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Well, that's $10 Uber ride, three times a month.
Hi, authors here.

> I don't understand why the infosec-handbook.eu article appears posted on november 1 2021. It was published in August 2018

We fully revised this and other articles as mentioned on our website. The article itself contains a note that it was republished.
It was my real name, real email. But I never even got to the point of uploading a picture. I did use a real picture for the appeal!
No! Emacs does not require the user to learn any code in order to use it.

Unfortunately this is a persistent false narrative to which many new users fall victim (as I believe you have). I maintain several packages aimed at non-coding writers. I put a lot of effort into ensuring that writers never need to write or understand any code in order to get writing.

Emacs has a built-in user-friendly options UI system that provides documentation on every option and its available settings, and provides input error checking. All options are organised hierarchically, or you can search for any options matching a string.

But, there are a lot of programmers out with a desperate need to appear clever. Using the options UI is an affront to their cleverness, so they insist that writing code is the only way. It keeps them feeling clever and it perpetuates this idea that the only way to use Emacs is by learning how to manipulate its internal code.

So we have people sharing their overly complex configuration files. And worse, these horrible "starker kits" that obfuscate the extensive in-built help, and further abstract the program away from the user.

Ignore anyone pushing any of those "starter kits". Ignore anyone who says "just paste this code into your init". They're only trying to appear clever. Anyone trying to appear clever usually isn't.

Edit: here's a video where I set up Emacs from scratch to a full-featured screenwriting program, without a single bit of code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be1hE_pQL4w
If you zoom out on humanity, it looks like a pump which pumps stuff from stripmines to landfills.
Maybe writing "router and router" wasn't very clear. Those are "rout-er" and "route-r".

As far as I know (and I'm British), for path travelled or a device directing those paths, all BrE speakers rhyme route and router with hoot and hooter.

The power tool, the older manual tool, and the slots they cut, are more obscure. Rout and router should rhyme with shout and shouter in BrE, but I would expect mistakes or guesses for this router.

With shoot/shout, boot/bout, loot/lout, scoot/scout, snoot/snout, toot/tout, in BrE a path travelled should be a root. But there's also brute/flute/jute/lute etc, which could be better written broot/floot/joot/loot, leaving the -ute for words like mute, tribute, minute (small), repute.

But I won't try and fix English in a HN comment.
Thx. It's just difficult for me to stay away from coffee sometimes, even if it gives me shakes.
Why Phased Arrays Are Cool and How to Build One
I lived in Hong Kong island for 3 months in a student accomodation called Appledorm where 50% of the rooms did not have a window:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210414214205/http://www.appled...
https://goo.gl/maps/c4EhADc9A35du7hA9
7 years ago a windowless room costed 300USD and room with window costed 450USD.

All the students were hanging out and partying on the rooftop of the building.

The rooms were barely larger than the bed.
The project of Munger seem to have larger bedrooms and nicer common spaces for each flat.
> the economy is the embodiment of that fact and will just extract us as much as its can forever?

No it isn't. The economy isn't zero sum.

>is it possible to build and own our life instead of being forced to labor until near the end of life?

By "forced to labor", are you talking about having to work for someone else, or having to labor at all? It's clear that the former is possible (ie. start your own business), and the latter is a pipe dream as long as we're not in a post-scarcity economy
I use Emacs's markdown mode for syntax highlighting.

I have never used live export, but looked for it in its dropdown menu, found it, and clicked it: https://i.imgur.com/0LG6nnS.png

It renders images and doesn't rely on ASCII for its rendering.

I agree Emacs could benefit from some polish, on the whole.
According to every ethical standard there is. Zuckerberg bullied the Instagram and Whatsapp founders out of the company and now even Carmack is openly going against this ridiculous Metaverse idea
* First everyone ignores Meta Inc.

* Then everyone laughs at Meta Inc. <==== We are here.

* Then everyone fights Meta Inc.

* Then Meta Inc. wins (again)

Judging from the comments, since it is hard for everyone to ignore Meta Inc and also looking at the emotional reaction to Meta's drive to build the metaverse with other metaverse-related companies, is history going to repeat itself with Facebook Inc. winning once again, but under a different name with the same CEO?
>If you registered with a fictional name and not your real name,

sounds like a thing programmers believe about names: that you can tell when one is fictional or real.
>Basically bleaching and sterilization are two things you don't want as a home baker. You can make it work if you really have nothing else but why go through the trouble?

