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You can’t be discriminated against if you are not diagnosed. And our current culture actively dissuaded individuals from seeking diagnosis, because that choice could have profoundly negative consequences to your fundamental human rights. Employment discrimination is the least of such problems. Involuntary confinement up to complete loss of individual agency are possible outcomes as well. There are countless ways that the mental ill are marginalized and oppressed. Why would I volunteer to wear the equivalent of a pink triangle or yellow star, when people keep trying to find a final solution for the mental health problem? Go ahead, call me crazy for drawing that parallel, but that is exactly how I view the status quo.
> Having simultaneous mutable references to an object is UB in Rust

This is correct.

> because the memory manager cannot detect use-after-free errors.

... this is not. It is UB because the language declares it UB. It is absolutely to the core of the design of the language itself. All Rust code relies on this property to work. Something that breaks it is in fact broken, regardless of any other aspect of the program.
I was always more concerned about the Times writer who got fired for using the N word while listing words that shouldn't be said.
I see you are the creator of /tap? Great! I think the multi modal goal is definitely cool and could be really useful. For tiddlywiki, I have to host my own server and only access to it is via a browser. While I have access everywhere this way, it's sometimes slow on mobile phones.

FYI, I signed up but login doesn't seem to work for me. Does nothing. I had to verify my email but got a 'oops try again' message with the verify link. Maybe has something to do with not being able to login.
“Anti-vehicle mines” are rally anti-tank mines, and as such:

1. They require tons of pressure to detonate; it’s adjusted for a tank, not ordinary car, and

2. They don’t end up in unexpected places - they are placed on the roads, and thus are easy to find and detonate.
too much!
And plenty of VCs are former founders.
>These two statements don't jive.

The first statement is about a user being nosey into what a company does with the data. There is an expectation for dating services to collect data like age, gender, etc about a user. I wouldn't really call them nosey. Since it's kind of expected for them to get that information from you. Is a dentist being nosey if they ask for your dental history?
I actually know Go very well. Wrote it for years. I like learning languages and using them in all kinds of different ways. I see a lot of overlap with Go and Rust. My interest in Rust is the small runtime and potential code reusability between server, client (mobile and web [wasm]). No GC means much smaller runtime in WASM I’m hoping.
This is the most similar note taking app to my long term note taking app I built for myself. Very good!
I subscribe to the conspiracy theory that Telegram is actually a plant by a security service (FSB?). The app seems to be constructed in bad faith. Presumably Telegram has the resources to increase their encryption/privacy level, yet they have not done so, so the question "why would anyone knowingly market an app as a private messenger without providing privacy" can only be answered by "because they want the data". And who would want the data of people who think they are communicating privately but are actually not?
What the fuck Microsoft ... If anyone is listening, you're ruining an otherwise perfectly good browser. Please fire whoever is running this product into the ground.

It's so painful seeing Microsoft fallback on shit tactics and anti-privacy, user-hostile features like this to gain market share when in reality it will probably have the opposite effect.

You have a great base product, fucking build on it. Please, pretty please, give us a christmas gift and stop being this shit at running your product ...
And when you have 500,000 copies of something, most of which have been in use for some appreciable fraction of their effective lifetime, it doesn’t have to be “common” to occur to some fraction of them.

The post you’re responding to never implied that it happens to _most_ of them, or even many of them, just that when you have a gigantic farm, it’s not unreasonable to see a small handful of hardware instances release up their magic smoke when they’re all coming back from being powered down.

MTBF is a thing.
Thanks! Interesting, that chronic bee paralysis issue is actually what the Economist article was addressing
There is a diff between not being a troll and being respectful of alleged human rights abuses. Suggesting that we must be respectful in the light of massive human rights violations is how those human rights violations get to take place. This is the same sort of peak Silicon Valley technocrat mindset that led to things like apologizing for not sourcing parts from forced labor in China and sites like reddit holding on to jailbait, involuntary porn/voyeur, and literal hate subreddits out of fear of taking any stance.
Sorry to hear about that, looking into it right now. Did you try to Sign Up by Google?
I don't think mastodon is a good idea. Don't they already remove servers they don't like? A twitter protocol should not be reliant on which home server you re on.
I think fundamentally it’s faster just because it’s dead simple. It’s just a mash of RLE, dictionary encoding, and delta encoding, and it does it all in a single pass. PNG has to break things into chunks, apply a filter, deflate, etc.
Will do! Thanks
A fluke x massive scale = regular occurrence.
That was a genuinely genuine question.

That was a serious question asked honestly.

I am not a troll.

