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> One of the main groups behind the protest is Canada Unity, which has opposed what it says are “unconstitutional” Covid rules. The group recently posted a “memorandum of understanding” to its website, saying that members plan to present it to politicians on Parliament Hill. The group claims that the leader of the senate and the governor general will sign the document to create a governing committee, which they claim would work to revoke the vaccine mandate.

This is literally their demand
I can't reply to you because of the depth limit of HN, but generally Jameson Lopp does extremely serious testing of hardware wallets (blog.lopp.net)
How about frozen embryos and artificial wombs for gestating those embryos X years before arrival?

Then you only need a crew of X people at any given time to keep the ship operational. Some generations would be born and die during the trip (kinda depressing, but I like to think I would be happy in that scenario)

If you don't like the idea of having a machine as your mother, you could also do IVF with the women that are alive and well and constitute ~50% of the crew keeping the ship operational
I kind of miss when the UK had much stricter Sunday trading laws.

I'm not religious, but there was something kind of nice about having at least a part of the week when pretty much everyone was off work, and most things were closed.

Of course it was also a massive pain in the backside if you needed something and the shop was shut.
Oh, if you want to play that equivocation, then the no-fly list is a ban from interstate commerce? That sounds a lot like starting to abridge freedom of assembly (over there, across state lines within a predefined time period).

And lets be honest, the interstate commerce definition has been hogwash since case law got on the books stating that intra-state sale of grain could be regulated by Congress because of some indirect potential to affect markets across state lines; and such jurisprudence being utilized as a desperate lynchpin to try to keep individual states from unmaking the Federal level gun control framework.

I can play word games and run rings around the English language too, however, my goal is not to stretch what's on paper to create pretense for interfering in every U.S. citizen's life in ways that make it easier for more and more liberties to be stripped, and for the actual force of law to get increasingly hidden from the plain English meaning of an a reasonably literate individual.

Tired of the lazyness in applying 2nd plus order thinking to the spaghetti that is our legal code.
Those areas received a lot of traffic, and the rocks in question are not particularly durable as durable rocks such as quartzite are much harder to use in large scale construction projects.
Based on the 5K observation, you clearly have never once listened to the show, or have any first-hand knowledge of Rogan.

He's extremely physically fit, does massive amounts of cardio, and does backcountry hunting trips with only a backpack.

There is nothing more church ladyish than commenting on a subject based purely on secondhand knowledge.
Do you have performance traces of good and bad runs to compare? Instead of trying to come up with more theories you should start by looking at where the time is being spent.

I'm not experienced with doing micro-optimisations in Java, but I assume you can profile it to find out which individual operations are taking up the time just via a sampling trace.

Given it's common on a particular OS setup, I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the System.currentTimeMillis() call that you're doing every loop.
I'm in NZ, but I can use https://statescard.com/ and they seem to be pretty good.

I use this for signing up to watch HBO Max and some other subscriptions. It's pretty handy.
I feel this whenever anyone advocates using jq. It boggles my mind that anyone would want to learn a whole new DSL for something that js makes trivial, especially considering js a much more expressive scripting language anyway
The recent vaccine-focused episodes, to my knowledge, feature the guests Robert Malone and Pierre Kory. Both are medical doctors with a history of academic papers on vaccines and critical care. Malone has also been involved in vaccine safety trials and with pioneering research in mRNA vaccines. I think you need to do a bit more than let the phrase "Domain experts" "sit there" if you hope to be persuasive.
When you put your application in production and some non-tech want's to create or modify an entity, do you give them access to a production django shell?
> I really hope that if Apple is forced into allowing 3rd party payments, we end up getting a standardised interface like the one we have currently on Apple's platforms but with an option to choose the alternative payment method(in the same screen but a different card or account kind of thing, like choosing a card in Apple Pay).

If they are forced to unbundle payments, they should be made to unbundle them fully. So not only third-party payment processors in Apple's App Store, but third-party app stores like Cydia (or even Google Play and Microsoft Store) should also be able to use (for a fee) the same payment system as Apple's App Store. If we go by Apple's current 27%-3% split, it could compete against alternatives such as Stripe even on other platforms.
yeah - you're right, the analogy doesn't really convey the point i'm trying to bring across. I'll edit it :-)
You must not have been around when the government was pushing for backdoors on Telecom products in the 1990s. Before the internet was a thing for most people.
Are you testing on a x64 laptop? It could possibly be CPU throttling? Maybe try run the benchmark written in a non-JVM language to see if you get the same beahviour?
I've learned Logo when I was 8 (around 1993), the school also invited me to a robotics class that also used Logo, so I was able to not only draw interesting stuff with that little turtle but also learn how to use external interfaces to control stepper motors, led lights, etc. I think this was all very fun and resembled playing with Lego, allowing me to occasionally show some cool tech stuff to my friends.

