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> - That the US Constitution matters to me.

> - That I give any moral value to legal minutia.

Fair enough, but you are commenting on a post about a judicial ruling, not a post about a constitutional amendment or an act of the legislature. The moment judges decide to ban something or uphold a ban on something based on consequentialist decisions rather than interpreting the law is the moment we go from a rules-based government to government by judicial fiat, and that has some very bad consequentialist repercussions. This was a bad law that needed to be overturned, and it was.
The No True Scotsman argument could also be applied to the technologies that "modern websites" were supposed to replace.
>If we gradually lose all of the migration endpoints the species will eventually suffer.

Indeed. We may see the extinction of the monarch butterfly within the decade for this very reason.
Just because that's possible doesn't mean that it's within Signal's threat model.
Latest peer-reviewed research: Global Ivermectin use will end Covid-19 pandemic
It's not unusual for health regions or big hospitals to publish their own charts of antibiotic resistances to bacteria, because what's circulating around can vary from city to city. And that impacts choice of therapy (usually you want to start before your resistance results come back).

Here's a Canadian lab providers': https://www.lifelabs.com/healthcare-providers/reports/antibi...
Did that factor into the “last” prefix?
> If the API calls can be limited to one call per user action/page visit, the experience would be better because only some API data has to be transferred instead of an entire HTML page

HTML pages are not that big, though, unless you put a lot of content around the data. Not to mention JSON can be wasteful, and contain more data than needed. And lots of SPAs require multiple roundtrips for fetching data.

And even if you do have lots of content around your data, there are alternatives, like PJAX/Turbolinks that allow you to only fetch only partial content, while still using minimal JS compared to a regular JS framework.
I don’t get your comment. You just confirmed that, indeed, you need a specific computer to publish Safari extension, which isn’t the case for Firefox and Chrome extensions.

It is a limitation and it’s completely unnecessary for the end user.

If they’re so lazy to have a extensions-specific store they could at least offer an automatic wrapper that they run before publishing. I should not need XCode anywhere in my build to publish web extensions.
It may be similar to fighting game motion inputs. They seem archaic and pointless when the same moveset can be expressed with just direction + button or something less complicated, but there are lots of analysis videos on why they have stuck around and the subtle differences in gameplay from them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WhbSNP_zF4
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> I WOULD HAVE KILLED TO BE ABLE TO JUST USE FREAKING DIALUP!

I know you're saying this in jest, but joking about committing murder to get Internet access isn't actually funny.
Which they lost when they lobbied to remove net neutrality requirements.
The study you pointed to indicates that these psychopathic/narcissistic traits apply to virtuous victimhood signalers on both the woke ("Recognize your privilege") and the anti-woke ("The real racists are all on the left") side of thing.
This falls down because people with lots of money have cabins in the woods with garbage internet. If they can't load your page from there, there goes that lucrative customer. Or they may be on a ferry, or a small aircraft or etc.
Sometimes. She's unpredictable when it comes to smoothies.
Considering that the cell of each next generation can be individually calculated in parallel, I don't think a GPU implementation would be able to beat it. A GPU can have many pipelines and quickly process many "pixels" simultaneously but it will only be able to parallelize all of them for very small screen sizes.
He was indeed facing a long prison sentence if he chose to defend himself and rewarding people for pleading guilty makes no sense. You aren't accepting responsibility you are literally making a self serving bet that you will probably lose your case and thereby serve a lesser sentence by taking a plea. Unfortunately innocent people make that same calculation and sometimes accept a short sentence rather than fearing a sentence that represents basically an end to their normal life.

If you are innocent or believe as is in fact the case here that the governments position is legally incorrect you shouldn't face punishment for arguing that in front of a judge. For innocent people whom are inevitably convicted every day in any justice system this represents a punishment for asserting innocence.

The fact that you think this is normal is just a sign that our entire society is itself abnormal and broken.
I skimmed a lot of low quality C++ intro books to try and find some good ones for beginning students. Slim pickings.

I recognized this pattern of solving some ridicilous non-problem to exhibit inheritance very early on. The message readers get from that is that inheritance is OOP, and the main thing is to first think what could inherit from what. This is not a fault in OOP itself, just a very bad approach to teaching it.

In my teaching I always wanted to start from a problem that required single dispatch runtime polymorphism and introduced pure abstract classes (interface and implementations) as the means of accomplishing that. I felt that if there was just one C++ class programming pattern they ought to pick up, that was it.
> We get 4-6 weeks paid leave as a father

this is technically true, but for context: it started in 2021. Before it was 2 paid days and 3 unpaid days _in total_.

Also the last 5 weeks are 70% paid (at least for me)
The other party can follow her to figure out where she lives or some car license plate, call the police and report incident.

Once police get involved she will get fined and there is a risk that dogs get euthanised in some countries after biting someone...

