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> Consumer grade biometric security is as useless as consumer grade paper shredders.

IIRC, consumer grade paper shredders got pretty good in the past few years. And your examples both rely on the person setting up the security circumventing it by supplying bad training/enrolling. Which makes it bad if you want to guarantee a person is behind it, but fine if you want to treat it as something that belongs to the person doing the enrolling.
Zulip is used for the FHIR community (chat.fhir.org) and it manages to deliver a much more "email thread"/async communication stream. It's almost closer to a Hacker News than one of the dozens/hundreds of forgettable Slack/Discords for other communities.
> Very little of this is true. Windows ME runs all the 16-bit code you can throw at it and supports all ISA devices identically to 95 and 98.

No it doesn't. Windows ME didn't just remove support for booting into real-mode. It removed support for VxD drivers.

In Windows 3 Microsoft introduced virtual device drivers (VxD) that allowed applications to share hardware, these VxD drivers actually just mediated access to a real-mode 16 bit driver. This allowed hardware manufacturers to write one driver to support MS-DOS and Windows.

In Windows 95 they allowed you to implement VxD with true protected-mode drivers that lacked backward compatibility but with much higher performance. This was supported right up through Windows 98SE. Technically though a manufacture only need to ship a real-mode VxD driver to support MS-DOS, Windows 3, and Windows 9x if they didn't need high performance benefits of a protected-mode driver.

The WDM driver model was introduced with Windows 98 and it simplified driver development but was only compatible with operating systems >= Windows 98. So apart from sound cards that benefited from the WDM driver model introduced in Windows 98, a vast array of hardware only supported real-mode VxD drivers.

There was actually an issue that plagued Windows 9x where if the OS detected an instability in a protected-mode VxD driver it would put a flag in the registry to permanently stop the OS from attempting to load protected-mode drivers and your system be stuck running real-mode drivers resulting in significant performance issues with IDE devices.

IIRCC Microsoft announced the drop of support for VxD in Windows ME like 2 months before it went Gold.
Because most modern hardware was PCI based and using WDM, this resulted in a lot of ISA/16-bit hardware just never getting ported to Windows ME and a lot of hastily written and inherently unstable WDM drivers for a few products that did.

This impacted a lot of folks, I remember Creative Labs having issues with WDM drivers on their sound cards for years.
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Are you suggesting it's sidechain? Or that our funds in Coinbase are pooled?

Either way, it completely defeats the purpose of decentralization, consensus, etc. Coinbase, in that case, is exactly like a traditional bank except that you're trading non-money instead of money.
How often are “open letters” actually read by the imputed recipient?
Fact checking is simply applying some standards to information. People do this in their own minds every day. Outsourcing it to others can be dangerous, but it's not inherently so. If you choose to believe something you read, you're placing your trust in someone else - a news organization, government, friends, family, whoever. If an organization set up for fact checking has published standards and list the violations of those standards when they deem something to be false or misleading, then why shouldn't you trust them? To be clear, I'm not suggesting Facebook fits the bill here - you attacked the very idea of fact checking, which, when done right, is a valuable thing to have in society, unless you just literally trust no third parties that present information to you.
Okay so if i have:

const read = (id: string) => API.client.get<State>(`things/${id}`).then(response => {
return response.data
})

const [ readThingRequest, readThing ] = usePromise(read)

And i want to read two things from the server:

const first = readThing('alpha');
const second = readThing('beta');

Then both will update the same readThingRequest, right? So the information in it will vary according to which one returns first or something?

This feels like slightly the wrong scoping. Either let me call the wrapped function multiple times, and get multiple metadata objects:

const [firstRequest, first] = readThing('alpha');
const [secondRequest, second] = readThing('beta');

Or push the wrapping down to the calling of the function:

const [firstRequest, first] = usePromise(read, 'alpha');
const [secondRequest, second] = usePromise(read, 'beta');
> ZMK instead of adding BT support to QMK? Why?

QMK is licensed under the GPL, which disallows linking with proprietary Bluetooth stacks. That might be one reason.
As someone who works in tech and enjoys the outdoors (mainly hiking and biking, meaning I'm looking for sunny/temperate weather year round) I haven't found many better options than the Bay Area. Visited Miami and Austin in the last year, but the Summer temperatures are stifling and there's not the same wealth of natural beauty on their doorstep - Portland is great, but the grey skies would eventually wear me down.

