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>Unlimited free speech allows bigots and fascists to spread their poison unobstructed, which demonstrably helps them to recruit more people into their white supremacist, genocidal, and anti-democratic movements. Meanwhile, as a cost to maintain this "principle", thousands (and more) of real people are being hurt or killed, or having their livelihoods destroyed, simply because of the way they were born.

In my opinion, the best way to give credence to these kinds of beliefs is to drive them underground. Now you have people whispering from the bushes about the topic to people they think might be swayed to join them and no one is around to counter what they are saying. The best way to keep people from believing these kinds of things is to let their proponents speak, and then call them on it. Joe Gullible will at least be able to see both sides.

Similarly, the best way to unlearn bigotry is to converse with people you are bigoted towards about a range of topics. Eventually you learn that they are just people, like everyone else. The same thing could happen with politics if we stopped being shoved into bubbles (or willingly building them up).

Unfortunately, advertisers don't want to place ads where contentious discussions occur and big companies don't want to lose advertising revenue, so here we are.
> Wait, then why don't they just switch over each component in turn? The "divide and conquer" debugging strategy.

Let's say the CPU is the actual issue, but the problem manifests itself in the memory module. You swap over to the backup memory module, and suddenly the problem vanishes!

Two months later, the problem manifests again. Identical presentation. This time, there is no backup to switch over to test.

You fly a Very Expensive Mission to the telescope only to find out the CPU was the issue, and if you had figured that out originally you wouldn't be up here with four memory modules.
Our catalytic converter was stolen a few months ago. It was strange because we were parked in front of a government building -- library and courthouse -- and were only inside for about 15 minutes, in the afternoon. Came outside and the car sounded like the muffler was missing, or like I was driving an old tank.

Our new car came with installation of a catshield. When talking to various autobody places, they were skeptical it would matter because if they'd cut out the catalytic converter, they could just cut out the shield. It would be nice to see if they had data on this, but I haven't seen any (I even asked our insurance agency if they knew of any analyses on it but they said they didn't).
Ah, yeah, politicians, academics and traditional media have nothing to do with the polarized society. It’s all the Facebook’s fault!
Bosch’s New Fab and the State of European Semiconductors
This has become enough of an issue here in the Seattle metro area that the King County prosecutor's office has a special taskforce, in conjunction with several neighboring jurisdictions. It happens in the city, the suburbs, and even at busy trailheads.

It's particularly concerning because some folks are beginning to take matters into their own hands[1].

1. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/man-accused-...
> So does this also mean that the ISS is no longer able to get serviced, or are there projects to work on in-orbit service vehicles?

AIUI, The ISS can be serviced from the ISS if the appropriate supplies and personnel are sent up, but it doesn't have the delta-V to zip around other orbits servicing other satellites, so it is okay without the the shuttle for itself, but doesn't substitute for it for other things needing orbital service.
Companies need individual developers because without them no one would write the code. We’ve seen a million articles about the developer shortage. It’s not about what the company wants, it’s about what the developer wants.

For instance, I would never work in an office again and because there is a developer shortage, that requirement hasn’t impacted my market rate, which is on par for the valley.

Having worked at one of the FAANGs I would definitely not say they have a superior development process. Waaaaay too much middle management baggage and drag. They are successful due to first mover advantages, network effects, regulatory capture and in some cases a literal monopoly.
I've given up. If you have a computer with a spinning rust disk this crap alone will saturate the I/O and become completely unusable. (then you have OEM bloatware which has also become harder to remove and bloated software in general on top of that.)

At this point I just hand people thumbdrives with PopOS on them when they complain that their computer is slow. Both OSes run Android apps and between that, the web, and wine most people hardly miss anything.
> wrongful death liability (even based on a trial and evidence) doesn't indicate that one has even approximately committed murder

This is true in general, but not true specifically for this case. A wrongful death case does not need to indicate murder, as wrongful deaths can occur for many reasons. But in this case, the award of the $20 million in punitive damages (damages to punish the defendant, not to compensate the victim) specifically were for the torture and murder, with intentional malice, of Faull.

>the judgement was a default judgement because McAfee didn't answer the lawsuit, not a judgement based on evidence.

No it wasn’t. He didn’t automatically lose because he didn’t show up. The court, specifically the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, allowed the Faull estate to petition for a default judgement due to McAfee’s continued failure to respond and due to the merits of the case presented. They did not, and would not, allow a default judgment on a meritless case.

Pdf of the actual Decision. https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/03/20/mcafee-belize.pdf
The highest paid tech worker is still closer in class to the janitor than they are to the VCs paying their salary, even if they think themselves better than both.
Freelancing? Especially with the tech stack you listed.
I think the biggest reason isn’t even the evolutionary root, but people’s tendency to chime in when they disagree, whereas they MAY hit the like button if they agree.