There is also a risk of someone hurting her dogs due to adrenaline...
feed of senate stock disclosures https://sec.report/Senate-Stock-Disclosures
I understand that this was flagged because there have been many, many articles on the connection between ransomware and bitcoin.

However this article is not duplicative. It adds the history of exactly how Viagra spammers got shut down, from the perspective of one of the researchers who did it. And the technique by which that happened is a technique that can shut down bitcoin as well.

It is one thing to say, "We have to get rid of cryptocurrency! We're serious!" It is quite another to say, "Here is the method by which a similar past problem was solved." And lay out something that could actually kill the utility of cryptocurrency today. Namely shut down all bank accounts that are willing to exchange large amounts of cash for cryptocurrency. Just as we shut down all bank accounts that were receiving affiliate payments for Viagra spam.

So yes, it is possible to do this. We know how to do this. The question is whether the dangers of ransomware are such that we should do this. Cryptocurrencies have legitimate uses. For example they enable a variety of kinds of smart contracts, which NFTs are but one example of.

However ransomware is a big and growing problem. What happens when a ransomware attack gone bad winds up killing patients in a hospital? Crashes airplanes? Cuts off people's ability to access credit cards or banks?

If we keep seeing random services in a complex world get shut down by ransomware, it is just a question of time until the wrong service gets shut down with disastrous consequences. So far we have had minor inconveniences. But how will people feel after something bigger goes wrong?
why corporations have to pay tax at all?! They are owned by investors who pay tax on dividends and capital gains. And employees pay taxes wherever they live.
Time for some fresh air
Keep in mind that Safari has enough restrictions that uBlock Origin developers decided to stop supporting it, so ad-blocking is pretty poor there.
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Strolling Cities – 2 million photos were turned into AI cities that don't exist
uncle ted was right
I'm genuinely trying to act in good faith. That doesn't mean I should take a stakeholder's arguments at face value.

If a journal took a massive donation from Facebook, and subsequently published an article about how Facebook's business practice are perfectly legitimate and consumer-friendly, people on HN would be justifiably skeptical of the journal's endgame, and of its intellectual honesty.

As far as I'm aware (I'm open to being proven wrong), gun lobbies in the US want no restriction on the ownership of firearms, period. Any argument used against a particular firearm legislation has to be considered within the context that it's strictly a tool to achieve that "no gun restrictions" goal; if the argument is addressed, gun lobbies will simply come up with another argument.

That doesn't mean the arguments shouldn't be considered on their own merits. And honestly... I don't think they're very good on that front either? Maybe an "assault rifle" is a fuzzy concept. But, leaving aside legal complexities, from a purely utilitarian point of view, I don't think that really matters.

Like, this seems a lot more controversial than I'd expect, but... people don't need assault rifles. People don't need "a weapon platform that allows for massive customization", to quote someone else in the thread. People don't need assault rifle parts that have been rebranded using technicalities so you can use them to build an assault rifle using other rebranded parts. If all you need is to defend yourself, a handgun is fine. Unless you're planning a school shooting or to invade a foreign country, I have no idea what you could possibly use an assault rifle for.

So, while I get that the law has loopholes and that's bad, using these loopholes to repeal the law seems like playing the part of Nicolas Cage in Lord of War in that scene where he says "No, see, it's perfectly legal for me to sell these assault helicopters to a 3rd-world dictatorship. I've bolted the missile attachments off and now they're humanitarian helicopters!" while he sells the missile attachments separately. Maybe it's true bureaucratically, but I can't see how this is at all defensible from a common-sense perspective.

(that's, of course, my point of view as a non-american who thinks this whole 2nd Amendment thing is kind of silly and overrated, but that's another argument)
Doesn't it also break basic caching? That is, I can't download a "modern" website to view it offline because it's actually just a rendering shim that needs to phone home for the content?
Due to the inability of undocumented people to easily switch jobs, they can pay them a lot less. It's not equal pay for equal work.
What triggered my comment was episode 225 of Rationally Speaking[1]. In it, there was an interview with Veena Dubal[2] where she (according to the podcast) is a prominent advocate for AB5 [3]. In it, she concedes that taxi drivers themselves have been polled[4] and _do not_ want be classified as employees and want to maintain their independent contractor status.

So in answer to your bullet points:

1) Veena Dubal

2) Uber drivers (I mean, I could be mistaken. Perhaps this professor of law moonlights as an Uber driver. If so, I would continue to argue that this is not her main vocation.)

3) She wants Uber drivers to be classified as employees

4) The majority of Uber drivers

5) Nothing and I never said they hadn't consulted. In this case, quite clearly they have consulted with the groups but have not listened.

Now, in the podcast, Dubal goes on to dispute the polling methodology of the various polls. Well okay, re-poll with your questions and present the data. The point I'm trying to make is that you don't ram through legislation before convincing the people you're going to affect the most that it's good for them. Educate and convince them first.

