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The brand new Garmin GPS I purchased in June is running Android 6. Completely absurd. Granted, it does its job of navigating fine, but it still has wifi connectivity.
People, or businesses, that you know in real life could exchange certificate hashes in person.

This is one of those things that usually garners the response "normal people would never do that", but honestly I'm surprised that no-one has even tried.

Let's say that web browsers put a short hash of the certificate right in the URL bar. Amazon, for example, could print its hash on every shipping box. Banks could print their hashes on plaques in every branch. Newspapers on their, well, newspapers. Media organizations could occasionally add them to their TV logos and radio jingles. And so on. There's any number of out-of-band channels available.

For most sites, you actually wouldn't need to verify the hash anyway. You usually wouldn't care. But when you did care, I honestly think this isn't such a crazy idea.
I feel bad for them, and I try to be nice because it's really $COMPANY_NAME I'm mad at, but they're so completely useless and you have to talk to them anyways. It's hard sometimes with the person actively wasting your time, even if it isn't really their fault per se.

I think there's also a bit of a perverse incentive: making it clear that I'm mad / fed up / about to blow my top tends to get me escalated faster.

I've ultimately settled on being pretty clearly angry, without yelling or cursing or blaming them or anything, which is the best compromise I've found between not being too much of a dick, and not having to listen to their entire useless script.
It's effectively the same thing. A properly implemented "kill switch" uses the OS firewall to block everything from using your hardware NIC, except the VPN tunnel itself. The "kill switch" name comes from improperly implemented "feature" that kills processes when your tunnel drops for any reason. This is a trash implementation.
Yes, I was born and raised in New York!
100k transactions is easy to hit when you've got funding. Which, given the amount of legal lobbying this drone stuff has rushed, doesn't seem like a problem.

Run discounts of 50% on first drone orders, or even just run discounts for first few months. People have proven that they love a bit of interesting fun for a high price. Look at shared scooters, most scooter usage is for fun and "I want to try them".

Just because a company is doing transactions doesn't make it a good company. This is just money at work, money can create "businesses" that shouldn't exist. Then people get too tangled up in the fake business that it's impossible to live without, all the while never actually earning profits you'd expect from a "good, large business".
Lots of absolutist claims here

>Science cannot explain the nature of reality itself.

Science is a methodology, by design it can flex and change based evidence.
Absolute claims do not belong in science, you are not speaking the language of science.
Does the trailer park get to overrule local building codes? Will I dislike them because they're poor or because people who live in trailers are just bad people?
>If we really care about our privacy, though, why do we share so much?

In my experience, for many it has nothing to do with choice of sharing - it's about lack of education and understanding of the internet and/or technology in general. People aren't aware of just how much data is being collected by companies (especially tech companies), who it's shared with, for what purpose it's used or that they really have no control over removing or 'deleting' it.

So I don't believe it's entirely correct to blame consumers. It's more the tech industry exploiting the lack of knowledge of consumers while hiding behind opaque policies.

> the panoptic gaze of CCTV captures our movements; social media companies scan masses of our public and private messages; and smart speakers record clips of our speech

If privacy was important to recent generations of people the NSA revelations from Snowden leaks would have caused an uprising. Whether good or bad, there seems to be a certain level of apathy or acceptance around the loss of privacy of personal data.

> Sometimes we have little choice

The bottom line. Tech companies already know everything about everyone who uses their platforms. In fact, building AI and serving advertisements relies on them collecting it.
I think you've misread jascii - they are saying riding a motorcycle is more dangerous for the operator, while driving a car is less dangerous for the operator compared to adjacent pedestrians (for instance).
An evolution of Gopher. I love it. The internet in 1993 was a special place.
This name is so overused that when I see it, I think I know the project in several different contexts.

Choose another name… please.
I have my own special setup. I usually download to my media server then stream it with Emby. Even though it runs in a browser, I use unified remote to control the streaming PC so wouldn't really want to track through there unless it's automatic. I like assigning ratings when I finish though so I prefer to input it at the end of the series manually.
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> favorite movie quotes or song lyrics for average threats

Is it me or is this some terrible advice? Most popular song lyrics could easily fit in a password word list.
You can blame the politicians all you like, but they are merely a reflection of the people who vote for them. As much as we'd like to believe everyone can see how horrible this system is, it would seem that a lot of people are much more afraid of... something. Could be spending tax money on people they don't know and probably don't like, could be just letting the government run anything at all.
Honestly I remember the general principal more than any particular techniques!

We could try googling the "reference interview". But basically, just inquire about context: Not just what do you want, but what do you want to use it for, what do you want to do with it. And an iterative back-and-forth process of teasing it out. And basic respect for the person, meeting them on their terms not yours, even if you wouldn't want what they want. Be careful of your assumptions. Ask open-ended questions.

