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Review: “Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay” by William Gibson (By Pat Cadigan)
Today it’s CP, next year it will be copyright violations…
I often hear mentions of "no schema" when people talk about NoSQL, but I think that's a lie; it's not possible for data to have no schema because an application that assumes its data has no structure can't do anything with that data. However, a schema can be dynamic.

Having a dynamic schema implies that you get no guarantees from the database, so the application has to discover and validate the schema at runtime to be able to do useful things.

I like data integrity so I prefer static schemas, but sometimes it can be useful to have a component in your tables where you do the extra work of dynamic inspection or just transport it as an opaque blob.
I think iPhone is superior and would hate to leave it. Although I barely do much with my phone outside 2FA, browsing, and texting. A switch won't be too bad in that regard.

I do love my Macbooks though. So while these privacy invasions make me angry I'm not willing to drop Apple all together. I've been meaning to keep most of my sensitive information on a usually disconnected Linux machine anyways. I'll keep using my Macbook for development.
Knives aren't always weapons - I think the satisfaction comes from making a tool, it's easy to tell when you've done a decent job (and when you haven't...)
Which specific subreddits do the signatories of the open letter want to shut down?
Do you have any sources for that? I ask because the article I linked specifically states that Apple was forced to discard the entire encryption system it uses elsewhere. It’s also hard to understand why a government would insist on this sort of data custody without the benefit of plaintext access.
No disagreement from me. Relational doesn’t address every business requirement, nor do non-relational databases. They have enough overlap that you have to make an informed decision from experience.

The SQL vs. NoSQL debate got framed early on in terms of better and worse, old vs. new, which is unfortunate because it created ideological camps. Not every supposedly new thing is better than the old thing. Some NoSQL techniques predate relational databases, but no one younger than 50 has experience with what we did before Oracle and DB/2.

Choice of tools should match the requirements, not fads or anecdotes or personal preferences (or ignorance).
According to the CDC, each vaccine efficacy at preventing the recipient from catching the virus. To your point they also reduces severity of symptoms. Looks like the J&J one ain't that great at prevention.

Based on evidence from clinical trials in people 16 years and older, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 95% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 in people who received two doses and had no evidence of being previously infected.

Based on evidence from clinical trials, in people aged 18 years and older, the Moderna vaccine was 94.1% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection in people who received two doses and had no evidence of being previously infected.

The J&J/Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine was 66.3% effective in clinical trials (efficacy) at preventing laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection in people who received the vaccine and had no evidence of being previously infected. People had the most protection 2 weeks after getting vaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...
My only suggestion right now mitght be to read my friend Karl's book. "Producing Open Source Software", which has a bunch on community.

Or Jono Bacon's book "The Art of Community" is also good.

One thing you may find, sadly, is that with SOO many projects out there, yours might not get a lot of fellow developers.

But this sounds like a wonderful idea for a project!
I'm feeling like I didn't explain myself, if I'm getting downvotes and told "it's not burnout." I'm definitely not effective at work, and my accolades are based on the fact I've been here 4 years and have historically been very productive, and that I think most of management around me is also burned out, and not accurately evaluating my performance. Regardless, I am not getting a lot of work done, and am feeling a tremendous amount of guilt around it, and am feeling very depressed and burned out. The downvotes are really hurting me; is it really not possible to be completely burnt out yet have your company not realize it yet? Honestly I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop and one day have a tough conversation… and feel I've just earned enough goodwill to get the benefit of the doubt for a little too long.
> Apple devices might not be precisely the smartest purchase if the concept of your hardware is important to you.

Maybe a handful of HN users are aware of that, but the majority of users think that their property belongs to them.

It also goes against what Apple marketing says about privacy and your data. I wouldn't fault most consumers for not understanding that Apple's PR doesn't reflect reality.
>You will BREAK. You will be unable to think.

Exactly. This is 100% what I'm referring to. It's not that you'll just be exhausted and perhaps less efficient, but be able to power through it. That's kind of the pre-burnout stage where you can dial it down and still manage. I think people who've never experienced full burnout think this is what it is.

But, burnout is beyond that. Your brain just won't function--won't obey--and there's no willing your way through it. If you can, then by definition it's probably not burnout.

