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History is repeating itself, old thinking + new technology is never going to create innovation, it's just going to end like a blazing trail of a shooting star, a tale to tell. We are pretty much heading in the same direction with blockchain.

Decentralization is smexy but it comes with a price, it disrupts everything, starting from the way we build it.

I agreed entirely that VCs are building monopolies and that money are pouring into the space for no obvious practical reason but it is inevitable until we find a better model of building. And those who are trying to build a web2 version of something in web3 will most likely fail because web3 isn't a replacement or better alternative to web2. Hence it is pointless to compare what we are have, i.e. a decentralized email server.

Decentralization, in my humble opinion, is putting the decisions/ownership back to the users but it is never going to liberate the users from a centralized entity. The things we choose to use/consume will inevitably be owned by a centralized entity, the key difference is whether or not we can seamlessly migrate to another platform of choice. And instead of one big entity controlling everything, we get multiple smaller space that makes their own rule providing the same service.

NFTs marketplace is an example of this, you own the NFT, you can take it and move it to another platform and you can even access directly via your own node without any platform. The problem with NFT however, is the usefulness itself, not the nature of NFT.

Imagine having multiple social networks that you can join with a wallet address, each with their own rules and networks. Instead of a Metaverse, think Multiverse.

Imagine having multiple ads platform that you can choose to integrate with your daily browsing and earn tokens to use in a certain way while doing so. Think Brave but instead of just Brave, you get different ads agencies with different collection of ads.

The main problem here is that our old business model doesn't work here, we are most likely going to end up broke running something that is ideally "decentralized". The fallback plan? Sit and write about how centralized web3 is OR experiment by building on top of blockchain technology, fail miserably as a joke, make some noise and motivate someone to "think different".
> Run your own node

Until ISPs block you like they did with DNS.

That’s what really should change; ISPs should be required to let anyone run services, bill for consumption.

But then the internet would be truly decentralized.

Most people just want messaging, calendar, and maps anyway. The rest of these apps serve first world tech bros who didn’t want a real job.
I've been inspecting their dumps since the iPhone X leaks.

As it turns out, they got access to huawei, apple, nvidia, samsung, microsoft bing/maps/notes and probably (unconfirmed) vodafone, lge, impresa, mercadolibre and others.

They actively infiltrate organizations with Windows monoculture that never updates, most exploits they seem to have used were running on _really_ outdated systems that are targeting enterprise monoculture as well, like atlassian software, and pretty much everything with an ADS integration.

As I commented previously, it's likely that the SOCs (Security Operations Center) are part of this, too, because _if the certification_ of the targeted organizations isn't utter BS, then they must have caught an incident like this.

A server transferring more than 200GB to a single IP? C'mon, firewalls of the 90s detected that.

They also shamed okta in response to their blog post a lot for having wrong security in place, aka publicly accessible slack channels that have more than ~9k members, where even AWS secrets are posted regularly.

I mean, attack scenarios like this are bound to happen when management decides it's cheaper to hire an external SOC with VPN access for everything. As long as management thinks there has to be a ROI of investment into the blueteam/cyber defense part, nothing will change.

Better laws have to be written to enforce the incentive, because clearly, even Microsoft was too late to catch them in the act.

This is what you get for being "cloud native" and there's no way to prevent it. Infrastructure out of your control has to be treated as such, everyone in cybersec was talking about the dangers of using AWS and hire SOCs and external support teams from India for decades already, and nobody listened.
Except if you live in Russia, of course. Or are you saying every Russian is a criminal?
I don't agree with this view or the chain - you do a great job.

I do not think when you said "you are having difficulty" that you implied it was the users fault.
How many people in the same mega-condo are trying to order Raspberry Pis though? Ignoring unit numbers would still probably be worth the small amount of collateral damage.
"Externalities have been a part of economics for years"

Okay, why hasn't a carbon tax, the most basic example of an applied cost externality been applied yet? 1 gallon of combusted gasoline is 20 pounds of carbon dioxide. It costs about 100$ to sequester a ton of CO2.

It is chemistry 101.

Show me you can do the math. At a MINIMUM for the offset of JUST THAT GALLON OF GAS, how much should the carbon tax be?

"I've had it with your irrelevant sanctimonious rant"

Okay, bury your head in sand, professor. It's not your fault. It's not the fault of your, ah, "field of study", you guys were just publishing papers about meaningless game theory and "ideal conditions" equations that had no applicability to the real world.

A bunch of right wing zealots took your little brain teasers and overapplied them to the world to justify their positions. Milton Friedman got a little full of himself and overstepped his bounds and had fun yukking it up with the fat cats. Your central bankers just throw darts at the wall, print some fiat currency, and cross their fingers, and enjoy a nice pension.

