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Here's a list of questions I really want to know about the CIA, which I've come to deeply distrust since the 2000s.

1. What is the CIA involvement in mainstream US media? How and why do they shape American perspective via the news?[1]

2. Why are so many (former? current?) CIA agents running for congress?[2]

3. To what extent and purpose is the CIA spying domestically on American citizens and the US congress?[3]

4. What was the true purpose of "fusion cells", where the CIA was partnered with the FBI for local law enforcement?[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-2...

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/a-brief...

[4] https://twitter.com/fool_nelson/status/1305599303906406402?l...
I have an "impossible" debugging situation right now, though it's a little outside the scope I think.

My Windows C drive, an SSD, died unexpectedly after less than a year of operation (I literally checked the SMART stats the day before, for what little info they offer). I bought a new Samsung SSD, installed it, restored from a backup (which was harder than it should have been backblaze) and now I get random bluescreens. No issue, I've had BSODs before, I know how to use WinDbg to explore them.

Problem 1; BSOD claims it is an "unrecoverable hardware error"

Problem 2; No dump file is generated, and I have no idea why. My system is set to generate one, I've turned off autorestart, Windows claims the SSD volume is "healthy" after restart, but it does not write the file

My only hope is that I'll figure out how to set up remote debugging or something
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I saw the slow loading of the page, and it made me confident that Hacker News will take it down soon enough.
Assuming you didn't mean /s

Yeah, Italy is today known for its stable, non corrupt, efficient and effective governance...
it should also be noted that consumption of certain antioxidants protect against skin cancer (most notably sulforaphane found in Cruciferous Vegetables).

>Nonsystematic reviews of observational studies suggest that use in real life does not cause vitamin D deficiency.

yeah, but that's an observational study.

I'm not anti-sunscreen and if you burn or get dark/deep freckles easily, I'm even more "pro" sunscreen for you.

But when looked at the number of diseases and problems correlated to Vitamin D deficiency and looking at the relatively low risk of contracting melanoma (as scary as that cancer can be if caught late), to me it's a balancing act.

Consuming mass amounts of VitaminD over long periods of time, orally, can cause kidney problems.

If you look at auto-immune issues globally, the percentage of the populations that have them sky rocket the further you get away from the equator. Depression, anxiety, even certain cancers themselves all have some relation to low vitamin d.

Sunlight, the type that allows UV-B to penetrate your skin, is a human necessity.

And like a lot of things we need (Vitamin C and E, or polyunsaturated fats, carbohydrates, etc), too much of it will cause you problems and/or kill you, not enough of it will cause you problems and/or kill you. And trying to anecdotally perform some balancing act without constantly running tests on yourself, is difficult.

My rule of thumb is put on sunscreen if you are out long enough to risk a burn, re-apply when necessary. Otherwise, soak up the rays.
This exact thinking leads to these bazillion dead and tortured. Better more totalitarianism to prevent an economic model, which could be revoked again in a democracy.

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A very interesting way to show information and to aid learning. I haven't explored it much, but I do feel like this could be great, but isn't quite fleshed out yet. I think the tree is very difficult to navigate without being able to see what each bubble represents before clicking on it. Also, since the site contains so much content, it would be nice if it could remember what you have understood (and maybe still show it grayed out, instead of the permanent-seeming deletion of nodes).
The point of the offer is that you don't have to do that. You just report that you found it, they verify, and then they will refund the difference in prices. Very few vendors do this, but it is a legit offer to help alleviate those post purchase regrets.
Does it mean Google is allowed to create a list of all people with their addresses and use it for advertising?
Second prize is a set of steak knives...
The FDA bureaucracy is arguably the number 1 cause of mortality worldwide.
It's almost guaranteed to be a privacy violation unless you think Amazon can write complicated yet bug-free networking code.
They didn't say there was, but there are efforts to reduce ID requirements.

Here's the crux: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/873878423/voting-and-election...

Higher ID requirements increase security, but also improve republican result b/c democratic voters are less likely to have certain IDs (I think). As a result this can be spun either way as Republicans restricting voters, or Democrats opposing countermeasures to fraud.

Personally I don't know, I think I'd focus on Democrat behaviour; Given they just got off the back of Russia-gate, and accusing a foreign superpower of interfering in the election, they should also theoretically have a stake in voter fraud. I'd expect them to be focusing more on driving their demographics to acquire ID, rather than loosening requirements. Mail-in voting is a hard one though.