While burnout seems to manifest as what we'd think of as a mental state, there's very much a physiological component to it.
I think the social solution is market competition. Have several different people and standards bodies publish their categorization system for the world to judge, and whichever one becomes the most popular is the de-facto correct categorization to use. For example, most of the world has agreed to allow the United Nations to determine how many countries there are and who represents them on the world stage. Us software engineers generally agreed to allow IANA to categorize domain names. ISO gets to categorize date fields(ISO 8601) and IEEE tells us what floating point is (IEEE 754). They do the hard work and the rest of us just have to accept their proposals. Or, we can bring up our own, subjectively better ideas on how to split things.
So they have a chance to explain their actions to see what influenced them and if they are justified.
I think every year or every other year we should have a 1 week period where we isolate from everyone. No companies open except emergency rooms and immediate care. Everyone preps in advance with food stores. Just a week, not to stop any thing in particular, but to always be prepared for the next one.
Putting the practicality of constructing such a facility on Venus aside, I presume geology of Venus' crust would be a big factor here.

Another important factor would be the chemistry needed to separate CO2 from Venus' atmosphere. It may or may not be different from that required for Earth's atmosphere.
Watch out when you are dogfooding
Recently I did a little bit of 'inception' by dogfooding our own product and realized there are subtle traps to watch out for. Let me know what you think!
No. Even if you built it floating in the clouds where the temperature and pressure aren't so bad, and powered it with a nuclear reactor, where would you put the captured carbon?
Similarly the same channel posted the Cartivision manual explaining how the whole system works and what features it has.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1bCZlMExKLU
While you are listing features from different phones and complaining that iPhone doesn’t have them, add to your list 7-day battery life from Kindle, and VR capability of Oculus, and 400+ mileage range of a Tesla
They’ll just publish the article again. I don’t see why that type of controversy would just go away.
I imagine because most of us care more about US policies in general than Chinese because most of us live in the US. If fixing Chinese lack of free communication were on the table I'm sure we'd mostly be for it, but that's a whole other thing that ultimately goes back to their government.
My "vote" for the top two (or at least two of the top $whatever) would be:

1. The P=NP problem

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon_asymmetry
Most people don’t killed by bears. It’s not because they are somehow strong enough to beat a bear in a fight, it’s because they don’t get attacked by bears.
But they also dissuade people from doing it themselves. So a $50 battery becomes a $200 battery.
> The work of Cantor and beyond regarding infinite sets is generally taught as mathematical "fact", as fundamental as 2+2=4, but unlike 2+2=4 is there any practical constraints or applications around it?

Yes. There exist libraries that allow us to do arithmetic with arbitrarily large integers with exact precision in a computer, but none that allow us to do arithmetic with arbitrary real numbers. This is because you cannot ever find an encoding that assigns each element of an uncountable set a finite-length string, but you always can find one such for countable sets, no exceptions.

So in practical day-to-day, the programmer (and computational modeller) has to settle for all the quirks of imprecision when dealing with floats, and this imprecision makes a lot of algorithms more complex and limited than the mathematical computation they are trying to model.
> He does know his MMA though

Eh, his relationship to MMA has been far more casual for years now, maybe in the aughts or early last decade, when he was more engaged by the sport this was true. His pod is still the highest honor media appearance for most MMA fighters though.
All I'm saying is without government or any organization you are left with taking care of things yourself, rather than policeman with guns maybe taking care of the problem for you.

Let's say the government doesn't care at all about their loss (pretty common for fraud crimes in the US, I myself have been a victim of credit card fraud and no one cared even my bank who charged me anyway after I proved it was fraudulent) they actually do manage to get their property back from the person who stole it without government intervention, but they did it through direct rather than governmental action. Who cares, and what are you going to do about it? Sit back in your chair and type about the injustice of a man taking his property back without begging a policeman on his knees to consider giving the slightest care? It's nice that your moral outrage will be present but the pragmatism remains.
One thing to understand though (and people who don't have kids don't understand this at all) is that kids are not robots: they're gonna do what they're gonna do, they will (once they grow up a bit) think you're "out of touch" and "don't understand anything". Any effect you have as a parent is not as huge as non-parents think, even if you do a good job. Conversations do sink in, temporarily, but then a hit of dopamine kids get from doing the things you told them not to do (or not doing things you told them to do) washes it all away from their mind and you have to start over. Ex: soda, sweets, brushing their teeth, watching YouTube for 10 hours a day, exercise, schoolwork, and so on. Some kids are better behaved than others, and you don't know ahead of time which you're going to get. It's the hardest debugging problem in the world, and a significant fraction of well meaning adults completely fail at it.
That's awesome. I used to make knives with my dad, as a kid. He was a dentist with his own lab, so he taught me how to use all the lab tools, and we used lost-wax to cast various ornaments to be attached for decoration.

I admit I used to get pretty annoyed after spending hours on the various steps. And I don't really enjoy sharpening either.

Years after he passed away, I found myself on a weekend campout, relating to some scouts the amount of work my dad used to put into making a quality knife. I told them I could baton with this knife he had made for me, no problem. So I gathered the wood, and with one whack knocked the blade clean off!

