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> unreadable online conversations are scary

Why are they scary? Are people's private conversations in their homes scary, too? Are private meetups scary?

I feel like people have by default fallen for the government propaganda and they don't even realize it.

What's next? Putting a chip that can monitor everyone's thoughts in real-time to prevent school shootings? Would the cops even be able to filter through thousands of such thoughts on a daily basis and take action against the most "real" thought? Or would they be flooded by data and not know what to do with it and how to act, and only act after the fact anyway?

Remember for virtually all of the terrorist attacks in the past 15 years, the authorities were already well aware of the attackers' history. Some had even been arrested before and released.

None of these surveillance laws is the right solution to those types of problems. Those problems have other fundamental causes that create them (economic policy, education policy, healthcare policy, etc).

And the governments know that, too. But such laws have other much bigger benefits for them, such as the ability to spy on any single person that they feel has slighted them in some way at will, so they can destroy that person's life. They care about passing surveillance laws for this reason way more than what they say the reason is in public. Another benefit is spying on individuals for economic benefits, too, such as stealing other countries' or foreign company's trade secrets, etc. But of course you're never going to hear them preach new surveillance laws for those reasons.
Gut feelings- the connection between psychedelics and the microbiome
My understanding is that conservative do not believe the constitution worked; they believe that the original intent is no longer honored and they have set about a legal project to correct that wrong which is now well in control of the court system and get back to the original intent of the constitution (the original intent being what they derive it to be from their readings of history and the text itself).

That those people who are dissatisfied with that track record are now in control of the judicial branch of the US government doesn't refute that track record, I agree, but it does suggest that we are probably on a different track now, no?
They both are really. Have both, use both.

The difference between the two is that they both have the same foundation (original mpc-hc) which means they both have similar interface navigation and have the same dependencies on directshow, etc.

The mpc-be team wrote their own audio & video renderer and they also wrote their own decoder. The great thing about the open nature of the original foundation is that even with BE you can continue using other video renderers, decoders, etc. if you want to. This matters because renderers like madvr, etc. are no longer actively developed so diversity of choice is important. Not every renderer does everything the same way or as well, so there are edge cases where one will work better than another at a specific task. They cross-pollinate each other too, mpc-hc bundled in the mpc audio renderer from be which gave people more choice out of the box.

mpc-hc is an odd one. It is maintained, mostly bug fixes. Once in a long while something will creep in. clsid is not receptive to suggestions or requests that are not bug fixes. In practice, this isn't really an issue since the program is already mature.
Yeah, memory stick or usb stick.

And likewise, in Norwegian I mainly call it minnepinne just like I mainly call it memory stick in English. Although, in Norwegian I might also say usbnøkkel even though I wouldn’t say USB key in English.
Elon Musk says remote workers are pretending to work. He’s (sort of) right
This is how temporary accommodation should work: multi-family houses where extra room or extra unit is rented out. This requires the owner to be onsite and suffer the consequences of bad actors.

That’s it.

Of course in the US this is impossible because in most places building anything other than single family houses is illegal.

Many years ago people would have boarders. London, for example, would have people who stayed during the week.

What AirBnB tried to do was create a system to allow Oriole to set up illegal hotels. That’s it. I never saw the attraction in that personally.

The negative externalities of AirBnB are massive: safety concerns for residents, disruption for residents, reduction in rental housing supply and reduction in the supply of houses for owner-occupiers.

The sooner it dies the better.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime.

This shit is old, if you've got a problem with it you can agitate the situation and most likely lose the gig. Or find other socialists to complain to, they will understand.
i knew you had good taste :)

i love Small Gods as a starter novel because it is pretty self contained.
Students praise new ‘forbidden courses’ university program
We sort of do, but nuclear is enormously expensive already, so only using it half the time just makes it all worse...
The Long Earth series is fantastic. I'm not a huge fan of Baxter's work but these books are among my fave scifi reads.
> What is old is new again.

Truth!
Judy arrays are (under the covers) a kind of radix tree, so they are comparable to things like ART (adaptive radix tree), HAMT (hashed array-mapped trie), or my qp-trie. Judy arrays had some weird issues with patents and lack of source availability in the early days. I think they are somewhat overcomplicated for what they do.