When I googled, here's the thing I found that I liked the best: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&h...
This contradicts with my experience growing up in WV. The last time I went back there (5 years ago) I still saw the same confederate flags and n-words being thrown around casually. The reality is that 'the south', like anywhere, has pockets of diversity and acceptance; but your stereotype of universal 'southern hospitality' is not in line with my experience at all.
Have a certificate updater system which will respect an expired certificate for the sole purpose of fetching the latest certificates. What difference is there between having a cert that lasts 15 years or one that lasts a single year but can fetch a new list even if expired.

Everything else can still be confined to the regular expiry rules, just the certificate renewal job is exempt.
The question isn’t “no money”. It’s “no income”. Lots of people and even some with high incomes have no money. If you have “no income” there are options available to you for government healthcare coverage.
This. Some standards bodies (arguably) made a big deal about client certificates some time ago to reliably pin client identities for client->server connections (whether it worked is a different story), and I certainly think having functionality for the reverse (pinning server identities) should exist too.

Doesn't have to be Gemini even, but I think getting buy in from browser vendors after the removal of HPKP is going to be a problem...
"serious practitioner" is not specific or verifiable in the slightest. I suppose there's not much more to be said if we can't agree on that.
American overcorrection is bizare. Years ago I recall hearing regularly that many Americans had no annual leave at all, or the ones who did would get fired if they took it. Now it's the other extreme of unlimited, paid time off?

Just have 4 weeks a year of rolling annual leave and be done with it! These absurd extremes serve nobody.
Also relevant is the ability to get interest only loans.

If central banks are GUARANTEEING asset inflation of >2% - that's an 10% return on 5:1 leverage - that beats the S&P.

If you can get an interest only loan, and be cash-flow neutral - as long as central banks keep a mandate for assets to appreciate >2% (spoiler, they have to or irresponsible governments fail) - housing is a good investment.

It sucks that they've manipulated the market so much. But when >50% of the economy is debt and the cost of debt is price fixed, that's a lot of manipulation...
> It seems fairly clear that the author has a "schtick" or a unique "angle" on social psychology that is being promulgated.

You mean they have an opinion based on their research? That's shocking.

> As it turns out, they released a book this year called, "Laziness Does Not Exist", three years after this article was written.

And that's relevant how?

> When a person takes a course twice without ever managing to turn in homework, the situation of the student is not completely to blame, since the student didn't take the time to do something - the work, withdrawing in time, discussing options with the professor, something.

See, you're trying to place blame. The author is in the mindset of looking for solutions. He's got my respect.
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>Half as much damage as coal is a pretty low bar! Natural gas also meets it, for example.

Natural gas has advantages over coal, but if we are talking about effects on climate change, natural gas is unfortunately comparable to using coal. The CO2 emissions from a natural gas plant are much lower than a coal plant, but it isn't clear that if you account for methane releases during production/transporting/storage that it is better for climate change than coal.

>...Back in August, a NOAA-led study measured a stunning 6% to 12% methane leakage over one of the country’s largest gas fields — which would gut the climate benefits of switching from coal to gas. We’ve known for a long time that methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2), which is released when any hydrocarbon, like natural gas, is burned. But the IPCC’s latest report, released Monday (big PDF here), reports that methane is 34 times stronger a heat-trapping gas than CO2 over a 100-year time scale, so its global-warming potential (GWP) is 34. That is a nearly 40% increase from the IPCC’s previous estimate of 25. ...The IPCC reports that, over a 20-year time frame, methane has a global warming potential of 86 compared to CO2, up from its previous estimate of 72. Given that we are approaching real, irreversible tipping points in the climate system, climate studies should, at the very least, include analyses that use this 20-year time horizon. Finally, it bears repeating that natural gas from even the best fracked wells is still a climate-destroying fossil fuel. If we are to avoid catastrophic warming, our natural gas consumption has to peak sometime in the next 10 to 15 years, according to studies by both the Center for American Progress and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

https://thinkprogress.org/more-bad-news-for-fracking-ipcc-wa...

As we use more and more natural gas, we can expect more and more methane disasters like the leak from Aliso Canyon in CA which was the largest methane leak in US history. This released over 100,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere and required 11,000 residents to be evacuated.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35659947
The unintentional part was that he had an experimental group and a control group. The experiment itself was not unintentional; he was already aware that the lemon juice should prevent scurvy. That's why the one ship of four that got the lemon juice was the ship he was on.

The fact that the British navy still had no institutional knowledge of scurvy hundreds of years later is the point I'm making. They didn't know how to deal with it despite the fact that a cure had been known for several thousand years, and the navy itself had received James Lancaster's report over a hundred years prior. The navy's behavior reflects nothing other than a very severe failure that would have been trivial to fix at any time.

