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I remain ambivalent about ACLU's efforts to defend privacy rights.

What is privacy? What would ACLU's future perfect privacy protecting world look like? How, specifically, does our world differ from that world? Is the ACLU just rearranging the deck chairs, as The Titanic sinks?

This is a complicated topic.

Firstly, I don't trust that the ACLU understands our current surveillance economy. One important facet is Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism critique. How private and public, foreign and domestic interact. By analogy, it's like trying to talk about criminal cartels, focusing just on drugs, and ignoring human trafficking, arms trade, finance, and state actors.

Secondly, I'm not convinced that mass surveillance is entirely ineffective. Wholly I agree that it's illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, overwrought, wicked expensive, and overreaching. But in our reform efforts, I want an account of how our intelligence services performed. I simply cannot believe that there haven't been many more attempted terrorist attacks. Foreign and domestic. And I get that for national security, these same services cannot publicly take credit for their successes. So maybe we can infer how much benefit surveillance yielded thru some kind of meta analysis.

I care about privacy a great deal. As an election integrity activist, I defended voter privacy (with some minor policy wins). As a geek, I designed and implemented electronic medical record exchanges.

And yet I feel I still don't know what privacy is. Or what the trade offs are.

I recently heard Jill Lepore's recap of the very first privacy debates, at the dawn of the IT revolution. Sadly, as someone who's been working in privacy, most of what she discussed was news to me.

Right now I feel we simply need a do over. Start the whole debate from scratch. Get down to first principles.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism

The Computer-men
https://www.thelastarchive.com/season-1/episode-7-the-comput...

"In 1966, just as the foundations of the Internet were being imagined, the federal government considered building a National Data Center."
>"Syntax highlighting is a standard feature of most modern text editors"

Sorry it was a standard feature in some IDE's like forever. Nothing is modern about it except the fact that the amount of what being recognized and made visually different did increase thanks in good part to language servers.

As for giving it up - well for what I care they could still use punch card, their choice. For me - I would not give it up.
Your attitude on this doesn't make any sense to me.

A single man can record videos yes, but they can't record millions of videos and aggregate them into a searchable database. For that you need larger groups of people and a significant amount of infrastructure.
You could absolutely limit the ability to do this without having to outlaw cameras or social media or anything like that.

Are you making some blanket assumption that laws can't have an impact on private businesses? Because that's clearly not true.
I'm not sure what you mean. Recognized by who? If you meant government officials, that's specifically the point: some may not recognize that it is a right, so the goal is to get them to recognize that it is.
> They fly at ~25mph.

You know that US Warships run at 35mph to 50mph over water, right? You literally can't hit a warship at that speed.
I really thought this was about the web server framework https://github.com/tomaka/rouille, that's been around for ages.
There is no first class experience if you are forced to use windows.
This is such a great tip! Thank you!! I think this will make a big difference and I can't believe I haven't been doing this. I do run a dehumidifier in my basement where the sauna is located, but I think keeping the heat on for an hour after is a game changer for longevity.

A couple of the things that surprised me when I got my sauna was how gross it is. For me, I am lucky its a personal sauna. I sweat everywhere. And people think of saunas and they think of a spa, but its a workout and mental challenge for me every single time.
This is great. Thanks for putting together and sharing.
I lived in my office for a month or two when I was a grad student at a UC about a decade ago. I just put cardboard all over the windows.
Or maybe just offer them some basic food for free, so they don't need to dig in trash cans for it? At least the western societies (I don't know and have no opinion on others) are producing enough food that there is no reason not to offer some basic nutrition to everyone.
Do heart disease and cancer exacerbate covid conditions, putting more people in icu (and for longer) than if they didn't have those comorbidities?
It only stops progressing. According to my doctor, the scar tissue is impossible to reverse. Luckily, It didn't affect my cardiovascular ability. I can still surf big waves like a normal surfer.
Have you tried walking outside in 37.8 C weather? It's blistering hot. Your body should be quite a bit warmer than the environment because we have to radiate heat away to preserve homeostasis. 21 C is a comfortable room temperature.
thats a direct quote from the miracle of mindfulness
You can download the ISO directly from MS and still get a key for 5$
I did like Columbo, but I liked "The Rockford Files" better.
@dang, can we get the obvious spam crap removed somehow? Maybe instantly hide or at least minimize dead content?

Or maybe restrict discussion to people who get at least some karma?
Work in AWS Premium Support. This is 100% how it goes.

Take KMS keys for example. You can't outright delete a KMS master key; you have to schedule it for deletion. The shortest period you can schedule for deletion is 7 days (default 30). Once the key is deleted, all encrypted data is orphaned.

