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The end of the social networking era as we know it.

Many of the big giants from the 2000s - 2010s have pretty much peaked by now. TikTok is the thing everyone wants to be, but arguably its not a social networking app so much as a social entertainment app. You don't really connect with friends on it so much as with strangers. An endless stream of entertaining strangers. It's a lot more akin to YouTube than Instagram when you think about it.

That being said, I don't think the social networking era is completely over, its just that the focus is going to shift. After big social networking platforms come smaller communities that are probably isolated from the platform on Discord or some forum somewhere, or perhaps something new in the future. The platforms themselves won't go away, but more-and-more the dialogue will shift towards niche interests and community discovery.

Problem with these communities is that there's a very real risk that they could be "unmoored" from reality, especially if the user demographic leans towards loners. Prime example is 4chan. A lesser example would be someone on Twitter who exclusively uses it politically. I think this will only get worse over time, and possibly accelerate once AI gets involved. Using, I don't know, GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, you can create a seemingly thriving "community" filled with "people" who make hilarious memes and generate thought-provoking content, culminating in whatever world you want to live in. Possibly a very hateful one.

On a positive note, I think that the internet will become a somewhat more decentralized place again. I think that with the end of the social networking era we'll also see the end of the so called "walled garden" era of the internet. Making weird websites might just become cool again. VC money will still flow into "tech", but it'll mostly be towards AI or things that are more physical such as energy, climate, biotech, space, or maybe just physical consumer goods. The race to dominate the attention of the internet will be over.

Finally, there's "the metaverse". I think a lot of companies are going to try, and fail, to build VR Disneyland when what people really want to experience is a virtual city far larger than any real world city, with public squares to meet new people at and private, intimate worlds to share with your friends. Just seems far more likely that we'll instead wind up the internet all over again, only, you know, in VR, so just the internet really. If anything, I think a company might stake its claim in this future not by trying to build a platform, but by building tools.

Mind you, this is all still a long ways off I think, but in the present there are a lot of companies building 2D metaverses, which are basically community spaces.

https://sprout.place/
https://www.gather.town/
You're being needlessly pedantic here. They implied US law because the article is by the U.S. Treasury.
If you google there are a ton of studies showing that over the lifetime of a car from the time of manufacturing, emissions from an EV is still about 1/3 or ICE.
Yes, but because so many others don't do their homework, you have to take it upon yourself to protect yourself. $8/month does seem like a stupid fee to pay, but for those willing to do it, it isn't that much. Those kinds of companies may even have a pay for 12 months in advance and it get a lower rate.
I looked around for work in Rust inside Google a year or so before I left and it was only some small parts of Fuchsia and not anything hiring at my site.

But I'm sure it's growing. But it won't be in the core Google3-on-Borg parts of Google, which are on the whole in either C++ or (increasingly) Go. Switching to a standardized garbage collected Google supported language makes sense in that domain. The "Carbon" stuff recently announced sounds interesting as well.

The long term looks good for Rust. But actual production code is still thin on the ground still everywhere.
Look around and see where paying for your culture gets you.

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Crashed my MBP after a few seconds O_o
Anticipating a withering response to this from Ed Zitron. Gladwell will apparently write anything to help his corporate speech and TV show schedule full.
> VB does sound "worse" than Visual C++ for such a job

Huh? No no, on the contrary: Straightforward CRUD apps, that's exactly what VB was built for and excels at. Only Delphi is better.

The thing about "Visual" C++ is that it isn't (or at least wasn't, last I looked) really very visual at all. And that sucks for building simple in-house CRUD apps, where the VB / Delphi drag-and-drop UI builder paradigm is a huge productivity multiplier.
in US of A your cash is criminal police will take it and then you have to go to court and prove that it not criminal.
So then what stops a down grade attack? The attack would no longer leak encrypted data sure but now it acts as a dos attack. In reality the user would use another method one that is probably easier to break than the latest best crypto.

Without secure crypto we can't securely establish which primitives to use.
Farmers are embracing solar power to beat soaring energy bills
https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1556661834287140868

We will continue to aggressively pursue actions against currency mixers laundering virtual currency for criminals. Today, @USTreasury sanctioned virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, which is a U.S.-sanctioned, DPRK state-sponsored hacking group, used by the DPRK to launder money.

