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>Spam isn't that different from portscans, and we don't change TCP/IP to prevent these.

Guess you've not heard of port knocking.
If you thought filters were warping the mass perception of beauty, wait until the social media platforms have these "smarter" filters that will allow more fine-tuned parametered control over pictures.

You can control your own pictures with character editor akin to an RPG.

AOL had the right idea with avatars, back in the day - nobody wants to share what they look like, but instead, what they _want_ to look like.

On the internet, nobody knows your an ugly dog, except your new tech overlords.
Thats just wrong. There are more than enough healthy humans for which it is much more than just a bad cold, which end up in the ICU eventually.
To my understanding it is not possible to know upfront who is such a human and who is not, even perfectly healthy people have bad outcomes.
And yes, I am aware its just a small percentage of people in certain age groups.
obviously that was the point, if you don't even care to write correct code, you can make every piece of code look bad.

Truth is java streams and, even more, reactive java are the only two things that make java bearable, god save who invented them.

If I had to program java with for loops and list.add or null checks everywhere, I would probably kill myself on the spot.

But the amount of programmers taught to program like it's still 1995 it's so damn high

And I am closer to my 50s than my 40s, I can't understand why people fresh from uni say they can't understand something like

list.stream()
.map(this::maybeGetUser)
.filter(maybeUser -> userIsPresentAndNameStartsWith(maybeUser, prefix))
.findFirst()
.orElseThrow(new UserNotFoundException());

with the benefit of being lazy and only inspecting list items up to the first one that matches (and if you don't mutate any data, easily parallelizable)
Anyone have one of these for FedEx? I found about 100+ @fedex.com email addresses for people at FedEx by scouring the web but not one of them worked.

Just trying to get my package...

(p.s. tried all the regular support channels)
I expect most libertarians have identified the direction in which they wish to move the needle and would be content with a gradual, conservative reform programme towards that direction - rather than overnight revolution.
A couple of questions:

How would you test that theory?

Who introduced the armored sword-bearing infantry? It's not exactly cheap. If it was an existing civilization, would they not have simply taken over the region, like the Macedonians, Romans, and assorted others? If it were a migration of people, as the Egyptian writings indicate, why were they migrating?

Why were the Egyptians and Babylonians able to survive, albeit with considerable losses, while others such as the Mycenaeans didn't? Why weren't the existing civilizations able to adapt and adopt?
Sorry, after a few refreshes not a single word was anything that looked remotely like English. It all looked like complete gibberish or words in another language. Most of them weren’t even pronounceable.
Blockchains don't solve problems that are interesting to me
Notice how I mentioned EU membership? It's a non-USA calculation. As I said, I don't know what the rest of the world is doing. I get your $12.88k/year at a fraction of $1/mo for the taxpayers over here and I'm living like a king. No idea why providing basic necessities is supposedly so expensive in the US.

While such leisure disincentivizes bullshit work (which is a good thing), it allows me to do actual, meaningful work. I.e. pursue my lifelong dreams pertaining to computers and art.
> If your argument is that public pressure to conform to racist and sexist cultural consensuses was bad for scientific research

My argument is that public pressure to conform to the political norms for its time is always bad for scientific research, regardless what the political norms are. The political norms are what is called "politically correct", things that you should believe because otherwise society will become hostile against you.

Political correct pressure on science is similar to banning all smoking health research that isn't funded by tobacco companies. Sure tobacco funded research is still research, but it will be extremely biased. The same about politically pressured research. The pressure to confirm racist ideas lead to a lot of bad science in the past. The pressure to confirm modern political ideas lead to a lot of bad science today. Those two works in exactly the same way. However since I live today and not in the past I care about the problems science face today rather than the problems it had a long time ago that are no longer relevant.
> so we’re going to need to impose regulatory requirements surrounding e.g. key storage and access

This is the part that I said I knew I'd disagree about scale. ;)

Instead of hoping for any kind of "imposed" solution, I'd rather prefer a myriad of different providers and wait to see what patterns emerge and what becomes the best practices. Bottom-up, evolutionary approaches always beat top-down designs in the long run.
Not really, "evil" bankers are held accountable by the judiciary and regulators. If anything crypto-currencies hamper the ability of those authorities to hold them accountable, so they make things worse in that respect, not better.
How do I trust the public key I get via a tag in an email from somebody whose public key I don’t already have?

