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Nice project. Reading through some of the gotchas is interesting, though one stood out - the RT related gltich. Having some combinatioral logic control a reset is in general a no-no, for exactly this reason, a race can happen and combo logic that starts a (say) a 0 and ends at 0 can toggle to 1 and back to 0 multiple times as its boolean equation revolves and if this signal is ever used to drive an async pin like a reset, its a ticking time bomb. May never happen. May happen only when things heat up, may happen only for some logic transitions, etc. All because delays changing slightly can alter the glitch. The fact it didnt happen on the FPGA may be luck, as the logic gates there (LUTs) can and do glitch as they settle, if more than one is connected. However if this particular piece of logic fit in a single LUT, it may avoid the glitch, though still not guaranteed.
The moral dilemma of automated killings is not new. To remind you, lethal devices that kill people autonomously without operator's direct control have long existed. They have killed probably millions of people and keep killing every day. They are called landmines. Landmines are not as cool as flying drones for sure, but they are way more dangerous because they are dirt cheap, produced en masse, and widely available to unsophisticated combatants. If you're terrified by autonomous drones, maybe you should be even more terrified by landmines despite they are not as intellectually stimulating as drones.
Is there a well-reviewed paranoid alternative to libnacl/libsodium, given that ChaCha20-Poly1305 is just as brittle to nonce reuse as AES-GCM?

I trust libsodium/libnacl's randombytes_buf to give me unique nonces as long as I rekey often enough. However, for those who are still rolling their own crypto because they're paranoid about RNG issues, is there a paranoid alternative I can point to in order to tell them they still shouldn't be rolling their own?
Which country is the most likely to fall apart within the next 20 years based on current affairs, US or Russia?
Lots of people are bad at listening/reading, sadly.

There's only so much that can be done as a speaker/writer. They could and should have done more here, but there will always be a lossy step when people doing the actual work take the information to "the public".
Russia seems unstable. Putin is what keeps the pyramid system together, but as all humans he will eventually die. And when that happens, it is unclear what Scandinavia can expect from its neighbour.

You should not wait to start being afraid when things have gone badly already. If the political problems are obvious, a more prudent approach might be more adviced.
You're asked to fill in a questionnaire when entering the US as a foreigner. I think lying at the 'did you visit...' questions would be grounds for the US to declare you 'persona non grata', so it's not a risk you'd want to take if want to keep the possibility of entering the US again.
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Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27330902
YouTube banned videos and accounts that contradicted the WHO.

Censorship is a big problem.
The majority of people want to not pay, and also not see ads, so what they want isn't useful.

Has anyone ever been harmed by being tracked? I'd rather see one ad that's relevant to me and will earn the website 1 standard currency unit, than 100 ads I'll never click and will earn 0.01 SCUs
Yes. I am still not interested in reviewing Android Auto for the play store, and I must have been asked 30+ times by now.
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The article also just a re-write of the original article, and contains no original content.
In what sense doesn't Denmark own Greenland?
Yeah but in the modern history Russia didn't show any interest of military conflict with anyone
These contracts are justified because it is the sustained engagement by the fans makes it possible that Osaka can pursue her athleticism as a professional career and has financial security. Most professional sports is sustained by an audience that is willing to watch it.

So I think it actually is her job, in spirit and not just on paper to engage with the audience as long as it is respectful.
I really hope they kick her out. I also hope another player does the same and gets kicked out. Then another, and another, until we get only mediocre players winning the Grand Slams.

Then all these players will go play in a different tournament where they can be appreciated for their skill, not for doing interviews to please media and the masses that feed on the "emotion".
Exactly, my browser simply rejects all third-party cookies (except from a whitelist) and has a short time limit on the others. No need at all for consent buttons.
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I personally don't find 400k salaries in a non-profit to be ethical.
Ah, interesting. I had the impression that they were sworn enemies with philosophies that looked very similar from the outside.
How about a working micropayments system - your wallet is in the browser anyway and the extension should ask you "this article gonna cost you x cents, wanna proceed?". Then you decide for yourself where your money goes, aka voting with your wallet. Notice I didn't mention crypto or shady spotify-like practices, just real money for real stuff.
That's where NoScript and uBlock Origin come in.
Well, at least they don't force other browsers to use their IE/Edge engine and make sure ad blockers only work on their browser even if other browsers do decide to dilute their brand by publishing their "browser" as a skin on the default engine.

Not that I agree with MS on this btw.
I'm not sure what to make of that. Maybe you just haven't bothered to look? You personally not knowing about something is a reflection of your own knowledge, and not of the state of the world.
> Want to heat something for 2 minutes 30 seconds? Good luck with that on a cheap microwave that shows minutes in 5mm increments with 2.5mm of play in the dial.

