anything to discuss. killing congress doesnt, like, make you the new congress.

The question isn't what we think, it's what the rioters thought. Considering their chants, preparations and convictions, it's not entirely unreasonable to say they were hoping to make it so the guy they want remains in charge, regardless of election results. Whether or not that is legally possible or how it works isn't relevant to their goals, which is the main thing that matters to determine if it was a coup attempt or not. They thought it was, and that's that.

PS: i'm not American, I don't have a horse in this race
No, because Java's security hasn't been based on the Security Manager sandbox for years, and very few people use it (and almost no one uses it for sandboxing untrusted code -- what it was designed to do). There will be replacements, and in some cases there are already, for other (ab)uses of the Security Manager, such as tracking I/O events.
This simply isn't true though. Because the jobs pay more than the welfare in most cases, and don't require any skill. Some businesses in town have closed as a result. I know multiple people who would rather scrape by on welfare and enjoy their summer.
Wikipedia has a large number of "Help:IPA/<lang>" articles that I refer to a lot. Here's the English one, with its abundance of vowels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English
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I like diceware passwords, a random set of common words, for this, often with a few random characters thrown in. It's still long, but I find them to be faster to type and memorize than random characters.
Didn't Uniswap get eaten by others precisely because the others could use their tokens to create usage incentives?
> USDC for example, is literally exchangeable for $1.

Thank you for reaffirming my point! The purpose of defi is to re-distribute dollars from people buying in to people cashing out, while providing literally no other goods or services. It's not like people want these tokens for other purposes -- you buy them so you can sell them to subsequent participants.

Despite the deceptive machinations of defi, the act of selling out leaves a paper trail that exposes you to liability for income taxes, capital gains taxes, and (if you wrote the token code) securities regulations. But I have some good news: if you live in the US, you at least have until May 17 to file your quarterly estimated taxes.
Removing personal responsibility from people is in itself a source of many social ills.

For example think about how much better society could've been over the past decades if, instead of saying "people can't reasonably make decisions about [insert drug here] so we're going to illegalize all of them" we'd said "wow, adults can make decisions for themselves".
I believe windows has/had a setting where you could automatically log out if a bluetooth device was disconnected. I'm not sure how hard it'd be to do something like that on a Mac but maybe I should look into it. I think "if my watch disappears, lock the screen" would be simple enough.
Somehow we achieved major accomplishments like civil rights act and gay marriage and defeating the bad guys when free speech was at its peak few decades ago. So I would disagree with your comment. Only way to defeat extremism is by absolute freedom speech. Else you are throwing it under the rug.
Peace and piece are really quite close. Even week and weak are too. At least to my Canadian, native English ears; and I've done enough French, Russian, and Greek to hear the difference between what other Canadian English speakers would consider to be the same sound.
Kudos on the perserverance :-)

Hope you didn't burn too many fingers! :-D
Don't forget the corollary: when do you wish you sold the Amazon stock you purchased at IPO?
unfairly? privacy concerns aside they just added another huge abstraction on top of an already huge pile of shit we call modern web.
He seems like a good kid, and very smart. Homeless as a teen, white mom kicked out as a teen due to dating a black man, clearly unstable upbringing which is brutal for any kid.

Taught himself how to code at the library.

He was a recipient of the Thiel Fellowship. You get $100,000 for 2 years of living expenses and you get to work on whatever.

Unfortunately he doesn't seem to blog about that and instead focuses on the time a cop forced his head into a steering wheel because he reached in his pocket.

The human mind gravitates towards the negative, probably due to evolutionary pressures.

The US is such a racist place that a white dude who is a well-known Republican gave him $100,000 to do whatever for 2 years but he ignores that and focuses on the negative experiences in his life with the minority of whites who are bigots, ignoring the kindness he clearly must have come across.

I can relate because I had a similar background to him in the sense where I had a very poor and also drug addicted mother who was in and out of homeless shelters. Eventually when my father was able to locate me I got to have a somewhat normal life compared to that, although we were technically below poverty line income wise.

I don't think he ever got that lucky and I can't imagine what he's been through. He seems to have done great things already. I wish him well, and hope he learns to recognize how fortunate he has been in other ways. If being given 100 grand to do whatever for 2 years isn't privilege, then I don't know what is.

Edit:

Importantly, I forgot to add that he CLEARLY capitalized on that fellowship. He's created a pretty badass startup that leverage video/data streaming to allow playing of console/pc games on iOS/Android/etc. Personally of note for me, his startup created a grpc-like serialization format (bebop) that I looked at months ago for a project I was working on. The lesson/reminder for me is that behind every post on the internet is a human being who I probably have a ton in common with. Plus, anyone who buys an old Camaro and fixes it up themselves is automatically relegated to a higher status in my embarrassingly country boy worldview, lol.
Well until you have a better alternative...
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> Please see Myanmar for what a coup looks like;

Coups can take a variety of forms and not all of them include armed forces taking physical control with threat of force.
Companies like Google and Facebook were running around screaming Chicken Little about how companies like Verizon and Comcast will use their monopolistic powers to dominate public speech, screw over users, and screw over startup competitors. Interesting where we ended up today.

