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> What about Europa (.eu)?

.eu is already the ccTLD if the European Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eu
reminds me of fusion energy promises, or at least "the bottomless money pit". The science is solid, but the engineering challenges delayed even proof-of-concept experiment literally until next century.
If weebs are in, then I am out. Consider this my final farewell. Mods don't even ban AYAYA anymore. 40 year old men thinking they are little anime girl. Thinking they are cuties
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My solution is to make it less of a walled garden. At the moment, they often refuse even reading a single tweet when not logged in.

And for the "simply log-in": It is even more expensive (way more expensive) to get good email adresses as it is to get good IPs. Email providers have very tough checks these days before they give you one.
Let's think about the life path of academia:

K-12, Post Secondary, Teaching...

Maybe a vacation or two in there...

They've never truly existed outside the school system, and in many ways never grew out of it. In many ways, academics stay kids thier entire lives.

When you look at school children's behavio and the politics of high school, it all makes sense that academia is highly "political" in the most childish manner.
That's because they like doing research, not because if they don't do it they'll get fired. If they wanted they could just take that time off, they have tenure after all. No classes basically means no work outside of the work that you want to do.
I think "corporate applications" are different from "production infrastructure" and "developer tooling"
Databag – tiny self-hosted federated messenger for the decentralized web
> how can it know it’s doing that for me and not for someone claiming to be me?

By emailing you a OTP :)
Let's say I give you 10 tasks. You're going to have to go back and forth with external stakeholders, and a given task will be blocked much of the time waiting for a response. So you can do each of them concurrently, but it's gunnuh take a year to do each of them.

But the next day I come to you with an 11th task. I tell you this is the only one that matters. I give you full license to blow through your budget, harass people until they get their paperwork done, whatever it takes - this is the only priority. So you get right to work, and with all the blockers cleared you get it done in 6 months.

"Great," I say, "so you can do all them that fast right? And when I come back in 6 months, all of the original 10 tasks will be done?"

But of course they won't be, because you don't have the resources you had before, the external stakeholders aren't as motivated as they were before, and instead of putting all your effort into 1 task you're going to be spreading it across 10.
On linux at least, and probably most other unixes, it is implemented with fork/exec. In fact, there are two execs, one to start the shell, and one for the shell to start the actual program. And depending on your command, and the shell implementation you might have another fork as well.
So, observing a problem is no more complicated than becoming aware that it exists. That's the only interaction necessary to invoke ethical liability. How does then pretending you didn't observe it release you from anything?
I didn't say there was a course that did both; in practice these things would depend on what the professor/assistants are personally researching.

The school I went to definitely did the FPGA bit as there was a research team looking into FPUs at the time. I don't think we did any LLVM, though one of the teaching assistants I was friends with was excited about it as he was specifically researching SSA transformations, but most of my exposure to that must have been outside of class.

That school specializes in theoretical computer science so I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone willing to do practical things, nor can I vouch for the quality of any remaining practical bits today.

In practice I don't really know where to get a good computer science education. It seems computer architecture has become optional in quite a few top-ranking institutions as well. And they tend to follow trends like the whole AI fad. Your best bet is to research what kind of research the associated people do.
I do body weight exercises and stretch every day. They are easy to do during breaks from coding, and don't require any special equipment.

I am really fond of the L-sit as it works so many muscle groups and makes for a strong core. It's something you may have to work up to though.

I also meditate. It is great for concentration and overall well-being.
Completely agree with your comment.

What makes me annoyed about statements like "this will reduce the amount of child labour used to produce X" is that they're almost never followed up with an explanation on how to deal with the fallout of the loss of income for the affected families. It's a marketing strategy to make consumers feel good about not supporting child labour, not about improving the lives of those children.

I didn't include it in my comment, but my suggestion would be to put a tax on a product like this that is used to replace the lost income of these families.

It would have to be global to reach a scale that would have the required impact, which means that it will, unfortunately, never happen.
I like the fucking-around/finding-out graph. It looks realistic to me (implicitly assuming the right kind of fucking around). And yes, tighten your feedback loops.
The Dark Side of the Moon Redux
As someone who has been feeling various back pains at the ripe old age of 25, I appreciate this article greatly.
and prison terms should be in proportion to life expectancy. 15 years for arson if committed by a 20 yr old, and 2.5 if committed by a 70 year old. makes sense to me. oh wait ...
Your comment makes something that happens quite rarely (1-5% based on agent, and not quickly) seem like it happens quite frequently.
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This will have many false positives. Especially if the address is from a mobile network.
That's not their job, and if it was they'd be far less effective at maintaining safety in chemical processes.

