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The risk with relying on reading alone is dogma: quoting someone else's words as being unassailable truth.

I love a good quote, or aphorism, or copy-pasta'd thought technology as much as anyone. But there's profound power in understanding ideas well enough to re-formulate them in your own words, maybe even without referencing their origins. Best way to do that is practice, practice, practice.
Well, no, sure: At least Hungary probably isn't "sliding into" authoritarianism. Any more.
Yeh, that's an interesting idea. I'd probably nit pick about meditation (ultimately) being about shrinking. I mean, mindfulness maybe, but insight is ultimately about no self at all, and a huge and deeply meaningful connection to everything in a vast and unknowable expansiveness...

This expansiveness - the knowledge that one is nothing - is actually a huge source of comfort. But like everything in this realm, it's a paradox that is hard to explain with experiential reference points.
I found him on YouTube. Really interesting to listen to the analog network and how the long distance system worked.
"Maintainer Update

This obviously isn't a feature, but I wanted to mention that I will be moving away from Mutt maintainership after this release. There isn't a transition plan, so I'll keep maintaining the 2.2.x series with bug fixes and security issues.

It's been my pleasure to keep the releases coming since version 1.5.24. Unfortunately the past year, my time and energy available has been decreasing. So my plan is to focus the time I do have on keeping Mutt stable, secure, and bug free; until someone else has the desire to head up (and support) new-feature releases. Thank you everyone! "

Thanks Kevin !
Wittgenstein is one of a handful of philosophers remarkable by their
almost complete reversal of positions in life. Each had some some kind
of traumatic breakdown then an epiphany of post-traumatic growth.
Sartre started somewhere near "Hell is other people" and ended up in
the vicinity of "emancipation can only happen through each other".
Wittgenstein's change is so profound that his work is now interpreted
as "early Wittgenstein" and "late Wittgenstein", because they may as
well be two different philosophers.

As I read it, both Sartre and Wittgenstein had obsessive blocks in
their youth, which they overcame to become wiser, more rounded
people. Perhaps their early works were necessary mistakes to achieve
their great works. Sartre was hung-up on individualistic freedom so
much he resented the mere existence of others' thoughts. Later he
transformed into a deeply compassionate man. Wittgenstein was
possessed by a need to objectively formalise and structure everything,
but gave in to an acceptance of relativism and fluidity. His later
ideas are a big contribution to cognitive linguistics and study of
consciousness - precisely in the ways that it is _unlike_ mathematical
logic.

I feel that many of us digital technologists could learn a lot from
these journeys. Letting go of the need to reduce, control, manage and
organise everything is the path maturity. We may end up less right,
make less money, have fewer users... but we will make technology that
is more useful to humanity.
I've got AT&T's 1Gbps service and you can bypass their router. You just have to log into the web UI and set it up there. At least I was able to do it with mine.
In case this is partially my fault:

I started using Tutanota as my primary email provider a long time ago and just let Gmail fill up with garbage that I'm too lazy to delete (and also in hopes that all the garbage/spam messes with the email scanning that Google does, and wasting their storage space out of spite). There might be others like me that have similar Gmail inboxes, that may be due to making it so hard to bulk delete emails in the app.

So I'm sorry, maybe?
Right now we have DA’s across the country that are refusing to prosecute crime and letting people out. Criminals know this and are taking advantage.
> Everything else is applying legal and social context to the actual data.

And then you just draw the rest of the owl.
SikuliX – Automate what you see on a computer monitor
> There are two and only two pieces of information you need to work with time: seconds past the epoch and location. Everything else is applying legal and social context to the actual data.

Date-of-birth?

Calendar-quarters?

Computer-local time? (No location, only the computer's UTC offset).
Right. The best way to think about it is that any implicit values which are required to univocally define a timestampz should be considered as NULL. So 2022-02-12 should mean “some time during such day in some time zone”.
Not sure the constraints here but probably 1) real cognitive uploading / a simulated world I could exist in after my physical body is dead, 2) teleportation device
FPGA Interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling
> … beyond trying to game some benchmarks…

Did it work?

