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> I don't understand why someone would assume that publicly causing drama for the company that is supporting them would be tolerated.

his YC company is defunct so his risk tolerance is higher. getting social media points was probably the last bit of value he was able to extract from his YC association.
I think they didn't have residency requirements. (just being 18+ and you are eligible).
>I do not believe that covid was intentionally designed and released as a bio weapon.

History says you are wrong to discount NATO countries (I include Japan as an unofficial member) using bio-weapons. They have a long history of deploying and supporting deployments of these kinds of weapons against military and economic foes.
The March attestation was published 5/24 (the day prior to that article) and is available on the Centre website[1]. It doesn’t appear there’s cause for alarm in this case.

[1] https://www.centre.io/hubfs/pdfs/attestation/grant-thorton_c...
>The concept of processed foods seems so vague that it’s hard to study or reason about.

Is it? Or is that what the food companies want you to believe. They have a history of obfuscating the facts to make processed food sound like its good for you - e.g. yoghurt with sweetened fruit added.

My rule of thumb - did it exist 100 years ago? Then it's fine. There are a few corner cases - hummus comes to mind, its processed but by hand (traditionally), and is high in fat so don't eat too much of that, and it is hard to eat a lot of hummus imho. Packet Potato chips are high in fat and didn't exist a hundred years ago so ultra processed.
Are there any meeting notes/chat logs for those discussions? It would be fascinating to get some insight into the design process for a modern VM.
It was back before the dinosaurs took to the air and banished fish to the oceans
You can also receive an interim secret pretty fast to start certain work immediately . Once you have TS/SCI it’s as “easy” as some paperwork and a briefing to get read into another space. That initial TS investigation is LONG though as you said
It would be almost impossible to make a phone with parts that are entire manufactured in the US. Most silicon foundry work is done in Taiwan (TSMC, UMC, Vanguard) and S. Korea (Samsung, DB HiTek). See: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/2-charts-show-how-much-the-w...

However, if you are interested where the Librem 5 parts are made, see: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
i don't get the significance of this, no idea what's going on
What about smoothies? Will she eat veggies if you blend it all in NutriBullet with some tofu, dates and banana? It's different visually and texture.
Wikipedia has a decent article with visuals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling#Sampling_sy...

The difference between 4:1:1 and 4:2:0 is that in 4:1:1 the chroma covers a 1x4 line of pixels whereas in 4:2:0 the chroma covers a 2x2 square of pixels.
I think the most important thing to keep in mind is that EVERYONE knows Tether is a complete farce and this is already priced into the market.
Sure but you wouldn’t get dual use out of it, need housing need a storm break why not combine them?
I like typing in Python because I can choose how much I want to use it. If I want to script something, or prototype something, or test something in a repl, no overhead of typing needed.

It's also been my experience (C(++), Kotlin, Swift) that as the complexity of typing increases, 10% of the time I spend servicing types accounts for 90% of the sites I need typing, and the other 90% of the time spent on types is me cursing at the compiler trying to make it accept the odd 10%.

An optional type annotation system allows ME to pick where I want that effort/payback balance to be at on a case by case basis.
NYC has been offering vaccines for all international tourists for quite some time: https://twitter.com/nycgov/status/1390389905033994246
Article mentions various music artists such as The Beatles being cancelled in 1966 and Sinéad O’Connor in 1992 (both in conflict with the mighty Catholic Church) and The Dixie Chicks in 2003. More examples here [1]. Pre-internet, it's as old as Rome^H^H^H^HAthens.

Paul Graham claims the person who popularized the term in the USA is anything but a rightist. According to their Wikipedia page they see themselves as centrist. It doesn't matter who popularized the term though. The phenomenon pre-internet is older, and you arguing it is good or evil or neutral or whatever is like a discussion on ethics. Or politics. Ie. opinionated, without a clear (scientific) answer to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture#Origins
From what I understand, the hackers never got anywhere near the control systems. The systems they compromised were related to billing and probably the company's sharepoint and emails (hard to think what else the could make up the balance of the 100GB outside of the monitoring of the control systems).

You could still slow down attacks like this by limiting bandwidth (though 8kbits might be painful for document sharing). However, if you limited users a _slightly_ more reasonable 1 megabit per second, they'd be able to complete their exfiltration in within a little over 9 days. Keep in mind, Colonial only learned of the attack after the ransom demand was made!
> the smart contract for USDC can block any address containing USDC at any time

Is this documented anywhere? What's the procedure within USDC to perform this block? Is it just whoever has the right private key can execute this blocking function and propagate it through the blockchain?
TIL. Sounded reasonable to me, so quite likely I'm arrogant too.

