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>Private companies using public infrastructure to earn money

That's what the infrastructure is there for. To be used. The food you ate today was probably transported on the interstate.

The rest of what you said comes off to me like the ancient Greeks complaining books make you not have to memorize everything. Technology marches on and things become more convenient.
Redesigns are most often about branding and other BS and not about usability.
> Unfortunately in reality my life depends on meaningless work for corporate overlords

> With NDA’s and IP-ownership clauses, i don’t own anything and i can’t talk about anything

Have you considered working for a non-profit?

Not all corporations are evil; they're only as evil as the people running them. If you believe you can found a company that doesn't have NDAs and IP-ownership clauses, you can probably also find one that doesn't have those as well.

You can go your own way and don't let anyone tell you not to. But it's certainly possible to have a meaningful life while working for someone.
Lots of hate in this thread around the author writing about "only" three days offline. I get the sentiment, it isn't a particularly long duration of time, but three days offline can feel like an eternity if you legitimately have an internet addiction. Some of us are luckier than other in that we're able to self moderate.

I know that I sometimes struggle with pulling my phone out for no reason and refreshing HN or Reddit. Same with my laptop during work hours. I don't like it and I'm trying to do better; I want a healthier relationship with my devices and the internet.

I definitely took something from this article, though. For a while I've been using Do Not Disturb to cut down on distracting notifications throughout the day, with a whitelist for family members in case of emergency. But from now on, my phone's WiFi will be turned off and I've also disabled cellular data for all other non-critical applications.

Now if I want to refresh HN or Reddit for no reason, I either have to connect to WiFi or explicitly grant Safari permission to use cellular data. Overall, I feel like I'm taking steps in the right direction...
And I spent the better part of a month deeply embedded in safety materials regarding diabetes type 1. It's simple: if you start experimenting like that without guidance from your doctor then that's asking for trouble. Giving medical advice with such a high chance of risks materializing for the takers of such advice is irresponsible to put it mildly. You can't just dump blanket statements like that in a forum and expect a positive outcome.

Telling people to research a lifestyle is completely different than providing ready made recipes paired with unqualified statements based on a sample of '1'.
The difference is that if they increased the price by $10K, you can get the loan to pay them, and you amortize that payment over 30 years. Many people are financially stressed enough to pay the downpayment - essentially you are saying the downpayment should go up by $10K. They may not have that $10K.
Yes, of course. Civil forfeiture can be (and is!) abused, especially by local jurisdictions, but it's often a very boring tool used to facilitate victim restitution.

E.g. look at that famous chart showing 'the police steal more than criminals': https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2015/11/...

Nearly $2B of that 2014 total was JP Morgan having their funds 'civilly forfeit' to directly pay restitution to the Madoff victims (https://www.nathanslaw.com/articles/bank-to-pay-almost-2-bil...).
Then you can hire devs who are better able to build the things that you need.
in the good universe, they use that information to make drugs that are better-tailored to people's population-specific genetics (one type of "personalized med")

in the bad universe, they give it to an ad agency that then beams ads for the wrong medicine into your retina 24/7
This is a good way to quantify the mechanics of it
I don't understand... what is wrong with asynchronous code reviews? From my POV code reviews are the solution to the pair programming problem.
Sounds like it'd be great for job security, too.
For me Rust and C++ have similar complexity in terms of learning curve and the main difference is where you spend your time. Rust programs have a tendency to work on the first or second try provided you can get them to compile. In C++ it’s easier to rig something up that technically meets the portion of the language spec that the compiler enforces, but who knows if it actually does what you expect and the debug cycle is much longer. Debugging is generally more frustrating and time consuming than simply conceptually massaging your implementation strategy until it fits Rust’s model, at least for me.

Also Rust is pretty mainstream at this point.
I like an I use scoop alongside winget after many years of Chocolatey, but there are many packages not available through scoop, mostly because there isn't a viable portable way to install them. Also, scoop does nothing to take advantage of the MSIX Containers that sandbox apps, so that they can be cleanly update and later removed.

I'm considering automating the conversion of my most used apps to MSIX, so they can get always installed in a clean way. That may break certain apps like Steam, which need to install outside the virtual FS, but I hear MSIX supports global registry an global FS access exceptions nowadays, so not all hope is lost.
The need for civil forfeiture demonstrates a clear failing of the system. The system says "we can't nail this person legally but we 'just know' they did something bad, so we'll break the rules." Same with warrantless wire tapping. The system is intended to err on the side of letting the guilty go, rather than infringe on the rights of innocent, not the other way around. If the government cannot figure out how to arrest and convict guilty people without resorting to unconstitutional measures, that's their failing.

