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Will be interesting to see if people who are against vaccination are willing to put money into their beliefs and get fired. Are people willing to lose their 6 figure salaries?
> I've never seen anything at all as interactive & playful as this. Nothing that comes close. All in one, designed to create the experience of DNS. It's in the name: Mess with DNS. That makes it far far far & away different

Oh absolutely! I don't mean to diminish this. The ability to interact and play also works very well for my own learning.

> There's a theory of education called Constructivism[1] that is broadly similar. Adherents include folks like Seymore Papert[2], creator of Logo, employee at One Laptop Per Child (which I think is the most interesting & innovative software environment we've ever created, vastly under-appreciated). Projects like Logo are supposed to create that hands on feedback, to make programming not just writing scripts & having programs run, but ways to see the code really execute, to create more interactive modes.

+100

> With software eating the world, it is so so so important to me not just to create knowledge, to tell tales of what software is, but to let people have the experience themselves. To create playgrounds to meddle, to mess around. I wish so much that applications could actually show & explain what they are doing, what's inside of them, could reveal their workings, but we're so far away from that Enlightened world, we've fallen into such deep shadows imo.

You bring up a good point overall about the lack of interactive materials for engineers/students/interested folks. I also suggest opening up any cloud provider (cheap for playing around is probably better!) and trying these things with services like Traefik (which are easy to configure/play with). Try to do some multi-region failover stuff, observe what happens with different load balancing strategies, that sort of thing. It reminds me a lot of watching videos about setting up IP networks, stuff like Cisco certification material.

You've given me some food for thought on educational materials for sure.

> As for the lack of knowledge/experience, I'd say that most engineers don't have familiarity because there's not a lot of opportunities to set up & learn systems work; most coders spend their time coding, not setting up bits of infrastructure to run code on. You yourself also say "writing the code is the easiest part", which underscores just how complex/inter-related/particular all the systems/infrastructure stuff is, how probable it is engineers might not feel fully competent or brave enough to engage.

Yeah this stuff isn't easy and operational work is often a different skillset than writing code.
Sorry, but "others got away with it" is not a good argument. I would personally view your software as invasive malware, no matter how good your intentions may be. The right course of action here is to report all similar apps to Apple and have them taken down as well.
Discounting something simply because of the country it came from is, in my book.
I don't find it particularly implausible that one building near a massive building collapse happened to not have adequate fire protection
Hmm, ages ago we added a cannabis related app on Apple/iOS -- and there were loads of other (small-ish) already on there -- to help grow, or find (to buy) or to review cannabis products.

Ours was for regualtory compliance -- a legal obligation for cannabis businesses. REJECTED! And after a 6mo appeal/review process -- with moving goal-posts -- we were allowed back in. YAY.

And then they started getting into the application and making demands -- one was to use their payment systems -- which was BS, because our clients get into the App, and use it most of the time outside of Apple devices (ie: Desktop in Browser). So another round, 3mo later and they'd not force the payment issue.

And the next review required us to remove any details about pricing from our application -- not our app pricing -- but the pricing for the inventory under management. So, users, in-app, couldn't see the regulatory compliance data: price of product sold; in the APP. But we pushed through! and finally got published in the App Store!! Yay!

And one month later we had to renew our Apple Developer -- cause this whole thing took 11 months of back/forth with Apple.

Then we got clients using it (finally!) and the clients were all grumpy cause the features were gone.
Then another two more years with us trying to Apple trying to improve our App.

An last year, we just bailed on the App Store and have given up.

What's super frustrating is since we initially tried our process (starting in 2016) -- other cannabis apps, with pricing and online ordering and all this stuff that we were NOT allowed to do are in the store.
The problem with signalling is that high value signalling is expensive. None of these bits of advice are at all easy to implement. Find a worthwhile project, build it, make sure your git commits have sensible messages? Takes ages. Getting to the point where your open source contributions are actually positive contributions? Easier said than done.

The other thing that really makes you stand out is relevant experience. To get that you either need skill or luck, both of which are not simple to get.

So yeah, it's hard to get a first job, it really is. Young people legitimately complain about that prereq effect, that you need have experience to get experience.
The above can be true without a conspiracy happening. I.e., the establishment saw JFKs Cuba missile crisis actions in addition to his plan to withdraw from foreign military actions as extreme policy disagreements without having them actually want to rub him out.

So both things can be true. They hated him and did everything in their power to undermine him AND some crazy thought he was such a threat he shot him… without the establishment having been involved in the action in any way.

