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Thanks for pointing out an interesting aspect of US constitution.

It however doesn't change what I said.

When fighting political causes, anonymity doesn't help - Gandhi or Rosa Park or Martin Luther King continue to inspire us today because they faced injustice and tyranny head on. They have provided us with an effective template to fight against injustice and assert our rights.

Fear is often the reason behind anonymity, and that doesn't bode well for any political cause. Even Gandhi, who inspired non-violent politics said that he would prefer if people chose violent politics than giving in to fear or cowardice ( https://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil8.htm ). Moreover, politics on internet is even more fraught as even foreign powers can hide behind anonymity to interfere in the politics of other nations.
I tried linking the debunk videos to someone in a HN thread, and they dismissed them and did the "do your research like I did ;) ;)" thing. I asked for any research links and read the single one they offered and argued it, but they preferred to take the authority of trained Navy Pilots to some internet rando. Neither of our opinions changed.

Their position is roughly "it has been seen by competent people, and mechanisms speculated about by competent people, so it exists, so there must be holes in our understanding of physics / future tech which makes it possible to exist, just imagine what they might be". My position is "I as a layperson can't imagine how it could work, therefore it can't work even though I have no qualifications to declare that. Instead just imagine the ways qualified people are wrong about things all the time".
Scary. Or does everyone just carry oxygen tanks with them in the future?
What would be nice is a self-host that “hides” behind Google Apps or O365 thereby allowing you to change that part without changing the rest of your setup.
This reads a lot like my life too, I just play up the stupid side really, people relax and like you more. I remember teachers being absolutely flummoxed by my grades and then would treat me completely differently, suddenly like an adult, as opposed to a retarded 10 year old. I also need to ask endless basic questions to understand anything and it seems to me like other people somehow have already received and read the rules to life. My understanding seems maybe to be able to reach a deeper level but takes longer to get to an intermediate level.
Right. But it is no longer 2 years so it’s not Moore’s Law any more.
> it will be filled to capacity asap and there is no difference in the end

The difference is VOLUME

House prices or commute times may only fall by the slimmest of margins but the number of people who have access to whatever the resource is at the same price point will be increased.
Hasn't it always been? At least since the days of Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines

In a very real way, supercomputing is more accessible price-wise than at any time in history (~$10K NVidia A100). And next gen satellite internet should plug in the next 4B users.

The bridge is compressed education at scale. It still requires 10k+ hours to become an AI researcher. The next revolution looks like the interactive learning environments prophesied by the OG hypermedia pioneers. Even if it means minting a new breed of Github Copilot "prompt engineers" who never delve low-level!
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Why would the Bay Area grow so much in the next decade? Now that remote working is becoming more normal, and considering the cost of living in the Bay Area, why would that many people want to move there? There are plenty of other places with comparable natural beauty, vibrant communities, cultural resources, etc.
Banking errors are clear cut. It was never yours in the first place.
I'd love to see the Venn diagram of people who are put off by this, and people who still need to run windows programs and can't switch to Linux. Probably no overlap at all.
It's plausible that:

1. Some kind of alien probes have been visiting Earth for millions of years.

2. These probes are very hard to detect/track/capture on camera, leading to lots of unconfirmed rumors since the dawn of modern aviation in the 1940s.

3. U.S. DoD advances over the last ~15 years have made it possible to regularly detect/track/capture them on camera, at least to some degree.

4. Stigma around reporting/acknowledging these craft as alien has stifled the ability of the DoD to investigate them properly, and they're not really sure what they are.

5. Or the DoD has identified them as likely being alien probes of some kind, but have no ability to interact/interdict/intercept them, and so are struggling with the how/when of explaining this fact to the public.

Of course, it's more likely that there are no alien probes visiting Earth. This could be next-gen submarine-launched drone technology with radar spoofing and whatever else.

The UAP report itself seems to be written by people without without sufficient access to classified information, rendering it totally insufficient.
Once, while working at a large grocery store, we lost power. The emergency lights came on, but all the cash registers stopped working. One of the managers ran to the back of the store and returned with hand cranks that fit into the side of the cash registers. It was darker, but sales did not stop. The time required to re-train the cashiers was negligible.

This cyber attack will probably result in a doubling down of the same technology that put them into this position. Perhaps, in addition, they should look for a lower tech fall back approach.
But it could backfire, if you can't pay for a lawyer I suppose.

I suspect DMCA is for big companies with a legal department only.
I think UFOs are a symptom of a stratocracy gone rampant.

