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For me, nothing more clearly signifies "the death of the hacker in the classic sense" than discussions about removing "dangerous" code from Github.

I'm from an older era, and it's continually bizarre to me that, apparently, nearly the entire collective hive mind of "tech" has forgotten that the point of Free and/or Open Source code is that you can spread it around everywhere and get it from different places.
A question - how difficult is to climb Cho Oyu? Climbing one 8,000er is on my bucket list and from the research I did it looks like Cho Oyu might be the most accessible one - how does it compare to other mountains/sports wrt its difficulty?

Also, is it a good idea to get a megadose of vitamin B1 before entering the death zone in order to offset the lack of oxygen? B1 is known to help prevent/treat HAPE and seems to have significant effect in boosting metabolism and preventing pseudohypoxia.
He probably meant the PLO that moved from Jordan to Lebanon after failing to make Jordan the failed state it has made Lebanon
"That is not only slower but it also feels slower to the user"

Not always the case and in many cases, server side rendering is totally fine and has been for decades. We need to stop suggesting that only 1 solution is correct. SPAs have a place but plenty of use cases can do fine with old school server side renders.

I think SPA were cool and with all the frameworks, it became even cooler to just do more client side work BUT don't forget that there are plenty of studies now that have shown that SPAs are not always the correct and magical answer and in many cases they are actually slower.
I'd say that this is about the same as being de-platformed. You could argue that also hurts your reputation, but that's usually hard to do since you don't have a platform to state as much upon.
Just some context: Spotify's official iOS library used to serve streaming [unencrypted, 'raw'] PCM data to the app for playback[1]

"The good old days"

[1] Trace of this, from 2013: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20614360/does-the-libspo...
The OP responds elsewhere that the prototypes are 3d printed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513522
Seems they are called "scrubber knobs" if you google it.
Not necessarily - tic-tock let them double the number of new product releases compared to having new architectures launch simultaneously on new processes. Doubling the number of product releases was valuable competitively, as well as reducing their risk of having dated products if a deadline was missed.

There was work for sure to move to a new process, but that wasn't necessarily duplicated work with the architecture being created on a prior process. My impression was that it was already parallelized, and that not having to develop new architectures on new processes prevented a fair bit of contention.
I use debuggers, but only if "prints" don't help me figure out the issue at hand first. Debugging via "prints" works out of the box.

You put a "print" statement dumping whatever data structure you want, you run the program again, and voila you got something. Now, the "where to put the print" is an art on itself of course. If you don't know where to put it, then either you start writing multiple "print"s here and there (following an approach similar to binary search) or you use a debugger and go step by step until you find right place to inspect.

The problem with debuggers is that they do not work out of the box. If you use the terminal, then you have use an external program and read its manual to understand how to debug, how to put breaks. Depending on the platform you are using, you may require even an executable to run the debugger on. Sometimes you don't have an executable. Sometimes you don't know where the "entry" point of your program is, but you know where the bug relies. Some debuggers require you to point the debugger to the entry point.

If you use an IDE like Jetbrains', then for debugging you need as well to do some (minimal) setup as well (the last week I had to debug a Node.js program: it was simple, but it didn't work out of the box. Also, when I open my IDE on a different Node.js repository, my debugging setup was gone).
I appreciate the general take of:

>It seems clear that mixers are used for money laundering, but many tools, perhaps all, can be used for both good and ill. Typically, however, tools are not prosecuted (or sanctioned), people are.

Just because humans have figured out how to cause harm with something does not mean it should be prohibited. Other examples that come to mind include: Tor, encrypted messengers, knives, guns, automobiles, explosives, cleaning chemicals, recreational drugs, cash, and masks.
Browser Startups Take Aim at Google Chrome, Apple Safari
If you are the best of the best the world has to offer I think some arrogance is allowed. Not to mention he has also really brought to the forefront a lot of other Sherpas who might not otherwise ever get the spotlight they deserve.

They also have rescued countless climbers (even while attempting this insane goal) so I do not think we have much standing to judge this guy at all.
this thing needs a gsm modem
We're inherently very social creatures. I'm sure a lot's been written on this, but I like "The Social Leap"'s telling of it: we basically evolved from our primate ancestors by being pushed out of the rainforest into the Savannah. Our normal primate defense of climbing into trees was unavailable, and the way we found to survive was working together in groups.

Years of evolution have wired into our brains that we're supposed to be interacting and working with others.
So if I go and upload my fork of that code to GitHub it won't be removed?
Yes, you should. Then you wouldn't be propagating such nonsense.

Not only are Muslims officially (by gov stats) in the majority, it is also widely known and commonly accepted that if a modern, true census was to be done today, it would show that the Shia's at least were hugely undercounted.

Because of the schizophrenic nature of Lebanon's power structure, the other factions have refused to allow such a counting to take place.