I'm a realist though, and I accept the argument that criminals can be sophisticated enough to operate in that margin of error without getting caught. The system will need to get creative to handle these people, without being unconstitutional. Yes, I'm sure it is extremely hard work when compared to breaking the rules and calling it a day, but too bad. The willingness to put in extra work to avoid the illegal shortcuts is critical to preventing the total corruption of these institutions.
This is true, we tried and abandoned it. Felt like shifting the problem from one place to another
> I would be glad to not see scooters as the enemy if they weren't so dangerous for everyone involved.

There's absolutely no comparison between the dangers of scooters and cars. Every person who decides to use a scooter instead of driving or taking a taxi is having a huge positive effect on safety.
Pretty much that. Safety gimmick aside, Rust is (mostly) what C++ would have been if designed with modern knowledge of programming languages theory and compiler practice in mind. It’s not like Rust brings that much novel things to the table, it is has its roots in ML and friends that have been around for decades. It’s just that we didn’t know how to make ML-type languages fast in the 80-ties. So C++ designers did the best they could given the time period and the circumstances.
Similarly, people in Venezuela play RuneScape, an mmo, and sell virtual currency as a full time job: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/fe...

Venezuelans farm gold and indirectly sell it to wealthy Americans. $0.70 for 1MM gold is nothing for an American, but adds up to meaningful amounts in Venezuela if your monthly salary is $4 USD.
We were walking past one of these robots whose wheel got stuck halfway off the curb, so it was completely stuck. My friend helped it back up, and it had a prerecorded voice say “thank you for helping me!” It was unexpected and delightful to be thanked by a robot, we make sure to help any we see that are in distress, even though we know they’re owned by a private company with profits in mind.
They could also just turn it off. Or change encryption so it will work for Russia but not others.
What gp is saying is that buying a house is a investment regardless of intention, which is true from a financial perspective.
It's called whataboutism and is a logical fallacy. If you feel good directly interacting with literal slaves I'm sure you would resort to this kind of mental gymnastic though
Payload: The newsletter covering the business of space
O(1) implies it should always be sorted. So just accessing the top should be the solution. This implies that inserts and removals will be the more complex task. The naive approach would just be adding and then sorting - O(nlogn). But the best solution I believe is a max heap.. they essentially wanted you to write a max heap algo.
Dang, that's rough. I'll fully admit I got super lucky. My ISP is MetroNet and you wouldn't necessarily think Lexington, KY would have fiber at all or if they did that it would be a good deal but thankfully MetroNet serves my area and has great prices. I wish they were in OH as well so I could move my parents over to them, they are stuck on Spectrum.
> Do you really still use Ethernet ports and USB-A ports directly on your laptop?

For my personal laptop, my headset, USB flash drives and my external backup hard drives all use USB-A. So does the receiver for my old wireless mouse, although that one's old enough that almost everyone would probably have replaced it with something Bluetooth by now. There are also a bunch of older devices that I'm not using too often but which I haven't really had enough of a need to replace either.

Any of these would of course be simple enough to replace individually or to use with an adapter, but it's nicer to not have to bother, so yes, I do use them. It's not so much that most of them are a part of a common workflow for me (except for the mouse, but as I said, that one's pretty old and it's easy to argue it would make sense to replace it with a Bluetooth one anyway). It's more that it feels wasteful to have to replace working peripherals simply due to older connectors, and cumbersome to have to use adapters. If a new laptop didn't come with USB-A ports, I wouldn't revolt, but it'd probably irk me somewhat as it's convenient to have one or two.

A dock would also be fine, of course, but they can be a bit on the expensive side for private use.
Rust already is mainstream. It's being adopted at a very impressive rate and is running in production in innumerable places, serving billions of users.
I like how this implies that lawyers aren't people ;)
that was the original dune 3 game. Or 1?

I recall planting green plants all over the planet, in one of the original games.
Pfft I didn't expect this to be HN worthy, but y'all are amazing

I'll still be around, doing my YouTube channel on tickover before other ventures are ready. Just need to square some things away, and I'll probably announce via Twitter next week.

Anything input always welcome!
Perseverance Sample Tubes: Six Mars Samples and Counting (2021)
How on earth I became an entrepreneur
You could have a custom 403 page that allows a user to reset their password and has a contact form. You are right about the lack of SSO, but not everything needs to support SSO.
They bring up a good point though. Society has decided that conventional steering systems are within defined failure bounds, assuming a perfectly safe driver of course. So to remove the steering wheel from a Tesla, FSD must be as fault tolerant as steering wheel failure limitations, plus some driver competence metric. Of course that also doesn't take into account the thorny issue of the intersection of safe actions on Tesla FSD actions to human driver actions. FSD has a long way to go.
I would expect such a service to ban hosting services on the "private" plan, or have strict conditions on what is considered acceptable use. However I see nothing of that sort in their contracts with the exception of this line in their Contractual Conditions.