As an aside - I'm unconvinced by reports that voter fraud are low. No evidence of fraud isn't evidence of no fraud, and too many news articles or "explainers" seem to focus on lack of evidence versus a secure and airtight verification process.

consider https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/nonc... :

election officials .. referred only an estimated 30 incidents of suspected noncitizen voting.. In other words, improper noncitizen votes accounted for 0.0001 percent of the 2016 votes in those jurisdictions.

Forty of the jurisdictions .. reported no known incidents of noncitizen voting..

In the ten counties with the largest populations of noncitizens in 2016, only one reported any instances of noncitizen voting..

In .. the states where Trump claimed the problem of noncitizen voting was especially acute — no official we spoke with identified an incident of noncitizen voting in 2016

The headline claims "no noncitizen voting" but the actual process implies "no noncitizen voting, that officials know about, (or are willing to say)". What it doesn't account for is incompetence, poor vetting/fraud detection and complicity among officials. For the strong claims coming from self-proclaimed voting experts, I'd expect some kind of random sampling of votes, not "we asked the people who counted the votes" - well, they're not likely to condemn their own reports, are they? The fact that a lot of hot air and political context is upfront, and self-critical analysis of their own process is not is what makes me doubtful of these kind of text, despite the credentials/qualifications of the authors.
That's certainly an option, but moving to a different nation is a lot to ask for an employee. Despite both countries being in the EU it's still a massive change on an individual level.
I actually prefer fzy to fzf because it doesn't go fullscreen, but I think the simplest convincing example is:

alias f = fd | fzy
Statecraft involves a whole lot of dirty tricks and grey areas. It is not clear if a modern power could survive without participating in this game to some degree, it is also not clear when and how to draw the line.

The struggle is that once it becomes normalized it grows, and anyone with the power tends to want to increase it. If you are a rational and pragmatic person you have to be able to accept some things as necessary and seek punishment for others... while seeing that there is rarely much difference between one and the next.

One can also be an idealist and believe that none of this should be necessary and fight against every instance; perhaps that is the stable outcome, some people participating in things they see as necessary fighting against others who want everything to be perfect -- the stalemate between them being some kind of solution to the problem.
That's so funny- that makes me think:
2007 (or so) a manager asked me not to use a Windows Pen Tablet in a meeting because it wasn't respectful.

2011 Every senior manager brings an iPad to meetings and seem to get distracted.

2015 (Tech co) Everybody brings an MacBook Air or a MacBook pro to every meeting

2018 (Entertainment Co) Any electronic device is considered disrespectful in a meeting, especially phones.
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Dude, it's one thing sharing your experience, and a whole different to assume that doctors knew and are hiding something. Just because there were scattered cases here and there doesn't mean that the medical community could correlate them all and understand what they were dealing with.
I think Street View is a perfect parallel example. In both cases, the scale and centralization are key.

For Street View, you can opt yourself out by telling Google: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/09/27/how-to-hi...

Whereas for the WiFi map, you apparently have to opt yourself out by changing your SSID.
Just to be accurate, support for the newest macOS will go back about six years, not three.
I suspect a lot of the remaining users are on both networks.
I was eventually invited to the beta barely a month before the platform launched, so I don't really have a way to know how good/bad it is. This is what I experienced:

1) Bank account data sync was first class, after I got through the access/pairing process.

2) Credit card sync was terrible, laughable. As a CapitalOne CC user, first it wasn't supported at all. Then it was supported, but never worked. I need an app that unifies my spending between bank/credit, so that not working was a no-go.

3) Up front there was no estimated price or anything to set my expectations. I barely got the app working before the period ended, the beta app was yanked, and all functionality terminated. Then I saw the $10/mo pricetag and balked. What I had experienced wasn't worth $10 a month, let alone $90/year.

I don't remember having an opportunity to offer feedback when the beta ended.

On a money philosophy note, I do try to take the approach of budgeting where you have a full paycheck saved up. To me, it's the simplest way. You project based on past expenses, add margin where needed, and then allocate your spending "buckets" that way.

I understand that doing budgeting software right is hard. (Who here wouldn't, honestly?) But I'm still kind of skeptical that paying so much would really help me budget better.

Question: how does Monarch handle the once a year expense (sinking fund) type budgeting such as car insurance? Or even web hosting that I might pay on a 1, 2, or 3 year schedule?
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As much as I partly agree with this article, I find it painful to read because it shoddily reengineers bits of Free (as in freedom) software discourse. Specifically that proprietary software subjugates users with malicious features to make money - the US is more creative at doing this than European ones. But yes I agree, the US is better at it, for better or for worse.
Do you think aspirational countries would rethink their vision or see it as a recipe to follow?

