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What would be the problem for Microsoft to just be open about it?

Tell them to give a donation for work and a recurring salary based of continued work on the same project but under "MS Official" and upgrade it's role in the dotnet eco system.

I don't think anyone would say no to a bag of money and continuing their interests.
Apparently if you develop other skills than engineering and don't spend 100% of your time doing it you're not technical anymore.
It's open source and distributed. The only ongoing costs are the optional bootstrap DHT nodes, which are pretty cheap.
FWIW, website says "Powered by Digital Ocean".
I can't comprehend why this isn't widely used.

It doesn't have an iOS client.

It's hard to tell your employees to standardize on Tox when a good portion of them don't have a working client to install.

I'm no Apple fan but the world does not run on Android alone.
"We do have the technical capability to bend the curve on climate change and soften the blow quite a bit."

The fundamental economics of the last century was cheap resource access and cheap technology development.

The fundamental economics of the next century are resource shortage.

The other primary fundamental economic change in the next century will be 5-6 billion people wanting the lifestyle and resource use of the first world, or even an approximation of it.

And finally, global warming will displace several billion people, possibly more. Look at the Syria crisis, probably 1/1000th of the scale of the problem, to see how the world can handle that.

When we discuss overpopulation, it is simplified and dumbed down. The real danger isn't some raw count of the number of people (7.9 billion and counting), but that number MULTIPLIED by the amount of resources their lifestyle needs.

The pandemic is showing:

- we cannot coordinate on a simple thing like "get jabbed once for free"

- our economic supply chains are stretched thin, delicate, prone to disruption, and little in the way of redundancy or buffer

- And most dangerously, the rich/elite don't care, they think they can fly off if the shit hits the fan.
Highly recommend the books here, I only have a couple but they are what I want books to be: high quality content, in a high quality packaging. The paper is beautiful, the fonts lovely, the diagrams clean and informative. And the final cherry on top, they're not ugly if left out (so many books on business and engineering just look ugly!).
Sadly, best thing these regulations could achieve is making Facebook work "worse", that is, not as invasive/addictive and thus not as harmful, and enable some competition.

I can't expect that in a democratic society the very root of the problem with social media - that free speech worked well only in times when printing a pamphlet required some money, connections and education and set a high social and intellectual threshold for doing so, and simply does NOT make any benefit to the society when ANYONE can post on Facebook. Just as democracy itself stops working when everyone can vote, becoming a snake that eats it's own tail.

Sadly, this will eventually result in end of the Western world as we know it and there is nothing we can do.
It is kinda funny, right before this whole Facebook thing happened I started trying to explore BGP more. I actually found a really cool guide(https://labs.ripe.net/author/samir_jafferali/build-your-own-...) from RIPE that walks you through setting up an AS to do anycast.

I have been doing some pretty heavy networking stuff for years, but I finally got an AS number and IPv6 block assigned to me. My thought is that if it is cheaper to just do something to learn it rather than taking a class you should just do it.
What is wrong with speculation?

The whole point of the equity market is to allocate more capital to companies that have promising futures so they can use that capital to grow.
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Actually, remarkably close to the sense of classic liberal.
No general purpose sorting algorithm period can do better than O(n * log(n)), regardless of comparison or otherwise. For a radix sort with a complexity of O(n * w) where w is the key length, w converges to log(n) in the general case since the number of bits needed to represent n values grows logarithmically with n, hence you arrive back to O(n * log(n)). The O(n * log(n)) is an information theoretic result that applies even to radix sort, to be more precise the optimal sorting algorithm is Θ(n!).

If you fix w to a constant, then certainly one can claim that radix sort is O(n), but then so are comparison sorts as well.

That's not to say that radix sort isn't useful in practice, just because two sorting algorithms have the same asymptotic bounds doesn't mean they are equal, but it is to say that its performance is a matter of evaluating the constants rather than how it scales.
Why do markets often perform so poorly compared to mutual help among peers?
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This is commonly referred to as "bogosort", the archetype of the perversely bad algorithm.
Nobody seems to care to look at the actual data she provided. It's weak imo. 15% of teens say FB makes their lives worse, 34% say it makes their lives better, and 51% say neither. This is an online poll. Among teens who are depressed, more say that FB/IG has a negative impact. Well ok, a more negative response is exactly what you'd expect from people who are reporting to be depressed.

