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So what you’re saying is taking a smaller bribe is okay? Just as long as it’s not a “ridiculous” bribe…
I picked up a Kinesis Advantage on Craigslist for $100 a year ago and that's easily been the best $100 I've spent. I've found myself wishing I could travel with it, but it's so huge that's really not feasible. This new design makes that look more possible, and the bluetooth option is a huge plus. So I'll definitely be purchasing.
“Something is wrong when the king needs to censor the jester”
If you think about what the Bay Area tech boom was, it was essentially a huge make-money-at-all-costs operation. Investors, tech startups, and the money that dominated the region set the tone for the culture. Despite all the talk about "making the world a better place", that was all a facade for making people filthy rich and trashing everything else that stood in the way of money. None of these companies cared about the things that make a healthy community and society. Certainly none of the politicians in the area did, many of which had symbiotic relationships with these entities, and that showed in the policies that manifested over the past decade.
Possession of the Christchurch video is illegal in NZ. Not sure about elsewhere.
Yea, it's a 16x10.4 display. If you're watching 16x9 content, it didn't stretch vertically on old Macs that were 16x10 either. On this screen, it just doesn't come close to the notch. If you're doing full-screen with something that doesn't have a Mac menu bar, it just uses the display area under the notch so you don't see any notch.

I like that they basically put the menu bar and the webcam in the same space. It means I have more vertical space for the rest of my stuff. Is it perfect? I'd love a camera that could be invisibly embedded under a display and still work perfectly, but I'd also love to be able to teleport. It seems like a good engineering compromise to make something that works well. Really, the new MacBook Pros are just amazing in ways I'd resigned myself to putting up with Apple being annoying. No more touch-bar, giant escape key, emoji key, ports, and not trying to shave every tiny bit of weight/size when doing so would compromise usability. They even went with a 20% larger battery for the 14" and the 12% sharper display isn't transformative, but it's a nice upgrade.

The notch is a good use of otherwise wasted space, at least for me.
The FAQ makes it sound like it's an option, at least I hope so.

https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/#faqs

"Which keycaps should I get?
This one is easy…

Dye-Sublimation PBT: These are premium keycaps that are resistant to sheen and and fade. If you don’t plan to use the backlighting then this is the set you want. You have a choice of Dvorak or QWERTY legends.
Shine-Through ABS: If you want to work in a low-light environment you’ll need to select these if you want to be able to read the key legends. This set is only available with QWERTY legends at this time."
Policing is the 22nd most dangerous occupation, behind farming and garbage collection https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-j...

Maybe those snowflakes should pick a different occupation if they're afraid to do their job
No.. the fact checker should also make sure true facts aren't being used out of context causing the reader come to incorrect conclusions. That's what is happening with the BMJ article.

That's why the fact check report doesn't mention any specific factual inaccuracies. Context matters, missing context is a problem.

EDIT: see here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29597047
Worse, FB doesn't care about the facts and neither do journalists anymore. All that matters is clicks and political leanings.
America literally invaded South Vietnam out of fear that communist ideas would spread. Now if war does not fall under the category of “elimination” then I don’t know what does.
I lived in a shared house in the Mission and the neighborhood is still safe enough so that you don't need that. We literally buzzed in anyone that dare ring and friends are still there and still do and never in the two years I lived there, one pandemic one not, we had issues with people wandering in unchecked and doing nasty stuff inside. The Bay Area insecurity thing is blown out of proportion. I'm in Noe Valley now and my drunk condo neighbor forgot the garage door open and it took like four or five hours for someone to actually take something from inside and it was a guy that was clearly not doing well, he wasn't even wearing shoes.

So in my experience so far bros in finance just out of college renting a 3 million condo are more at fault for stuff getting stolen from my property than the cops, the homeless and politicians.
> It’s because they are bad people.

Maybe a bit too simplistic of a description but essentially I agree. They know exactly what they are doing. Companies like FB, which hire them, also know exactly what they are doing. The reason to have these "fact checkers" is to add a layer of indirection and absolve FB of any bias. "It's not us, it's the independent fact checkers who are telling you what's right and wrong".

If they don't perform as expected, they get fired and replaced with another fact checker group and so on.
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Fact checking was an innocent thing back in 2008 and 2012 when it was almost solely about fact-checking objective numbers brought up by party candidates in national debates. "The GDP grew by 2.5%!" False, 2.3%. That worked fine.