In this book[0] it details the Tehran incident[1] where one of the pilots describes the UFO moving almost 'telepathically' out of the way of his sites. Gives me hope that it's an autonomous control system America developed. If it's still 'people-in-the-loop' I might as well shoot myself; I seriously think my only hope for a better life (and for a lot of others who complain about psychotronic things) depends on a nation-state artilect having either pity for me or curiosity about the sorbid motives of others.

[0]: UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident
Or maybe now that phones are here the extremely advanced aliens are more worried about opsec.
I do this all the time.

At work, I'd consider what it would take to wipe all the servers, and all the backups (while creating enough of a distraction on the network to delay people from pulling the power in the datacenters). We had way too many people with global root access that could have done something about it, so the point would be to consider engineering to restrict access (this was before kubertnetes took over the world).

Walking down the street yesterday I saw someone had a little bucket full of dog treats for anyone to take and my first thought was the risk of someone spraying a bit of poison on them. I don't necessary "fear" things like that, but its just obvious to me that you're implicitly trusting the thousands of people who has walked past that box not to be pathological.

Probably good that not everyone in the world thinks the way I do.
For better or worse, your first paragraph is never what America was. The second is closer. The privilege of purpose, handed down from on high and wrapped in an American flag, is the socialism-flavored tradeoff for all the horrible things servicemen have to contend with.

I do think it's dangerous to romanticize what the military does for soldiers without recognizing what it does to our enemies and the innocents caught in the crossfire; especially when we, as a country, cannot fathom "service" (and all the things that flow from that structure, which we can agree can be edifying for one's soul) being anything but that which involves airstrikes and ammunition. As for how to cure the nation of its woes, I feel that a huge part of it is competition run amok. Things are difficult because it's an advantageous condition for those who are able to navigate the rough waters when their neighbors can't.

Perhaps we go the two-birds-one-stone route. I hear that there are some bridges and buildings and roads that may need repair.
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No they aren’t $50… since I don’t want to include eBay/Amazon here is from CCL computers in the UK for £8.99
https://m.cclonline.com/product/214437/90MC03W0-M0XBN/Compon...

Here is an ASRock one for £13.99 from Scan https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asrock-trusted-platform-modu...
It's very naive! "We were hiding the truth then... but we're TOTALLY not now."

Mmhmm. Sure.

For my part, I find it best practice not to trust government any further than I can (over)throw them.
Bacfire how?
This is similar to my experience. About 95% if security folks I interact with are compliance folks to audit and make sure checklists are done.

The other 5% are super smart and are basically engineers who specialize in security.

I feel like many cyber people get certs and then hope for nothing bad to happen. When something bad happens, they claim that someone else didn’t do something right or get fired and move on.
As long as we're trading opinions: the OO vogue of 1990-2010ish and the anti-OO reaction since then were both too much a matter of fashion. OO and FP are both powerful ideas, neither dominates the other, sometimes you can combine them, and you don't have to declare allegiance to either.
Good catch. To clarify - we email a link to the distribution (somewhere in an AWS S3 bucket), not attach the actual zip file. This would clearly be a nightmare for 99% of email providers.
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I'm on Ubuntu and feeling similarly. OpenBSD is looking more and more intriguing, but the further one pushes off in that direction, the more challenging hardware compatibility and access to important applications become -- or at least, that's my perception so far from the outside.
Are they violating your copyright? Does the license of the software which they obtained allow them to give copies away? If not, then this is a straight case of copyright infringement.
At what age do we do our greatest work?
I was referring to what happened in 2020, when China violated the terms of the 1997 handover.
I’m not making an argument, I’m summarizing the article. Here’s the relevant sentence:

> The genetic code of SARS-CoV-2 does not resemble that of any virus the WIV was known to be culturing in its lab, such as WIV1
It IS a strict trade-off. The very definition of work is time I spend doing something that someone else wants me to do instead of doing something I want to do. I only do this because our capitalist society demands it. The goal of capitalism is to escape capitalism by having enough money to spend 100% of your time on what you want to do, and I have not yet won at capitalism.

Jeff Bezos, who has won at capitalism, by definition, does not work at all. He spends all his time doing what he wants to do. He never spends one second of his time doing what someone else wants him to do, unless he also wants to do it.

The balance is that I always try to spend the absolute minimum time working and the maximum time not working. If Jeff Bezos wants to work, I'm happy to have him do things I want him to do, that he does not want to do, for 40 hours a week every week.
I think a better question would be "what are the good parts about JavaScript". Everyone knows the bad parts (right?).
Just yet another reason i dropped the economist. Over the last year i noticed articles getting continuously worse. And every time it was an article I had deep background in such as politics in latam or crypto currency’s the articles were easily to prove factually false. If the articles i did have deep understanding of are wrong i can no longer trust the publication.