[1]: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/255-are-uber-and-lyft-d...

[2]: https://www.uchastings.edu/people/veena-dubal/

[3]: https://www.investopedia.com/california-assembly-bill-5-ab5-...

[4]: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/513506-uber-poll-drive...
You Have to Learn How to Play the Long Game
2 of the 4 senators in this analysis were voted out of office in 2020. I voted for their replacements because of this bullshit.
I still have a (fading) scar on my calf from that one time I ran past some tables in a cafe as a toddler. I hold no ill will towards the dog that leapt out from under a table and sunk his jaws into my leg before the owners could even react. But let's be clear that big dog + unfamiliar small child is not about "can you read the tells".
I really like Tony Hoare's quote on this topic:

... a programming language designer should be responsible for the mistakes that are made by the programmers using the language.
[...]
It's very easy to persuade the customers of your language that everything that goes wrong is their fault and not yours. I rejected that...

http://blog.mattcallanan.net/2010/09/tony-hoare-billion-doll...

If anyone is unfamiliar with Tony Hoare he's the creator of quicksort, Hoare Logic, CSP, worked on Algol, created null, holds a turing award, and much more.
> The deal announced on Saturday, between the US, the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan, plus the EU

If all these nations can strike this kind of deal, won't they do the same with Bitcoin to render it useless?
I'm confused about what you mean about "public." I'm just a regular guy with no connections to Google, other than being a GCP customer. I found the mailing list addresses for each GCP service listed directly in the support documentation. Literally anyone who has GCP problems would end up finding those addresses, if 1. they clicked on the "help" button and went through the workflow presented, and 2. didn't first pay for extended white-glove support and then immediately reach for it for any problem that came up.

By my thinking, that's a "public" mailing list. They're not hiding it from you. The opposite, really — they're trying to get everyone to know and use it, by making it free to any GCP customer, while the actual CSR kind of support requires paying for a subscription to a higher support tier. The mailing list, presented in Google Groups format, is literally what GCP calls their "support forum." It's supposed to take on all comers, including dumb customer asks.
Correct. And the cool part is that it loads the file straight from disk. However it offers no Stylish-like UI
I’d bet they have data that prove people aren’t doing their job as well. Either the taking longer to do a task, having less team cohesion (aka I’m willing to work hard so my coworker doesn’t have to do it all themselves) or more leaks because secret hardware is seen by 3rd party individuals.

If wfh is better and companies like Apple aren’t adapting they’ll see it in their stock price because they aren’t as efficient as their competitors, more people will quit and we’ll see new startups doing similar things named after other fruit.

3x2 means they can test both hypothesis and will know which is better after the pandemic. So that’s a big improvement over the company when I was there. Where only those who proved themselves got to wfh (I did at times and I have friends who have been able to for years)
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Strong encryption and privacy is not an "alternative to the justice system" in the same way that allowing people to leave their homes without tracking collars isn't.
> would take a life purely based on an animal approaching you

Which is it, an animal or a life? The phrase "take a life" implies some sort of value akin to that of a human life. If you want to elevate animals to that level, then acknowledge that you take a life when you slap a mosquito or step on an ant, yet I doubt you apply the same moralizing to anyone else who does so.

> It makes me question my involvement in a community where people are so unhinged they think taking out a gun and shooting someone's random dog is appropriate.

I think the key thing is that an off leash dog ceases to become "someone's random dog". It being "someone's dog" gives it value by being recognized as another person's property. Once off leash, relative to other people it's just a dog now; the owner has effectively abdicated responsibility of ownership for the dog by letting it off the leash. At that point it's not "someone's dog" any more than a bird with a FWS band is "someone's bird". Consequently treating it like any other animals is acceptable.

I say all of this as someone who loves dogs, and I even enjoy friendly dogs approaching me. But they 100% should be on leash and unable to approach me. I wouldn't blame someone for shooting a dog in the exact same circumstances.
> additional APIs [...] DownThenAll!

DownThenAll! (or download managers in general) are still rather severely crippled, though – they can only download into the official OS "Downloads" folder, they can't skip files that already exist in the target directory...
These days, with tools like IDA and Ghidra, I find I’m no longer dealing with disassembly regularly. These tools are doing such a good job of turning assembly code into usable C that reading disassembly is now only necessary in corner cases (SSE functions, rare instructions like AAD, or obfuscated code). It’s honestly incredible how much progress has been made in this area over the past few years.
Rust's package manager has many great features, but it went the other way around. Mozilla hired one of the authors of rubygems and yarn to re-implement their better ideas.
There are special places to let dog off leash to run around... Or buy a house with a yard
The woke left of today remind me so much of the ultra right-wing religious nut jobs of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Morality extremism always leads to a lack of tolerance, suppression of independent thought, and manners of totalitarian BS being imposed on those who don’t want it. It’s always bad.
Handsfree.js
Maybe. Many modern people have also learned how to establish forest gardens. GEOFF LAWTON is among them.
https://www.greeningthedesertproject.org/
wealth and income are not comparable
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It’s a common English idiom, and like “raining cats and dogs,” the meaning of the phrase doesn’t correspond literally to the words. The parent comment isn’t actually joking about committing murder.