"3. Fair Use Policy
The Internet subscriptions for private customers are intended for normal personal use. Init7
reserves the right to temporarily or permanently restrict or discontinue the provision of
services for connections whose data volume exceeds 0.5 petabyte (500 terabytes) in a
period of 4 weeks, or to take another suitable measure."

(https://www.init7.net/de/kleingedrucktes/072021_contractual-...)

You can build some serious infrastructure on 500T/4weeks on a 25Gbps line, service uptime withstanding. They also provide optional /29 subnets with the private plan so it looks like it's intended for more than just personal browsing.
Civil rights and civil liberties must be fought for, repeatedly. Those in power will only do what is constitutionally required of them when they are forced to do so.
> From the parents' perspective, their child is being completely unreasonable and upset over inconsequential things, but the parent is assigning their own assessment of consequence to the video games, and not accepting their child's version. To the child, these games often represent the only hours in their life when they feel excited, proud, and free; to deprive them of this gives them the short-term chemical emotions that an adult might feel if their house burned down.

True, but I'm sure a heroin addict would say the same thing about being deprived of heroin. At a certain point it's a parent's duty to limit destructive addictions. And these social media networks and games are made to be extremely addictive, companies spend billions of dollars on this goal.

Part of the problem is, like you've said, most kids are going to be spending a lot of their time not with their parents, but with other kids. You can tell them what you want at home, but then you're sending them off to a school full of addicts, almost all of whom are exerting an immense social pressure on your kid to partake.
Absolutely we look at it often. There are government led defense incubators here in the UK at least that help spawn companies too.
Are scooters more dangerous than cars? No. But you've internalized the 1.4 million yearly global deaths from car crashes as "normal".
> Mazda doesn't intent

Do you work for Mazda, or else how do you know? Is this intent published on the real site somewhere, which is what the user is trying to find in the first place when they try mazda.com?

Maybe this is just some webmaster that needs to have their ass fired.

Trying "mazda.com" for Mazda is the obvious thing for a user to do. I just tried half a dozen multinational corporations that are associated with well-known consumer brands, they all have a page at <name>.com or redirect to one. It is not in any way "bogus" to try that.

The mazda.com page doesn't even provide a clue as to where the expected site actually is; that's what is "bogus". For a second I was wondering whether Mazda actually own the domain, or is that someone squatting (yet using a Mazda logo favicon).

Not to have a page there which redirects the user to the real one, and just a permission error, comes across as astonishingly unprofessional, especially for a company of the proportions of Mazda. (If it was Uncle Bob's Pizza down the street, I might not think so as much.)
Won't 'winget upgrade --all' do the trick for you?
Sure, he's not going into extreme detail, but then again I doubt that's the point of the post. I found myself nodding in agreement as I read along, but that's probably because I've been in the trenches so long. I've done it both ways and I've never seen pair programming as having any significant advantages, but rather having drawbacks in most (though not all) situations.
Judging from your comments, you are not in a position to talk about my behaviour.

I asked that, because we always get that from most western people. Western media which is being watched all over the world shape us in a certain way, while they play a role in keeping our countries as it is. You just want to bully and cancel an Arab my friend because you hate us, that's all.
If you're a developer who cares about taking credit for work on a team, the very next thing you should do is figure out how to stop being a developer who cares about taking credit for work on a team, and basically nothing else.
Well-Adjusted to What? (2015)
How does it compare to Dune Legacy (http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/)?
Civil forfeiture is horrible. I've spent hundreds of hours in the forfeiture court.

I remember one time the prosecutor was trying to forfeit a man's brand new $60,000 SUV because the man's son had borrowed the car and driven drunk. Luckily it was a cool judge (the rarest of the rare!) and she beat the prosecutors down "Did this man know his son borrowed the car? No." "Does this man have valid license and insurance? Yes? Give him his car back. And you know what, give him all his fines and fees and his towing fee back too. What do you mean you don't know how to give him his towing fee back? FIND OUT."

The same judge.. on her first day on the bench in the forfeiture court.. I was there early and she brought the two forfeiture prosecutors up to the bench and whispered to them "Look, you two win 95% of the cases in this court simply because no-one can even figure out how to file the paperwork to get their case into court. I won't stand for that. That isn't happening in my court room. That's all."

Which is true. In Illinois at least, if your assets get seized, you just get a letter saying you have 45 days to file all the required paperwork to even get your case into court to START defending yourself. And it says specifically on the paperwork that the State will not help you with any aspect of this filing, nor will they provide any of the required forms.

Most forfeiture cases are very, very badly prosecuted because they so rarely get challenged. If you ever have your assets seized, fight it. Most of the time you'll easily win, or the prosecutor will give up.