Keep handing out your "in memory of Alfred B. Nobel" prizes.

Meanwhile, real science and technology marches on, and actually improves people's lives.
Why on earth would anyone support charter cities? Cities are a community of people and should be owned, operated, legislated by and accountable to the community, not outsiders.

This is not even a new idea, and it ended really poorly last time - see the Concessions in Shanghai. [1] Having a huge disparity in the power of the so-called guarantor country as compared to the local host country is just a new take on colonialism.

[edit] However the biggest issue seems to be that it was found unconstitutional, then the judges were evicted and replaced (in what the UN described as an attack on democracy), and then all of a sudden it was constitutional. Telling the locals you know better than they do about how their region should be administered, while giving yourself the ability to exploit the living crap out of them thanks to your privileged position of being a foreigner is roughly how colonialism was carried out.

[edit] It's particularly relevant that Paul Romer proposed this at a Ted talk and then talked the Hondurans into it - citing Hong Kong as an example of a well-run charter city. Remember what happened there two years ago through present? [2] If that's your contemporary flagship... Yeah, that's pretty much what's going to happen to all of these soon-to-be-catastrophes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_International_Settlem...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_city_(economic_develop...
Nobody in their right mind is going to carefully peruse the cookies and injected JS scripts of every page they visit.

No, the onus is clearly on the developers, who are the ones with the professional responsibility to make software that abides by the laws.
It's been my opinion for a while that the $150/mo seat fee, from not all of their users, isn't covering their burn rate, and that they are loosing market share in money marking projects to Unreal. Ideally they would like proper percentages, but since they lack a compelling advantage, they must price lower relative to Unreal. Feel free to prove me wrong with actual numbers (but: 1800 employees in SF ...) @ av, 200k/employee, I make that 360m/yr just on salary :) So, anyhow, I completely agree with this post. And, looking for cashflow and better rendering tech, they buy Weta .... maybe they will pull this off .. but maybe not, also.
I can find hyper-realistic humans anywhere, why waste computing power on this?
My anecdote is the opposite, all my friends with DSes had no idea these things existed. The friends who would pirate games used PC exclusively.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but that's precisely what the ACA did. It created giant incentives for hospitals to modernize their medical record systems, which many did.
"When you get the answer, hang up the phone."

I think it was Ram Dass who responded: "I don't hang up on a teacher."

And what if there's more than one answer? Or what if you've forgotten the answer?

Sometimes what you get is not an answer but an experience, or a communion with the sacred or a transcendent reality which is ineffable and can't be brought back to the ordinary world.
>engineer the conversation on behalf of and in favor of the user.

I wish I had your optimism... should a system exist, businesses will be the one using it to find the optimal time to charge you more money. Just look at what they are doing with Crisis Text Line - your brain is being completely engineered by big tech. Proprietary technology is developed not to solve problems or make the world better, it is developed to make as much money for businesses as they possibly can.
How does block chain guarentee that something going from A to C via B is not tampered with in anyway?
I don't know if you've actually tried to send an international wire transfer, but it requires more paperwork/effort, is more expensive, and is less reliable than signing a crypto transaction.

Many smaller banks require you to physically drive to the branch and wait in line to send one. They usually cost upwards of $40 and that's before currency conversion, which is done at a rate that may or may not be favorable.

Making a blockchain payment has pros and cons, but it has enough pros that the "only useful for criminals" argument is tired.
I was riding my Brompton bike in Manhattan a couple months ago, and a guy pulled up on his Kwiggle !!! I was shocked that someone had a smaller bike :)
Ad hominem attack. Takes way less time and energy. Unlike blockchain. :)
200GB is nothing these days though. I'm on a cell connection and I move that a day.
To be fair, in the past when going from DVI, Display Port, VGA, HDMI, etc. to other standards, you could just buy a simple cable. Video card manufacturers would even provide convertors in the box. So it makes sense that people may have expectations for simplicity based on their prior experiences.
> I'm not sure the issue here, that sigterm is sent before removal from the load balancer?

That's exactly the issue. It'd be better for the orchestration system to handle removing the service from the LB in response to a configuration change than to wait for e.g. health checks to fail.

The SIGTERM method means you have to modify every service to accept SIGTERM (no big deal) for some amount of time (fiddly configuration detail) and in the mean time wait for the LB to see the terminating pod's health check fail so it can stop sending it traffic.

If we flipped it around a bit, having the LB remove the traffic before sending a term signal, we could be more assured that poorly behaving pods (pods that die too quickly or too slowly) don't result in user-facing issues.
Yeah this article definitely makes Silicon Valley look like a huge bubble - to the point where one feels "terrified" to write a post saying "maybe long working hours is unnecessary".
So what? How exactly would that "take away the user's ability to update the firmware"?

