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> so legalized bribery is nonsensical

I don't think the concept of legalized bribery is difficult to understand. Yes, it's legal. I'm saying that it shouldn't be.

Democracy, or more specifically representative democracy, is a form of government where elected persons represent the people. The problem with lobbying is that to the degree that lobbying happens, the people are represented less and those paying the lobbyists are represented more. This causes an obvious conflict of interests.

You might think that the degree of lobbying happening in Washington is fairly small. In 2021, $3.77B was spent on lobbyists[1], and the combined salaries of all representatives and senators was around $93m. That means that on average, each representative makes $174,000 pre-tax, and has over $7m spent to buy their vote on various issues. Every. Single. Year.

That's how stark the problem is. Solving the problem is hard of course--I think that might be your point?--and definitely something that requires a lot of thought and discussion. Even if you made lobbying illegal, a huge percentage of that money is going to go underground and find other ways of influencing Congress.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/summary
Most of them just say "GeForce" or "NVIDIA", most brands didn't mold numbers into the shrouds/backplates (because until the launch announcement, they have no idea what the SKU placement for any particular chip will be in the first place).

It's a mess but no need to make it out to be worse than it is, GN already confirmed that NVIDIA is compensating partners etc.
Does it look like a recipe?
The temperature thing is just whichever you're more used to using. We almost never see 30F or 70F, so the idea that it's a natural fit is rather forced.
I'd caution against believing that NoSQL databases as a category are more scalable than relational databases.

We have decades of experience scaling relational databases at the moment, including horizontally - Flickr was using read-replicas and sharding MySQL back in 2005.
Yes, this pattern is far better than attaching passport_scan.pdf over email! I used to send links to a fileshare that is password protected (hooray pcloud!), but it seems like most companies have really locked down that avenue of sharing (understandably so).
Hey @ashekhawat can the generated specs exported out of metlo?
None.

The issue is websites still collect data. Like the website knows your ip address, your time zone, and the website can fingerprint to some extent. That includes Google.com, not via Chrome when in incognito mode, but via the fact that you access Google's websites.

They don't know it's you directly.
Yes, they are the essentially the same (again, more confusing branding).

Firebase Auth is great, with the notable exception that I am worried it will become Google project #2898 to die on the vine. It has received virtually no substantive updates for about 2.5 years. The last big one was they added SMS 2FA in early 2020. Given that Google themselves has long ago stated SMS is insecure for 2FA, it's ridiculous they have no other options, nor have they said anything about adding options in their official channels. Here's a post from Dec 2021 in the google groups forum, and again there have been no real substantive updates since: https://groups.google.com/g/firebase-talk/c/RBRdDHPybC8

> Is Firebase Authentication dead?

> I apologize for the inflammatory subject line, but I think this is an important matter that the Firebase and Google team should be transparent about.

> What does the future of Firebase Authentication look like? Is it in maintenance mode? Is there any roadmap for future development?

> I migrated my user base to the Firebase platform a few years ago, mainly based on their Authentication platform. It looked like it had a lot of promise. There was a lot of development going on with it at the time. Although it didn't have all features I wanted, the pace of development seemed to show a good trend line going in that direction. At the time, they said MFA was on the roadmap. I considered other AaaS options, but chose Firebase Auth based on where I thought it was going in the future.

> Fast forward a few years, and it seems like there is no activity any more with Firebase Auth. I'm still waiting for TOTP and WebAuthN MFA. SMS is not a no-starter, and even Google has said that SMS is not secure MFA. There is no way to control the password strength policy, nor lock-out behavior when incorrect passwords are entered.

> Now I need to make a decision: whether to stick with Firebase Auth, or to move on to a different AaaS platform. Will Firebase Auth pick up the feature development pace again, or is it on a long death spiral? I'd appreciate insight from Google what their plans are in a concrete way.

> Thank you.
Not really. If we held the title to engineering standards, maybe like the guys that make SpaceX stuff, SQLite could be called "software engineers".
> How is it that Linux seems to grind to a halt when it is forced to swap

/proc/sys/vm/swapiness or something like this. AFAIK shall be bigger than 50% to not see the behaviour that you describe.
Qubes provides security through compartmentalization: https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#how-does-qubes-os-provide-secu.... It does not care about a single compromised VM. It is designed with the assumption that any VM might be compromised. If you suspect a compromise, you recreate the VM from a trusted template. You also use a disposable VM for untrusted operations and offline VMs for security-critical things.

