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There are countless articles if you search for “git for non-developers” on google. You want to learn something but aren’t willing to spend 30 minutes of your time to do some studying? You’d be paying someone to regurgitate the same info and analogies from these articles.
California University apologizes for prisoner experiments
I use a bookmarklet to achieve this (a userscript that runs automatically could, too, I imagine).

javascript:Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll(%27input%5Btype%3Dpassword%5D%27)).map(function(el)%7Bel.setAttribute(%27type%27,%27text%27)%7D)
Manufacturers in the "old days" weren't necessarily more virtuous, but they were more constrained; by material and process choices. There weren't the options for a part that would reliably work... for three years and then fail. You had to choose from a hand-full of materials that either worked or did not, and if they worked, they likely would work for a long time. If they didn't, you couldn't even sell the thing.

Today there are myriad types of plastics, metal fab processes, treatments, etc. that can be used to build "things". So there are many variables to trade off, and (some) makers will trade off durability and reliability at the drop of a hat for a 0.1% short-term profit advantage. If they even considered those qualities in the initial design.
The trouble is no matter how much fast RAM, how much of a beast of your GPU is. How many threads your CPU has.

The UX is as hangy as the laggiest component.

That means if the Windows programmers decided that it needs to wait for every HDD to spin up to show you the contents of your start menu you're gonna have a bad time.
Valor Tactical Stealth sUAS A low-cost multi-mission modular stealth UAV system
US states can take action, and California is. The new CPRA that takes effect Jan 1 2023 establishes a state funded agency to enforce the laws that have effectively only been able to be enforced by civil lawsuits by the people whose privacy is violated.
Another nice feature of that TV was the ability to play the audio from otherwise-restricted... um, "premium" cable channels. Good enough for this 13-year-old. :)
I'd suggest going with your gut next time.
Academics have Publish or Perish, administrators have Regulate or Remain (in the same seat while others get promoted over you).
One of the IBM 1401 computers (1959) at the Computer History Museum has hardware support for pre-decimal pounds/shillings/pence, to perform arithmetic on these values and print them. Thus, the computer has three fundamental datatypes in hardware: arbitrary-length strings, arbitrary-length integers, and pounds/shillings/pence. Of course there were two competing standards for encoding pounds/shillings/pence, so the front panel has a knob to select the standard.

(Before decimalization, there were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound. Mathematical operations on currency were both difficult and extremely common, so IBM provided hardware support as an option. There were boards of transistors so you could add, subtract, multiply, or divide currency values with a single operation, rather than an inconvenient sequence of instructions.)

Photos in my Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1364365985499602947

To get back to the original topic, I'll mention that my MacBook Air would drop keystrokes if I visited a website with, say, a video ad. I find it kind of appalling that computers in the 1960s could handle input from hundreds of keyboards at once, while a 2017 computer can't manage a single keyboard.
Truly the most evil hacker is the one that leaves you to live out your life until old age and decrepitude catch up with you.
Part of the reason on iOS it takes longer, at least in my vault set-up, to begin throwing in a new note is that Obsidian has to finish syncing and show me notifications (that I wish I could turn off) from a plug-in I value before I can begin navigating to a "new note" screen.

Not just for the speed, but also for (personal) mental simplicity, this is one of many reasons I use [Drafts](https://getdrafts.com) for so much writing. I also use a few other notes apps in concert with Obsidian, and if I just hit Drafts on my iPhone or Apple Watch I can start getting the idea down. If it's going to Obsidian, it's an action from Drafts to just dump it in there without using Obsidian's interface at all. If it's not going to Obsidian (and instead going to Bear or OmniFocus or into an email or a text message or appending to an existing note or a million other things) then it's just a different action.
That's not a bad idea, but it would only work if people were not dependent on income from employment to meet their basic needs. Also, the way you phrase it is a bit extreme. Failure is an opportunity for learning, and it's hard to make a major accomplishment if your work is mostly routine.
And also there is some additional fun dealing with broken or incompatible packages whenever you upgrade OSX
I've definitely seen startups that are trying to do demos/PoCs/MVPs, where ramping up on the project isn't necessarily a factor for a task.

Say, you need to have a consumer iOS app or CRUD backend/site to show seed/angel investors, and it needs a high-skilled person to execute quickly. You might not yet be able to afford the hire to do that, and you might not want to give away that kind of equity that early contribution would rate. But you can have a highly-motivated experienced person do it for just an engagement fee they normally wouldn't take, if they think they're sealing a hiring deal.
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I'm looking for some ideas for fun end-of-year projects and want to use some new technologies that you think are great but might not have received the attention they deserve.
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That would conflict with normal cookie terminology, where cookies are "set" and packets are "dropped".

