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It may not be your intention, but both this and the parent comment really misplace the blame.

The "fitness tracking app Starva" did not reveal the secret army base, soldiers inappropriately using their phones and broadcasting their routines by using a civilian application designed to share their location revealed the secret army base.

I know it sounds pedantic, but I think we should be very careful about verbiage when it comes to who is to blame here: it's not the apps. This kind of thing gets exacerbated hugely by media headlines too - always putting the app front-and-center and downplaying the policy/training/OpSec failures. This leads to erroneous and scary conclusions like "apps should be flagged for national security" like the GP mentioned - but the actual takeaway should be that we need to train the dang soldiers operational security.
I agree with most of your points, but I think it's worth noting that "they didn't do as well as they could have" and "their CEO stepped down with a 90M severance" is a tough pill to swallow. Like, yes, Equifax could be doing better had they not been breached. I'm sure CISOs and board members are quite unhappy with a 400M dollar expenditure. But I also think it's very fair to say that that's getting off easy.
I understand. But I notice that the people spreading ignorance are not giving up or tiring (because, I hypothesize, they have initiative and belief that they will succeed). They've radically changed the world, which means the world can be changed. Our ideas are stronger and better.

Anyway, I'm not trying to compel you, I'm just trying to include some important points in the discussion.
In this case the discussion is about the author. The point is to assess if the misdirection is deliberate or not
Strongly agree on the archival concerns. The reason scientific publishing is nowadays built upon 2D PDFs is that those are the digital analogue of paper.

Distill used a new medium and media, with all the good and bad that comes with it. In my view the biggest challenge is archiving to ensure readability and accessibility in 20, 200, 2000 years. We can read things written in parchment 2000 years ago, we should aspire to properly view digital media 2000 years from now. Yet 2 years from now much of digital media on the internet is already broken. The internet archive is humankind's savior in this regard, but we need to do more, better and faster (because so much digital content is being created and lost before we can save it...).

Regarding Distill specifically, short of a GitHub repo for each article archived in other mirrors, I don't see much else that is straightforward and flexible enough. Even the Distill arXiv idea mentioned would likely have to run on a combination of GitHub + mirrors...
Vue doing this is awesome, but it isn't really a good reason to prefer it. Server side rendering with progressive enhancement is available in pretty much every major JS framework. Heck, the latest version of React can do SSR with late loading and late binding to make content load even faster. https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/37
For the vast majority of engineers, even writing high impact code means repeating the same request/db query/response dance, code pasting or ebuggin activity, and to be actually good and efficient at any of these means having done them plenty of times.

Even understanding novel problem domains requires a certain structured approach to research, talking with users, writing out thoughts, etc. All this certainly matches the analogy laid forward.
There are comments saying they agree with the article, that it's like autocomplete - the opposite of what the article is arguing ("autocomplete is the wrong mental model")!

When I use autocomplete I know what I want it to complete. To mee also copilot seems like a different category.
Regarding the multiple working copies feature, sounds the same as Git worktrees.
Oooooh, that is "square root magic constant" levels of dirty.
Well the problem with this argument is that it totally ignores a basic economic concept. Price elasticity.

It’s kind of naive to assume that your CAC will grow linearly and your revenue exponentially if you set a higher price. Maybe if you’re lucky to find a market that doesn’t care about how much you charge them and get equally attracted to your product at any price rate.

More realistically price increases will increase you CAC because customers will take a longer thought to decide if they want to pay for that.

Maybe $5 a month doesn’t build a real business but you will be launching too late if you’re developing features that justify a $29 a month price.

It’s easier to launch at $5 and raise your prices as you build features. If you happen to have loyal early customers who never churned as you build those features, you can grandfather them into legacy plans and develop transition programs for them.

If you’re also expanding for their own use cases they will be happy to be moved to newer more expensive plans. They will most likely do it if you have been paying attention to their needs. And if they churn anyway, you’re getting 100% accurate data on the elasticity of your prices and the overall perceived value of your service.

Having a $29 a month service with customers doesn’t mean that your service provides a $29 value.
It just means that you have a market where people are willing to consider a $29 value proposition until your value is proven to be less or when your customers find some other vendor with better price-value alignment. That’s when they churn.
Sometimes it is a mixed blessing. But with regards to privacy regulations it tries to do some good (but difficult) work.
This is cool, but it doesn't address the user currency tracking that all private trackers have (so torrents reliably get seeded).

The problem of how to solve how much currency each pseudonym has, and allows transactions between them, with no central intermediary or point of failure, is solved by a cryptocurrency.
I use WikidPad for my stuff, but it's devolved into just a log, for the most part.
An article I read years ago blasted him for nepotism and using typical unethical manipulation tactics to get ahead. Unfortunately, ever since Amit Singha left Google, half of the things I look for are no longer accessible.
Embrace, extend, extinguish

They've done it before and they'll do it again.