Of course it’s also possible but less likely the establishment thought he was such a danger they HAD to take him out… but there raises the question, with Trump, whom they hated just as much, did they adjust their MO?
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I think we will be moving back to web apps (PWA). The app store was always a hack and the web3 movement is incompatable with app stores.

I'm working on a mobile browser for PWAs https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/wapps-private-minimal-browser/...
> IMHO A great, original idea, with adequate execution, is far, far, more valuable than a ho-hum idea executed perfectly.

Ok, so adjust the multipliers then. That's what a multiplier does.
Reddit's amateur sleuths have solved 9 of the past 5 presidential assassinations.
Not to say that they are justified in doing so, but if you look at a map of territorial waters, it's pretty obvious why China might want to control land in the South China Sea for reasons other than an ambition to annex the entire world, because they are almost completely surrounded unless they can control some territory that has its own claim to territorial waters.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Territori...
This upsets me, because I genuinely liked GTalk and early Hangouts. The constant rebrands and iterations made me and my friends stop using G's chat products too.

I too don't expect quality from anything Google anymore. It's become an untrustworthy brand.
> An M1 can't be both entry level and better than high end models at the same price tag, at the same time

Yes. Yes they can. Because that's their new entry model in the new line-up. And can be both entry level and better than high-end models from the previous line-up.

These are entry models for Apple products. So no sense comparing them with entry models for other products (which could be shoddy plastic netbooks for all those brands care)
Yes, you are right. Looks like you squeezed in your comment before I was able to put the "as a generalization" disclaimer on it! :)

I was thinking more of the situation where some people might be confused with the Zapruder recording, that it could be on videotape instead of film, which is why I didn't try to cover all the corner cases.
It would be a bit less of an issue if Apple allowed apps outside of their store to be installed to begin with.
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It sounds like the author's father never recovered from extreme trauma, which is a fate many face. I'm not sure that says anything about a job/life balance.
Your response is rude and completely misses the point of the person you responded to.

If companies have to provide healthcare coverage for their fulltime employees, but not their gig workers and contractors, which type of employment do you think they are going to prioritise?

If healthcare costs were applied uniformly through tax (as is done in most countries with universal healthcare) then there would be less reason for employers to prefer one type of employment contract over another for low level jobs.
The original version of the app I submitted for notarization had the Truple logo, with a red dot/circle to indicate recording and make it more suspicious. The redesign I did dropped the red dot/circle because competitors weren't being forced to do anything like that. Competitors just use their logo. And their logo's aren't any more/less suspicious than Truple's. If you click on the notification on MacOS, a menu pops up indicating the device is being monitored and includes instructions for how to uninstall the app though if you do an alert is sent indicating that you did.

It's convenient to think I've done something wrong here... but I've puzzled over this for 2.5 years, and if I have done something wrong, the least Apple could do is let me know so I can correct it.
I initially had the same question but seeing the author’s comments on this feature (which are generally positive) I personally have come to the conclusion that it is a misfeature.

LTO is not necessary for development builds, or builds where the speed of the write-compile-test loop matter. This is exactly the use case that mold was designed for and it is designed well. Adding LTO support would only add bloat to the code especially since mold’s techniques to improve the efficiency of linking don’t really apply to LTO (where link time is dominated by whole program analysis). I have no issue using the compiler’s native linker when doing production LTO builds and conceptually that makes more sense to me anyway.

I would prefer it if the author avoided features when doing so benefits innovating on the core use case.
That was a very interesting read. Thanks.
Right, because those are our only options...
Here's how to stand out: a CS/Engineering degree from a solid school.

A JavaScript course with 2000+ students all "coding" the same portfolio app, to me, is a pretty big red flag.
they definitely don’t do this, but in principle they could use homomorphic encryption to do the compression server-side with zero knowledge
I was thinking of 2018, but I don't remember Ellen Lee Zhou being Republican, only Richie Greenberg. Four unaffiliated-but-Democratic candidates ranked higher, Ellen and Richie were next both with less than 5% of the vote. Mark Leno and Jane Kim were the two I recall banding together; they were #2 and #3 respectively after London.

> But San Francisco has 316k registered Democrats, 137K registered with no party preference, 33K registered Republicans, and 15K registered with other parties. Expecting symmetry between the nationally major parties in San Francisco is silly.