How does the person rotate keys if we only talk occasionally?

Or, if we’re looking for a bigger, overall flaw: e-mail is fundamentally fire-and-forget via SMTP, so there isn’t a way to use the users pubkey to creat a per-message session key, and reusing a persistent key for encrypting data is a massive pitfall.
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^ This. The risk of becoming a vegetable from a botched suicide is pretty high. The last thing a suicidal person wants is to make their life even worse.
Very good synopsis, one note that kubernetes now does have encryption at rest for secrets
Tether has regularly been sued and settled, never won.

CFTC: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21

NYAG: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/23/tether-bitfinex-reach-settle...

DOJ: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-26/tether-ex...

They have been evading an audit for almost 7 years now. They are required to provide an attestation every 3 months and yet they delayed the last one. Their current attestation raises more questions than answers: https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1466826912781590529

Their attestations have never been independently verified.

Their commercial paper holdings are all murky and they have never provided an actual breakdown. Who knows if they are holding large quantities of commercial paper tied to Chinese real estate?

I mean, for a legit org, they tend to get sued quite a lot (and never win).

An audit for a stablecoin shouldn't really be hard to do.

And no, it's not really a conspiracy theory when there is so much evidence against Tether and Bitfinex. The burden of proof is on them. They can have all the "conspiracy theories" go away with an audit. 7 years. Still waiting. Accusations against Theranos were labeled as conspiracy theories up until 2015. They were until they weren't.

Regards Alameda and being delta neutral, I edited my comment. I never claimed it was a scam. It's just that firms can profit off crashes which may embolden others to take similar positions. The whole space is highly manipulated by big players, its as simple as that.
Criteria for being classified as human are diverse, most of the criteria we use for classifying living people (some of which are actively being used to commit genocide) cannot be applied to our ancestral lineages, we give our genes too much credit relative to our memes, and cladists will use whatever evidence they can find to support their cladism. If the splitters in the lumper splitter debate are using splitting as an excuse to murder and disenfranchise people then it is hard in good conscience to openly articulate the truth and ethically is probably better to attempt to slow the splitters' efforts by confusing the whole field with alternate hypotheses.

On the whole lineage does not imply capability, skeletal anatomy is not predict cultural level, etc. but because the great chain of being continues to drag our civilization down to its lowest basest form we belittle anything and everything that looks even slightly different than us. The fact that the null hypothesis in life sciences is that other species do not feel pain, do not have emotions, do not have cognitive process, etc. is derived from the abhorrent idea that only human beings have souls, or that the abhramic god gave man dominion over the animals. Is it a surprise then that some scientists have fooled the bigots by classifying everything as human? They know that by some criteria the lineages are sufficiently different to be classified as such, but there is no reason to give bigots ammunition for public policy.
What do you mean "infrastructure" in quotes? The infrastructure bill is almost entirely infrastructure like roads, bridges, waterways, electricity, and broadband internet. (It's also only 1T. Not 3-6.)
Why do they strive for Europe? Economic refugees are in for a surprise when they actually make it to Europe. Maybe it’s better than what they had, but there is no doubt in my mind that they aren’t getting the warm welcome social media activists portray.
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>Bunker fuel shouldn't be marketable for sale as a fuel at all. We (= OPEC, in this case) could still sell it to chemical companies, but the rest, we should just be sticking back in the ground. This would reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by such an extent it's not even funny.

Bunker fuel is responsible for ~3% of CO2e emissions? OK it may have a greater impact on air quality, but in terms of carbon it is not exactly a stand-out item.
The comment was something like 'walking by' disrupting the air at the thermostat and that alone being enough to turn the furnace on at that exact moment.

A running average, but also making it clear to the user (both the value the unit is using for the decision and the current instant input) as well as a 'running average' over a given window address that specific comment. I added my own frustrations on top since they're also part of the larger 'dumb down the UI' and make the device frustrating.
5. Build your own device driver from source

Sounds like nothing has changed in 20 years.
> Switching async tasks involves loading the new task from memory onto the stack. That's it.

