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I believe you're being down voted because you haven't said anything of substance. You mentioned an anecdote and how the sequence reached Moderna. If you're implying something, maybe say that instead of baiting people to guess your position.
I don’t think people are totally naive, but naïveté is a spectrum and youth tend to have higher levels until age and experience occur.

This is why the army uses young men for combat and why apprenticeships in trades work exist. To exploit young people
The issue here preference falsification:

>Preference falsification is the act of communicating a preference that differs from one's true preference. The public frequently conveys, especially to researchers or pollsters, preferences that differ from what they truly want, often because they believe the conveyed preference is more acceptable socially.

The reason why the VPN business is booming is to avoid those pesky content infringement letters, and to workaround geo restrictions.

OP is upset that they advertise themselves as privacy tools, but that's just marketing.
The latter rings dystopian to the modern US ear, because our civic society has so thoroughly broken down. It's not just the ultra-wealthy who distrust their local public schools or wouldn't have a random neighbor keep an eye on the kids for a couple hours.
There's an interesting similarity between autonomous weapon systems and ransomware discussions. Both have just come to the attention of the mainstream audience (or audiences outside their usual niche) and discussion in those spaces is about where it was 5 years ago.

Also I'd really expect HN of all places to understand why banning what is basically computer vision based targeting systems is absurd.
I have a mass of "open source" that I churned out while I had more free time. Trouble is it's quite out of date with my skills, especially since being busy at work. I still do tinker and release rushed code, but I don't know I want to be judged on taking someone's code and gutting it for my purposes
Any of the 68000-based machines may be worth a look. Atari ST, Amiga 500/1000, early Macs. There are also SBCs available that use the 68K.

An early-ish 8086/8088 PC clone is a possibility, but the Atari/Amiga/Macs will have better graphics options and won't have segment/offset memory addressing.
Tech boot camps!
I still remember as a child loving the “customized” pieces - printed, rare - much more important that the normal bricks
In other words: You can't add many workers to a linear job and expect the task is done in SizeOfJob/Workers.

Or: If you put many car lanes that go into one, you will get contention.

This will manifest in many ways.

But you "can" if along ALL the pipeline you have a way to coordinate the task!. However, if componentA is paradigmA and componentB is paradigmB you will get trouble.

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In practical term: Wanna kill your database? Open N connections launched by thousand of actors/async/threads. You need to instead use a pool, coordinate which jobs are fast to done or slow to complete.

AND

You need to architect the code to exploit both what this paradigm is, + what that make happy the DB (typical: NOT do sql + n, think in batches, group operations, etc)

This is the part you don't get much help not matter what you use.
The FDA's article gives a meaninglessly useless. The multiplicative one is clear. What is the plausible case where someone gets confused by this in a way that's harmful? Would anyone ever over-estimate the time they can spend in the sun? I can only imagine under-estimating that time (which is fine) since our base reference for sunburns is always to picture the hottest day of summer at the beach at middday - the worst case scenario. The sun setting makes this better not worse!

Either way the multiplicative one is clear: 30 minutes of midday exposure with 30 SPF is approximately equal to 1 minute of midday exposure and so is minimal. That's helpful to know! And 50 is only moderately better than 30, but 30 is a lot better than 10 - the FDA page says nothing about this.
I guess the answer to me is "it depends". Modern cruise missiles are pretty much drones, but at the same time they're always what I guess I'd call "weapons of state". Big, expensive, and part of a large decision-making loop. You can't just lob one; someone signed for it. Attacks are planned in advance at high levels.

whereas this "slaughterbot" idea is smaller, low-cost, and with far less top-down control.

At least, as I understand it.
Not really, I don't see how this would be more difficult than any other kind of queue most programs already have--email notification retries especially. Unlike email though, this is HTTP and has better status codes. Also, you'd technically still have to implement a queue to send to svix, no? Otherwise if they go down you lose critical messages.
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Neat tool.

My recurring observation is that PR approvals take on the form of "voting rings" and other sabotage.

Pernicious.

When commits are a primary PKI, devs can subtly sabotage co-belligerents, camping on hostile PRs while fast tracking their own.

Example from my last gig: Senior dev is fire hose of code. Frequent large dumps "Oh, something I did over the weekend. Just approve it. It needs to go into production today." Same dev then obsesses over every PR, repeatedly requests rework, insists "large" PRs be "broken up" because "I need to understand this better".
I think it is very likely "disagreement" in this thread is simply based on people seeing different titles at different times. There are some possible causes:

1. The submitter may provide an initial title

2. HN moderators may adjust the title

3. GitHub may show different titles based on the user's login status (I'm not sure myself, I'm writing this based on what I read in another part of this thread)

Therefore, I make this request of HN commenters: Since titles on HN can change, please quote the exact title that confuses you.