Assigning blame usually results in more arse-covering and indirection than disaster reduction. See also: NTSB.
Clearly HN does not seem to like this idea so much. But I do have to ask, what exactly do you propose as a solution to the massive, growing hordes of drug addicted zombies in west coast cities? You can't tell me that this problem doesn't exist, anyone who's been to a west coast city knows it's very real. The past 20 years of the "compassion" approach or whatever is clearly a total disaster. At what point do we just say "these people are a danger to society and they need to be off the damn streets?" Because that strikes me as the most realistic solution. We're not gonna be able to stop the illicit flow of fentanyl into our society.
Ah yes, let’s go back to the days of Thalidomide.

For those that don’t know, the 1962 change is the Kefauver–Harris Amendment, which was a response to one of, if not the, largest overall global crisis of conscience in the medical field. From Wikipedia: “When first released, thalidomide was promoted for anxiety, trouble sleeping, "tension", and morning sickness.” After some time it became increasing obvious that while it worked, it caused birth defects in pregnant or soon to be pregnant women, with its manufacturers actively trying to quash the information about such cases; again, from Wikipedia: “Use of thalidomide in pregnancy can cause fetal abnormalities such as phocomelia (malformation of the limbs). In males who are taking the medication, contraception is essential if a partner could become pregnant.”

Thalidomide disfigurements were disturbing. Children born with these disfigurements were not linked to Thalidomide until much later. Thalidomide was in fact not allowed a safety regulation by the FDA initially. It wasn’t until the company producing it, Grünenthal, pressured the FDA. You see, the FDA reviewer for the medication was leery about it after some reports had floated over her desk about a possible remote risk that this could potentially cause birth defects. Grünenthal’s international licensee to the US refused to explain multiple papers that linked Thalidomide usage in pregnant women to birth defects.

As it turns out, not only had Grünenthal known about the issue they had actively worked to silence the information, a ploy that worked until a major change in leadership in Germany.

It was denied usage in East Germany.

For a longer documentary on the subject and how it changed medical safety testing, Plainly Difficult has a very good video on it: https://youtu.be/Vi03zz6eCik

(Note: I am explicitly ignoring the context that the Thalidomide development program was run by an actual Nazi who was responsible for unethical and frankly awful experience on unwilling human subjects in concentration camps. If anything, it only amplifies his concern to hide adverse effects, which he did quite successfully until the company was given what can only be considered “A slap in the face”.)
kleeGPT has a ring to it!
> According to my chiropractor, sitting for long periods of time had led to my stomach and thigh muscles being relatively unused, and therefore unable to assist my back in supporting my body, putting it under extra strain.

This is reasonable - getting up often and walking or stretching is good for you. However I wouldn't rely on chiropractors for medical advice.
Totally agree, either physical or mental health problems is the most dangerous risk we face. Doing or not doing something over a long period of time can have serious consequences.
This is some dumb second order Bayesian reasoning. You’re declaring a prior for arbitrary random variables as if their distributions themselves are sampled from a distribution. They are not.

You cannot be certain that seven random things multiplied together is close to zero. That statement is very obviously wrong.

Further “near zero” is a misleading term at best because it neglects to mention that we are multiplying it by a large number to get an expected value.
> The incentive isn't to cure but to treat. The Market wants (repeat) customers.

I am fed up with this argument.

Compared to a recurring treatment, a cure will:

- destroy the competing recurring treatment

- sell particularly well initially, when you still have the patent, potentially at a high price

- not stop the influx of repeat customers, since as long as people are alive, they will need medicine, and people who are now healthy because you cured them will be more likely to have a well paying job that will pay for expensive drugs

If that argument was true, no one would do vaccines, especially considering that most vaccines are not particularly expensive.
>having users authenticate with a sample of their DNA.

I know it's not your point and I agree with everything you're saying in this thread 100%, but DNA based login would be a username, not a password. Like all biometrics. And it'd have a really bad false positive rate if you're just doing restriction enzyme cut location tests like lots of "police work". A full exome scan ~$300-500/per might do it.
Author is wrong in many ways.

All post reads like Dunning-Kruger case, he seems to know quite some stuff but also misses 3rd party cookies. Overly focuses on weak passwords completely skipping password leaks or just mentioning password reuse.

Ignoring that TOTP is actually decent interface for getting non technical and not caring at all users use random high entropy secrets. Getting regular people to keep some generated random strings won’t work.

In the end ignoring all experience of industry which is:

leaked passwords and email lists can be used in password spraying attacks where specific user is not targeted it is just opportunistic low hanging fruit automated exploitation.

