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I thought this article would be about other things judging from the title, but these are good points.

I'm not that old, and I remember "be home before dark" when I was in the single digits. I was going outside, by myself, since about the age of 5. As soon as I could ride a bike that was it. Basically my parents made dinner and paid the rent, the rest was all me in my own life.

There was a phase in my childhood where I was actually in a very dangerous environment, and as a result my freedom was restricted. I can compare the two. I think it damaged me quite a bit. I wonder about kids who never knew the freedom to be human beings.

Again as a teenager I experienced that freedom and the good fitness that comes with having a wide range and only feet to get around. And there was trouble (exposure to drugs, etc). But all in all the trouble didn't affect me negatively in the long term, I think it was less harmful than if I'd otherwise been restricted, and most adults don't avoid those sorts of troubles either way.

There is a network effect reinforcing this trend. Kids don't go outside because there's no kids outside. Also I think that while the fear of abduction or a terrible accident is there, I think we downplay other factors in the trend now, particularly the increased demand for creature comforts over the last 2 decades (and longer, but more pronounced more recently) and the availability of stimulation indoors. I remember the middle of the summer and going outside every day not once thinking it was too hot to go outside, then spending the entire day out there. People think I'm weird now for not using the AC in my car. I remember waking up in the morning and there was no inkling to check a phone. People can be immensely stimulated laying in bed now, with phones and videogames and such, and there are positives that come with these new tools but there are negative changes as well, and many people are beginning to come to the conclusion that the negatives outweigh the positives.
I too am generally skeptical of Facebook posts, but this wasn't just some random Facebook user, it was an official post from the Placer County Sheriff's Office. In fact the CBS13 article is simply repeating what the Sherriff's Office had already reported in their Facebook and Twitter posts.
So much honesty in your 2 hour old account.
possibly but also irrelevant to splitstud's point.

if rates on the ten year note even rose to the historical average, we would be paying over 25% of the Federal budget on the national debt interest alone. The interest, not the principal
> Bias is inescapable

Sure

> I'd go so far as to say that bias is a good thing, insofar as we want communities to be biased towards things that they prioritize and biased away from things that they don't

I'd argue that this depends on the community. For some communities, sure, but for others not necessarily. A discussion/debate club or a book club is probably more interested in plural viewpoints. A game discussion site probably much less so, and a support group probably has a very narrow set of allowed viewpoints. But it depends.

> What a code of conduct does, in the best case, is allow a community to be explicit about its biases, allowing prospective contributors to see up-front exactly what kind of community they're joining.

Indeed. But also, communities aren't unified or static things. Different members of a community, even founding members (as we can see with TFA), will have different viewpoints on what the community means for them. A formal statement of rules lets everyone agree on an explicit, documented set of common rules that they feel accurately represent their community.

When I was younger I ran or helped run many small and medium size organizations and I've never been in one with unanimous opinions, even among very friendly founding members. Creating explicit rules has always been an improvement in pretty much any community I've been in with over 10 members. Leaving rules and procedures undocumented always resulted in games of shadow politics where there were tacit holders of power and tacit power groups and frustrated newcomers.
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I recently came across a website that makes the "Accept all cookies" button secondary and the the "accept necessary" primary. It's such an effort to actually press the primary button — I have been so trained by the completely disdainful behavior of the majority of websites.
I wish it could accept the cookies and delete them when you leave. It would break fewer websites.
Investing in centralized logging and alerting can give you the raw data for your dashboarding vision. I'd start there.
That doesn't really work long term. "necessary to render service" might include advertising dollars. And who is a "third party"... If ad networks reorganize into a cooperative that offers services directly to publishers in the manner of AWS, are they still a third party? And user consent, what if it becomes a requirement to consent before you can access data, or opting out gives you diminished functionality...

None of that is far fetched. Facebook, Google, Apple etc. all track and use first party data. If anything this just consolidates advertising power into the hands of an oligarchy that's already largely above antitrust law.

The law is never simple, exhaustive, or agile when it comes to regulating technologies.

GDPR has been the most successful of the bunch and all it really did was force a bunch of cookie notices and deletion processes. That still largely depends on people being lazily accepting advertising.

Any proposed law that singlehandedly destroys ad tech is unlikely to either pass or stay relevant for more than a few months.
Say for a moment that the events happen as described:

> "Felleisen even­tu­ally swiveled his rage in my direc­tion, verbally impugning my skills and qual­i­fi­ca­tions, and suggesting that however bad things were, I would only make it worse. [...] Felleisen clearly took plea­sure in demeaning and belit­tling me in front of this group."