More broadly, it may be useful to always quote the text you are responding to.
I think the title should be: Apple's iCloud+ "TOR-esque"
Is it really the fastest way? I imagine that without extra data it may be, but what I was proposing in a cousin comment would involve profiling and early fast rejection by means of efficient multiple string matching. The browser should be able to collect a significant amount of historical matching data to optimize these lookups.
I've often remarked that if I (as an IT specialist) did my work the way most doctors do theirs - with the same arrogance and dismissal of my clients - I would be out of a job. I put more care and diligence in diagnosing the malfunction of a single machine, one that can just as easily be thrown in the trash and replaced at a cost of a few thousand dollars, than a GP does dismissing an irreplaceable person's bloodwork with "you're too young for cancer". Yes, sure, the scale is completely different, the subjects are completely different, but is this not why doctors are so highly paid and specialised?
Whenever you have something that's even slightly exotic it's like you're dealing with the world's worst classifier and need to average the result of several of them to get a meaningful reading.

Personally, I've been diagnosed with Gilbert's Syndrome. Which is basically "your liver doesn't fully process dead red blood cells, you're one of the people where it just be like that". It's not a severe condition - I just get a bit yellow sometimes, but a diagnosis of "it just be like that" is not really a diagnosis, is it? The real diagnosis would be "you have such and such gene that causes such and such enzyme to not be synthesised in the required amount leading to your liver not processing bilirubin". Obviously most people won't need or want a diagnosis that detailed, but why not let those who do want it pay for it? Let me pay you to take better care of my health...
> It would be nice if the BBC didn't block like this, but UK residents do typically pay for the content whereas those outside the UK are unable to.

As an exiled Londoner, I would love to be able to pay to access BBC programmes. Unfortunately I can’t, so a VPN is often the only solution (well, I guess torrenting would be another one, but it’s not really better).
Android's keyboard does
Or just go "full robots"
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I agree... and any well written script will have a shebang that specifies the shell that shluld run it, anyway.

For me, personally, I love having homogeneus systems put in place. In this case it means not having to switch my mind between in and for modes. Helps me avoid mistakes, having to keep less context up here. But it's always interesting to read about other people's way of working.
My apologies -- you're completely right.
Potentially, this provides troves of data to the exit node operators (CloudFlare, Fastly, Akamai, ...). Yes, it's the same with all VPNs and ISPs, but I think users should be made aware that now instead of your ISP analyzing the data, an even bigger and more capable corporation is. And if Apple is controlling the entire onion chain (I would be surprised if they weren't), they have even more data available, mainly with a corresponding IP of yours. In the net sum, you are hiding the transmitted data from your ISP and the IP from the sites you visit, but you are handing over all this information to a centralized place - Apple and exit node providers. Potentially, they can use the information to connect the dots more easily and fully than any ISP or site ever could.
They are lost.
I think UBI is further off than you think. Look at how Andrew Yang was treated during the presidential election. Boomers and their rotten ways of thinking need to die off from positions of power first.
Not sure if you're familiar with the movement, but standardized design tokens[1] seem like the future to me, depending on how well they are done. There's a list of major vendor like Adobe, Figma, etc. that are already onboard and the standardization process is progressing slowly but surely.

As I'm designing an app I don't want just click & drag visually to get some eye-balled spacing or size value. I want a design system with consistent spacing rules. Design tools enable this somewhat but the token standardization is pushing this much further. For example: there's already a hub/API for distributing design tokens to other services. I've seen a live demo of Specify[2] pushing token changes from Figma to a GitHub PR or creating JIRA task during a design token talk from a token w3c group member.

And it's not just about design -> code. If these tokens are standardized, design tools themselves (among others) could have a standardized way of transferring designs.

Heck, even Utopia could embrace this at some point to provide you an alternative view/workflow for your already standardized design tokens.

[1] https://www.designtokens.org/

[2] https://specifyapp.com/
I use it as my main search engine because google puts up a super annoying cookie banner if you are not logged in or have approved them before and that doesn't work with temporary containers (a genius extension for firefox that presents each new tab with its own cookie jar, making sites isolated not just from each other but even from other tabs that access the site).
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Even so, it would be 0.2% per EU country, right? Because the legislation is transposed into member states legislation. I doubt that anybody would really want to fight (& risk losing) in even 5 member states per year...
If you've worked there before and they'll rehire you, it may be an easy option for people when they quit or get fired for some other job.

If they were fired for not hitting metrics and not for misconduct, they're probably willing to rehire.
Drones can't beat nylon nets or other low tech countermeasures.
I think anti drone water cannons will outpace drone assassinations. And more than both, regular bombs and guns will still do most of the killing.
A felony, but not rape. One which wouldn’t need to be on the books if merely lying about yourself constituted rape.