But the Murray Gell-Mann amnesia effect infected fact-checking, and turned fact-checking into an extreme danger to democracy (ironic, considering it's supposed to "save democracy"). Fact-checkers are not subject experts; they all seem to believe that you can get to the "truth" after half an hour of Googling. That's not true! Even domain experts might need weeks or longer of research to reach a confident opinion on a topic, and that's with a very strong and wide knowledge foundation.

An obvious impact of fact-checkers' universal Dunning-Krugerism is that they end up biased against certain facts, if they believe those facts to be "promoting harmful narratives". If people hear about Pfizer's mistakes, they might not want the vaccine, so they're biased towards suppressing the BMJ article.

Fact-checking leads to implicit (if not deliberate) paternalism, where information is only allowed to spread if it has no negative connotations. Unfortunately, that means no scrutiny for the FDA, for Pfizer, and a democracy that decays even further. I could give comical examples of recent incorrect fact-checks on European television, where mistake were all biased against narratives that would have harmed the centrist government.

Corporations like Facebook, Twitter and Facebook just shouldn't have this much power.

Could a grassroots cultural movement like the 60s happen again today? One that's anti-authority, anti-elite? Not a chance in hell, not just because of fact-checkers, but because of how much cultural power has been taken from the people. The elites made sure of that: even music, which was at the very heart of these cultural movements, is now controlled by unchecked corporate power. (And the consequences are disastrous: pre-pandemic, 40% of young people felt chronically lonely; atomization is inevitable in a heavily "controlled" and restrictive culture.)
In the original use of the vaccina virus against variola (smallpox) infection, symptomatic smallpox could present after vaccina exposoure of at least five years past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Prevention

"Smallpox vaccination provides a high level of immunity for three to five years and decreasing immunity thereafter. If a person is vaccinated again later, the immunity lasts even longer. Studies of smallpox cases in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s demonstrated that the fatality rate among persons vaccinated less than 10 years before exposure was 1.3 percent; it was 7 percent among those vaccinated 11 to 20 years prior, and 11 percent among those vaccinated 20 or more years before infection. By contrast, 52 percent of unvaccinated persons died."
Could you please go get hired by Apple and implement this for Swift? Pretty please!
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Governments are not known to relinquish control once a new baseline of normal is established... so it does seem that they are adapting to new information only when it serves a certain agenda.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar. It's much too predictable and tedious.

I realize this is begging for an "aha! the elites are proving the point!" response—but really no, we just don't want threads to clog up with low-information, high-indignation rhetoric. If you want to be all non-elitey within those params, have at it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596102.
Company doesn't offer stock and is private.
Yes, and when you update docker container 4.8-0 to 4.8-1, it crashes on startup complaining about missing columns.

As the sibling commenter said, it is alpha.
My experience with VSS was pretty good but I'm thinking of something more radical. VSS etc. allow you to temporarily lock a file so no-one else can edit it while you have it locked out. I'm thinking that instead of temporary lock-outs we should have persistent module ownership. Only the owners can modify the code of their modules, and perhaps temporarily grant commit-rights for their module to others. Preferably the owner should have a deputy or two who would take over if the owner gets sick.

Super-user can grant and take away ownership to any module. Super-user should have a deputy or two as well.

Here's the metaphor: In New York City and all cities you have traffic lights and there are parking rules, and pedestrian crossings and bike-lanes and some streets are one-directional. What would happen if all the rules and traffic-lights were taken out? You could still get from A to B, but probably on average much slower because you would get stuck in traffic-jams much more often.

Perhaps counter-intuitively creating rules which restrict how you can drive and park your car do not make you move slower, they make traffic more efficient. Traffic jam is like a merge-conflict. Two cars merging on to the same narrow street from opposite directions. One of them has to back out. And then so do all cars behind it. Not fun.

Git etc. are a bit like city without traffic lights, one-directional streets and parking restrictions. Anybody can do whatever they want, branch and branch and merge and resolve conflicts. It gives you the impression of great flexibility and freedom, but so would a city without traffic rules. Yet all cities have realized they need to restrict what people do on their streets, to eliminate "traffic-merge-conflicts".

Now naturally you can say that your project has rules in place as to who can modify what code and when (do you?). But I think there should be tool-support for that and persistent module-ownership instead of "module communism" where everybody owns everything. When everybody owns everything no-one is responsible.

I'm not a big rules-guy but I think traffic lights do more good than bad.
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> there is a limit to what independent fact checking can accomplish

Slightly on a tangent, but it is worth mentioning.

I used to be a regular part of both English and a regional language version of <very overhyped SV darling Q&A site which still survives and many wonder how and why>.

