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Moxie's post that your Matrix link was a response to: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

I think Moxie is right, federation will lead back to recentralized services (for the reasons Moxie outlines in his recent Web3 post). People don't want to run their own servers. In that world you'll have federated services that are mostly centralized with a much worse user experience than centralized competition. Signal's real competition isn't Matrix, it's FB messenger, Whatsapp, and iMessage.

The incentive failures are actually upstream from the application layer of the web. Running a linux server is too hard, spam and auth are issues with the current tech stack, dependencies are a mess of complexity and federated systems built on the current stack can't really solve these issues so end up recentralizing to sysadmins that do (at best). This is the reason I started working on Urbit, I think to fix this for real you have to fix problems farther up the stack.

Given the current landscape, Signal is the best available option imo for most people. Hopefully if Urbit succeeds we can have the federated system we want with UX that's actually competitive.
> Default in GUI is a blinking cursor. (Default in terminal is the terminal's own blink default.)

Ah, that probably explains my confusion. Sorry about spreading it.
More than once I've googled how to do something new and found the answer on Stackoverflow, written by me. I haven't even written that many answers on Stackoverflow.
It helps parties coordinate in the future.

For example, if I need X done by Friday, and I know Y company doesn't work on Fridays, I have a better idea of how much workload there is per day. It saves me from sending another email asking "hey, I know you weren't here on Friday, but is that every Friday or a one-time thing? And does that affect Joe from marketing and Sally from DevOps, or is it just you?"
Seems he is stepping down due to the trading scandal. I don't know much about the economy, but this makes me happy. If these people are trading while at the helm, they have an incentive to keep prices inflated, aka keep interest rates low and lots of bond purchases. I would hope that if they aren't trading, then they would be able to implement some more objective monetary policy, which in my opinion would involve some serious raising of the rates.
Exactly. In this case, the package manager should use the version of colors that svgo asked for, not the one that appeared on the internet 5 minutes ago.
Malware is legal. You can study and research and even build malware without doing anything illegal.

What one usually gets in trouble for is causing destruction.

Regarding this case; wherever they ran in to problems, they probably should thank him for exposing that serious flaw in their release process.
Google says Apple 'should not benefit from bullying' created by iMessage lock-in
Mandating a medical treatment is in no way similar to mandating one have a drivers license.
One big difference in the US is that most telcos also have ad businesses, and this will negatively impact them.
> That's far from accurate, and I don't think it's very helpful to say "for most in the US". Surely only a small minority in the US have even heard of YC.

I read the parent's statement as (brackets are mine), "But for most in the US [startup community], it seems like YC funds only safe SAAS startups, often by founders who were ex-FAANG (or ex-prominent YC startups), who are often white, and often MIT/Stanford."
that's my understansing as well.

I'm not judging the author here, but on one hand I understand the frustration, on the other hand the package probably owes its popularity in part to its very permissive license.

Anyway, a fork maintained by the companies that use the package would still be a better outcome than keep working for them for free (or remove the package entirely).
Is it correct that letterlocking is a technique that requires quantum technology to replicate in the digital realm? Strong crypto only works if you know with certainty your private key is still private.
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THIS is the defeatist attitude, not the other way around. I am not willing to get lackluster boosters every 6 months - leaky vaccines that likely caused omicron and that have the highest rate of VAERS reports ever. Are people really this misinformed?
Dragon's Egg is basically a tutorial on neutron stars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
It doesn't make any sense to invest much in displays over ~90hz vs just working on adaptive refresh rates

Your eyes really do work at a pretty low speed. At some point it makes more sense to just track the eyeballs and put updated scenery in front of them at the exact instant the game engine produces it, rather than try to run at some insanely high speed generating frames that aren't actually having any effect on the player's brain

90, 144, 240hz, etc all look better than 60hz because there's less random lag between when the game generates a frame and when it appears on the screen. You can't see an 8ms delay, but you CAN see a variable 0-10ms delay that's happening as the game engine and computer monitor drift in and out of sync again and again.
Were you really eating for all 40 minutes?

Or were you socializing for 30 minutes after actually eating for 10? And during the socializing period, you didn't feel like wearing a mask?

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Surely, when you were seated, you didn't have food yet. You had some time to place an order. It takes a few minutes to even fetch drinks from the back sometimes, depending on what the drinks are.
My point is that carriers and manufacturers have so much dirt on each other that trying to escalate things would just hurt them both. The reason why Apple (and mobile carriers, for that matter) don't take swings at each other is because they both need the other to look as pristine as possible to sell units. They have a mutual interest in looking good together, and neither Apple nor the carriers have any vested interest in breaking that relationship.
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Ever more convinced it's been a good idea to route all my phone traffic through WireGuard.