Then those easy exploitable accounts in services can be used to ask connected users for loans or financial help as a scam.
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This is not a cogent response. Differences between federal and state law are irrelevant. Per my last post, state institutions have parity.
Have you ever written anything big before?

"It may span multiple volumes due to the amount of content you'd need to cover."

This sounds like one of those never ending projects that seem like a good idea at the time, but once you start putting in the work, you realize you bit off way more than you can chew...
Unclear to me why clinical trials seem unavailable to him, which is how he would gain access to these treatments. The major cancer centers generally will have options for his exact situation, though sometimes they require he finish conventional and salvage treatments first.
> - we lose contact with people because they get locked out of their email

This is a temporary condition, and they can create another email or communicate via other means. If some part of your life is highly dependent on a single email address remaining 100% available, you've made a mistake already.

> - we pay more in bank account fees to subsidise fraud compensation

I have a feeling that if you got rid of passwords, new forms of fraud would become prevalent, and the fees would remain. Humans are humans, taking away the password does not insulate them from their own basic nature.

> - we have our personal information stolen because others chose weak passwords

It's the same issue as above. Your information has value, so it will be sought out by people who wish to exploit it. Social engineering exists and won't go away just because we got rid of a single token based mechanism.

> Given how much we suffer from other peoples' poor choices,

It's a poor choice to be dependent on email or to give your personal information away to every single form that asks for it. You can balk at the external factors if you like, but you won't solve anything by it.
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Sorry to hear that. I've been crushed in very similar ways. I'm certain you'll bounce back.

In the meantime, remember there's more to life than work, and you have more to offer the world than just the products you produce.

Take the opportunity to learn, when the time is right to revisit things.

Take some time away if you can. Try not to linger on it. It gets easier with each day.

Oh, and get the hell away from Twitter :)
I understand that the people who claim this don't provide any evidence. But do you have any pointers for the claim that it is not true?
When son #3 was 10, he and I went camping - we both still have a vivid memory of listening to this episode while sitting in front of the cabin.

The episode was so iconic, I used to use it to intro people to TAL. I'd wager they all remember it.
Everything they make runs OPENSTEP, basically.
Yes, pet projects is research. For me at least it's a holiday, I get to set my hours, I can do what I want, read what I want, be where I want. That sounds like a holiday to me.
It’s AGPL licensed which is interesting. Much like Redmine this means modifications or customizations are a license violation unless shared correct? I wonder if these licenses are hurting the adoption of OSS alternatives for enterprise software
Stand more than you sit.

Get 10k steps a day to help keep diabetes away.

This health crisis is a slow moving disaster.

How much higher than 50% obesity rates will it have to get before people care?
Not sure about academic history, but in a single volume, this does a good job on early 20th century computer history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory
When I worked on a code signing app, I had front row seats to how magical everyone thinks certificates are. It took me several years to convince the group that they aren't that complicated.

I think the world would be a better place if LetsEncrypt had come into being about five years earlier.
Are you saying that the editorial board doesn't choose who, and what, to publish? Because I didn't say "this article was written by the editorial board" which is what you seem to be arguing against. I said that this article is consistent with WSJ's agenda.
governments need to balance their budget

many do, even ones with big pensions programs and social safety nets

even many currently indebted ones have before

government revenues via passive rent seeking behaviors of other people’s production are not the only ways governments have raised revenues before
I think there's on assumption being made here which ought to be challenged. Laptops are widely used, but they are not great coding environments. They were created to enable portability, but the way it mostly gets used promotes terrible habits, posture, handpositions, viewing angles, all of the above. If given a choice I would opt for a desktop and live with the portability restrictions it comes with. Of course it is an increasingly uncommon choice. The next best thing is to use the laptop docked but closed, and have separate peripherals: monitors, keyboard, mouse.
Re: bank account fees. I think OC was just making the point that one institutions’ lack of security practices gets passed to the entire system as a way to offset fraud costs, we all universally eat this stupid cost.

An example of this is chargeback fraud on marketplaces. The way the fraud works is someone buys a bunch of credit card numbers off of the dark web due to some websites’ bad security practices and a data breach. The fraudster then ATOs a merchant account on some marketplace platform or makes a fake account, e.g. Doordash, Airbnb, Shopify, etc. The ATO is usually possible because some subset of the merchants of the platform use the same passwords on another website that has been compromised, again, some data set is sold on the deep web. The fraudster then either has to change the payout method of the marketplace merchant account, which they can usually do by ATOing an acquiring bank that they can access the funds in some way, again due to another external institution with tenuous security practices.

