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I wanted to like Red Mars, and the science stuff was well made, but a lot of the book is about politics, and to me, those parts were painful to read.

I found it incredibly naive and unrealistic. Clearly many others disagree :)
The real problem is that ordinary people do not have power and (secretly) they do not want power.
I've always disliked not having a space between a -parameter and it's option. "-r un" is so much more readable and explicit than "-run".

Why do people not include that space? Certainly it's not to save the time of not hitting the spacebar, right?
Rapid7’s Response to Codecov Incident
Ok, so what if Elon decided that Tesla's current Bitcoin holdings are too small, and is looking to depress price to buy even more BTC?
Scanning the internet for misconfigured IPv6 endpoints and exposed services
i don’t get how you can say corporate paper is part of your reserve. it’s very illiquid and you could be screwed if there’s a bank run. it also has duration risk. the whole point of a tether is it should be backed 1 for 1 by cash. that’s like saying my coin is backed by gold and then trading that gold for us treasuries
This is something I have been wanting for a while! Markdown collaborative notes in a native app!

Definitely downloading...
I'm not sure Tesla / Musk says that. The second tweet he links is "Energy usage trend over past few months is insane https://cbeci.org" estimating annual energy consumption of 148.7 TWh. Not per transaction or anything. And that is an awful lot, more than the electricity consumption of Sweden for example, and up 2x on a year ago.
World’s First Wooden Satellite Set to Launch in 2021, Friendly to Environment
> It's that american rail construction in the northeast is OLD, and we're hosed by the first adopter paradox.

The rail networks of Britan and France, just to pick a couple, are older than those of the USA. No first adopter paradox in that comparison.
Colonial is being widely lambasted for a culture of absolutely lackadaisical security. Call me callous but numerous federal agencies exist to issue security best practices and exploit announcements. numerous vendors also exist. play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Not paying the ransom would have been tantamount to complete dissolution of the company. it would have tirggered a much wider investigation into the company with shareholders abandoning it as the outage dragged on at the hands of an incompetent leadership.

Unfortunately it seems to have been a Pyrrhic victory as paying the ransom puts their shareholders at risk of serious sanctions and indictment from the US Dept. of the Treasury.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/ofac_ransomware_a...
He changed his mind because of this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/private-equity-f...
> I understand that a lot of the exchanges got together to keep Tether fueled.

Keep it fueled how? What were they purchasing it with?

> As I note in the linked article: the market for tethers don't care about Tether's backing, only about Bitcoin number go up.

I totally get this, but what I don't understand is why Tether doesn't trade at a discount, neither in crypto pairs or USDT/USD pairs (say on Coinbase or Kraken).
When Guido was the BDFL (but whom am I fooling, everyone still will blindly accept a PEP from him and his opinion will still weigh a ton, steering council or not), he was pretty actively against any kind of bytecode-level optimization even though a lot could be done that way, citing “simplicity” and “readability”. Most Python core developers have had pretty much a Pavlovian response to shut down any and all such discussions.

I think they could get away with it for a while because none of the competing implementation would readily steal Python’s darlings, namely NumPy/SciPy and Tensorflow. Now there is competition, and it can really push CPython away to being a niche “reference implementation”, thus we are seeing these twitches.

The track record of CPython core team in the last decade makes me very wary when it comes to bringing in such features. Ship it or it didn’t happen.

P. S. Microsoft once threw a large sum of money at Kenneth Reitz to work on Requests, anyone remembers how that story ended?
I suspect Node is still quite a lot faster than Pypy because the former benefits from v8 which is a well-funded project which doesn’t have to worry about compatibility with the sprawling C-extension interface that CPython exposes.
Kinda confused about this one? Inline tables are ... well inline tables. Why does it matter that they're actually pages/databases? Is it that you want tables in the formatting sense?
The collapse of all plant life would mean the death of humans. Nuclear winter is a well-studied and modeled phenomenon.
In the early 2000s, a significant part of my income came from payment integrations. Everybody and their grandmother was jumping on ecommerce, and payment processors made it a bloody pain. To this day, I will never understand why, but it seems like they deliberately made it hard. And expensive. One of the companies I worked for had contracts with dozens of different payment processors, a lot of thought went into how to direct payments to the cheapest processor for whatever type of transaction (country, amount, card types, risk of chargebacks etc).

I'm glad Stripe mostly killed all that.
This video of CNN host Brian Williams referring to 'The Beauty of our Weapons' has stuck with me as one of the most bizarre examples of the prevailing pro-war attitude in the 'left press':

https://twitter.com/i/status/850204332758716420
I'm more cynical. It looks to me like basic manipulation of the market. Only possible due to 1. A lot of "dumb" money invested in crypto 2. Relatively small market compared to larger forex markets.