Guess who gets blamed for deleted keys?

HINT: It's not the customer.
^^ How to say you're a white male in tech, without specifically saying you're a white male in tech.

meritocracy - To whom? Who decides? That's right: the kingmaker. And the kingmaker decides on those who share significant amount of the same traits. And most of these "kingmakers" in tech are 20-30 something white male.

master to primary - Again, "master" in US culture has a very very bad connotation that <drumroll> equates with US slavery of black peoples. ""find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/master/primary/g' {} \; "" takes seconds to run, and only infringes on alt-right sensitivities.

crazy - Is a garbage word. Has no real definition, and just really shouldn't be used. If there's a problem with a person and their choices, the issue with that should be stated, not by calling them "Crazy". Same goes for the rest of the words in your mental illness link. Enumerate the problem at hand, not by labeling the problem with a garbage word that equates to crazy.

> Where they once were just supporting a software project they're now a political movement.

FLOSS has always been political. The predominant license (GPL) is a anti-capitalist license that seeks freedoms from creators to make everyone owners. The AGPL was made to challenge cloud operators in using and not sharing their changes. Again, political.

And the whole FLOSS ecosystem itself is and isn't about computers. It's about how humans interact with computers and other humans using computers - and guaranteeing individual rights when using computers. FLOSS is a human rights issue. So yes, it's completely understandable that high profile projects would seek to include everyone.
Bin-laden directly stated Al-Qaeda's goal was to bankrupt the USA. [1] Now that's not what literally happened obviously, but adjusting for propaganda hyperbole and considering he went on to elaborate that they intend to do to the USA what they did to the Soviets - make the war too costly to be worth fighting - it seems their strategy panned out pretty well.

Of course, I don't know that they could have predicted the US invasion of Iraq, for example. On the one hand, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but OTOH Al-Qaeda might have foreseen that the US leadership would not let a good crisis go to waste.

Maybe the main plan was just to fight in Afghanistan, where they know they can carry out guerilla warfare indefinitely, and whatever else shakes out is probably going to play into Al-Qaeda's pocket anyway.

Really the main victory Al-Qaeda and other Islamist terror groups have won is being able to frame the discourse around their atrocities as Islamic terror. It creates tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims, which leads to oppression of Muslims, which increases recruitment. In this dynamic, the worse the terror groups are, the more adherents they gain.

1: https://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape...
Your TLDR doesn't work always. If you substitute a million terms, "murderer community," "pedophile community," "MAGA community," "unvaccinated community," does it still work? You might still support trans rights, but can accept this isn't a very good defense.
I find that even the most vacuous syntax highlighting helps me read code by creating smaller chunks and calling attention to repeated patterns.
You are right, i was short on the description. But main point is: There is no point in asking questions.
Absolutely. Everyone should self-quarantine when sick. Is it your sense that large numbers of Americans aren't doing this? Anecdotally, I haven't seen a visibly sick person, outside of my immediate family, in a long, long time (needless to say, I don't work in a healthcare setting).

Arguably, retrofitting every important building in the country to be well ventilated is a challenge on a similar scale to changing our deeply ingrained unhealthy cultural habits.
Haha, actually the reason I noticed was because I was shopping for RAM at the beginning of this year. The product above was just my first random thought, it seems to be very regular there.

FWIW, it's enough to just set the parameter &pva=geizhals2 in the GET request for the product page once. Could be fun to see how regular it is.
I have a strange use case for syntax highlighting: If you ever forget to close a string or a function definition argument list, or anything along those lines, the following text will not be colored as usual. This is also why I have automatic indentation enabled, if the indent is put in the wrong place, I know I made a syntax error further up.

In many (most?) languages, you can look at where your code stops being colored and see you forgot to close something like a comment or a paren.
As a teenager I worked in a large logistics center for supermarkets. Usually we would fill trucks that brought the supplies to the supermarkets, but rarely they had ran out of something small and would come to us with a van or so.

So one day two guys drive up with a van, park it at a loading dock, go into the warehouse and start loading the van with coffee. They even got help from some workers. Turns out they weren't related to any customers at all, they just stole a van full of coffee.

Which wouldn't be worth a story... But two weeks later, the same guys did the exact same thing again, at the same logistics center. Successfully, again. That takes some nerve.
Yes of course, just make your point already, this is not a chat, try to write a complete post.
> Your office got off lucky.

I disagree. Sleeper guy wanted to crash & didn't want their hardware. There wasn't meaningful risk.

