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> The USA has had a progressive tax structure in various ways since its founding…

The system I described is still modestly "progressive" in the sense that those with more earnings pay a larger percentage than those with less, due to subtracting the poverty level. (Up to the poverty level, nothing is taxed; at 2X the poverty level, only half your total earnings are taxed; etc.) It starts at 0% and asymptotically approaches the flat rate as earnings increase. To be sure, it's not quite so heavily biased as the current tax tables, but then we also have this principle that the law is supposed to apply equally to everyone and not discriminate on the basis of wealth or status, in either direction. The current political environment targeting a small number of individuals for special taxes or punitive rates based on either their income or wealth practically amounts to a bill of attainder–which would obviously be unconstitutional, and for good reason.
especially when contrasted withg how Woz acted and continues to act. He just seems like a much more happy human being, and it's warming to see good things happen to good people.
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I routinely have hundreds of tabs open in Firefox at any given time without crashes on macOS and Linux. The tabs include everything from documentation, Jupyter notebooks, papers, Jira, Reddit, HN, Github, Gitlab, GMail, Google Keep, Todoist, etc. I can't even recall the last time Firefox crashed for me.
I can't see how a monetary settlement would be the result of this.
It's astounding to me that too little censorship is characterized as "antithetical to our values", "highly dubious ethically", and worthy of potential legal sanction in the top-ranked comment on HN.
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Interesting to add that Hitler specifically used "cancel culture" techniques copied from the communist party in Germany at the time to dispatch those who were standing in the way of winning that power. Making the decision to "come along" the default. (Shirer, 1960)
Experience-wise, mewe is way ahead of facebook, especially after the disastrous "redesign". The audience, of course, is much smaller, that's a downside.
And as they say, it lead to slower recovery from the event, which was caused, as they also clearly say, by something else. Given that "why is it taking so long to revert a config change?!!!" was a common comment, relevant to the discussion.

It's disingenuous to point to a paragraph in the article and complain that it doesn't mention the root cause when they already said before that, in the same article "This was the source of yesterday’s outage" about something else.
> caused their DNS servers to mark themselves defunct

This is awkward for me too, why should a DNS server withdraw BGP routes? Design fail.
Going on at lengths about how the trade off between prolonged downtime and strict security protocols is a worthy trade off is erecting a nonsensical strawman, the literal definition of spinning a story. The key issue had nothing to do with Facebook's data center security protocols.
The original error was the network command, but the slower response and lengthy outage was partially due to the physical security they put in place to prevent malicious activity. Any event like this has multiple root causes.
Josh Comeaus css course is one of the most amazing courses I’ve ever purchased. I also wouldn’t be a web dev without Wes Bos and his courses. Brad Traversy, Max Depps sorry I know I’m spelling your name wrong, also Stephen Grider. Also can’t forget the amazing Scott Tolinkski and level tuts. These guys are amazing instructors and I’m happy to give them my money, more so if they’re on their own platforms
Make spying on people illegal, even when a computer does it to billions of people rather than one creep doing it to one person. If you have to collect info about people to provide a product or service, make it strictly illegal to transfer or sell that info or anything derived from it. Don't like it, get into another business. No one's making you collect people's info. Yes, this should apply to e.g. credit card companies, not just big tech. This'd need some fine points hammered out (don't laws always?) but it's not that crazy.

Do something to make platforms responsible when their "algorithms" promote something. Not just hosting it, but when they promote it. Don't like it? Don't curate, then, or have a human do it so you're sure nothing you're deliberately promoting is shitty enough to land you on the wrong end of a lawsuit. "But how will tech companies show every visitor a totally different home page of content they're promoting (but in no way responsible for), and how will Youtube find a way to recommend Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan videos next to every damn thing? How will tech companies make every part of their 'experience' algorithmically-selected, personalized recommendations of content they farmed from randos?" They won't, they won't, and... they won't. You're welcome.

Make data leaks so cripplingly expensive that no company would dare hoard personal data it didn't absolutely need to get by.

Force the quasi-official credit reporting agencies not to be so shitty. In particular, "freezes" should be free and should be the default, alerts for activity should be free, and access to one's own info should be on demand at any time, not once per year per agency. Or just outlaw the bastards completely, IDGAF.

I dunno, lots of things we could do to make the current personal data free-for-all less hellish.
I hear your qualms about bookmarks but to me having 100 open tabs does not save you from any of those issues at all, it just exposes you to things you never would have encountered otherwise. Macbooks I've owned randomly crash, always has always will. If I had 100s of tabs that would certainly be annoying to deal with opening that session again and watching my computer achieve liftoff with the fans when those 100 tabs open at once again.

