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If you want to kill yourself with drugs then have at it. I’m 100% for the legalization. However, I don’t want to pay for your rehab nor your medical bills associated with your drug use. So no emergency services for overdose, your choice your consequences. Further, you can’t expect a sympathetic disposition when it comes to prosecuting people who commit crimes to further their drug use either.
Hi wcarss, thanks a lot for your great comment and input!
We are already working on alternative decisions, but we need to do lots of improvements to keep it easy. Your willingness to pay sounds reasonable for your use case, we haven't decided on a business model yet. Best wishes
The more likely direction is in the future AR/VR will be good enough no one will need physical screens.
FWIW, Redux and Context are different tools that solve different problems, with some overlap.

Context is a Dependency Injection tool for a single value, used to avoid prop drilling.

Redux is a tool for predictable global state management, with the state stored outside React.

Note that Context itself isn't the "store", or "managing" anything - it's just a conduit for whatever state _you_ are managing, or whatever other value you're passing through it (event emitter, etc).

I wrote an extensive article specifically to answer this frequently asked question, including details about what the differences are between Context and Redux, and when to consider using either of them - I'd recommend reading through this:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...
The reserve ratio is one limiting factor among several that affect to what extent commercial banks can expand the money supply. For many decades leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, banks (in the US at least) extended loans up to this limit basically at all times, holding almost no excess reserves. Since then, they have not, and recently the Fed removed the reserve ratio requirement altogether: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EXCSRESNW
A monarch is the leader of a state. If we remove the "of a state" part from the definition, we just have a fancy sounding synonym for "leader." So in some sense a CEO could be called a monarch if we did that, but so could... whatever, a sports team's coach.
> The machines don't have malice, they aren't like humans.

Correct: it is the humans that built the machines in this way and continue to operate them that are malicious, not the machines. In this way I will note that it isn't even clear to me that companies can have malice: humans--employees of companies and developers of machines--have malice.

> No company is required to provide intellectually healthy results.

Correct: no one is required to not be evil. Google for a long time claimed to not be evil, but the people who work for Google are, in fact, quite evil :(. Regardless, the issue at hand was whether these systems are--and this is an exact quote from the post I am replying to--"designed to show people what they want"... they are not.
Traders hoarding gas to cash in price surge over Europe's winter squeeze
I would avoid all of the two-letter domain names. I suffered 8 hours of excruciating downtime back in 2012 when the .st nic went down:

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...

I learned my lesson, I'll take the .com every time, even if I have to get creative with the name.
This is not an auspicious start for Liz Truss' term of office - she was the last official to meet with Queen Elizabeth.
I don't like how this article immediately equates election fraud to misinformation, without piecing together whether it actually was or wasn't. Fraud is a feature of every election, late night shows have run a segment on it every four years I've been alive, and with the sudden change in election rules and mail in ballots it seems reasonable that there could be legitimate fraud.

What would have been more interesting is if they looked into what the content said to see if those users were being fed nonsense or actual news about election fraud. An election official deleting voter logs after receiving a subpoena to hand them over is a real news, but this article lumps it in as misinformation, and what they're being shown would arguably be more interesting then just knowing they're reading something about election fraud
somehow I can't reply to djhn's comment, but what makes large amounts of LSD unsafe is how readily it gets absorbed into the blood stream through the skin in amounts that are metabolically massive. Look up "thumbprinting"
Cash is king
If PC can last 10+ years why wouldn't smartphone be able to last that long.
Be very careful what you wish for
In my state disorderly conduct requires mens rea of disturbing the peace. It's not something you can do accidentally. Compare that to public drunkenness in someplace like California, it's strict liability -- doesn't matter whether you meant to act drunk or not (in fact you can be held accountable for being "unable" to exercise care). They're extremely different laws.
The fact that this doesn't seem exploitable shows the value of defense in depth: although numerous safety measures were defeated, exploitation was ultimately blocked by a guard page. If that guard page hadn't been there, the outcome could have been very bad. Still, it got closer to exploitable than anyone is comfortable with.
Every thread like this, people pop up in the comments and say, "Nobody in my country texts at all, we all use XApp," but amusingly, XApp varies by thread/country/day. Sometimes it's WhatsApp, sometimes Signal, sometimes Telegram, sometimes LINE, sometimes WeChat, sometimes Facebook, sometimes something else.
Sets her own agenda, but I mean she holds weekly meetings with prime ministers. It's all closely coordinated.
Indeed, this is why those hello world benchmarks are just noise.
There are several tricks to get to a decision. E.g. you can make sure the next meeting includes a narrower group.
> Would you say that someone who bypasses paywalls is similarly not freeloading?