Though it interests me why mobile networks feel they are able to do this whereas landline ISPs don't tend to in such great numbers. At least, as far as I am aware, Deutsche Telekom aren't adding headers to bare HTTP requests etc.

I'm wondering if it's actually worth caving and having my home traffic tunneled to some provider more reputable.
The effect of parental leave duration on early-career wage growth
> but it's my way of rate limiting

caffeine aint that bad... why do you kneed to do that?
> i'm sure they have their fair share of shady/borderline illegal things they do.

That might be true, but at least AT&T doesn't block private VPNs, nor has plans to do so.
We also imported the first stink bug in the late 90s / early 2000s.
There is a solid, technical problem with VPN usage on such a massive scale. Carriers, like T-Mobile, can arrange traffic exchange with big content providers. Majority of traffic generated goes to a handful of providers, like YouTube, Netflix, Facebook. It's not even about direct, financial incentives. It's a win-win for both ISP and content providers to peer directly and limit the amount of traffic routed through paid uplinks. It's a win for users too, since they can get their content with less hops, through bigger pipes. Even Tier-1 network operators (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network) can optimize traffic by making the direct inter-connections for traffic-heavy content.

When everything is encrypted and goes over the ISP just to the VPN endpoints, they can't do anything. In the end, they will have to arrange peering not with content providers but with VPN providers, who works for Apple.

PS. There is a lot of tension in current setup, even without Apple stepping up. In the old fashion market, the last mile is the king. Big grocery chains have direct access to users, so they are the strong side in the relation with producers. They can position brand X over Y, if they have better margin. They also create their own brand Z rip-off and sell that directly. Just look what Amazon does in that space. When it comes to ISP, they have direct users and have very little to say. They are basically dump pipes, just like the power line.

T-Mobile was very vocal in the past in that space. They often wanted the MANGAs (heh) of the world to pay them a share from their ads. I remember T-Mobile threatening, that they might replace some ads with their own ads. Since they provide the users with phones, they can install their own certs on devices. Chrome has SSL pinning not only, to save users from hackers, but to save their own business model being attacked by ISPs.
Hmm makes sense to me.

Do you think it is worth getting the vaccine if you’ve already had covid and it wasn’t a big deal?

As in if you have firsthand experience that covid didn’t affect you much, wouldn’t that maybe be a valid reason to just say I’m not going to get vaccinated even though the risks of adverse short term effects are small (still don’t know about long term but probably small is my guess)
Absolutely. It's a live experimental trial.
> Exploit you with industry leading pay and perks?

It seems like you're implying that this is absurd or impossible, but...it's not, right? Surely whether my employer is exploiting my labor has very little to do with my compensation relative to similar jobs.
Very cool! I signed up and uploaded data for a text classifier. 3000 examples of social media posts on a binary annotation task. Got 91% initially, then looked through the annotations and corrected a few errors that had snuck in. The UI for that is great. That got it to 92%.

Easy to use UI, easy data upload and the training was quick. A great tool for testing new ideas for classifiers. For bigger projects I'd be concerned about long term cost with pay per invocation.

Is weak labeling via labeling functions (snorkel, skweak) something that's on the roadmap for Nyckel? Also, do you plan to add named entity recognition?
They Say: Do Not Use Margins in CSS. How I Use Them Anyway
Or killall.
It's also much heavier and much more expensive. This really isn't a breakthrough more than it is a special case optimization. Any new design could easily have accommodated a similar capacity battery with traditional construction just by making the car 2cm taller or whatever.

I mean, lithium batteries are already pretty space-efficient. This kind of optimization surely has a home in some application (to be clear: it already does in consumer electronics!). I'm just not sure cars are where it's best applied.
IMO it is much better to be transparent and predictable. Makes things easier for everyone.
I have the same problem with my ISP. Solution was easy, just use DNS validation. All my home service's have valid Lets Encrypt certs using this method.
> Hackernews is doing itself a disservice

I agree, it is. However, that's the collective choice that's been made, and it's very clear it's been made. So I accept that.

I'll post on crypto threads when I feel I have something to contribute, but I won't allow myself to be drug into the muck.

There's other venues for good discussion on crypto topics, so you're not really losing anything. And the large majority here doesn't feel they're losing anything. It works out.
In this case, Microsoft seized ownership of an open source project and modified the code without the permission of the person who still controls those copyright rights that they haven't specifically waived.

Legally, shouldn't Microsoft limit themselves to banning the developer from npm and forking their repos under a new name?
How about a foundation to run the package repository (for independence), a requirement for multiple sign offs to publish an artefact, and a requirement that successor maintainers exist?