Hard disagree. Bleached flour is much easier to work with for the home/inexperienced baker. Hydrates easily, dough tends to be less tacky, better volume etc. It's only when you've got the basics down and want to get into the weeds with details that I'd recommend getting into specialty flours that are less likely to be chemically bleached.
Compared to writing the parsing in procedural code? Yes.

e.g.:

a(b|c)d

vs something like:

return str.StartsWith("a") && str.EndsWith("d") && str.Length == 3 && (str[1] == "b" || str[1] == "c");

Why wouldn't you consider regular expressions simple and elegant for the problem they are solving?
The fact a billionaire did something so cool means HN has to hate it because the media tells them to. It's a fucking embarrassment.

Even to the insanity that it might actually break from fire code. Because children out of high school on HN can think deeper than a team creating and checking a $200 million building across multiple organisations.

The plans for this are online even - https://ceqanet.opr.ca.gov/2021070120/2

There are studies about access to windows. These generally were done pre-current lighting techniques and this is a room designed for sleeping. But if you're rich they are good else it's the same as the Navy or a lot of the developing world you can sleep without them. Except this is for kids who get to hang out in amazing communal spaces on top of having what 90% of the world does not, their own room and one assumes at an affordable price.

> You're not an architect, though, are you?

This line was done by a lot of the media. He should just say neither are you. You're just a shitty journalist with at best a shitty arts degree. Why do you get to question me?

Many people do it themselves with the help of builders and engineers. Journalist (And HN) are so crippled and out of touch it's somehow normal for them to think only architects can do this.
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> It’s not like you will spend all, or even most, of your time in the room

??? I spent a fairly significant amount of time in my room studying, sleeping, and doing schoolwork when I was in college. I only went out for recreation, meals, and classes. I would argue that I spent the majority of time in my bedroom at college, including sleeping.
It seems wrong to say that progressive steering requires complex gearing or steer-by-wire. A few years ago, I saw a functional system on IAA. They had an electric motor in the steering wheel, attaching the wheel to the steering axle by means or a worm gear. So if the motor failed, the wheel would just directly drive the axle through the worm gear as it's not backdriveable.
I think there are far better criticisms of the building than the fake windows. Like sharing a single shower with 7 other people who might take the same courses as me. Or how there's way too few entrances and exits.

It's strange how this interview with Munger completely focuses on the windows, the one concern that's both unavoidable in the design and addressed in the planning (by putting in fake windows)
In addition to the caveats in your edit, the scale is also different. The new proposal is several times larger by interior square footage
You could make it out of UHMWPE, the best current strength to weight material available. It's a plastic with density slightly under 1 kg/L. And it's UV resistant. Joining the parts is the real problem though.
You could make it out of continuous thread in single piece with 3d knitting to avoid glue or fasteners. But all kinds of problems would arise. Also repairability would be bad. So probably you would use some sections and glue.
China and India emit far more CO2 than we do.
I am happy if that makes more sense to you than to me
"Ensure non-production environments do not contain production data"

Yeah right, so how can you reproduce some bugs that only appear on production data, on other environment that is not production?
A major version change may (or may not) have some breaking changes, but most good libraries have migration guides and documentation on how to upgrade. Presumably the parent comment was annoyed that the breaking changes also included no docs or guides.
You could make informed consent for donating a body similar to informed consent for a medical procedure. As the medical expert, part of obtaining informed consent involves assessing “the patient’s ability to understand relevant medical information and the implications of treatment alternatives and to make an independent, voluntary decision” [1]. You are acting as if there has to be some magic universal understanding shared among all people, when that isn’t the case. We can have a system where the expert must make a genuine attempt to explain what is happening, and assess if the layperson understands, and hold them accountable for ethics violations if they don’t. in situations with a large power or information imbalance between two parties, we don’t just have to pretend they are on equal footing and are equally accountable.

[1] https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/informed-con...
An interesting stat I saw is that they spend, as a percentage of GDP, about as much on their internal looking police state as the US does on their military…
The Perpetuation of Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories via Google Autocomplete
As long as there's ventilation I'd prefer it. I have double curtains full time but not having windows for light to peak through would appeal to me even more.
> let them actually build it first

Not if the point of the criticism is "this should not be built by this company". It doesn't matter if the first version looks innocuous, if you can't trust that the next version will be.

More to the point, something this important shouldn't be built by any one or two or three companies, no matter who they are.
There are lots of viable competitors in the field of remote meeting and groupware tools, but most people aren't in a position to choose which ones to use and which ones to avoid — they're generally required to use a particular one by work or school.
But it was good for the first generation who worked there. Big dollars, total control and even the opportunity to create a proprietary IDE...
I don't think it's controversial to suggest that the world of "computers" today doesn't look much like the 80s and 90s. Back then, the most child-friendly computing device one could hope to be exposed to was probably a speak-and-spell (or a fiendishly difficult NES cartridge). If the kids back then -- now tech workers -- wanted to mess around with a computer, it was more effortful to engage with and presented even greater challenge once one was actually comfortable with it.