Then there's the supposed impact of the algorithm on divisiveness. There's almost no data backing this conclusion up, just anecdotal complaints from some European political parties and oh yeah, media outlets like Buzzfeed.

Overall, this data is not compelling and the conclusions drawn from it appear highly sensationalized.
This is on the right track but a bit confused. There are two entities:

1) The nonprofit Mozilla foundation

2) The Mozilla corporation

The foundation owns the corporation.

The corporation develops Firefox and is primarily funded by the Google search deal. It also develops pocket and the VPN and gets some funding from their sales.

The foundation is funded by grants and donations, both from individuals and from other organizations (including from the corporation).
Hello HN,

We previously shared benchmark results showing write speeds of 1.4 million rows per second [1] and how we built this ingestion system. Over the last few months, we've developed functionality that supports geospatial data in our time series database. We decided to add geohashes to our type system along with language features to support handling this type.

We put a lot of thought into optimizing these features from a storage, performance, and usability perspective and we've put together a blog post [2] that gives a tour of the features including implementation details. We've also updated our live demo [3] which now includes an example data set of 250k objects and sample queries to run against this data set.

Given that it's the first time we support geodata in our database, we learned a lot about usage patterns and characteristics of spatial data. We would be happy to hear your thoughts on how we went about adding support for this, where we could improve, and other types of geospatial data we could including in future.

Thanks,
Vlad

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27411307

[2] https://questdb.io/blog/2021/10/04/geospatial-timeseries-dem...

[3] https://demo.questdb.io/
Is there a meaningful difference between this one terrible thing and these other terrible things?

I would say both are bad and should stop.
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Shuffling is even less tricky if you're not trying to do it in place, if you're not trying to do it in linear(ithmic) time, or if you're not trying to induce a uniform distribution over all permutations (but rather just want some positive probability for all of them). Relaxing any combination of these conditions works just fine for Bogosort.
Still no audit, right? Just “trust us, it's secure”. And afaik the authors don't have particular expertise in security.

Edit: also, “it's secure, we use Nacl”: https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/issues/121
> I know the benefits of having a buffer but do we need buffers everywhere? As in your example, wouldn't be much better to have a buffer in the hospitals(or maybe some kind of regional emergency organisations) as a precaution for an outbreak instead of advocating for buffers across the textile industry?

The problem with that specific kind of stockpile buffer is that it can become quickly depleted. No mask stockpile would have been sufficient for the COVID pandemic.

From my layman's perspective, you need stockpiles and excess production capacity to weather a supply shock. It's sort of like backup power in a data center: you have UPS batteries (stockpiled power) to fill the gap until the generators (extra production capacity) can come online.
this. it's never been about free speech or whatever, it's all about the algorithm which exposes you to radical/infuriating ideas with no care about the content of such ideas and with the goal of increasing engagement.
I don't think the Nightingales were used much, but that was mostly because the existing hospitals managed to free up more beds than originally anticipated and all the available staff ended up there. Naturally, the government got endless flack for this, as is often the case when a government puts measures into place for a contingency that doesn't come to pass. (Also, relying on freeing up beds may not have been a good decision in hindsight - one of the ways this was achieved was by aggressively kicking people with potential hospital-acquired Covid infections out into care homes full of people at high risk of dying if they caught Covid, with ugly consequences.)
How much did the AS number and ipv6 block cost, out of curiosity?
Highly educated is not the same as smart or thoughtful.
It wasn't a thing before Skype, but it predates Discord, and might predate Whatsapp, or at least predates me hearing about Whatsapp in the US.

It was a hobby project originally started by a bunch of anons in 4chan, and every time it gets attention, people point out it hasn't been audited, and no one has their reputation at stake. And it doesn't have any desktop/mobile sync.
> you can likely narrow down your target audience to a few tens of people, making those people identifiable

Perhaps, but that's a very different scenario that what most people think of when others say "FB profits from selling your info".
it is if you relax the constraint that the providers keep the legacy allocations and can advertise whatever the hell they want

Steve Deering had a really nice proposal on geographic addressing that would make pki sufficiently performant by using hierarchical assignments
So extraterrestrial alien aircraft is valid 'speculation' but gof research is one notch below 'antisemitism' ?
As for (1), Dalén's 1912 physics Nobel Prize for a regulator for lighthouse illumination seems out of place.
Tax attorney here, these are great resources and should be encouraged. A lot of folks (looking at you, Intuit) spend a lot of money to make a lot more keeping a lock on the market.

