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> The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Good intentions my arse. Google, and the US ruling class in general, seems very, very keen that everyone believe the 2020 US election was fair. Which to my mind is very suspicious.

I think the election was probably rigged, and I think the democratic primary was also rigged, in 2016 and 2020, to prevent Bernie Sanders from winning, because he represented a threat to the ruling class.

US elections are about as free and fair as Russian or Iranian elections -- and I bet in those countries the ruling class also tries to prevent people from saying they aren't.
This attitude is less hard to understand when you’re not looking at it through the filter of cases where that happened not to be true. When I worked for a federal judge I saw a ton of criminal appeals. Most criminals are dumb and usually there was just a plethora of evidence in the case. I can see why it would be very easy for cops to think that every case was that way, rather than just 98% of them. I have public defender friends. They’ll tell you, in almost every case their client is guilty of something. Their job is to make sure the police and prosecutors don’t overreach or act abusively and save the rare person who really is innocent.

That’s the key factor that outsiders looking into the criminal justice system overlook. They think it’s easy. “Just stop being racist, corrupt, etc.” It’s a system where day in and day out, almost everyone you encounter is a really shitty human being. Reforming the system is important, but it’s much harder than people think.
We live in an age where companies can and do almost miraculously solve technical problems that the government has failed to do, so it isn't surprising to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkk9VIKWw2w
Simple solution: Google can delete whatever it wants for being "misleading content" but if they ever get it wrong, even in the slightest, 10% of Google's wealth is transferred to the aggrieved. If Google is so confident in its ability to be the sole arbitrator of truth for humanity, they should have zero issue with agreeing to this because it will be zero risk.

Of course they will never agree to such a condition because they know they aren't capable of even figuring out how to make products that the market wants much of the time. The Google Graveyard is proof of this. They sure as hell aren't capable of knowing more about virology than the virologists of the world who still are trying to figure things out.

Tech companies wanting to be in control of human ability to communicate with each other is simply a power play. Combat it with risk and they'll have to back down or suffer the consequences when they make a mistake (which they will, often).
This is not normal UI. The flat supplement ($300/wk, it's a substantial number) puts the wages above most entry-level jobs.
Aha, that's great! I might give this a go this weekend then.
In my opinion you've removed very important context from this quote.

As mentioned elsewhere, the full quote is very different:

“information about public voting procedures, political candidate eligibility based on age / birthplace, election results, or census participation that contradicts official government records”
I agree that it probably would be a bad idea. That said, Russia executes state enemies on foreign territories already. And Vietnam kidnapped an asylum-seeker in Berlin in 2018. Another example, are the recent kidnapping allegations against Iran (https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-a...).
> We should be able to implement services like these, that are free of ads, on globally distributed infrastructure, with no central authority, to have truly free-flowing information.

Who's going to pay for and operate it? And why won't they be subject to the same pressures that got us here?
You can always replace the disks. Other than issues around the firmware no longer being updated, putting a new HDD in is not hard. Lots of guides online as referenced in this article
The thing that was most disturbing was just how quickly the water rose. The Ahr, typically 10-15 ft wide and maybe about a feet deep, just enough to cool a beer crate during hot summer, went up to something like 23ft.
I was joking with my mum on the phone late afternoon when they told me our camper got towed uphill as a precautionary measure.
Not 2h later they had to be evacuated and the whole campsite was gone, as in does not exist anymore.
I agree, in that it was pretty easy to dismiss effects on the example image. Doing this with shapes and a variety of hues and luminances would be a better way to prove the point if it bears out.
Where legally required, they have to enforce it for a government they disagree with if they want to continue to do business in that country. Otherwise their employees could face arrest (that's happening in India, for example).
They are just saying “but what if we replace the set of integers with a larger set”.
I think they are also defining this larger set in a base 10 specific way.

I think they basically mean the 10-adic numbers, which, unlike the p-adics for p a prime number, uh,
I forget exactly what goes wrong, but I suspect it has like, zero divisors or something like that.
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Time machine seems to be very good at eating itself. I think the longest I've seen somebody keep it going is 2-3 years, after that it just rots.

For those with a little techie know-how, I think the best solution is to rsync their home directory to a ZFS volume on a TrueNAS box and take periodic snapshots of that. Optionally replicate that volume somewhere else with different geology. Obviously not as convenient as Time Machine, but undoubtedly more robust and less likely to corrupt itself.
JPEG transforms the color into YUV channels. Y is the luminance, equal to R+G+B or something like that. The U&V channels (color) are often downsampled.
The 'obvious choice' is to not take money from the government/community that you're not supposed to be taking.