No-one who has spent more than 5 minutes in Lebanon, and how has some basic affinity for the truth, would deny that.

But you carry on googling stuff and quoting CIA reports.
They do discover it though! Just a relatively small number of people. That's okay with me.
Since EWS (The company that runs zelle) is effectively co-owned by a bunch of the large banks in the US, which has caused many of the small and mid-sized banks don't want to take part. They worry transaction information and the size of their bank (based on traffic) when leak its way to the large banks giving them some kind of advantage.
Mirror: https://archive.ph/4NmQm
What's a fratzon?
The quantum nature of light is extremely difficult to observe. Almost all laboratory experiments can be explained using Maxwell's equations and the quantization of the electric charge (this explains why photodetectors "click"). Photons usually only show up when higher-order correlation functions are analyzed.
Find a politician that would pass said test first.
I'm currently bulding a SPA to replace a 25 year old X Window app. That app still builds on modern Linux systems despite being unmaintained during that time. Seeing that old CVS repo brought back some memories. The customer wants to modernize.

By comparison, the SPA is a nightmare of tooling and dependencies that will be unsupportable in a few years without constant maintenance and updating.
It wasn't an attempted zing, I was curious.
So then, the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas also would rank as "some of the most deadly acts of mass killing in human history."
I had a long-untouched copy laying around and read this chapter on your suggestion. There's definitely some good info in here if you haven't been exposed to these ideas. However, I'd probably review Ch. 1 as a mixed bag overall. A good chunk of it is out of date info-dumps about the state of the industry 30-40 years ago. That said, its central thesis of media we consume being largely propaganda (and necessarily so, given the reasons provided) is certainly still true. I think one could filter and update these points, however, to make them more accurate to the current state of affairs and thus make more compelling of an argument.
The DRM has been broken for years, and is still broken (I personally wrote a Rust client to grab music from Spotify in .ogg format) but their lawyers rabidly take down any reference to decrypting it on Github or anywhere else, because well, the implication.
Is there no way to avoid kernel copying all network data?

I understand the frustration of having the network driver crash but could it not be run in a way that it doesn't bring down the OS?

It seems to me Java would have a no-brainer advantage of a user-space networking option since you're already in a VM!?

When I saturate my HTTP server the kernel takes 30% of the CPU just copying data for no good reason?!
The people I've met who don't use debuggers either write very uninteresting code day to day or just get by enough with their old ways of print statements, enough to not feel compelled to learn to set a debugger up. But I think that's dumb, and it's almost always worth understanding how to set up, especially in a large codebase.
From a business perspective it is part of Google Cloud overall. Seems like leadership doesn't stay long though.
https://9to5google.com/2022/06/29/google-workspace-javier-so...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-tomb?trk=public_post_share-...
>That one item is much crappier than another crappy item is not very helpful information.

How is it not? If my options are crap, crappy, super crap and super-extra-duper crap... It seems helpful to know which one is the least crappy.

As an aside, are you willing to share which news station you don't put in the crap bucket?
Does it though? Practically everyone has a smartphone on them these days that's capable of hotspot mode.
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As someone with the unfortunate privilege of having an early GMail address with ${FIRST_NAME}.${LAST_NAME}@gmail.com, the fact that your description of the first email you would send your ostensible customers does not sound like a straightforward confirmation email is already a red flag.
No union required for dumb decisions. But in this case, it does seem it may contribute
Cool stuff and I may actually attempt some of these myself - that being said 14k feet is a whole different ballgame compared to the 8000m peaks (26,000 ft). Generally 4000m peaks are considered the amateur mountaineering ones, 6000m intermediate and still super respectable, and 8000m the elite.
Imo there's nothing profound about the quote but your writing is very convincing. You could do sales/marketing (if you aren't doing it already).
None of those examples exist primarily to aid criminals though, even if they can be used in that way.
> Also with TDD often it will be centered in quantity of tests and not so much quality.

100%. Metrics of quality are really really hard to define in a way that are both productive and not gamified by engineers.

> What I find is much much better approach is what I call "detached test development" (DTD)

I'm a test engineer and some companies do 'embed' an SDET like the way you mention within a team - it's not quite that clear cut, they can discuss, but it's still one person implementing and another testing.

I'm always happy to see people with thoughts on testing as a core part of good engineering rather than an afterthought/annoyance :)
I mean, that's what Saylor has been spending his time telling everyone for the past few years -- often couched in ridiculous language like "a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom" [1]. It's hardly surprising that he'd hitch his message to any news event that came across his timeline, whether it's relevant or not.

