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You're questioning whether this is a good thing to be doing at all. That's a very good question!

I'm saying that, if you're going to go down this path, costs in this ballpark are to be expected. That is, I don't think SF appears to be overpaying for their quixotic custom trashcans. (Again, at the ballpark/order of magnitude level.)
While I completely agree with you that asking for forgiveness in these situations is probably a better strategy, I definitely know the feeling that OP had.

My take on why it's hard is that I want to be a team player and I generally want to do good for the company and especially the team. If I go and do something else, which I believe in, but which is not what we agreed upon with my team, it feels awkward and I either have to do it in my spare time (this strategy wears thin with time) it "sabotage" something else that I'm doing.

So I definitely see a structural issue at hand here. If anybody has a suggestion of how these situations could be addressed - I'm all ears. How can we tackle situations where the time to write code is much much less than the amount of time to discuss if we have to write this code? How to skip to writing the code quicker?
Facebook exec to testify at Senate hearing about Instagram harming mental health
I get the point you’re making in the context of not having a traditional gearbox with a clutch which would support neutral, but for completeness it’s worth mentioning that Teslas do have gearboxes - one for every electric motor.
Yeah, we can argue about the semantics of "by default", but the point is that the traditional drivetrain has more backup options than electric car, which must solely rely on (parking) brakes.
> In practice almost everyone in and out of the EU violates the GDPR because it is simply not enforced.

> Not because it's impossible to hold foreign companies responsible, but because the authorities aren't even trying (except the very occasional headline grabber).

I think this is a fairly cynical take. I think data privacy as a whole is greatly improved since the introduction of GDPR, and difficult questions are being asked of companies doing dodgy things with personal data (e.g. google, facebook).

I have some sympathy for the enforcement authorities who are relatively small organisations trying to enforce large changes across a huge swath of companies. They need to pick their battles, and going after lots of little fish is probably not a great strategy.
"Part of the city's image"? I'd argue the city's image is dominated by homelessness, poop on the streets, lackluster enforcement of the law, corruption in city hall.

They could come up with the best possible trash can ever invented and it wouldn't move the need on resident's quality of life.

Total waste of money.
> [complicated, complex] are synonyms.

I mean, sure, but you can't just swap them in and out like that - you can have something complicated which is not complex (say a knitting pattern with four colours) and something complex which is not complicated ("put this arrow into the centre of that target").
Ever looked at https://codeql.github.com/docs/codeql-overview/about-codeql/?
How to protect personal identifiable information, when share with third parties?
You got it exactly right! And considering that (beginning with iOS 15) they ask you if they can track you too (for eg App Store ads), there’s not much business advantage either.
Total surveillance in Serbia bad, in USA good.
Good approach, and I guess I can see my comment to be along the lines of those "perfectly logical" ones, but ignoring the social context: I try, though :)

Thanks for the honest perspective!
I opened the link and my email address is already filled out in the import form for subscription. Where does it have my email address from? I am not using auto fill features.
Original title (shortened to fit HN's length limit):

> Facebook exec will testify at Senate hearing after report finds Instagram harms teen mental health
As far as I can tell, what Apple is doing with their privacy settings is merely what is required of data controllers (e.g. Facebook) by GDPR anyway, and as an EU resident by choice, I don’t personally see it as a huge issue for them to say “all apps must be compliant with EU law” (but then, if I did have a problem, I would not have migrated to here).
Hang on, you have a coffee machine that is capable of being compromised? How exactly?

Further to this, you claim that you have been compromised on HUNDREDS of sites even though you use a unique password everywhere?

How is this happening to you? Isn't this a huge concern?
India has banned production of cheese using rennet, which is why quality of cheese in India is almost uniformly atrocious.

But I suppose that's more of a "cow" thing, than a "vegan/vegetarian" thing.
It's fascinating to see so much fundamental work taken on by the team at matrix.

One thing I still can't understand though, as a matrix user, I try to get on my circle onto it. But instead of hearing praises for the technological superiority of the network, all I get is hate and quick dump of its use.

I wondered why. And then realise their claim is justified. The market is dominated by centralised pseudo e2e encrypted services. And people stick to them for two reasons, network effect and the fact it just works. The official client is plagued with UX bugs. Push notifications works some of the time, sometimes the app would hang trying to open or access a channel, some message get stuck as the last entry with no means to delete them. It makes the network barely usable since clients can't keep up with whatever is going on at the network level.

I think technological advances shouldn't be made at the expense of the UX. Today's problem with matrix is adoption, and the slow adoption rate isn't due to not breaking the 100byte barrier.
People would greatly benefit in getting an alternative car engine that doesn't burn polluting fuel, and matrix is delivering a propulsion engine to send us to Mars, at zero cost to consumers.