Being visual and interactive is key, I believe, to engage with kids on what can be considered most of the times an abstract endeavour.
Great, I have a 9th grade education and decide it's not harmful.
"Re-evaluate your life. What makes you happy?"

Pretty much what I have been thinking about for past few weeks. I thought I was very happy with everything I wanted and suddenly it doesn't feel like it. I dont know where things went wrong. Only thing I can think of is the constant pressure to do better than before which is getting to me I suppose. I forgot about what really matters to me personally.
Rubber and plastics that get sticky can usually be cleaned with iso-propyl alcohol 70% (sometimes called 'surgical spirit' or 'rubbing alcohol').

Dampen a cloth with the alcohol and rub the area clean. You may need to do this action several times, allowing the area to 'dry' between cleans.

Perished rubber is a different matter. It's usually too crumbly to be fixable.
"I don't think it is her. I think it is me"

A marriage/family is a system, where it is seldom helpful to just point fingers and assign blame to one party.

So I think it is you both. You both have a problem and the fights over upgrades in the house are probably just surrogates for something different. Couples therapy is a thing, but so is a real vaccation, that can have the same result.

But maybe you also just need a vacation alone. To meet new people.
You're moving the goalposts on what I'm saying, which is that I never developed symptoms. I followed CDC guidelines while in public(which had just been updated, yet again), so I don't really care if I was covid positive or not. More anecdata, very few people I'm around are vaccinated but nobody that I was in close contact with got sick, so it's doubtful that even if I was positive that I was shedding viral particles in large quantities. This is called ending the pandemic, where this virus becomes just part of the background since there's no point wasting tests on otherwise asymptomatic individuals and it doesn't affect society as a whole. These vaccines (still) work(for now).
I feel like there's two big issues at war with this one.

1) The Web 2.0 war over how much legal liability internet platforms have to bear. This is the big one to me, ever since the DMCA this is the pivotal issues about the internet.

2) The ongoing war against E2E encryption. This is a nonissue, the attempts of the authorities to restrict digital encryption are pointless and futile.

I'm a big fan of reform in #1. The big internet platforms like Facebook absolutely need to face far more legal liability for their actions.

But conflating the thing into one big bill that pushes forward E2E encryption restrictions is one of the issues with democracy in America.

There is so much horse trading involved in Washington required to do anything, because of lobbyist vetos, the fact all these issues have to end up in an omnibus bill is ridiculous.
> These people seem incapable of understanding the existential threat to free society and democracy posed by limiting everyone's ability to communicate private thoughts

Oh, they understand perfectly.

Power-hungry people love authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is opposed by democracy.

They are the threat.
Just stop shitposting ;]
I stared with coding in primary school. I was 6! (no thats not 6 factorial)
We did stuff in a Logo variant.
It was life-changing and I remember enjoying it so much.

edit:
We had a teacher and special "after school class".
> P.S. don’t bother responding if you are coming from the privilege of never having lived under a terrible government.

Please don't tell me whether or not to respond. If you want to point out that the question has much more salience for those who have to deal with terrible governments then I think that's a very important point to make and I appreciate you pointing it out. But I come to Hacker News to hear from everyone with insights -- NOT just the subset who happen to live under terrible governments.
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That's needlessly dismissive, don't you think?

They clearly came here asking for advice from (potentially) like-minded people. I'd have asked the same question in their shoes.
1 nothing, 2 nothing, countably infinite nothings… pairs of nothings.
Surely 99.9% of your users have a backup system that could recover from a day-long outage on your end without any manual intervention?

What are they supposed to do in response to an outage notification, apart from wait for things to recover on their own?
2017 but still relevant in 2022
Good tip, thank you. Bookmarklets work as normal(?) on Firefox on Android, and can be invoked via the address bar on Chrome:

https://paul.kinlan.me/use-bookmarklets-on-chrome-on-android...

A random intro to bookmarklets:
https://betterprogramming.pub/are-bookmarklets-still-useful-...
Pulling out of Facebook second largest market, and WhatsApp largest? Come on now, there is no threat in suicide.
Have you ever tried it or are you just assuming you wouldn't find it comfortable?

Where I live, it's not usually safe to ride a bike because of snow clearing. We get huge snowbanks and there is no safe place to ride. I'd be riding if I could though.

We do have off-road trails that are groomed for fat bikes that are a lot of fun. It's a nice alternative to downhill skiing or snowboarding which can get pretty pricey!
Not sure about the US but in Europe there is Revolut that allows you to create virtual credit card numbers tied to your main account. They can be deleted/disposed of at any time in the app.
Sounds like you need another C-level or management team to start entrusting with your responsibilities. With that kind of income, you should not be working that many hours. I mean, as the founder, you will still be busy, but shouldn't be constantly overwhelmed
Host your mx somewhere that isn't on any blacklists. This means a small to medium sized isp, where you can directly contact the people who run the core network operations there, and who truly do care about kicking off abusive other customers very quickly. Ideally I would go with an ISP in your own region and home business area.