Look at my past comment and post history.
Getting power right in a DC takes a ton of preventative maintenance. (doing black building tests, make sure there are working load tests which occur frequently, managing UPS battery health etc).
I don't know if I have ADHD but my brain will very much filter out what it perceives as inefficient waste and replace it with whatever thoughts are important at the time, such as would you get shocked if you put uncooked spaghetti into a live outlet.
The folks who are in a financial position to afford private flights are the same folks to fly first class and use airline lounges. Both of them have gotten far, far worse since the start of the pandemic.

Food and beverage options in first have been trimmed way back. I've been on first class flights with nothing but a pre-packaged ziplock bag with a bottle of water and bag of goldfish crackers offered in 1st. Contrast this to the pre-pandemic standard of pre-takeoff cocktails, full snack baskets, etc. Service is starting to come back, but I have not seen ground service (pre-flight drinks) since before the pandemic. A recent cross country flight offered nothing but a boxed sandwich in 1st, compared to full, hot meals pre-pandemic.

Airline lounges have also had food and beverage options trimmed way back. Delta lounges had nothing but pre-packaged snacks for roughly a year. The lounges are now over-crowed with people that have finally earned status via credit card spend and extended status rules.

All in all, flying is quite a bit worse for the first class traveler and I can understand their motivations.
Peter Thiel’s argument precisely.
You don't go for speed when flying a wingsuit and there's comparatively little you can do to change your speed, so this isn't likely the answer.
Agreed.

But to clarify: I meant to include people who aren't directly PII sellers, just workers whose employer happens to sell PII, and even website operators with an ad-network on their site. They're just trying to earn a living, and I'm sure most of them are capable of shame.

A website operator who runs Google ads and scripts on their website isn't evil. They're just "awaiting instruction".
None of your friends use Apple products? Never have any issues with data interchange with Apple devices? That was my point about degrees of separation. You are influenced by their tech whether you use it or not.
I guess so, I didn't think of it that way...
If you're worried about that, you can go with Purism. But, because their employees make San Francisco salaries, and they lack expertise and connections within China's supplier/manufacturer scene, Purism can't even come close to competing with Pine64 on price.
The usage here implies that the action is habitual, not continuous, nor final, e.g. "Every time I tell the story, I forget the name". She could have said "I have forgotten", but that implies a finality the writer wants to exclude. If her habitual forgetting was confined to the past, she might have written "I used to forget...".

I think everything you've said is correct; I just wanted to add the idea of an habitual aspect.

EDIT: found a reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_markers_of_habitual_as...
In my experience, lazy people who already love eating and watching TV will double down on this behavior when using cannabis. It can make you feel comfortable and OK with things, and also triggers the appetite. So instead of becoming satiated/bored with your activities and moving to something else, you remain in place.

Others who are not as thrilled with consuming food and media to begin with will have different cannabis experiences. You'll probably find them exercising, making art/music, or creating software like mentioned in the article.

I'm sorry if this offends you, but your statement might say more about you as a person than about the effects of cannabis.
Isnt it possible to just scrape the /followers page?
Sadly even in its latest incarnation it doesn’t. It still doesn’t have basic exhaustive pattern matching/sum types. More importantly, even once it gets that, its standard library wasn’t written with them in mind. It gained (value) tuples quite late, so standard library functions still use awkward “out” parameters and so on.
I don't know to what degree it's true but you wonder if there's a bit of an attitude along the lines of "I'll never afford a house in California so I might as well fly private and drive a Porsche instead."
You can do all 3 much easier with a database.
"VC's wouldn't spend a single dollar on it, because you can't extract profit from something you don't own."

You can build business and infrastructure without VC involvement. Sometimes it will be healthier for it.
> “Sometimes our automated review systems get things wrong."

And by 'automated review systems' they mean non-English speaking slave labourers in a third world sh*t hole getting paid pennies per day.

It's time for people to just stop using them, it's literally just a website and not even a very good one.

There's competitors out there with a hundred times the functionality and usability.
> English has more complicated verbs and tenses than many other languages

I’ve only learned a few other languages, but none of them have simpler sets of tenses than English (most of them have more differences in conjugation/inflection to reflect them, but also more regularity; English also has a fair number of idioms in which the semantics as far as time don't necessarily match what is normal for the syntax of the tense, but I’m not sure its unusually dense with those.)

EDIT: But:

> “I forget” means something like “I have forgotten at some point and continue to not remember” whereas “I forgot” means “I did forget” without reporting anything on your current state of remembering

If you think of “to forget” as equivalent of “to fail to remember something which one once knew” (which I think is the best understanding of that verb), that’s pretty much just what you’d expect from the present and past tenses, respectively.
> I'm talking about things like: journaling, Arduino, web development, game dev, photography, writing fiction, tweeting, posting videos to YouTube, knowledge management, 'note-taking,' and more.

