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> people so monomaniacally focused on Covid

Based on your submission history, you are also monomaniacally focused on Covid.

> leaky COVID vaccines did something to reduce transmission of the dominant Delta variant (they don't)

This is false[1]. Please stop spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation.

> letting employers mandate experimental injections is a terrible idea

The vaccines have been used on more than 1B people and have demonstrably saved lives. After they leave someone's system, they have no more capacity to cause harm (because they are no longer in the person's system).

What would have to happen for the vaccines not to be "experimental" anymore? By your definition, aren't all medical interventions experimental? Why do you know so much more about vaccines than actual medical professionals? What is their incentive to harm millions of people against their medical oath?

I actually agree that no government should force people to be vaccinated, but if we have undeniable evidence from millions of people around the world that unvaccinated people are more dangerous to be around, then we shouldn't let them harm other people at their workplace.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
There’s an obsession with hierarchies in this culture. Things that can’t be measured are.
Prosperity is unfortunately a zero sum game. Until we develop the means to fully automate the creation of all of humanity's needs and wants, there will be winners and losers at the national level.
Why would the pandemic send more users to HN?
Satoshi came out of retirement in March 2014 to state that he was not Dorian Nakamoto, in the wake of a Newsweek article that falsely fingered the latter as Satoshi:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/satoshi-dorian/

I still think it was Hal Finney, who was in similar cypherpunk circles, created the first PoW system, received the first Bitcoin transaction, lived in the same town as Dorian Nakamoto for 10 years, was diagnosed with ALS about a year before Satoshi disappeared from Bitcoin development, died in August 2014, and was cryopreserved.
Only recently can people access "the world" goods. In the past there was limited range to provision from outside. Mostly boats and carriages. Famines could then occur because of a bad harvest or a few in a row. Farming has never been a surefire thing!
Yeah they do, I got signed out while on holiday in the US because I spent more than 3 weeks out of my home country. Premium by the way.
Bitfinex has a very profitable system with Tether (loaning USDT out, and earning 5-6% interest), so they're incentivized to keep it running as long as possible. If they're smart, they have liquid reserves to cover the first x% of withdrawals.

Which means - you would need something like a large drop in their backing assets (crypto, commercial paper, etc) + a confidence drop in the system large enough to cause a run on the bank, burning through all of their reserves.

If no catalyst like this occurs, the game could easily continue on for years.
If you gonna do dev on WSL then make sure all of it is on Linux. Don't mix and match.

They still haven't corrected the SEVERE disk read speed when accessing a Windows directory. For example, if you use zsh/Oh-My-Zsh and have any of the themes setup that pulls git info for the prompt (over 99% of them do this), cd into a git repo on your Windows side: cd /mnt/c/repos/example_git and expect a minimum of a 1 minute wait for simple repos.

The WSL IP Address changes on every restart.... ALWAYS. So trying to setup a local web server for testing becomes a hassle.
Agreed, file sharing via Keybase is a dream. It automatically creates an encrypted folder on my filesystem that is shared with the other party. Super convenient, I tried to evangelize it solely for this reason.
Your right in principal, bad grammar effects us all, theirs allot we can do too keep content here peek quality.
Microsoft defines the hardware specification for Windows compatible x86 and all the OEMs that manufacture x86 servers (even ones most likely destined to never run anything other than Linux), desktops, and laptops certify against it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/hlk/

There are no other standards for what a PC is. All of the open OSes, including Linux, just piggyback on Microsoft's standard. (And if anyone believes that the various giants building custom ARM processors aren't hoping that they can get dominance based on their own spec so that they can displace Microsoft and wield the same power, think again.)
There's a cold war in the middle east between Saudi Arabia and Iran right now. Surely getting an entire nation state in the region on your side for the cost of a few oil tankers (of which KSA and Iran have no shortage) is worth it?
In a multistory house, a laundry chute would definitely optimize ones life. If course it may not be easy to install a laundry chute. But I don't think that invalidates the life hack idea.
To me it was the "here is some cheap way to do something that one could do better and easier if they spend $5(or some other small nominal charge)"
Iran has been and is continuing to do so.
Interesting I didn't know people wanted to defund BBC
Because it’s hard to beat the ecosystem around VSCode. VSCode extensions take it from an OK text editor to an almost-emacs replacement.
There is nothing woke about this. Trust me I am not a fan of useless woke constructs that exist to signal virtue. I’m sure we agree on that. This is not one of those things. When you are referring to some entity with unknown gender, you use “they” and “their” so as not to lead the reader or the person you're speaking towards any assumptions and just because it’s the clearly correct way to convey the state of affairs to your audience (this matters to pedantic people). To someone who practices this in their own communication, it conveys a real signal that others pick up on. Pseudonyms generally aren’t referred to by the gender of the chosen name/handle but rather act as a proxy for the person who uses them, therefore you wouldn't refer to Satoshi as “he/him” but as the gender of the user of the pseudonym which is unknown, hence they/them. The author, while making the case that Len may be Satoshi, never asserts as much to be true. So I also read the usage of they/them as a reminder that they are presenting an argument/case not declaring fact.
Social media data science wizardry for targeting likely swing voters was applauded by the likes of the NYT when the Obama campaign did it. It was only when the cold water was poured on the left realizing the same methodology could be used to win campaigns regardless of what team deployed it. You can argue if one side acted more ethical than the other in the lines they were willing and unwilling to cross, but it’s Facebook’s business model and platform that made it inevitable that sophisticated actors would be in a perpetual arms race to try to best position themselves to leverage it to gain power, change minds, etc.