Personally as a scientist I'm aghast you operate this way. If you were my student I would change everything about this system of yours. My word. Use folders for your bookmarks to keep things organized. Save important documentation as local pdfs so you can refer to it when you need to keep working and the site is down and you can't click to new pages (happened to me before). Use zotero for gods sakes to organize your literature. Just do it, promise me you will. You've given me a headache just imagining your workflow :)
>I'm providing information about an alternate service.

His point was that developers would want to incentivize the alternate service and would, therefore, do things to discourage the IAP system.
Will somebody lose a job over this?
I think of Stripe as Apple on the Web, that really cares about UI and UX as well as DX.

Attention to Details matters. Taste Matters. Unfortunately it is not something money can buy.
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Definitely, I don’t see a way you could elevate someone to the level Steve was at. I think the plan was to have Jony Ive be the final word on design person.

But with iOS 7 Ives showed he didn’t get software and the “design is how it works” concept.
It has to be a platinum coin because subsection (k) of https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5112 is the special case that allows for issuing any denomination.

Notes are a liability of the Federal Reserve. Meaning they can be traded for balance on a Federal Reserve account. The treasury can't just create liabilities for the Fed out of thin air, I mean that would be wrong ;-)

(edit: just joking. The $1T coin would also be deposited at the Federal Reserve. I don't know why it can't be a note, other than that's how the law was written.)
Agreed, but with an amendment:

If your tool is capable of draining the whole universe, period, it is too dangerous to exist.

That was one of the big takeaways: global config changes must happen slowly. (Whether we've fully internalized that lesson is a different matter.)
I'm confused by this. Are the DNS servers inside the backbone, or outside?

To ensure reliable operation, our DNS servers disable those BGP advertisements if they themselves can not speak to our data centers, since this is an indication of an unhealthy network connection. In the recent outage the entire backbone was removed from operation, making these locations declare themselves unhealthy and withdraw those BGP advertisements. The end result was that our DNS servers became unreachable even though they were still operational. This made it impossible for the rest of the internet to find our servers.
A lot of these issues seem difficult to regulate but one that seems more realistic is usage by minors.

What if social media platforms required all minors to have their account associated with a parent account? The parent could monitor activity, institute time limits, etc.
So... just to remind ourselves how we got here. The parent comment was a poster talking about how his wife paid no mind to the potential threats posed by the big tech surveillance state. I then made a few comments explaining my thoughts on why she is like this. "She doesn't care because she's domesticated: she isn't used to thinking about violence and danger." That was my point. Then I went on further to talk about how people are more-or-less defined by this "domesticated" property and how there are others that seem to be "undomesticated" in the sense that they are more familiar with violence. And that this property dictates what thoughts are available to one's awareness. The domesticated being more limited in what they can think because they lack an understanding of violence.

I don't think anything I've said is particularly strange. If you parse "domesticated" into slave and "undomesticated" into master...then you'd end up with a very traditional worldview in which masters operate on a different level than slaves -- the latter subordinate to the former. The latent thesis in all this is that an intimate understanding of violence is what separates master from slave.
"Okay, we'll pull in a DSL line from a completely separate ISP for the out-of-band access." (guess what else is in that manhole/conduit?)

"Okay, we'll use LTE for out-of-band!" (oops, the backhaul for the cell tower goes under the same bridge as the real network)

True diversity is HARD (not unsolvable, just hard. especially at scale)!
I set up a Synapse/Matrix[0] server for my extended family and it works really well.

It can be accessed via most platforms, including mobile and web[1]

[0] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/synapse/

[1] https://element.io/
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As a former Defcon (and Summercon and Pumpcon) attendee from the 90s, I think this is revisionist. "Spot the fed" was a friendly game at Defcon years before Black Hat. Was Defcon more commercial than Pumpcon? Absolutely. It was in Vegas! Pumpcon was an overgrown 2600 meeting! But Summercon in 1995 had Bob Stratton and Winn Schwartau as speakers.

The reality is simply that there aren't that many people seriously criming, and there weren't that many before. Attendance at these events has always been driven primarily from enthusiasts and spectators; you couldn't even fill a bar with the number of meaningfully active people, even in 1995.

(Obviously, this is a private-sector and America/Europe-centric observation).
As someone who regularly has >300 tabs I can promise you that it is not because of any productivity gains (if anything the opposite lol)
Since psychology is mostly unscientific bunk, hopefully the courts would put a stop to that type of legislative overreach.
I don't think this ends by something or somebody you can point a finger at and say "that did it"

Looking throughout history, these kinds of interlocking systemic crises always end in ways the participants did not expect and could not have been expected to deal with even if they had known.