That's a nice idea. In fact, it's what my businesses have done for years. I have personally met several of the senior staff at the service I use and I know that they are both technically excellent and very serious about preventing abuse on their network.

We haven't been able to deliver mails to customers at certain mail services for years. 100% blackholed every time. And it's the same usual suspects that others have mentioned in this very discussion.

The problem is that the hosting service we use has many customers. Occasionally one of those customers makes a mistake and one of their systems gets compromised for a short time, until they or the hosting service detects the unusual traffic and intervenes. And that's enough to get someone's IP block on a blacklist it will evidently never leave.

This is of course absolutely no different to any hosting service like AWS or Azure, except that no-one is going to blanket block all servers from an organisation of that scale even though the exact same problems happen there too.
If you created a secondary market for paper-links and let others run paper-nodes, you'd be filthy rich in a matter of months
National debt as percentage of GDP over the last 40 years. What's the plan here?
Look up AML regulations in your jurisdiction. They typically have a transaction risk level and I assume somehow the anonymity ups that risk.
> I'd teach Fibonacci for kids if I were teaching them Excel, because you can see the whole sequence. Excel is a very powerful tool and is a gateway to programing.

Not a kid myself, but I've never thought about implementing the fibonacci sequence in Excel/Libreoffice, so I just did it, and yeah, it's very easy to do it..
> And people will wax poetically about the other secondary/tertiary reasons. But really, come on, it's all about money in America.

Is it? I have a friend who since retirement has worked full-time pushing STEM for girls. She's not chasing money either actually or vicariously. She wants girls to feel comfortable entering fields from which they have, for generations, been discouraged or actively dissuaded. Sometimes, it's just about being able to follow your preferred path in life.
This sounds a lot like what you're describing: https://github.com/tkellogg/dura
I don't disagree that any clearly defined tendency that causes intense mental stress and self-recrimination would be worth naming. It seems to me a lot of various behavior can lead to or stem from "identity investment" in the outcome and therefore be called perfectionism.
Yes, 1X, 0.5X are a bit arbitrary. I mean 1X as the speed I know it can run at. So it could well be that with JDK7 the optimizations could not happen and that the question then is why the optimizations do not always happen.

Making each run longer, 1 minute instead of 5 seconds displays the same performance toggling:

0 - Passes: 72705, count: 78498, Valid: true
1 - Passes: 33140, count: 78498, Valid: true
2 - Passes: 71867, count: 78498, Valid: true
3 - Passes: 33137, count: 78498, Valid: true
4 - Passes: 72264, count: 78498, Valid: true
5 - Passes: 72062, count: 78498, Valid: true
6 - Passes: 33021, count: 78498, Valid: true
7 - Passes: 33053, count: 78498, Valid: true
8 - Passes: 71902, count: 78498, Valid: true
9 - Passes: 33024, count: 78498, Valid: true

(JDK17 in this case)
The naive model: Eventually you've blocked all the light, and adding more semi-transparent things on top can't block any more light.
Really surprised Warner is on this list, and very unsurprised by the inclusion of both remarkable senators from Iowa
> As a proponent of Net Neutrality, I recognize that there are instances where corporations should not have the last say in any matter.

Since when did the term net neutrality change from meaning "a free and open internet on equal terms" to "expropriating platforms that refuse to show things I want to see"?
There's a little known book by William Golding which I think is his true masterpiece and just as controversial as Lord of the Flies. It's Darkness Visible. One of my favorite books of all time about a half-burned boy who becomes a kind of gnostic prophet and a girl who believes she is an instrument of power.
Tomatoes are the fruit of all evil.
How relevant is Rails in 2022?
Which disease, flu? They've likely been spreading that for decades.
In email, we have accepted a status quo of unreliable availability (delivery), a lack of confidentiality, and frequent fraud. The post office is far better, other than the latency of moving paper.

We should wake up and raise the standard. We could even make it a public utility, or a utility that contracts to competing companies, or just develop standards for delivery and user rights - nobody can read my mail, nobody can interfere with it, delivery guaranteed within X time, etc. One challenge is to esure that individuals are still able to run their own servers (e.g., develop standards that the FOSS email software developers can meet). But we could have similar laws to regular mail, protecting delivery, confidentiality, and against fraud.