LSP for MS and VS Code is "come, make our proprietary editor more valuable by supporting languages we can't be arsed to worry about!"

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4

(I am an enthusiastic advocate for LSP otherwise.)
For anyone interested in what these labs look like, the podcast "TWiV" (This Week in Virology) did a video where they visit Boston's BSL-4.

Software engineers might appreciate the simplicity with which redundant failsafes are attained - each Biosafety Level being contained by a less safe abstraction.

Thus a BSL-4 lab is essentially 4 labs built inside themselves, like a Matryoshka doll for pathogens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqAjkjGq8Ug
I have a 10-year old macbook pro that's still running just fine.
Cool but its a no match for well designed full stack web framework or Low Code Tool.
Can be. There are some rights limitations around groups historically discriminated against. E.g., by and large as a landlord you can have whoever you want rent your private property. But if you say "white people only", there's a problem.
Sorry, you missed my point. I'm talking about people who tour around GitHub making PRs comprising a single letter typo charge in order to bolster their contribution statistics. For example the last one I got was changing Github to GitHub in one location. I have no time for that whatsoever. I'm otherwise an extremely friendly and respectful maintainer, including with beginners, of course, and my project has various repeat contributors; I'm sorry I can't point you to it to convince you of that. Your comment is a misjudgment.
Your post basically highlights everything I hate about baseless conspiracy theories.

1. Bring up some examples of people who had a modicum of foresight to see that things like pandemics and cyber attacks would be highly likely in the near future and then cast aspersions to imply that they're the actual shadowy cabal that caused the whole thing. I mean, many people have been warning about pandemics for decades - with exploding international travel and increasing contact between packed-to-the-gills dense cities and wild animals it's pretty reasonable to assume pandemics would be more likely. And when those people are finally (sadly) proven correct, the lesson isn't "Hmm, what could have we done differently?", instead people like you blame the messenger. And you think it's some kind of uncanny coincidence that someone would predict widespread cyber attacks in 2021? Ooooh, because that was so hard to predict. Spare me.

2. You then try to tie this all together with some lame puns ("Hope you're not anti-scanner") to again cast aspersions on people who are actually doing something to fix the problem.

Lame on every level.
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That may be true in industries that require wealthy clients (e.g. art galleries) but in computing (and the unionized trades) interns /apprentices are paid.
You spun a lot out of uninteresting fact that an institution had trainings for two almost boringly-mundane civilization threats. Next you’ll breathlessly tell me how crazy it is that they have a 2022 event centered around climate change.
How a Psychedelic 12-Step Program Is Saving Lives
fun fact: the `ite` ending in SQLite is a reference to the `ite` ending in minerals (granite, magnetite, pyrite, bauxite...) so it is not a lightweight SQL but rather a rock-stable SQL
It's truly sad that this kind of rhetoric has made its way on to HN. What are you even talking about? Numbers to purchase food? Rounding up of people? Get a grip. We had a pandemic, like the countless others through history, and now we, the human race, are trying to fix it. You and your delusions are what stand in the way of that.
Peripheral question. The app appears to be iPhone only.

I'm honestly curious why people do this, and I've never gotten a satisfactory answer. iPhone market share is 15% at best while Android is 75%. It seems like releasing an iPhone-only first iteration kneecaps the enterprise out of the gate. What am I not understanding?
I was referring to a PR which literally changed a single letter :) Not a meaningful piece of proof-reading work.
I'm not an expert at this, but I did grow up in Florida. I'm pretty certain the bedrock is limestone. It's a Karst landscape.
store in text files

hash tags for organizing

web based simple interface

sqlite for quick querying

generate static html for sharing
These particular decisions are driven more by compliance and CYA. It only feeds into executive compensation as executives avoiding getting fired. Even if you're the executive who approved this integration, you'll just say "I chose a known vendor with a respectable client list."
There's also Alpine.js which is trying to be a simpler version of Vue. It even uses Vue's reactivity engine.
https://alpinejs.dev/
She's not inventing a new term, self-coups are well known things that I guess you weren't aware of[1]. You keep citing Glenn Greenwald as if he still has some credibility left with people outside of Tucker Carlson's core viewers. His tortured analysis of the IG report has some major (and given Greenwald's courting of right-wing news consumers for the past few years, likely intentional) holes[2].

> The new IG report is being used by some Trump supporters and anti-anti-Trumpers to revisit coverage of that sort and argue that it unfairly assigned blame to Trump. While some mainstream outlets have misleadingly suggested the new IG report proves Trump didn’t order protesters to be cleared out, Trump supporters have gone even further and have used it to try to discredit the media in general.