All of this was evident many years ago, based on the ad delivery system Facebook built, and the kinds of information their early APIs were exposing to people. It didn’t take a genius to realize having people building more and more sophisticated systems to spy on people to get data to drive the development of products to persuade people was a dangerous flywheel, and one that was held up by good intentions (making services “free”), so it was likely to be sustainable via an “ends justify the means” rationalization.
We have a hard time remembering that humans used to live outside, all the time, 24/7, every day. With bright moonlight, early sun rise and late sun set. Along with being near active fires. It's going to take a lot of research to convince me humans just never adapted to light for sleep.
An author on the internet has adopted a writing style that you're clearly uncomfortable with, it's not grounds for disparaging the author.

Your individual politics don't matter here, it is a technology article that happens to use a pronoun for an unknown entity which is entirely acceptable in common parlance. No one is clamoring that he/him is unacceptable, but to disparage people for their choice of expression in writing feels awfully similar to what the anti-woke crowd claim the woke do.

Additionally, plenty of languages use non-gendered pronouns.
With good UX for chat and excellent file sharing.

Very sad it didn't get more traction. I still use it.
This is missing one large avenue of speedup: the startup time, which is bad with Python. Some of my Lua scripts are done faster than Python starts up, even when doing file i/o. This is especially crucial for interactive ‘productivity’ helper scripts, which need to respond instantly.

As an anecdote, when I was making my first Lua script for Alfred on a horribly underpowered machine, I briefly couldn't figure out if I actually configured the script properly, because the dummy example output indeed appeared right as I typed the last input key. Turns out, Lua really runs that fast.

Alas, the lack of proper ‘null’ bugs me—it may interfere with making middleware for external APIs, receiving and transmitting schema-less data. A bunch of libraries use cjson.null or interoperable lua-null or somesuch, but I'm sure I'll bump into a lib that won't know about those.

Ah, and by the way, from what I vaguely heard, actual native multithreading might be doable in Lua with libraries. At least I've seen a couple of such libs, but haven't tried them.
> the World Bank has said that Lebanon is experiencing one of the worst economic crises to occur anywhere in the world since the 1800s.

Is that real or is the World Bank just exaggerating for effect?
I've considered responding with a link to the "Criticism of Facebook"[1] wiki. Even if only half of it is true, it's still pretty horrendous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
Very interesting. Thank you.

Red light is also just fun to be in. It has a different atmospheric mood.
Thanks for the heads up. Do you have a list of known shady sites, or are there too many popping up to keep up with?

Or perhaps to rephrase, are there are any trustworthy sites covering similar topics?
> the person who put that ascii art portrait of him into the blockchain

For what it’s worth, I had a pretty long conversation with this person after Len’s wake. The possibility that Len was behind Bitcoin never came up.
It's great when it comes strait from the clouds. What did it land on? How was it stored? How did it get from one to the other?

Rainwater isn't pure water. It will contain dust and pollen. The system it lands on (ie a roof) will also have other things land on it (birds/insects etc). So by the time it gets to the storage tank the "pure" rainwater might contain a wide variety other stuff. Drinking it without treatment isn't always a great idea.
I weigh data with experience, and after enough "here is why X is bad" and "why X isn't bad after all", I heavily weigh my experience over corporate/journalistic poppycock.

Guess what? Not all data is good.
Facebook is a massively evil company, a true net-negative to life on earth, a destroyer of personal privacy, responsible for facilitating genocides, constantly lying to its users, the most egregious example of how corruptive a monopolistic corporation can be on a society at a global level.

If this recruiter is to believed -- and I wouldn't believe a goddamn word of any of it -- there are all these poor, principled people who really truly want to "make Facebook better" but dangnabit they just don't have critical mass yet.

Bullshit. All of it.

This is a carefully calculated response, like all of Facebook's responses (PR or otherwise), to make you drop your guard and stop using your critical thinking faculties. It's a siren song, with promises of six figures and early retirement.