But much more importantly, it is completely impossible in the context of the thread:

> [Accusation 3.] On their cookie banner, rejecting took two clicks while accepting took one.

> On 3, Microsoft argued that (a) rejecting was not actually required to be as easy as accepting and that (b) since the default was no cookies and it took a click to get cookies that rejecting was easier than accepting. The CNIL disagreed on both.
>Look beyond meaning for worth and value.

Then what gave your life "worth" and "value" would be what gave it meaning.

You're pretty much saying the same thing, but with different semantics for meaning.

Meaning doesn't necessarily mean to "some big end goal". People use it for anything that they feel makes their life worth it ("gives it meaning"). So "being of help to others" to "enjoying family life and friendships" or "expressing myself through playing the piano" to "religion" can all be said to imply meaning.
Normally when you post bail you have 2 options:

1. Pledge the full amount of the bail yourself. You get this back if the accused shows up in court, you lose it of they flee.

2. Pay some percentage (usually X%) to a bail bondsman. You never get that money back, and if the accused flees, the bail bondsman will try to get the money from whomever signed the bond (as the bail bondsman is on the hook). The bail bondsman may also engage a bounty hunter to try to catch the accused.

Obviously, with a bail amount this large, my guess is there is no bail bondsman that has that much to put up. So there should be $250 million that someone pledged for this bail. I'm still confused as to where that amount came from.
This is pretty much what happened with Darwin from Apple. The kernel and even the bootloader uses .plist files [0] extensively, which are XML-based.

I like it. To change the PCI IDs for a driver for example, change the IOKitPersonalities property in the <Driver>.kext/Info.plist file.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list
Stanford professors make around $180k usually. There's no chance they're paying regular interest of a 250m loan without some financial support.
Well, diffusion networks seemed to work because they increased the amount of data by training so many examples of added noise and it’s removal. Some similar approach might be possible with text, too. Or, i guess they will talk to itself, like alpha go played itself.
> Do you really think the landlord in a dwindling town is profitable?

Yes, and so do the landlords.

If they didn’t, instead of renting the property out, they'd sell it for the price of one month's rent—someone willing to rent at that price would be even more willing to buy, and the landlord would then be free of the future losses they expect to suffer.
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Their house is valued at $4m on Stanfords campus, fwiw.
Just FYI, password rotation is currently considered an anti-pattern. I think we can imagine some kind of future where there's a common password protocol that user-facing services could talk that would allow certain entities with blessed access to rotate passwords without the user ever having to know about it, but in the current world, rotating passwords causes most users to use weaker passwords.
Appreciate your perspective on this! We definitely understand the concern for not wanting anyone to have access to your medical data without your explicit consent, so that's why we're approaching this with the idea of ultimately leaving the individual in charge at the end of the day. It should really be up to the individual if they want to allow access to their data, but if they do, it should be as seamless as possible for them. This is exactly the future we see for personal health data, and is the sort of system we would want ourselves.
Of course this should be done in a secure and private manner as well, which is why we're HIPAA & SOC 2 compliant, and are only a pass-through solution with no actual data being stored.
Nice straw man you’ve propped up there, but it’s not mine and I have no interest in defending it. I hope Sky Daddy rewards you for defending his gang of pedophiles.
the most annoying thing is "register to download our whitepaper".

i usually enter the email address "marketing@<websitedomain>" so that they then spam themselves
> Dictionaries (maps), sets, (generic) lists...

You do know that Java has had those for decades, right?
You don't need to put "externalities" in quotes as though it's a suspect concept.

It's fine to be suspicious of any entity. But it's not easy to hide externalities. Your suspicion should lead pretty directly to evidence. As it does with fossil fuels. Those who profited from fossil fuels brazenly lied about their own knowledge of their externalities, but the rest of the world could see them in real time. They weren't trying to hide the externalities as much as they were mitigating their legal exposure and improving their propaganda.
I know he’s presumed innocent, but I thought they would effectively confiscate all the alleged “spoils of crime” as evidence or freeze it. I’m guessing that’s why it’s backed on a single residence and not other assets?

I wonder how he will pay for lawyers, my understanding is that law firms are incredibly meticulous about wanting proof that their fees aren’t being paid using spoils of crime.
I fought (and lost) against this payflow at a job because Marketing guessed that the sunk cost of time spent filling out the CC info form made users more likely to just click "buy" once the final cost was revealed. Stats backed them up :(

A dark pattern for sure, becoming more frequent.
>go to DefCon some day, you'll see how that information is basically for sale legally, let alone on the darkweb.

"It's already out there so we shouldn't bother preventing it from spreading further," is a terrible argument.
Yeah so they should just move the island.
Yes, for billions at least. Never personally saw a bank transaction for a trillion dollars.