If it wasn't massively more performant than other ways to write that program in C#, then maybe it's just fine for the purposes of "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages".

> … but that one doesn't even use any concurrency…

What is the relationship between multicore and energy efficiency?

> This is not a fair comparison.

The comparison is energy efficiency not elapsed seconds, yes?
> Maybe we have a lot of criminals because our society is decaying.

Ok, so maybe addressing that will be more fruitful than baying for more punishment!
No. No. No. Dates are to Integers as Date+Time is to Floating Point. You (we) -want- to compare them, but you need something akin to a language level specification for these. Otherwise, it is all what you are trying to do/what problem you are solving. Excel (where I suspect 60% or more of this nonsense lives) at least has a clear definition (both are floats, so you can do the comparison). Otherwise, "Down the Wat-hole" for what to expect.
The magic of the PSTN was you could work your way into the bowels of the Military and talk to a guy guarding nukes just by dialing the right number and bullshitting. Today you can't really social engineer your way into unauthorized access on Slack, for example (you have to have an account first). I suppose e-mail is the final remnant of the information wild west. Well, that and public ELK stacks...
And if we jail every single citizen of the USA, there will be no stealing! Perfect.
Some people find it shocking and implausible that someone would actually vote for Trump. It is also important to distinguish between people who voted for a centrist democrat, and therefore practically voted for Trump.
I run my own server, I am talking to some friends on https://jabber.fr and I refer non-technical people (family, mostly) to https://quicksy.im.

(I will add that Jitsi Meet kind of counts as Jabber use, although not in the traditional sense)
They usually were two separate parts on the same page, the shout-box was a widget and its content did not get indexed. The forum was usually not a single-page application, and forum threads were paginated. Here's a modern-day example [1]

[1] http://www.logic-sunrise.com/forums/
One that in theory at least you get to vote for representation on the board.

Doesn't work very well though when a lot of people vote to kneecap it and let all the corporations you don't have any say over run the show.
Not surprised. Prior to this past election cycle, voting machines have been clearly insecure and both the public and elected officials have been very head-in-sand about it. Took extreme events to become even remotely sympathetic to Dominion and Smartmatic.

Too high a risk now that anti-Trump world will seek to deflect that because it undermines reasons to be confident in the last cycle. But it needs to be addressed. Paper with Scantron still seems the most auditable.
Can I use this ability to direct the query to a read only replica or will EdgeDB handle this common scaling use case some other way?
Yes that is true. There is a TED talk by Gen Nyema I watched a few years back which explains it quite well. It's such a simplistic fix that you feel it can't work and yet it does. It definitely a choice and you can choose to be happy in any situation if you have the emotional awareness for it.
I’d love to see a setup where I could keep the emails on a Linux box in the house (the messages are fetched regularly from the “real” email server), you know what I mean?

Sending would probably be easier ( use a real smtp server)…
The title is a bit confusing. It should says “programs that have saved Hacker News users 100+ hours”. I thought it was going to be about programs that people like dang at Y Combinator use in running Hacker News.
Happiness is a second-order derivative; this is why it is so unstable and fleeting.

Joy is the first-order derivative of good things happening, or more precisely, your brain noticing improvement.

The surest way to maintain lifetime happiness would be to start it in the shittiest possible conditions and see them steadily improving over your lifetime.
I'm sorry I just realised I mis-spelled Psycle, in case anyone is interested you can find it here http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/portal.php
NATO expansion: 'a policy error of historic importance' (1998)
30 years on and email is still unencrypted. It’s a good example of how federated standards don’t work.
Bred.

But, sure, the US is acquiring European bread talent too: Sourdough, baguette, ciabatta...
> It is not a protection, just a security theater.