One issue I see is that none of the project examples you listed have a real end. They are continuous and can never be finished. "Create an online 4-player version of battle-city" is a project. "Game dev" is not a project.

Then the things like journaling, knowledge management, and note taking are big tells. To me these seem upside down. The natural thing to do is to have a defined project and take notes and journal and gather knowledge when you encounter road-blocks while executing the project. Otherwise these activities are fruitless on their own.

I think you might benefit from reading this series of short articles: https://mindingourway.com/guilt/ (note that you have to read them in order).
What does the conversion rate end up looking like for these scams? Pretending to be major media outlets and stealing Amazon's branding is a compelling scheme, but the "just transfer some ETH to us" seems like a brick wall that would really stop the average person. People seem wary of typing their credit card number into a website, and with a credit card you can call your bank and say "meh I didn't really want the thing I bought" and get your money back. But people have credit cards and know that; with ETH, they probably don't have any laying around. So that seems like it would kill these scams dead.

Maybe the flow for buying ETH is really simple, and these sellers aren't clear that every transaction is irrevocable? So people think they can reverse the transaction later, and are left holding the bag when they get scammed? Or, maybe these scams have such wide appeal that they rope in enough victims that a 99.9% bounce rate on the payment page is still worthwhile?
I read a lot of medical research. A lot has something to do with cancer and the research can be summed up as "We found a new way to kill cells. This may work better on cancer cells than normal cells. Hooray! More study is needed." or "This gene or habit or whatever may have some correlation to cancer."

Kind of wish they would try something different. The book "Tripping Over the Truth" was a good expose of the failed approaches to cancer research over the years.
at a certain size, it is inevitable.

you could not have a horizontal spunky start up land on the moon in the 60s. It is too complex and too much information to possibly transmit to everyone.

There are distinct issues and hard problems at each level of the company hierarchy.

its a lot like software architecture in a way. Getting up and running is easy in the beginning, one person can dictate how everything fits together and things are straight forward. Then as you scale, things that were easy and simple are now bottlenecks, so through refactoring, you create a more solid foundation, that if looking naively at the initial implementation is more complex and structured, but it allows a framework to handle bigger challenges. Success at this stage is how well the architecture lends itself to scaling.

Large companies require structure, and their success is dependent on how well that structure operates.

small companies need a group of smart people in a garage.
WavPack might fit the bill. It has decent software support. Not sure if DAWs can use it natively, they might unpack it to a temp folder.

https://www.wavpack.com/
I disagree.

In my career I started getting close to the people that had already done what I wanted and just asked them for advice.

The advice they gave me was incredible and the most useful thing you could do.

The most important thing is that it must be an active process. You must do the work to decode and extract the information.

Different personalities will give you different advices. If someone has a very strong visceral nature, her advice is going to be "don't be too visceral, think before you act", because that is the advice she needs, but not what you need.

That advice is completely useless if your nature is thinking too much, and you don't have a problem thinking, you love to think all the time. The advice you need is acting instead of thinking, to take decisions.

So you need to be active and ask specifically the problems you are having when trying to do what you wanted. Most of the time you will realize the super big problems that you have are the most stupid and obvious thing for the person you are asking.

It is so easy for them because their own nature or personality makes it so for them. 9 times out of 10 they will give you an easy, "obvious" solution you never thought about.
I suggest that to fix the problem of a single owner being able to sign away the ape to more than one person, the app could be extended as such:

- For every new custody signature, the signer publishes the transfer online to a collectively-maintained database

- We chose the database software such that is publicly accessible to anyone that wants to participate in ape collecting and checking custody signatures

- In case some people start to get annoying and illegitimately edit the custody database, we somehow try to lock the databases edit function making it append-only
Rare to see power issues at a modern data center cause downtime. All of those racks should have UPS and batteries to sustain during an outage until the automatic transfer switch can fail over to a redundant system or generator. Would be interested in reading more about what happened here.
Yeah it is based on evidence. There is no way they can have achieved the outcome the stats are claiming.

Wikipedia says they have 100k cases in a population of 1.4 billion, or 0.007% of the population caught the coronavirus. That compares to New Zealand - a tiny, wealthy, well organised island nation with a near perfect border quarantine and easy conditions for contract tracing - where 0.2% of the country is known to have caught the coronavirus.

China did not have 1-2 orders of magnitude less cases than New Zealand (which is already going to be an outlier). The country is large and COVID is hard to control. Their stats are impossible. Having facial recognition tech and being willing to use it can't get the result the numbers claim. They got hit by a novel virus in the middle of Chinese New Year and they are having the same problem with outbreaks as literally everyone else.