I had the advantage of a few family members already involved with computers, but I remember learning about colour depth with some ridiculous dinosaur game, about bootdisks so I could play Commander Keen, and how not to install X-Wing (don't ask). The act of using the computer was inextricable from learning about how it worked, and that knowledge could be immediately reemployed in more interesting use. I know a west-coast-style guy who works in a brewery and lives for Ultimate Frisbee, but he also understands scripting better than any non-tech person I know because in his youth he was seriously into Diablo 2 and its bot scene.

Contrast this to the modern iPad. No edges to cut yourself on, no seams to pry up, no tacit understanding gained, and the big draw being the meta-TV of YouTube...
Yes. You'd probably want to derive your private key from the password, so that you don't have to store anything and use this method portably on multiple computers. But there's no need to ever send a password to the server, even when setting/changing it.

In theory... I don't know if there's any established auth method like this, that would eg. generate ed25519 secret key from a password, and used pubkey from it to send to the server when creating account or changing passwords and server using some challenge response, to authenticate users.
The Greek and Roman gods have always been a go-to for project names, LOL. We need to give some other cultures a shot!
Relevant to Vitalik Buterin's Crypto Cities article
https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/10/31/cities.html
That's not what the article argued at all. It said that the reason these places are expensive is because they're rare (so demand > supply) and the reason they're rare is because people doing construction just assume that nice houses == expensive, so the average person won't be able to afford it. Except, if there were more of them, the prices would go down (supply >= demand), and more people would be able to afford them.
Ronald Reagan: genial idiot or calculating cynic? The jury is still out.
Love the HN swagger-talk even when it’s misinformed. Maybe they’ve accelerated the rebrand due to PR issues, but they’ve been heavily investing in AR/VR/metaverse for years, with Oculus back in 2014 and in the past few years poaching top silicon talent for low-power ASIC hardware. Their pseudo-AR RayBans commercially deployed few months ago. This has been a long time coming… FB has its issues to fix but no progress is going to come from falsehoods being thrown around.
Concur. There's a good argument in the article, and a useless one. The useless one is the one you perceived.

The good argument is that there are an array of characteristics that tend -- in various combinations and degrees -- to correspond to places people like. The correlation can be anecdotal, empirical, whatever, that's up to the writer, who should have made a case, not a whinge.
That JS and image are different things entirely. It costs the browser more to parse JS than the image. These are not 1:1 comparisons, as you can see in this post

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/o...
Putting aside the other issues, the idea to reframe Lady MacBeth as 'ambitious' rather than scheming seems like a leap.

>...and a fresh interpretation of Lady Macbeth as an “ambitious Black woman” with a performance designed to elevate “Black female power, femininity, and desire”

I'm honestly curious how they will handle this.
Valid question, not sure why the downvotes. You're right, the server can modify the contact list (and this is used extensively within organizations, and in Snikket to ensure family members can see each other by default).

But this isn't the cause for concern here - if the server is malicious it can broadcast this info without the need to modify your contact list. This again is independent of protocol - if someone wants to log or share the times and durations you are actively connected to their server, they can do so quite easily. It doesn't require XMPP.
i see your point, minimum size rules for appartents in Ireland cause similar issues.

But I draw the line at windows. They are a basic human necessity and a fire hazard mitigation. I stayed in a hostel underground once in Liverpool, and it was aweful... I was not rich at college and shared crappy houses all the while, but I would not take this up under any circumstances.
I remember the stress of worrying about rent pretty clearly, especially given my room was basically a sleeping and hygiene chamber that I hardly spent time in, but still had to have for those two critical functions.

> They are forced to live in these conditions

I agree that the choice between crippling rent rates and having no access to windows is not a good one, but it seems a function of where we are economically. Base rents everywhere I've ever lived are much higher compared to minimum wage than they've been for past generations.
Good job guys. Amazing work!

It was fun watching you grow Jitsu and love the way you provide support!
This is the unfortunate outcome of a life lived without anyone telling you "no," without ever telling you that your ideas are profoundly bad.
> Like lots of languages. Incl. Lisp itself.

Sure, I'm just highlighting that your statement about Clojure is correct when it comes to compatibility against other languages while being incorrect if you consider it within the Clojure ecosystem itself.
I'm curious about experiences in other similar orgs:

I work as a portfolio manager for a large reinsurance/insurance company but spend significant time in SQL, Python, Excel (not unexpected I'm sure).