Signal is a perfectly good protection against passive attackers. MITMing a non negligible portion of Signal users would be too visible to be worth doing. This doesn't solve target surveillance (but key fingerprint checks help there), but this does ensure that most of the data exchanged via Signal services does not feed NSA databases.

> If you don't trust your service provider not to spy on you, you must not trust it completely.

Ideally you wouldn't trust anything nor anyone, that's the Mossad thread model and it's not useful to judge incremental improvements.

> Don't want to be spied by your service provider - run you own server. That's what federation is for.

A server running where? Most "servers" are rented from a big cloud provider, and there's no physical control over it. Having to trust these is definitely worse in terms of security. This is also forgetting the users Signal is targeting, who are not technical users, but precisely people who don't know what a server is.
That was actually referring to the rest of the paragraph:

> You see the cynicism and manipulation behind so many things portrayed as being good for you or society. You become cynical, and you signal your intelligence through cynicism. Very smart people often communicate in purely cynical observations.

I didn't want to include the whole quote since I mostly responded to the quoted part and the quote would get quite long overall.
Running it in Termux with `time` before it. Maybe shuffling data through the bash pipe or the slow read of `head` was a contributor.
Back when payphones were still a thing, one prank I enjoyed was to dial 991-$(last 4 digits of the pay phone's phone number) from a payphone. Then you would hangup, pickup, and hangup again. Then a few seconds later the payphone would start ringing.

I have no idea what this was actually doing. Does anyone have any knowledge of how this worked?

I don't even remember how I learned this trick. Presumably I learned it from some other kid, but who knows where the knowledge originated from in our teenage social circle.
However, that 3 would generate stupid amounts of hype on its own, which the HL name alone couldn't, it is one of the foundational PC gamer memes.
> How are jail fees not illegal extra-judicial punishment

The argument is that they are in law (so not illegal) and compensatory rather than punitive (so not punishment.)

This is contentious, though, and jails have sometimes lost legal cases around them, e.g.:

https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2021/11/03/ruli...

The main reason for them, of course, is that while mass incarceration policies are popular with those bit subjected to them, paying for mass incarceration is not.
I figured it out.. I do the same thing, and for me, it's about my mortality. I, u/pizza, lived, because of all these projects I did.. stark realization, that over the next couple of years probably, I need to undo what I've learned to do w/ my free time.
> Many of them doing so because they couldn't believe that something that'd been around so long could fail.

I think people don't understand how fragile societies are, in general. Because we in the west had it good for the last 75 years is almost an anomaly if you look at history. And how things can turn if a large majority of the populace has no future to look forward to (like their parents had).

> To condone theft because you feel like it is the best option for you is the epitome of that mindset.

I absolutely condone theft if you need money to survive, not as a means to get the latest iPhone.

> It will destroy society because we destroy the incentive for anyone to create to produce and then we see real poverty. Everyone bitching on antiwork about their hopeless future are doing so from a place where they have regular stable electricity, running clean water, an internet connection, and I am going to guess ate sometime in the last 12 or at least 24 hours.

That reeks so much like victim blaming to me.

Exactly the skewed tech-bro view that is really beyond wrong. You don't undestand that mere existing with some running water and electricity isn't good enough. People need to live. Not dread existence - with just one health scare away from financial ruin - in a terrible soul eating job that doesn't pay anywhere decent.

If you don't want the lower class to start eating the rich / or just fucking up society for that matter, maybe the rich should pay their due, and share their wealth so others don't have to work 3 jobs to survive.

Don't blame the young people, with worthless college debt, with no hope of ever buying a house. Let's see what this will do to fertility rates and how that in turn will affect businesses.

Oh and regarding all those businesses that can't pay a liveable wage: then you have no viable business.
The contemporary version of that is automating the whole process with Python and Selenium. Really it just calls into question why fifo is the mechanism for assigning priority for class registration and what better alternatives might be.
Bash. being good at bash will save you hundreds of hours in your career.
What you've said is, in my opinion, likely to be a difference between the technology companies that become tomorrow's infrastructure and the ones that disappear (even if it takes decades).