Except it is a Russian guy.

https://twitter.com/semenov_roman_
That is quite a conclusion to jump to, rather than simply interpreting the word "the" as an article referring to the sanctions listed in this post.
Exactly, that's what I'm saying, the cost should be exactly equal to what it costs to fix it. The most efficient way to do that is allow anybody to get certified to fix that externality and require proof that the person who caused it also paid to get it fixed. This makes it easier than trying to determine what the current price of remediating is. Markets work really well at some things and this is one.
The thing is that VPNs are usually deployed in the way i described. No ACLs, everyone on the VPN is "trusted" regardless of position and role, with services behind often relying on the fact that the VPN is securing them.
Cost of living: People turning back to cash as prices rise
I’ve absolutely loved working with ARPA-E in my job and I cannot imagine why we would create ARPA-C. Anyone in ARPA-E will tell you they are fundamentally working on climate. They also do some energy security stuff but I they would all be very dissatisfied if it got paired down to that.

ARPA-H sounds like a great idea, I hope it’s well executed!
“There will either be Russian land, or a scorched desert,” Major General Valery Vasiliev is reported to have told his troops.

Energoatom claims that Ukrainian intelligence services are aware of the fact that Russian forces had rigged the site of the nuclear power plant with explosives.

It sounds terrible....but it's all second hand sources, specifically the Ukrainian Intelligence. The whole story of the nuclear power plant doesn't pass the sniff test and the Guardian article is a bit more critical of it. Why would Russia bomb their own forces that they hold? Why would Russia blow up a nuclear plant in territory it wants to own, next to the Southern heartland of their country.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/08/how-dangerous-...
#2: I believe they encrypt the backed-up tokens locally with a user-provided password [1]. The same password must be used to restore the backup. A malicious agent that "clones" your simcard will be able to obtain only an encrypted copy of your token data. This seems secure enough for me, but maybe I'm missing something.

[1] https://authy.com/blog/how-the-authy-two-factor-backups-work...
This made me happy since there were no deaths.
Psychedelics for mental health:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/health/psychedelics-mdma-...
The current world of electric cars is sort of like every smart phone before the iPhone came out. Then iPhone/Android hit, and the world was off to the races.

What is the "electric" car iPhone moment?
Ask HN: Why so many projects set their GitHub links to /stargazers?
I really don't understand the point of showing who have starred the project. When I open a link that ends with /stargazers, I immediately click the project name to navigate to the home page. But since I have seen too many of these, I want to ask why, maybe there are some considerations I don't know.

(Just met two "stargazer" links in the past 30 minutes: https://github.com/formkit/auto-animate/stargazers , https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/stargazers)
In NYC there is a phrase "Bridge and Tunnel crowd":

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bridge%20and...

Which I suspect this is a riff on.
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Thanks for the shoutout! KB Clip Founder here.

I'm happy to answer any questions people have. Initial feedback has been pretty positive so far.

Valid point about how KB Clip is "opt-in". that's intentional as many channels can be like a firehose. The core tenet of KB Clip design is that the most important info should be clipped and it should only take seconds to do so. I love a good pun or gif war and anyone, but not in my wiki or KB.

That being said, I've also got some roadmap features that help surface conversations that heuristically might be important to save as well.
Entire core library you mean? std is normally not supported on embedded targets AFAIK.
I don't have the diffs in front of me, but I'm fairly sure this predates the MS acquisition by quite a while.
>Those producing externalities should pay for them, and taxation is a basic way for that.

very are rarely those proposing taxing externalities doing so to cover the costs of mitigating those externalities, instead the money goes in to the government's general fund, or some other unrelated pet project. Also rarely the tax enough to the level that it would actually curb the desired behavior enough to effect the harm caused by the externality

So all you end up doing is making is harder for poor people to put food on the table while doing nothing to curb the externality
Someone else in another thread on here recommended the book “Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell” by Dennis Bray and I really enjoyed it. The idea of looking at complex protein interactions as logical circuits kind of makes sense as we try to map out the complexities of Biochemistry. For anyone looking for an easier introduction to the concept I can recommend the book.
> show me someone who can take a genome and predict adult height within a centimeter, then I’ll believe they have a snowball’s chance of predicting something as nuanced and varied as “attractiveness” or “intelligence”.

This has been done. Not to 1cm but ~3cm, and it has been reproduced by many labs all over the world

That said, most genetic prediction aren't targeting exact vales, but avoiding the worst outcomes, which is a lot easier.

Instead of saying this embryo will go grow to X cm, the claim is this embryo is 90% likely to grow to be taller than average.