I'd love to find somewhere more affordable but San Francisco still checks a lot of boxes. Where else to consider?
Do people know Chesa is the DA for San Francisco, a 7x7 square mile city, only? You can't blame anything to do with the entire bay area on him.
The un-notched (and un-rounded) portion of the screen has the same dimensions as the previous screen, so the notch is only taken out of additional pixels added to the top. In practice, it's more of a dedicated menu bar area than part of the regular screen (it just goes black if there's no menu bar to display).
I had a situation where almost every morning a guy with big work truck would pass us extremely closely at full speed while we were walking our dog. The road didn’t have sidewalks so usually cars would slow down or change sides but this guy didn’t. We tried to wave to him to slow down which only resulted in him swerving towards us so we had to jump off the road. One day I stood in the middle of the road and made him stop. I explained the situation to him and he was extremely aggressive and threatened to beat me up. I told him he can try but should think about the consequences first. After a while he backed off. I called his employer and never saw him again.

When i told this story to some people they told me that I would have had a real problem if he had had a gun. That’s probably true.

In Germany you usually can assume that even bad guys don’t have a gun but in the US you have to assume that every idiot has a gun. This brings confrontations quickly to a dangerous level.
I guess once you have 2FA setup it's not necessary anymore. I just set up a new account for testing purposes, and I get their 6 digit code email out of the box.
How bizarre. You're the one who brought up that stat in the first place, I'm only pointing out that it's incorrect, at least for the UK - and the US isn't going to be very different. There's no base rate fallacy here because I'm not even building an argument on that data to begin with, you are!

"We have an enormous surgical backlog due to antivaxxers having filled up the hospitals for months on end."

You have a surgical backlog because your hospitals have been firing staff. Former "heros" who, quite sensibly, observed that as they'd already had COVID they didn't need a vaccine for it, and who were immediately demonized and excluded despite the hospitals supposedly being overwhelmed. You might want to meditate on that and consider whether that's the expected course of action during a crisis or not.
This has been my experience. Really the notch is far less distracting than I thought it would be. I think the one thing that bothers me the most about it is that they made the menu bar slightly bigger so it is visible under the bottom of the notch rather than perfectly aligning to it. Still not as annoying as the garbage palm rejection.
When you have partisans in high positions such as the head of DHS telling companies like Facebook what should be allowed and not allowed, there is a big problem.

Here is a video interview of the head of DHS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp3r04dfpZA

Just what does the head of DHS consider "misinformation" you have to wonder. It was not long ago we didn't really care, because they would not have dared to infringe on free speach.

I wonder what other partisans in power are saying to social media companies?
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^^^^^^ IT'S A TRAP!
agree.. you don't even need "strict: true" to get 90% of the value of Typescript + probably 50% more dev time back not fighting types, but I get downvoted whenever I suggest this. I mean blame the TS team for including it if you think it's such a bad feature.
They blocked me from writing reviews entirely, and I haven't been able to get unblocked.
Obviously it draws attention away from the notch! /s
My guess would be that their USD rates book is about $10trn.

That being said, pretty much by nature of the deal the book is hedged - precisely to limit the exposure to LIBOR movements.
Also just deleting dead code and tests that go along with it

Tend to get a boost in application boot/startup time, too
A person with a fun is dangerous, whether they are an idiot not.

It's the same as all code having bugs, regardless of whether the programmer was skilled
I have no idea how Slack threads are intended to be used. Their own examples are very trivial and the implementation feels like like a first pass that they never did any usability testing with.
I have a hard time trying to justify the Yahoo / SF comparison the article tries to establish. Yes I see the surface-level similarities; Yahoo was the leading website until it wasn't, and SF was the leading tech hub until one day it won't be.

How does the relationship evolve beyond that? The symptoms of a once-giant slowly losing its lead will be similar no matter which industry or entity you look at. You could probably force similar parallels about Blockbuster, Brittany Spears, the Soviet Union or even GM.

The author never bothers to develop any meaningful connection between the the reasons for their decline. They seem to hint at the fact that maybe hubris played a part - but it's all extremely unclear and I'm not going to read into it anymore than I need to.

In the end it's yet just another "SF ain't the hot thing anymore" article with a sensationalized title.
California is one of, if not the largest EV market in the US right now. Consumers by and large don't care where a company has their HQ, but they will be upset if they don't have access to features. And this impacts people that aren't in CA that have FSD but road trip to/through CA. I can't imagine this is an ideal situation for Tesla to be in, and they'd prefer to avoid this as much as possible. There isn't a really good solution here for them.