[1]: https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1307029562321231873
direct link:

https://www.youtube.com/c/GoogleResearch
Palestinian Islamism is mostly rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement originating in the 1920's Cairo
On my new ThinkPad and the latest Delphi it compiles/links at 50-60K lines/second that performance has been consistent throughout the 25 years using Delphi. What it means in practice is you change a line of code, press F9 and the program is executing with no discernable delay.
Why Unary Is the Best Number System (2015)
Even if this is true, what reason is there to think this is the cure for mid-life crisis?
Outside of this specific case, private platforms are free to moderate themselves as they wish. There are many other places to host code, including your own server.

Edit: I did a bit of googling and didn't find evidence that the government told GitHub to do this. Please link if you have evidence ty.
Hey, it is easier to say “you are actually fine, here’s your passing score!” to the disproportionately affected, instead of, maybe, solving the actual problem!
No crimes at all. They didn't need to be convicted; they were just sentenced. As cynical as could be.
? it's removed because the US government told Github to do so.

the US government tells lots of people to do lots of things.

it told Phil Zimmerman to stop shipping PGP for a while. Debian and OpenBSD refused to do any crypto work in the US at all for like a decade because of this.

it arrested Dmitry Sklyarov for the crime of angering Adobe.

you're conflating "tech hive mind" with "most big tech companies are based in the US for tax/regulatory/staffing/VC reasons and so the US government will kill things that threaten it's goals".
You wouldn't be, if you were an unwitting recipient, precisely because as a recipient you can't actually control who sends tainted crypto to you. In this hypothetical, just report it to the feds and they'll provide an address for you to send the "gift" to.

You'd only get into trouble if the feds see a large, ultimately untraceable transaction from your crypto accounts prior to the "gift," in which case you'd have to explain to their satisfaction why you had a large untraceable transaction followed shortly by the recipient of tumbled crypto. (It's doable, you just have to be able to explain it.)
Above Board definitely correlates with quality, because it implies truthiness, which is obviously a key consideration.

CNN is a broadcast news channel that covers things as they happen, not a newspaper where they write articles as long as they like.

So you'd compare it to MSNBC and Fox and possibly Network News, not news papers.
I didn't say that it would fix everything... only that it would help.
Totally agreed. I have done both a lot of work with the Borland tools and over the years with various web based libraries and languages, Borland wins hands down, in spite of the underlying horrible mess.
> if I go and upload my fork of that code to GitHub it won't be removed?

Nobody can say what GitHub would do. But they’d unlikely be under legal jeopardy from hosting it. (They may not want to bother with monitoring whether you continue to develop it or not, however.)
Tornado Cash was sanctioned over e.g. Monero, ZCash or Secret Network that fulfill the same shieled transaction purpose but have existed longer. The reason for this was that Tornado Cash attracted North Korean Lazarus group to use it. The reason why Lazarus used it was that it was non-custodial (no risk of criminals stealing other criminals) and ETH had better exit liquidity over XMR and ZCash that are not often listed on the shady exchanges. When national security interest card is played, laws and even the constitution do not seem to weight so much anymore in the US.

If Tornado Cash had been modified in a way that it could not allow easily to deposit and withdraw large amounts by limiting flow/liquidity it would have been less attractive for Lazarus and other hack group purposes. For example, Harmony One hack $100M was pushed through Tornado in one day.

Tornado Cash has a compliance tool that could allow centralised exchanges and fiat off ramps to trace transcations through Tornado. However, in practice some US political allies, like those in Dubai, run shady OTC desks that do not do it, making Tornado very practical tool for hack laundering.

The best outcome for the situation would be

- Tornado Cash code is ”unsanctioned” or deemed free speech

- Someone builds a service for shielded transactions that has features to discourage its use for nation state scale money laundering
I think generally these things might just be called existential crises, and it just so happens that people tend to experience one at around 40.

I've also been having one for the past 3 years (the tail of my 20s), which I've been kinda labeling my "quarter life crisis" (which isn't really mathematically right but seems to align with popular usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis)
For regular/long use the battery drain is a pain though, so yes, there still are reasons to have it built into a laptop/tablet.
> Testable code is best code. Only TDD gets you there.

I smell a circular argument but can’t quite put my finger on it.

> If it doesn’t work for you, you’re doing it wrong

Ah. Start with a nigh unattainable and self-justifying moral standard, sell services to get people there, and treat any deviation as heresy. How convenient. Reminds me of Scrum evangelists. Or a cult.

TDD is a great tool for library-level code and in cases where the details are known upfront and stable.

But I can’t get it to work for exploratory work or anything directly UI related. It traps me in a local optimum and has draws my focus to the wrong places.
One hazard a lot of folks don't think of is their own family (and/or their extended family). All it takes is one family member who disagrees with you, with your ideals, with your identity, and they feel completely justified to doxx you, and feel that you deserve whatever should happen to you as a result of your identity and address being exposed.