When it comes to digital content, I think it is rather gray. Artificial scarcity is a term that comes to mind. Looking at Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, etc., I'm not convinced that the ability to bypass payment (e.g. torrenting) is not simply a fundamental problem with the business.

As much as one might consider paywall bypassing to be freeloading, another could consider that the paywalling content provider is just trying to capture rent for data that's otherwise freely available.
This is one of those comments that won't age well.

Reducing evolution and time down to a steady state worldview, doesn't work.
Speculatively tying your pet peeve to a serious social problem is an old and tired framing trick. That way if people disagree with your pet peeve, you can retort with “oh, I guess you don’t care about teen suicide?”

It’s obvious and it does little to advance your cause, while trivializing the actual serious problem.

We’re not going to solve teen suicide with RCS.
The drive API already provides a thumbnail image for supported file types, so I’m reasonably sure they’re just consuming and rendering that thumbnail.
Dropping lightning in favor of usb-c means instantly deprecating millions of accessories, so it's not the free change people seem to think it is. Remember how much noise people made when the 30 pin connector was dropped for lightning - a cable that was better in every possible way? and there were far far fewer iPhone (and smart phone in general) users back then.

I feel you in the annoyance of periodically only have usb-c cable with a low battery phone, but I also have quite a few other accessories that I'd rather not have to replace (I've had a decade to accumulate such, and a lot of that time predated usb-c)
it's a well documented fact that typing in all lower case is very slightly faster for persons accustomed to it as a regular practice, which is a completely different thing than fundamentally misunderstanding the technical parameters of a L/S-band LEO vs geostationary data link, if we want to be pedantic about it.
>" Twitter is an echo chamber of edginess and not indicative of the average person in the real world."

For now, at least. I think we are all underestimating just how much Twitter impacts public perception. Not just on topics, but how people feel, act, and interact with others. Twitter seems to have a cancerous negativity it inflicts on its users.
i'm no fan of the dmv, but do you riot over having to register your car or getting a driver's license too? registration is equivalent, and a license is certainly more intrusive, with the biometric data they tend to collect.
> She oversaw the loss of Sterling the world reserve currency and the rise of another (the USD, EU).

Technically this occurred with the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944 [1] several years before Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
It asks you to sign in and auth your Google account after sharing a docs link. So you give them permissions.

If you don’t want this behavior you can revoke Slack’s access.
I recall a lot of pundits said "Trump stole the election", and then we entered a multi-year investigation into Russian collusion which found nothing. That was definitely a mistake in hindsight to press so far into this
I doubt that Scrum is about helping developers or whatever this post is trying to imply. It's a very mechanical framework with rigid rules and meetings. It's very fragile and breaks apart as soon as you try to change something.
One place where it actually makes sense is when trying to move away from a chaos into a more structured process. This is where Scrum is useful, because it comes with rules to introduce this structure. But it never failed developers, that target group is business people, promising to deliver more in a shorter time via rigid time-boxing.
Well said. I'm an American and have little attachment to royalty, but have the deepest respect for Queen Elizabeth's dedication to duty. How someone could endure performing day in and day out for so long is truly admirable.
Again this is something I assume that must have been very frustrating too. She couldn’t just say “that’s not right” and intervene because that’s not within her remit in a democratic system.

I can’t begin to imagine how many times she must have had to bite her tongue over the last 73 years.
My VR headset is 1400p per eye and GARBAGE for looking at text on a virtual screen. Any display tech that expects you to focus at a virtual plane for long periods of time will really hurt your eyes, and be basically unusable for many people. If you struggle in nice 3D movies to feel like your eyes are comfortable, you will have that same feeling in a VR or AR glasses situation.

Basically, any system that requires your eyes to focus on a physical screen that isn't the same distance as virtual objects will piss off your brain, because it knows something is going on, and hates being tricked without consent. Some people I think can ignore this effect to some extent, others cannot. It also strains your eyes more than focusing on an actual 2D screen so increases eye fatigue compared.
Just a wild guess - are you using Firefox with the facebook container and seeing font issues on multiple sites? Upgrade to the newly released 2.3.4.
For one thing, the Queen was rich for a list of complex reasons that largely have to do with hereditary properties and assets stretching back centuries. It's not as cut and dried as "taxpayer expense". Yes, the monarchy as an institution benefits from certain public resources, just as do all institutions in all major countries, but it doesn't do so to any obscene degree compared to a vast range of other public projects and organizations that waste enormously while being much better funded. Any major head of state also benefits enormously from taxpayer money in all sorts of ways and lives daily in the lap of luxury with enormous resources spent on his or her security, personal living "needs" and any trips they make. Despite this, I see little complaint about that much larger source of taxpayer money being spent.