How on earth did we just just dropped all pretense at being civic?

And also: "It's also obvious what employers need to do if they are short-staffed."

That's actually not obvious. Have you owned a small business? Like a cafe, especially through a pandemic? Do they just have magic pools of profit from which to pay people more? Some places do, but usually they're the big chains. These kinds of situations just push regular owners further downhill vis-a-vis the Starbucks down the street which some might argue is 'good for efficiency' but I'd argue that we lose in choice and authenticity quite a lot.
Yes, exactly. She actually had a physical copy of it
It would be really nice if we could actually recognize this issue and address it as a society instead of getting up in arms about a mayor taking away the Big Gulp.
N95 masks were never useless and Fauci should be seen as a monster.

What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks and education on how to wear it. It seems like we hivemind to the unsustainable lockdowns.
Oh neat, I will!
My theory, and I don't know why this is never mentioned: all societies eventually retreat into inhabiting a purely simulated universe (Matrix/Holodeck), where EM emissions and space exploration become a thing of the past, and the society just "goes dark".

The dynamic that guarantees it is that great stuff is almost always cheaper/easier to experience via simulation than in reality. We already know that TV plots and video game situations are endlessly more entertaining than our real-world lives. Arranging computing power that can fool our eyes and ears is way easier than mustering the materials to get ourselves into space.
I don't see an "almost"
I read regular stories on HN about employee activism on certain types of popular issues around gender and race, involving petitions and publicity. Spotify, Apple, Google. Yet nothing about the march towards totalitarianism and information control - always with good intentions and to our benefit - promulgated with stories such as this.

Not a peep from our young Silicon Valley activists. Do we still teach history at school? I'm talking about history of many countries. No fear whatsoever of information control and government censorship. I'm baffled and saddened.
For better or for worse: the cloud was always somebody else's computer.

Honestly I think it's pretty silly that we've all become so complacent with the cloud that we pretend that we're not guests, and that we own the place.
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What mess do you mean? The language, what happened to the language because of Rebol Technologies, or something else?
Because you'd never have a working revision to release, since everyone on the team will not finish their features at the same time.
If the idea is to pay people for the best answers and take a percentage, then why not just use money?

If your answer is anonymity or freedom from regulations, governments don’t care. They’ll regulate you.
Wait, think that through.

Why should politics not have people whose entire job is to manage public relations?
No to both.

1- It's short term and even the level of payment is inconsistent.
2- People being put into this situation come from a multitude of existing economic situations, with no proper controls. Also, nobody is actually able to "opt in" (since you couldn't quit your job and collect UI in many places)

We still have no idea what a widespread, long-term UBI program would look like or its effect, even after studying this. (though of course people on both sides of the debate will take the situation as proof that they were right).
No, DNSSEC doesn't address any coffee shop attacks. DNSSEC is a server-to-server protocol (or, I guess more fairly, a recursor-to-recursor) protocol. Unless you're running something other than a stub resolver on your machine (if you didn't install something, you're not), all of DNSSEC's security coalesces to a single bit in the header that says "yes, I promise, as your name server, that I actually verified signatures". I hope it's clear that a coffee shop attacker can spoof a DNS record with a single bit set.

DNSSEC is full of big problems, which is why it's moribund (virtually none of the most widely-used zones have signed). But the lack of any service model in the "last mile" is probably the biggest.

If you're worried about coffee shop attacks, you're looking for DoH, which actually does directly address these attacks, which, unlike cache corruption, actually occur all the time --- which is why browsers are moving to make DoH a default.
About 15 years ago I was part of a team of four developing a VoIP platform. When we were about to release we realized that our first customer would be upset if they knew they were actually the first customer. So each one of us said a number and our first user had an ID similar to 1003912 :)
Its a slippery slope but not for the reasons you might first think.

It's because this is turning a platform into an publisher. Soon more and more governments will be demanding publishers to enforce editorial standards. There seems to be no platforms these days that say they are just that. Even cloudfare, a peice of background infrastructure is happily editorialising certain things.

With this idea, try not to get sucked in to the other argument. The issue is not that the list of certain things is going to increase, the issue is that the impartial nature of the internet is disappearing.

There's a fair bit of evidence on some public hearings that the major players were given an ultimatum from both Republicans and Democrats to start being publishers, to relinquish control to the state, or be split up under anti monopoly and anti competition laws.
Such rules are probably not for everyday enforcement. It is more like Russia laws - have something to use when needed and/or to publicly demonstrate that you care about the issue.
The same way I've paid for others to have life saving surgery I haven't needed.
> it's a real problem of cheap mechanical drives.