Finally the fraudster charges all the stolen credit cards and in most cases leaves the platform taking the liability. This results in the platform pushing up take rates against their merchant accounts, which almost always gets passed back to the consumers of the service (us) by increasing the prices of the service.

The problem with passwords is that we expose ourselves to everyone else’s negligence. You might handle passwords with all the best security practices to be known but you expose yourself and your users to every other system’s incompetence. It wasn’t until I saw this play out, that I understood passwords aren’t just a disservice to the negligent compromised user but really to the whole ecosystem of the internet that partakes in password authentication.

Yes, there is always a trade off in security and friction. This has always been true. But if we know passwords are faulty and essentially useless, why continue with such a bad practice? To reduce friction to a maximal extent? By that logic we might as well throw out the concept of security altogether. Why not just make it so a user only has to enter their email/username and nothing else? Let me know how that goes for you. I think webauthn is likely the sustainable, long term solution but we’ve got a ways to go before some of the inane thinking around password preservation dies out.
> It's easy to say "people who have no other options should get access to experimental treatments" but the problem is that people who have other options want those too, because nobody wants to go through chemotherapy or whatever.

I reserve for myself the right to try to save my own life, even if that means some people who can't handle that responsibility make things worse for themselves. I can't get from, "but other people might hurt themselves" to "therefore you simply have to die, sorry."

No, I think we just have to be straightforward about this; I don't want anybody to purchase snake oil, but that possibility does not move me to eliminate options for myself or my family.
Article is broken if you have JS from cloudfront denied.
I didn't read the article that way. I think that SV is simply the current catalyst of tech being used to try and justify decreases in quality and/or number for labor. Hollywood seems to either be huffing the same AI fumes or at least want people to believe they have for this iteration.

I guess we'll see how the dust settles
I’m happy enough with the Apple App Store.

What I’m not interested in is living among a lot of app stores. I don‘t want to learn disparate rules for trial periods, refund policies, subscription renewal notices, etc.

That said, I want to feel like I own my hardware and OS and side-loading or native installs are required for that.
I can tell you having worked at a majority SaaS-type of companies my entire career the amount of "updates" we put out is as frequent, or less, than the previous model. Despite working in the industry (it's impossible to avoid as you likely know) I encourage nearly everyone I know to find other options before paying for software subscriptions.

It's about money. It's not about updates. It's taking away ownership from people in order to be able to drive up profits. Consider how normal software sales works. It's the same way. You lease enterprise-grade software to a company. Every year, as if by magic, something comes up and "prices need to increase". They just hacked off a zero or two and adapted this price model to the consumer. I fail to see how SaaS is not another variation of "Embrace, extend, extinguish" where the entrapment phase of extinguish is taken to it's natural conclusion: no ownership. Worse, you pay 5, 10, 20 times as much over time. Many companies capitalize on the subscription being priced such that you forget about it. Also known as the gym model.

The only acceptable SaaS model to me is JetBrain's. You pay a subscription and at the end of that term you own that version of the software permanently. You may continue to pay (because you find the product valuable) but you are not required to. At the end, you still own what you paid for. The truth is, SaaS provides very little value to people for what they pay.

An example: in 5 years you would've paid for a copy of AutoCAD inventor in full + some just leasing the worse Fusion360 over the same time period. If you are a sucker and buy into Inventor's SaaS pricing you would've paid for 5-8 copies at the previous model in the same time period. That type of capture is called theft in other modalities. 9/10 people would've never needed to pay for all the extra crap they saddle on in order to make the price seem "reasonable". They exist solely because the can extort (not capitalize) on the moat they have.

One day we'll look at this model of owning nothing as one of the greatest failings of our society. It's probably an unpopular opinion here at HN but SaaS is an awful anti-consumer model. We can hope that somehow we define what "providing sufficient utility" means and start cracking down on this.
But clearly what they want is to remain within society, otherwise they would have simply run off into the wilderness on their own accord.
It can be a bit of marketing. I just want to show the achievement. I bootstrapped this project with a couple of forks. As I said, I wanted to build an Amazon Go like tech with less as I don't have millions. if you are interested how I did it. We used 4 security cameras and fed camera streams to 2 Jetson Orin devices. We developed a 3D perception model to track people and generate events when people pick items from the shelf. No face detection. This is a 8x8 store mock store. hardware cost is less than $5000. The system is ready for deployment in any airport micro store or sports arena. It may be needed to fine-tune the model to fit the environment.

Bottom line, real-time computer vision applications are possible and create value without spending a lot of money.