The adoption barriers that caused the navy to kill thousands upon thousands of its own men over a period of centuries did not reflect any difficulty in preventing scurvy. It was always easy. They reflected the fact that adoption barriers are very large no matter what the context is, and absolutely overwhelming evidence, such as a 100% reduction in the incidence of a disease that ordinarily kills 40% of your manpower, is not enough to bypass them.

The adoption of a practice is at most tenuously related to the effectiveness of a practice. That is not how people adjust their behavior.

What point are you making?
Could this be a reason why space happens to be 3 dimensional? Like, I don't know, maybe knots are somehow important to the structure of the universe and it couldn't exist with some other dimensionality? Whenever these "magic numbers" appear in math it always makes me curious.
I agree. But it's plotted by the benchmark project, not written by me. I didn't spend time changing it.
30 year fixed rate is actually the “normal”/common mortgage in the US.

I moved to the US from the UK, where mortgages look more like Australia’s, and I still find it amazing you can fix such a low rate for so long here.
Which articles do you mean? I can't remember the last time I saw anything other than a template that was anything more than semiprotected.

I agree that deletionism is a big problem.
Why Flippa and why now? AU$15M Series A round for Melbourne-based Flippa.com
I've used Freenet and I2P heavily on and off for years. It still baffles me how people don't understand the mentality behind using Freenet. Censorship resistant platforms help keep society free, yes. And they are sometimes abused by bad people just like any other tool, yes. But they are so much more than that.

Do you remember the early internet? The Internet before JavaScript, ads, and commercialization was everywhere? Do you remember surfing through homemade webpages that someone put a lot of thought and effort into? Do you remember usenet? Do you remember not even imagining that some corporation or government was collecting your data in-bulk?

That's Freenet. It's the internet that should have been.

I came for the memes and I stayed for the community. FMS and WoT (Freenet Message System and Web of Trust) use trust lists to decide what I see and most people who use FMS and Sone (sort of like Twitter) are decent. Pedo's and generally bad people typically use Frost-Next, a third party application that the Freenet Project does not endorse that is susceptible to spam. I have had so many in-depth, thought-provoking discussions on FMS over the years. Far more than any other clearnet website today, Reddit included. There is a real sense of community on Freenet you'll be hard pressed to find elsewhere.

I enjoy making websites and writing. Freenet hosts numerous websites (freesites) I have made over the years and a ton of my political and philosophical writings. I just finished making a Super Mario 64 Freesite in honor of one of my favorite video games. I spent a lot of time working on it and I'm proud of it. That's just for Freenet. I live in the United States too, and this is what I use Freenet for. I also host the Astronomy Picture Of the Day freesite I update everyday. You don't have to need censorship resistance to use Freenet, it's existence merely safeguards the prerequisite to all real civil liberties in the digital age-- privacy. I am convinced that the existence of Freenet and tools like it (especially Tor) are necessary for a free society to exist.

I2P is great too and I'm just as passionate about that, though it's been awhile since my servers have been up. Same philosophy of censorship resistance, but with I2P you have to run a server 24/7 to host content and can have dynamic content as well. Freenet is more distributed. I2P is like Tor but is more used by nerds than criminals. Both I2P and Freenet are amazing tools. I highly recommend people to check them out.
Technically, I guess so. Point is, we can’t be diligent about everything at all times; and that includes intellectually. Difference is that negative judgements are more readily wielded as verbal weapons than compliments.
Ya, the US has fixed 30 year rates. Interest rates are higher going from a 15 year to a 30 year to price in some of the risk to the bank.

The difference every time I bought a house was about 1%
Meanwhile entropy is eroding the value of many of the made and manufactured things in the world. Termites are eating houses, cars are wearing out, children are breaking toys, clothes get holes in them...
Thank you for sharing this, in all sincerity.
And Gemini being its own stand-alone thing that is different from everything is a serious hindrance for people to try it.

I've read Drew's stuff for a while and even wanted to test out Gemini out of interest, but it is really annoying/frustrating to use in my experience. And that is even before you get to the fact that there is nearly nothing there and/or it is nearly impossible. to find.
There was an equally intriguing Python goto implementation posted last year¹, with some interesting comments²(including some in the gist itself).

This version does seem better, but I'm not really sure that is a good thing.

¹ https://gist.github.com/georgexsh/ede5163a294ced53c3e2369cca...