There seems to be a reflexive, emotional and partly irrational hatred of the UK monarchy spending heavily and having assets and money, along with certain public benefits (which by the way are carefully circumscribed) by people who barely bat an eye at the fact that the absolute largest sources of resource and tax spending on a vast range of immensely expensive but often wasteful and even pointless things are perfectly modern government institutions that have nothing to do with monarchs. It's an absurd sort of blindness.

What the UK government spent on the idiocy of the Iraq War alone far exceeds all public funds given to the Monarchy in decades, but hey, let's complain about Elizabeth and the castles that have been in her family for centuries.
Yeah it seems pretty one sided to me. If you are going to put in a request to not "bash" the monarchy, then you should have a similar request not to "praise" it.
Well said.

Look at the HDI: https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/in...

Look at the top ten countries. How many are a constitutional monarchy? Which of them would you rather live in? :-)
Building a house in California is not a housing development project [pdf]
She did have power. She chose not to wield it or interfere, and trust in the system.
The appellate court ruling upholds a Marin County superior court ruling that building a house is not a housing development project, and therefore the Housing Accountability Act does not apply. The stated legislative intent of the law was to remove barriers to building homes and was widely referred to as the "Anti-NIMBY" law.

Now a court in one of the most-NIMBY counties in California has effectively gutted the law.
There's a pretty big difference in scale between Estonia and USA.
Ask HN: Any IT professionals living in a homestead?
I work remotely and me and my wife are thinking about buying some land and forming a homestead. We both had the experience of living in a somewhat rural community as kids and do know how much work such a thing asks for, and because of that we want to start small and grow our self sufficiency over time.

As I can work remotely the plan would be to continue working to have a steady cash income while my wife would be more concentrated on the homestead. We live in the sub-mediterranean region and and would there for some land.

Any other IT professionals combining homesteading and remote work?
> without controversy

Wasn't this actually a huge controversy at the time?
True, but to many, the destigmatization and the recognition of practical uses is still important.
> Europeans civilization are 1000s of years old

Not really. The Greeks, the Arabs, yes. But 2,000 years ago the Europeans were were not "civilised" in the sense that we think of.
Let’s have a black banner please
Fortunately, we don't need to model every individual, just like we don't need to model every molecule in a pot of water to know when it will boil.
This is categorically false. If you want an understanding of what life in Congress is like, I highly recommend Mark Strand's "Surviving Inside Congress"
Sorry, why Digitalocean ip's? Anti-bots and DDOS? And, how do you even find out about this?
I'm curious about the implementation, and haven't looked at the source of quic-go yet: Does it use a single UDP socket to handle datagrams for all QUIC connections, does it use connected UDP sockets per connection, or does it use multiple UDP sockets, where each handle a certain set of connections - and where an external load balancer is required to redirect to the sockets?

Unfortunately there's no best answer for this: Using a single socket will allow for connection migration, but it will end up being a bottleneck in terms of scalability since it will serialize access on a lot of kernel and driver datastructures (just a single transmit/receive queue). Connected sockets avoid that, but don't allow for address migration. And doing external load balancing gets far more complex than just starting a binary - even the most simple solution requires running XDP code.
Well, we attacked Firecracker and this is what we got haha not every attack is going to lead to a full end to end, reliable exploit, although we've posted those in the past too.

The key here wasn't to produce an exploit. That would have been interesting, but ultimately not the entire goal. The key was to understand "how do we use Firecracker in the safest possible way for our use case?". To do that we picked one of the CVEs that looked like it could be exploitable and dug into it.

We learned a ton about Firecracker and KVM and walked away with some mitigations we can implement such that even if the bug had been exploitable the attacker would have more hurdles to jump through. Specifically, we'll be working to harden the guest operating system such that the untrusted code will have a difficult time escalating to root/kernel, which is a prerequisite for this sort of attack.
Yale: Why-nuclear-power-must-be-part-of-the-energy-solution
RCS is a standard that was designed by carriers, for carriers. As such it is unencrypted, depends on having a carrier and phone number, etc.
> The dominant paradigm is "if it is not permitted it is forbidden".

Oh gosh. It’s the exact opposite. The a principle of Common Law is ‘everything which is not forbidden is allowed’ (the US for example has done reasonably well on that principle).
Tongue (with vinegar and garlic) is one of the traditional dishes for Christmas here in Argentina (or at least in my family). I never ate it in a sandwich, anyway.
Deliverance taught me that you can't outrun someone who has never left an area.
I think the expression he opted not to use is that SK-Japan relationship is toxic. There is a misunderstanding that SK and Japan are in good terms as strategic partners with similarly developed societies, more like a divorced couple after couple 911 calls and court visits.
I read SJ's biography...and know a bit about Wozniak...through his father, my grandfather's peer in Lockheed Martin. So yeah Jobs cheated Woz, the one time--and Jobs admits it--but come on, I know guys who cheat like that every uh time period thing according to the uh Gregorian Calendar. Week month something. But only Stephen Jobs started Apple, they didn't. And Steve gave Steve the money he promised, it was just less than half what he was offered. Still a good deal for Wozniak, just Wozniak had access to military CMOS for much longer than Steve J.