You are correct the others are easier, clearer, etc. But banking goes back centuries, millennia even. When an entire industry uses a certain nomenclature, no individual participant wants to go through the hassle of trying to change everything.
Huge fan of NFS and appreciate how they handle this.

From [their FAQ page:](https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/TheLongGame)

>Finally, censorship is always bad, for a variety of well understood reasons that we don't need to repeat here. But in the case of some types of content, it has special dangers. When you censor a web site based on the extreme or dangerous views of its creator(s), you haven't stopped those people from thinking that way. You haven't made them go away. You certainly haven't stopped the people who hold those views from doing whatever else they do when they're not posting on the Internet. What you've actually done is given yourself a false sense of accomplishment by closing your eyes, clapping your hands over your ears, and yelling "Lalala! I can't hear you!" at the top of your voice. Pretending a problem doesn't exist is not only not a solution, it makes real solutions harder to reach.

https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/TheLongGame
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I wonder what those in pretrial detention in Rikers do without internet, there only because they don’t have resources to bond out.
I wrote about this here a few times, but it works.

You don't need "airgapped", just disconnect from the internet with the kill switch or something and disconnect your laptop from the charger.

Your mission is to ship whatever you need to ship on one laptop's charge and without internet access.

You'll have time to refine later. It's great for proofs-of-concept and prototypes.

It is a self-imposed, artificial, constraint and it works.
It's the other way around - "software people" tend to use plurals for table names, because it then maps nicely to plurals in property names in their object layer, where it's already the established convention.

The "database people" OTOH tend to use singular, which goes at least as far back as C.J. Date. I'm not sure why, but perhaps it's because fully qualified field names read more natural.
Seeing as I'm all but entirely ignorant on the nature of large-figure, high-profile bond guarantees, do you (or anyone else) have references for what arrangements are typical?
How long will that take? Can we ban TikTok in the meantime?
Indeed, one can maintain only a macOS application.
without organizing, the vast majority of us will be doomed.

i figure a couple of clues as to where we're headed...

1) the black population in america. largely discarded, warehoused in prisons and and kept in poor, hopeless neighborhoods. add in large populations of poor white people in vast swaths of rural land areas.

and, possibly in a much more extreme situation,

2) palestinians in the west bank, and particularly gaza. gaza has been described as the world's largest open-air prison, with good reason. at the current rate, they're doomed, too.

both situations are just US policy - they're not magic, or what other people or governments choose to do.

what do all these people do in their current circumstances? try to survive. try to maintain some semblence of dignity. try to hold onto their humanity and that of the people doing this to them.

so, our current neoliberalism craze is stratifying the US population by income even more, creating more and more extraneous/disposable populations.

automation might be exacerbating our move towards faciscm and domination and extraneous populations, but it's only that -- just helping, not a primary driver, imo.

- 4-day work week could help.
- things like GBI could help.
- billionaires and rich people paying taxes could help.
- organizing obviously could help.
- technology sanity (ludditism) could help.
- a less insane intellectual culture could help.
- more democracy could help.

my take on automation is that there are shocks to the system, but over the long haul, there is plenty of work to do, but without popular organizing, most of us are doomed.
Unfortunately Mac is the best in terms of hardware and portability and for compliance stuff
Which is why the 6 minute drive time invited is how long it takes to get to the hospital by regular routing.

Emergency doctors also don’t hang out at home when they are on call. They hang out at hospitals.
Thanks.

As far as I can tell France understood their role in holding things together in the absence of cheap Russian energy, hence the push to get as much as possible back online by December. I assume they also understand they need a longer term solution since their reactors are pretty old.

This is all orthogonal to the original topic, that it's not the EU and the EU commission who are responsible for Germany's massive failures regarding nuclear (any more than they are responsible for France's successes regarding nuclear).
What We Found in the New JFK Files
pico8 has a raspberry pi release so most arm linux setups should work. I've gotten pico8 running using AmberELEC (https://github.com/AmberELEC/AmberELEC) + RG351 (https://www.amazon.com/Handheld-Console-Portable-Classic-350...) which is arm linux.
In this particular case I guess questioning the business model of the company by bringing some controversy on the first interaction wasn't very strategic. Maybe the staff engineers they have hired don't do that!
> was this too generous?

She's pleading to what, seven major felonies as I recall? And there is no agreement on a reduced sentence aside from "the prosecution will ask for lesser sentences" which doesn't mean the judge is going to agree. She didn't get some kind of a sweet deal, she got the "we have enough to put you in jail until you're elderly, but if you make it easy we'll ask the judge to reduce it so middle age" agreement. They clearly have the upper hand.
anything where mining is inflationary (or at least disinflationary where the rate of inflation outpaces the rate of "lost" coins).