Regarding cache-friendiness, a neat thing I discovered when implementing my qp-trie is that it worked amazingly well with explicit prefetching. The received wisdom is that prefetching is worthless in linked data structures, but the structure of a qp-trie makes it possible to overlap a memory fetch and calculating the next child, with great speed benefits. Newer CPUs are clever enough to work this out for themselves so the explicit prefetch is less necessary than it was. https://dotat.at/prog/qp/blog-2015-10-11.html

I guess I partly got the idea for prefetching from some of the claims about how Judy arrays work, but I read about them way back in the 1990s at least 15 years before I came up with my qp-trie, and I don't know if Judy arrays actually use or benefit from prefetch.
> you're not supposed to plant milkweed close to the established breeding habitats

Overwintering sites, not breeding sites. Monarchs migrating south & at the winter roosting sites don't need milkweed since they're not breeding or laying eggs. While the overwintering sites are in Central Mexico, the breeding sites for the northern migrants is in the Southwestern US - where they do need milkweed. Exposure to milkweed while overwintering triggers breeding and laying eggs, which is disruptive to the migration pattern. Native Milkweed elsewhere along the northern migration path is beneficial, just not where they're wintering.
periscopes ...
Yeah, I quickly figured it out too, as the demographic of scam profiles doesn't match the demo I would expect to be purchasing the items I'm listing.

That being said, I don't like the idea of making posts in a place that I know paint me as a target for scammers.
There's always the possibility of them using a unpatched exploit against me.
Yea exactly. I was about to buy a new Pro Trek but given that I like negative displays I was considering waiting in case they switch to MIP.....although I was looking at the mainly analog models where the little screen matters less.
> the small USB device that you plug in to transfer files

I'm gonna go with USB Ethernet Dongle
I lived out of Airbnb's for years as a "nomad" and I'm also in the never again camp. I literally developed an anxiety order that I'm in treatment for from from all the times I ended up "homeless" temporarily because some host screwed me over in some way or another and I needed to scramble to find housing in a foreign country.

Airbnb is simply extremely ok with leaving you stranded, alone, and homeless regardless of where you are in the world or what your other options are.
If we ever legalized it it would probably replace or augment caffeine in just about everything overnight.
Nice try, but I'm going to out-hairsplit you. "USB mass storage device" is the generic name for a larger class of storage devices, which include 2.5/3.5 inch SATA adapters and can even be implemented by a raspberry pi to do cool dynamic stuff [1]. The OP asked for a subset of USB MSDs that is a "small USB device you plug in."

[1] https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/pi-zero-w-smart-usb-f...
Wow, what a nightmare.

Airbnb feels like WeWork – they both desperately want to be "tech companies" but at the end of the day neither one of them really is. They should have more important things to focus on before tech. Instead of making sure their app has the nicest UI, they should first make sure all of their rentals have proper fire exits.
I honestly wish I gave a shit about sports, because I feel like it's possibly one of the most unifying things amongst males imo. Growing up I always felt like I was playing on a slightly harder difficulty when it came to making friends because it seemed like everyone enjoyed sports but me so I had to make those early connections in other ways.
Only very few companies can build a working business model without a good product.
With the battery life being one of the primary complaints people have, and with the modularity being one of the main selling points of the Framework, I'm surprised they don't have different battery options.

There used to be (maybe still are) laptops aimed at business travelers with an option for swappable batteries or larger batteries that stuck out that back. It seems like a thicker case that would fit a larger battery would be an easy way to address a prominent weakness.
Thingimajig
I wonder what percentage of Wordle users ever share a game? My bet would be that it’s pretty low but Wordle did have a few very high-value shares on the radio and by journalist.

I know I’ve never shared a game online or off unless somebody asks me what I’m playing.
Not in the United States. I run a web site that publishes information about the making of explosives, chemical weapons, and even restricted nuclear materials. It's all perfectly legal. Most of the information comes from government publications, patents, scientific journals, and books that you'd find in any well stocked university library. Even far less scholarly (and far less accurate) books like the Anarchist Cookbook or Poor Man's James Bond are legal in the US, despite the fact that both books contain instructions for activities that would be federal crimes if successfully carried out.
I have no love for Facebook but this is article is such poor and yellow journalism.

>"Aaron is CIA. Or at least he was until July 2019."

The first sentence is false. The second sentence contradicts and corrects the inaccuracy of the first but the order of operation is by design. The first sentence is designed to appeal the gut and produce a visceral response. The second sentence is of course the more important but cerebral thinking it at that point still dominated by the "gut" at the point.

The article then states:

>"These hires are primarily in highly politically sensitive sectors such as trust, security and content moderation, to the point where some might feel it becomes difficult to see where the U.S. national security state ends and Facebook begins."

These folks left public sector. They left their public sector jobs to join the private sector. The line literally ends and begins on their Linkedin profiles which appears to be the biggest source of research for this article.