No cooking really works like this. Set the microwave timer for 30 minutes and set a timer on your phone for 2 minutes. After two minutes, pull the microwave timer to zero to stop the microwave and check the food. Decide whether or not it needs more time and chuck it back in, pulling the timer to 30 minutes again. After you count off 30-40 seconds in your head, pull the timer to zero and check the food. Rinse/repeat as necessary.

The timer isn't there for anything more than a safety to make sure that the microwave doesn't stay on forever if you forget about it.
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as someone that has worked with tvs for a few years I disagree strongly. Speakers are a lifetime purchase. A TV is not. Professional displays are super expensive (and often dont come with speakers). The pricing will also change a lot depending on the size. They are made to run 24/7 on airports etc. Today there aren't many display manufacturers anyways.
I would never spend 4k-20k on a professional display to use it as a TV.

you can still buy 30year old speakers for 200-400 and consider it as a buy it for life purchase.
Maybe we should form a band and call it: The Fake British Accents ?

My paternal grandmother was from Cape Cod; lived in Britain, Germany, and the Philippines; and ended-up in San Jose, CA with a New Englander-British (no pun intended) accent. My dad had somewhat of a latent British accent from eating gristle and corporal punishment at an all-boys English boarding school.

Two Norwegian brothers: one was my roommate, had lived in the US for 10 years, and always spoke English like he was drunk and still working on the language; the other had never been to the States before but sounded like he lived in the US for 90% of his life. I'm wondering if it's language speaking/interpretation plasticity skill are more innate to the individual. (I'm probably more like the first brother and sound like a rube in every language.)
And what a poor defense that is. It's almost not worth mentioning.
It's pretty easy for family run business to respect the law : don't track your customers.

No need for any banner if you only use cookies for legitimate interest.
Typically they say ”We value your privacy”, which can be read in a very literal way…
TresorIt, maybe? Its app has a photo/video upload feature f.x.
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> Do you think a government that wants to disown your assets cares if you have an entry in a database that proves that it's yours by law? THEY are the law, fuck your blockchain.

If they cannot deprive you of the key, they cannot deprive you of use of the assets.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet
I think Squarcini might have a bit of a bias towards minimizing the importance of that kind of spying, since France is one of the most aggressive state-sponsors of industrial espionage, after China and the US.

But the gist of the article is "yeah, of course they're going to do it, if we give them the opportunity".

We european countries really shouldn't be giving the US so much opportunity to spy on us.
Why not instead have an independent entity draw districts?
> It does not significantly use cloud services

They do host their own private "cloud", mostly used for research and project development.

> English Wikipedia gets about 250M page views per day, which is only about 3,000 per second. If they used an efficient language instead of PHP, that's well within the capability of a single modern server!

Nitpicking, page views from outside users are not supposed to hit PHP at all - those requests should be served by their caching layer. But yes, you're correct that they're relying on quite a bit of legacy tech from their early days, not just PHP but MariaDB as well even though many enterprises would now rely on Postgres wrt. these use cases. I suppose that they could rewrite the stuff piecemeal, and recent developments in PHP itself would make it easier. (Some things have been rewritten already, notably the wikitext parser. That's clearly one thing where you would want to avoid breakage at all costs, but they did get it done.)
Really? Not a day goes by? Bit dramatic aren't we?
> The quotes from Church and Gödel are saying that Turing's formalism was the more helpful in making the case that it had captured the notion of effective calculability. That's understandable - it's much like e.g. Cantor's diagonal, in that it makes its subject very concrete.

This is what I primarily meant with my controversial statement, sorry I didn’t articulate it well enough. Of course lambda calculus is very useful and has plenty of applications, never meant to say otherwise!
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As an American who has been traveling for over 18 months now, I have two suggestions:

- find & join an expat group on Facebook to ask questions like this

- consider not over planning and just go, figuring it out when you’re there, as I promise you there will be plenty of locals willing to arrange things for you when you get there

- for a place like Iraq, the hardest part might be getting cash. I was in Pakistan last year and a lot of the ATMs wouldn’t work with my debit card. Eventually I found one. Just don’t assume you’ll be able to pay with a Visa card everywhere. In Pakistan I simply sent myself a bunch of money via Western Union.

- register with the State Department’s STEP program if you go.
My biggest problem with Europe's mandatory cookie warning is that the solution is worse than the problem.

I'm aware that once I enter somebody's site there's a gazillion ways for that somebody to get data about me. If cookies are blocked they'll find another way.