I think we make the mistake that perceiving risk makes it real. It's reality that determines our actual risk tho.
They were "Inprise" for a while in there, too. I think the "Inprise" crap was where they took their finger off the button. "Sure, let's drop a name that pretty much every working programmer associates with quality tooling and start using a bland, corporate-speak name that no one has ever heard of. What could possibly go wrong?"

Inprise sounds like a name out of Mike Judge's Office Space.

They eventually figured this out and changed back to Borland, but by then it was too late.
The article provides no principle by which we can say that mass surveillance is wrong. It does observe (per your quote) that mass surveillance has not worked very well. This raises an obvious question: if mass survillance did work well, would it be acceptable?

The broader point here is that there are arguments against mass surveillance on principle, the ACLU just doesn't find them convincing.
Does anyone know of any tests that compare click-to-screen and click-to-speaker latencies in Linux to Windows? Mostly asking because I've heard that the audio systems on Linux aren't great. Would be nice to actually put numbers to that.

Also, do things that inject overlays work under Proton? I occasionally use RTSS to monitor frame times and whatnot, and in FFXIV I use a combat log parser that adds an overlay for DPS meters. And while not critical, I like having reshade available (though that's more than just an overlay).
I'm sure that a lot of us has implemented similar tooling within our products/projects and aren't always allowed to open source it by clients/employers.

Thanks for sharing?

Are you accepting pull requests?
Wine (and proton) is a reimplementation of windows APIs. You can call that emulation but that would just further dilute the word.

For example, it would mean every graphics card driver that supports opengl is an emulation of opengl.
See, thus is what's wrong with you people. Some of us want to enjoy food, not to treat it like some necessary evil and stuff whatever amount of crap we need.
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I'm not convinced, but this is an interesting take.

The selected examples are unfair as they use a badly contrasted foreground color against a white background which break all the WCAG Guidelines for contrast. IDEs should use colors with an accessible contrast ratio.

#00dd00 (green) -> #ffffff: 1.85:1 - fail on all results

#00dddd (cyan) -> #ffffff: 1.70:1 - fail on all results

I feel another exception would be the differentiation of static, member and local variables as an additional IDE-based hint, on top of naming conventions.
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This hardly makes a case at all. Only one section in the middle is actually dedicated to why syntax highlight is bad and it boils down to a baseless assertion about "biasing" the developer's mind toward syntax. I would counter that assisting developers in thinking about how code will be interpreted or compiled rather than bytes of text is closer to the semantic meaning than without.

There's also a comparison to highlight syntax in fiction, which is absurd for many reasons. A simple one being that the _goal_ of fiction can often be to obscure meaning for the sake of ambiguity. I'm offended not by the thesis but by the presumptuous nature of the argument.
And we're getting rid of it. But that's over the right not to get killed - not the same as having people accept you in the bathroom.
i think it is less about the state of the browser itself and more about it’s continuing drop in user base.
Ask HN: How to do phone carrier lookup?
I want to do this so that I can send text message without paying for twilio or similar, using email to text gateway: https://github.com/mfitzp/List_of_SMS_gateways/blob/master/email2sms.csv

Surely there must be some database somewhere, like maxmind?
> You are never making a mistake by not investing and instead keeping your savings.

Not necessarily. If the monetary unit of those savings is being debased at an astronomical rate. That's like expecting your iceberg of savings not to melt when the FED just turned up the heat!

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
They're looking for recyclables (for deposit refunds), and other things of value.
> Which is an entirely different issue.

Registering a trademark is a by-the-book example of claiming ownership of something. Especially when it goes together with introducing something to a population largely unaware of it.

> But you did say that cultural appropriation was not ethical.

Yes.

> So, we can continue with it as long as we feel bad about it?

No, and again, I never said that. I very clearly said that once attribution is given properly and mashups/variations are clearly identified there is no problem.

At this point I can't imagine that the attempts at arguing I'm reading are written in good faith and without an agenda.
Maybe you are a mom who is changing an infant, and having a trans person (because they can sometimes be off-putting) enter the room is disturbing enough to be on a similar emotional level to a trans person being denied bathroom access. You might say, well whatever, she's transphobic - but you are prioritizing the trans' persons emotions over the mom's however you slice it.
Outside wood? Is your sauna outside? Or the wood on the outside of the sauna?

I didn't protect mine, just put it together from the factory. But mine is indoors. I think the wood will need replacing within the next 4 years probably, but the heater seems like it will last forever.
They got lucky in the sense that their exit door was unlocked, and anyone (not just the sleeper guy) could have discovered it.
> we just have to wait for the oncoming economic collapse, famine and mass migration. the great part of this whole thing is that the more we double down on the systems that brought us here, the more they will be undermined

Uhuh, we just need to wait until you stop reading dystopian books and will leave your basement.
"Do no evil" indeed.
You might want to read this article and the HN comments around it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414920.