Librem 5 does not lock the firmwares in any kind of ROM. Nothing is taken away from the user.
Creepy. Most of these human renderings look dead to me.
Lisp. Full stop. (Lisp has had all of your three bullets since 1960 -- although they didn't have explicit macros until somewhat later, the fact that lisp is homoiconic and functional by design directly enabled what amounted to macros.)
I missed the Apple LAPSUS$ leak, do you have a link?
Bitcoin has a scripting system which gives it some limited smart contract capabilities. If web 3 is about programmable money and ownership I would argue BTC is very much relevant to Web 3.
I don't think it's necessarily sad at all. It seems like centralized systems make the most sense in, well, most systems. And safeguards can be put in place to prevent the centralization from being abused.
That's fine when working for yourself, you clearly stand to gain by putting in longer hours from time to time.

I recently resigned from a job where it was becoming clear the business wanted to set unrealistic deadlines and just expected devs to work extra to meet them. This company didn't offer shares or even have a bonus structure in place.

It is not ok to expect your employees to work extra to meet your (frankly unreasonable) deadlines when they don't even stand to gain anything from it.
What does SOC stands for here? (Clearly not system on chip)
If a single IP produces that much traffic to a build system, and is an external resident IP...it's 100% either a DDoS attempt or a malicious actor that is in the process of exfiltrating data.

There's not a single scenario where a traffic this size to an internal buildbot machine to/from a single unknown resident IP is legit.
It doesn't guarantee that. As I said, it guarantees that paper trails are permanent and cannot be fudged after the fact.
i believe the 3 and y have eFuses as well
Ethereum is only centralized if you dont run your own node. It is as practical to do that as it is a bitcoin node (but not for what the person you replied to was trying to do). This is an absurd distinction, and even if it wasnt absurd or wasnt practical then it is a fixable issue. Because it already has been fixed. Geth has a pruned fast sync client that has everything necessary for consensus, it takes about the amount of space and resources as a bitcoin one.
> the DP connector found on graphics cards is pretty common (“standard”)

So are D-sub connectors and HDMI. Should it have those as well? What about S-Video? Composite?

> they weren’t forced to make tradeoffs for other features that are common on high end monitors

They don't sell any products with DisplayPort connectors, nor do I think they've ever done so (certainly not recently). Selling a product with that connector is a commitment on some level to supporting what people plug into it, and as demonstrated by the OP, PCs are not really supported. It's also more engineering effort, but that's probably marginal.

This is a standard connector with cheap cables that adapt it to legacy devices using the DP alternate mode of USB-C. Apple are known for getting rid of legacy connectors. USB-C is a superior technology, it's only a matter of time before it's used for everything, and I appreciate Apple's efforts to hasten that day.
What was his name?
Oh, sorry. Security Operations Center.

They're basically the ones watching alert dashboards like suricata all day, investigating issues and trying to isolate systems that have been compromised.

So they're the operational part of an IT security department. Sometimes they're also called CSIRT.
Apple internal iOS devices used by engineers are "dev-fused".
This hardware configuration opens up the device to some extent, allowing Apple engineers more latitude when developing software.

There have been articles saying that Apple lets some third party security people use these devices.

E.G. https://macdailynews.com/2019/08/06/apple-hands-hackers-secr...

I can see how giving that access that might make sense, but I don't know if that article is true.

Dev-fused devices would also be very useful to Apple adversaries like NSO in developing hacks so I would actually expect Apple to continue to keep tight control over them.
For my work, mostly I spent time on Chrome. For personal it used to be Firefox, now I'm using Chrome too but maybe I'll give Firefox another try soon. My phone is using Brave for privacy and remove tracker.
It's interesting to see analyses of comic strips, because the medium itself is suffering as well. I'm in my twenties; until my teenage years, I never would have had a smartphone or anything with me, so the comics page from the newspaper was my entertainment in the morning before school. But I haven't read a comic strip regularly in years; I might read the occasional webcomic, but even those I don't check out very often.

Many of the strips weren't even ones I liked a ton, but I read them because they were there and there were only a few. Now that we have unlimited latitude to choose what we read, and it's trivial to start a new webcomic (and they're not seen as institutions so much), we're probably looking at the end of the era of the long-running comic strip. Or maybe not — what do I know?

On the other hand, there are definitely still people like my dad who care about comic strips. But the audience is probably getting older and older, which I figure is a departure from a medium once popularly associated with children.
In a way, coding can be thought of as two distinct things.

One: coding is a way to play around with ideas, equivalent to a back of the napkin calculation, a diagram in the sand or a pencil sketch of a part. We use code in this scenario more as a way to write down our thoughts and process. But rather than writing in just pure English and writing an essay or a set of Todos, we write more detailed "specs". "Do this three times or until this value is zero" is also written in code and perfectly understandable in code too.