(I think almost any country with our resources would project their vision vigorously to maintain stability)

That’s to say were China to emerge as the world power, I don’t think they would take pause and just let things be.
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The idea is to have one place to communicate with all your contacts on various platforms. You can send and receive messages to your contacts on Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Telegram, etc. all as if you're sending a text to one of your phone contacts without needing to install an app (it also works with old feature phones.) Once you connect your various accounts a list of new contacts is sent to your phone to add to your existing contacts. This includes your friends' avatars and an icon in the bottom right corner to indicate which social media platform they're from.

This is implemented on top of Matrix, using modified bridges to push messages to the backend server.

We would love to receive any feedback and possible ways to improve this. Currently you must login or provide your cookies to different platforms to use this service. This is a major downside that we're working on fixing, any suggestions would be welcome.

Is this something you would use? What are some of the use cases you can think of (personal/professional)?
All Apple devices do this by default as well, and they don't seem to publish an opt-out for it. Possibly they also follow the _nomap suffix as a few others do, but seems more likely they just don't let you opt-out at all.

> If Location Services is on, your iPhone will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers (where supported by a device) in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for augmenting this crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056
I disagree, start up time is still very useful to improve if developers only interact with your project maybe once a week. It’s also very handy if you’re doing CD, as your entire build pipeline will finish more quickly, which makes reverts and deploys faster. It’s also good for quick bug fixes, where something needs to be fixed as quickly as possible. It can make a big difference on big sites, from like 10 minutes to 1 or 2 minutes.
Hey, that’s my post :-D I think it still holds up. The virus being “present” in the US in December isn’t the same as being spread widely.

This new NIH survey still offers no reason to doubt the timeline that the virus emerged around October 2019 in Wuhan and only became a serious threat in late November/December, when hospitalizations began to rise and some doctors started warning of a SARS re-emergence. A widespread COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan during August 2019 continues to seem unlikely to me.
Opportunities to ask about these devices don't come up very often, so please help me decide what I want here:

I want something that allows me to do math problems while laying down horizontally, mostly before bed. With a book and paper, it's a mess trying to do this, and I require e-ink. So I need good support for reading PDFs _and_ writing on screen, which is a niche apparently. I need split screen functionality or something like it, so I can have half my screen be scratch paper, and in the other half I can flip through the text (and I need a reasonably sized screen to accommodate all this). If I cannot do this, the device is not usable enough to purchase imo. I have no desire to take notes, draw or convert my writing to text. It would be a big plus if it could also read epubs as then I wouldn't need my current ereader.

I'm leaning toward the Remarkable 2, mostly due to it shaping up to be 'hacker friendly' (so I can lean on the community to write some features) and the writing supposedly feeling real, but I don't like how expensive the little pencil nubs are and having to replace them is kind of a drag. I tend to binge research my options a couple times per year but haven't pulled the trigger yet. I get frustrated because I feel like I want something so basic that it should already exist - just a book and scratch paper in one device, with a screen that doesn't keep me awake at night or distract me with a web browser. Anyway, last I checked the Remarkable 2 didn't quite have a splitscreen feature or anything close enough, so I opted to wait.

Would appreciate any input, I'm probably going to break down and buy one this month.
Thanks. Yes looking for general feedback and what would be useful.
Even worse - when it's a stackoverflow post from yourself 2 years before, and there's still no good solution. This has happened to me.
It probably became a standard after it got popular.
yes, this. thanks for helping clarify
This works well for us too. It doesn't have all the conveniences of next/image, but it lets you get closer to more reliable and better performance in our experience. Yes you need to understand what you're doing a little better, but it isn't rocket science.
I do not see how there are any privacy concerns here. We are talking about radio broadcasts in a band set aside to be a free-for-all (no licensing, no permissions, no coordination required -- the only limit is on transmitter power). Moreover, people have many options available to them; among other things, you can not use an SSID (BSSID-only wifi networks are common), you can reduce your transmission power and use directional antennas to prevent the signal from propagating beyond your home, you can use the 60Ghz band which will not propagate through walls, and if all else fails, you can just use wired connections. People who want privacy can have it without having to do anything extraordinary.