But thanks to Europe's feeling they need to nanny me, I get those obnoxious cookie warning popups on every site I visit. Worse, I can't opt out of the popups. Infuriatingly, Europe didn't ask me if I _want_ to be protected like this.

Of the many problems with the Internet and Web sites, I feel Europe has fixed the most trivial, in the most obnoxious possible way. Thanks for nothing, Europe!
Why would a hard AI maintain an account? The best way to fly under the radar is to lurk.
The article is trying to make the case that the problem is that the "Reject All" button is difficult to find on the cookie popup and it's the site's fault for that.

No. Let's make one thing clear. The problem is with the popup itself, with the fact that it exists. And it exists because the bone-headed law that required it: the GDPR.

The fact that the very first decision I have to make when visiting a website is about an issue I don't five a flying f&$# about is mind-boggling.

The fact that somebody decided to elevate for me something completely harmless ("tracking me online") to a level more important than any other issue when it comes to web browsing is absolutely incredible.

The fact that the cost of both the implementation of this on the website and that of the stupid selection imposed on the site visitor was completely ignored is aggressively idiotic.

And the fact that "somebody" made that decision into one of the most ambiguous, evasive, but at the same incredibly punishing laws around is criminal.

How do we know this? The perfect A/B test. We had the web before GDPR. It wasn't pretty but it worked. Now we have the web after GDPR. It's a cluster-f&$%. The only thing that changed: the stupid law.

Abolish GDPR!
I reckon the flaws aren't subtle at all. Still it's a very good read if only to understand what the differences are between marxism and... gestures vaguely anything else being labeled as such. Because it's a fairly trendy insult nowadays to call somebody marxist if they suggest anything less than free market.
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wdym by unstable? You can say whatever you want about Putin, but he's definitely not an idiot.
The next Russian president after Putin will be Sergey Shoygu, I'm 99% sure.
@aphextron are you aphex from ytmnd?
This is fantastic work by James, such a great project! Well done.
Maybe we could send a header to websites letting them know that the user wants to opt out of all non-essential cookies. We could call it DoNotTrack, or something along those lines. I think HN would love the idea.
It's funny. How do you define what is good and what is bad?

Are you sure American guys only torture the bad guys?
> Is someone out there really thinking “ah man, if only advertisements were more relevant!” ???

There's a r/google I sometimes peek at. One common theme there is someone complaining about the ads they get, another one asking about personalisation and the complainer confirming they have it disabled. Not getting ads for mail-in brides is nice.

Disclaimer: I work in Google but nowhere near ads.
In my experience, those called "conspiracy theorists" (or any other name for that matter) turned out to be mostly right. The subreddit /r/wuhan_flu was quarantined last February for allegations that the virus may have escaped from a lab and that the virus may be airborne. They did not even claim it was definitely so, but it was just speculation based on multiple papers. That subreddit is still quarantined as of today. That's just one of the thousands of examples I've come across.

The people who spread G5 and chip theories are a very small group compared to the rest of the skeptics, yet they are portrayed by the mass media etc. as one and the same. This is reflected in how many people deal with people who criticize the official story.

We seem to have lost all logic and critical thinking. There is no room for healthy discussions anymore. Instead people are personally attacking each other.
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> If I were a small country afraid of a larger one I would also try to find me a big brother.

USA and other world powers honour treaties only when it serves them. If you think they would aid an ally in the time of need just look at how they honoured the Vienna treaty and helped Ukraine when it was invaded. Or how the UK abandoned Poland in 1939 (yes, they declared war on Germany and that was it).

Alliance/military treaties are worth as much as the piece of paper they are written on.
The last paragraph touched me to the core.
Firstly, I am sorry for your loss but I want to congratulate you for being open about it.
We always fall short of time for expressing and accomplishing things. It's also true that we tend to miss out on the littlest things that actually end becoming the most precious ones with the passing of time.
How to cope with the loss? Maybe we could work on the foundation of embracing just the energies of the person rather than his/her physical existence. Moe you are dependent on their physical contribution, less you are grateful for their blessings and vibes.

We could start cherishing small things and start normalizing death as a part of our life.

How to do this? There is no universal answer. Maybe you have to explore that with subjective value of upbringing. Tell them that you love them but also tell them that we all are going to die and end up becoming nothing but memories.

Find your own coping mechanisms after accepting the fact that death is the beginning of a new life. Hope this helps.
Who pushed Schröder to work with Gasprom and lobby Nord Stream 2? Russia started the war with Ukraine to help Nord Stream and Gasprom by capturing of Ukrainian natural gas fields, so Schröder is partially responsible for that.
Not all cookies require consent. There are many legitimate reasons to collect personal data - consent is only required if you cannot find another legitimate reason.