One of the points on the list was that if the context switch is due to I/O readiness, then there's more work for the async task to do [0]:

> Think about it this way—if you have a user-space thread which wakes up due to I/O readiness, then this means that the relevant kernel thread woke up from epoll_wait() or something similar. With blocking I/O, you call read(), and the kernel wakes up your thread when the read() completes. With non-blocking I/O, you call read(), get EAGAIN, call epoll_wait(), the kernel wakes up your thread when data is ready, and then you call read() a second time.

> In both scenarios, you’re calling a blocking system call and waking up the thread later.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26110699
This may be the most gen-x piece of writing ever.

It reminds me of early Simpson's episodes. The juxtapositions of pointless and detailed erudition, obvious humor and subtle satire, and breaking the fourth-wall moral mirror. It's equal parts brilliant, snarky and trivial.

I generally find DFW unbearably pretentious, but there is something sublime about an article like this getting published, with all of those footnotes, in a food magazine. Something about it reminds me of the performance art of Andy Kaufman.

It's strange to me that I've heard of this essay probably hundreds of times yet this was the first time I actually read it.
They soon plan to only allow logging in with Microsoft accounts no?
In this case, the context of worldwide mail flow may be a meaningless statistic. Sending messages to real individuals for purposes of commerce is going to be much more important to a companies profit, than say a script sending out a message saying "This task completed successfully" to an email address.
Companies can move faster because they don’t spend public money so have fewer rules to follow.

If we let USPS function in the same way Amazon does (eg scrapping unprofitable activity) you’d see changes but USPS is providing a service for the public good.

Plus arguably politicians don’t benefit from creating an amazing USPS though who knows why.
I've been thinking about this. Some kind of universal modular system for storage, or other things, would be pretty interesting!

Make a large flat piece (4x6) that you can screw legs onto the bottom, and now you have a configurable nightstand. Or a table and you can configure your own desk setup, or change it depending on what activity you are doing. You'd need the large flat tiles for a smooth working surface.

Doesn't have to be lego specific design, but some kind of standard to avoid always having to buy a brand new system at IKEA or walmart etc when you want stackable storage.

EDIT: I found a similar system, https://www.everblocksystems.com/
I'm thinking more of an open standard that can be done on any CNC machine though
Are your views about crises, pain, and suffering in the world incorrect? How should I know?

All I can tell you is that internet ideological battles are tedious and repetitive. That already makes it boring, and it evokes worse (and eventually, considerably worse) from others. This is why we ask HN users not to use the site primarily for this.

That category includes grandiose ideological rhetoric in general, even if you're not battling for a particular ideology. It doesn't much matter what people are battling for, actually, because it's not the high-order bit—these threads all end up being the same kind of thing in the end, and it's not the kind of thing this site is for.
> We need to quit making that some kind of top priority.

Then how do we pay for it? You’re either making the customers pay the true cost or you’re just stealing it from the entire tax base.

If you do the latter then it’s unfair to any business competing in the same category and they will all eventually go out of business because they have to be sustainable.

So we end up with less efficiency and absolutely no other options.
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I knew a guy with a single-character first name. He once bought an airline ticket but then got stuck at TSA who would not let him pass, despite all his ID etc saying the same thing.

A large number of web sites would not let him register at all.
> The argument is specific to logistics. Our government has a poor track record in that domain outside the military.

US public services have a long track record of being actively sabotaged by governments. See the US Post Office being undermined by Trump's appointment of DeJoy.
So because Enron is bad, everything they did is bad? I’m not arguing in favor of firing the bottom 10% each year, but your logic here is ridiculous.
It's called strip/branch mining (https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Mining#Branch_Mi...) by players.

Everyone (including children) learns this method over time, be it by checking tutorials online, reading a wiki, or just naturally due to how simple and efficient it is.

You just had to mine straight down to y 8/13 (this changed in the new patch), make a long corridor and then just branch out of that corridor in lines.
So how do we pronounce this? I think the name is unnecessarily complicated.
A bit in places, but it’s all built on very simple primitives
Net positions are the ones that count. Going from long to short to long, isn’t being long and short simultaneously, unless you mean to transcend time in the block universe.
There's a whole paragraph about him, you need to grep an alternative spelling:

> Europe had long pressed Libya to help curb such migration. Muammar Qaddafi, Libya’s leader, had once embraced Pan-Africanism and encouraged sub-Saharan Africans to serve in the country’s oil fields. But in 2008 he signed a “friendship treaty” with Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, that committed him to implementing strict controls. Qaddafi sometimes used this as a bargaining chip: he threatened, in 2010, that if the E.U. did not send him more than six billion dollars a year in aid money he would “turn Europe Black.” In 2011, Qaddafi was toppled and killed in an insurrection sparked by the Arab Spring and supported by a U.S.-led invasion. Afterward, Libya descended into chaos.
> But a million threads on one box imposes significant constraints on how active those threads can be.