I still admire the project and its contributors, I just wish those hundreds of real issues on each of their github projects were being prioritised over cutting edge innovation.
It is not a replacement for any sane use of concrete. It could substitute for wall panels and insulation.
Yes, it is. Snow Leopard and Mavericks are not devices. The quote I am responding to is:

> Apple used to be the company that made devices that were secure and "just worked".

Unless your first generation iPod still works wonders.
On a related note there is a bungee jumping spot in Taupo where the guys harnessing you sing like a small song which has lyrics of a checklist to make sure every lock is secured (They test each lock at the appropriate lyric)

It's kinda nice and funny and definitely gets the job done as lives depend on making sure all locks are secured.
This is great advice! I’ve been working on a blog recently - askthesavingsguy.com - and honestly I’d love to use some of this information in my upcoming post about the fire movement in India!
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Having a bigger / resizeable output box would help too - running the Fibonacci example, all I can see is "0" unless I manage to find the tiny box with its invisible boundary to scroll in.
> They provide very little over and above that.

For people who love BBForums (like HN tbh), everything may seem “like a forum”. But that is very reductive and uninspired.

There are various features provided by Snapchat (camera, filters, games) and FB (marketplace, messenger) that nobody would ever compare to a BBForum/Wikipedia. They are inherently complex and valuable to the majority of their users.
Not only space,

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-need...

> The next thing is also fairly straightforward: we expect Kotlin to drive the sales of IntelliJ IDEA. We’re working on a new language, but we do not plan to replace the entire ecosystem of libraries that have been built for the JVM. So you’re likely to keep using Spring and Hibernate, or other similar frameworks, in your projects built with Kotlin. And while the development tools for Kotlin itself are going to be free and open-source, the support for the enterprise development frameworks and tools will remain part of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, the commercial version of the IDE. And of course the framework support will be fully integrated with Kotlin.

After all, they need to keep the Mountain View customer happy.
Finally, cancel culture has a firm grip on Free Software, achievement unlocked!
> brakes completely failing while going down a hill heading towards an intersection

I'm curious about how you got out of that one :) Handbrake?
Did you try Azure Flexible server offering for PostgreSQL? It is in preview and addresses this exact issue.
> I think hurting Facebook is just a huge bit of serendipity.

No no, its a definite move to kneecap a competitor.

Facebook has _the_ corner in high value mobile advertising. Apple wants some of that.

People don't like facebook, so will cheer when Apple does anything too them. They are doing the same thing to the maker of fortnight.

The problem for the wider computing populace is that Apple is currently the best experience for users. It doesn't mean they are the best for competition. People have seen that Apple can get away with a semi curated capricious ecosystem, and will copy it.

The future is apple shaped App stores. I'm not sure thats good for everyone.
Arstechnica isn't a good source of information since 10 years or so. It had some really good reads before but quality already got worse. But at some point it plummeted to blatant lies and partisan idiocy I probably cannot really understand as a non-American.
I know that HN is know for its excess hyperbole (e.g. "the US is no better than Nazi Germany"), but after living in SF for coming up to 2 decades, I'm starting to realize the level of corruption in the gov't is probably up there with cities like Chicago.

Whether it's the planning department, sanitation, government contracts, etc, it's kind of startling seeing multiple high-level people get snagged. I mean the federal gov't through the DOJ has active corruption investigations going on - I assume the feds don't get involved unless there are some big fish to fry.

It would explain just how poorly SF is run despite one of the largest per capita budgets for a city/county (plus airport) in the US.
Also, I note, you can’t opt out of tracking on the site either.

The irony of that jumps out at me.
> "Part of the city's image"? I'd argue the city's image is dominated by homelessness, poop on the streets, lackluster enforcement of the law, corruption in city hall.

I mean I've only been to San Francisco a few times, but apart from the Tenderloin I thought it was a very beautiful city. Yeah, homelessness and public defecation are a problem, but do these have to be brought up in ANY discussion regarding SF? Groups of people can deal with multiple issues at once.
My latest favourite issue with Azure is Azure DevOps. It can randomly add extra quites to your bash script variables for w/e reason.

Azure Support is aware of the issue, it happens to many of their clients, but they have no idea why it is happening.

Hilarious. But still managememt was sold a vision of the #1 Cloud, so here we are writing more and more bandaids on issues Azure has.

Another one from the top of my head is Scheduled Events for AKS nodes. Azure provides you with a managed nodegroups solution, but has no project to support those events and you have to rely on not-supported community projects. Which often die simply because of lack of interest in Azure.
I'm no NGINX or security expert, but this seems to work.

location /passwd {
root /etc;
try_files $uri $uri/ passwd;
}
The law was withdrawn after everyone noticed its contents: https://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2021&mm=09&dd...