The BIGGEST thing by far is that the prosecutor will do a plea negotiation with you on your assets!! I proxy negotiated for people all the time. To avoid trial (no party wants this) the prosecutor will come and tell you "We'll give you 50% of your money back today if you sign away the rest". I promise you, you can get this to 80% of your money back.

You can also use frozen assets as bargaining chips in a criminal case. With the drug dealer I mentioned earlier, he had $150,000 taken from one account. For the final deal on his prison time I got his lawyer to negotiate them giving him back $80,000 of the drug money! I could have got his cars back too, but the feds had them and he didn't want to poke that bear.

p.s. if you have a new car with a loan and you've not made many payments, let the prosecutor know - they usually don't want your car as it'll become a paperwork nightmare.

p.p.s. if you have your assets seized, check the jurisdiction. In these cases the asset is considered a guilty party to the crime and must be prosecuted in the correct jurisdiction (court), which might be different to where the crime happened or where the assets were seized.
Imagine if anti-racist activists weren't themselves horribly racist. Their entire creed prizes skin colour above the individual, and treats them as members of groups first, people second.

Hell, a lot of those activists trying to get merit-based admissions out of schools? It's to get schools to be less Asian. San Fran just recalled a bunch of activist types from school boards, and I'd bet money that vote was in good part driven by the Asian population realizing the activist faculty were out to screw them over.
I'm rather confused by this. Do you all not ever have a need to reverse strings? I find it somewhat common in my work. Maybe its because I work with text data for NLP models?
Dog obesity has more than doubled since 2007 based on the first google result I could fine.
LXC/LXD being the clear winner.
There is something funny about all the comments saying "The best Dune game is the 1992 version" as if 30 years of improvements in computing couldn't translate to larger-scale events with more complex gameplay mechanics.

Not saying it will be good, but give it a chance, I wasn't even alive to play the game you're referencing.
I was surprised to see that it was written by a Rust implementation insider. The first half is very meandering. Please just get to the point and leave footnotes and asterisks for things like “safe”. (Just my preference.)
> there's little harm

Losing access to all of your money for an indeterminate amount of time with no recourse is a fairly large harm.
Many PL folks are now looking into ways to generalize Rust's borrow checking approach. Even the Rust community is getting into this kind of stuff with the GhostCell proposal and its many variations. It remains to be seen how such extensions and generalizations might be adopted in a way that's reasonably intuitive and ergonomic.
You sound confused by the examples which are there to show the interface. You can write anything you want in an email message and send as few of them as you want. Anyone who knows they are looking at an email app's landing page will understand that the compose fields are freeform.
How is it patentable if the "prior art" exists?
On how to build a router that can make use of the 25GBps: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-...
> They deserve no pity, they're robots!

> Robot is drawn from an old Church Slavonic word, robota, for “servitude,” “forced labor” or “drudgery.” The word, which also has cognates in German, Russian, Polish and Czech, was a product of the central European system of serfdom by which a tenant’s rent was paid for in forced labor or service.[1]

1: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-origin-of-the-wor...
Complaints like this are typically run through the city or campus that leases operation rights to the fleet. These entities usually get fairly forceful in (competitive) markets. Your local scooter outfit(s) are not going to want to risk a market with a ton of complaints and bad operations feedback.

That said: given GPS limitations, the time it takes for a van with humans to arrive (and park!), as well as lagging feedback loops... this isn't an easy problem. Last I was in the industry, they were just starting to concept customer reputation systems, but generally they were more concerned with winning markets and decreasing operating costs.
Tangential, but is a brand-new XGPON rollout more expensive to the provider than a DOCSIS 4.0 rollout?
Niche? :)

Maybe a few years ago.

But you’re probably right about the load.
Are there any bands in the US that are open for free use? A sort of Wild West band. The tech seems very cool to experiment with, but I don’t want to end up in this guys shoes for trying to wirelessly control my coffee pot (for instance…).
Its coming from the financialization of every aspect of life.

This includes tech exploitation of 'users' who can't kick the tech habits from their life because they are designed to be addictive or essential.
What’s your decent router? I’m in the market for something fresh and an Edgerouter-4 is looking long in the tooth…
That sounds nice on paper. We all like good coding practices. We all like Rust's benefits, not just the memory safety ones. My argument is a cost/benefit analysis; those nice benefits aren't worth the massive cost of rewriting the whole thing in Rust.

In an actual business, one has to justify a project's existence, by showing growth, new features, new users. Imagine stopping that while we rewrite a million line codebase. Now imagine a project which doesn't bring in revenue, and just delivers social good, while having out-of-touch executives looking at our resources and headcount like hungry vultures.

Rewriting in Rust would have cost us years, and would have killed Google Earth.