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I'd guess ARandumGuy has the soul of an engineer. Confronted with an imperfection, the question is how bad it is in a world full of even bigger imperfections. Is it worth the time,effort and resources to fix it?

Gunax has the soul of a mathematician. Confronted with an imperfection, the question is how to eradicate this blight from the world and get us one step closer to perfection, no matter the cost.

Both are equally correct reactions, of course. Just nice to see them in the same place.
If I got an email, I haven't read it yet. But I have seen this on the site via HN (make of that what you will...) and it's completely unclear. It says the functionality is coming to FF for iOS in December, but fails to mention that Android already has it (doesn't mention it at all) or if there are any differences at all to be aware of.
They don't have to be backed by a state, however, it's quite obvious that "permissionless", "uncensorable" and "truly anonymous" are features that won't be accepted by states for a legitimate currency (just as they aren't really tolerated for cash, driving all kinds of restrictions and controls of non-tiny amounts of cash), so it's quite plausible that in the long run the legal businesses and law-abiding citizens will be allowed to interact only with payment mechanisms that have disabled those features in some way; so if any given cryptocurrency unavoidably has those features, then people will be prohibited to touch it, limiting their usage only to criminal purposes.
Why would you link older articles as though they're part of a trend, when the person you responded to had more recent information to share?
You can't ban someone from owning or using cash. But you can do so with a CBDC.
Indeed, there are some types of fish that are safe for "raw" consumption only after being flash frozen, due to parasites that live in the fish.
As a humanities dropout currently rushing through a cheap CS degree, it all sounds like delusional charity work to me. Plato’s Republic is great, but utterly meaningless outside of political practice. And while engaging with Plato sounds nice, in a modern capitalist society Plato’s anti-democracy is almost universally misinterpreted to favor the same libertarian crap that created this nightmare. Evading politics, and especially political economy, is not the solution but the problem.
I understood "climbing wall" to be a stand-in for a category of amenities which colleges offer to students to convince them to apply, which are flashy and expensive but don't actually lead to anyone learning anything.
"We rely on donations from readers and benefactors to pay our staff director and expenses like our Zoom subscriptions."

So begging is your business model?
It reminds me a bit of [MooTools Behavior](https://mootools.net/blog/2011/12/20/mootools-behavior) (from 2011!) where interactivity was created by adding tags to HTML, similar to the article!
It's a sarcastic reference to the fact that in the US, as tuition has gone up far past increase in general cost of living in the past few decades, what actually seems to have been purchased with the increased tuition is greatly increasing the number of administrators ("Vice-Presidents") and improving the on-campus dorm comfort, athletic amenities, etc. ("climbing walls"), rather than paying professors more (in fact, they're being paid less and replaced with lower-paid and insecurely employed adjuncts) or actually educating students better or providing a better environment for intellectual inquiry.
First, thanks for the thoughtful reply.

>It seems like you're conflating a few different concerns here:

>Those are all entirely different questions and concerns.

What you're picking up on is that I'm talking about all of it, as my call is for a completely new paradigm, which necessarily upends everything. As such, these are not "entirely different concerns". They are tightly coupled concerns.

So, to your points, respectively:

1. Yes. JSX is flawed (for a different reason)*.

2. Yes. We should be building graphically

3. Yes. The tooling should reflect the paradigm

4. N/A. We shouldn't care about the underlying display layer (perhaps the most meaningful point)

5. Yes. It makes sense to run in the browser because ubiquity and standards. But a lightweight "VM" that translates from a more idiomatically suitable mental model/coding approach to raw web standards can be used to insulate us from thinking in HTML.

*JSX is flawed not by its design, but by the problem it's trying to address. That problem is emblematic of outdated, low-level thinking. I'm trying to push the discussion up a layer or two: that is, there is no need for a webdev to ever type an angled bracket.

Anyone who has ever worked in an app-building environment that's purpose-built for creating apps should look at that return statement in my comment at the top of this subthread and think "What the?".

So, again, if you're not seeing it, then one approach is to think Java Swing or similar for building web apps. And, it doesn't just end at a GUI builder. From event processing to component bindings, we should be dealing with higher level concepts, not web stuff like HTML-ish templates (irrespective of whether we rename them to **X because they're mixed with code and delivered via return statements).