See also: http://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/04/26/qubes-compromise-rec....
Without further information regarding the exact location of the patient’s tumor, it is hard to comment in detail. However, one way handedness affects awake glioma resection is that while right handed people typically have their language dominance localize to the left hemisphere, left handed individuals are more likely to have right sided or even codominant language function. Assuming this was a right sided tumor, the surgeon probably meant that he also had to account for avoiding speech deficits in this left handed patient that he wouldn’t worry about in a right handed one.
Hi Paul, just wanted to say thanks for working so hard on Ardour. I just started playing with Ardour in Fedora on my Framework laptop, but I've been thinking about buying a M1 mac to make music because I miss Logic and Ableton. These release notes have got me hyped because now I might not want to! I'm very excited to try out the clips and freesound features. I'll definitely be buying a license soon. You (and the rest of the brilliant Ardour contributors) seriously rock!
Do you really think the state knows the best possible treatment for you rather than your family doctor who has seen you for years, knows your family history, and can assess the situation right there holding your hand and hearing your voice? I fear a future for my children where people think it's the former and the "standard of care" is forced upon them.
$80 million isn't a bunch of money for Musk/SpaceX, but really that's besides the point. This isn't a freebie he gave out from the goodness of his heart, despite what many of his fans believe.
> many of infantry / frontlines are armed with electronic devices that fill all the same goals, this is just a means to put them in the field of vision and provide easier access

The word “just” is doing some very heavy lifting in this sentence.
Revealed preferences say "making FreeBSD work in VMs". So far I've ported FreeBSD to EC2 and Firecracker...
I say this as someone as fully vaxxed and boosted -- they really did mess up some weird things in the beginning, especially on masking?
I recently published a Chrome extension that lets you configure different proxy settings for regular/incognito tabs, after seeing that this was deemed "not a supported feature", thread locked:

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/thread/143076679/proxy-s...

The extension makes it possible to use a SOCKS5 proxy (ideally tunneled over WireGuard) for incognito tabs, without affecting normal tabs: https://github.com/pmarks-net/incognito-proxy
Interesting how the two most promising "new" therapies are CBT (basically ancient Greek Stoicism) and psychedelics (which predates our species most likely)
I bet it was never boring.
I don't know about actual canadian prices, but I do visit canada periodically, and only once was I in a position to go through the complexity of acquiring a roaming SIM. My cost is 20¢ per megabyte.

The last time I was there for a week I made sure to exclusively use Firefox+NoScript and setup a number of large regions in google map caching - in past I also used Firefox data saver image option, but regrettably they removed that from the config (hm, I wonder if it's still available in about:config as a hidden option - shame they also blocked about:config unless you use a non-mozilla build)

(my suspicion is it was probably one of the many cool features lost in the rewrite)

There are still data limited cell plans in the US though. Quite a few sold by T-Mobile partner resellers as economy plans.
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Good question in a way, but I think the answer is that the article misrepresents the issue in order to pander better.

The issue is that incognito mode is only for the browser itself - they can’t force the sites/services you use while in incognito mode to change what they do.
fair point. i am not the author, and i can just talk about my own motivation.

what bothers me about tourist areas is that if i go there, i am the target that people want to make money off. just as i don't like advertising, this is a reason for me to avoid tourist areas or tourist seasons even if i have never experienced places like that before.

that doesn't mean that i'll avoid tourist places at any price. i'll still go there if the place is interesting enough, but the peddling i am subjected to always leaves a sour taste. so the problem for me is not getting bored by those places, but the difficulty of meeting people that are genuinely curious about me as a person, and don't just want to sell me something.
No idea, but unless it's on a restricted list (classified by the DEA), I think "not at all".
Fail fast is in most situations better than swap hell.
It still surprises me that 100% of HN people aren't using ublock...
Scientific programming, i.e., short term problem solving, especially when working with physical measurements and experiments. The work involves a combination of programming (desktop and embedded), physics, electronics, etc. I get to choose my own tech stack (Python and Arduino), and to a large extent, my battles.

I like the fact that Mother Nature ultimately conducts my performance review. She doesn't care about tech fads, personality test scores, or office politics. She doesn't tire of proving me wrong, over and over again.

Germane to other comments in the thread, I'm aware of the salary disparities in the different castes of tech workers. On the other hand, unless someone is exceptionally disciplined and motivated, it takes something more than pay to propel a career.

While in college, I had a summer internship in a computer facility. My present job is in a building with a large team of devs. I get to see what they actually do.

I've wondered to myself if I'd be happy enough as a developer to do it for as long as I've done my present job, or if I'd just get bored and burn out, or start to misbehave.
I have received reports via these channels that were extremely helpful. Once, an unconfigured OpenStack instance with default stack/stack password was sitting on a desktop in a corner and plugged into the wrong ethernet port and was publicly routable. It was compromised (possibly automatically) in short order and we only found out about it because of a kind whois abuse report.
There was a short period of time where software rendering engines were able to do some interesting things before hardware rendering took over and they all died out. There is still untapped potential in a lot of the techniques, which is fun exploring.