The propaganda framed it like sites like Netflix would be really fast because they could afford to pay for it and startup competitors would be very slow, but economic incentives would have actually caused the exact opposite. A startup video hosting site is of relatively no burden to an ISP compared to a behemoth like Netflix so they would have no reason to slow down the startup speeds. If the startup succeeds because it has a competitive advantage to Netflix, then when they become big they get a new customer they can bully into keeping their speeds high.

Yes ISPs will take a cut of the fees they charge content providers, but they will also be able to pass those savings onto the average consumer because the Netflix customer, who is already using most of the internet bandwidth, is helping pay for the service connection. Market forces would force streaming services to go up in price and ISP costs to go down. It would be generally fairer.
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> "I don't recall it gaining a lot of traction in the establishment press."

There sure is a lot you don't see in American establishment press. That's the saddest part about Donald Trump's "Fake News TM" - it really is shockingly, unbelievably bad.

Seeing otherwise smart people defend CNN et al, just because Trump "attacked" them, is just so gruesome. And let's not forget all the free coverage they gave him, some 20 times what Sanders got.

Ah well, sure what can you do :shrug:
They're really quite close, both pairs of them. But the emphasis isn't quite the same as most people speak it.
Patron kinda proves the point that no-one wants micropayments (and that small/threshold payments work fine in a centralized system)?
That something I wonder frequently when I find myself at Github.
Google and Netflix did campaigns for NN. So did Facebook and other internet and media companies.

One of the most successful was the John Olivers Last Week Tonight piece. I saw some evidence later that the ‘evidence’ provided in that piece (claims from Netflix about throttling) were either fabricated or exaggerated, although I did not look into it too much.
I disagree completely with the author's point that the ad model is not regressive. The author points out correctly that charging everyone some $ is regressive, because for some people that amount of money is a lot, and for others that is a little. Totally makes sense.

Then, we go on to ads. Ads charge everyone a similar amount of bandwidth, attention, etc. But you know what? Some people who have more resources or knowhow will understand how to block ads. And they probably won't be paying by the MB on a crappy cell phone plan such that they spend their money on bandwidth to load the ads, while the content they want to read languishes below the fold of the ads and they struggle to navigate to it on their crappy device struggling to render ads.

The costs are more abstract than when paying in actual dollars, but surely we can recognize that the cost of ad supported web pages is also not felt evenly by everyone. As a privileged software engineer, I can guarantee you that the impact of "paying" for things with ads is felt far less by me than many others. That is regressive in my opinion.
Doesn’t matter. It’s already a variation of a well known password anyway. :)
It is hard to speculate on what happened without more details. There are a lot of ways founders and employees can bee screwed, especially shenanigans with options, but as I said above, Im not aware of any of anyway to destroy fully granted/vested stock.
Thank you for reaffirming my point! If you want your token traded on uniswap, you'll write the integration code pro bono, you'll pay a fee (a transaction fee to deploy it), and Ethereum miners (who run uniswap) skim transaction fees off of your token trades in perpetuity.
I hate how media groups all negative technological behavior as hacking. She abused her mother’s account which seemed to have more access than required. She didn’t hack anything.
Perhaps an accelerometer for when it's snatched quickly.
Let's say that the rioters had successfully taken congress hostage. A lot more people might have gotten hurt, but we still wouldn't have been close to a successful coup because there simply was no where near enough support for any coup in the military or court system for it to possibly succeed.

It was a signifant event and one that is well worth being strongly concerned about. That does not justify spreading hyperbolic FUD. In my view the seriousness of this event makes it more important that we bring our full rationality to bear when discissing it and try our best to avoid obfuscating the problems it revealed with the usual partisan games of BS and distortion.
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If this gains any kind of traction I will be shocked if Google doesn't squash its ability to access YouTube videos. Google can't be ok with this.
It does nothing, so its a noop of sorts. I wonder if its a branch-delay tactic of some kind? Surely the algorithm is unchanged if it were removed.
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I use this bash one-liner

< /dev/urandom tr -cd "[:print:]" | tr -d '[]<>(),~.\;\: \\/\`\|\{\}\'\"\' | head -c 8; echo

Generates 8 random characters excluding punctuation that is often not allowed in passwords. You can change `head -c 8` to the desired length of the password. If you get something difficult to type, just generate another one.
Why I Work on Ads:

money.
I used to do this on a weekly basis with my Windows desktops (95, 98, NT, XP, and 7 was the last one I bothered with). I used various tools to automate this process, (nLite was a good one), and wrote scripts to perform application setup (back in the bad old days before chocolatey).

This had huge benefits in terms of maintaining a very performant Windows desktop.

Then, I also baked-in my security configurations with another set of scripts. So it was always in a consistent configuration, (even if I had to "temporarily" disable something that was blocking me or broke something, I could always return to my "known-good-configuration").

I've also done the same with my linux systems.