I would even say the number of comments shows how controversial something is while the amount of likes shows how uncontroversial it is.

Comments take more effort than hitting a like. You want to add your 2c and before you know it, others want to address what you said, too. And you get endless repetitions of the same arguments buried deep in chats and threads.

Finally, there is nothing more addictive and compelling than the notification “Someone just replied to your comment”
They didn't find 751 unmarked graves. Just as they didn't find 215 graves at Kamloops. These numbers are in all probability many multiples exaggerated over the reality.

And the catch 22 is that any actual anthropological analysis is going to be restricted by the very group publishing the exaggerated numbers. So expect at the next location for it to be...why not 10,000?

The methodology to derive these numbers borders on farcical.

However we know that loads of children died at these facilities. Tragically. It has never been secret. It never had to be secret, sadly because native children were considered effectively expendable. That is the pox. The current culture of, effectively, horseshit isn't making it better.
It's a slogan that's perfect for using in a motte-and-bailey way.
It's really amazing they made their own for so long... hardware is a commodity business.
Startpage person here. In 2019, Startpage announced an investment by System1 through Privacy One Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of System1. It's 2021 and our privacy policy hasn't changed.

What has happened with this investment, we've hired additional engineers and added new features.

And, System1 doesn't receive any user personal data because we don't collect it and never will. Why did System1 invest?
"System1 is interested in Startpage's ad revenue, not its data" Source: https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4017337/privacy-focused-sea...
Is anyone surprised that this happened almost the moment the spotlight was off this
When we power our quantum computers with room temperature superconductors and sustainable fusion.

(all 20 years away ofcourse)
Not having google play services is a big reason the amazon store is a barren wasteland
Yale's former CIO is regarded as an incredibly successful investment manager in general.

That joke was far more true than people think -- the Yale model is now common in institutional investment.

Few oxbridge colleges are anywhere near as wealthy in comparison, and a lot have gigantic white elephants with their grade I listed buildings that are falling apart.
So long as you could successfully argue in front of an FAA Administrative Law Judge that you "used or intended to use it" as a manned aircraft.

Since it sounds like you're doing so with the specific intention to use it as an unmanned craft, the Part 103 rules would not apply (and would not permit it). (The law is “is” rather than “was originally built to be”.)
> Can i plz have snappier windows 7 with slightly cleaner look?

I wouldn't mind a complete visual regression to Windows 7. In fact, I remember that Win 7 Aero only had rounded corners.
I don't think Google is in a position to "replace" Android. They simply don't control the hardware; they can ship Fuchsia to their Home assistants and thermostats, but when it comes to phones and personal computing devices, they don't have many cards to play (beyond Pixel, like 0.5% of the Android market). The power lies with hardware manufacturers and developers.

Their new wearables partnership with Samsung may help here. Maybe Samsung would play along with a new Fuchsia phone OS. But there's still the developer issue; any new OS like this would need Android-backward compatibility support exactly similar to what Microsoft is doing here. "Android" in this sense doesn't mean "the OS"; its the application system.

What's happening in the Android world right now is so healthy and excellent, I almost can't believe its the product of Big Tech. Google is already pushing Android apps on ChromeOS, now Microsoft has them on Windows, through the Amazon app store, and nowhere in any of this is the actual Android Operating System. The comparison here isn't Android vs iOS vs Windows; its Android vs Flutter vs Web. Its a new way of writing "native"-adjacent multiplatform applications; the OS doesn't matter anymore.

Sure the touch-friendly UI will suck in some applications, on some deployments of Windows. That's not Android's fault; its on the developer to recognize the input method and canvas size, and adjust accordingly. I hope more do!
> How many Android apps out there are not written in Java?

Lot of apps use natively compiled libraries through NDK.
They already sell them, but personally I thought they were too expensive, probably they were adding a mark-up on their build price when selling them.
Ask HN: How do I become a MMO netcode programmer?
How do I become a professional MMO netcode programmer?

I've been tinkering with my own little project from scratch over here: https://github.com/nickyvanurk/3d-multiplayer-browser-shooter but how do I take it to the next level and do this kind of work as a job?

Are there learning resources or is everything learned on the job?

I feel the MMO netcode community, and netcode community in general, is very small. So I can't find much books on the subject. I was hoping for a little guidance.

I really enjoy netcode, optimizing, game engine architecture, entity-component-systems, scalability (how to go from 100 to 10 mil users? this get's me so excited). So I thought MMO network programmer would be the perfect job for me. Is this a safe assumption? (I also love MMO games the most).

I already learned the netcode stuff that's available from the most linked resources (gafferongames, gabriel, etc... usually it's all focused on FPS games tho).
Speaking about AR-15s bringing down airplanes is a false equivalence-- it would be more apt to compare drone incursions to incidents from negligent discharge or improper gun storage.
I did not come to my conclusion due to “the industry”. I came to it from observing how people behave and what their expectations are. When people’s expectations are not met, it causes unhappiness.