Why do we endure this awful system? Recently I feel like the IT world has shifted from an innovative, creative, we-will-solve-any-problem, build-it-in-our-garage community, to one that is defeatist (nothing we can do), status quo, depends on mega-corps (or VCs) for everything, and which prizes a how-much-can-I-take narcissistic business mentality rather than a creative, change-the-world engineering one.
Kids already have fun, and it's way better than anything we can do in the classroom.

Different kids will be motivated to learn for different reasons. Some will just want to do it, some need it attached to grades, others need a real life reason or peer encouragement. In the end, with almost any subject, you won't be able to pull all kids in. Some just won't like it, while others can't get enough.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30204604
We make measurement equipment and software to support it. I actually have a "scientist" title, and there are people with science background sprinkled through the org chart. One of our past CEO's was a scientist.

This is not all that uncommon in businesses that are not "pure software" plays. If a product or service involves domain knowledge outside of programming, you always need to keep one or two people around who are experts in it, or people who are willing to actually develop that knowledge, which is often what physicists do. I am the keeper of "how it actually works" for a number of product lines.

What I don't know is how I fare alongside CS'ists on payday, because I simply don't know. Even within the software department, there are some people with non CS education.
> You don't understand why someone would want to have all episodes of their favourite podcast available in one place?

I understand that perfectly well. I don't understand why Spotify would be obligated to serve that need, or indeed serve any content they own that they do not want to serve.
You’re right it’s only just been rolled out but it’s missing so much fundamental stuff..

I want to make the switch, but I can’t yet. The lack of email lists “groups” is just holding me back. I have about 20 of them. I also have about 15 aliases…

It feels like it’s the beginning of Email…
> Do you control the inflation rate? Do you control how much currency is being minted?

If you're living in a democracy, you do get a say in those things or at least in selecting the people who decide those things, along with all the other voters.
If you find out, let me know! Folks are always asking me "What database is best?" and I'm just shuffling my feet and going "Uhhhh, well, systems are really hard to build correctly, there's lots of tradeoffs, you probably want something with a proven replication model under the hood but so much depends on workload and operational characteristics beyond just safety... If you find a database you love please tell me about it because I like hearing people's stories..."

FWIW, I think you're raising really good questions in this thread. Qualitative safety is highly contextual, depending on fault model, significance of individual operations, concurrency, throughput, latency demands, operational characteristics, data volume, etc etc., and I try to touch on that in the "Toward a Culture of Safety" section in this report. Hopefully that resonated for you.
> Some people think everyone should learn to code. I think not

Knowing what I know as a software developer by trade. I would want my kids to know how to code. Even if that doesn't end up being their career I'd like them to have this ability. I think it would make their lives easier and allow them to achieve more. So given my thoughts on what I would want for my own children, I feel like it would be dishonest to say that other children should avoid learning to code.
I wonder how long any DNA sealed in plant gum/amber would last.
>What isn't occurring, is a good-faith discussion on solving the issues faced by law enforcement and the IC related to the growing entropy of E2EE wielded at scale by folks, a large subset of whom are engaging in criminal behavior.

I think that the tech community has extended entirely too much "good faith" towards a law enforcement and intelligence community who feel entitled to review and record all communication at their own sole discretion. I know you think that you're the "good guys", trying to keep us safe from "adversaries", but you have to understand that after the Snowden leaks, many people in the tech. industry don't see you that way. They see you as the diet-Coke version of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, and feel that if you were able to slip your legal bonds, you'd attack free speech just harshly as the Chinese Communist Party does.

Of course, from your perspective, it's not cracking down on free speech. It's "preserving democracy" by "suppressing misinformation" planted by "hostile adversaries" and "non-state actors".
> This is how it's supposed to be.

According to you, which is OPs point exactly. The discussion needs to be framed in a way that stakeholders are walking in common ground, not yelling at each other at a distance from their respective ideological ivory towers.

FWIW I happen to agree with you, but IMO “this is how it’s supposed to be” is not a productive argument.
If I am writing the client and server code, the server code is quicker to check than documentation.

Never saw the need for API testing if I am the user of the API.

It does indeed have a standardized format.

Non-cookie auth is actually handled in some of my projects with about a dozen lines of a header parser that then passes it to Django sessions.

Pagination in my latest project is handled as date filters or done client side. Way faster for the user that way and removes a lot of PITA.

Throttling is handled by other bits of infrastructure. If you do that inside a Django view or middleware you are likely doing it wrong.
Coding should be taught after algebra. Don't really know how you can learn to code without understanding the concept of a variable.
Indeed. Problems are a great motivator. Circa 1990 I had to solve math problems to get the characters to respond in the school's edutainment games. A few years later I had to learn DOS and batch files to play computer games from ID and Origin Systems.

Finding problems and interactive experiences that'll motivate students is the hardest part IMO. Perhaps that's why some resort to Minecraft.