This entire idea that merely lying about who you before sex are constitutes rape is simply not true.

Certain deceptions may be crimes, but that is completely different.
It's probably best to find a root cause for the first instance of a new class of problems. At first there was no way to be sure what part of the stack some of these were in. They ruled out their software, third-party libraries, and memory before focusing on a CPU and then which core of the CPU. Knowing that sometimes a single core goes bad means you can't randomly assign one test run to a CPU with no core affinity and reliably detect it. Yes, the fix is to disable that core or core complex if you have that kind of resolution, or to ditch the CPU if you must, or to pull the whole server if your scale demands it. But knowing it's a hardware error in the CPU and not chasing it through layers of code every time is invaluable.
Not if it gets them banned in those countries.
You're right, it's a complex web of incentives, power (im)balances, sociopolitical inertia, legalisms, etc

Nonetheless the fact remains that we have consistently produced more than enough food for everybody for half a century and so far have refused or failed to distribute it equitably

This is an observation, not a value judgment, I don't have an answer to the question "could it be any other way"
> Often indigenous history
Often indigenous history is not history because it is not written. Usually it's a collection of stories with wildly varying roots in facts.
I'm on Manjaro Linux and didn't configure anything :D But, I know what you mean.
In reality humans have a complicated relationship with technology. As much as it promises to save the world, technology is also what is increasingly over the last couple centuries threatening to destroy the world and our species. So technology may be saving the world, but largely from itself.
How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?
You might be referring to capturing at the exhaust source. Agreed.

Bigger trick will be removal of stuff already in the air.
a man's got to do what a man's got to do. talk up his book. cheerlead the workforce towards the next big thing etc.

the fact is an idiotic strand of rna has defeated us all. our collective intelligence crumbled. toilet papers and flour disappeared from shelves and that was just the start.

the billions of "supercomputers in our pockets": defanged, untrusted, unusable as a tool in the fight against the most simplistic of spreading algorithms

the billions of "platform" users: amplifiers of deep and justified distrust, preventing even the miracle of quick vaccines (which was by no means a given) to reach the masses

to be sure the systemic failure we witnessed is by far not just a "tech" or even V/C failure. you can try put lipstick on a pig. but "tech" was measured and came up short.

for any thinking techie out there (and there are many) a time to reflect, then act
> If America truly values an informed public, the persecution of Julian Assange must end.

We've pretty clearly answered that negatively, America values an indoctrinated public. To the point that our debates aren't about right or wrong, fact or fiction, but whose doctrine one hews closest to.
I am surprised that there isn't anything like Stark technology, to go out of one of the pods and retrieve you autonomously maybe even the Dragon could be repurposed for such things.
In my experience, the patient can seem content because their outbursts of whatever kind have decreased in regularity, and they're more neutral on...everything.

It also seems to disconnect them from some portion of mental model creation (as in, learning and understanding day to day inputs), lowering overall executive function, causing some to slowly spiral into disorganization, perhaps bad habits, perhaps general nihilistic tendencies, without realizing it — especially those who have been prescribed these and have nobody to objectively weigh how the med is striking them, and assist with coming to the correct dosage.
Thanks. I built it as a solution to my problem. Glad that you like it.
I have very little respect for Youtube personalities (thinking of LTT in particular) when it comes to talking about Apple in particular. They are so wedded to their "everyone, except us, is evil" perspective that their knee-jerk reaction to almost anything from Apple, privacy or otherwise is negative. (LTT spent the first bit trashing Apple for making marketing claims about the M1, instead of letting them do, then refused to back off when numbers backed up their claims, continue to trash anything with Apple and privacy, etc).

Apple is not without sin. If we get out of this entire epic lawsuit (another company not without sin) with consumers winning the ability to side-load, it's a win. But for the most part, Apple has a multi-decade history of usually working for customers in above-board ways, as opposed to Facebook, Googles and other(s).
Might have to look at this. The Classic boxes don't actually have the classic colors in much sufficiency, and are likewise full of tiny 1x1 and 1x2s to bulk up the part count

e.g. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/creative-building-bricks-...

It's a less than useful selection of pastel colors to really do anything with.
Same goes for pg. And most other people, I suppose. It’s hard to forgo self-interest.
Source IP address and next-hop IP address would be as well.
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I thought the article contains something exciting, but excitement ended when I was reading the last lines.
Agreed. On a resume, it would fall flat. I wouldn't send you to the circular file over it, but it wouldn't help any either.