Plus we know they aren't trying to publish accurate stats because they vaccinated most of the country in a few day according to the data that filtered back into the western media. They may not necessarily be malicious but the Chinese are certainly not accurate and timely with their statistics.
Those are definitely good quality of life indicators.

Every country can do better. The US should do better at a lot of things and poverty, inequality, and racism are for sure big drivers of things like childbirth death rate, lack of education and more!

But to OP's comment, there is no way in hell you can convince me or even a significant minority of Americans that China is better on the whole or even on a minor slice.

Lol even life expectancy and health seems like a lot of people here don't care about and are perfectly happy to guzzle cola and sit in front of a tv lmfao.

In terms of do better, China's list is ginormous and some of the things on it - like not building interment and forced 'integration' for millions of their citizens - are so extremely opposite of the values most here hold that it far outweighs any good weights on this 'better than' scale. It feels farcical to say otherwise.

I commented an open ended question in the first place is because these one off comments similar to OP feel to me exactly like what the article shows are active campaigns to interact on social networks like HN. But pointing that out without proof (impossible for me to get) is against HN ethics. I'm guilting of doing it though this is a moral and emotional issue for me.

Plus we americans are pretty self confident and often beligerantly arrogant. Makes it hard to convince people anything beyond american exceptionalism even on obviously nice things. Like that historical pamphlet comparing French lifestyle during the war that was posted here a long time ago. Yes they can value family and well being over working, that's horrible and un american ;) !
Setup. That's huge. What is the minimum amount of setup that a beginner can do before they can write and run something? If it's "download this thing off the net, install it, then use it to download several other things..." you've lost half your would-be beginners.
Trusting a company with your most valuable long-term data (passwords, medical/family records, etc.) is a losing game on a long enough time horizon (5 years, let alone 15 or 25).

You can arbitrage by trying to choose more than one. But IMO, the most robust solution is to make your data "dumb" and commoditize the storage layer.

With something like pass, I have my passwords physically located on all my devices, encrypted at-rest. Plus, I have a backup on a home server that can be regularly backed up to any commodity storage provider (backblaze, aws, whatever).

With this, you'd need to both lose (1) all your devices (2) internet access to those devices. This kind of thing is a bit predictable, and can be mitigated.

With a managed secret-manager service, mere corporate shenanigans or internet connectivity problems can take them away from you! Those are less predictable, and the only mitigation is to move to a service that doesn't have these problems.
but if "where we're going we don't need their money" is true, why is that money useful?
Yes, and both have my sympathy. Sometimes, a musician revisits their earlier work and finds new things to explore. Joni Mitchell and Ryuchi Sakamoto come to mind.

But other times, a musician feels that although their earlier work may be new and exciting to you, they are finding other things more engaging today and tire of answering questions about the old work with the same rote, trite answers. Over and over again.

For someone constantly seeking fresh ground to cover, this attitude is an asset.

p.s. In this discussion about comedy, Louis CK talks about a tip he got from George Carlin, namely to throw the old material out after a year and start over again, forcing yourself to find new things to say about the Universe.

In the same discussion, Jerry Seinfeld explains that some of his material is ten years old, and he is still finding ways to sharpen and refine it. There is clearly no one right way about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKY6BGcx37k
Actually doing the supply chain management work on the ground to find individual suppliers using forced labor and getting them to change their practices is too much for a small company like Intel, I suppose.
The romans had soap and were well aware of both lye and unrefined ammonia for cleansing. They actually used ammonia for laundering clothes. Medieval people had soap too, but probably used a different process for making it than romans. (As to who was cleaner, it depends heavily on class, region and specific year.)

That's the problem with preconceived notions, they lead to bad scholarship. It's what made so many victorian era analysis of historic artifacts so poor - they were trying to reconstruct them with Victorian values.

No person can be truly neutral but you do your best to set aside preconceived notions. CRT argues that in some cases we shouldn't do that and reinforces storytelling - a fictional process - as an interpretive lens. That is not aligned with traditional scholarship and part of why Critical Theorists (at large) reject traditional scholarship. CRT is not a fact based tradition. (Crits would say it is a "critical" one)

Revisionism in the marxist dialogue is a distinct phenomenon from revisionism in general, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism_(Marxism) and https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/apr/03.htm

CRT is a Marxist tradition but instead of a class divide it views through the fundamental lens of a racial divide. Just as the class divide is innate in Marxism so it is too in CRT. Re-reading existing texts to "contextualize" them and reframe them in alignment with this racial divide is the usage of Revisionism in the CRT (and likewise for fellow Critical Theories) nomenclature.

You can reject CRT wholesale AND still petition for better racial equality or the correcting of faults in any given country. CRT is not the only solution, nor does a rejection of CRT mean you accept the world as it is currently.