Upon examination, he had used epoxy to fit a blade with no tang! Later after I returned home, I compared this to his own knives, and they all had tangs.

I am still not sure why or how mine ended up that way--guessing he thought he could finish it up fast and a kid would not exactly expect to baton with this thing...
Apple put a lot of money to design that HSM to lock themselves out. Chinese can’t access iCloud Keychain as plaintext.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/08/13/is-apple...
As you are well aware, the market is not very competitive and there aren't dozens of vendors to pick from.

"Use something else" (or even more laughably, "start your own") is not a reasonable argument anymore.
This to me is a surprising attitude. As an American whose outlook is generally framed by American values, it’s very upsetting to think of how privacy and freedoms are systematically impinged upon in so many parts of the world. If we can be upset about invasion of privacy in one country, why would those principles change at geopolitical borders?
> Canalys noted that Apple was the only major PC manufacturer to see negative growth in Q2, due in no small part to waning consumer interest in iPads, according to the report. The company did see a 24% increase in notebook shipments thanks to recent success with the M1 chip.

I wonder what the future of the iPad is? I can't see it lasting very long as this standalone product that's halfway between a mobile phone and a laptop.
Very well said. A form of unrequited love, and also something which can be positive. I've lived this.
Today is not a bad place to be, especially compared to many of the other potential outcomes.
Nothing except Apple saying you could trust them. People were stupid enough to accept that and now even the trust is gone.
How is it kept underground? Would an earthquake release a bunch of it?
You are getting downvoted and that probably proves your point more than your argument. Your argument is really naive, but there is some truth to your conclusion.

IMO, the main data point for your argument should be how many animals, plants and humans we have killed as a species and for what purpose? Unless we recognize these failings as a species, we’ll never get out of our delusional bubble of being good and righteous.
CP first, then terrorist propaganda, then copyright violations, then foreign propaganda, then misinformation... That seems to be how the cycle goes.
It's not the same word mate. They're literally different words in different languages.

It's not a misspelling.

Colour and color are literally the same word, different spellings.

Tapu and taboo is not literally the same. They may have derived from the same thing but they are now, different words with different meanings.

Suggesting tapu is a misspelling of taboo is like suggesting "Koran" is a misspelling of the word "Bible".
i(lluminati) phone.

How did we get to place (speaking of America where there is a bill of rights) where it is normal to have a multimodal tracker on or near your person at all times?

George Orwell's telescreen at least could not fit in your pocket and Orwell never imagined things like GPS or facebook or digital phones.

We are the slow boiled frog as the most expansive totilitarian infrastructure in history is built up.
I'm a 55-year-old Systems Architect at a big media company where I am a highly-valued senior engineer. But a few years ago I too had a personal referral into Facebook for a developer position, and I was invited in for the tech assessment, so I figured, why not see what the process is like, and how resistible the offer is? I pseudocoded simple algorithms on a whiteboard for a 25-year-old for an hour or so, and then never heard from them again. I don't really care, but yeah, it does rankle.
It beats the alternative that's likely to happen, which is "oops, nobody told me it was going to break!"
What lead up to the reasoning for no longer having faith in Symantec-signed certs? Also what exactly made them so trusted/popular originally? Seems like you still see a lot of people using their certs
Every company is screwed up.

Every company is in the middle of some kind of evolution.

You'll walk into situations you had no hand in creating.

A big part of leadership is getting comfortable with this reality and understanding your role in helping move the ball forward.
If the cost of removal is a mere $100 per ton of carbon, the annual cost of removing 30 billion tons of C02 would be $3 Trillion. (3,000,000,000,000)

The cost for most of these technologies right now is over $400 per ton, so that works out to $12 trillion.

Yikes.
I would imagine the word "nerd" in litnerd is a bit of a putoff to the student population you're targeting. Is that not the case? Or are you also trying to get them to embrace that word as positive?
It’s still the case that computer programs can be copied and restored from backup today, and we aren’t going to have Star Trek transporters any time soon.

Even if it does take an enormous investment and many years to train a computer to do a task, you can make as many copies as you want and everyone can have one. Educating people doesn’t have that kind of payoff.

That’s why you see billions spent in the effort to make a self-driving car. But it turns out that real-world experience isn’t enough, so far. Waymo has collected > 20 million miles of driving experience.

It’s not enough because machine learning is very inefficient at learning from experience. That could improve, though.
I did answer your question with another question, but that was perhaps too subtle for you.

I do not know what percentage the US economy may or may not have shrunk by. It is impossible for me (or probably anyone else) to give an exact percentage.