These kinds of initiatives don't get everyone all the way there (see: other comments about edge cases) but they can go a long way towards educating folks about what filing looks like -- and at least some of them will give it a go themselves.

tldr: good post
Yes, but...

If it's a FB managed server, run on someone else's network, you still have a lot of the FB software risk (FB's software stack and development mantra make it easy to push changes, some of which break everything, including the ability to push further changes); even if not FB, there's a similar risk.

If it's not a FB managed server, like a 3rd party DNS provider, it's difficult to get that synchronized considering all the fun geographic loadbalancing FB is doing at the DNS level. That's generally hard once you start doing this; and it's why you don't see many dual-provider DNS setups.

Really, the status page should be not on a core domain, so that the DNS can just be external.

FB DNS breaking yesterday almost doesn't matter in the scheme of things, because the BGP breakage broke everything anyway. Would it have been a bit nicer to get http error messages instead of DNS not found messages, sure; but mostly nothing was working anyway.
Also inexpensive for that kind of quality.
you cannot rely on anecdotes.

But: pretty much every single anecdote I've heard (online, or meatspace) tells a very consistent story. Maybe it should be studied. But I guess if some professor at a "prestigious university" says it's all psychosomatic, then I guess not.
I'm a proponent of "single charge per case". If the cops go for the big headline grabbing charge the penalties are still plenty stiff but it removes a huge amount of the incentive for people to take bad plea deals and removes an opportunity for the cops to abusively charge people with stuff with the expectation of them wasting money, the excessive charges being dropped and the realistic ones sticking.

If someone burns a building down killing someone or a drug deal goes bad ending in a shootout then the prosecution can either pick murder or the lesser charge. Either charge will put them away long enough and if it was really a murder then adding arson or drug dealing on top doesn't really change anything but it makes it hard for the cops to charge someone with murder when the fact pattern doesn't justify that since they'll go to court and beat the charge.
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You're going to need another person to become the HR rep that gets your case assigned, too, and probably that rep's manager/whomever handles appeals, as well as the manager & HR rep dealing with the cases that any concerned co-workers will raise, as well as everyone else who was involved that established a company-spanning pattern of harassment that nobody did anything about.

An absolutely trivial conspiracy to pull off, especially given that the median payout for this is closer to ~zero dollars, and most likely, a ruined career for everyone involved, and federal prison time, if any of this is sussed out. Maybe the Donald will give you a pardon once he returns to the presidency, on July 4th, 2023, or whenever.

Feel free to give it a shot, and let us know how it turns out. Meanwhile, I'm a bit busy conspiring with my buddy to become the CEO and the CFO of Tesla, respectively, so that we can take all it's money and fly to the Bahamas.
Your guys need BP Diamond IP
http://www.diamondipam.com

It's an IP address management (IPAM) solution that also just happens to be a fantastic, federated (if you want) DNS management system too. Indeed a previous org I worked at bought it strictly to tame the DNS beast - local sys admins could control DNS for their subnets but not affect anything else. If we wanted, we could have had approval processes on top of the change requests - the system supported that too.

I think the security teams finally woke up to the IP address management functionality and were slowly starting to integrate that into the rest of the infrastructure - but I was leaving around then. It was a fantastic system. One of the best hierarchical role-based access control systems in an application I have ever seen; the granularity was amazing yet it was easy to understand/administer. Not an easy trick!
Honest question: How can everyone be short of chips? I understand that e.g. car makers reduced their orders and their capacity was given to other manufacturers so they are kind of screwed but surely since the overall capacity got increased (albeit by a relatively small amount) then some manufacturers should have stuff.

As far as I can see, pretty much everyone who uses electronics seems to be not just "a bit short" but royally screwed at the moment.
What's the business model? I'm confused by the random "alerts" project that's grouped into the same company.
I mean, there are numerous first hand reports of Trump saying pretty racist stuff that seem premised on the idea of white supremacy.

"Only black people could live like that" when describing Chicago, for instance.
It seems trivial to you, but only because _you know to trust the message and what’s written in the wiki already_. The hardest thing about documentation is establishing this chain of trust. By coming to you and getting a verbal confirmation they establish one tiny link in that chain.