Wouldn't the same constraints be imposed on a million async tasks? What allows async tasks to be more active than threads? Is it the scheduling model, the overhead of context switching, or something else?

EDIT: I reread and saw that you mentioned context switching. I guess my question would then be the same as here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29452759. Is the claim that the context switching overhead when due to I/O readiness the same true? I'm mostly thinking about network servers, where I think most? context switches would be due to I/O readiness.
It's not against the law to seek asylum in Europe. I think bringing up the idea of rule-following to people who are in dire straits is dismissive of their plight.
"Full Self Driving activated."
I've seen those, and have been tempted to get one, only because I wanted to take it apart. :)
They've been "weaponised"
This is what happens when people push things like open borders. It creates a problem that must be stopped, and legally.

A refugee has the right to claim asylum in the first country they set foot in, not the 5 or 8th one of their choosing.

The natural response to open borders thinking is to enforce this result.

Beyond that, it's a little hard to stir up an emotional response. If these people truly are fleeing something terrible, this place isn't so bad.
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Yeah I liked my sandwiches smashed and soggy. On the occasions where I'm going to be dirt bagging for a week or so, I'll still take a whole loaf of bread and make it all into PBJs (and stuff them back in the bread bag) to eat throughout the week. It's usually in the winter so I'm not too worried about mold.
This was very readable.
Have you looked at kubevirt?
Seems like we have very different interpretations and standards for “disruption”.

I don’t consider “everyone is talking about it” disruption. I want to see real world implementation that goes beyond “virtual asset value goes to the moon” to be convinced.

As I said in an earlier comment: It’s been almost 13 years since the first block has been mined on the Bitcoin blockchain and the positive impact on society/economy is pretty disappointing.
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I stand corrected, I searched for multiple variants of spelling of Gadaffi. Never seen the Q-variant before.
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Yes, there is. Did you even read it or just searched for his name?
> but doesn't it also seem kind of crazy inefficient to have 5 different company's trash trucks running around the city?

Why would you even think that? It’s going to be roughly the same number of employees, equipment, etc. The total amount of trash didn’t change.
This has been a week of discovering people I'd assumed were dead were still alive (although in this case, not so much anymore). The other one is Henry Kissinger whom I'd assumed had died decades ago but it turns out is still alive and putting his name on books.
Mathematical proof actually has very precise definition. You can take something and answer precisely whether it is or is not a mathematical proof.
I kinda of think this is causing the current housing prices bubble.
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I have had subreddit mods openly call me all manner of inflamatory names, stalk me, and harass me in general. Sometimes those powermods get removed by contacting the lead mod if they're still around, but powermods know this and will hide the mod list, remove the post(s), and handle all the reports. So to other mods and users it looks like nothing happened at all. Reddit is the least transparent platform, it's designed for censorship and abuse, even.
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And 60% of our DNA is shared with a banana, but that's not the dna used to classify species. The overwhelming majority of both our and chimps DNA comes from our common ancestor, and all of that is neither human nor chimp DNA. But there are specific genes which Chimps evolved after our lineages diverged, and any animal containing those genes must be in the chimp lineage.

In the case of hominid interbreeding, we can see genes that are common in neanderthals appearing in non-african modern humans. Had these genes existed in our common ancestor, they would be present in african populations as well. The opposite being the case, the only way for those genes to get there is if only some people descend from neanderthals, which in turn requires successful interbreeding.
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I’m not sure if anyone actually looked at the code for the PHP-based API-gateway, but as a TLDR: it’s trivially injectable to give RCEs and not really hardeneded nor is input sanitized properly at all.

I realize this is meant for deployment on a local trusted network, but I still think that’s worth putting somewhere in big bold fonts.
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I'm not arguing against assisted suicide. I just think it is wildly ignorant to think that a computer can accurately assess someone's mental capacity.
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