Monero/XMR kind-of-sort-of falls into the second category, with "fresh" coin minting being a part of the mining process, although probably not at a rate that outpaces regular rot/deflation.

the mindset of securities trade, even when they have some external utility, will always be "getting in before it gets big". this is the idea behind essentially all analytical stock trading, yet the NYSE never seems to get called a ponzi scheme.
Pity to see this downvoted because it is a valid point. We are stuck in the past with these macro kernels and this sort of thing is a direct consequence of using them. If anything having a macro kernel makes it quite hard to shut down a module like this to determine if it was well behaved with respect to memory and because it is in the kernel any kind of compromise immediately has far reaching consequences because it breaches all of the barriers in one fell swoop.
Ah yes the nobody wants to do it to me excuse. Until you piss off the wrong person and you suddenly crash into the railing and die in an 'accident'.

In a more Orwellian world. It can be used to assassinate dissidents or individuals who speak out against authoritarian regimes. It's just a tool in a box, but it's one that's simple, easy to use, and leaves no evidence.
As e-bike fires rise, calls grow for education and regulation
story of LiveCode stopping their open source version https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28370865

and an active fork https://github.com/OpenXTalk-org/OpenXtalk-IDE-DontPanicEdit...
The gene that allows adults to digest milk is a mutation that occurred in Scandinavia and had such survival value it spread like wildfire throughout the human race.
I'm probably going to be hugged to death on my VPS but here we go.

I have a dogfooded bookmarking service ( think HN with tags and a personal mode (= See all items you've upvoted or added)) which can also track RSS. I once added some people from Cloudflare on it and forgot about it till today.

Fyi, https://hnrss.org/user?id={username} is how comments of certain authors are crawled.
Not OP but an interesting discussion to me as I also do not sign into much on my phone. To your specific points, and with the context that I have a working laptop and am home at some point every day:

Online banking - Discover has functional FaceID but every other bank/card app would reset my login on a regular basis and without MFA I don't trust short passwords. So the passwords are a pain to type and I only login to pay off cards once a month... I do it from my computer

Online shopping - Mobile UIs for this space suck, I'm never in a rush to buy anything, and I prefer uBlock Origin being active, so I use my computer.

Social media - Again prefer to have various add ons and a desktop experience, really just don't need this in my life more than a laptop at home allows.

Airlines, hotels, or other Tavel bookings - in my experience I've been able to get tickets into my digital wallet from emails and otherwise these apps are whatever. I traveled for 2 years and had various apps I barely used on my work phone, never bothered with personal phone.

Online news sources requiring accounts Eg hacker news, NYT, etc - just don't need in my pocket. I'll quick scroll certain places if it's been a while or I'm exceptionally bored but there's no need to be signed in.

Medical / pharmacy - I have my card in my wallet and calling for robot help is sufficient outside of that. Something in this space and others is if the call robot can't help then generally neither can the app/website and the best bet is a human which generally requires putting in the time with the robot first anyway.
> A lot of companies would be really upset at Google if this happened

There's lot of projects that Google has killed for which this is the case, though. Stadia had people building for it, and Reader had people building atop it to name maybe the two highest profile ones. Of course, the cost vs value of maintaining those for Google was a very different question, but on its own, other companies' interests don't seem to move the needle much for Google when it comes time to kill a project.
Yes, I just got a quote for a solar system here in the US, the price for the system was right around $40,000. Add in the cost of reinstallation when I need a roof replacement, and the break even is when the warranty expires.
I don't need your stump speech, thanks.
Okay so it's basically a bail bond, sign over the $2M house to get the bondsman to post $250M bond.

What bondsman has $250M? Even if they did, why would they ever agree to this?

Isn't getting $2M from a defendant on a bail bond less than even the interest you could probably get by just putting your $250M in, say, a Treasury bond over the same timeframe?

For that matter, who's willing to bet $250M at 99-to-1 payout odds that a smart guy like SBF won't be able to disappear and pop up in Dubai or somewhere with no extradition to the US? (Remember SBF probably had the means, motive, opportunity and moral character to siphon a couple hundred million worth of BTC into a wallet there are no records of. And he knew for a long time FTX was going to collapse and he was probably being investigated.)
Delta was doing that to me a few years back. I was so frustrated I called them to complain and actually got the ticket for the price they advertised. Still annoying when you go through the checkout multiple times on different days only to get the same not available anymore alert.
VR for grocery shopping doesn't make much sense, but watching the piece it appears that wasn't the actual goal here. They had been contracted to make a VR model of a store for the purposes of evaluating the layout etc (which does make sense).
> It's so wrong that rich folks can just skip jail.

He hasn't been convicted of a crime. What's wrong is for people who haven't been convicted of a crime to spend time in jail, especially in situations like this where he isn't posing a physical danger to the community (and indeed won't even be leaving the house anyway).