I'm using them for a game I will be releasing. I think very few games these days regardless of engine used or graphical style has a chance of a net positive return, so that part doesn't bother me.
I think this is less a whataboutism of "But Mexico is worse!", and more general eye rolling at another breathless, unquantified hate-on-America article.

The article even admits it doesn't know if this is actually a problem or not. FTA:

> There are no statistics that cover bodies donated or bodies offered to programs, no official way to tell how many Americans who fall into the overweight or obese categories have been turned away like McPherson.
I‘ve been using Firebase and Firestore extensively in past projects, because I was attracted by it‘s simplicity on first sight.

Then there’s the day you need some relational queries. It‘s somehow possible, but you need to rethink your data structure.

Then you figure out, that the realtime part of Firebase is CPU intense and slows down your browser.

Call me nuts, crazy or whatever - I‘ve replaced most of these applications with SQLite (WAL enabled) and use either server-side-events (SSE) for almost realtime notification or the HTTP streaming API.

It works perfectly for my needs and is pretty simple to deploy.
It isn't tried on a disease model, but on a core mechanism: aging.
I'm curious also about your use case (disclaimer, I'm one of the cofounder of Quickwit). Do you want simple search with a basic UI? Or some dashboarding with grafana for example?

Thanks @qdequelen for pointing out Quickwit :)
> I remember when I got vaccinated, and "science said", that I won't get covid or be able to spread it after the second shot (94% or whatever the number was for not getting it at all).

The 90-95% number was always for preventing severe disease. No one listened to the details, it seems.
I’m not entirely sure about the history here, but I suspect the 3-mile island partial meltdown is a big reason why. Regulators realized that the current framework was too lax and too risky so they tightened it. They also retrofitted existing powerplants with newer and better standards which must have cost a lot, popular opinion shifted away from these plants so they weren’t politically popular any more, construction knowledge was lost, and has to be re-learned now in a stricter framework.

The job market is also a lot more diverse now then in the 70s. There used to be a lot of highly skilled construction workers back then. Generally large infrastructure projects take longer and cost more, regardless of the project type.
Yes. Got one of those liquid stays in the base printers. Immediately found out the liquid cannot be touched because it’s very carcinogenic. So I could not run it in the house. Tried to make three prints in my garage and they all failed. Haven’t touched it since, that was two years ago.
I really like reading RFCs and then implementing the protocols that they describe. Preferably just do it in some plain language without any libraries, just plain old TCP/UDP.
> internal developer hazing

Could you expand upon what you mean by this part?
>> The President of the United States is routinely and vehemently criticized. Hated by millions of people. And yet, he is not socially outcast. Nor is he bullied.

> I am sure he suffers from any amount of bullying and criticism he's receiving that he knows about.

Doubtful, given he's probably insulated from that because as a politician 100% of his career he's always had roughly 50% of the people against him give or take.

Trump on the other hand couldn't take criticism because he wasn't a career politician, which would be a breath of fresh air honestly if it wasn't a rich narcissist at the wheel. Maybe a school teacher, or musician, hell even Tom Hanks. He got sucked into twitter wars, the current admin has a hotshot Twitter team that delivers blows but again keeps him insulated from it. That's the mark of a leader.

I say this as someone who did NOT vote for Joe because I refuse to vote for an establishment candidate for the Presidential ticket, though I was relieved he won, for the sake of democracy and so we don't devolve into fascism. I was also glad Trump won though, not because I wanted anything he was selling but felt maybe having the crappiest timeline might push the left to the progressives if we fully just give up supporting them. It kinda worked. Overton window has shifted maybe 0.2 % but any give is good.

I don't expect great things from Joe, not by a long shot. I long for the day that the presidential races are decided by ranked choice voting or similar systems. Then maybe we can get some good leaders from regular society who maybe could lead better than the rich bastards who run everything else.

I mean it worked well for Ukraine, sure President Zelenskyy wasn't always the best, and had issues earlier in his Presidency, and such but he was a freaking actor and comedian, now he's a war hero and rightly so. The west gave him a ticket out, to escape and he stayed with his people to fight. That's pretty bold. You know none of our leaders on either side would be brave enough for that.
> If you are suggesting that your applications are allocating a bunch of memory which they literally never use in any way, then I don't think that is really a common issue in practice.

That is what I'm suggesting, and I suggest you look at how much space is wasted by startup-initialized data in libraries for features you'll never use, JIT representations that never get compiled for more than one shape, class metadata that never gets touched and vtables which don't get used, how easy it is in any GC language to accidentally keep a large buffer alive until the end of a lexical scope rather than its last real use, etc. etc.

Today's programs are bloated as hell dude.
If you use swap because you don’t have enough RAM for things you need in RAM, you’re going to have a very bad time.