I do not know any people with kids that would choose to live in apartments, or without cars. I would be surprised if there is anything more than a tiny minority (in the US) with kids that does not have a goal of living in a spacious home with backyards and garages in a nice school district.

These expectations are at odds with reducing carbon emissions. Companies being responsible for emissions is just a fiction of accounting. At the end of the day, I believe that a large portion of voters in USA would retaliate against a group of politicians that would make their lives more expensive under the guise of helping future generations and require them to give up large amounts of their quality of life.

However, it is also true that large companies get to disproportionately dump whatever feeble attempts at reducing consumption that do get enacted into consumers, such as water restrictions that affect individuals, but exempt the largest water consumers.

I guess my overall point is we need sufficient people to lower their quality of life expectations, and then that will propel the political will to make the necessary changes to force reductions in consumption.
It seems like the disconnect here is that the angry people are viewing this one person's response as representative of the entire company and as though it was filtered through a PR rep, while the more understanding people are viewing this person a person speaking for themselves, not necessarily the whole company.

The person could have just copy pasted the canned response with no help and it sounds like a lot of people would have been happier with that. At a minimum, they wouldn't be hating on the customer support rep personally.
How do you propose they perform the physical swap?

The space vehicles we used for this purpose have been retired and we have no replacements.
> Mayer had decided that she wanted her staff in the offices at all times.

And when she had a baby, she had Yahoo build a nursery for herself in the office, to give an extra Fuck You to all her employees. Mayer was a Machiavellian corporate climber from her first job out of college as Larry Page's Girlfriend at Google and getting installed as a senior exec before doing any substantial work of any kind.
I don't know if that is true. We had a press telling people what they wanted to hear and trust is now extremely low.
Amazon's App store as it stands now is a bit of a ghost town. If apps are on there at all they're often outdated versions. I assume Google won't agree to cooperate with Microsoft and let the Play Store be supported. Anti-trust should help with that kind of monopolistic play but lol.
"If this computer were in the lab, we'd be hooking up monitors and testing the inputs and outputs all over the place, and would be really quick to diagnose it," he said. "All we can do is send a command from our limited set of commands and then see what data comes out of the computer and then send that data down and try to analyze it."

They've just mostly described my career.
>Figuring out how to park on a hill to deter cat theft

Can you explain this one?
> Or whether, for example, the job itself can.

Employers can sponsor degrees, it's still efficient to have specialised educators.

The issue here is that if students fund their own education, they have "skin in the game", and don't rely on employers to gatekeep these roles.

That said, maybe an education tied to an actual job offer would be best; there are too many un-economic degrees given to 18yos - it might be best if the risk in an education was only put on an individual who was already older and somewhat financially secure.
Or dell forces them to buy their drives but their markup is not as high as their competitors?
If they're iterating on this at all it's at a glacial pace. The settings and control panel workflow has been broken since Windows 8.
> the loud opinions of overconfident charlatans spewing forth bullshit at an unprecedented rate

You just described corporate media. Ever watched Fox/CNN/MSNBC? Even the NYT and WaPo is going that direction now.
I mean, I probably have/had a lot of junk proteins floating around in my blood stream, walls of my blood vessels, scar tissue, etc. (Warning -- speculation on my part)

I may have lost absolute muscle mass, but glycogen is a bunch of that mass, and my muscles had none of that by day 60.

My feeling was something along the lines of -- sure I lost some muscle mass, but it was a small amount and relative to overall mass lost and the other health benefits of not being obese.

Also, subjectively, I feel like I lost little to no actual strength.
“Expensive” has to do with size of market - SuSE (and Stackato before it) were pretty inexpensive options but were subsidized by the expensive distros like IBM Bluemix or PCF. At the same time, it’s not like Pivotal was swimming in piles of cash, it was just getting to profitability when VMware absorbed it.

Getting development dialed into Kubernetes usually also often takes several years, and often isn’t quite as productive. More choice, more potential for problems.
The primary slowdown factor on Windows is not the filesystem itself but Windows Defender doing its scans. Just disable it and file operations will be a lot faster.
“Ridiculous Case” Juror Criticizes DOJ for Charging Scientist Hiding Ties China
Very fascinating! You haven't happened to written a blog post or something on this, have you? I am sure HN would love reading about it.
> There is nothing on MacOS that is preventing installing and running arbitrary code on your machine. Elevation of privileges is required for some of that code, but it is there for those that need or want it and a sane default exists for everyone else. This is the case with every modern operating system, including free one