Don't focus too narrowly on the two examples that I just randomly thought of. Try to see the bigger picture. Broadly, over the last 25 years, much of the US economy has shifted overseas, not only to China. US infrastructure is crumbling.

Yes the US is a "service based" economy, meaning arguably fake bullshit jobs. It's a fake foundation for an economy where everyone is living on borrowed money, due for a major correction, a massive shock causing the house of cards to collapse.

The inflation adjusted index price is one piece of evidence that the US economy may be due for a severe correction, possibly worse than 2008.

Interest rates have been practically zero for more than 10 years. That is unsustainable as a permanent workaround for fundamental systemic issues. It's a house of cards.
I’m sure you’re right. I haven’t seen it. I have seen projects use NoSQL databases and fail when a relational database was a better fit for the requirements. The fault isn’t in the tools, it’s in the decision-making process. It seems common now for teams to choose a “stack” before they define what they plan to build.
high rent means low savings means no leverage by the worker.
No, not even a little bit. I think it's great term.
Frontend is in the hand of enemy. There is no secret on the client side.
3 years old HP OMEN 15 gaming laptop, 9 years old ASUS G75VW gaming laptop - zero problems and zero repairs. On G75 I've upgraded hard drives to SSDs and installed 32GB RAM instead of original 16. But nothing ever broke.

My even older ASUS G73 is still being used by my friend (I gave it to him few years ago).

I guess the author of the article attracts bad luck somehow.
I've not met any laws. Where do they live?
This is the most plausible explanation in my opinion.

OF we’re in the potential firing line so they rallied their user base and created a strong narrative.

They can now say that they tried to limit porn but too many vulnerable people would suffer as a result.

It’s a brilliant maneuver if this is what happened.
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From the website:

> Pixeldrain is struggling to get by financially. Because anyone can upload anything it's hard to find reputable advertisers who want to advertise on pixeldrain. Every month the ad revenue just barely covers the bandwidth costs. If this continues I will have to resort to adding more shady ads, or reducing the file size and bandwidth limits. That's not something I would like to do.
I'm surprised this is even close to economical. In general you'd have a big chemical advantage with a higher concentration of CO2 (i.e. on top of a smokestack). But you also need to be close to a cheap source of clean power. I guess Iceland is one of the few places on earth where this can be done.
Found the person who didn't read the article.
From the website:

> Pixeldrain is struggling to get by financially. Because anyone can upload anything it's hard to find reputable advertisers who want to advertise on pixeldrain. Every month the ad revenue just barely covers the bandwidth costs. If this continues I will have to resort to adding more shady ads, or reducing the file size and bandwidth limits. That's not something I would like to do
So we just be happy with the every growing cult that the children who were murdered were crisis actors? Nah, think we can do better than that.
It's easy to forget why there is a bit of a challenge to getting C02 out of the air: there's so little of it, comparatively.

In order, air is, broadly, made up of the following:

Nitrogen: %78.084

Oxygen: %20.946

Argon: %00.934

C02: %00.042

The stuff is essentially beyond a rounding error - it really gives one an appreciation of the "either don't release it, or capture it at the point of release" sentiment, and for the difficulties in making carbon capture outside of these scenarios be even slightly cost-effective. It's great to see progress on this front.
It doesn't.

For the ad platforms, this lets them optimize their ads for better performance when they know which user profiles converted.

For advertisers, it's used for directional guidance on the platform, e.g. ad campaign A converts at 3x the rate of ad campaign B.

The famous quote in the industry is "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." This method gives you a better idea of which money is wasted, at least compared to something like a TV or a print ad.

It gets more complex when you're advertising on multiple channels. For instance, if you see an ad on FB, Google the product, then buy it, both will take credit for a conversion even though your business only had one sale. There are more scientific methods for modeling advertising results from multiple channels [1], that leverage control groups (say you run a Google ad in New York and a TV ad in California and monitor which market sees a bigger spike in sales).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_mix_modeling
Tree aren't great for carbon capture. They take up land space, which then has to be reserved for those trees. Then, they eventually die, and decompose, which means a new tree has to grow to re-capture the carbon that is released when the tree decomposes. Better to put the excess carbon back underground, where it came from.
People care more about what happens to them than others and people care more about what happens where they are than elsewhere.
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Afghanistan: A Just War or an Unjust Peace
Apple lost it's lawsuit because they throttled phones when they reached a battery health level that was higher than the threshold for warranty replacement. Thousands of users, including myself, had a nearly new phone throttled and so we went to apple and asked them to replace the battery if it was going bad. They wouldn't. And so they got dragged through the mud because they fucking deserved it.