Sure, there'll be times when you need an escape hatch to target lower-level constructs. But these should be rare and, even then, the available API should allow us to target these with clean idioms, not:

x = '<div>'

If you're still not seeing it, I can guarantee you that in a couple of years we're going to have something much more akin to what I'm talking about. Maybe it'll be delivered via one of the low-code platforms or similar. JSX and the React-ish frameworks will soon-after be dead, or perhaps these environments will generate something akin to it on our behalf. I really don't care if React, et. al. get a second-life as compiler output. And, that's the point.
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Lockwise has always seemed like a weird product to me. I would've liked to use it but I don't exclusively use Firefox so I need a password manager that works on other browsers. It's understandable that they didn't want to make it cross-browser, but that flaw just makes it uncompetitive when compared to Bitwarden who don't have a vested interest in making it only work on one browser.
Why? You’d need to know the independent probability of a natural origin pandemic to compute this. Surely to figure this out you would need to look at history to make this calculation. How else would you estimate that value?
I think they're meant literally (actual vice presidents of universities and actually climbing walls in a rock climbing gym) , as examples of the overhead that is present in most universities.
Absolutely (I am one of them though I'm a member of or otherwise monetarily support publications I frequent).

The thing I hate is people who try to come up transparently disingenuous reasons for why they are entitled to not support organizations they extract value out of ("ehh I don't like your CSS so I'm going to not give you any money").
marketcaps in crypto mean nothing. The universe is full of wash sales, there is not 2.6T of liquidity, a ton of volume is insanely leveraged and amplified through defi pools, and looking at a transaction volume adjusted view of the world, like 99.9% of transactions are valueless gambling OR money laundering. Lets see what happens after the run on tether happens, then we can talk about what the crypto world looks like.
It's a joke about how universities have become administratively bloated and primarily function as a very expensive resort community for 18-22 year olds. To "compete" with each other, universities hire increase numbers of administrators whose job is to build out a more complete "college experience", including fancier gyms catering to modern exercise trends (aka climbing walls).
Simple: MSM cast it as a whacko theory because Trump suggested it
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I took both literally: a vice-president is a member of senior management who does KPIs and meetings and stuff but doesn't teach, and a climbing wall is an expensive sports facility that appeals to prospective students but has no academic merit. Both antithetical to the traditional priorities of a liberal arts institution, but both increasingly common in higher education. Could be wrong though.
I am very out-of-the-loop on Linux. Your download page says:

"Your system must have at least glibc-2.17, as well as X11, ALSA, libGL, librt, libdbus."

What rough percentage of modern Linux computers would you say that covers? 99%, 90%, 50%?
In the context of a scientific hypothesis, "untestable" means that it can't be tested, not that someone doesn't want it to be tested. The fact that someone really really really doesn't want it to be tested does not make it untestable. It makes it untested but eminently testable.
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In the sense that new laws are really difficult to do in the age of polarization. So instead the executive branch issues orders and the judiciary interprets laws in creative ways.
Lush is a very "woke" company so it isn't surprising to see them lead on this front. Personally I do think people should consider getting out of social media altogether, if only for their own sanity. I agree with the quote "Social media is mental illness’s most significant accelerant" (https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1437161583503757313). But leaving that aside, I am simply not sure humans are meant to have the degree of connectivity and forced uniformity that social media suggests.
Great so retailers have externalized the consequences of their own poor practices onto the taxpayer in yet another way.
The two are often juxtaposed in the coverage of crypto bans, I don't know if they're also juxtaposed in the political intentions.
This looks vaguely similar to the Volkswagen XL1 [0] - similar internal layout but with a much longer nose.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car
It doesn't take much math to know that Engineering Hours + 100% return of all money made + Damages from having money and then not having it + Labor and processing and lost credit card fees = Expensive experiment.

Also they laid off a major Firefox engineering division because of tight funds. You can't tell me that the side projects didn't have something to do with that.
I recognise these illustrations, they were used for cover for an edition of a Swedish translation of Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke. Probably borrowed by the publisher but I assumed they were made for the book.
Was a huge fan 20 years ago, but it's low quality now. They just don't do much work now and the testing is superficial and lazy.
So did the "China bans cryptocurrency" FUD wear off or something?
Honestly, same. I'm still going to give it a shot, because it does look interesting.
What, why was the black plague not developed in the genetic engineering labs by Genghis Khan.. Maybe because the labs did not exist?

How you can compare the history of humanity to the last ten years, the time when we really have started such experiments, is beyond understanding.
Like so?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIzRGHuJt_I
Usbourne really did make some terrific books. Some of them really defined my childhood, from their book about Ghosts that was in our primary school library and gave me nightmares, to the BASIC programming book that was foundational in me becoming a programmer.