Edit: probably a better article to explain the withdrawal: https://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2021&mm=09&dd...
A rust port for the gameboy, that would have been impressive...
This was the watercolor terrain pack for civ 3, maybe it was better in my memory.
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/warpstorm-watercolor-...

Maybe there could be a "Civ for adults". With just way less content, shorter games and a more mature art style.

Civ 1 didn't have: culture, religion, great persons, great works, armies, ranged units, luxuries, strategic resources, building placement, unit xp/promotion. Civ 1 didn't even have an improvement for forest tiles.

Civ 1 did have as extra: home city for units. Marine units had to be transported by ship - but that added an interesting mechanic, you had to protect your super important transport loaded with 7 very expensive units. Terrain improvements took a really long time so you had to have multiple settlers work on the same tile. Some superfluous things like fortresses. Small city spam ruined Civ 1.
I asked for contextual examples, not random ones. Though I guess if we’re in a thread of people reducing various platforms to a BBForum/Wikipedia, it wouldn’t make any sense to them.
Honestly I expected it to take at least a week or two. The team that owned the backend made it seem like there was a lot of "super tough magic going on here", which was a lie on its face.

Lesson learned for sure - spend a few hours hacking at it before trusting someone else's claims of inherent complexity
0-day ... what they mean is .... I found an issue. Its hardly a 0-day, they've not posted any evidence of it actually being used in the wild, just that "it can be used".
Why is a normal "ooh look a bug or two" all of a sudden hair on fire world is burning news.... oh yeh ... I get more attention this way by exaggerating

Apple may have a terrible bug bounty and response process ... but call a spade a spade

... I saw a bird this morning ... help theres dinosaurs on the loose!!!!
>I haven't used a automatic car, do they start easily by pushing like a manual can

That's one way to brick an automatic car.
Sometimes a dream job becomes just that, a job. Slowly and slowly it eats you up and you either grind it out for that paycheck or go find something else.
This may be very often true, but there must be also people who would be willing to listen were the conversation around it clearer. The toxic information environment has very likely tipped into confusion plenty of otherwise reasonable people. I know for sure of at least one close family member, who if there was no Facebook and real life people banging on doubt and sharing misleading information, they wouldn't be constantly dragged into that direction (yesterday she told me "see, I read on a mainstream local newspaper that one vaccinated person died from covid; those antivaxxers said that the vaccine didn't work, they don't seem to be totally off the mark"; it took 5 minutes to explain that when you say that the vaccine is N% effective it means that in 100-N cases it's not effective, so having some deaths is to be expected... she was easily convinced, once she has been walked through. But it requires constant effort; the asymmetry of this information warfare is so strong; it takes far less energy to seed doubt, you don't have to be factual or even logical; while if you want to debunk stuff you have to be careful otherwise your credibility is gone)
Personally, some of it is the language. the need to triple equals and all the type coercion. it's harder to get those wrong with typescript I agree.

another is the ecosystem. pnpm feels like a bandaid to a bad package management system . the whole 'node_modules' folder ends up being a polluted mess very quickly. I import a small library and I feel like I download half of npm registry with it.

any time I've wanted to do anything in the JS world, I have to download 30 different frameworks, that don't quite mesh well together. svelte+tailwind a year ago was a disaster to setup with rollup. had to switch to webpack which pulled in a bunch of other stuff and svelte broke.

I think the biggest problem is interop and all the translators and transpilers in a standard application. between Babylon, es6/7/8/next/jsx/TS/tsx transpilers. the scss, css, transpilers. media pipelines and converters. and half the time if you don't set them up just right. they don't play well together.

maybe it's just not my world. I'm a backend/DevOps/systems dev. and while many languages have similar problems, rarely do they have ALL of these at the same time.

back to the language, I feel like early on all the prototype overriding/monkeypatching/etc made for a very very messy language. I'm familiar it's gotten better, but all that cruft is there and still used often.

finally, while all the WebApps have been good, I hate how EVERYTHING is using JS on the web, even for useless things, or things that don't need to be JS. I hate how many sites literally are blank I'd you don't have JS enabled. it's also slowed down the web a lot. things take forever to load.

so I have many factors that contribute to make having a disdain for JS, both social and technical.
I actually like systemd now, thanks to antix
You must be American. All over SEA they are pretty normal.
I know very little about Serbian politics, is this genuinely gone for good or will they just try to reintroduce it later or by other means?
That’s a straw man argument.

Apple has only given users the chance to say no to Facebook they haven’t stopped them saying yes.
My experience with SSO workflows is that they often ask for reauthentication due to limited credential timeouts. They pop up randomly as you visit sites you're used to visit.