Taking the Roman Empire as a loose example, if you had sat down with the Senate and Emperor in, say 100 AD and told them exactly what would happen? First they wouldn't have believed you and second even if they had believed you there was nothing they could have done about it. You see, the Romans expected a state that was the same as a religion, they expected threats to the Empire to come in the form of large armies with single, great wars. They expected a cultural "soft power" that was unmatched.

None of that was true. Or rather, it was true until it wasn't, and even then it took hundreds of years to completely fizzle out. As an economist once said, things that can't continue won't continue. But in this kind of situation, by definition we're unable on this side of it to see what it'll look like from the other side of history.
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Very interesting read. What would be the possible business models for this to make money?
>"Polarization was lower when TV political coverage was regulated."

Cynically speaking, if you are able to control the narrative it stands to reason that there would be less polarization simply because you are manipulating what the public is being told.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum...."
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good
Why YC 2021 does not mentor on diversity?
Please be kind, considerate, and respectful in your comments.

I recently interviewed with a YC_W21 startup, average of 10 employees, 100% white males. The interview process felt like a Madmen episode. Strong alpha male culture, "I'm right you're wrong" communication style, boys club attitude, poor collaboration culture, no interest in diversity & inclusion. CEO unapologetically stated that they do not hire diverse because they do not find good candidates among other genders and ethnicities. This kind of statement is a shame to the company direction. They over represent white males in all their advertisings.

It is painful to witness that YC does not push for better change in 2021.

Sorry to dare asking YC partners: what kind of mentorship do you give founders about Diversity & Inclusion? Do you educate them about the benefits of recruiting diverse? How come you let them grow a team of 10 employees without diversity ratio? Diversity is not something to delay. It has to happen from the start.

It is important that YC trains founders on diversity & inclusion to be the foundation of company culture. We are in 2021, and this type of interview designed to flatter the alpha male, and discriminate the differences should not happen anymore, at least not at YC. Founders must feel comfortable working with people from diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations. If they can't, they should not be YC founders, they should not become employers.
IMO Twitter and Reddit cause more mental harm than all FB properties combined.
I hope so. I got the 4 because I needed a cheap temporary replacement and only pixel is supported by graphene. I guess the risk is that google does something funky to prevent forks from working or taking advantage of the custom silicon. Competition for Qualcomm is way overdue.

I'll probably suck it up and buy a pixel 6 once graphene is available for it.
Out of curiosity, what was your contribution?
Agreed. I'll just add, specifically the media's agenda is making money, and just like FB it affects their ethical obligation to society.

The surge in click-bait and outrageous lies is eroding one of the pillars of freedom: the freedom of the press. Now, the press is largely viewed as untrustworthy by 60% of the US population.

Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/321116/americans-remain-distrus...
Yes, but the fact that the blogpost concludes on this relatively tangential note (which notably also conveniently allows Facebook to brag about their security measures) and not on the note that their audit code was apparently itself not sufficiently audited, is what makes this deceptive spin.
And there's a standard for it: https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context/

Many libraries and tools support the standard now.
To be fair, that was under different ownership. One of the first things the new owners did after the acquisition was to stop that practice.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...
So, a pocket memex, a device born for information managers, is now developed, according to what you write, for people with some allergy to information, and to alienate information managers. Because sales, of course. And what is the option for the information managers?
All ads are fundamentally ugly in the sense that their effect is the opposite of a great work of art or entertainment. Ads are fundamentally just some pathetic person's selfish attempt to control what other people to think and feel in order to increase their own power through financial profit. In a sane world they would all be banned. Ads exist in their current deranged and disgusting form because contemporary humans have been selectively bred through social engineering to be submissive, cowardly, selfish, and stupid. Personalized/targeted advertising is not something that needs to be discussed.
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The funny thing is that such a use turns it on its head. Censorship is exactly "refusing to meet on the level of rational argument". Censorship is exactly "denouncing argument". Censorship is exactly "forbid their followers to listen". If anything, Popper is saying that Republicans need to get violent.
>Everyone I know who works in FAANG, FB specifically, and PMs even more specifically, really have little idea of whats going on in the bigger picture.

First, I disagree with your assertion, based on my experience in, well, working anywhere. Two years as a PM in the field on which she is blowing the whistle is not a lack of credibility (others are saying her PM experience at FB dealt with the kinds of issues that would make her pretty informed).