Two: code is used to run by a computer to produce an outcome. In this case, the back of the napkin sketch IS the part but more thought out.

Society is so used to there being two material objects between the "plan" and the"final product" that we forget that code is different. With code, the plan and the final product are of the same form. Of the same physical space.
Interesting, the patient only has Yes/No control, and that's then used to spell whole words and sentences.

There is a supplementary movie to the study showing this in action [0], it's slow but quite impressive when the patient spells out "Jungs es funktioniert gerade so mühelos"/"Boys right now its working so effortlessly".

That particular session came out at 171 characters in 157 minutes, 1.1 characters/minute.

[0] https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs414...
Retailer gets paid whether it’s you or someone else buying. Why invest in system upgrades?
Clients can only retry idempotent requests safely. Standard POSTs, for example, cannot be safely retried - you can end up with duplicates.
i read it as vocals and said to myself, "poor word choice". vowels are vocalized I guess?
You fail to realize the effects of propaganda and mass formation psychosis throughout history.
Yeah, and Apple sold people on "privacy" and now operate a surveillance network against Chinese citizens. They are the archetypical example of this playing out. Promising decentralization and instead you get metamask overriding the blockchain because some jpegs are illegal.
Does this work? :D

https://t.me/minsaudebr/54?single

In the channel they posted lots of specs and design documents from the iPhone X. So technically it could also have been a vendor in the supply chain (as of now).

They announced a leak at the time, but deleted the torrent files in their posts/comments a couple times and I was too late to verify.

(I'm in European time zone, they are in Brazil).
Because there is, and the person who wrote the original article has no domain experience. Fixing data sucks and it requires judgement. Public health and medical researchers derive an enormous amount of research benefit from anonymized health records. Medicare publishes a large dataset.
It doesn't outright prevent it, but it does make it more complicated, puting it out of the skill range for a decent chunk of the bot operators.
What hints are you looking to disable?
Ask HN: Where Can I Get a Comprehensive Climate Analysis for Real Estate?
Real Estate in USA

I'm hoping to be a first time home buyer in the next two years, and I'm wondering if hot markets now are complete nonsense from a 20-30 year perspective.
Is there any reputable business that will look at a potential purchase and give me figures on what it could like like by the time my mortgage is paid off?
Is it possible for them to estimate what insurance rates will be over that time as well?
Stop using the middleman companies: Uber eats, Doordash, grubhub, etc. just parasite off of restaurants. Often this is while providing a worse service for everyone than if you had just gone to pickup the meal yourself or gotten it through the restaurant's own delivery service.
seems like something that should be folded into powertoys.
This is a false dichotomy.

Most people don't want to run their own mail servers. That isn't the same thing as saying we need a single entity to be in charge of email. There are thousands of independent email providers. Your emails get marked as spam if you have two users, not if you have two thousand. And small providers getting marked as spam isn't because it's necessary to prevent spam, it's because large providers would rather kill them on purpose and force more people to use them. Which we could fix it if we wanted to.

Everything could work this way, and should. You don't run your own social network instance, but you can, and thousands of independent entities do, and you can take your pick of them and move between them.

And we can learn lessons from the past. Major one from email: Addresses should be portable, or at least have zero-cost permanent forwarding built into the protocol.
Right, but verification is the opposite direction of doubt. It's not that verification is a boolean true or false for the evidence, it just helps remove doubt. For example, CCTV footage verified to be pulled from a service station by the police is less easy to doubt CCTV footage provided by a friend of the accused. Adding a verification paper trail to that makes it even harder to doubt. DNA test results provided by the defendant are worth nothing unless they're verified by a paper trail that's trusted.

So back to Reality Defender, why shouldn't we doubt Reality Defenders positive or negative results? There would need to be a period of verification and testing that "proves" within a reasonable margin that it works.
Michael Crichton, (as above quoted) didn't get to feel the pain of having the opportunity to correct the newspaper article, as we "do".

That's the pain I feel when facing this new instance of the affect, in a more palatable form:

I could comment on the internet - but knowing my comments will, despite immense reverence, or correctness, be ignored by the silent masses, turns the effect into an affliction.

The man reading the newspaper can mutter the facts under his breath. Had he yell louder, still, nothing will change - his breakfast partner bemoaned.

The miniscule chance of my comment correcting the record pains me. Had I yell louder, maybe someone will take note. But I can't - because they won't, and the possibility of my pertinent, small chance of making a difference gets irrevocably distant, as an algorithm pushes the topic of collective interest to someone else's disdain.

So I reload the page, and forget what I knew.
Just put an order with a 70 week wait with Newark

They even confirmed manually via email if I really really really wanted to place the backorder