Tarsnap's still there though, so I'd say that's a good defense.
> I've learned who's willing to ignore public health guidelines

do you ignore the DMV safety guidelines to check your tires everytime you before you drive? there's thousands of govt health and safety guidelines.
... while at the same time ensuring that the wheel can still function as the wheel of a horse cart, of a car and of a small plane, in the same exact way it functioned when it was designed, including past idiosyncrasies
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Right, tomatoes, pepper, cucumbers are basically water (specially the ones we buy in supermarket), very little nutritional value but fills you up quickly so no good if you are trying to properly feed a child who is picky. Good fiber but that's all
It is incomprehensible to me how anyone could judge someone on something they said 14 years ago when it would likely instantly be explained today that that wasn't what he meant and isn't his opinion today anyways. This is a perfect example of people wanting to ruin other people's lives without so much as listening for one minute to what the victim have to say - because yes, this is making him a victim, persecuted for something that might very well be a misunderstanding.

It's one thing the we see persecution by anti-Semitic people against jews -we are used to that sadly- but that it equally often happens the other way around from people who surely knows better is mind-blowing.
By definition, merit is not luck.

That's the crux of the issue: luck is far more important than intelligence or hard work, and many people become fantastically successful with only luck (often by being born into a wealthy family).
As others have pointed out, the event they're discussing happened in March.
However these vaccination sites were set up specifically for underserved communities.

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20210326/california-fema-...

It also doesn't help that this person keeps changing his story all the time. On Twitter he claims that joe Biden announced that all adults are eligible for vaccination in March. This is patently false.
Look, MFA for access to code repositories or a cloud is one thing, but if you think that MFA is "table stakes" for a VPN I don't know what to tell you other than "then very few orgs are doing table stakes with their VPNs."

These types of arguments are so hard to have over HN, because people with actual experience across all sorts of organizations can't explicitly say what they have seen and where because of NDAs and we all have our own viewpoints and individual experience.

Bucketing MFA into one broad concept is as disingenuous as calling out security headers as being as benign as CORS. Does your org have MFA on SSH? On email? On the code repo? On the Slack login? On the VPN(s)? Etc. Etc.

I have yet to see a single org that had MFA on everything and blaming a lack of MFA on the VPN misses the point. If they'd had it there, the attackers would have hit elsewhere. Most developers install random software and browser toolbars that they'll never have time to check and connect directly to their companies servers, repos, and communication tools. Pretending like MFA on a VPN would have magically solved everything is a pipedream. There are too many ways in, and every time someone gets in the response from the software community is always "oh why didn't they do X" while ignoring the larger truth: There are too many threat vectors and getting them all right, at all times, is nigh on impossible.
> Antagonism and scapegoating of The Other was, and is, currently the playbook of the democrats at the moment. They don’t have a monopoly on it, but they’re way more guilty of this. It just doesn’t seem like it, because you haven’t heard the other side of the story, and haven’t realized how much has been a total lie from the left.

I go out of my way to try to understand what conservative punditry has to say on a given subject.

You might be conflating the terminally online left with the much larger and more diverse Democrat party as a whole. Contrast with the GOP, whom with very few exceptions has fully signed on with Trumpism & embraced the sort of ignorant, economically illiterate and frankly insane beliefs that entails. Maybe it's survivorship bias, because anyone with a principled conservative bone in their body has already distanced themselves from the GOP over the last 4 years.

There are absolutely "MAGA" people on HN, in this case salivating over the opportunity to claim Trump was right about something, anything at all(as though it vindicates them or proves something in general, let alone in this case).
Some Forth wacko would reduce that to 40 lines...
This is the real powerful actual vector.

Hollywood flicks and bad 80s pop/rock were (arguably) a genuinely massive part of the Soviet Union's decline. Those things make culture.
It's also a good test of how good your modeling really is...
That guy is brilliant and probably the best thing to have ever happened to Nissan and Renault.

The airline execs, on the other hand, ran a glorified bus service in a year where business was so bad that the government had to give them more money than the IMF loans out to entire countries.
Yeah, like online shopping. Remember that fad? Luckily the .com crash showed us that the critics were right and nobody ever got rich from that dumb idea again.
Yeah but why are they censoring any mention of the country. Is Japan's existence controversial or something.
> latest $outrage

Or the latest minor symptom of a chronic illness.

This wouldn’t have happened, accidentally or not, if it wasn’t for the continuing and constant bullying of the Chinese government, and the willingness of international actors to kowtow to it.
The pause is 24 hours. Once running it wont stop till there are urls with some pattern to crawl, there is also a limit to stop when enough pages didnt have an app
The tweet was from early March.
Thanks.