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23076859
Lacking doxing and gangs. You'll see even FBI knelt to BLM. It helps to have friends and immediately take police pictures, license plate and their name. Then track down where they live. Most law enforcers are scared when they know this is done on them. A lot of police getting attacked has no suspect or culprits.
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That would be against the spirit of the whole Gemini thing
Banking looks easy till there's the regular credit crunch. In the last credit bubble that ended in 2008 there were lots of disruptors.
However, when there's a crash, who gets saved is a matter of politics. In the last crash, Lehman got sacrificed[1]. Meanwhile, Goldman got it's credit default swaps paid out 100 cents on the dollar when AIG failed by the grace of the federal government.[2] Many of the disruptors crashed and burned though.

[1]https://dealbreaker.com/2018/09/hank-paulson-killed-lehman-b...

[2]https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/08/meet-the-two-congress...
I hope some day this companies tries to make it's own chips.
I have a 30 year fixed rate mortgage of 2.375%. In the US, 30 year fixed is common.
Choice.

They can chose not to come into a restaurant.

The restaurant can chose who to serve.

You can chose to not go there.

States can chose to remove choice.

States can chose to make choice painful by making a monetary cost for choice.

People can currently choose which state to live in.

Texas represents a certain mindset. Most people know what it represents and chose accordingly.
Postgres has much more featureful query language, and at tens of thousands of rows the performance difference is irrelevant. The story becomes different when answering a query has to touch millions of records and the answer is needed in milliseconds.
@moosedev

Ya, my dad in Canada keeps encouraging me to buy property given the mortgages. Has its downsides, but over all its brilliant.
I used to do this with a dict. Glad this is in Python 3.10.
Great work, but might be a few holes in this. I recommended a book about 10 days ago [1] that doesn't appear in your index.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482475
It's likely your viewpoint of professionalism doesn't match that of Atlassian's here. As an Australian, it seems perfectly fine to me.
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What is the obsession on this page with “procrastination”?
That's less than the casualty count for the war on terror, which has accomplished a lot less.
I was really hoping that Apple would implement a "stress" or "body battery" type feature like Garmin and Whoop have. Adding more health metrics is cool, but taking those metrics and telling me what they mean is much more informative.
As we know the watch OS already calculates the HRV and respiratory rate for us so it would be great if they added a "stress" and/or "recovery" feature. The watch already records Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, Respiratory rate and Resting Heart Rate, which are commonly used in these metrics.

Understand that there are third party apps that try to do similar however I think this is an area that Apple is lacking in compared to other smart watches.
Honestly as a society we should not be putting any effort into supporting manufacturers who are producing hardware that are immediately e-waste.

Right to repair needs to cover this issue. Either keep devices in your ecosystem up to date, or open it up for third party support.
That’s the standard in the US. Current rates are about 2.75%, although they went below 2.5% for a bit earlier this year.

Those rates are for 20% down, good credit primary residences purchases. Rates for investment or vacation properties are generally about 1-2 percentage points higher.

Mortgage rates in the US are indirectly and directly subsidized by the government across a huge spectrum of programs- See FHA loans, VA loans, etc. However one of the biggest contributors to low 30 year prices are the government backed corporations like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that purchase mortgage debt and repackage it into mortgage backed securities. Way too much the go into here, but a lot of the 2008 financial crisis has its roots in the policies that created Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. Regardless, they have proven a fairly effective way to keep mortgage rates low.
Michaellapan.com I'm really bad at keeping up with blogging. Tried several times to start..
Other JavaScript engines will be disadvantaged because only Apple's JavaScriptCore is permitted to just-in-time compile JavaScript into native code. Changing that policy, by allowing third party apps to allocate RWX pages, would fundamentally change the entire iOS security model.

(There are some security details of how JSC's JIT is hardened in this talk by the head of Apple's security engineering team: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Krstic.p...)

WebKit on iOS also uses its tight OS integration to achieve high performance while using an out-of-process architecture for security. Every app that uses WebKit gets this security architecture for free, which is a major benefit to users. This architecture could theoretically be adopted by other browsers, but only with a lot of engineering effort from both sides.

A separate browser app for Chrome that uses Blink, perhaps modified to use JavaScriptCore, doesn't seem that bad, if they could achieve the same level of isolation between tabs.

OP points out that other browsers such as Chrome can push software fixes faster than Apple. Well, not necessarily on iOS, where they will have to go through App Review.

And what about when 3rd party apps start bundling Chromium.framework (as we have with Electron apps on the desktop today) because they want to use <new API> now? Who is going to make sure all those app developers are keeping their embedded Chromium patched and up-to-date?

(Will you complain when your users can’t visit a site because the browser embedded in Facebook doesn’t support <even newer API> some day? Or will you tell every iOS visitor that “this site looks best in the standalone browser app”?)

The WebKit mandate on iOS almost entirely comes down to protecting users against web exploits, and on the other side the argument mostly boils down to "Apple is slow at implementing <feature>."