Second, if what you say is true, then what kind of Hell is Facebook? This behemoth of a company, this pillar of society is somehow so large that only a handful of privileged overseers can possibly understand its mechanics?

Tear it down, then.
Yes, there are many ways to do so. Most commonly you can use configuration management products, restconf/netconf, and more. Cisco routers (and many other brands) do not commit the configuration as a startup configuration until you issue a second command that commits the running config (running in memory) to the startup config. This allows the router/device to revert back if rebooted.

One point of clarification is that I don't know if Facebook uses Cisco routers for BGP. Facebook is well known for rolling its own routing stack and other services on its own servers.
Georg Orwell

Not sure about "left-coded in contemporary American society" but he was an anarchist / social-liberal / social-democratic - albeit in terms of early 20 century western europa.
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It'd have to be more than just the HTML, it'd need to be everything the page used. Basically, all the data you'd get by clicking the "download HAR" button in the DevTools Network panel. Including some special sauce on top to replay any XHRs (assuming you want to get to the last state by replaying... otherwise the JS page state would need to serialized some how)
I never said it was right or wrong, it just is. Like currents in the ocean or solar radiation, we don't debate if those are right or wrong either. I see a lot of "well it matters because it's happening to me now!" in these situations, and I don't feel a lot of sympathy.
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No one except you is erecting a nonsensical strawman.
Chromium has "Paint Preview" (aka "Freeze-Dried Tabs") [0] which does something similar. Basically it consists of a capture (Skia Picture and links in a proto), compositing the capture into bitmap tiles, and then playback to play the page using the native UI.

I think it's only supported on Chrome for Android right now.

[0] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...
How do you avoid circular dependencies on an out-of-band-network? Seems like the choice is between a circular dependency, or turtles all the way down.
Without access to the raw data, you don't know what's being omitted. Say, for example, NK's Kim threatens the ICIJ journalists, and they remove any mention of his assets from their reporting. Who's to know?

IMHO, releasing the raw data in its entirety protects the journalists; if you're the gatekeeper, you automatically become a target.
Violent bloody revolution is fine! It's what comes afterward that leftists disagree about. Compare, for example, Revolutionary Catalonia (unsuccessful) with Soviet Russia (lasted 70 years, never achieved communism).
Is it...at least decentralized? Doesn't seem to be. The main issues here are not whether some centralized entity does good things or whether some centralized entity does bad things but rather that there is a centralized entity. This entity could shift from doing good things to doing bad things whenever they feel like it, and are free to take the entire network with them.

I'm not going to join some new service on the basis of "trust us, we swear lol." Show me a protocol, not a service.

Maybe non-predatory social media and profit-driven production just aren't compatible.
While I agree, and while I do that myself, the social pressure to use Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram is immense. And it's worse for kids.

I have to constantly explain to people why I don't use those, and they still keep trying to convince me that I should.
>It is not about the suffering that FB is causing to him, but more to people and democracy in general. You can be harmed even if you don't use FB.

Which was proven once and for all on Jan 6th 2021
I like to think all reasonable computer nerds recognize the duality that created Apple: incredible engineering (Woz) combined with incredible passion, marketing and drive (Jobs). The problem is people point to Jobs as an example of unacceptable behaviours that are excused by his results. Yet somehow Woz showed us you could do really ingenious engineering AND be a decent human being, but they don't teach this in business school.
I generally agree, although there are all kinds of issues on iPhone as well. The one that bothers me most often is autocorrect sporadically changing correct English words to nonsense, or the complete inability to select certain bits of text properly (even in Apple apps).
The ops people. In many companies access to production is limited.
Nobody is arguing about contributions to science. You said, "everyone at Bell labs looked the same. So what?"

I told you exactly why people at Bell Labs looked the same and why that is a problem. If someone refuses to hire black people because they think black people are inferior, the answer isn't, "so what?"
If your system is pulling 500 watts at 120V, that's around 4A of line voltage. If you drop down 20% to 100V, the output will happily still pull its regulated voltage, but now the line components are seeing ~20% more, at 5A. For brown out, you need to overrate your components, and/or shut everything off if the line voltage goes too low.

I used to do electrical compliance testing in a previous life, with brown out testing being one of our safety tests. You would drape a piece of cheese cloth over the power supply and slowly ramp the line voltage down. At the time, the power supplies didn't have good line side voltage monitoring. There was almost always smoke, and sometimes cheese cloth fires. Since this was safety testing, pass/fail was mostly based on if the cheese cloth caught fire, not if the power supply was damaged.