Yes, this would create a barrier to entry, but I’m not sure that’s a bad thing.
hmm, not really my area. This coverage of van buren seems to show the court trying to make 'authorization' agree in meaning in different parts of (a)(2)?

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/supreme-court-ends-long...
The reason is right in the "what's new" section of the T-Mobile privacy policy: https://www.t-mobile.com/privacy-center/our-practices/privac...

> "However, starting April 26, 2021, T‑Mobile will begin using some data we have about you, including information we learn from your web and device usage data (like the apps installed on your device) and interactions with our products and services, for our own and 3rd party advertising, unless you tell us not to."

T-Mobile sells browser history data to advertisers, and Private Relay blocks that revenue stream. They are on the offensive to protect their new-found profit center, and most likely are doing this now to show Apple that this is not a feature that they want to see be turned on by default.

It's the beginning of the same saber rattling that Facebook did when Apple announced it would simply ask customers if they wanted to allow apps to track them
> They explicitly identify school and enterprise networks as legitimate cases where Private Relay needs to be blocked

Why are these legitimate? Censorship is wrong even when schools do it.
Dose makes the poison.
That's true, though that absolutely never happens in the US where GitHub is domiciled.

(*It's not that US courts can't find a book libelous; it's that the remedy in the US is monetary damages, not a sales ban).
There was a plan, and it was by Osama Bin Laden. But he was naive. He wanted the American people to question themselves why something like this would happen to them, then find out about all the horrible things USA has done to other nations. It was never about hating freedom.
I'm the author of the post, it was actually inspired by me missing del.icio.us
AGPLv3 refers to "all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network", not "people who are interacting with someone else's running copy". If someone adapted AGPLv3 into a new license that requires all "people who are interacting with someone else's running copy" to be able to access a copy of the source code regardless of whether the interaction takes place over a computer network, that new license would still be free and open source. The FSF has not bothered to write such a license yet, but anyone can do it.

This part of the FSF's page on free software endorses this type of rule:

> Rules that “if you make your version available in this way, you must make it available in that way also” can be acceptable too, on the same condition. An example of such an acceptable rule is one saying that if you have distributed a modified version and a previous developer asks for a copy of it, you must send one. (Note that such a rule still leaves you the choice of whether to distribute your version at all.) Rules that require release of source code to the users for versions that you put into public use are also acceptable.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#packaging
> I sincerely believe that we could have been through with this if we had reached 95% vaccination by July.

It would not have made a difference.

Singapore, Israel and a large chunk of Western Europe had very high vaccination rates before they got pummled by a Delta wave.

And for anyone wondering if boosters are enough to quell Omicron: Israel is the perfect case study as they're currently being pummled by Omicron after having finished their booster campaign (they're onto their 4th dose now).

Are lockdowns the answer to Omicron? Well the Netherlands went into a preemptive lockdown several weeks BEFORE Omicron took off and I think their case trajectory paints a very clear picture now that Omicron has taken off (they are still in lockdown).

To me, it looks like the vaccine's efficiency in terms of reducing transmission wanes after 3-5 months and it's quite clear when you look at the different waves countries are experiencing around the world.
Im typing this from an airport so im not sure what you mean about not being able to handle going out, or who my ilk is (people haven’t had Covid yet?). The selfish part of his statement is this - because he is no longer personally at risk, he no longer supports any measures to protect those who still are. How hard is that to understand?
Because this is a funny satire.
> no investors are borrowing from the Fed.

Some of the borrowing is indirect.

Let’s say you have a portfolio that includes property. Inflation is high and the current 15 year interest rates are low, so you might increase your mortgage to the maximum. You then put that money into other investments, including VC.

This opportunity is even available to many home owners in the US.
when i have any code that requires dependencies, i always use an exact version. i am mainly a python developer, so my requirements.txt would look like this:

flask==1.1.1
request=2.3.2
tensorflow==3.4.2

i tested/built my code with these versions, so i know that these versions work. when i install my dependencies, i use these versions, not the latest version. is there a way to do this with node.js? and wouldn't using this method solve any problems? pardon me if i'm missing something
yeah but I swear LCH and LAB have been almost read to ship in chrome and FF for the last year now.
We are talking about anecdotes aren’t we? If I personally was hardly affected by covid, nor was my family, then those who died from covid aren’t anecdotes I care about.
not really,

especially the mentioned banners affects US and EU companies alike (or at least did until the US decided to claim rights on EU citizens data through the Cloud act...).