If the author was a 'fragile flower', would that make this described behaviour then acceptable? Parent commentor is not asking "prove that there was an outburst of insults directed at you", they're asking "prove that you didn't fall apart because you are weak", and that seems pretty irrelevant - weak or strong people should be able to attend a conference by invite without being told by the organisers they are incompetent and will make everything worse, right?

(The use of the author's words in that context doesn't change much; imagine author: "before you say I'm a moron, I have built XYZ" going to commentor: "prove you aren't a moron?" - it's an insult, because the author used it in an insulting context while disclaiming its applicability)
I think, more to the point, this advice is typically being offered by people who aren't even thinking in those terms in the first place. They're just operating from a tacit bias toward interventionism.
Arms races, the growing search space for attack asymmetries, and the ever increasing mobility of capital paired with the inherent centralization of returns due to computing.

Housing price inflation and advantages to children are examples of figurative arms races. And you're right, it's destroying our societies.

Cyberwarfare and military buildups are actual arms races. Defence is getting more and more expensive. Globally, cybersecurity spending is going north of $1T, and I doubt it will ever decrease.

What we have is a coordination or alignment problem. If we could get values aligned enough to coordinate more effectively we wouldn't have such an insane world.

And as an aside, I highly doubt we'll be able to solve the alignment problem with AI. Either the AGI is going to want to coordinate due to its own character, or it won't, and short of putting it in some unobservable virtual machine and testing it to, say, see if it would give up its life for its friend; I don't know what else you could do to really know how deeply embedded its values are.
That's being optimistic... Remember when EA put ads in games that people paid for?

They will most certainly try to put it in immersive games if they can get away with it...
I've followed Racket and the OP's work from a distance for some time. This post rang bells for me, based on similar interactions with a few bad apples over about twenty years in the field of physics.

I applaud the poster for the clear and measured language of his post, for his bravery in calling out this kind of behavior, and for taking steps needed to remove himself from the situation. I hope the Racket community takes steps to eliminate the problem at the root.
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Millennials were born with better timing than early genx for example. They were hardly put under the gun, and shouldn't elicit any particular amount of concern. Given their propensity for voting for the greatest threat to Middle class status (expansion of immigration both legal and illegal), I'd say they have themselves to blame for their circumstances.
I think society needs to have a reckoning around advertisement and decide what kinds of ads are moral and societally good. There are lots of categories I'd love to ban if king:

- All advertisements to children

- Advertisements for prescription drugs

- Advertisements that intend to evoke emotional responses rather than inform:

--- Many ads are designed to make the viewer feel inferior so they want to buy the product to remedy the negative emotions the ads caused

--- Many ads seek to irrationally associate a brand with a positive feeling, which overrides consumers ability to make rational purchasing decisions

--- Many ads seek vague 'brand awareness' without any informational content

I think there is a narrow case around informative advertisements "Hey this product or service exists, it might be something you want" that can be societally useful, but the vast majority of video and print ads are not doing that.
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I don't remember which but there was a DB server I worked with where the tables weren't directly accessible and required alias's to be created, thus enforcing portability.
Isn't reordering commits pretty easy with just git rebase -i?
Well, drive-by downvoting, effectively censoring comments one doesn't like, is certainly a continuation of bullying by other means. Of course, cleverness is frowned upon 'round here.
Flower.

If you liked it, Journey takes it to the next level.

In fact, this Wayfinder game appears to take lots of inspiration from both of these games.

http://thatgamecompany.com/journey/
Glasses or contact lenses

Low risk -> that paper's definition of "safety" is whether people had good eyesight. It doesn't take into account halos or dry eyes, as far as I can tell.
Traditionally, houses (mortgages) are usually considered as a hedge against inflation.
You're getting very close to ending up with the script to The Matrix.
I'm pretty fine with this, though I won't be interested in paying $20 for a game that also has ads in it. Blaston is $10, which... Enh, that's pushing my personal threshold.

But if it allows developers to build a free ecosystem that's ad-supported, that'll lower the activation cost to new VR ideas, increase iteration, and generally could increase the health of the whole ecosystem in terms of experience diversity.
The omitted part, of course, is the stunning increase in children being fed a steady diet of indoor technology, social media, computer games, and other generally passive, low-action activities.