SF is extremely unbalanced. See: https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/california/san_franci.... Why is it silly to expect it to be less extreme?
Recently moved from more than a decade on Android to iPhone. Once the Stockholm syndrome wore off I realized how pathetically behind they are on mobile.
> can drive someone to end their life

Don't underestimate the possibility of somebody else ending their lives for them in a fit of righteous rage.
Why are you so sure about that? From what I saw in last year’s Moderna presentation on R&D day they ramped up vaccines for other infections _because_ it worked so well for COVID, but they were focusing more on therapeutics before, as they thought there’s more money in it and less in preventing infections with vaccines.
Pretty much all major browsers check against Google's safe browsing list so it's pretty much a death sentence to be on it.
The assassination of James Garfield and attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan are both very clear evidences of "weird dudes acting alone." I don't know enough about McKinley's assassin to know if he would also qualify, although that was part of an era where anarchists assassinating notable political figures was relatively common. I also don't know enough about Teddy Roosevelt's attempted assassination.

Indeed, if you look at attempted or successful assassinations of US presidents, excluding JFK, only Lincoln's assassination involved a conspiracy.
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If you're trying to convince people that you're a rational investigator, not batshit conspiracy theorist, making blanket dismissive judgements about his lack of honesty based on your subjective interpretation of his conviction rate is not going to help.
I mean that the way we assess research output in the current system makes curiosity a liability. This means that even if investors are interested, the scientific community will judge the output from this institute as inferior. Except if the curiosity part is just for show, which I strongly suspect. Investors want results.
> So don't buy/install it. But don't take away that choice from other people.

It's not that simple. You are purposefully bringing up an extremely rare use case to detract from the fact that 99% of users of this software are going to be abusive parents who install it on their children's phones without consent. (Or heck, maybe even abusive spouses.) If parents are that concerned, even banning their children from "innocent" apps like Twitter or computer/phone use altogether is better than this invasive 1984-like software.
My in-page search for "bot" comes up empty. Sure hope suppressing botnets is a goal.
I've never known a company mention any open source work I've done, and no one I know has ever mentioned it being a factor when they were hired either. Annecdata of course, but I don't believe open source is a strong signal for most hiring managers (in web dev, obvs, its probably different if you're being hired as a Linux kernel dev or something).
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"iMessage's .gif handling was a bit sloppy" is a believable problem; the idea that it was done deliberately to facilitate access to what amounts to a VM running in an old image compression format is a big stretch.

This isn't like goto fail, and even that one could be explained by developer oversight.
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How about: A weird dude acting alone killing a weird dude acting alone?
Hmm. So C++ operator overloading is a DSL, at least in a sense. It lets you define things like + and * for vectors and matrices, so you can write your code using your usual notation for such things.

But it's a fairly limited DSL, because you can't introduce new (non-C++) syntax.

I hadn't thought of it that way, but I can kind of see it.
Static typing is net 0 cost. We don't need to be "honest" static typing is obviously not free you need to think of types. The real revelation was that the cost of dynamic languages far exceeds the cost of a statically typed language.
Bring it up with the appeals court in the event it occurs, unless you run out of money. Dont run out of money.
IIRC the CIA and other parties were upset Kennedy didn’t commit further to the invasion. Kennedy’s refusal to provide direct air support after the CIA backed forces lost the initiative is usually cited as a major point of contention.

More conspiratorial theorists like to speculate that the CIA hoped to lure the US into a full-scale invasion of Cuba by escalating the Bay of Pigs invasion. By refusing to provide direct air support, Kennedy essentially stopped that from happening and doomed the invasion and ruined Allen Dulles’ reputation. I have no clue how valid these theories are, but it’s what’s usually cited.
I think you missed the point of my comment and fair enough because I was ranting :)

TMS is a GREAT technology. More people should use it, and it should be considered first line treatment over meds. These machines should be in inpatient psych wards. TMS will inevitably help people. I'm not contesting any of that and this is a good thing.

HOWEVER - this is a small study and I'm willing to bet they didn't include people who had failed previous rounds of TMS (or maybe even people who had failed ECT) for a reason. Because it's still the same technology. I'm pretty sure that the remission rate for this will top off around 30%, perhaps a bit more, when more studies have been done and we're looking and real world treatment resistant patients, which is about what we see with TMS (and ketamine for that matter) already.

The point I'm trying to make is that treatment resistant depression is very common and debilitating. If someone is very treatment resistant, they will have tried TMS in the course of their treatment, as I did in 2012, when it was first released. I'm not sure how common this is but in my state Medicaid covers the cost of a course of TMS.

We need new treatment modalities, not because TMS or existing treatments are "boring or "old news", but because treatment resistant depression is a serious issue and we have very limited tools as of yet to help people who aren't responding to these end of the line treatments.