As you say, the default tendency in many companies when failures occur is information-loss. That can be attributed to using too many communication tools, cultural expectations that problems should be hidden, silo'd or disparate documentation stores, or lack of process.

Intentional, open, thorough and replicated note-taking with cross-references before, during and after incidents can create radically different environments which allow for querying, recovery and improvement regardless of failure mode(s). Kudos to Dan for moving in that direction with these writeups (and to you for raising the subtext).
Vote for DA’s and politicians that enforce the law.
The corruption imposed by the false title is clear from the comment I responded to, which is premised on the idea that Moxie Marlinspike opposes all federated protocols (including, as the comment asserts, HTTP), when in fact his concern is with the project of deploying very specifically a secure messenger.

It's not up to the submitter of an article on Hacker News to decide that an article's title "conveys naught", and then make up their own purportedly better title. Threads are sensitive to initial conditions, and submitters don't have a privilege to set those conditions. This is black-letter HN guidelines stuff; the title here is an abuse.
You’re not the only one. :) For me it took some conscious effort but it was yoga that finally pushed me over the edge. Now it’s mostly just happy even if the circumstances don’t call for it.

Like someone said in one of the other comments: happiness is a choice. It is also orthogonal to the intellect. It’s just that people tend to turn their intellect against themselves and so a sharper intellect makes for more damage.
I certainly receive a lot of spam _from_ gmail accounts. 99% of the spam I see has a gmail.com address.
I can confirm this too. Sometimes I'd quickly scan through comments, then go back to the top and upvote good ones (usually faster than 1/second). Since a child comment sometimes gives greater clarity to a parent comment. When refreshing and noticing votes weren't applied, I thought I triggered some shadowbanning mechanism.
Thanks for the explanation. My undergraduate fluid mechanics class did get into shock waves, but not the temperature implications of them.
Do you have any good resources on making websockets scale / stable?
This is great, I knew this was in development for a while, but I did not expect it to land this early. 1 to 1 audio/video calls using Conversations and other apps work already perfectly, but group video chat using standardized technology was really missing from the ecosystem, I am glad that this is now done.
It depends on what you mean by timezones. 1:30am Pacific Time isn't well defined, but 1:30am PST and 1:30am PDT are.
1. Quickly becomes an uncomfortable conversation for most people when you look at the crime stats breakdown by demographic.
Hold up. You're only 30.

In my 20s, I was more like your ex. Didn't focus on my career, had tons of hobbies and a healthy social circle.

Turns out, a "social circle" isn't really a thing in your mid to late 30s. You might have a few close friends but most people are tending to families at that point.

Try starting a career in your 30s that allows you to save for retirement so you don't have to work until you die. It's not easy.

You're doing fine and you've set yourself up for success rather than "living in the moment" until you can't afford to.
How does this differ from a set of Terraform modules?

A quick glance at the docs don't seem to make it obvious other than the custom CLI.
Neither a mutt, nor an offlineimap user, but I believe those two are often used in combination: http://www.offlineimap.org/
Shifting the definition of manipulation and gaslighting is itself a kind of manipulative gaslighting...
> The states will be allowed to pass whatever law they want to hold private companies liable, as long as they somehow relate their new rules to online child abuse.

Ah, so child abuse is kind of the new interstate commerce, only for states in stead of the feds?
There's so many of us
Xbox bought my forgiveness
Friends and family all use XMPP via Conversations and/or Dino. I also join a few channels of FOSS projects on Matrix or IRC with a bridge. You can even bridge calls to SIP and PSTN via https://jmp.chat/.

I run my own server (any 5 bucks VPS can do), but there is a large number of public servers that also work good. Make sure to pick one with a good ranking at https://compliance.conversations.im/
Your "freedom" has in fact nothing to do with the project Signal is working on, and the fact that you want to sysadmin your phone, something only a tiny fraction of the world's population has or ever will have any interest in doing, has nothing to do with whether Signal is meeting its objectives. By all means, use Matrix.
I think they probably did that because Priority Pass has so few lounges that even accept it anymore.