Fair. But the drives in time capsules are not cheap (not the most expensive either, but certainly not cheap).
Everyone uses it or nobody uses it aren’t the only two options.
There are orders of magnitude less submarine fire control techs than there are tank crew-members. I assure you, nobody "up the chain" who's deciding what does or doesn't go in a tank manual expects the material in it to remain secret more than temporarily. It's just not the kind of thing you can rely on when you're disseminating the document to thousands of people across hundreds of facilities.

Basically they tell you boots to STFU. And then then they base the rest of their decisions on the reasonable assumption that given time some of you will fail at that. Classic "defense in depth".
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> How can an employer compete to buy time when the government is willing to push the price to infinity?

The government isn't willing to do this. It's only willing to offer an extra $300/week for 26 weeks.
Thanks!

I've already got a solid base (or more) on the technical end (Burning Man LED art, and then full stack web dev). I was already thinking of using an isolated network.

Thanks for the pointer on which boards! Do you have a recommended level-shifter?
Yeah, that's a really great perspective. It's a contract on the rulers - if you do X you'll be thrown out, not so much an obligation on the individual.
That's such a weird way to frame things. You have some amount of finite time where you receive unemployment benefits in order to find a new job. Logically, you will try to find the best new job you can while you are given this buffer to do so, so obviously you'll turn down crappy jobs that don't pay well, because you have this benefit that gives you the leeway to do so in order to find yourself the better job.

Also, you've worked for this benefit, it isn't given to you "for free", your prior work contributed to the unemployment benefit which you are now using, and your future work will also go back to paying for it.
"We should be able to implement services like these, that are free of ads, on a globally distributed infrastructure, with no central authority, to have truly free-flowing information."

Google's job is to take away the motivation to do this work.

Alernatively, if it looks like someone is doing it, hire or acquire them.
Again, it can be both, (and IMO chances are it's both). It could have been a sample from nature that leaked out of the lab.

There are no signs that it might be man made. There are no signs that it might have evolved in GoF research. But the WIV had a sample of a close ancestor of this virus, it's not crazy that someone got the bug and jumped out in that very same city.
It's on the front page right now, but I'm not sure it deserves to be given the quality of HN's discussion so far. The top ten highest voted comments are essentially redundant copies of the same outrage, stated slightly differently. If everyone is just going to pile on and state how upset they are, instead of replying to each other's comments and keeping one thread for all the outrage, what's the point in bringing this to the front page at all? Where's the curious and interesting discussion? Outrage is pervasive on TV and the Internet and yet, as presented here so far, it's the most uninteresting response possible.
If it's unclear or you have any reason to suggest it, why would you link a study that only looked into teenagers then?

I am done with this convo, and happily will read into his later, but so far I have no idea where you are getting this idea from.
> How can an employer compete to buy time when the government is willing to push the price to infinity?

Why do you believe the government is willing to push the price to infinity? How would that benefit them?
FWIW, the armor on the export M1 is different than the US version.
Yes, people do. And many more should. Your treadmill existence is the polar opposite of rational actors with bargaining power as invoked by economists.
I don't think that planets are good targets; you'd want to use asteroids for raw materials and stay in microgravity, no?

But yes, if BvN probes are impossible at any level of technology, that would explain their apparent absence.
> The government (funded by tax payers who work and produce) is paying people

Well, the workers who are now unemployed paid these taxes when they were employed. So no, it was not free. It works like insurance. Having insurance is a good thing. I agree it should not encourage people to not work forever, but it is not like unemployment benefits are generous. They are bare bones payments.
Definitely not.

The answer to the question makes it clear that the money is a disincentive to work, which is not what the 'insurance' is for.

It's not a pool you pay into and claim from 'because you can' - you claim it 'if you must'.

If someone claimed insurance 'because they could, not because they must' in most scenarios we'd call it fraud.

So yes - collect if you must, but then the answer to the question should be 0% for those implying that the benefit is a disincentive to return to work.
>could significantly undermine participation or trust in civic or democratic processes

Participation in our democratic and civic processes include the freedom to speak about our government in a way that we desire, even if it's misleading or contradicts our government. It's part of the reason why America was founded in the first place. Google is being hypocritical here.
> Cheap energy sources won't be available near the surface of the crust for another > 50 million years.

Wrong. We already have one: nuclear energy.
This would have been my vote.

In 2050, there may be a Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream collapse. Everyone here is posting about how things are gonna warm up - Western Europe is going to cool down probably in a 1C or 2C warming scenario. W. Europe is further north than people think.