Then we have this gem:

>"But the sheer scale of infiltration of Facebook blows these away. Facebook, in short, is utterly swarming with spooks."

CIA Analysts are not spooks. Despite the portrayal in TV dramas, CIA analysts spend their time at desks reading and writing reports. They are highly specialized subject matter experts, they don't make policy. They hand data to other people who make policy. A "spook" is an operative, a clandestine role for someone who would most certainly not have a LinkedIn profile.

The article seems to ignore the more obvious in favor of conspiracy, which is that Washington, D.C. is a small town famous for networking. People always use their networks for new and better employment opportunities. It's not hard to imagine that when the first person who arrived at Facebook from DC informed their former colleagues how great the pay and the perks at Facebook were and of course the floodgates opened. Think of how many Beltway Facebook groups there must be. This same scenario plays out at tech companies as well but nobody states "the company is being "infiltrated" by ex-Googlers or ex-Redhat, it's hard to tell where Google ends and company X begins" as that would be seen as absurd.

Lastly, nowhere are any numbers meaningfully qualified. The article intones about the "sheer scale of infiltration" but fails to mention that Facebook is a company of 44K employees or that the CIA employees 22K people. Now consider the total number of people the article identifies as ex-Government which is 37 people total, one of which is no longer there. I would imagine you could go to any large corporation on the scale of Facebook and find an equal number of people that used to work a federal agency. In fact I'm positive you could that using Linkedin as your source as well. I'm guessing that including the results of this kind of comparative analysis would have been detrimental to the thrust of this piece however.
Some of these are very popular regionally. For example "Pen Drive" is almost universal in some parts of India, to the point that I've heard people say "PD"
> The Pico and Pico W are strange

The pico competes exactly in the same world where Arduino does. The Arduino Uno still sells for 30$ despite a very old and limited AVR chip. Pico is a great deal compared to that, at 5$ for a double core ARM cortex M0 (and more flash, ram, real DAC, etc).

Yes, the ESP32 might also be a good deal in that space. ESP used to have their own weird architecture though? I think newer ones are RISC-V? Some people might prefer a somewhat more standard cortex-M.
No, because ...
- Not all bosses are programmers.
- No everyone knows about Git or how to use it.
- Who regularly Git Blames lines of code to see who the author was?
- Who would rather see the author name stand out in first line of code file versus doing Git Blame?
- You can easily move the codebase without the Git history to another location (easy to delete the .git subdirectory).

So it's best to add the author name as many places as possible and distribute it.
USB Key
great to see civilian-military fusion of this type in the US
It's a very unfriendly game which really teaches you to be the type of cut-throat that doesn't set you up well for real life.

I wish I realised that earlier to be honest
lol there’s no departure checks at the border, you can just drive across.
I get the rationale, but it's disproportionately easy to oversell a product than live up to sales hype. I'm assuming a scenario where sales hype is on the verge of being detached from reality. It's an abuse of both customer trust and developer trust.

There's probably some flip side of the coin where sales is being honest about what they were _told_ was delivered, but the product doesn't in actuality live up to what was committed to. In which case the development team should either up their QA standard or adjust what they've committed to developing.

I'm sure there's some possible healthy relationship where there's some sales hype that's used to motivate product improvement, but I haven't personally experienced it.
The two are related because erf(x) is the integral of exp(-t^2) from 0 to x. So this is correct if you interpret coefficients in the basis {x^n/n!} and drop the scaling factor of 2/sqrt(pi).

The Taylor series of exp has a 1 in the zeroth coefficient, so integrating from 0 to x we get a 1 in the 1st coefficient of erf.

exp(-x^2) = 1 - x^2 + x^4/2 - x^6/6 + ...

= 1/0! - 2x^2/2! + 12x^4/4! - 120x^6/6! + ...

erf(x) = x/1! - 2x^3/3! + 12x^5/5! - 120x^7/7! + ...
All I’m suggesting is self hosted Wordpress that you control. You can even backup Wordpress so if the hosting provider shuts down you just use another provider and migrate over. Something you can’t do with Tumblr. And you’re at the whim of Tumblr who can ban you for having something even remotely controversial.
"usb key"
More than half the world lives in urban areas.l, which is an increase

https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization

“More than half of the world’s population now live in urban areas — increasingly in highly-dense cities. However, urban settings are a relatively new phenomenon in human history. This transition has transformed the way we live, work, travel and build networks.”
I’ve found it pretty effective. Usually I’ll wake up with a headache and pop 400mg advil with a lot of water and that’s good enough.

Other times when the headache starts in the gap between drinking and sleeping I find that the same dosage works there too.