Edit: just thinking out loud here. These error messages are equivalent to a random passerby without any skin in the game saying “oh just run this command” — how would one trust them when their job is on the line? I can think of a few common approaches:
- “oh just run this command because paragraph 1.2.3 in the universal code we all agreed to says so” (easy to confirm)
- “oh just run this command because senior engineer X said it’s safe” (assuming you believe that they did say that)
So maybe the error messages should include some equivalent of those.
The community is english centric not anglo-centric.Eastern Europe is already pretty much part of the West unless you mean different kind of Eastern Europe (Belarus,Ukraine..)

China,Russia,Brazil think of exploits and exploitation techniques as wares to keep or use as weapons.There is not much sharing or exchange of ideas.
What would be convincing proof according to your standards? The complete implosion of democracy? The visible persecution of some minority? Tracing everything back via a proper legalistic paper trail to the actions of a single corporate entity? That's not how the road to hell is usually paved.

Who redefined "Terms and norms"? Who declared that privacy is dead? The problem really is that people have normalized a practice (surveillance, compilation of human behavioral profiles, classification, trading of such profiles, material impact on people's life based on such data and their algorithmic interpretation) that is historically the hallmark of oppression. This is not normal, not if we live in democratic, well functioning societies as we are led to believe. The cambridge-analytica episode is just the tip of the iceberg of what will happen if politicians and markets keep legitimizing this business model.

Why place this bomb under society? Is there any service being offered that is not reproducible otherwise? Its just some freaking databases and servers and messages after all. What the world is waiting for is for the gargantuan mea-culpa of silicon valley and the amoral capital that financed this.

This is a litmus test of whether there is anything left of the "Western" project, because of oppressive and unaccountable regimes there are plenty.
Pardon a perhaps naive comment: I thought whatever is being “whistleblown” was already known. Is it that now we have someone from within the company confirming what we already know?
The two are connected in that authoritarianism can occur in any institution of authority, not just government.
The left want more centralized government power, but they are also happy to wield power and authority anywhere they can obtain it.

I didn't think I'd need to provide evidence that the left want to extend government reach, though. What do you think the 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation bill will do? What do you think the failed "for the people" act tried to do? What do you think Biden tries to do when he has the CDC unconstitutionally ban evictions, or has OSHA force employers to vaccinate their employees against a disease with a .2% IFR?
Wait now, are her motives obvious like in your first comment, or ulterior like in your second. Make up your mind please.
For me it’s all about communication style. I see those wall of text resumes and I see a person that is going to be a poor communicator and possibly a sloppy coder - not knowing when to self-edit and separate the wheat from the chaff on what actually brought value to the roles they took.

Detail is great but concision is greater. The resume is a marketing vehicle and it should be well honed. We can dig into what someone knows during the half dozen hours we spend interviewing them.
Don't you think some form of Facebook on the Internet is inevitable? A social network that is free to use and ad-supported.

It seems that the question is if there is a version of Facebook that does not lead to misinformation and other harms, or at least outweighed by benefits of having a communication channel like Facebook.
I see your point but individuals living their sovereign lives isn't the issue; the issue is if Facebook keeps kindling the fires of division a day could come where we're knocking at the gates of a civil war. Is that too hyperbolic ? I don't know but if asking people in California what they think of Texas/Florida and vice-versa is a litmus test, perhaps some concern is in order.
I grew up on an internet community that railed against age restrictions for video games and content blockers for children. Bypassing school content blockers was a perennial favorite topic. I have to admit it’s surreal to see proposals like this on some of those same sites that advocated for freedom and deferring to parental choice:

> Require age verification by law and ban kids from using it. We ban kids from alcohol we should ban them from this.

It’s also surreal to see that totalitarian governments like China are doing almost exactly this (see recent video gaming bans for under-18s) with a negative reaction from HN and tech communities, but for some reason the same restrictions are championed for social media.

I suspect it has a lot to do with the fact that HN and online tech communities are getting older. We can imagine ourselves playing video games as kids, but social media is a new, scary foreign concept that we need to protect the children from.

I have to wonder if the whole anti-social-media trend will play out like the anti-violent video game protests of the 90s: A flurry of “think of the children” arguments and political non-action that ultimately fizzles out when the new generation grows up and takes over the discourse, having growing up with social media and turned out just fine.
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It's a live program, so I missed that part. What content does she want censored?
indeed, I'm shopping for a laptop and Hp firefly 14 g8 has est. delivery mid march
Receiving bribes, soliciting bribes or declining bribes?
> a brief look at the former Eastern Bloc shows us the end game of these people.

.. the use of nominally "democratic" elections to install far-right "populist" authoritarian leaders ?