They still seem to be making some of the best non-fiction kids books, my kids have some great ones.
Yes, 100%. It’s one reason why I mentioned Tezos: it has upgradability and upgrade governance built in from day one, which — if nothing else — I think is an interesting design point.
It is a big deal if you're only speculating and need to cash out. But if you can buy goods and services informally in these currencies, or use tools like stablecoins to speculate on network, it's really nothing to worry about.
I switched to Bitwarden and I have been very happy with their service.
It's an open secret if you want to look around. For example:

https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

"Sadly Mozilla's annual report doesn't break down expenses on a per-project basis so it's impossible to know how much of the spending that is on Mozilla's programme is being spent on Firefox and how much is being spent on all these other side-projects.

What you can at least infer is that the side-projects are expensive. Software development always is. Each of the projects named above (and all the other ones that were never announced or that I don't know about) will have required business analysts, designers, user researchers, developers, testers and all the other people you need in order to create a consumer web project.

The biggest cost of course is the opportunity cost of just spending that money on other stuff - or nothing: it could have been invested to build an endowment. Now Mozilla is in the situation where apparently there isn't enough money left to fully fund Firefox development."
What do you mean by massive disaster ahead? Are you stating there is a massive disaster ahead, or COVID has steered us into a direction that adverts that?
You can also dictate how the funds in a CBDC wallet are spent. There was a proposal that CBDC wallets could be issued stimulus funds that expire unless they are spent within a certain time frame. This is to prevent people from just putting the check into a savings account.
Even at 1/4 of that, it's $650bn. That's a tons of value.

> like 99.9% of transactions are valueless gambling OR money laundering.

You need to prove that. GBTC and CME options volumes/open value are in the billions. I don't think people are laundering money through these instruments.
Since your comment is popular you may not be the only one but then the question is: why? I am genuinely wondering why you would get less and less excited the more they raise. Any specific reasons?

Thanks!
Most universities in the US continually harass their former (tuition-paying) students for donations, which make up a large proportion of the budget (especially for more elite private universities - the less elite are more reliant on tuition and public universities on the state in addition).
NSO Group and any organization who does business with them should be placed on the OFAC list
> So Java has the fastest GC for this test, 2.48 secs vs 12.23 secs for Golang.

Further not mentioning memory used Java/Go programs makes it very fair comparison. Because GC perf does not depend on memory allocated.
You have interpretations of the Republic. Other people have different ones. Discussing them is the point.
Disclosure: I'm a cofounder of Authzed, a YC company building a permissions database[0] inspired by Google's Zanzibar paper[1].

This is actually a really hard problem and depends on the systems with which you are integrating. We call this problem "ACL filtering"[2] and there are two general strategies: pre and post filtering.

We have a blog post[3] describing our API for pre-filtering which can stream results that you can then use build a SQL query or data-structures like bloom filters/bitmaps. We currently have a proposal on GitHub[4] for an extension to that strategy adding a denormalization/caching layer (which is applying a similar strategy to the Leopard Indexing system internally at Google).

You might also be surprised at the performance you can achieve with post-filtering by building an iterator in your programming language of choice that will batch together permission checks and amortize the cost of filtering those results from the set of all results that you pull out of your database.

Additionally, if you're interested deeper database specific integrations, there are hooks into various components such as Postgres's Row Level Security, but that typically means eschewing a cloud service to operate your database for you (e.g. RDS) so that you can install your own plugins.

[0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

[1]: https://authzed.com/blog/what-is-zanzibar/

[2]: https://docs.authzed.com/reference/glossary#acl-filtering

[3]: https://authzed.com/blog/acl-filtering-in-authzed/

[4]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/issues/207
I admit my memory may be spotty - but was there any reason to believe this could not easily have been pulled off by 2 people - ie a married couple? Sure relationships break up but I’ve seen plenty of secrets go to a married pair’s grave.
That is exactly low trust environment.

Trust requires that you accept that you can be hurt by the person you trust. If you work to remove that ability you are saying you do not trust that other person.

Now, I am not saying that you should design processes so that employees can fail them.

What I am saying is that when somebody is a developer and the company says it is ok to "burn" their time and effort because they do not trust the developer to make a right decision, it sucks and it makes it very difficult for that person to care to do a good job.

There are usually different ways to prevent things from failing that do not require the organization to manifest that it does not trust their employees. And there are ways for the organization to show they trust their employees to make up for the cases when these types of solutions can't be implemented.

I worked in Samsung. In the office I worked, there is a ban on having knives in the kitchen, even the cutlery that is basically unusable to cut anything more substantial than overcooked potatoes. I heard the same for all other offices. Apparently, two guys half a world away had a knife fight in the kitchen and so it was decided every single employee is not to be trusted handling cutlery. The funny thing is, people started bringing their own, really sharp knives. So... knives are still there but employees have one more reminder that they are not being treated as adults.

I worked in a large number of companies, from small to very, very large ones. They all vary a lot in the level of permission any single employee has to do things.