> ...However, the operation to clear Lafayette Square involved numerous other law enforcement agencies, including Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), the Secret Service, and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). And the report makes clear that the various agencies involved in the chaos that unfolded outside the White House that day were not always in radio communication with one another — and overall were certainly not on the same page.

> Notably, as lawyer Luppe Luppen highlighted on Twitter, the IG report indicates that Secret Service officers on the scene — who were aware of USPP’s operational plan — escalated the situation by using pepper spray against protesters, and by doing so before USPP officers had a chance to give demonstrators any warnings to disperse. The report says a Secret Service official later apologized to USPP officials for the incident, but didn’t explain why it happened.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

[2] https://www.vox.com/2021/6/11/22527796/ig-report-trump-bible...
The cool part isn't telling you what to build, it's finding the pieces you're looking for.
It's worse than PII leaks and CEOs stepping down. Lax security has become scary. The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Agency was breached shortly after SolarWinds. Let's also not forget about OPM.
https://freenetproject.org/index.html
I was in middle school when I found the l0pht archives, a bunch of text from BBSs and stuff posted on the internet in the 90s. I remember this thing I read about the future of nanotechnology blew my mind so much that I printed it out and brought it to school to show my science teacher, she thought I was crazy and should focus on my grades. Whatever.
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I wish people would teach young intelligent kids that hard work is equally important to be successful
SaaS offerings that are in a browser tend to be pretty safe. I'd be more concerned with data theft than my network being compromised.
There is a shortage of engineers if companies can't afford to pay them.
I’d like to see this done for landlords.
1969 is not a "statistical outlier." It is the high water mark in terms of policy. Lawmakers chose that in 1969 the minimum wage would be set to $12.21/hour (in current terms). We've seen eroding of the minimum wage due in part to worker-hostile politics ever since then (including in the 1980s).

"Humans haven't evolved to become better", and neither have CEOs, even though their pay has soared.

As far as "should," yeah, I think pay ought to be on that level. I think it would probably lead to faster growth.

The only tortured analysis is the idea that workers, who are trained for and use more advanced technology, should not get paid according to the productivity they bring in, but their bosses (who didn't invent that technology) should. There's no logic there, either. It's just bargaining power. And if you (as a--hypothetical?--employer) see no reason whatsoever that workers should be paid more when their productivity is higher is exactly why we need a minimum wage to require it.
No, they currently don't, but this is a convenient boogieman to trot out whenever you need to drum up patriotism, or to accuse your political opponents of a lack of patriotism, or demand a higher defense budget or a justification for another extension of the forever-war in the Middle East.

This isn't the Soviet-Afghan war, where the US was happily and openly supporting the same mujahedeen that eventually became the Taliban. Russia and China both have significant 'problematic' Muslim minorities, and have little taste for seriously sponsoring Islamic extremism.

(The US and Saudi Wahhabism, on the other hand, continue to be odd bedfellows, because, you know, we still can't get over Iran.)
All I know is I want better lab safety and more gain-of-function research!
The first user is important, it's the one that will advocate for adoption of the product in their company.
I keep reading over and over again indignant comments about "cost centers" on Hacker News and I think it's not a good term to use because I looked up the definitions and the only logical consensus I could find is that everything which isn't shareholder profit is a cost center. It's just rhetoric.
I love how you weirdos can believe this kind of delusion and don't even consider the obvious. Like the fact that events like these happen all the time. Or like the fact that a conspiracy involving tens of thousands of people across the globe is literally impossible. You are willing to ignore common sense, which means that you want this conspiracy to be true very badly. Why do you think that is?
If we, the west, let Russia take Crimea and China take Hong Kong with minimal fuss, I don't see why a few cyber attacks would get more attention.
>The DA election was non-partisan

I'm surprised you didn't just blame the GOP, since that seems to be so popular these days. I mean our president just blamed the gop for the defund the police nonsense.

In reality, anyone can see that only one party wields any power in CA. And we all know the policies Boudin favors are more favored by one party over the other.

At some point, we need to be honest with ourselves.

Only one party has consistently and unequivocally condemned policies like boudins.

While I would love it for the democrat establishment to also denounce his policies and talk about how awful they are as much as conservatives, the fact remains that even once they do, they'll be late to the party and will have tolerated it for far too long.l
Doubtful, humans would make terrible pets.
> found that the 156-unit Crestview Towers had been deemed structurally and electrically unsafe in January

Found unsafe but still inhabited until another building collapsed. Yet more third world conditions in the USA.
I generally neither oppose nor support more lenient sentencing as typically proposed in liberal discourse. I think the criminal justice reform movement exaggerates the effects of, e.g., structural racism, particularly as they relate to the finer details of the law and public policy. (IMO structural racism is far more consequential as it relates to economic opportunity, but that's the area least susceptible to legal remediation.)