Same for IQ. They don't predict the IQ, but decrease poor outcomes and increase high ones. Hell, we have had rough monogenic screening for IQ since the 1960s

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.05870.pdf
How many of these were targeted by Pegasus?
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I think so, yep. (Although I would say that it explains our subjective experience of mind, "what it's like to be a human", rather than the existence and nature of subjective experience itself, but that's getting into metaphysics.)

It seems to me that there's no good reason not to reuse the term "ego" for the cybernetic self-models in human minds.

This idea also has interesting ramifications when you think about the boundaries of "self" and "other". The self-model system is not just the human being: it includes all the aspects and entities around the human too. And in humans we have models of other people and their self-models, and they have models of us and our self-models, and in turn we have models of their models of our models, etc.
Shrinking the library won't make the repo any smaller. You have to erase history to do that.
Tornado Cash uses zero knowledge proofs. No one, not even the creators of the smart contract, can break the privacy of the protocol.
I’m sorry to hear that, and I’m agree it isn’t your fault or the result of some personal flaw on your part that you’re not personally rich. What I’m saying is that on a larger statistical level, when we are talking about entire populations, those random factors still exist but nonrandom factors also exist, and the nonrandom ones are the ones that show up in aggregate once you have enough of a sample size.
This is my concern also.
GitLab team member here. The impacted users are notified via email and in-app notifications will begin 2022-08-22, so far we've contacted 30,000 users. Only GitLab SaaS users are impacted - the limits are not applicable to self-managed users.
I agree, but the fundamental problem is how most western math education is structured top-down to be a goals-driven curriculum. In other words, teaching to the test.

In the US, it’s a sprint towards meeting goals tied to government funding (“core curriculum “, etc.) And so many get left behind in that sprint, often feeling they’re ‘not smart enough’ or ‘not a math person’.
Pretty dumb but not surprising. Private transactions should not be something that is criminalized, but it is taking a trajectory like reefer madness and the drug war. User seeking financial privacy is now put in the same group as terrorists. Reminds me of arguments being made by governments around tightening the use of end-to-end encrypted chat apps.

Since this is a decentralized application running as an Ethereum smart contract with IPFS[1] interface, the move will not actually deter any state actors from using this, but will criminalize and stigmatize regular users who want to anonymize their Ethereum transactions.

The end result may be as the government wants: force users back to fiat so they can maintain maximum control of funds, and anyone left in the mixer is default a criminal.

[1] ipfs://QmU3j1B1UagFbfqgwWBu3yk1La657y8hoGoA24fG3QpPjf
I totally agree with de-emphasizing the old "recoverable" vs. "unrecoverable" dichotomy (https://blog.burntsushi.net/unwrap/#what-about-recoverable-v...). Every time I've heard programmers (especially in the context of exceptions) try to define it, I've found it imprecise and open to debate.

When invariant violations or mistakes by programmers (aka bugs) are detected, the program should halt as it is in an inconsistent state and continuing could be very dangerous (think privacy/security/data corruption). Otherwise, don't halt (handle it or have the caller handle it).
Also civil liability, which is much easier for the government to pursue you with.
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CBP has an alert on my passport and I'm flagged as being a bad-boy with insane amount of grilling (and illegal jailing, strip-search, ~16 hour detainment, the works) every time I enter the country. Even I have never been searched leaving the country. I'm sure it happens but I think it is quite rare. I repeat myself, there is effectively no customs leaving the country even if you are flagged as most-high-risk as I am.

>CBP regularly uses cash sniffing dogs for this purpose.

The dogs are just probable cause generating machines. Had one of these dogs "sniff my asshole" and the agents got a warrant for me to forcibly be taken to the hospital to be "internally examined." (and I was sent the bill by the hospital, both ERs they took me to ~60 miles apart even though I never consented to any of it) The dog never alerted. It's just cover so they can get a warrant whenever they want.

Yeah I'm aware it's illegal to not report on the way out, I'm only saying it seems unlikely criminals doing that are going to get caught.
https://upload.vaa.red/Ct8Ui#48b916 https://upload.vaa.red/bVBvk#c275ba

The originals look like malformed mutants at 256x256 with nonsensical key bits and strange twisted handles.

Note that this does not replace a good pixel art artist either - for things like walls, anything that needs to connect together or tile like a dungeon wall or castle, or a cohesive art style, this will not do. But for rapidly identifiable different quest item drops it's not terrible.
I think there's room to be a lot smarter here. For example, is the thing you're trying to do a single time task or a habitual task?