Mac OS X has always been curiously resistant to full automation, however. I know some people have done it; but there's something about this ecosystem that makes it very difficult; and I kind of think that's by-design, (to thwart the hackintosh people).

I think it would be extremely valuable to be able to do this on Mac OS X; because customizing the OS is central to being able to get a good productive user-experience (especially for power-users), and I'm often stymied trying to accomplish this in a repeatable manner, on Mac OS X.
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And then you mention you did call and they were uncooperative?
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>A well balanced stamina mechanic would be a great way to implement flying.

I like the suggestion. I suspect, however, that making flying harder could only have happened before flying first appeared in the game, and that Blizzard has calculated that any such move now would cost too many players to be worthwhile.
It is hard to prophecy, particularly about the future.
Should actually be pretty easy to implement
Minor aside: I don't live in the Bay Area and I'm really glad not to!
A coup attempt in the most heavily armed country in the world, but they forgot to bring a single gun!
It's inflationary (5 billion more a year), but inflation rate drops overtime, reaching 0% on a long enough time line...

Compared to USD inflation rate, this is much lower volatility, and makes it rather attractive. A good complement to store-of-value Bitcoin: has the ability to act more like a currency.

Also, error in the article: Bitcoin supply is estimated to run out in 2140, NOT 2040.

Source: https://provscons.com/is-dogecoin-capped/
I think this is the right conclusion. IMO your parenthetical is almost too kind.
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Its hard to mischaracterize an attempt to overthrow the government. Whether it was efficiently executed is irrelevant - it was treasonable activity.
Exactly. Also, we can 100% eliminate nail fungus and ingrown nails (it can cause serious infections!) if we surgically remove the nail root of infants. It's a super simple surgery, and modern men has no use for nails anyway!
First point may fit my case! With Leva.io we design pretty mesmerizing art pieces.

Didn’t know about the “forced community property”, wow.

Btw, what if I start a new company with an american co-founder?
All three authors are computer scientists. It even seems to be a cooperation between academia and industry .
It’s just a two byte NOP. IIRC, it’s Intel’s recommended form for one of that length. Windows uses it for hot patching,[0], but I can’t imagine that’s the reason here.

[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=95...
I love when I'm halfway through the first paragraph and a giant popup covers my screen. I have to wait for it to load in (because they had to make it a nice transition). Then I have to figure out how to close it.
I have no idea what the popup said but I completely forgot what I reading. That's enough of that website.
The claustrophobic was a fake excuse considering he was sitting in a car right before, officers offered to roll down the windows to make him comfortable, he had used the same swallowing drugs and resisting arrest 1 year prior, and a man who is capable of breaking into a pregnant woman’s house with his 5 friends and beating her up with his gun in front of her son and then pushing the gun into her pregnant belly simply can’t believed to be claustrophobic. Nor can a man who worked security as their job be claustrophobic.
Strange. I’m using macOS for ~12 years now and Big Sur is not worse for me.

I’m not trying to say you’re wrong. On the contrary, since I don’t use macOS that deeply (I’m a Linux guy mainly), not feeling the change for worse is intriguing for me.
>Notifications are just more fiddly.

OMG - I hate the new notifications. Dismissing them is a very expensive task. Almost makes me want to disable notifications altogether.
> If you say "I don't know about that", or "I'm not sure if that really happened", it's a short walk from tolerating fascists.

I strongly disagree. There is an enormous shift from "I question whether Jews were killed" to "Let's go kill Jews".

(To avoid misunderstandings and red herrings: Yes, the Holocaust happened, and was very much as horrific as claimed. The evidence is clear, consistent, overwhelming, and almost impossible to deny. And there are almost certainly recruiters who use "just asking questions" to try to recruit people. Nevertheless, "shut up and stop asking" isn't the answer. Instead, the answer is to show evidence, in overwhelming amounts. This may not silence the recruiter, but the recruiter isn't the target of your evidence. The recruitee is.)
Perhaps it is not so much a question of whether online ads work nor how profitable the business is (or the costs to society of all the surveillance), but instead the question is why the author cannot or will not work on something else. Is the work he does truly valuable in a general sense. This question might help us gauge the veracity of his statements.

If the web were 100% ad-free, it would still exist. It would still be growing. People would still spend countless hours working on computer programming. People would still be endlessly tinkering with the internet. This is reality, I saw it in the 80's and 90's. However, they would not be, as the author is today, asking for forgiveness, pledging to donate half their "earnings" to charity. Online ads may be an efficient way to make money but it also may be the only efficient way to make money from such "work" (experimentation, fun). The folks who are profiting from online ads will say anything to avoid that reality check.

The emperor may indeed be naked, but the amount of money and infrastructure these companies have to bury the truth is enormous. They will not allow the world to ever again experience a web without pervasive advertising. The person who started the web already had a real job. He did not try to make money with online ads. That world was fun while it lasted. There were so many possibilities.

Thanks to this author's "work", the possibilities now appear to be mostly dystopian. Compare this post "Why I work on Ads" to the original paper from Brin and Page that described the influence of advertising on web search as undesirable and a primary motivation for creating Google.

http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/334.pdf
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