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> Solves the future problem of potential relicensing, doesn't it?

Yeah, by giving the foundation all the power it needs to relicense it however it wants.

> Of having to track down potentially 10's of thousands of contributors that may be hard to find (or even dead) to get their consent?

That's the ideal situation. Make the copyright stuff so hard no one will ever bother trying to take over a project. Linux kernel does this. It will never be licensed as anything other than GPLv2 because it's virtually impossible to obtain the consent of all developers who ever contributed to it. The more Linux grows, the more people contribute to it, the stronger this protection becomes.
I wish browser makers gave more attention to implementing form widgets. Natively accessible widgets optimized for the device it's being displayed on? yes please

I've been waiting for some of the more advanced options of <input type="range"> for ages. <input type="color"> is supported but often a bit clunky in its implementation. Hence people don't use them, hence they don't get improved.

Some sort of drag and drop reordering widget would be really nice as well
> customers WANT companies to be able to track everything about them

Customers want free shit. American culture remains prickly to being tracked.
No. Look again. The compare is opposite of bubble sort’s.
If your most important of important files don't exceed 2GB then a Dropbox free account is a no-brainer.

If you have important files that are roughly ~100GB, Google Drive is only EUR 20 per year to upgrade from their 15Gb free tier to their 100GB offering. Again, a no-brainer.

If you're concerned about the privacy of your files on cloud services, then use Cryptomator[0].

Cryptomator is for more advanced users and you need to read the DOCs before using it. Personally though, I found the interface intuitive and I don't consider myself that smart (depending on your definition of that term).

[0] https://cryptomator.org/
I don't understand this comment. If you think it's not useful evidence of anything, then are you saying that welding people into their homes was equally likely if nothing was happening and it's just coincidence that they did it when they did?
Absorbing co2 at ground level and emitting it high in the atmosphere is equivalent to emitting fossil co2 at ground level -- at higher altitudes the green house effect is stronger, see radiative Forcing.

Also, the overall energy efficiency is very poor. A plant creating synthetic cerosene just opened in Germany, and the reporting said the electricity->h2->cerosene->aircraft movement efficiency is 10-15%. Ouch.
I think someone on HN would then know about it.
> Anyway, Late September/Early October is rife with outages for as long as we've been running internet services.

Is there any particular source for that or is it just something that you've noticed? Feel like I do see more around this time of year but would be real interested if there is data backing it up.
> I have to use Facebook because everybody I know uses Facebook. Just like when I was younger I preferred Playstation but had to buy an Xbox because all my friends had Xbox.

This speaks more about lack of self-control than anything else.
I’ll bite.

Me to watch: Hey Siri, call so-and-so on Bluetooth

Siri: calls so-and-so with Bluetooth selected but nonetheless the audio comes out the watch until I touch the phone.

Siri on Apple Watch is generally very weak.
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To argue a bit I'd say that the science prizes have it a bit easier.

Here's the criteria that Alfred Nobel set out in his will[0] for the literature prize (kinda badly translated from 19th century Swedish): "one part to whom in literature have produced the most excellent work in an ideal direction".

You have had 18 members of the Swedish Academy debating what the hell that means since forever.

[0] https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-testam...
I disagree, especially considering high THC strains. In general, coffee, tobacco and alcohol are milder. People can do stupid stuff after having too much alcohol, but I'm not sure I would consider that psychosis. Having too much THC can make someone feel a bit crazy (or maybe a lot crazy). It can even be somewhat psychedelic at higher doses, so there's just some variability there. The thing is that THC can also make people feel pretty relaxed, so they wouldn't necessarily want to go out and do something stupid, but I'm just saying that it isn't a guarantee. I think there is some risk, at least for acute episodes, and I personally don't think it's just FUD.
I think you're making unfair criticisms of Backblaze due to your specific situation. Backblaze offers two primary restore options; one through the GUI and the other by sending you a hard disk in the mail. The GUI isn't really meant for restoring a whole hard drive; it's designed more for file level restores. Your father has a slow internet connection (as you mentioned below), and that makes the GUI even more difficult to use. You should have had Backblaze ship you a drive with his data. It might not arrive as fast as you'd like, but at least you'd have the data.
No. Many scientific papers are written in third person. "We" actually means "me or us the author(s) and you the reader who is following along and checking these details"
The FSF isn't run by full-time employees of a for-profit megacap company that also owns the runtime and package distribution system the projects use though. It's also not the promise the foundation made when it first began soliciting projects to join it.
Pocket Premium and Mozilla VPN are about the closest you can get to money that goes into the coffers of Mozilla Corporation (instead of the Foundation).
The two main backers (Apple and Google) seem to have backed out.