Wifi is convenient because it is unlicensed and loosely regulated. The price of that convenience is that you have no particular claim to privacy with your wifi transmissions, and everyone knows it -- that is why we encrypt the contents of those transmissions. Building a database of AP locations is not a privacy issue at all -- it is no different from building a database of landmarks (or publishing a travel guide with a list of landmarks in various towns), or for that matter, creating a map by gathering information about roads/buildings/etc.
A great read. Discussed at the time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25841263
I've used Windchill extensively and I've set up a Vault instance (the Autodesk equivalent). I completely agree with what you are saying. At most companies, there is a "Emperor's Clothes" scenario where even the expert users and administrators have no idea what's going on under the hood, or how to execute advanced operations. (granted, Git has the same issue sometimes, let's face it)
To make matters worse, Windchill has quite possibly the worst UI of any software I use --- first off, it runs in an instance of Internet Explorer embedded in the Creo CAD package. Few icons are labeled, and the UI is not discoverable at all. Google is often no help, since it is relatively niche BTB software.
Doing what the parent suggests, using old versions of parts in new assemblies, is only reliable when saving the old versions out as a "dumb solid" like a STEP and re-importing them into Windchill.
Part of the issue is that version control and databased file systems as a mental model do not align very well with how the human brain operates. The hierarchical structure rules the day in the end, because it aligns well with how we think.
Not sure the other spectrums of light are intense enough on average for such glasses to work without them also emitting all spectrum of light (essentially a walking radar/lidar/X-ray/etc… machine).

For example we of course have these types of “glasses” for infrared which is fine for humans because we give off significant quantities of infrared radiation, but lesser known is we also emit light in the visible spectrum, it’s just not enough intensity for our rods/cones or inversely our rods/cones are not sensitive enough to observe the visible light we emit. Anyway your invention would be cool, even if it just ratcheted up the existing visible light spectrum enough we could see ourselves glowing in the dark…it would give people a new appreciation for Carl Sagan’s quote that we are made of stardust.
The counter point to that I can offer is that you can kill whatever spirit exists to learn it deeply if you throw someone into the deep first, and then deeper. The will to learn gets lost, whereas being effective can fuel wanting to be more effective. Human energy has to be paced, and will cultivated.
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>>not nearly enough to purchase a meaningful stake that could protect you from premine scammers that launched the project. not to mention - you'd be giving up your money for their benefit. double rekt.

There is no need for any protection. Proof of stake doesn't enable stakers to attack non-stakers. Nor would stakers have any incentive to.

Moreover, there was absolutely no scam in the premine. It was publicly announced, and the majority of it was distributed via a programmatic crowdsale.

This characterization of yours is simply an emotional attack.

>>you'd be giving up your money for their benefit. double rekt.

Same with any currency. You provide something of value to acquire some currency. This applies to dealing with early adopters of other currencies, early investors in companies, etc.

This is simply a bad-faith criticism of proof-of-stake that is equally applicable to anything else, unless you make the tortured argument that a publicly announced crowdsale and dev grant is somehow a "scam", and therefore there is some distinct quality about buying currency from those who acquired their stake through a premine over acquiring it through some other method.

>>ah, nice, a system that simply relies on altruistic motives of premine scammers

How can any one can take ETH's critics seriously when you make blatantly libelous accusations that participating in an open premine crowd makes someone a scammer.
> google uses AI to design chips in 6 hours

No, Google's AI is floorplanning[0] (basically routing and layout) human-designed logic in 6 hours. That headline is misleading.

It's kind of like having a compiler will billions of optimization flags and using AI to select a pretty near-optimal set of flags for a particular human-generated source file. We wouldn't call the output an AI-designed program, even though such AI would be really helpful.

Google is using AI as a heuristic for decently fast approximate solutions to the floorplanning problem, where (IIRC) optimal solutions are NP-hard.

It's an important step forward, and presumably a big time saver, but they're nowhere near giving the AI an instruction set spec or examples of inputs and outputs ad having the AI generate the logic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorplan_(microelectronics)
80 hours doing what? If you spend 80 hours doing your job, that just becomes the norm.
It can be dishonest to try to persuade someone of something without revealing that you have a nonobvious interest in them being so persuaded.

It's not dishonest to talk down a stock you are shorting provided you are open about your interest, but a news outfit concealing such a fact definitely crosses the line for me.
This is correct, but it's only valid for Windows 10 Pro. For Windows 10 Home, being disconnected is the only solution, for now.
The US would survive. It's basically uninvadeable.
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You are definitely saying it loud enough to reach outside your house. If you aren't, then you don't have to worry about Google because they wouldn't be able to reach it.
"it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill and cheat, steal, deceive, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?"

-- George White, commenting on his work on CIA's MK-ULTRA program.

https://www.sfweekly.com/news/operation-midnight-climax-how-...
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