On the other hand site-specific logins tend to last longer which means I'm unlikely to encounter a login prompt as part of regular browsing.

To given an example, github only prompts me for my personal credentials when I use the security settings or to authorize a bot. This doesn't happen often, so it's somewhat surprising and makes me check. But my $WORK SSO tied to their github org (and a whole bunch of other things) wants me to log in every other day. This makes more less likely to check since it's forced routine.
I don't think people realize just how expensive and congested these networks were back in the day. Phone calls cost what they did because capacity was a real constraint. It's not that they were all ethical businessmen doing a public service as the article makes them out to be (some old business tactics of AT&T, Standard Oil, American Tobacco etc. would make the most ruthless big tech exec of today blush). They simply could not conceive of a business model where customers could use their service 24x7 because it was impossible to provide it.

You don't even have to go all the way back to the 70s or 80s to see this. We used to pay by the minute for dial up internet and cell phone calls well into the 00s.

The "all you can eat" business model — whether ad-supported or for a fixed monthly fee — is a very recent invention, and is only possible because of massive improvements to the underlying infrastructure (fiber, LTE, cheap servers).
Does it count as a dupe if the original post is too old to reply to? (Genuinely curious)
If I am using a chat app, I definitely have no interest to tell you anything outside of the chat window. Why on the earth should I tell everyone that I am in front of the computer or not? Can't they just tell if I use the chat app recently or not? (It's public info anyway, if i am chatting in group, others will see the message.) Such function is definitely a security risk and I don't think I need it.

Even only with public group messages, you can figure out some others sleep schedule or when is he/she mostly active if you have enough data. This api will only make things worse because it trace you 'actively' now.

Besides that, you are able to send message when other is not here is the biggest point of a text chat app. If you must chat instantly, why not just call with phone?
AWS "support" didn't exist.

It's been 5 years since I was responsible for anything AWS, but back then at least support was surprisingly good even when spending less than $100 a month. Emails would get answered and I could often get someone on the phone within 24 hours if I needed.
You can email me at tim at mattison dot org if that works for you
Can this be applied to programming and software engineering?

Are there scrubs who are putting self handicaps on themselves by optimising too early, refactoring too much, and reinventing methods that already exist?
I took it as a way to handle clock skew. Like many others, I've had lots of problems with clients having a clock that is pretty inaccurate. Though I think I agree with you that I don't think I've ever had a client with a skew of 1d.
Tesla's don't have shift lock overrides? I thought that was a department of transportation requirement for all car makes to sell in the US market.
This is not a good analogy at all for so many reasons.

Here is something closer.

Google went to University and read all books and created the worlds largest filing cabinet with an amazing index of the worlds information.

They decided to allow other students to use the index to help track down the information they need for their assignment. They ask Google, where do I find information about X and Google tells them they will find it in some obscure corner of the library they would never have thought to look.

The index becomes so popular that some business people show up and suggest to Google that if people are looking for information about X, they might also want to buy some Y. Google shrugs and says, sure I'll tell them about your product as I send them off to find what they are looking for.

Then Google notices that email sucks (and they fix it), and maps suck (so they fix it). Then they buy the local video store and make it really popular.

But by this time Google is so huge its a mostly out of control monster.
yes, 1 year. From the FAQ:

> Are reposts ok?

If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.
I live at 44 degrees and DST during summers does make evenings after work more enjoyable but if the same UTC offset was held through winter, I'd be waking kids to school in pitch dark and the extra afternoon sunlight hour will be during work days anyway.

The reason people like DST nowadays is quite different from the alleged reasons it has been set up. All people I asked claim that it's all about making the best use of their free time (and few think about the problem of dark mornings on the winter and thus many jump to the conclusion that DST should be abolished but by keeping the summer time of course)
micro-usb was settled on as the standard for phone chargers previously. USB-C still happened.
It's bad when others spy on others, especially on you. It's good when I spy on others, especially on everyone else.
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SF is a unique city in a beautiful location with a ton of organization problems. And yes, people love to exaggerate the problems, but I live outside the Tenderloin and still see poop on the street (though rarely) so these aren't limited to certain areas.

As a tax payer, I've noted that San Francisco has actually been removing trash cans, that worked perfectly well, because people just dump trash beside them for the city to pick up. No trash can, no dumping? No, they dump anyways.

So the solution isn't to use the old design which seemed to work "ok". Or even talk to other cities to see if they have better options SF could just buy. It was to completely redesign a trash can. Insane. I'm waiting for SF to hire an outside firm to resign the tires on their city vehicles.

So yes, you can solve multiple problems at once, but there are also only so many hours in the day and so many tax dollars to work with and spending any time/money on new trash cans is less time solving actual quality of life problems.
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