From my point of view, for Apple, their use of C++, C++17 is good enough.

Metal uses a C++14 dialect as shading language, IO and DriverKit an embedded friendly subset, for everything else there is Objective-C and Swift.

Google seems to have been put off by losing the ABI vote and changed focus into Abseil instead, and have their own Draconian style guide anyway.

And are increasingly adopting Rust as well.

Intel, ARM, IBM, Sony, Nintendo will have to jump in.

By the way, concepts were mostly implemented by a single guy!
> The focus of many shipping conversations is how to address even unmeasured potential risks to these metrics. A huge number of experiments are run specifically targeted at improving these metrics.

How do you run tests on unmeasured metrics?
And a few others with media attention from the top of my head:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
Does anyone know if this supports code snippets? We're currently using mattermost at work and it has great code and custom command support. But for that, we need to have domains, certificates and our own servers set up. I'm not the tech guy so I don't know if this kind of chat app would be better, but I think it would be great to have something that was P2P (no server requirements, certificates etc...) while being super secure.
This is just not true: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/us/politics/trump-democra...

I don't think you're wrong but by the same token, more gov't overreach is really the Democratic platform and that is not a secret.
> And I realize crypto gets a bad rap around here, but I really do think stablecoins offer an interesting way around this. It's an open standard that anyone can build on top of and integrate with which means we could have a healthy market with many payment processors, and wallet providers.

I looked at stablecoins for a stingy friend's side gig (they were using Square Cash for payments until they got shut down), but it was too complicated just trying to explain and onboard a bunch of regulars with varying financial circumstances onto a single service.
> You fight misinformation with more information, not censorship.

This is a flawed model. At some point, there is so much information that nobody can conceivably consume it all. A better mental model for this dynamic is that of pollution: can you fight pollution by making more "stuff", or at some point does it make sense to try and clean out the junk?

> Unless you're saying other people are so stupid we need to control their content so they can make the right choices?

Yes, to some degree. I think we need to be cautious here, and I acknowledge that there are a lot of examples of how this can go wrong.

But yes, yes indeed. If people were smarter, propaganda would not work. Alas propaganda works, and it works frighteningly well. There are also plenty of examples of this in both the modern world and in History.

> At that moment, let's just keep everyone in a jail cell so they don't hurt themselves.

Now you're being a little hysterical.

> Who is the arbiter of truth? The government? You?

This might shock you, but no, and we don't need an "arbiter". Getting to the "truth" is to a large extent a decentralized process that should involve many people and communities. I would suggest that a good place to start is with the scientific consensus. For everything else, it certainly becomes a lot more complicated.
Congrats! Here is the link to the Streamlit blog post: https://blog.streamlit.io/announcing-streamlit-1-0/
It basically means "pro-capitalism boomer" to most progressives
Just print out all necessary information, in case of exception, and suggest a potential solution to the problem.
That explanation isn't convincing to me, it's getting more into emotional territory (they are hostile because they didn't accept our patch) and away from technical territory (here are reasons why our patch wasn't accepted).

I think VTE is fine if you don't mind development happening at a glacial pace...
> A certain amount of "bad" experience

Sorry, but certainly not: just the implicit awareness of having avoided bad experiences is sufficient. Intelligence is the ability to entail consequences out of events not experienced (Prof. Patrick Winston) - you just need intelligence. One certainly does not need to catch fire while being run over by a steamroller, to appreciate carrying on one's own business. If another does, their issue - but it's an issue.
Appreciate the insights. It makes sense that this class of metrics have made it into the decision making process, and I am glad it is happening.

The two concerns that come to mind without deeply understanding the problem is that:
1) Measuring a qualitative, nebulous metric like "wellbeing" (which could mean different things for different people) is likely very hard to do right
2) In my experience, things tend to move fast, and experiments often don't run for _that_ long. I would hypothesize that Facebook's negative effects on users is a compounding effect that emerges over the scale of months. Sure, you can leave a small % of users in a holdout group of your experiment, but how often is that getting revisited?

I do like the idea that there are teams out there that are taking it as a goal to positively move these non-engagement metrics. If FB is going to correct course then steps like this are a big part of that.
No it means she's biased and we should evaluate if she has another motive because she's connected to the party now interviewing her who want to censor Americans.