Steve Jobs gotta say does an amazing job of looking bad at tech while knowing everything, just everything. Like yes he couldn't do Breakout but he actually tried, trial and error for a while. Master at steps 1 and 3, ignorant but not completely and could have gotten a bad Breakout for his step 2 for he himself to pull it off. So that's why he teamed up.
I think DevonThink complements Obsidian, Roam and the like perfectly, at least for me. One is the repository where I collect, search and annotate the thoughts of others the other is where I collect and solidify my own thoughts. Such a great application.

Thanks for mentioning this author, I was not aware of him before and I love reading about other people's workflows, going to hunt out that account!
> so we didn't have to hear about it anymore

Generics were a mistake, and this is spot on.
I am frankly tired of hearing this non-sense. NYC is more expensive than SF and it is very much a vibrant place.

For a decade SF complained about tech and actively drove companies away, because they wanted “their culture” back.

Fine, then tech organizations left after covid (and their money left too), and now SF complains that tech organizations are not supporting the city anymore with their money and their employees, and you get entire areas of town (ie: Fidi) which are empty and small business are struggling. Who exactly do you think was supporting the outrageous spending and programs of San Francisco? Artists playing the piano in a bar, or hundreds of millions of dollar in taxes paid by tech and its employees?

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Now - finally - we get to see “SF culture” in full force without technology organizations and their employees: meth-addicted zombies with violent outbursts, tents everywhere, human poop and needles, salmonella outbreaks, go ahead and complete the list.

Nobody wants to live in a place like this: not the artists, not the families, and now not even tech workers. There are plenty of great cities to go to, why would anybody move to San Francisco and deal with these quality of life problems?
I assume he means natural-born Canadians rather than naturalized Canadians.

That said, I think his statement is not quite accurate. Very few people are aware of (or think about) the monarchy at all, and of the ones that are, very few of them actually care one way or the other about it. Of those, I'm sure most agree that the monarchy is pointless, but unlike in the UK we don't spend a whole lot of money on it so in reality no one really cares much except on principle.
Normally I don't care about this stuff, but at work, one member of my team of 9 refuses to use an iPhone, ruining any potential group chats. The obvious solution is that this person gets an iPhone.

That said, it would be nice if the SMS indicator was more subtle instead of white text on a green background, which is objectively harder to read than an iMessage. And it would be nice if Apple provided a cloud facility to send images/video to people easily given the obvious limitations of SMS.
thank you for writing this
I never implied that the obfuscation comes from having to present the maths. Clarity and rigour are orthogonal concepts. In fact, the reverse is often the case: make the derivations comprehensive and easy enough to follow, and the reader will feel it was an obvious result.

The argument here is that occasionally you should jump from A to C, skipping B (in the paper, not in your own work!), such that the reader will have to work that extra step to reach C from A, to make them appreciate more that the insight "A leads to C" was not a trivial one (and thus "not novel").
There is a third way, it could be decided by chance.
Balmoral Castle is owned by the family, not the Crown unlike other residences like Buckingham Palace. She was head of state. It's not uncommon for heads of state to have houses, cars, planes etc. for their use as part of the job provided by the government. Even for ceremonial ones. Should she have entertained other world leaders in a one room flat?
Much easier to not pay attention to any of this than to wonder if/when it will end.
There are male-only clubs (The Garrack, Savage Club), and more modern female and non-binary only clubs (such as the marguerite).

They are all, by definition sexist, but you are allowed under UK law to be such when deciding who to invite to a party.

What would be interesting, is if one became a monopoly in its niche (often clubs have a _thing_), whether one could argue they missed out on serious opportunities in work because they were not allowed to join, but I don't know of such a case being risen.
I'll keep saying this, but businesses don't have rights at all. They can ban accounts or deny service only because legislators have not passed laws regulating them. Whether it is a lemonade stand or Alphabet, inc they should not be allowed to deny business to the public, so log as their doors are open to the public without explicit reason which can be overturned by a consumer protection bureau/agency or FTC. The problem is, it is businesses that fund political campaigns not individuals.
I'm sorry. I disagree that this is flame bait, but respect your interpretation. I do think it's important to recognize the crimes of historical figures especially in cases where people fall over each other about how much of a saint they are.

I have strong feelings about her, and exactly because this is HN I chose to not air them in this forum.

Arguably ignoring the negative aspects is spreading fake news disinformation, which is a problem on the Internet in general nowadays.