Wouldn't surprise me if Musk sold before making the tweet and bought after the drop.
Basically browsers have the "I open a popup to ask" or "the user has no schema handler for that schema so I don't need to ask" or the "User already confirmed it always should open the link with given application" behaviour and they can detect it "somehow "?

But I still have to look closer into it.
Is he misusing the definition for "golden handcuffs"? From my understanding, the issue is that an employee has 90 days to exercise one's options. Most can't afford to do so if the company isn't public due to the cost to exercise and the tax burden. I'm not sure how this new options structure addresses that.
Because a big advantage to trains over airplanes is you can stop at places in between for low cost. It is common for airplanes to spend more time getting from the gate to cruising altitude and back down than at cruise.

A train going Chicago to Minneapolis would only lose a few minutes stopping at cities like Milwaukee WI and Madison WI - both fairly large cities. An airplane could stop at each, but the cost of one stop would double the full trip time.

Where a train stops vs go past is a very complex subject full of trade offs. However in general a train that only goes non-stop between two points is a bad idea. I've been in discussions elsewhere in this topic about that - read them for more info. (including those who disagree - they have valuable insight)
Does this actually work correctly for anyone? Got wrong results for Firefox and Chrome on Linux (it warns that Chrome probably won't work).

I glanced through the source[0] and my about:config and I noticed I have the dom.block_external_protocol_in_iframes setting enabled. Looks like this could be the mechanism they use? I don't remember enabling it manually.

Otherwise, it could be my tiling window manager messing with detection.

[0]: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/external-protocol-flooding/...
Looking for Pilots for Plug-In Play Interactive Live Streaming
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Why the down votes? its a valid question... geesh...
In my beginning Python book, Illustrated Guide to Python 3, I try and make it really easy to just get started with Python. I encourage using IDLE. For beginners it is fine. There are no other installs to worry about and they can focus on learning the language.
Actually Hydrogen without Oxygen doesn't make boom. Also Lithium batteries also have a tendency to go boom, so I guess that's equal.
You cited everything but the most important regarding this news: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/private-equity-f... (the reason for his change of mind)
And yet:

Massie operates a cattle farm in Garrison, Kentucky, with his wife, Rhonda, and their four children.[153][154] They live in a solar-powered home that Massie built himself.[155][156] He is a Methodist.[157]
Thank you! exactly what I was looking for
I know it, it was fine from point of camera, music and storyline, but for me it was too vulgar, bizarre and not realistic...

I mean i know that aspect of theology in PI is "not realistic" as well, but Tetsuo is just pure madness on LSD.
Bingo.

Easiest mainstream evidence is treatment of candidates in debates — which, reminder, are operated entirely by...basically whoever in academia or media.
If we can send cameras with walky-talkies, we can invent and send (possibly silicon-based) life forms that will carry on our legacy while being a lot more resistant to the elements, require much less support along the journey, and can tolerate whatever gases and radiation may be present at the destination while still reproducing and carrying on society just as life does now.

Human bodies suck because they need to eat, need to poop, complain if what they eat isn't tasty, fight with each other, and get cancer, but our legacy as intelligent life doesn't need to continue in our current carbon-based meat bag form.
I understand that you want to promote your solution and you have a disclaimer in the previous comment - and that's great. But if you keep insisting then you should IMHO at least provide some reasons on why your solution may be better than e.g. Keycloak and not just posting the name a couple times and see if it sticks.
People telling me not to invest in Tesla have been telling me 'credits will go away next year' since 2015. Yes, eventually it goes away, but anybody that actually reads the sheet knows that Tesla doesn't depend on these credits.

As an long term investor I don't care about profits each quarter for a company like Tesla.
It seems that it's not very effective in Linux.
What were the order of magnitude speed developments in seafaring before 1800? I'm not familiar with the topic.
It's not that complicated: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/private-equity-f...
Writing a Performance Self Review for Software Engineers – With an Example
So this requires a proprietary SaaS solution to use?
Hi, nimbius.

I’m the article author, can you please clarify your question?

The demo will not work without a popup window in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. The “Get My Identifier” button is needed in order to have a single user gesture to open an additional window.

However the Tor Browser demo works silently without any additional window.
> If it's provided by other people who are not themselves enslaved, it absolutely is.

What a leap.

> but money is changing hands for services whether it comes out of your pocket or not.

It doesn't mean it's a business in the sense of "commercial activities"

> Further, we're not talking about healthcare.

Let me see:

- we're in the comments section to "World Health Organization: List of Essential Medicines"

- dicsussing denying people healthcare based on invasive monitoring of their activities

Yes. We're definitely talking about healthcare.

> Insurance is absolutely a business.