Listen... if you're at Facebook, you've personally made a decision that you'd rather collect your paycheque than stop contributing to the beast that surrounds you. You're fine with the pervasive corruption and rampant disinformation and hypocrisy because you're making bank. Don't be shy. Own it. Say it with a full chest. At least it would be genuine.

But don't lie to yourself, or your coworkers, or anyone outside the company, and say you're trying to "make Facebook better". It can't be made "better" in its current form. It will never be better. It needs to be dismantled. It needs to be put on trial. It needs to be bled dry.
No, it is not “obviously wrong”. “They” can refer to a single person of any or undetermined gender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
As I said, it doesn't actually do much for anti-cheat besides act as a hardware ID for bans. You can still run cheats and hack your own system with the TPM fully in-tact, it's just another method to increase the cost required to get back in after being banned - now you have to have an entirely new CPU every time, at least once they fully drop Windows 10 support in \d{2} years.

There's quite literally only one potential exploit that would work for the purposes of ban-evasion: extracting the private key. Since every CPU is signed by Intel/AMD's CA, the Riot servers require your CPU attest by signing a secret message, so you'd need a surefire way to extract the private key from other machines to then spoof TPM responses using your existing hardware - that, or you have an active worker agent on other PCs proxying the attestation process.

And, if you were actually able to find a way to extract the private key on TSMC's newest process nodes, there are much more profitable ways to use that knowledge.. ie. selling it to zerodium or nation state actors that are eager to decrypt iPhones.
Business news is fine; as pg once wrote, “ But when you do something so clever that you somehow beat the system, that's also called a hack.”

Hacking doesn’t have to be breaking computer stuff, it can also be finding loopholes in business and everyday life and exploiting them.

http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
This is a 2018 HN thread discussing it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17724995
If there are more useful government programs. Just issue more bonds and pay for them. The idea that the government should refrain from finding useful programs until it’s paid off all its debt is absurd.
1. It may well not generate any goodwill. Most things that happen aren't reported on. And people forget quickly.

2. Would it actually help? The root cause of this problem is not that 1 tanker got delayed.
Smart. But I'm confident you would have.
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
Zero on the extra capacity after the batteries are full. That is power that would otherwise never be used/stored.
KBFS was pure magic. I wish they had kept their focus on that. Alas, all good things…
> Tangentially related is the concept of a memetic hazard, although this would be more something that targets the collective hivemind rather than weapons that target individual human brains.

>>The only body-related information warfare element considered by the United States is psychological operations (PSYOP)[5]

>>What technologies have been examined by the United States that possess the potential to disrupt the data-processing capabilities of the human organism? The 7 July 1997 issue of U.S. News and World Report described several of them designed, among other things, to vibrate the insides of humans, stun or nauseate them, put them to sleep, heat them up, or knock them down with a shock wave.[9] The technologies include dazzling lasers that can force the pupils to close; acoustic or sonic frequencies that cause the hair cells in the inner ear to vibrate and cause motion sickness, vertigo, and nausea, or frequencies that resonate the internal organs causing pain and spasms; and shock waves with the potential to knock down humans or airplanes and which can be mixed with pepper spray or chemicals.[10]

It literally isn't. This is the equivalent of attacking a network switch by running main power into the Ethernet ports. I have no idea why they are using the word firewall here, a much better title would be 'Human senses have no fuses'.

>>According to Solntsev, one computer virus capable of affecting a person's psyche is Russian Virus 666. It manifests itself in every 25th frame of a visual display, where it produces a combination of colors that allegedly put computer operators into a trance. The subconscious perception of the new pattern eventually results in arrhythmia of the heart. Other Russian computer specialists, not just Solntsev, talk openly about this "25th frame effect" and its ability to subtly manage a computer user's perceptions. The purpose of this technique is to inject a thought into the viewer's subconscious. It may remind some of the subliminal advertising controversy in the United States in the late 1950s.

The whole thing reads like the National Enquirer but for spooks. I seriously hope that this is not the level of discourse in the military and 3 letter agencies (but expect it is with dread) because we'd be better served by a troop of chimps flinging shit at a chart when it comes to deciding what new technologies to finance.

At least it makes the last 5 years of insanity around Russia, Trump, Facebook and everything else we are having a moral panic over seem sane by comparison.
I had to install my flashlight app outside of the playstore walled garden as it wasn't approved yet. It was a shakelight that used heavy background processing and went against google's background task shakedown. The app gave those of us without it the Motorollo detection chip functionality at the expense of battery. And there is still room to improve. It needs sunset+X hours and off-if-left-on-for-too-long feature to save even more background battery life. The ways innovation happens is not predictable or else it wouldn't be innovation.
It seems much more tech/startup focused. So much of what is posted today is current events, politics, and popsci.
That is definitely not true. Many of the things we value the most are found in abundance in all countries, if the society is well organized to achieve these ends. Leisure, food, space to live, friends, peace, safety, etc. There are some few goods whose production is truly limited by our ability to extract raw resources, but these are the exception, not the norm.
Interesting, how does that compare to the multiprocessing module python has now?
Conjure – conversational software development in Neovim
This seems a bit clickbaity, as it's just a model that points out that rather than the sun burning up the earth as it expands, the increasing cosmic rays will first split apart CO2 and lead to a loss of oxygen from the atmosphere.