It seems to me they are more interested in propaganda than publishing news now.
> If we demobilized, we'd probably never really need to remobilize

This is a very 1990s/2000s point of view. We have a real global competitor now. China's military spending is rising faster than their fast-rising GDP. Some recent war games exercises suggest that the US could already be in losing position in a conventional war with China [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/07/china-u...
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I actually appreciate it, because that's what the website is for. https://alpinejs.dev/

If I'm going to a GitHub from the website i want to get straight to the point
Many Chinese nationals were trafficked or otherwise forced to work in Southeast Asia and elsewhere [0]. They had their passports confiscated by the Chinese companies they worked for.

It was also occasionally reported in the media [1][2][3].

[0] https://chinalaborwatch.org/silent-victims-of-labor-traffick...

[1] https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/arti...

[2] https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/investigative/life-chinese...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-labo...
but if the CEQA proceedings are fact-based, a broader requirement for standing is not a bad thing, right?

An opposite example might be, in the East Bay hills, on a steep area of dense old vegetation, a developer wants to bulldoze the entire thing, add heavy landscaping and drainage, and built four dozen "premium" homes. If the city council member is looking at the hundreds of millions of dollars that will change hands, over an are that is literally no dollars now, then the plan gets approved. You might guess, this is a true example and a developer from Hong Kong put their name on the project and it was built.

The case of a beach is also not-obvious, as it is world-scale irreplaceable.
I took a picture of a hawk the other day with my phone. It was a horrible picture. These phones don’t seem to excel at capturing small objects that are far away.

Anyway, I had that assumption, too. I’ve been seeing lots of photos and vids of UAP (because I frequent a forum that shares this stuff). And they’re always low quality!
None of those things are economically viable to put in an area that can support residential housing even at the single family level of density.

The only way they get there is when housing is built up around them.

If you're too lazy to fire up Google maps before you buy well then that's on you.
Houston still has also sorts of housing covenant and other thing. Texas is still a low density mess, too.

We do need to get rid of stupid zoning, but also cannot rely on a housing market to do the right thing. We need to force a shift to anti-car rather than pro-car development (and it really is a dichotomy, with the midpoint being a highly unstable equilibrium).

The fact that they are talking about 4-plexes shows they really don't get the scale of density that is needed. Everything should be 5 stories minimum. Maybe some shorter Victorians can be grandfathered in, but the Sunset and western half more broadly needs to be almost entirely redeveloped.
This is called induced demand. Evidence suggests that for housing increasing supply doesn't cause demand to rise as quickly[0][1][2].

[0]: https://www.planetizen.com/news/2019/06/104783-doubt-cast-in...

[1]: https://cityobservatory.org/another-housing-myth-debunked-ne...

[2]: https://www.slowboring.com/p/induced-demand
Might be bad in rural areas up North where Coop is the only store in town.
None of that reflects reality here. Higher prices slow construction rates in an immediate area only to drive construction further out.
Most of the land in my (Massachusetts) town is zoned for single-family homes. There are several identifiable square-mile or larger areas with nothing but homes plus maybe one school and one church. Maybe a gas station / Dunkin Donuts within fifteen-minute walking distance. That's no way to live.

I'd love to change it, with greater zoning diversity and particularly that which allows higher density, but there valid objections to doing it all at once. Roads would need to be upgraded and then maintained, at direct town expense, plus dealing with increased traffic. Ditto for water and sewer lines, minus the traffic issue. Electrical, gas, and communications are better in that they're not at town expense but worse in that more parties have to be involved (and they tend to cheap out even more than the town does). And then there's schools - the town's crown jewels and the main reason anyone lives here. They're excellent but already overcrowded. Work is under way to fix that, but we really can't afford to add even more stress to that system.

These are very real issues that I'm sensitive to, even though I also think there are other issues - especially racial and income diversity - that we must address in the longer term. These same issues recur many other places, I'm sure including the Bay Area. It has to be not only allowable but profitable for developers to do the actual building, or else they won't, and then the town needs property-tax revenue from each tranche before they begin the next. It's a very tricky dance, and I do not at all envy the people on zoning/planning boards trying to reconcile all these conflicting needs.
There are degrees of essentiality, though. A MLM salespeople strike would have a much smaller impact in our standard of living than a corn growers strike, for example.
This gets hard in no cash society, like what Sweden is already.
Hate the game. The reality is: Yes, polished/prepped interviewers will do better on common interview puzzles. Speaking as an interviewer.

How did we get here? Competition and survivor bias. Bar raising at the FAANGs lead to irrelevant algorithm and data structure puzzles in the interview. Now it's common place industry wide. Now it's gamified with leetcode and cracking the coding interview.