Wrt. to the cookie banner it you mean the one coming from GDPR then the problem is missing enforcement. It must be as easy to opt in as to opt out this means:

- two clicks to opt out one for opt in => illegal

- dark patterns which makes it easier to accidentally opt in => illegal

- spamming people which don't agree to being spied on with "dialog boxes" => illegal (GDPR allows some forms purely functional data storage without consent, for example a non-3rd party cookie to remember that the user is opted out _which is not used for tracking_ is legal without asking for consent, hence there is a technical easy and legal way to not spam people with dialog boxes, hence making it harder for people to opt out by repeating forcing them to redo the action is illegal). Naturally doesn't apply if you clear cookies.
Most of the unvaxxed are in places without access to vaccines and those populations will continue to be a source of new variants. Delta and Omicron both came from places/times that had very limited access to vaccines.

If someone in the US continues to reject vaccination, I don't know what to do about it at this point. But there's big populations that haven't been vaccinated because they haven't had a chance. It's crucial to give them that chance.
There is essentially a revolving door between industry and regulators in the US. We shouldn’t trust, we need to independently verify. We need openness and the FOIA.

Also, please see vioxx to learn more about how pharma will push drugs with known, serious side effects and try to bury the evidence.

Most of these people have their professional lives tied up in a specific drug. You better bet many of them will do damn near anything to push it thru regardless of the human cost.

Remember that when there is wrongdoing the individual whistleblower is the exception. The only person out of many that was willing to come forward to do the right thing.
Major US cities will feel like they're below zero this week. Find out where
This feels like 100% flawed analogy.
Splitting hairs? Which one of us is referring to various forms of medical treatment as "denying treatment"?

You're advocating for sending unvaccinated people away with zero treatment. None of your examples are remotely comparable. If you were really discussing in good faith, you would admit it.
So my viewpoint is EU, not America..

In my home country, _most_ of the files are electronic (EMRAM stage 6 for the main hospital network, covering most of the country https://www.himss.org/what-we-do-solutions/digital-health-tr...).

I can see any specialist (almost any GP) and they'll get limited time access to my entire patient history. I don't have to worry of getting a second opinion from someone who "doesn't have my history".

Plus, I get insight into this data myself through an app (or web platform), where I can view the scans and take them to someone outside of the network if I want to.

Pharmacies will also start sharing data, so a GP can enter the data in a system which any Pharmacy can then enter (with your electronic ID), so no need for paper subscriptions either.

It just gives me peace of mind. :-)
Not to be confused with the CVS CHAIN.
U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
Sometimes small towns get excited about things like this and do a much better job than you might think for a municipality of their size.

If you're ever tragically lost and end up in Shoshone, California (population 31), the tiny one-room town museum is an absolute treasure if you're into dinosaurs. It's been a few years since I was last there, but IIRC, the tiny town museum had to go to court to get its largest dinosaur find back from some big California university that tried to keep it.

See also: The Franklin Mineral Museum in Franklin, New Jersey. An amazing place for rockhounds. Especially if you're into ones that glow.
> I sincerely believe that we could have been through with this if we had reached 95% vaccination by July.

All omicron cases in the US can be traced back to infections from outside of the country. Getting 95% of eligible people vaccinated and getting cases within the country to zero prior to omicron being introduced would have been nice, but that alone would not have stopped the current omicron wave. We'd be in a somewhat better place now, but since a significant factor in hospitals being under load now is vaccinated medical personnel being out with covid, we'd still have a hospital load problem.

I can see maybe some justification in instituting restrictions to try to flatten the peak of the omicron wave, until such a time as case numbers start to decrease again. But such restrictions, if put in place, should be done with the understanding that all we're doing is shifting infections in time, not changing the total number of infections.

> I want to say "Fuck it. Everyone who wants a vax can get one, if you don't, I will have zero pity if you get infected.", but the fact is, ICU's are still being overrun.

This is basically where I'm at, except at this point it doesn't seem like there's any coherent idea of when the inevitable infections that occur won't overrun ICUs, and I don't particularly think it's worse to have ICUs overrun for a few weeks right now than it is to have ICUs overrun for a few weeks a month from now.
That’s not fair and I didn’t mean to come across that way. But a good portion of people who worked 5-7 years in SV (or in other tech hubs such as Boston, NYC, Seattle/PDX) have $$$ in the bank.
> It's a great argument, so long as "rejecting a vaccine during a pandemic" meets the same moral tests as "opposing war". In fact it does not

You say this, but you don't name any criteria by which this judgment should be made.

Could you elaborate?
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Corporate networks makes sense, but giving carriers the ability to disable it on the phone (i.e. not via blocking mask.icloud.com) doesn’t make sense. It’s not like personal hotspot where it allows you to bypass network policies, except for maybe the streaming shaping (but how long did they think that would work anyway?).
Apple still shouldn't make it so easy to block this wholesale, even on corporate networks. Instead, they should have a way to make only corporate-internal traffic not go through it.