But one thing I noticed is that companies where employees have very little permission to do anything do not have less process failures.

There is many reasons for this. Now that you made your employees impotent, you need a lot more of them to do the same work. Or maybe you need to shift the responsibilities from real thinking people to automation that can also make mistakes but with a much larger impact. People that are constantly reminded they are not trusted start behaving this way. They tend to lower standards and stop caring.

Taking somebodys permission to do something can be done well but it usually requires much more care and thought than what typically happens at large corporations.
My take as a technical writer who has edited lots and lots of documentation from non-native speakers, non-professional writers, and so on: if you stumble over the sentence and you have to go back and read it twice or more times to understand what they are saying, then by all means the sentence should be reworded. Otherwise there are probably bigger fish to fry. In this case "learnings" would pass my test. Even if it's a non-standard word I got the gist of their idea without a second glance.
You still need to make decisions in a decentralized system, I don't really see what alternative you're imagining that's even more decentralized than "start a parallel chain if you dislike it, let people vote with their feet". You can't really start a parallel USD to see if people like your monetary policy better.

And, obviously, this is political. Miners make a lot of money off the status quo, devs want to reduce the energy/environmental impact of their chain. Proof of stake takes away a moat that miners have built around their operation (now anyone with 32eth can be a validator). There's no way out of that conflict of interests without some degree of politics.
CBDC are just a huge/national bank. It's a dream come true for the Marxists.
Maybe reverse it. What is the likelihood, given that a pandemic has arisen, that it will arise in a city where a lab leak is a possible origin (having the laboratories and the research going on)? I'm going to guess that it is very unlikely.
Primarily to pay government fines and auto repair bills. Nobody is getting a payday loan to buy groceries. They're doing it to stave off things that if ignored will cause them to lose their income and slide further into poverty.

They're poor, not stupid.
[random advice from the internet]

Instead of trying to lock down the internet, work toward open communication because your relationship with your child is social not technical.

The challenges your child will face are not merely confined to the internet. And when they hit puberty...well, people have been hitting puberty since long before the internet.

The best way to protect your child is to arm them with judgment and a logistics train full of love, patience, forgiveness and understanding. Good luck.
What would be really clever is if it could alter, say, source code or natural language prose of sufficient length to force a specific CRC preserving the semantics of the program/prose e.g. by reordering or changing words and/or identifiers. (changing 4 bytes to arbitrary values in a comment is against the spirit of this)
CS people always underestimate the difficulty of this stuff. I used to be a genetic engineer: Even in the best of times doing real field science on the lineage analysis of sars-cov-2 would take many many years. In a time of acute political hostility it will take much longer.

You argue it's just political expediency not to look, when the truth is that it is brutally difficult work to "prove" any exact zoonotic sequence even if the political will is there in abundance. (It took a ~decade for sars-1, and the story's still a bit unclear with ebola.) The global scientific community does want to figure this out, but the lab-leak circus has made the job infinitely harder.

We do know of very close sarbecovirus relatives in Yunnan and Laos. Given the early epidemiological nexus of the wet markets there is every reason to believe this arose out of a reservoir in the fur or meat industry... but given the amount of animal culling that has occurred, it could be a real challenge to figure out the exact intermediate host, especially given the enormously broad mammalian host range of sars-cov-2 and the number of animal species commonly sold in those wet markets.
>It's accurate about tech-savvy people that listen to a lot of music. It's not accurate about music listening by all users everywhere.

What evidence do you have for this?

> I'd wager most people use streaming platforms nowadays over downloading music locally.

Agreed. The above data has around 90% streaming. Why are you claiming it is wrong when it says what you claim is the truth?
Vice president is a nondemocratic executive position which is overwhelmingly bureaucratic at best. Vice president positions can be granted for any number of unclear reasons, from granting prestige to a donor’s kin to reforming the business affairs of the institution. Vice presidents are unlikely to hold a commitment to quality education.

Climbing wall is the regular dog-eat-dog competitive nature of living and working in a capitalist society.
My recollection is that Cloudflare Workers uses Isolates, but also employs various process-based strategies. More detail here:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/security-...
> Microsoft, interestingly, was after the opposite

Microsoft is like Marylin Monroe, or Michael Jackson or that person who lived to 123 years old.

You'll never see a company like that ever again in your lifetime.

They did what Standard Oil did, in perhaps an even cleaner and uncontroversial manner.

Tons of talent and luck aligned in the exact right way for it to be the phenomenon it became.
> Theft saves more in taxes than the items stolen are worth to the company.

Citation needed
Brandon's inflation is really just getting started. Anyone on a fixed income and low income earners are really going to get hurt. Hold on.