And the police? They shrug their shoulders and go "Sorry, there's nothing we can/will do."

I've seen this happen a few times on social media now. It's crazy.
This would seem to be relevant:

"Defining Law Enforcement's Role in Protecting American Agriculture from Agro-Terrorism" by Terry Knowles ISBN 1437929710, 9781437929713

On page 141:

"For example, Chimex brand bologna has been found to foster the CSF (classical swine fever) virus. A high death loss - 60-80% -could occur if the CSF virus entered a healthy swine population."

Losing 4/5ths of your pigs...probably justifies being extra careful about what ppl. are allowed to bring into the country....
You’re confusing partisanship with identity.

I realize it’s seemingly a small difference or amounts to the same thing, but not making the distinction really muddies the conversation.
I'm also wary of messaging about being "better." But if the marketing shows why it's better in concrete and logical ways, that might pique my interest more than without it. I'd still look to outside sources to verify.
I agree with you morally but legally you are completely wrong of course. Anything you originate is owned by you, at least in the United States
Giving away C++ source code is like giving away a novel written in Latin.

The effort required to read it is enough to insure that almost noone does.
Neither do mixers. They're a privacy tool, just like Tor and end-to-end encryption (both of which also do aid criminals; privacy makes law enforcement harder by its very nature).
Afaik, the windows graphics libraries used to do something similar.
Indeed... I'd expect that something like this is the future. Although I definitely wonder if there's a future in creating a case that can just do this with your existing phone
This would have been more interesting if not for the constant mention of Russia/Kremlin/Putin every 30 seconds. Makes it unwatchable for me.
> In the approach. Programs, whether the actual instruction set, the ux, the workspace they implement, what have you, are not essential to programming.

And I ask again, where do I ever make any of these claims? I've asked specifically to tell me exactly what I wrote to which you disagree with and you just reply with a strawman.

Regardless, I hope you have a lovely day and thank you for reading the article!
What’s email provider got to do with a software provider?
I don't have personal experience beyond 6K meter peaks but Cho Oyu seems to be regarded as probably the "starter" 8K meter peak.

That said, any 8K meter peak is still incredibly challenging for most people even on a well-supported climb. Don't believe the sherpas basically carry you up narrative.

Even ~6K meter peaks are pretty challenging. I've been up a few in that general range (Nepal, Ecuador, Russia)--some are more technical than others--but none are exactly straightforward in the grand scheme of things. Something in that range was probably about my limit even when I was younger.

Can't/won't speak to medical advice in general. Some people get altitude sickness at ski areas in the western US.
Not familiar with that one. Based on the name alone I'm not sure I'd be all that interested
Cash has a load of fees of its own though - loss, theft, peoople giving wrong change out, transport costs (and the risk it entails), bank fees to accept etc. I believe the cost of handling cash is estimated at 1-2%. I know my business bank accounts all charge 0.5%-1% to pay cash in.

The only way it makes sense is if you are evading tax, as you'll happily pay 1-2% in cash losses to save 20, 30, 40%+ in taxes.
Good question- Firebase doesn't have an API to only modify changed functions. We've structured our projects such that a changed file basically has a one-to-one correspondence with a changed function, and this you can derive from git-triggered CI/CD, but we've found that selectively launching changed functions is tantamount to stipulating every function from CI code which we've found to be brittle
I'm using ctrl pg up/down to move across tabs in my browser all day long. I can't see myself rotating a knob to do that. It's a very different movement and it's not discrete, too easy to move too far.

I didn't notice all the missing important keys.

~ del pgup pgdown ins home end

And cmd and opt have no place in a Windows or Linux machine. There should be alt and windows/super there. Seeing cmd and opt constantly remembers the owners that they are using a keyboard for Macs. Maybe they'll build one for Windows and Linux if they'll be successful at selling this one.
> The Fentanyl crisis is absolutely a story

It's the same story for the last few years. There is no new information.

> 2.1 million illegal immigrants projected this year (hundreds of thousands already) is a hell of a story

You do realize that's encounters? Meaning enforcement is up. The number of people coming over isn't changing, just how many are getting caught.
And Facebook, for some reason. Which is weird as I've never signed up for any Facebook owned service. Never looked into how they do it, but they keep coming.
>There's one level scarier and that's when neither/none of them cover something.*

Completely agree.

>In particular, the issue of possible lab leak and US institutional involvement in research over in China.

I read the Fauci emails. The person who brought it up made it perfectly clear she thought there was an unnatural segment of DNA in the virus. Yet people were silenced in the beginning for even suggesting the possibility of a lab leak. After receiving and responding to that email he denied the lab leak possibility.

Any sane cynic who's been around long enough will assume that all the major players are working on biological weapons. It's reminiscent of the nuclear arms race with similar implications. But we can't even talk about it? Scary.