The only time swap isn’t just delaying (and growing) the inevitable shitshow is when, for some reason:

1) some program is consuming some significant amount of Ram, but doesn’t need to run for awhile, and it’s somehow faster/easier to let it swap to disk than shutting it down and restarting it while you do something else that consumes Ram.

2) something you’re running has some amount of bloat or leak that you know will never get exercised, but also never will grow larger than your swap file and take your system out entirely.

Both of those situations are not only rare, but easy to misjudge and end up wedging your system.
At the time, this was widely derided as a "fake MSRP" because there were no cards available at the official MSRP and said the $700 FE was the real MSRP.

(even Zotac and EVGA tossed another $20-40 on the MSRP and those specific models were unobtanium for almost a year.)

https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/search/comment/?q=msrp&subre...

https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/search/comment/?q=msrp+1080&...

$725-750 was considered a good deal for an aftermarket 1080 at launch, if you could even find one. Sometimes they went up to $800 or higher from scalping/demand.

If we take that $700 figure in June 2016... the launch price of a GTX 1080 is equivalent to $862 today. And those prices go even higher ($985) with launch scalping.

As a meta-commentary... it's funny how people shift back and forth between the numbers that support their case, like at the time people were super mad about this whole fake-MSRP business, and now Pascal MSRPs are cited unironically as comparisons for the current stuff... but you couldn't actually go buy anything for MSRP for Pascal for at least six months.

I knew someone on another forum who was so upset about the whole thing that they called it the "holodomor launch"... cause being forced to use a GTX 970 instead of a GTX 1080 is just like when millions of people starve to death. People have buried the memory but the enthusiast segment was not happy about the Pascal launch either, at all, but today it's held up as a model launch with model pricing.
Did this a lot when I was having severe dementia problems. Would track results on various medications to see what worked.

95% made a bad situation much worse.
Memantine Had a moderate boost.

Went on a Blood thinner and everything resolved.
100% agree on the CAP theorem conundrum. I didn't know that BigQuery was SQL under the hood, interesting.
> But it does matter how stupid it is.

I think you mean: it should matter. But it doesn't, unfortunately.

> Well, their troll army doesn't seem particularly successful. Even less so than their real army.

They had a decisive influence in Trump's election and the Brexit vote. I think that's enough of a demonstration of the power of influencing via "social" media. We've since become a bit more weary, but Twitter still has a lot of influence.
Sounds like there’s a business opportunity here to make larger medical school tables with wheels to easily move patients
Whenever I get bored (rarely these days) I like to write path-finding & annealing algorithms. I start with a super simple ray-tracing framework I first wrote in the 1990's for visualization, and then I play around with things like gravity and electromagnetic repulsion / attraction. My favorite thing to do is watch a million charged spheres distribute themselves on a weird surface obeying gravity and electromagnetics, and then have another sphere try to navigate through them. It's pointless but satisfying. I'm sure Blender and Processing and all the new fancy tools can do it better, but I understand every single line of code, so I feel like it is something I made for me.
People with a high pain threshold create systems that require a high pain threshold. That filters out a lot of people with a low tolerance for bullshit.

Then the “indispensability” of people who built job security into the system filters again.
Chrome has a guest user. Like incognito, the moment you close it deletes everything.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6130773

Some OSes, MacOS for instance, also have a guest mode for the entire OS. By default it only allows Safari but you can add other apps. Also by default it deletes everything when you log out of guest mode.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/set-up-other-users-...
The way it usually works is that we have anesthesia put the patient entirely to sleep to start and then we wake them for the sensitive part of the case when we need to perform stimulation and cognitive testing. We use local anesthetic like lidocaine and marcaine on the scalp while opening to minimize pain when temporarily awake. Then the patient goes back to sleep for closing. It’s a tough balance for the anesthesiologists to maintain —- they are as critical to the procedure as the neurosurgeon is.
So something 2.4bn light years away created a detectable impact on Earths atmosphere? Holy holy holy holy something.
SQL is a protocol. I'm not sure I would consider that "under the hood". What happens under the hood is up to the implementer, and implementations can vary widely (BigQuery is quite unlike Postgres, for example). It is the visible part that makes up a particular public API designed for interacting with databases.

Conceivably even Firestore could expose SQL as one of its APIs. In fact, I once built a tool to do exactly that so I could perform ad-hoc Firestore queries using SQL. Worked beautifully.
Ya 100%, but it's been pretty interesting to see how many people now seem to share this sentiment and are trying to look out for it. The fact that I see these types of responses on Hacker News is a testament to that. I think part of all this non-sense legislation is the Governments response to its lack of control.

The toothpaste is out of the bottle for the media, unfortunately, and I'm not sure it's going back in.
> It's for browsing porn without your spouse knowing. That's about it.

#notallspouses!

It's for being able to open a tab while screen-sharing with strangers (colleagues, friends) without the browser suggesting porn sites with matching keywords.