If it's a habitual task, e.g. practice guitar or write my novel or get 1 hr of code review done, then the best thing to do in my experience is to associate the habit in your brain with a dopamine hit. For example, as you sit down to do code review, have a cup of coffee or maybe a sugary drink. Or as you sit down to practice guitar, have a twitch stream on. After 5 or 10 minutes, let your focus switch move over to the activity and turn off the video and continue the task.

But the point is, after weeks of this, the beginning of that activity will be tied to a dopamine hit for you. And then you won't dread the activity (but actually look forward to it!)
You'll note that, in the first paragraph of the US Treasury announcement that this thread is about, it says:

>This includes over $455 million stolen by the Lazarus Group, a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) state-sponsored hacking group that was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2019, in the largest known virtual currency heist to date.

There's nothing preventing one country from supporting or using a hacker group in another country.
My Qt/C++ cross-platform FOSS Wallpaper Engine project[1] currently uses 47gb of storage. This is because I compile for every platform and store the artifacts for 4 weeks. Not sure what I will do in the future, because having older builds around to try out without recompiling is always nice.

[1] https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlay
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My right to privacy ends when i start engaging in money laundering or fraud not when somebody else does. Otherwise this is a stupid argument because there will always be somebody engaging in money laundering or fraud so there will never be privacy. There's no justification to say "oh well it's possible you're engaging in one of those so we have to remove your privacy so we know. But it's to keep everybody safe/for the children/insert bullshit excuse here so what do you have to hide!"

And bills probably shouldn't be serialized for that exact reason. My right to privacy is more important than anybody's right to feel "safe" from the evil bad guys. The correct answer to stopping crime is to stop crime, not to weaponize our financial system and remove civil liberties.
Being able to solve the same problem in multiple languages is very cool
Doesn't anyone find property seizures without due process a bit concerning?

I am sure there were a few mistakes made across those 16 years and 2 billion dollars.

Civil asset forfeiture needs some reform. Even if you go to court you need to prove your innocence - a much higher bar then traditional court cases.
I did apply to Google before and didn't get an offer so yes I guess that is literally true.
I could only find "Bed, Bath & Beyond" as a search result for that. Could you maybe say what that acronym means, and elaborate?
Too little, too late: Intel's legacy is eroding
Start thinking about what you will rename to when Slack send you a C & D for using their name in yours.
interesting History of Science moment of course, and let me add another angle to that..

* many computer circuits and components were invented in Silicon Valley over several decades after WW II

* LSD was manufactured and distributed widely in California and around the world in several decades after WW II

* jumping out of an airplane was known to adventure seekers, available, and was associated with the extreme change in reality perception.. LSD was known to adventure seekers, available and associated with extreme change in reality perception

Augmented Reality using digital electronics was always a target of interest to researchers, artists, adventure seekers, musicians and others engaging extreme change in reality perception. Many of those people made incremental progress in hundreds of ways, to discover, manufacture and distribute parts of technology chains that we know commonly today. There are fewer "this is how it happened" moments but overall, much larger impacts to tech innovation IMHO. Perennial odd-man-out Jaron Lanier is a central individual to some of this. See every issue of Mondo 2000 or other niche 'zines of the past century. Strange bedfellows of military and civilians since electronics advances are commercialized and manufactured closely related to military-industrial complex.
> the long term consequences of this exact technology for society

> They don't get any say in the decision, but end up heavily penalized, barred from certain jobs for "safety" reasons, aren't desirable partners...

you realize gattaca was fiction, right? and also

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/policy-issues/Genetic-...
To be fair, it seems all petrol car models from that era onwards are robust and reliable too!

My previous car was a 1982 Renault 14, handed over to me by my father. By 1996, with 120000 km that car had carburator and distributor issues that left me stranded on the roadside quite a few times. The Focus has had zero mechanical problems in 18 years doubling the distance. I believe gasoline engine technology did a quantum leap in the 90s decade.
Ah I'm sure, but their incident report mentions that an attacker has a list of employee names & numbers like that's top secret, but the question of how an attacker could then test stolen credentials seems far more interesting.
The implication being that America can't sanction a Russian dude, and North Korea can't sponsor him, or use a service he provides?
I've been in this situation many times. Managers have different reasons and excuses why a certain promotion is not possible. It can be a budget issue, you don't fit the expected Lead profile, and your hard work and proactive behavior are not visible enough.