And of course, it would be interesting to ask what role that diet has played in the lives of both children and parents attitudes about 'independence'.
The second part of what I said is simply bad. Should have stopped at philosophy.
Even if you need one, can't you just create a dummy account?
If you examine marginal behaviour, we're all picking up each others' tabs.
I'm curious about the economics of this. Does that mean Facebook thinks it can get $400 worth of personal data for each regular VR headset it sells? I think I read that they make roughly $50 per user a year from their regular website, so that seems like it's too high for my explanation to be plausible.
That's a totally fair point, but the argument to that is "don't support this developer" not "sell your Oculus Quest". Getting mad at Oculus for this is basically like getting mad at Apple because developers are including ads in their paid apps.
Thanks everybody, indeed, that's it!
"most held stablecoin" doesn't really answer the question, though. Why hold stablecoins at all? If you hold actual USD in a bank account, you're trusting your bank. If you hold USDT you're trusting that Tether Ltd stays solvent. I understand there's not always so much trust in banks, but trusting this shady Tether Ltd company feels absolutely bonkers. Even buying Bitcoin feels safer!
> People seem to think this is Facebook injecting ads into games all willy nilly

Based on previous behavior, this isn't an unfounded line of thinking. Many of the statements made by FB in regards to Occulus, while true at the time of the statement, have been completely reversed.

It is completely fair to expect that, at some point in the future, FB will inject ads into any VR app on Occulus at will.
This feature is great! Super simple to setup offsite.
I learned about the existence of Lex, Yacc, and Bison a bit more than 20 years while discussing the difficulties of debugging handwritten parsers with a friend.

But I was quickly discouraged by the complexity of using these tools, they are more like a new language that you have to learn.

Today I prefer writing parsers by hand, in C, like Fabrice Bellard, it is not super easy but manageable and I never encountered major issues.

I think that Lex/Yacc and similar tools are a good illustration of the power and shortcomings of metaprogramming.

There are some obvious use cases, but it is not always the best choice.
I don't know what people generally believe.

But the attack surface of a Linux kernel is very large, is pretty unpredictable, and can't be coherently masked out with rules (my favorite example Jann Horn's VM reference count bug, which was a simple concurrency flaw in the core virtual memory system). By comparison, a Linux KVM hypervisor is not just a subset of the kernel by definition, but also a much smaller codebase, a tiny fraction of the whole kernel.

Replacing shared-kernel isolation like seccomp-filtered containers with VMs is, architecturally, simply the replacement of a large trusted computing base with a smaller one. If the overhead is acceptable, it's hard to argue with from a security perspective.
How exactly does this work in Russia?
Who is Matthias Felleisen to Racket?
Who's wants to tell him?
Nope, this has been brought up before and it's wrong. The data shows wages are not keeping up with productivity gains, they are actually flat with inflation.

Now I agree having all the benefits from productivity gains going to the people who aren't working for them is some bullshit, but that's not the same as wages going down when you account for inflation.
I think it's closer to YouTube running ads in videos---it's more of a platform level thing rather than a "cross platform ad SDK".
> We've reversed a lot of that destruction in the past century.

Not even close, where are you getting that from?

> Unless you're suggesting we all go back to some sort of nomadic lifestyle?

US car culture is the first thing I’d put on the chopping block. The US military and billionaires as a class are the two highest polluting entities on the planet. Lots of additional gains to be had there.

I would classify very little of our wonton destruction of the environment as “necessary evil”.

> You're benefiting daily from that growth and your modern lifestyle (in 1st world countries) is far above what people enjoyed even half a century ago.

I wonder if all the men who have lowered sperm counts agree with you…
Renters are paying all the same things you are, and are usually paying through the rent much higher taxes and mortgage interest. The only difference is they don't have variability in expenses (AC goes out) -- but neither does a large landlord.
Thanks for clarifying. I've not encountered the use before, maybe because here in the Nordics piracy has been -is- very normalized.

The other reply told about a uni tale. I've heard about a similar story about someone torrenting actual Linux ISOs on university network. That resulted in a stern warning else the student would be barred from using the network and computers. Basically an automatic fail for future studies.
What about a dumbphone?
Well people who are not ophthalmologists who have not diagnosed your eyes should not be commenting on whether or not you are a good candidate for refractive eye surgery.
That's unfortunate! If it has been a while I would give it another swing. I'm even using it to have a shared drive in the company I'm running.
It sounds like you just said "yes, but what we're building is faster". The userland Linux emulation is a security benefit, not a liability.
I can't help but feel you're cherrypicking from the Wikipedia definition to fit your own need.

If you read past the summary to the actual meat of the article you'll find that:

> A blockchain is a decentralized, distributed, and oftentimes public, digital ledger consisting of records called blocks that is used to record transactions across many computers so that any involved block cannot be altered retroactively, without the alteration of all subsequent blocks.

You've just admitted your solution is neither decentralized nor distributed. By no common definition does it meet the description of a "blockchain" and I genuinely wonder why you persist in using the term, as it's at best misleading.

It sure appears to be in service of pure marketing. Which, hey, marketing is necessary! I get that.