For cookies that mean: technical cookies that you need to technical provide your offering (think of authentication session cookie, loadbalancer sticky session cookies, but also cookies to understand if someone opted into tracking) can be set with legitimate interest and do not require a consent.

A consent under GDPR is strictly opt-in. This means, by default you must not track a user (EU citizen) that just landed on your site. After consent, you can load your GA plugin.
I’ve been following this very closely and I’m quite sure you’re wrong.
Just like when you buy a sandwich at a restaurant you’re also paying the employees salary, rent for the building, etc, it’s the same for ketamine therapy.
It's not necessary, as you could use a different captcha or challenge segment. Nobody is forcing you to us Google's solution, that is your choice.
Like many other such projects the project has been hijacked and used as a cash cow for things those people really want to do. See Firefox (though it is getting better there with them realizing that no investing in your cash cow is a bad idea).
You are referring to Maurice de Hond I assume?
The closest you get to having a RAD IDE for WinForms is probably Lazarus, but it's based on Pascal. For BASIC, there's a project called WinFBE which seems to be in active development.
> And well, I live in germany and I don't feel threatened by russia.

While "most European countries" is excessive, there are some countries that are very much under threat; Poland is the prime example.
Before viewing that image I had to accept the Imgur cookie consent :)

It's cookie consents all the way down...
Mostly useless, same questions and same answers every time. The media is trying to spin some narrative and the players/ coaches just throw out the same old lines.

F1 for example is loaded with media that the drivers are required to participate in. The only real memorable stuff is when something funny happens at the interview or the media drag out some team/ driver conflicts.
That's just false. You can do chargeback on debit card transactions fairly easily https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/visa-mastercard-ch...
Prove me wrong. Try selling an idea and let us know how much money you got for it.
Good points. Why is this a division though? You said it yourself, they're "all over the map". We don't have people x vs y, we have lots of ideas and lots of resultant personal directions. The real problem is having only two parties to act on those directions, shoehorning anything different into their two main discourses.
A lot of people ask what can be done. There is a lot.

A huge part of why the ISS has to move because the uncertainty of the objects is to high. If we can get much more accurate measurements many of these issues become far less important.

Currently its really just the us military who has radar for this. What we should have is multiple nations each having multiple radars.

Beyond that, the next step is laser based ground station that can both get far more accurate measurements and potentially move the items as well. ESA is working on a demonstration of such a system. Again, it would be best if multiple nations had these.

From these two tools we can create a real accurate shared global database with very accurate measure. This alone should massively reduce the amount of near collision events.

Then beyond that we can start to launch missions to actually capture debris from higher orbits and throw make it burn up. ESA has also planned a demonstration mission for that.

To really do that right we really want to have a reusable space transporter that can be refueled from some sort of cheap space fuel truck that can ride along on SpaceX flights.

We can figure this out. Some DoD people have already talked about putting a price on individual objects so a commercial garbage removal market can start to happen. And with SpaceX Starship launch prices should get down to prices where these things can be done much cheaper.

If you speak German this is a great resources: https://raumzeit-podcast.de/2020/11/17/rz092-weltraumschrott...
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Perhaps it is less about how it is than how it should be.
> Has anyone ever bought anything because they saw an ad? If anything ads cause me to not want to buy the product.

It is tempting to think that. And to think these ads have no influence on you.

But since marketing costs many companies tons of money and they happily pay it, I'm more inclined to believe that it works. Especially since the correlation between marketing budget and income is something that can be directly seen by these companies.

It's like how many Youtubers say the hate doing the "Like and subscribe" thing, but they can see in the analytics that videos where they say that perform better.

Also, attention isn't payment. You pay the marketing budget when you buy the product. Only you also pay with time, your bandwidth, your CPU time, electricity, sanity and privacy.

The idea that ads help us have things for free might be the greatest marketing stunt they have ever pulled
No, the question of why we should have that topic again also applies to the first submission. Again, it's like you can't find enough "cryptocurrencies are bad" discussions in the past few weeks. I didn't flag it, but I understand why people do it, just because someone else has said the thing on Twitter doesn't make in an interesting or relevant new submission. (The same applies to other topics too, e.g. "Tesla good/bad" takes that don't discuss any or only trivial new developments)
I'm sorry, could you specify what is offensive about this? No offence or insult was intended - I will not use this turn of phrase in the future if it's off-putting. But I would like to understand why?

I did not imply this in the "clash of civilizations" sense of inevitable conflict, but just to higlight the cultural alignment within the said block.

I meant "roughly the polities that signed the treaty of Westphalia and their later date offspring plus the five-eyed anglosphere". This is what we consider the modern "west", isn't it?
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