And I have found that even lounges that PP claims to work with are very quick to tell you that the lounge is full so they can reserve space for their actual business class and first class passengers.

I've been turned away more than once from a club that was supposedly at capacity when more than half the tables are empty.

So I figure priority pass thought, why not offer unlimited? No one can use it anyway.
The arrogant tone of the website is deeply frustrating. Especially since their examples are full of false premises. For example, in the nuke question they estimate torture’s efficacy at 70%. That’s way, way higher than the actual efficacy.

There are interesting questions here presented very poorly.
What if it was appended with "Signal founder re: federation"?
More so the issue is the "native" browser client, EventSource [1] is pretty much just url and "withCredentials" (send/don't send cookies)

You can kludge it with fetch(...) and the body stream

1. <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventSource>
And the set of applications that will inevitably generate garbage, which might be left to automatic garbage collection.

Errare humanum est.

"Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages" not "programming language performance in the general case".
I would call those townhouses, it's probably just a regional thing.

The row houses I'm thinking about are in Philadelphia, and I think most other east coast cities. Occasionally you'll see one with the neighboring house(es) demolished, and there are usually remaining bricks from the missing house on the now exterior wall.
Very silly. The author doesn’t understand chrome extension host permissions. You could write this article about literally every site in existence.

Here’s another way the extension could scrape your Facebook data, your gmail inbox, your Twitter info, etc: just request the homepage. This has nothing to do with Facebook
This reminds me how much fund I had with GPT-3 when it was in beta and available for free. I used it to recreate a reddit "bot" that explained jokes. It was a joke because it was obviously a human.

Example

Joke: Three men are on a boat. They have four cigarettes, but nothing to light them with. So they throw a cigarette overboard and the whole boat becomes a cigarette lighter.

Explained: Lighter can mean a device that creates fire or less heavy.

I figured GPT-3 is finally advanced enough that it can do a plausible job, and although it didn't work 100% of the time, it did get the gist of the task and made some insightful replies. This was my favorite:

Joke: My wife and I went on our honeymoon to Australia. Unfortunately, I had to dial the help line. "G'day this is Tim, you've reached the Aussie help line. How can we help ya?" I told him, "We were in the ocean and my wife was stung by a jellyfish on her lady parts. Her vagina is completely swollen shut. It's our honeymoon, and well....ya know." The guy on the help line replies, "Ah, bummer mate!". I say, "I hadn't thought of that! Thanks for the advice. You've saved my honeymoon!"

Explained: Australia + honeymoon + penis + swollen vagina = Aussie joke.

I wrote more examples here:

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/using-gpt-3-to-explain-j...
> I think the definitions are actually very clear: manipulation is intentionally using deception, dishonesty, or withheld information to alter someone's behavior or beliefs. It's essentially persuading in bad faith.

If that is what charges of "manipulation" actually corresponded to in practice, then one could just punish the actual instances of deception, dishonesty, or withheld information (DD&WI). But, in fact, it's rather rare for people to object to DD&WI when it is used to support a position they agree with, and in these situations they essentially never call it "manipulation". (If your friend Bob withheld information to convince someone of a political position you strongly agreed with, can you imagine yourself saying "Bob manipulated him"? Of course not, because "manipulation" is understood to mean "...for something bad".) In other words, "manipulation" is only used as an additional charge, beyond DD&WI, for things we disagree with.

(One could argue that we correctly have laws that punish actions based on the action's impact, like attempted vs. completed murder, and that "manipulation" could be for when DD&WI is deployed effectively. But again, no one ever calls this "manipulation" when it's for something they agree with, and they never claim that effective DD&WI of this type should be punished more harshly than ineffective DD&WI.)