I wonder if she'll be a professor or an ambassador for her service.
The author did not conflate genocide. There were many evils by the National Socialist party, the author mentioned one of them and you extrapolated.
Book recommendations from a fintech company... ok, strange but cool I guess.
Also, it goes without saying, but never buffer logs. Each line should end up with a write(2) call or something equivalent. If you buffer logs, and the process crashes, you lose logs exactly when you really really need it.
> I don't want the government to meddle with what types of things people can say online,

This is totally off and a distraction from the actual problem, which is that Facebook is amplifying toxicity and division for profit, that they know it, and that they choose to continue doing so without any accountability. All this garbage about the problem being the First Amendment is just that: an intentional distraction.
Sweden assumed their population is composed of adults. When you treat people like adults, they usually are far more likely to act as adults.
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Plenty of utilities are privately owned - telephone companies and ISPs, for the most relevant example. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utility
The point is that nothing is truly "random"

The underlying mechanics are just currently unknown to us
Anyone remember the goomic https://mashable.com/article/google-engineer-manu-cornet-com...

Microsoft’s super-political culture still seems to be around.

You see this in the Azure space, where everyone internally within MS seems to be trying to one-up each other.

So I’m not surprised that the .NET Foundation also suffers.
D-Wave plans to build a gate-model quantum computer
Dropbox quietly replaces the insides of JPGs with a better compression system (lossless change) to save their storage costs, and then returns it to normal when the file is read. (It may be they do a JPEG XL transform, for all I can remember about the article which explained it).

I wouldn't be too surprised if every big CDN already does something like that internally as a competitive advantage, and if so then the incentives switch around and there's no benefit publically switching to JPEG XL - when everyone has it, there's no easy way to do better than everyone else.
What real impact do you want ? Public executions of tax evaders ?

Obvious easy evaders got their fine, people in political positions stepped down, new regulations were made to make it a bit harder.

Propose an action plan, I suppose you d end up doing the same: investigate, punish according to the law, adapt the law to close holes.

Not everything has to be a Khardashian sensationalist tv show to satisfy you hunger for blood.
I did mean the USA, my apologies for the confusion. We here in the US often forget about the rest of the Americas.
the toolbox synchronizes two recordings of the same piece of music
Finally an honest comment about the nature of statecraft, governance and geopolitics. Bravo!
Honest question: Does stuff said in these Congress testimonies have any values/consequences? For example, like a testimony in court, do you get into any real trouble if you lie about something?
> Maybe. If I quit Facebook, I can't messenger my loved ones anymore and my Oculus is now a lovely brick someone bought me for Christmas ... At a certain scale, the power dynamics start to look very similar. Governments still generally maintain a monopoly on violence, that's a big difference.

That's a HUGE difference. You are describing inconveniences but you still have a choice to give up your Oculus etc if you want.

You don't have the choice to "ignore" the government the same way.
(All of the following are my personal opinion)

and long as laws, rules, regulation supports it many people/corporation will always choose profits over ethics and its not a broad generalization but a natural instinct in my opinion. And you can also buy prestige just by throwing cents in name of philanthropy right?

I hate it but this is how natures works and its too cruel.
Tell us about the CEO previous to her.
> weird for a whistleblower to be so "lib"

We’re in a political realignment. Attempting compression to a single dimension will be misleading more often than it’s not. (Despite the current partisanship, the population’s ideological coherence is actually decreasing.)
They aren't ignoring naturally acquired immunity. Vaccination strengthens immunity even for people who have been previously infected.
I re-read that article just a couple weeks ago to help complete a work-related security challenge!

I also had to disable ASLR (echo 0|/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space) and the executable was 32-bit. A lot has changed since those days :)
To be fair, most of my experience is where software is an enabling function, not viewed as the end deliverable. E.g., control software for hardware. In most instances, the project managers were hardware folks and that tends to cause the problems you might be alluding towards.
>I find it weird for a whistleblower to be so "lib", as the kids say.

There's like, a 0% chance she doesn't have a PR agency/person at this point. The rhetoric sells to centrist Americans and geriatric congresspeople. It might actually be kinda genius.
Fitting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tu8Y5g8pXg
I don't think it is ... and I think some it is some sort of "get of my lawn"-ism. I passed a degree in electrical engineering at some point (haven't used it too much after that), and "don't use the auto-router" is basically what is taught from day zero.

So ... while I can't say anything about PCB design in industry ... I can say that I tend to use a auto-router for my small DIY audio projects and it has never really failed me.

And ... if auto-routers are not used in the industry ... maybe that is something somebody on here should "disrupt" ... computers have become just too powerful not to be combative in solving some constraint path finding problems.
Yes, but I think the author could have expanded on that tbh.
The other thing is maintenance. Any building will eventually collapse if not properly maintained. Second law of thermodynamics is that entropy always increases. The only way to decrease entropy in a closed system is to open the system and extract the entropy by some means.

For a house that means cleaning, replacing broken and damaged parts, painting and general maintenance. Without releasing the entropy from time to time even a home made of solid stone will eventually weather away to ash and dust.
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The author does make some effort to explain why.
Interesting, HODL is a backronym! I always thought it was intentional but no, it appears that (according to this article) the first usage of HODL was a typo for HOLD.