But, in the context of this conversation, citing your project as proof that blockchains have practical applications when it doesn't appear to use a blockchain in any meaningful sense strikes me as pretty disingenuous.
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I don't have any love for the Fed, but it's not the Fed that spent without any regard for the budget for the past 40 years.
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Because a few developers will choose to place ads inside their apps? There will soon be cross-platform ad plugins like this in PCVR software, too.

The only reason you don't see it more already is that advertisers haven't figured out how to value what exactly they'd be buying; There's so many more factors regarding visibility/readability/placement in a 3D virtual environment, and there's a big difference between a real-life billboard that moves slowly past every driver on the interstate vs a canvas in a VR game where players might teleport right by in a hurry. Even with Facebook solving the technical aspects of measuring impressions/"engagement" in virtual worlds, I don't think the platform will attract many advertisers outside of the gaming/VR industry itself.
In Little Orpheus, maybe the "narrator" is not the right word.

Think of it as two people having a conversation about where you are and what's happening.

Now I remember, I think Max Payne also had an occasional background voice. It added so much to the atmosphere.
This is only going to end negatively if the bully has the tacit approval of all their peers. It's made clear by Matthew that the bully's behaviour was tolerated, so all likelihood is that he would be criticised for rocking the boat, potentially ostracised. At best he would get approval for it, but only in private with a "I will deny this if you say it out loud" disclaimer.

Ultimately this would reflect worse on Racket's leadership team than it does on Matthias alone. They're all okay with it. If this was operated as an organisation then there would be some accountability.

This is all innocent until proven guilty, of course, so it boils down to how the racket team responds, if they do.
Does it work like an https proxy (with CONNECT) or a socks proxy?

Because if it is instead actually unwrapping the connection somehow (eg. mitm) then they would be able to see the content, and that seems like a huge no-go -- both for the users, AND for apple as I would think it would open them up to liability.

note: they certainly would be able to see unencrypted http traffic regardless though.
Really cool to see some svelte in the wild :)
If you can manage to hold on to your house through a bad labor market period, then yes, inflation is good for those who bought big.
Jails are still shared-kernel isolation. Docker's reputation is mired in its earlier implementations, when it wasn't really even intended for multitenant isolation. Modern Docker, running with unprivileged containers (which is the norm), is substantially hardened. The real win over Docker is losing the shared kernel, which is what lots of people are doing, so the win to Jails is marginal.
And? There's a million other ways a VR developer can make their game suck; at the end of the day, the quality of the experience is in their hands.
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I am in the same camp. There was this girl I met on tinder that I always noticed the irony of her rescuing a dog from somewhere only for her to lock it up in a cage for 8-12 hours a day while she is working or partying. It's not right at all.
Sure, CoCs aren't panaceas (nothing is when humans organize), they're just tools to help increase transparency and get alignment. Much like a nation's constitution is useless if the de facto ruling structure doesn't actually listen to the rules in its own constitution; we shouldn't abandon codified rule of law because some polities refuse to respect their own codified rules.

In this particular case I agree, a CoC would be too-little-too-late. But if there had been a CoC it would be easy grounds for dismissing Felleisen (assuming the allegations are true) with little (but still some, since power abusers die hard) fanfare. Now there will be a whole bunch of witch hunt politics and the community will suffer the more for it.
And with Emacs Magit it’s trivial.

It still seems like a pretty obscure feature though. I believe none of my colleagues exploits this or even see a reason for why they may want to do so.
Glad to hear the ANTLR vs Yacc holy way (a.k.a. LL vs LR) is still going strong. This one holy war may actually be older than emacs vs vi.

Have the ANTLR guys dropped their Java credo or they're still thinking they are going to convince any C developer with a .jar?
People have concern that such a thing won't exist, or will be the tiniest margin of games.

Personally, I respect that fear but I think it's going to be alright. If we're talking about an ecosystem with hundreds / thousands of games and 90% have ads as opposed to one with fifty games with no ads that cost $10+ each, I'm in favor of the more diverse experience space.
If there'd been a USB port in the power brick it could have solved this issue. Like the Ethernet port they put there.
> Inflation hoses the middle class who wants to save in cash

Can you point me to some middle class people who are just sitting on a huge pile of cash? I'm a pretty standard middle class person and the vast majority of my net worth is tied up in a 401k, and if it wasn't there it'd be in a house that would be seriously outpacing inflation.
No, that's really not at all what gVisor is. gVisor is best thought of as user-mode Linux --- a complete reimplementation of most of the OS kernel. It's not a system call filter; it's something much closer to a VM than to seccomp.

gVisor is a very cool codebase. As an illustration of the approach: it includes its own TCP/IP stack; we use it in our command-line dev tool to allow people to SSH to their VMs over WireGuard without having to install WireGuard or obtain privileges to manage WireGuard.