I don't see how they can jurisdiction shop in any similar way to a credit card company in this instance, these are markedly different scenarios and services provided.
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If I said that. If I implied that. Please point it out to me.
The details and tradeoffs vary by city but I think I generally agree. You tend to have at least many of the same tradeoffs in many major cities and the tradeoffs are such that cons tend to become weightier with age and the pros less compelling.
> The SFPD were defunded, staff left in droves due to a cargo culting 'social democrat' political climate that was openly hostile to them.

Citation needed.

Seriously. NO ONE has been defunded anywhere in the country.

https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th...
Administrative dissolution, aka corporate death penalty. I get this would be satisfying, but I'd really rather not provide more incentive for kleptocracy.
The screen is sized such that the area below the notch is the standard 16x10 macs have used for a long time. You can think of it as having the same displays we’ve always had. In contexts where the active application knows how to deal with the notch, it basically operates as if you’ve reclaimed some of the space in the top bezel. When the active application doesn’t know how to deal with it (full screen apps that don’t declare they’re willing to deal with the notch), the top just stays dark and you have a regular-sized bezel.

The display has really good contrast, and you wouldn’t be able to tell it’s not just the bezel. I legitimately can barely see it even when I’m trying to.
As the letter points out, in this particular case, fact checking is not hard.

In fact, this is one of the easiest scenarios for a fact checker to handle correctly.

The source is a reputable, top-tier peer-reviewed publication. Even an inexperienced (but competent) fact checker could check run literature searches on the journal, reviewers and authors. This would reveal that they’re working at reputable institutions, and have been for decades.
This looks great! I wonder how hard it would be to add support for this to debuggers like lldb. I believe they currently lack a way to inspect rust objects.
Really?

Its programs are among the top in the nation.

https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/AboutUs/FactsFigures/Ran....
> The SFPD were defunded, staff left in droves

You got a citation on this? Because even my city is "defunding the police" because of a budget shortage. And defunding other city services for the same reason. Police leaving in droves, according to Fox News turned out to be 90% retirement.

> Cops are one wrong move away from being in jail themselves

Okay, Tucker Carlson, sure ;-)
Something like that would definitely be useful! It's not really in scope for this project, which is intended as a telemetry and diagnostics tool, but I can imagine a Rust REPL being useful. Of course, in order to do that, you'd need to implement a general-purpose Rust interpreter, which seems like a fairly large amount of work.

In practice, I personally just use REPLs mostly for quick testing out of a small expression or something...and honestly, I usually just use the Rust playground (https://play.rust-lang.org/) for this. Small examples are compiled fast enough in the playground that it's kind of a REPL-like experience for testing stuff out semi-interactively...but it's not the same as connecting to a running application and running new code inside of that application. That's something that seems very difficult to add to Rust, a compiled, statically-linked language with limited support for hot reloading...
Maybe a better title would be "Why your Zulip data will stand the test of time". I think that's really the point he's making: the company will be fine, but even if something bad does happen, you won't be left hanging.

With respect to Zulip the company, I think they have a great product, but they need to market themselves as being something differen from chat/Slack. Zulip is built from the ground up to support a very different workflow. I guess most people try Zulip because they're looking for a Slack competitor and they get the wrong product. If I were Richard Stallman, I would suggest ZINC (Zulip is not chat) as an alias, and everyone would adopt it because Slack is not a recursive acronym.[0]

[0] YMMV
It seems like Miami is currently a hotspot for VCs, particularly the social media influencer set, to relocate to. What actual well-known tech companies are currently located there? Even Magic Leap is based in Plantation, not Miami.
So oligarchy-dominant?
I've likewise been satisfied with virtualenv/pip for years, but I've also done a recent project with Poetry and been quite impressed with how it automates a bunch of the virtualenv bookkeeping. I think it will likely be my choice going forward, but I don't know if it's enough-better to actually want to go to the trouble of porting my plain setup.py/setup.cfg projects to it.
> Key influencers like Elon Musk, Jason Calcanis, and Keith Rabois

Oh no, a bunch of Twitter hot take artists, what ever shall we do
As well as Ive having way too much influence and not grokking what the mac is actually used for, trying to turn it into an aspirational luxury product.
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An oligopoly of walled gardens that control all information flow with little accountability based on opaque algorithmic operations and dubious business models is a bad, unworkable design, who could have guessed that?

A small minority of people here and elsewhere are tearing their hair at the insanity. In the meantime a tiny municipality in the Netherlands gives the go ahead for meta to build the largest datacenter in Europe.

Somehow once the giant wheels of societal regression are set in motion there is nothing to stop them.
Be careful with the kind of bullshit you call out.

If it's some technical thing, feel free to push for details like "have you reproduced/measured this?", "can you show me the source file / section of the documentation you are referring to?". Trust, but verify.