The GP is not arguing against your political positions, but pointing out that an organization which use to focus & care about one position no longer seems to.
> We should be viewing these situations as a cry for help instead of a criminal activity.

You're right. When we uphold a law for the law's sake, we've lost our way.
So the reports of "triage" problems and overwhelmed ICU units is a fabricated issue?
Cool site, but the News Ticker is absolutely infested with debunked 9/11 truther "evidence". (Go to the point where the first plane hits and the point where each tower collapses, and you'll see what I mean.)

The whole thing kinda seems like a sly attempt by a truther to indoctrinate schoolkids. A little distasteful.
keep in mind mask alone is not enough

https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...

and glasses + mask as well

https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...

and this is https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition completely out of the box, no tuning or anything, just copy pasted the example
I don't work in the field, but I sort of passively follow it.

A year ago I made this comment, in another ML thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23315739

"I often wonder about whether neural networks might need to meet at a crossroads with other techniques."

"Inductive Logic/Answer Set Programming or Constraints Programming seems like it could be a good match for this field. Because from my ignorant understanding, you have a more "concrete" representation of a model/problem in the form of symbolic logic or constraints and an entirely abstract "black box" solver with neural networks. I have no real clue, but it seems like they could be synergistic?"

I can't interpret the paper -- is this roughly in this vein?
> Are you also saying that becoming more woman-like is problematic?

As a man, yes.
Water's specific heat capacity is such that you feel the temperature right away. I've been in 39 degree hot springs and it's almost too hot.
It's probably hard to measure, but subjectively one feels better and thinks more clearly, so call it what you will. Saying that something is not affirmed by science is not equivalent to saying it is denied by science.
> My question remains. What's to stop me from coding invalid logic in my types? How do I test the logic?

You test the logic the same way people have tested term-level logic for years. You say "this call to my function with these args results in this output."

At the term-level, you typically use equality to implement assert.

~ gives you a type-level "assertEqual" with which to write the exact same sort of unit tests you can write at the term level.

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For the examples, you need to import GHC.TypeLits. It has the type family "+"
Heart disease and cancer have a steady demand for ICU beds at a population level (maybe a little bit peaky for heart disease around stressful times of year like DST changes and family gathering holidays), so demand can be forecast and supply can be adjusted over time to meet the demand.

OTOH, a pandemic with high peaks of demand is hard to plan for. And having excess capacity on hand for such an occasion is hard when everyone is always upset about how expensive healthcare is.
Definitely wrong, when the games are designed for Windows in first place, enjoy your Steam Machine.
That reminds me of a time, many years ago, when we upgraded a from hubs to switches in the design office. All of a sudden all the HP Unix workstations started to misbehave. It turned out that NFS needed the immediate back pressure caused by collisions on the Ethernet. The switches had a buffer for each port so there was no back pressure until too late and NFS would report that packets were lost. We put the hubs back and all was well,
French here using US keyboard with Compose key. Works like a charm.
It's hard to enjoy what you are working on after you realize it's going from your fingers straight to the trash.

And then you find yourself junior to someone who was getting 6 figures straight out of programming bootcamp three years ago. (And good luck trying to convince them that their genius idea has never actually worked.)
I started programming the C64, then moved to Turbo Pascal 3 for DOS, then Turbo Pascal 6. None of these environments provided syntax highlighting. Then came Borland Pascal 7, with syntax highlighting... And, boy, I was mesmerized!

I really cannot think of going back to plain two-color editors like TP3. Syntax highlighting helps me to spot unterminated strings, mistaken variable names that clash with keywords, plus the general "feeling" of a page of code that I get when I quickly scroll a long source file in search of a specific place.

I do not think that syntax highlighting has spread everywhere just because it looks cool. It is SOOO useful!
> If you ever forget to close a string or a function definition argument list, or anything along those lines

Wouldn't the compiler find this and the editor mark it as a compilation error?
A difference I haven't seen highlighted in this thread yet is that there are phone apps and then there are tablet apps, and the latter have already made big in-roads with content creators, e.g. amateur/pro musicians, illustrators/artists, etcs.

Tablets can provide the ergnomic benefits and the high-level interface for their tasks that a mouse and keyboard can, depending on context, add more complexity to. A lot of the times, you don't need all the power user features at once for your work in the course of creating some art form.

Tablets are lighter than laptops generally and are faster to boot up for when the spark of creativity hits.

Posture and ergnomics are definitely big wins for mobile as a whole, and lot of comments here are desktop power users speaking strictly of their workflows translating to a phone.