> We also work with no product innovation.

What does this mean?
>Is this documented anywhere? What's the procedure within USDC to perform this block?

https://etherscan.io/address/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb...

The smart contract has a "blacklist" function.
Posting the exact text would be sort of the opposite of gossiping. And it is somewhat important because of the possibility of ycombinator unjustly punishing someone(the other possibility being that ycombinator did nothing wrong and this tweeter just burned his reputation). The beauty of the internet and message boards is that if you don't want to take part in the conversation, you can just leave the page.
Why do people put hospital equipment on the internet? Why do people order steak well done? People are stupid.
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Disclosed slides from Apple/Epic trial on competing app stores in China
And disused account, which probably means an employee who left.
Its location is a bit more obscure, but I think there's a much simpler list of privacy practices to follow: whatever Mark Zuckerberg does. Anything he does to protect himself in the data realm is what we should be doing. Yes, I know there was the "Mark's FB has better defaults than yours" story some years ago, but this is outside of FB (though applicable anywhere).

So what is it? Exploding email addresses? Making friends with someone with DMV database access? Temporary credit-card numbers? Tinted windows? Never carrying a wallet? Having an entourage take care of all of this for you? All of the above? Anyway, it would be nice if the zillionaires who have put a lot of resources into personal safety told us what they've learned. Heck, if adopted wide enough their practices might put the crunch on data criminals (though probably also data businesses, which would maybe be a reason they'd resist it.)
North Carolina lab was shipping covid around the world. Wouldn't be surprised if the lab in Fort Detrick was doing similar research.

You seem to assume a bio-weapon has to cause mass death to be effective and meet the deployer's objectives...you are wrong in the case of economic attacks.
The guy who advocated getting the vaccine has chimed in with his side of the story elsewhere in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27400221

It makes sense because in some states its been basically any adult can walk in and get a shot for months already. I'm surprised there is anywhere in the country left where that is not the case.
To me this is a far more serious and concerning issue. As a woman, I’m always skeptical of institutions like YC, and I take these kinds of comments very seriously.

It’s really sad for me, to be honest. I used to really aspire to VC. But I’ve accepted I can only bootstrap at this point because of the treatment I’ve heard of others experiencing. I don’t think I could handle it emotionally.
If you have it, can you link to threads discussing the evolution of online public denunciation in the US?

I'm curious why it didn't happen here immediately, but did elsewhere.
Bar Raiser?
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Companies have a responsibility to vet their employees, first. I don't know how that is affected by the CFAA being a bit more constrained than it was before, which was extremely overly broad.

I strongly disagree with your assessment (re: Pandora's box, dumbness), but I do think and acknowledge it is a law worthy of being replaced with one more up to date and more clear.
A lot of it depends on the work you do, and what other kinds of tools you use. If you’re working with simpler code and use something like flake8 or have a reasonably fast test cycle, you can be pretty productive either way. If you work with harder-to-type data structures (e.g. nested JSON or XML), you’ll see less wins from typing then validation (this is why Django apps tend to have fewer issues this way because the database validation reduces the amount of data motion before something validates it).

That’s not to say that typing isn’t useful - I use it daily, especially since VSC has made it a lot faster than mypy - but I do think the Python community is wide enough that you can find people legitimately saying it is or isn’t a big deal for them as a function of where they work. You also have a certain amount of PTSD from languages like Java which make typing far more labor intensive and through some combination of limited expressiveness, dynamic logic, and culture end up making the benefits less than anticipated.
How's Jel going, Greg?
$100 / square foot sounds like a reasonable price for urban land close to the center of a major city. All good land is already in use, the remaining unbuilt areas are expensive to build or too far away, and new construction in existing parts of a city is a massive struggle that requires a lot of time and effort.
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> code-signed MacOS binaries are not possible

As far as I know, this is possible with clang and the new mach-o lld port as well.

While it's possible with clang/lld in C++, it looks like it is much easier with zig.
I think you'd have a bad time in equities if you were to use M for a thousand. K is a bit less ambiguous.
Microsoft says error led to no matching Bing images for Tiananmen 'tank man'
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I think the most difficult thing, since ancient time, is to know thyself.

Some people find those "good problems" early and they never shoot at other targets again. They usually have a significant lead comparing to others who take the same route in a much later age.