Now, if in the course of a phone screen, you described yourself as such, you'd probably get a chuckle from me.
They adapt pricing, just like steam, spotify and others. I live in russia and only pay 4USD for the family plan
I've seen stats for a couple of the biggest VPNs. Massive majority of their traffic is just switching geolocation restrictions (US Netflix and similar).

They don't tend to advertise that. Some do, but it's not their main message, because "prevent ISPs from spying" is cleaner.

iCloud+ does not solve this, so there will be a sustained need for VPNs, particularly those that invest effort into into avoiding Netflix blacklists.
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@joseph8th mentioned a shell [1] earlier, that at least at first glance, seems to be a python + bash combination, similar to what powershell does with .net.

[1] https://xon.sh/
Wow! At first when I saw the Yippy.com redirect to DDG, because it was so "sloppy" I had assumed the truth, which was they just shut it down and redirected. But this was falsely reported in a few places and even Wikipedia has an uncited claim that they were bought by you guys.

It's kind of sad that they shut it down. They actually had a decent index and a unique "category" thing on the sidebar that you could use to narrow down search results.
Yeah, I get them for both Youtube and google
HBO is blocking Private Relay regardless.
P3P wasn't great. It's pretty hard to reduce the nuance of how you're proposing to use data down to a handful of fields that will be automatically processed.

I remember spending a silly amount of time trying to come up with a P3P policy that was both accurate and also didn't break sign-on for a single app that used multiple domains.
being poor and unable to transition, and also you just might not want a cop in your home. fucking libera.chat troll admins called me anprim. fucking idiots
Yea you don't legally market your product as a tool to commit a crime but 'privacy' is pretty broad term and partially true so it works.
The rules of due process in civilian court don't apply to nations enforcing their rights to sovereignty against foreign incursion. And if you think extra-judicial execution is "American," I'd like to introduce you to the entire history of Earth.
Location is wrong argument. The article specifically points out that those drones were said to follow retreating fighters, and keep shooting un-discriminately
They should just make a smartwatch app for their application process. Detect a pulse? Hired!
Related to this.

We are basing what we consider natural phenomena on our observations of the galaxy.

If we were to flip the assumption from life being rare to life being pervasive, what assumed natural phenomena could in fact be evidence of life?

There is precedent for this on Earth. We are just startign to discover how much The Amazon rainforest is actually a human creation and basically a massive multi-generational bioengineering project.

This is not a serious position fo mine, btw, I know that we can track most astronomical phenomena back to fundamental laws of nature.

But equally there are some massive astronomical myseteries (dark matter/energy, certain stars being more/less common than expected etc) and I can't quite dismiss the wonder that our baseline assumptions have been tainted by this assumption.
How does YouTube know what I am doing on my phone?
YouTube knows what I am listening to on my audio book app, which is obvious since they start recommending me videos related to whatever book I am listening to, even though I am not searching for this subject on YT, Google, etc. How do they do this? Does YT know everything I do on my phone, or is my audio book app sharing this data with YT? I use iPhone.
WHAT. this changes everything, as I was planning on taking the summer off to take my Saturn V into orbit.
These countermeasures generally only work against drones that are not fully autonomous since they rely on disrupting communication with a ground controller. If your drone is perfectly happy to loiter and kill people based on facial recognition and some basic parameters, dronegun won't work. The other point to keep in mind is that cheap lethal drones are often designed to operate in swarm mode rather than individually. It's pretty difficult to knock out an autonomous swarm with weapons designed to target one drone at a time.
The same is true for any VC blog, it’s marketing - to both investors and founders. But you can be both biased and insightful! I found this essay very inspirational, we truly are living during exceptional times

If you don’t take into account bias and agendas when you read anything, you probably won’t be a great founder.
Down from the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc. (2020) [pdf]
It is for any VPN client that routes DNS traffic through the VPN as well as HTTP and other web traffic. It's not out of the ordinary for this to happen.
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A motorized sniper rifle with face detection to find targets and a high rate of fire seems like it could exist with current technology, require about the same effort to deploy as a sniper with a typical sniper rifle, require less training from the person in the field, and be a hell of a lot more deadly. Same with a machine gun for closer quarters.

Regular bombs and guns probably still do most of the killing for quite awhile because of inertia, but I'm pretty firmly of the belief that they are outdated technology or will be soon, especially the regular guns part.

Regular bombs are arguably already outdated by missiles with (frequently autonomous) guidance... but for a lot of applications dumb explosives do work pretty well so those probably stick around for a long time.
> If someone commits a crime and government cannot find evidence, because Apple gives shielding, then isn't that making them hypothetically an accomplice?

We have recent and specific case law around this. The cherry on top is it was Apple on the other side.

No, this is not how being an accomplice works in the U.S. It’s not how it works anywhere with the rule of law.