There were moderators on this site. And moderation was overseen by "Community Managers" who are humanities majors and MBAs. They not only let very wrong answers on scientific, mathematical, and technical matters stay on their platform until and unless reported by someone with good credentials, they also picked up "top writers" from people who wrote weirdly wrong things like Python being a database, or Quantum Mechanics determining the radii of solar systems.

It was embarassingly funny to watch. The arts major, MBA community managers did not know jack about programming or physics, yet, they are supposed to choose "top writers".

This also points the flaws in the thought that professional factcheckers should exist and they can be trusted with every topic.

They simply won't know enough. Ever.

A knowledgeable SWE won't work for a Q&A site's moderation or a renowned biologist for Facebook factchecking. They would rather work at a high-paying tech job and a tenure track professorship or big pharma, respectively.
Question about the EZ: I have one too, but a major problem I have with it is that even when not tented, it's a _significant_ distance above my desk. The EZ wrist rests don't work for me (my palms move when typing, and the silicone deters palm movement for me), but when the keyboard is tented I have a larger problem: where do I rest my arm? Do I just put my elbow on the table? That's a very small surface area to rest my full arm on.

How do you deal with large amounts of tenting?

EDIT: my current solution is two books, one under either arm...
Bottom line: virtually all large (tech) companies are influenced by governments. They will surveil you on behalf of your government. Period.

Any attempts to muddy the waters for ideological point-scoring are beside the point. If you want to dig deeper, please bring evidence instead of speculation.
I'm here and I feel things are turning around. The brain drain has receded and turned into an influx. As a tech worker who grew up in this city and have a love/hate relationship with it I fail to see what the new migrants see in Miami.

If you grew up down here and know the history of South Florida it's just a history of tech failing to launch since WWII. We have a giant runway in the middle of the Everglades for supersonic jets and space craft, and that fizzled. We have a decommissioned rocket plant and missile silos in Everglades National Park. The IBM PC was invented here, but IBM shipped that whole division to North Carolina. Miami could have a been a Silicon Valley when the valley got created during the Cold War but we lacked the leadership and funding.

So here we are trying to become the capital of crypto which I feel still won't make us another Silicon Valley but another Las Vegas.
Counter argument: they knew what Musk meant but also knew the (admittedly dumb) angle that would generate the most clicks and chose to run with it.
I'm not sure it's really considered a moral failing here in the UK, everyone gets it unless they're barricaded inside.

The official Government stats claim that over 15% have had a confirmed positive test at this point[1], I'd be surprised if the reality weren't over half.

Half of my friendship group currently have it (no idea whether it's Omicron or not, but, well, probably).

[1] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk 11.2M positive tests/67M population makes 16.7%
> What I've been told is both ISP's v6 prefix should be advertised with different priorities to the clients

That basically doesn't work with real clients. They'll do dumb stuff like use address from provider A to send through the router advertising addresses from provider B. And take forever to do anything in response to prefixes that are advertised as no longer usable or simply no longer advertised.
> The declarative query languages were often the most consistent and uniform throughout.

Declarative query languages are where it's at for non programmers IMO. SQL + Excel + Matlab is the sweet spot IMO. Why? Because non-programmers have the most success with these languages! No need to explain Excel. SQL is known by all kids of non-programmers. For example, my father in law sells directory ads. He is one of the least knowledgeable people about computers, and even he knows SQL. Matlab and other array languages also have quick uptake by non-programmers in my experience.
This almost reads like satire.. if there were any doubt as to the dubious, pump-and-dump nature of the current Crypto bubble, WSJ shilling it is a strong indicator..
Take a trip to any of the major US cities (especially older US cities) and you'll find them by and large to be much much worse than SF in terms of crime. Which is a much more a result of the gross economic disparity found in America than any "far left" policies.

Some people are very poor while others are very rich. The poor people feel desperate/trapped and want what the people living near them have. The only places with as much economic disparity as America that have less crime most often have authoritarian governments.

Blaming a local city government for country-wide issues is quite short-sighted in perspective and not helpful when talking about solutions.
And just name every consulting org or big vendor that they don’t do this in every industry.
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I feel excitement over reading this. Would you be open to trying out some ideas to experiment with? I've been wondering if a framework for amplifying/accelerating evolution in bacterial cultures that's based in graph theory holds for culture in general. Also, trying to identify a sustainable model for a gift economy that can outperform debt economies.
Agreed, I was only referencing a.
Only those who follow through with it.
Because they’re paid to and because, again, it is just not their job to evaluate or police based on how the rest of the justice system functions.
Ok, but nothing stops them from removing it. It might allow for a raw image to boot in 12.1, but there are no guarantees it won't go away in 12.2. Why is there no concern about that?
Little bit weird but it's not wrong. He bribed the companies with contracts to get them to give him a kickback.
>The Internet is not, and has never been, a "public forum."