It definitely is. Especially in the states. And in case of healthcare it definitely shouldn't be. And it definitely shouldn't be advocated for.
Markets don't care about justice. It's all about supply and demand. If a company needs people on-site in SF and also needs people on-site in Atlanta, it will have to pay the former more than the latter. If they don't, they will either be paying more (if they give the Atlanta folks extra money) than they have to or they won't be able to fill the positions (if they don't give the SF folks extra money).
>>App Store stopped more than $1.5 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2020

> They never justify or source this, they literally just pulled it out of their ass.

They pulled it out of their data.

> Nope, you can use Facebook messenger from an iPhone or even a Pinephone.

Exactly - as I said, there is no shortage of cross platform apps you can use to do group chat.

> Apple is running the only popular chat app which demands you use only their hardware.

So what? There are many options. Nobody has to use it.

> Quite simply: the cost is that almost all the software is absolute shit.

Not for most consumers.

If you are someone who insists on inspecting the source code of SSH apps, I applaud you.

You are one of a tiny minority of specialists who can do this. End users in general quite obviously cannot.

That’s why they buy a consumer product which doesn’t require them to.
I think a lot of businesses would still pay. Pay $2M for a 50% chance of getting out of the situation, versus $200M in losses if you don’t - you’d take the gamble.
CMS* though I am guessing it is being used as a CRM, too.
I'm excited about WASM here. https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-python lets you call WASM binaries from Python, which means if you can compile a C library to WASM you can then call it from Python... without having to worry about introducing crashing bugs and security vulnerabilities thanks to the WASM sandbox.
This HN library work is so good. Thanks for these types of HN trees.

I've been thinking of offering to help your team with some tooling work. But if you needed help, you'd probably find it somewhere. So I'll just cheer you on here.

(A fella emailed me about Lumen the other day, asking what I thought about Scheme's (let ((a 1) (b 2)) ...) syntax. I said "If you want to, you can write a macro to implement Scheme. But Lumen's design got it right." So, thanks also if your early design conversations influenced how Lumen's LET turned out. Some days it feels I've written more (let ...) blocks than sentences.)
3,7, and 8 aren't related to the trial.

And 8 is normal business practice with little reprecussion (not unlike how Microsoft attempted to buy Nintendo 20 years ago). I believe they even called the point a "moonshot", so it's not like Epic had high hopes.
Personal opinion, not really inherited from any authoritative wisdom: pure Python is useful because it:

- Simplifies and improves the performance of deployment: it becomes a straightforward case of copying code files

- Largely achieves the same stated goal of Java: write once, run anywhere

- Allows for easy code inspection and debugging in production (it's debatable whether that's a good thing; I think it is, overall)
The support costs are a solvable problem. The challenge is architecting your stack to accommodate external storage, and delivering a usable experience to your users when they connect their resources.

It would be nice if AWS could deliver a smooth OAuth experience so that in a few clicks, a user could provision an S3 bucket and share it with a service provider as easily as they can grant access to a GitHub repository.
boom to bust?

It’s like the industry tears itself apart going through these cycles.

A bit glib perhaps, but with how long investment takes and spikes in demand, and each company trying to corner the market there’s a lot going on to stay solvent.
I guess (and just that), that this can happen if there are overlaps in the scheme handlers.

I.e. there are some schemas which lets say XCode handles but which also some other program handles.
Yes one of the other companies would could have sold credits, is now no longer in the market making there be less credits on the market. Crazy how that works.
Well, in the scenario you're responding to, you're actually asking why an onsite Atlanta employee should be making less than an onsite SF employee (based on the statement that remote should get main campus salary).

And the answer is market rates but a lot of people don't like that answer.
This seems less promising as a means to uniquely identify users than supercookies, Time-Based Device Fingerprinting, or other hardware based methods.
Realistically, ransomware will just never stop until IT systems are sufficiently hardened.
> not perfectly documented

Understatement of the year!
https://www.urban.org/features/exposing-housing-discriminati...

"Urban’s latest study, published in 2012, found that while instances of overt “door-slamming” discrimination had continued to drop, real estate agents and rental housing providers recommend and show fewer available homes and apartments to minorities than equally qualified whites."
“ Putting this together, I suspect the Cirrus pilot never registered the presence of the Metroliner until the collision - and I doubt the Metroliner pilot saw the Cirrus even after the collision, given that he thought he had an engine failure”

This is what I think aswell. The overshoot may be either way a miss identification of the runway, or just a poorly executed turn to final of the 17R. The investigation is going to be interesting.
> - defensive vs offensive action

So if Iron dome launches a rocket in defense it's okay, but that rocket mustn't use AI to find its target? I see your general point, but that's going to be a line that's very hard to draw.
Oh there are selectors you can run, but what of you want different config files? Different inputrc or dircolors because you use different terminals, etc. And then there's the difficulty in managing an enormous do-everything script, vs something which is compiled for the platform.
Interesting to see how their product is open source, too: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs/

It's as if they want browser developers to look at the code and break it as much as possible.
The US does pretty good about freight by rail, and I think they should be left to improve themselves for now. There are a lot of things they should do better, but they are doing okay.