Some people never find any "good problem" in their whole life and tend to hop from one to another every few months/years. They achieved nothing but constant worriness.
> AMD processors are essentially equivalent to M1 in performance while still keeping x86

Perf/Watt?
>I'm certain that Tether has backroom relationships with major exchanges - Tether provides liquidity to exchanges in the form of short term USDT loans.

Is there a reason why exchanges even need such loans?
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Atmospheric Imaging Assembly telescopes are available from various NASA and ESA servers as JPEG2000. The java software JHelioviewer (http://www.jhelioviewer.org/) displays these 4k*4K JPEG2000 files with opengl acceleration at high frame rates and it is beautiful.
As a rat, I entirely approve of this story.
The yc founders commentary is highly unreliable. On Twitter he claimed that joe Biden declared that all adults are eligible for a vaccine in March. Hence he didn't skip the line. This is patently false. He has a different story here. I would take his claims with a huge helping of salt.

All that we know is that he got vaccinated in March ahead of federal guidelines. Did he wait to obtain vaccines left over at the end of the day? Or did he enter a line meant to serve underserved communities. We cannot tell.
Wow this was definitely the best advice I got on this. Thank you so much for the time you took to share this.

I think my watching of movies or playing of video games is probably due to avoiding other things I don't want to face. I should probably try to address those things or change my environment to be in a more productive state.
It isn't really different from normal banking. Banks are allowed to create money by issuing debt, and the loan agreement itself works as the reserve for the issued currency.

In both cases the thing doesn't blow up if the debt is collateralized with something that keeps appreciating against inflation. It can go on forever, but people whose savings are decimated might get angry at some point.
It's the first release by a new release manager as far as I can tell: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Tom-Stel...

So hopefully just temporary transition pain while the new manager learns the ropes.
Meritocracy isn't egalitarianism. The whole point is to promote the best and the brightest, thus it will always promote inequality. Then the best educated will receive the best resources money can buy. That race always starts before you're even born.
Not a comment on this story, but FWIW there has always been a (small) number of founders removed by YC for different reasons. It's not related to recent cultural trends.
For those trying to say that USDC is 'clear' and backed, remember that an attestation is not the same as an audit, circle has not provided any audit and same as tether, won't even mention an audit.

I choose to believe that what circle and coinbase are doing is creatinng a lot of liquidity by taking coinbase cash and turning it into USDC but at some point a lot of those USDC are being made the same way as tether, is just not real money comming into the ecosystem from either retail or institutions, but just imaginary money that is traded back and forth by coinbase bots to keep the price moving on their exchange
I think its based on a fundamental idea of buying something that you know is worthless in order to sell it for more than you bought it by convincing the buyer that it isn't worthless. Eventually it will burn through all potential buyers and there will be no one left to sell to. Then it collapses because everyone finally agrees that it actually has no value.
From what they wrote, it looks like they probably said something along the lines of "Hey, here's a location where they don't care if you are in an at risk group, you can just show up and get your vaccine." Considering it was back in March, people probably found it wrong to be advertising that to a bunch of people who are probably healthy and well-off, instead of people who actually needed the vaccine.

I'm not going to make any judgements about it though, considering I don't know anything about how things were in California. In Maryland they had county level registrations that went through tiers of at risk groups, plus state-wide vaccination sites that were open to anyone, so I ended up getting my vaccination a few weeks before I would have if I'd waited for "my turn" with the county vaccination program.
The way chinese censorship works is... erm.. innovative.

There isn't an actual censor who approves stuff, or a list of things that are censored. Companies are expected to reason about it themselves. More broadly, a lot of things are more/less sensitive at particular points in time.

This does suggest that stuff was happening at msft, in anticipation of heightened sensitivity because of the 30 year anniversary.
The changes to the IR data structures in this release are really neat- whole trees and graphs fit in a small fixed number of flat arrays. This saves on allocations, saves on total memory usage, and makes them trivial to serialize because there are no pointers.

I recently arrived at a similar design for manipulating NFAs as adjacency matrices, as a replacement for more pointer-y adjacency lists, by way of sparse matrix data structures. Rather than Zig's performance angle, I found that it made whole-graph operations much easier to implement and reuse.

I've also seen similar approaches from array languages like APL, for example this project for running this kind of stuff on GPUs: https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns

And, I've seen it in Rust as a "workaround" for the borrow checker, where that framing tends to make it feel like cheating or settling, which IMO is unfortunate since when people arrive at it for other reasons it seems to have a lot of other benefits!

There are probably more contexts I'm not familiar with- anyone have any good examples from domains they've worked in?
Someone born in the late 1990s might expect to retire around 2070. Given the population structure in wealthy countries, early retirement at 65 is no longer feasible for most people in the younger generations.