Internet is public utility just like roads.

There's probably no other way around it instead of treating stuff like Facebook as a partly private business and partly public utility.
news from the Bay Area -- my low-tech trendy colleague hooked up with a merciless real-estate investor landlord, they both became serious alcoholics/multiple times wealthier. One is moving back to Ohio with a bundle of legal money and the other is just fat now, showing off to relatives back home; both boomers, no party in their future, no culture making, not interested in being friends with anyone. It seems that they ate a lot of expensive food, lived mediocre lives, got rich and now running away.
Basically every major Chinese company is partially controlled by the Chinese government. (Not trying to detract from your point, just providing context.)
> The answer to "Am I getting older?" is always yes.

Completely off topic, but I always appreciated how what take the form of echo lyrics in They Might Be Giants' Older actually maintain their full meaning as they echo:

You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older

And now you're even older

And now you're even older

You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older

And now you're older still
We trialed switching over to lambda for our worker queues just last month. We went for $500 a month EC2 costs (auto scaling spot fleet), to $500 a day.
Lots of mail gateways / mail security appliances do DNS lookups of URLs in the message body in order to check domain reputation and filter phishing links. It looks like he's using a DNS canary token which would be triggered by those as well.
I'm not so sure. I sat on both futures and swaps desks. Certainly a lot went through the futures on those 4 dates, but the swaps business was OTC, settling every day. I could easily see someone with varying settlements pushing it conveniently their way every day. Each customer would lose a little bit but put it down to noise.

Interestingly I also did FX and people got done on that as well. There's this daily fixing that's used for a variety of products, and a big player like a bank would have a daily delta that would be very nice to nudge the right way each day. You could actually see at 1630 each day that something odd was going on, and there'd be a rumor to go along with it on the squawk box.
I think regardless of which 'side' is correct, it's really interesting that as a crypto enthusiast I completely and utterly disagree with your POV.

I (and many other socialist libertarians) are interested in privacy/decentralization, and see crypto, as a permissionless and decentralized system, itself as the last vestige of the free and open web. There's a very strong and thriving open source community/ethos in crypto, it's kinda built in by design.

I don't really care about the price of my tokens (I only have ETH and some ENS I got airdropped), as they have intrinsic value to me. Of course it would be nice to be rewarded for being early in a new tech, but I have no aspirations of being a crypto millionaire or making a bunch of money, I just think the tech is really cool.

I wonder where the divide comes from?
For sure. I don't think regulatory capture would be about faking data, rather, interpretation to the end of best improving public health (in this case) at the appropriate cost. Again, theoretically.
Couple that with the way ETL frameworks quickly become undocumented, featuriferous that are opaque to anyone who isn't deeply embedded into the framework, yeah.
I read the below more as the company failing to enforce a policy of employees using business accounts/devices for business communication rather than the company failing to surveil private accounts. Basically, employees should be using "official" communication channels that can be audited for business communication and save WhatsApp for friends and family.

> As described in the SEC’s order, JPMS admitted that from at least January 2018 through November 2020, its employees often communicated about securities business matters on their personal devices, using text messages, WhatsApp, and personal email accounts. None of these records were preserved by the firm as required by the federal securities laws. JPMS further admitted that these failures were firm-wide and that practices were not hidden within the firm. Indeed, supervisors, including managing directors and other senior supervisors – the very people responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with JPMS’s policies and procedures – used their personal devices to communicate about the firm’s securities business.
> Most of the world can't verify the code and will need to trust someone.

I haven't scrutinized the code for major flagship apps like Uniswap either. But plenty of others have, including paid auditors.

With open-sourced code, you can actually do this. You can actually get semi-reliable signals that others have scrutinized the code and found it to be fine. Not completely reliable, because sometimes auditors also miss subtle exploits. But you know, everyone's risk tolerance is different. Decide for yourself what degree of trust you're comfortable with, and put or don't put your money in accordingly.

This isn't specific to crypto, this is true for open source in general.

> So... this is a thing for techies only? The rest of the world that can't read the code will have to trust the techies that say "this is good".

But yes, as of now pretty much. The average Joe who cannot remember their own passwords should not be using crypto, IMO. With freedom comes the freedom to shoot yourself in the foot, and unless you understand basic digital safety procedures, you are best off not shooting yourself in the foot.
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Maybe so, but rightful outrage is not a sufficient condition for a good HN thread. If anything, it makes people forget all about the mandate of this site in a rush to express their rightful outrage.