The Wapole platform in the article struck a chord with me. We built something roughly similar - call it Trek - that handles jobs. Jobs encompass lots of tasks - reading/writing from Excel, executing SQL, running Python, running C#. I could list many limitations, but realistically, the biggest limitation is that the platform can't handle something that it can't configure and run. In other words, the platform isn't set up with R - so no creates data pipelines/jobs that use R. Lots of people here use R (among other tools)

One key problem (maybe?) is this all action happens inside the business. Trek was built by a talented actuary/programmer. No software engineering org involvement at all. I'm sure lots of folks here can imagine why: lots of red tape, general adversity to software that isn't already here, long stretches of time to get things done. Also, frankly, lots of our software devs write bad code.

For folks familiar with the orgs in this article, and other similar orgs, is what the article discusses happening mostly with software devs in IT functions? Are these folks embedded in the business? And also are there folks using the more technical bits of the systems that are business-oriented - analysts, investment professionals, etc.

Realize the lines are very blurry these days, but interested to learn from everyone here about the types/roles of end-users
Needs pointing out: You are asserting stuff like "This dorm really is an abomination" and "Common areas, such as they are, with this many students will undoubtedly turn feral almost immediately" with out actually seeming to support your arguments.

This comes off as hyperbolic and biased, and more likely, some combination of thoughtlessness and arrogance which makes the opposing view seem more honest.

Your reference to a 50 year old dorm in another state, with a completely different layout and a culture more informed by the film Animal House than Instagram hardly bears up. The building is shorter with more space for emergency exits. It may well have integrated fire suppression and active monitoring. And each of these sleeping spaces with no windows is said to attach to a 'house' with a private common area and real windows. Nothing like the isolated skyscraper dorm you link to.

Moreover, touchy feely points like "Architecture matters. The experience matters." only raise red flags for me, especially when considered with your next point:

"Billionaires reach an age when the only thing they value is putting their name on everything."

This particular billionaire clearly has an enthusiastic engagement with the details of the project and a vision for solving the problems he's mentioned in the article, namely removing the need for freshmen to lodge with a stranger.

A billionaire that just wanted to "put their name on everything" would pay the money, let the architect do their thing and never consider what it would be like to live in the results, right? This guy seems to be trying to fix the complaints from his eight(!) children, so future generations don't face the same.

You might have a point buried in your post somewhere, but in your rush to slam this whole thing without backing it up, you've lost me.
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How come this doesn't get reported and find out who set up the google account?
What is the problem using def for your multiline closures?
A part of the advantages of being human is that you can understand other humans. Having exactly the same pain receptors, eyes and body temperature... Yes, men can talk and understand about how women feel.

And "mansplaining" is a concept that was created to justify having smaller seats in a train basically. And to target and ashame people that cames in different sizes and shapes. The solution to mansplaining whatever it means is simple: bigger seats.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28999844
In China there is no such competition. CCP gives everyone what they need.
I do think it is an improvement that they nowadays put cars in tunnels and people above ground.

But it would of course be much better if they had spent all that money they used for car tunnels on public transport and more bicycle lanes and highways.
That's what Archaea said too :)
Lovecraft can be Grandmother, I haven't read a lot of his work but it seems to be very influential but in a very different way and almost in a different genre
Even though "most of the world" might be an overstatement, there are definitely many better people if you put the effort to find them.
>They're not cheap.

They are.

Pizza Margarita in Naples cost 4 Euro when I was there in 2019.
This is not true, they have censors as you describe and those that censor all citizens who communicate digitally with anyone.
> It can't be returned from, the exit system call must be issued before execution terminates.

So what happens if exit isn't called?
The article includes a quick recap on the situation, an interview where the designer defends their concept, renders of what the rooms would look like, and a link to the actual, 80-pages-long proposal in PDF. I think that's more than enough.

More to the point: I followed their link to the proposal, saw what a typical residential floor plan would look like (page 59), I contrasted them with the reasons the guy gave for this design, and I now agree with the "prison for students" comments. So they did provide me with full access to all the information for me to make my own informed opinion.
They're not really for me, I'm aware of them but I'm just more interested in sci-fi
If that is true, why are there so many international tourists in U.S. cities every Summer?

Furthermore I've both vacationed to - and lived in - SF at different stages of my life.
Maybe don't try this experiment with an ex-communist-state cities full of dreadful concrete blocks of flats.
I wonder if a VPN was involved. They probably have a set of red flags with different weights. Something tells me a VPN is a big red flag for them when it comes to new signups.
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Max of 150 shares?
They're not building a metaverse any more than anyone who's building VR apps or developing 3D games. It's possible that Zuckerberg wishes they were, and is trying to make himself believe that they are, but a company that is yet to master text communication has no idea how to build a metaverse. What they're doing is working on some VR meeting/chat apps.
Male sex and violent offenders are moved into women’s jails