If it's some corporate mantra like "we are a meritocracy", "we only hire the best", "we are carbon neutral", "we are passionate about technology innovation", etc... don't go there.

Do you have an example of some bullshit you are dealing with?
XMPP supports extensions.

Generally speaking, use the standard until you can't. Then just extend it and write up a proposal for your extension to make it into the next version of the official protocol.
We're running a 1M DAU mobile game with a monolithic Lambda function with zero issues.

Zero action was needed when we launched, extra functions spun up automatically and that was it.

We could scale 10-30x without needing to request more function quota from AWS.
Bitching about 'the elites' is garbage. It is a contentless description unless you identify who you're bitching about, primarily used as a way to get others to agree with you by substituting their own conception of 'elitists'.

If you blame 'elites' with no further clarification for something, I'm going to assume you're pushing a dishonest agenda. If you were being honest, you'd identify your scary shadowy actors.
Sounds interesting! I see games in a similar way, as collections of simple mechanics that overlap/intersect/stack.

I think one of the keys to a complementary bundle of mechanics is that they're distinct. Acting on different time scales, different reward structures that tug the brain around, creating choices that feel meaningful and don't ever repeat exactly.
The UI is functional and easy to learn. Everyone in my company is using it, which vastly exceeds the uptake for our previous systems - IRC and XMPP.
I see your point, but two objections.

- Nuanced opinions and good information is rarely free, be it in monetary terms, be it in the invested time, relationships, etc. Thus, if you're not planning to give up most of your time for any topic, you better find good proxies. And currently the press provides more noise than signal. This is problematic.

- If you know anything about Spain is that it's basically Game of Thrones made a country. There's so much internal conflict that it even gets translated INSIDE of the newspapers and TV. You can't take any editorial line for granted, because it's more tied to a group of people seeking power than any background ideology or anything similar. So your balance different views style it's not really that practical in Spain.

In fact I can tell you about an Issue where I'm invested that it's awful across the board: Housing policy.
Conservatives will happily do away with the 2nd amendment if you arm a bunch of black people, and have them constantly open carrying while black
Hacker News users tend to take device choices pretty personally, unfortunately. It seems like the level to which they defend corporations is directly proportional to the amount of money they have sunk into their purchases. If you're looking for sympathy towards how truly reprehensible modern iOS/iPadOS is, you're not going to find it here. The majority will just tell you to get rid of it, since criticism is verboten wherever trillion-dollar companies are concerned.
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This story is literally about a single instance. By that logic, a single instance where fact checkers proved something was false is enough to justify their existence.
Charge them for laptop rental. As another poster said. If you have other clients you are betraying their trust by installing the spyware.
A remake of those old p2p file-sharing networks but instead of advertising file availability nodes would advertise availability of particularly well-optimized versions of the basic code unit every node already has?

Sounds ridiculous and even a bit pointless because you'd still need the capacity to run lots of compilations along not-yet-optimized code during startup (e.g. after redeploy), but with cluster size being highly variable and usage cost more and more replacing capacity cost as the primary concern this might actually work out. For very large clusters and certain workloads. And the more you modulate cluster size depending on demand, the bigger the benefit from reusing across nodes. Sure, it would be more straight-forward to just clone a fully baked node, but there's a nice peace of mind in not having to decide between cold start and hot clone, just leave it to the self-organization mechanism.
Does your doctor have a monopoly on speech? Does your doctor go around and tell people what to say and not say? Does your doctor have the authority to disallow other doctors from practicing? Is your doctor the only doctor you're allowed to go to, or can you just go to another one if you're not satisfied about their competence?

This reasoning by analogy doesn't really go anywhere.
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Well, that it is poorly enforced doesn't make it any less illegal. If you get an audit from the social security or tax office there, good luck.
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I think thats fair. I mean we live in a system of systems, and there are various
forms of organization at each and every level. However, if we're being serious,
the most important systems (health care, military, mass media, telecom,...) that effect each and every one of us are obviously oligarchic, formed in part by massive authoritarian
constructs (modern corporations).
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> I couldn't explain anything currently called Web 3.0 to my non-computer-technical but generally-computing-savvy father, let alone the general public

Maybe you don't understand it well enough? I've successfully explained crypto/web3 to my otherwise "mostly tech-illiterate, has his iPhone font at 200% with all default customization, doesn't work in the tech field or anything adjacent, still asks me what a computer scientist does" father and he seems to understand it pretty well.
web3 is an extended rug pull on the entire tech attention economy, nobody is missing out on anything there.