As someone whose only internet options for a few years were satellite and WISP that cost several hundred dollars for 8 Mbps down, I understand where they’re coming from :)
Debt, in particular, contains a lot of howlers and conspiracy theories (especially relating to the dollar as a reserve currency and descriptions of monetary systems) that really don't belong there and (in my opinion) don't strengthen the work. It's really mixed bag where there is some rich anthropological work and ambitious subject matter combined with highly politicized and tendentious claims. Definately read him, but just be aware that his concern for accuracy is about the same as Zinn's "A People's History", which has a similar density of howlers due to the political agenda getting in the way of the work. Both of these works would be vastly improved with some rigorous fact checkers cutting material out, and they would still have evidence left to support their thesis.
> Package managers, which ones?

Python's Poetry comes to mind.
When entire discussions are simulated only to arrive at forgone conclusions and "ideal" per-ordained outcomes of discussions, they might aswell never have happened.
> The owners of those companies eventually pay taxes on the profits, so a corporate tax is a double tax.

Will they? Countries have a wide set of positions from "tax only corporate income" to "tax only dividends", with a lot of them sizing both taxes taking the other one into account.
The amount of services I want the government to provide is ~1% of what they currently do. Even the programs they administer should ideally be farmed out to the private sector rather than an internal metastasizing bureaucracy. It’s a matter of philosophy.
In practice, there's rarely "afterwards". You visit some website once because someone sent you a link. You load that one page and that's it. You read the article and close it. By the time you visit that website again, if you ever do, your cache will be long gone, so you're downloading the 2-megabyte JS bundle again.

In other words, pretty often the initial load is the only one.
Actix the actor framework is essentially dead at this point, I expect eventually it'll be the other way around: "you should change the name of your actor framework, it's confusing given the name of the web framework"
More specifically, people started using copyright infringement lawsuits as a business model.

It took years for the courts to discover that, say, Prenda Law weren't just some lawyers trying to stem the tide of rampant BitTorrent piracy, but were actually sharing their own content and then suing people who downloaded it to make money off of settlement demands. However, now that this has happened, it's significantly harder to get out-of-order discovery on a John Doe just by alleging an IP address sent parts of a file. Courts want something more than that.

AFAIK the big thing nowadays is abusing Florida's "pure bill of discovery" to subpoena people for copyright litigation. This is legally dubious because copyright is inherently a "federal question", meaning that state courts aren't supposed to touch anything even remotely related to it. However I haven't yet seen someone try and attack otherwise valid copyright cases based on the fact that early discovery was improperly granted.

My personal opinion is that Congress needs to step up to the plate next and realize that individual filesharing does not cause nearly as much harm to copyright owners as the law currently presumes. Statutory damages should not be available when suing people who merely shared infringing files for non-commercial purposes. Allege a direct commercial benefit or hope you can prove actual damages.
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Don't know about the US, but in my jurisdiction, the dog would be killed by the police if it could be proved that it had bitten a human. There's very few exceptions to these rulings.
It's not quite the same, but there is a lot of renewed interest of similar farming styles under the names of permaculture and agroforestry
In rual Virginia I had a very similar experience during the exact time frame as you. Verizon and Comcast would say we could be connected over the phone, send equipment (which I'd pay for), then turn around and say it was too remote. Neighborhood down the street had their service though. The ISP we ended up with was a couple with an antenna on top of a local mountain. Our service was capped at 2GB per day and blowing through it (which was very easy) meant being throttled to the point of nothing working anymore. It was several long years of frustration.
You are completely right. Sorry about that.

Guess I got too excited there for a second
One of the problem is that a lot of devs have very good connections at home. I've got 600 MBit/s symmetric (optic fiber). Spain, France, now Belgium... It's fiber nearly everywhere. Heck, Andorra has 100% fiber coverage. Japan: my brother has got 2 Gbit/s at home.

My home connection is smoking some of my dedicated servers: the cheap ones are still on 100 MBit/s in datacenter and they're totally the bottleneck. That's how fast home connections are, for some.

I used to browse on a 28.8 modem, then 33.6, then ISDN, then ADSL.

The problem is: people who get fiber are probably not going back. We're going towards faster and faster connections.

It's easy, when you're on fiber since years and years now, to forget what it was. To me it's at least part of the problem.

Joel is not loading his own site on a 28.8 modem. It's the unevenly distributed future.