I guess it got backfilled to "Hold On for Dear Life" later.
That is very true if it was the part of yours job description. For me it was not. I was face with a clean slate Solaris maybe twice during that period and each time I just had enough knowledge of BSD stuff, csh, and bare bones vi to bootstrap into the familiar environment (which was kind of fun, sort of like moving into a new home and making it cozy).
Where does it end though? Probably Brad Pitt and Elon Musk and Justin Bieber make a lot of people feel bad about their lives. Should media just stop reporting about them?
I don't think anybody actually did the math on this though. It's more like "I get a fat bonus if I decrease inventory without a significant effect to sales over the next 3 quarters" so as long as the near-term risk is worth it, it gets done.

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There's also the "If I don't implement JIT, I'll get replaced with someone who will" effect in a lot of cases too.
Disclaimer, I’m the founder of Baserow. Airtable is a fantastic product, but it’s also limited in the amount of records that you can store. Their enterprise plan supports a maximum of 100k records in your entire database. Another problem is that you don’t own your data because it’s a SaaS product and if you want to create an integration, you can only do so via their API which limits you in the amount of requests you can make per second. We wanted to solve these problems by building a turn-key open source no-code database tool that you can self host with a comparable user experience to Airtable. We have a different technical approach that allows you to store a lot of data while staying performant. Another nice advantage is that our code architecture is modular, that means you can create real custom plugins. You can create custom field types of visualize data in a different way by creating custom view types. Everything can be extended.
This instinct to harm in the name of "punishment" is the reason the state of politics is so bad. No one is interested in changing minds or reforming people/companies/industries - they just want to inflict pain to those that they disagree with.
Do you agree that there is a pandemic, that it is is (still) causing massive numbers of casualties, and that these are now largely avoidable by simply taking the safe effective vaccines, vaccines that are being baselessly "questioned" with terrible consequences?

Or do you think that "nobody is "pathologically questioning" anything around vaccines" ? If so, what part of the above do you disagree with?

Perhaps that's a more nuanced way to put it. Fair warning, I view the first paragraph as a filter for cranks, trolls and the deluded. Those who deny reality.
Not because we didn't need them, though.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-u...

> On top of its strict rules preventing people infected with the virus from coming on board, the Navy is also refusing to treat a host of other conditions. Guidelines disseminated to hospitals included a list of 49 medical conditions that would exclude a patient from admittance to the ship.

> Ambulances cannot take patients directly to the Comfort; they must first deliver patients to a city hospital for a lengthy evaluation — including a test for the virus — and then pick them up again for transport to the ship.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nycs-largest-emergency-h...

> But much to the frustration of healthcare workers, since that announcement, Javits has taken in nowhere near its capacity. As of April 7, the convention center had admitted only 66 patients. This was due in large part to the strict admission requirements. At first, a patient could only be transferred to Javits if they were convalescing, or in the recovery period. The fear was that Javits didn't have the ICU beds, operating rooms, or equipment necessary to handle patients who might relapse or need surgery because of an underlying condition.
I've seen a few people who sued their employers in a public manner (with tech press following etc.) get snapped up by other employers that want to seem open and transparent. Such employees can give an organization an appearance of legitimately caring about such issues, even if they don't in practice.
You couldn't pay me to use Pale Moon. They have continuously demonstrated a poor understanding of web browser security.

Take this thread, for example:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15168#p109681
May I interest you in some cassoulet?
I think the term "high" is key here, no?

It says "high fat, sugar, salt" not "all foods containing fat, sugar salt"
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Shouldn't the first question be who is paying for all this (also who's done an audit)? Remember CryptoAG, Potonmail claiming they don't log IPs etc.?
Usually security departments are up on this, and often there will be tamper detection enabled on an important executives laptop.

I think this is an interesting attack vector, but seems overly complicated especially if you can install a key logger(and probably do it faster).
that is fine if you dont mind dropbox deleting for innactivity
The paper merely demonstrates that McAuliffe's concent was not informed, but rather misinformed.

> I doubt the other 6 astronauts... were made aware...

Yet included the chosen profession of astronauts is taking the risks involved with space travel, the same as the chosen profession of soldiers includes the risk of injury or death in going to war, and the chosen profession of LEO includes the risk of being injured or killed in the line of duty, and the chosen profession of fire fighters includes the risk of suffocation and immolation. Risks like that are not included in the teaching profession. Visiting Rome does not make one a Rome specialist; McAuliffe was only nominally a mission specialist and astronaut.

One of the major purposes of sending a teacher to space in the first place was to demonstrate just how safe space travel is, and in this single initiative, at least, no doubt should remain.