Most cities have terrible mass transit. Good transit is one where people don't have to arrange their life around it. Meaning it comes often, and is reasonably fast.
I definitely know some people on the 10/10/40/40 Amazon comp plan... also seems to be a common tactic to PIP people just before year 3 vests.

Fuck Amazon. I'll never work for them.
I've also recently migrated to Obsidian and it's been fantastic.
If these data brokers are already selling this data, I'm not going to get upset at the govt for buying it.

I want restrictions on EVERYONE buying my data. Not just one entity.
Why is everyone taking the word of colonial pipeline and all this?

I could think of several scenarios where they would want to shut down by making up the whole story. Or maybe even hired the hackers them selves.
This might be an interesting alternative: https://github.com/QingWei-Li/notea.

Open source Notion clone that you can host locally.
HTML5 date and time inputs still don't work on Safari tho.
“Literally zero downsides” is a bit of an exaggeration, don’t you think? Surely you’ll concede that they make your glasses fog up.
If you hand auth secrets to random apps on the App Store they will get stolen, this happens all the time. Having some contractor spend a few hours poking at the GUI doesn't mean consumers aren't required to be responsible.
How are you ever going to achieve high speed if you are stopping every 10 miles for another station? There appears to be 8 stations in Baltimore alone.
I said this elsewhere in this thread, but I study surface processes on Mars, so to me the planet is still alive and active. Things change, mysteries unfold, new environmental conditions come and go.

I'm sure you wouldn't object to national parks or wilderness areas, it's just that in the case of Mars there is no (known) life. How much each of us values the presence of life will differ, but in my view it's worth preserving Mars.
Is this not the direct API? Databases are just a bag of pages that have the same properties. I would kinda expect that updating a record would just be a page operation.
This is accounted for and preempted at many corporations who enforce that promotions are only given once a year, and at a set time, or something like that.
Browser vendors have always been driving the standards. W3C is correct to call their docs "recommendations".

There was a brief nice moment in history when WebKit, Gecko, Trident, and Presto each had enough market share that all the vendors had to cooperate.

Nowadays Trident and Presto are dead. Gecko is a great engine, but doesn't have enough market share to veto anything. So Blink can ship anything and claim it's supported "everywhere except Safari".
Yeah makes sense if it's the schema handlers. I'd just not be as assertive if I was them that something was installed if there was overlap.
Any custom settings may affect the result. However default settings will work for the Firefox 88.0.1. Was tested on Windows, Safari and Linux.

Chrome does not work on Ubuntu, since it opens everything with xdg-open and creates confirmation dialog for both installed and not-installed application
Thomas Massie is an example of what I like to call the "tetazoo paradox": As a person gets more adept regarding technology, their capacity to communicate with laypeople about technology diminishes. The best advocates for tech literacy are not the most tech-literate, but rather the ones in the middle ground who are smart enough to understand the technology and patient enough to communicate about it with laypeople who are a few eureka moments behind.

We occasionally find wonderful people like Richard Feynman who can sidestep this inverse relationship, but not frequently.
Ask HN: Startup Accelerators and Solo Founder self-selection bias
I'm a solo founder and many, if not most, startup accelerator's literature mentions that while they do accept solo founders, they are heavily biased against them due to teams being stronger.

They use the fact that since many teams have graduated from accelerators and become successful, teams themselves must be the driving factor. Or they use some hand-wavy notion (without any facts) that teams *must* be better. However isn't this a prime example of self-selection bias? If startup accelerators let more solo founders in, would we see similar rates of success for startups founded by teams and by solo founders?

I'd like to know on what basis this assumption was formed, if there's any empirical evidence to back it up and if the startup ecosystem gatekeeps solo founders as a result of self-selection bias.
I don't know if Kelley would agree with my characterization, but I don't see comptime as metaprogramming. Instead it opens the very interesting possibility of having types as values, as long as those values are resolvable at compile time. This lets you do things that feel like metaprogramming (e.g. making a generic container structure) but it seems a better conceptual fit to me that you're programming with types as values rather than generating code from a template or macro.
> We passed the bottle around, and it was naturally awful, because it was moonshine.

I've made moonshine once with water, sugar, lemon juice and tomato paste, distilled with a homemade pot-still (the base was an ikea pot, with a few copper tubes and plumbing connectors) and it was the best vodka equivalent I've ever drunk.
It’s probably cleaner and easier to run this if the spooks set up a bureau of cyber security standards and fine strategically important companies for non-compliance. The gov can do security audits on these corps.
Thank you! Looking forward to trying this out! Any plans on creating a web app for non technical people that don't know how to use Github?