I’m only talking 2-3 drinks here. I don’t drink often and am a lightweight:)
At least they did more than order others to complete them.
In Brazil it's mostly Pen Drive.
I seriously have to reset passwords every 2-3 days for different websites AND I use a password manager. It's maddening and embarrassing and sometimes it feels like someone is playing a mean joke on me
I absolutely loved Terry Pratchett Discworld, make me laugh at some real bad times in my life.

I'm currently listening to thief of time which is weirdly good, didn't like it at first but it really is good. That and the last continent.

Obviously this is all secondary to the Night Watch, Sam Vimes is definitely on Hacker News somewhere, right? :-)
I've been managing to sustain climbing for over 20 years, i can fit a couple hours in at an indoor climbing wall in the winter, or go to various locations outdoors, local and far, depending on available time... yes sometimes I do weekend trips, sometimes week trips, but when you love it, you are happy to spend more time doing it because it's fun, you don't consider it time lost, you consider it time well spent and return home refreshed, satisfied, not merely "exercised".

It's true not each possible activity is going to be convenient or practical to everyone, but there will be enough that intersect your life circumstances that you can find something... but I feel on average, most people here are going to benefit from trying something a bit more adventurous and getting out into nature, if only for the life experience. Weights is very convenient but doesn't give you any of that.

> There's also long term wear and tear. I've been a very historically active person and did a lot of these things. Outdoor rock climbing, open water swimming, bicycling, thru hiking, summitting <18,000 ft mountains in one day. But I'm really not sure which of those things I can still do.

This is a real concern, once you become passionate about such a sport it's quite easy to over do it (and I have), but I'd argue climbing is one of many viable long term sports provided you take care of yourself. There are lots of "silver crimpers" in the climbing world which shows it can be done. Injury prevention in these more niche activities is also an emerging area, for climbing specifically i'd check out Dave McLeod excellent books... but this is only relevant when you are really pushing the activity, a lot of fun and good exercise can be had without risking injury from just rambling up some easy routes... That's what I aspire to in old age, to continue moving and having fun in new places. I think this probably transfers to most other actives too, so long as you find them intrinsically fun, you should be able to continue to do them without pushing yourself to the limit 100% of the time.
> When I left a review detailing my experience Airbnb took down my review.

Same thing happened to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32194057

Before then I didn't know AirBnb was moderating bad reviews in such an aggressive way. Good reviews mean nothing if all the bad ones are automatically taken down. It's ridiculous, and made me very wary of ever booking again with them.

(There's an interview of Bezos somewhere where he explains that when starting Amazon, publishing houses were complaining to him about the bad book reviews, and he told them something to the effect of: it's because we let bad reviews up that people trust us. Obviously things have changed and Amazon reviews aren't what they used to be, but still. Bezos in 1997 understood something that AirBnb fails to grasp.)
> The fact that a personal license can be used at work also helped my adoption of the tools.

Same here, and because of that I sub to the All Products bundle, while if I had to convince my employer it would be for PyCharm only. The Personal All Products license is $50 more per year than a Corporate Single Language license.

Gaining a perpetual license after 1 year of subscription also makes the subscription an easier pill for me to swallow.
in the Atlantic? likely it was blown off course, they're obviously very light and winds play a large factor in their migration

it's not unusual to spot a monarch somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, like an oil rig, but it's not entirely clear how many try to take that 900 mile flight... it's more likely they're blown off course and won't make it to shore unless wind conditions are just right enough to carry them
>When you talk about spying on people to know everything about them in order to learn how to manipulate them, you're talking about brainwashing.

That's a semantic debate that's neither here nor there. If that's what you consider brainwashing, fine, but that's here today and it's happening every day. Do you have any idea what credit reporting agencies know about you, your purchasing habits, your media consumption preferences, your politics, your medical history, your sex life?

>I don't see any evidence that spying on people is a battlefield advantage.

You don't? Well let me give you an example. Let's say there is a movement of individuals within a nation who are discontent about some specific policy or behavior of their government. First, intelligence would allow you to discover this fact. Then it would allow you to research and profile the individuals who you've identified in this group, and refine your search parameters to identify likely candidates to recruit. It would also help you to refine messaging, giving you instant feedback about the virality of trial balloons you floated.

Using these tools, you don't see how domestic unrest could be created?
Denmark has no minimum wage. Just stop importing cheap labour and let markets work, that is how we do it.
Many people who commit crimes don't get caught, but you could, with work, catch many people who were using encryption.

Look at tor and people running illegal companies through our, some get away with it, but a bunch did get caught eventually.