The Med is a great heat sink / battery and regulates the local climate. Imagine Nice in the spring, or Barcelona.
I think Google would agree with you. If you're going to share information that (in Google's perception) is wildly misleading, they'd prefer you do it off a domain that doesn't have "Google" in its path. And all of us are free to do that.
It's fun to think that there is a bullet list of directions that would take me from where I'm typing this comment to standing in front of that exact mirror.
Finally, for fans of Weird Al Yankovic's White & Nerdy, an excuse to reference Norm Sherman's Pimp My Satellite, which is all about the Hubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMXk5Y7Gv6Y
Running an authoritarian regime in a former Soviet satellite is a decent way to ensure you don't get too many international travelers. That would be my guess for why they might have dodged the brunt of the pandemic.
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DomTerm and xterm.js are terminals for web.
I trust Walmart as a customer significantly more than the healthcare cartels.

Benevolent? It's not exactly hard to be more benevolent than the medical establishment.
In the UK, ‘classified’ is a generic term not a formal classification level. Perhaps you meant ‘confidential’? But in any case, the level ‘restricted’ was taken out of use a few years ago in the UK, and its use indicates that the document concerned is not recent. The current equivalent is ‘official sensitive’
> Police are allowed to lie to you

Not everywhere. The UK hasn't allowed police to lie when interviewing suspects since the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act, known as PACE.

It would be a good idea if countries (not just the US and not just in policing) were to look for best practice outside their own borders occasionally.
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I completely agree. I haven't found anything effective for remote collaboration. I sometimes use the Whiteboard app on a Surface Go but that's not an online app. I have to copy the image over, or show the physical screen to my main computer's webcam.
Maybe but Khrushchev wasn’t the one begging to press the button to send the nukes over to the US. Cuba made the decision to launch and it was only Khrushchev who was able to overrule those bloodthirsty Castroists.
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The analogs are much more convenient to use. The short acting ones take effect much quicker, for a shorter period, and more consistently. The long acting ones (generally considered ~24 hours, but not really) are much more level in their effect (less spikes in it's efficiency).

Instead of figuring out what you're going to eat, taking insulin for that, and waiting 30-60 minutes before you can eat; you can take them pretty much right as you eat.

Instead of your blood sugar rising or dropping "randomly" over the course of the day, it tends to stay more consistent (though your body may decide otherwise).

That being said, with enough testing (or a CGM, but that can be costly too), the older insulins work just fine; they're just annoying to use. You see your blood sugar going up, you exercise some; you see it going down, you drink some OJ. I tend to have to do the same with the newer insulins AND a CGM; just a lot less so.
This move shouldn’t surprise anyone. This was always the next logical step for activist companies and institutions that have been openly practicing authoritarian censorship. Their previous moves faced no real consequence or meaningful pushback, and they face little competition because they are monopolistic, so why would they stop marching down this path?

What’s more surprising is that there are people here on HN who are excusing this by claiming that Google isn’t banning hosting the content but only distributing it. We need a new phrase for this kind of unhelpful trivialization and gaslighting - it isn’t just harmless trolling.

The biggest impact of this will be from how inconsistently this will be applied. Google will not ban activists from sharing “toolkits” used to organize riots or push left politics. They won’t stop false content like the core claims of the 1619 project from being shared via BLM materials for schools that are hosted on Google drive. Google will suppress one side and in effect amplify all others, propagandizing the world through their services.

It’s time we seek out alternatives, break up big tech companies, regulate them, and put an end to their abuse of power. For now here are some alternatives to Google:

https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/

https://www.techspot.com/news/80729-complete-list-alternativ...

https://fossbytes.com/google-alternative-best-search-engine/
Blue LED clocks (like on 'high end' microwaves or appliances) are one of my biggest pet peeve. I'm not an old fart by any stretch -- my eyes are fine -- but the blue blur when looking at the clock at night is a real thing.

Fun fact: this phenomenon is similar to why older cars had yellow-tinged fog lights. It's partly light scattering in suspended water droplets (fog), it's partly the perception factors talked about in the article, but basically reds and yellows have lowest "light scatter". You're not gonna build a red foglight for red-is-danger reasons, so yellow foglights are the next best thing.
I've done this manually as an optimization on particularly hairy (and large) reports, retrieving a JSON string from the postgres query, then interpolating it into a boilerplate string response.

In a few, particularly pathological cases (that nonetheless were fairly common to run into in prod), the response time of the endpoint went from literal minutes to a few hundred milliseconds on a test server with unlimited response timeout (prod would have timed out after 60s). Most of the performance increase came from not requiring Ruby to parse strings into fat objects, then turn it back into a long string to go out the wire.