Cracking the coding interview has a interesting blurb about how common this exact tactic is in an acquihire deal. It's not uncommon for all "real work" to stop so engineering can prep for interview s. Let that sink in. It means you're likely to get rusty on silly interview puzzles if you've been doing real work for to long.
This is a really good point you make.

A simple example for me is how the ATM replaced the bank teller, but the ATM has been replaced with cards with chips in them. It’s a subtle, but huge change when magnified across society.
The legal system is an inherently corrupt system which deals with human beings as what is called a "legal fiction".

Live humans are seen by the legal system as entities which make the "legal fiction" profitable to interact with.
You're getting downvoted, but I too thought all this had fairly plausible explanations, to the point I was surprised it was still rumbling on:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/05/26/ufo-sightin...

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/202...

Not really possible to remove 100% of doubt, and I don't know if there are some cases buried in this latest stuff that are more compelling.
You're confusing the incentives of all developers and people who might become developers collectively with the incentives of entrenched large players already existing in the market.

It's like in many industries; the interests of the group as a whole push towards deregulation, while the interests of the biggest, politically well-connected firms is to increase regulation that will be harder for competitors to deal with and will allow them to get or maintain a stranglehold over the market.
Yeah, that’s my thinking - it seems simple at first, but when you see that return and finally when used together are in conflict with their stated / expected behaviors and that the language specifies the tie breaker in a way that might be unexpected... wouldn’t it potentially be simpler both in the spec and to a developer to make return in try-catch-finally blocks a syntax error?

I’m assuming there’s a reason to allow the return statements in try-catch-finally blocks, but I can’t think of a use-case. The only use for a return inside a finally block would be to cancel a return in a try or catch block, right? In what cases is that actually desirable? I can see wanting to return from catch, because something bad happened. Overriding that return in finally doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but I’m certain the ES designers thought about it more than I did.
I 100% agree, and I don't see why you're being downvoted.

I frankly see this approach as the Wrong Way at this point. I hate that every new framework comes out with its own take on HTML attributes.

And zero TypeScript support? Seriously?

This is a non-starter framework.
While I don't self host anymore, I, personally, did not have problems with Gmail delivery once all things were properly set up. Have no idea about other providers.

The thing that seems to be almost impossible to have with self-hosting is iOS push.

What I don't like with self-hosting is that I can't really self-host my mail. It'll run in VPS which kind of defeats the purpose of self-hosting. I have my home server, but setting up PTR record is impossible (for reasonable money) with my home ISP. Also I guess that my home IP address will not have good reputation.

And as I can't really self-host my mail, I just decided to delegate it to fastmail. I had my share of fun setting up postfix/dovecot/spamassassin, it was not that hard, just took some time, and I don't think that it makes a lot of sense to continue.
One challenge I've seen in practice is that psychological safety is often used as an excuse for why someone is under performing instead of holding them accountable and helping them.
A key point is remembering the reason for computerization & automation is efficiency.

The difference between less (manual) & more (computerized) efficiency is probably less important than the difference between stopping & continuing operations, in exceptional times.

Waffle House and Home Depot (among others) are pretty good at internalizing this, and have processes for running on shoestrings, but still running, until normal support can be restored.
> Or is it that I put myself through the process and I expect others to as well?

I have no answer for sure but I've seen this pattern in just about every aspect of life. Older people who did X are very very angry if younger guys refrain to do X
nit: You never declare hoisted at all. Wouldn’t that assignment cause globalThis.hoisted = "foo" ? I assume you meant to declare it somehow, but it will only work if you declare it with var, which isn’t block-scoped to begin with.
Try "Google Pinpoint". That system seems to be the static extension of what Google has in audio to text to relevance conversion.
It's an occupational hazard for us computer guys. It's the failure mode you didn't think of that brings the system down, so of course you learn to think of the failure modes.
These higher CO2 levels (890ppm) are already a problem indoors. Ventilation systems become less effective as outdoor CO2 levels increase. Many houses and apartments around the world have no ventilation systems at all.

Its... mind boggling, or collectively insane, that we are doing so little. We risk stupefying ourselves into inaction since CO2 also has negative cognitive impacts.

For starters we need to shut down all coal plants and thermal coal mines (physically occupy them if necessary), cease manufacturing new ICE vehicles, and tariff any countries that don't impose carbon prices.

I highly recommend that everyone reading this buy an air quality monitor (CO2 + Pm2.5) so that you can at least monitor your own indoor CO2 levels.
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Schemes like that only work if you participate. Even in America we have people that refuse to participate in the birth certificate and social security scheme for better or for (mostly) worse.