So if, for example, a DA wants to have a policy letting all first time non-violent offenders walk, then so be it. I don't think it'll make a difference one way or another. For the same reason I don't think prosecuting such first time offenses was particularly consequential by itself in terms of creating a criminalized underclass of poor minorities, I don't believe that abstaining from such prosecutions would result in substantial changes in behavior--i.e. more theft.

OTOH, there are qualitative boundaries. If you quite literally remove the threat of jail or other serious repercussions regardless of number of offenses, then at the end of the day marginal effects will absolutely dominate. Unlike most crimes of violence, property offenses are principally crimes of opportunity--sociologically speaking, it's far easier to become a serial thief than a serial murderer. At some point the threat of material repercussions is too remote, and so a sizable subset of people will begin taking the opportunities to violate relatively weaker norms regarding inviolability of property.

For example, take parking tickets. Parking tickets and towing fees can be a huge, even life-changing, setback for the poor. But what do you think will happen if we tell people that, while we'll still ticket unauthorized parking, failure to pay those tickets would never result in any other consequence--no enforced payment, no wage garnishment, no suspended license? Illegal parking isn't exactly morally reprehensible. It'll skyrocket. But compare that to if you say that material consequences are suspended until the 4th offense? Are a flood of people going to go out and start to park illegally? Probably not. Why change your behavior when after 3 times you're back to the status quo ante? (To be clear, I don't deny that the latter will still see some marginal effects, but it's not the kind of thing I'm going to get worked up over as matter of politics. I'll be happy to let it play out in good faith, if that's what the majority wants, and then discuss policy once we can see the concrete results.)
There are situations where the US does that.

One example is SuperFund sites.

And a smaller example is large cities and things like bedbugs or other infestations. If the owner doesn't act, the city will call an exterminator and put a lien on the building.
There's Freenet[1], but I don't think that ever got adoption to the level of bittorrent. But they have different goals and different uses. Bittorrent isn't intended to be a way to disrupt censorship; it's a way to distribute data at lower cost if some downloaders are willing to also upload, and there's some amount of reliability benefit as well in that a disappearing source can potentially be replaced by peers who got partial downloads, and it's successful at that.

If we didn't tend to have 100:1 download:upload ratios on our residential connections, it could have revolutionized more things, but it's effective in certain communities and has business applications too.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
Thank you M$FT
Of course it does. In addition, it should true the course of the country to its ideals. Clearly there are some who wish to hide information from our own citizens, lest public opinion root them out of their sinecures.
The paradox is: The company i work for is (in terms of modern technology) decades behind (we just don`t need it), but in the context of the every bigger growing cybersecurity risk its perhaps an advantage...
This is fantastic:

They then select 100 or so local plant species to deploy. These are chosen by surveying the nearby area on foot instead of relying on published guidebooks, which have a habit of being out of date or even simply wrong.
The way bounty payouts seem so hit or miss (at least according to HN posts), the success rate and turnaround of ransoms looks a lot better.
It is telling that they are concerned about the design of this screen, which you aren't supposed to see often.
Wasn't it a red screen in the Windows 7 previews?
Not if they sign NDAs, which is exactly what many companies require employees to do now, and what even more will do if copyright doesn’t exist.
Or Raytheon, yeah, I imagine so.
I don't think it's pedantic at all. I think we misplace the importance of how we communicate with each other and how we use our already limited languages (I mean, it's hard enough to communicate an idea in its purest form despite being articulate, the internet makes it harder, and not being concious about what you're saying just adds to the problems in the world imo)
We have an [Easiyo](https://easiyo.com/collections/frontpage/products/black-yogu...) that cost ~$20AUD, and we use one tablespoon of existing yogurt and ~150grams of milk powder (slightly more than suggested for milk, to make it thicker) to make 1 litre of yogurt at a time. (Just mix those bits; put boiling water in the Easiyo, put the container with the mixture in, wait 12 hours, done - no scolding, no temperature monitoring, super simple :-) )

It's incredibly easy, and now I search for more and more recipes that use yogurt to make different things (eg, flatbreads, cakes, pasta sauces, among lots of other things).

It's super easy and really awesome having yogurt forever available :-)
nit: Google doesn't get the source code. It gets essentially the contents of the APK (compiled DEX code, compiled native code, assets, and resources) along with some additional protobuf files that contain metadata. Google can then decide how to split that up into APKs, generate those, and sign them. In theory Google could add or alter things before signing them.

The alternative to this was called Multi-APK and hardly anyone used it. It required generating and uploading a large number of different APKs and then uploading gigabytes of mostly-redundant APKs to the Play Store. That allowed you to manage the signing and minimize install size, but it was such a pain to orchestrate that it wasn't practical in most cases.