I'm also wary of how TMS is handled in clinics. It can be a bit cult like in some places (doctors overprescribing, overpromising, shrugging off side effects in populations that shouldn't be getting it like bipolar). The quote at the end of the article scares me too. I've noticed the more widespread and accepted a treatment becomes, the more stigmatized and impossible it is as a patient to get help. BUT WHAT PROZAC DIDN'T WORK FOR YOU?? BUT HUHH, CBT DIDN'T WORK FOR YOU?

15 years in, I still get doctors trying to get me back on an SSRI and try behavioralism on me. There are people who are very treatment resistant, and we need to understand this isn't a cure all. The more of a "fad" something becomes the more screwed you are in the medical system looking for help when it legitimately didn't work for you, even though we know even from this paper it's not a 100% remission rate. That's my perspective and lived experience that I'm trying to bring to this discussion.

TMS is great, and it's great it's being adopted more. But I'm wary of what that means for people who really need help and have failed TMS and other treatments and need and new modalities like me. I can hold both perspectives.
> from few voyeurists

In this case, wouldn't that be exhibitionists?
The unabomber?
> Trump, whom they hated just as much

Does anyone in power actually hate Trump? So far as I could tell, all he did for most of his tenure was slash taxes and carefully shepherd the market upward while playing a lot of golf
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I don’t see an argument from you that (1) wasn’t caused by the point that Luu raises.

It’s not strange to end up adding features to programs if the effective IPC is so impoverished that you would need to sandwich a bunch of repetitive formatting commands if you didn’t add some convenient built-in formatting options.
Assuming it went out of control, it's not unreasonable to assume that the antidote can become ineffective, and even if it was effetive, it'd have the same problems as current vaccines (distribution chain, antivaxxers, testing and getting it approved for use in humans), but with even more difficult ethical implications.

I'm not sure if there is a widely used term is used for this (countervirus comes to mind, but that seems used for something else), since it is an unacceptable practice so far.
Beneficial compared to what? We're stuck in a peak and there may be much higher ones elsewhere but because to traverse to those points we might have to descend the idea is unthinkable.
Given that connecting to technical docs or ssh is considered an "attack" by half the people hiring consultants, that will be a very good thing indeed.
this is why you should actually have "signs of life" and something _slightly_ illegal on your plausible deniability partition. Just enough dirt to get you into trouble, but not too much trouble. If you're squeeky clean, you get the rubber hose cryptography treatment.
> There are more journalists in prisons than ever before.

In Russia or China, I can believe this. But in the USA and most of Europe, I'm going to need a citation before I believe that.
20,000 no knock raids and, I think, two cases of officers being killed.
Ten years ago I would have had fun with this, but now it also gives me anxiety. Needs a GMail and WhatsApp sound to complete the dread.
Your software sounds like malware. If I came across it I would probably make a YARA rule against it to purge it from any managed network I control.
I’m someone who has not spent much time looking into this. Can you tell me, based on your research, on balance of probabilities, who did it and why?
Indeed, this looks like a poor quality scan on an old monochrome Xerox machine or the like, not an actual attempt at redacting content. It's readable in Preview on macOS at the right zoom level.
Yes, in my own personal view, inappropriate behavior, i.e. any behavior that is not covered by an employment contract, while on the clock is unethical. I don't take issue with your choice to engage in unethical behavior, so long as it doesn't affect me or victimizes anyone. Even if you're not victimizing coworkers, which is unclear, you're still victimizing your employer.
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The about page says that not only did many of the funders make their money in tech (Patrick Collison, Vitalik Buterin, Ron Conway, etc.), the idea for the institute came from the Fast Grants initiative, which offered rapid (<2 weeks) turnaround times for Covid-related projects.

I wonder if this type of independent research institute with a generous budget is becoming more common. [0] Perhaps it's in response to current conditions in Academia. I hope it becomes more widespread.

[0] The model reminds me of the Allen Institutes, e.g. the Allen Institute for AI: https://allenai.org/
Downvoting for your arrogant tone ("some people still actually believe ...") in regard to a topic that is genuinely murky and has a lot of conflicting indications (and about which there's still a lot of misinformation kicking around).

Even though -- after having done my own share of diligent research on this topic -- I eventually came to the (disappointing) conclusion on the question of whether or not there was a deep state conspiracy behind the events of that day -- I don't fault anyone for what they believe on the topic (pro or con).

It's just what they believe, given the murky historical record and the fog of public belief and opinion about the matter. That doesn't mean (as you imply) that they're idiots or tools.