Actually, there is but not In the way you expect. When the M1 Mac’s we’re released, you could sideline iOS and iPadOS apps but that was blocked by Apple in a later update. On the surface this is a means of clamping down on app piracy and unauthorized use of an app but also a a blockage all the same.
That's like dismissing programming as "computer game".
It's not a "game" if it's how the real work gets done.
Dell's not in the best negotiating position here, given that "build our own" is a valid alternative.
The default markup is awful, check the Dell website. I'd describe the process of buying a drive from Dell a bit like getting mugged.
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Google replacing Android might end up like when Intel tried to replace x86. AMD came along with AMD64 and forced Intel back into making compatible chips. It might end up being an even brighter future for Android.
Interesting that it requires a TPM, I wonder how many Windows 10 devices won’t be able to upgrade? Bitlocker on by default?
I'm guessing Intel Bridge Technology is related to what they used to call Houdini. Houdini is an ARM binary translator which translates ARM binary code into x86. I believe Android-x86 (https://www.android-x86.org) makes use of it.
Still probably faster than deploying to AWS.
I'd prefer no censorship and a robust discussion of content. I see nothing inconsistent in this policy.
A lot of older SSO technology like Gigya use 3rd Party Cookies. They've had a hell of a time on Apple devices.
Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red Dog Games
All information is potentially personally identifiable.

For example, perhaps you take data on favorite movies and strip away every bit of PII except sex and birth year (as you stated).

Now let’s say I take the stripped data and target some facebook ads to people of a specific sex and birth year and have the ad be for people who love a certain obscure movie, doubling down on a second obscure movie and so on. Eventually I could have a reasonable chance of determining which other movies a unique individual may like based on the stripped data.

Obviously irrelevant for movies, but more relevant for prescription drug uses, sexual preferences etc.

The point is that with enough outside data available, even data stripped of PII can be de-anonimized.
I mean.. The taskbar seems like a Dock now. The interface seems very Apple Finder-esque now.

I feel like they're just aligning with macOS now. Not that I'm complaining, the video and the interface all are sexy.
John Deer tractors are locked down... just go talk to a real farmer and see what he says.
Because this entire ideology is deeply sexist and racist, and they consider black women to be less gender-conforming than white women.
oh this makes more sense: JVM apps run in Windows with some simple JVM container. Intel Bridge Technology is only needed for the apps that have compiled native code.
EVERYTHING is electron? Thats a bit overly broad and inaccurate.
I don't think it's extreme at all. Honestly, I'm touched by your words - you're 100% correct, I love your perspective and you are an absolutely wonderful person. This conversation has been an absolute honour.

My Dad was in the RCMP. I was born on reserve and spent a large part of my youth on and around reserve. My Dad did some bad things and his uniform is certainly not absolved of guilt. A lot of my privilege came because of his job. It's quite sad to know how much I've benefited from white privilege and this entire awful system.

I will happily pay for what happened. My privilege is as obvious as oxygen and I have gained tremendous advantages as the result of an awful system. I will happily pay, never stop paying and advocate until I'm blue in the face. Worst case scenario, we might change some minds. Best case scenario, we might change some worlds.

Thank you friend - you're a wonderful person and I genuinely appreciate this support and fellowship. I just saw a press conference where they announced 751 possible graves in Cowessess. That's 751 missing Kookums and Mooshums...:(

I really needed to read your words.
> Am I missing something here?

When dealing with high-latency, high-radiation environments, more modern isn't necessarily better: denser ICs mean greater susceptibility to radiation (and consequently more expensive hardening). They also can't exactly fly up there and swap out random bits on short notice -- I'm not sure if the US even has a the current capability to perform physical maintenance on the Hubble.
The Chinese D2C skincare brand Florasis and how it has grown so quickly
No longer possible? There's tons and tons of websites and apps that have paid subscriptions, most of which don't have ads after subscribing.

If I'm willing to pay $50/mo to remove ads from Facebook, that just says what the ads are worth to me, not to the advertiser. Advertisers won't pay any price to show me an ad for Pepsi.
While I agree there is a problem, we can still have sympathy for police who joined the force to help people and now feel like they can't. The system can be broken while the majority of people in the system can be good people.
It’s in outer space
It is already fixed https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/rev/5f32dbc41afc
Also the search indexer.
Currently running OOS 11 Open Beta 5 on 8T. Recently switched from a Pixel XL, I've been using Google devices since Nexus 5.

Personally, I feel Pixel OS has deviated farther from stock android than OOS. This is why I went with the 8T rather than newer Pixel models.

I can't really relate to the author's doomsday sentiments. I didn't notice a significant amount of bloatware. I've noticed in recent betas they introduced a "OnePlus account" in the settings menu, which is somewhat annoying. The most annoying branding decision is the fuchsia-colored 1s on the clock.

I don't think they're copying Samsung's UI - if anything, Samsung has started copying OOS. But I think mobile OS designs have become more homogeneous in recent years, all of them pretty bland.
Great Analogy!