Sort of like saying "it's the fall that will kill you". Both scenarios are pretty far off and not deserving of such an alarming headline.
Also that Len was a Unix-style C++ whereas original Bitcoin was definitely a Windows programmer
While you seem to have simply picked a top post and replied to it with unrelated soft right-wing propaganda, it's too juicy to ignore.

so you think facebook is like a cable company, and the user posting on facebook is the same as a news channel.

here's the real world: the cable company picks what channels they want to broadcast, and pays those channels in order to be able to show their content. in your world of comparison, you would have facebook paying users to post content.

that aside, in order to spread your soft propaganda you are completely ignoring that networks put warnings in front of shows all the time. "the following story is based on a past event but is fictional," "the content and opinions of the following show do not reflect the opinions of this station" and a whole slew of other warnings.

but that's beside the point, since the cable companies are literally buying content they want to broadcast.

now, fox, which is your likely news source, was taken to court once for broadcasting blatant lies. their official defense, in court, was that no reasonable person would think fox news is a news channel and not an entertainment channel.
Great project, I used it to support various RTOS…
Except Microsoft doesn't offer WSL-based hosting, and they currently don't offer their own Linux distro. This is a complement to their Azure business, basically.
OK, give me one that has: (1) A Hindley-Milner type system with type inference, (2) Native or JIT compilation with good runtime speed, (3) Easy-to-understand execution model, and (4) garbage collection.

- OCaml has all of them, hands down. It is even getting reasonable parallel processing support as of recently.

- Haskell has beautiful implementations of 1, 2, and 4, but definitely not 3, which often leads to hilarious memory leaks.

- Rust has 1, 2, and 3, but 4, while possible, is not really ergonomic, and compile times are the longest.

- Typescript (with Ramda for kicks) has 3 and 4, and almost 3, but still not really 1.

- Java has 2, 3, and 4, but sadly not 1, and programming with immutable values is possible but the stdlib often resists it.
I don't understand why people always make comments when there's a crisis about how nobody's helping. There's always aid! The question is, why do people not read about it, and declare there isn't any?

By no means am I saying the aid is enough, or that it doesn't involve conflicts, that it isn't being wasted or misused, or anything like that. But it is an artificial storyline that the whole world is ignoring any given crisis, that is never accurate.

- Iran has been sending fuel via Hezbollah.

- The US and Turkey have sent aid to Lebanon's military.

- The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress was calling for "prompt and significant action" from the Secretary of State, around the beginning of October.

- Greece has sent "humanitarian aid".

- The IMF has been talking to the government about a bailout package, off and on for some time.

I don't vouch for the accuracy or political slant of the following, but it's an example of what people write/say about Lebanon:

"The international community has been providing humanitarian relief, but too much of it ends up siphoned off into the corruption networks that rule Lebanon. Some of the aid is smuggled into Syria, circumventing sanctions against the Assad dictatorship, while turning a considerable profit for criminal enterprises, including Hezbollah. More humanitarian relief is needed, but it should be run through reliable international institutions or through closely monitored non-governmental organizations if it is to support the Lebanese people and not the mafia-like syndicates."

A basic problem, obviously, is that different countries and organizations want to help some people and entities in Lebanon, and not others. But it's not an island from humanity.
The best thread indexed in this page is the top one on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1.

By the user "sama", presumably referencing something YCombinator had listed on their website:

> "the rising star of venture capital" -unknown VC eating lunch on SHR

Paul Graham responds:

> Is there anywhere to eat on Sandhill Road?
This is a good point, but I'd point out that well-organized societies are much rarer (and shorter-lived) than any vein of gold, one of the biggest enemies of having a well-organized society being the politics of envy and resentment as displayed in the post you were replying to.

When that type of culture is ascendant, then things are not only zero sum, but often negative-sum, since the party takes a cut of transferring wealth from winners to losers, and often just transfers wealth to itself.
My money is on Paul Le Roux.. most hackers are too uppity to write windows software. Le Roux was a pragmatist with a real practical need to move dirty money without banks.
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing, really insightful
not for FAANG, but yeah, it's a pretty big engineering conglomerate
Salaries are so low in Europe, it only make sence to be a 0.1x programmer :D