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> If they have enough users/make enough money, they'll make their own. Ecosia and Qwant (both european search engines) are working together to make their own index.

"There might be an option in the future if there are sufficient users" is a quite different milestone compared to fully switching away from US-based services.

> Look at Tumblr or even Reddit, that despite being popular, never had influencer culture.

I can't talk about Tumblr, but while Reddit doesn't have an open influencer culture in the same way that TikTok or Instagram do, it does have massive amounts of content marketing. It is very much not the anti-advertising community heaven it appears to be, at least outside of very small subreddits. Taking it as an example of pure socializing is quite optimistic.

> There is no way to keep the other variables like, sport, social interaction, stress and such out of the study.

Sure, but with sufficiently many people, these effects will usually average out. I'm not saying the situation is great, but it's still an important field of study and we need to make progress in some way.

> Some of this is natural (though I don't believe healthy) but I think some of this is due to social media where people expect others to be aware of all their major events.

I sometimes do this despite not posting any personal stuff on social media. The reasoning here is pretty simple, I usually don't have a full list of all the stuff that happened in the last few years in mind. When meeting someone I see more often, it's quite easy to think about the last week/month and start with the noteworthy events; whereas, when meeting someone after a few years, not only do I need to think about what happened, but also which of those events might interest the person in question and what level of detail is appropriate

> Please, CCC, don't send these people on a stage that they don't enjoy when you could also work with them to get their stuff across.

The speakers are not selected by the CCC; they have to apply with a synopsis of their talk.

This is a faceted issue where both sides have valid points. Also, HN is not a single entity.

> Take a look who is they registrar and then look their prices up.

So, in case anyone is interested, their registrar is MarkMonitor Inc., with a pricing of "contact us". The only pricing info I could find [0] said that it's 20$/yr for a .com, but with a minimum spend of 10k$ (probably reached by using their other services, such as the stated purpose of monitoring of trademarks).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063232

False positive would, in this case, mean wrongly identifying an unrelated person a the search target.

> Also I note that half of your argument basically boils down to "it has vulnerabilities". But as bad as that is, it's still not as bad as being exploited.

The point is that it increases your risk of being exploited. With an AV installed there's a lot more code running with extremely high privileges that malware can possibly exploit. While this may be a risk you are willing to take, AV softwares do undoubtedly increase your attack surface and have a history of being exploited.

> (2 hours at 2x speed)

This is such a strange note. It's far too obvious to be meant as a genuine hint, but a snide remark would not fit your otherwise positive comment.

Genuine question, why did you put this in?

A more favorable interpretation would be that the church consists of more than just its worldly parts; its place and use are also part of its identity. Even if you'd completely rebuild the church building, the other parts of its identity would persist. Therefore, the "ship of Theuses" argument doesn't apply, as, in this case, we would never replace all parts of [the identity of] this church.

And the parent comment does not disagree with this. It's just that harsh punishment for executives might not improve the selection - in fact, it might be adverse selection, since increasing the risk will lead actually good people to avoid the position.

Well, it's not great, but it's still a step up from an opaque firmware blob and (maybe?) still allowed under FCC rules.

> regulatory compliance requires that devices which make unlicensed use of radio spectrum (such as Wi-Fi) must contain non-user modifiable software for their radios in order to comply with regulations

Couldn't one restrict the chip to only accept signed firmware and then publish the source with reproduceable build instructions? This would prevent user modification while still being open source.

On the other hand, cars are much less limited in terms of sensor size (allowing you to determine location and acceleration more precisely, for example), power and permissions. In theory, root permission on your phone would be better, but a normal app won't have this amount of far-reaching permissions, but the manufacturerers have full control over hardware and software on your car.

That's fair, but my point is: Irrespective of whether you put 100% or 20% into your work, you should do some planning of your career so that whatever percentage you put into it is reasonably spent. Even when you just plan on spending 10% on your work, planning where you want to end up makes sense.

> they haven't released anything new in two years, after exhausting the backlog of already developed things.

I'm not a Twitter user, so I might miss the lack of some essential features, but it seems to me that the platform is mostly feature-complete. Just further bloating the software for the sake of it is not necessary a good strategy, yet it is one that a lot of startups follow, just because that VC R&D money has to go somewhere.

> This approach to careers fails to take into account that we inherently change as people.

OP very much talks about this in the last few paragraphs, both in that you can't plan exactly and that you need to course correct as things change.

Also, just because it's okay or may happen that you change tracks within your career, it's still a good idea to optimize the track you are currently on and have an idea of where you want to be. Just coasting because you can't possibly plan your life seems like a strictly inferior option.

I return, you can actually fit most desktop cases in 5U or even 4U, if you have something to stack them onto. Just be careful with possibly covered side vents.

If you have a sufficiently stable network and/or known failure cases, you can already tune TCP quite a bit with nodelay, large congestion windows etc.. There's also QUIC, which basically is a modern implementation of TCP on top of UDP (with some trade-offs chosen with HTTP in mind). Once you stray too far, you'll loose the ability to use off-the-shelve hardware, though, at which point you'll quickly hit the point of diminishing returns - especially when simply upgrading the speed of the network hardware is usually a cheap alternative.

One thing I missed at first is that a phased array uses multiple spherical waves, but the result is actually a plane wave. Knowing this, how it works actually becomes a lot clearer.

> I wonder why Fibre Channel isn't used as a replacement for TCP in the datacenter

But it is often used for block storage in datacenters. Using it for anything else is going to be hard, as it is incompatible with TCP.

The problem with not using TCP is the same thing HOMA will face - anything already speaks TCP, nearly all potential hires know TCP and most problems you have with TCP have been solved by smart engineers already. Hardware is also easily available. Once you drop all those advantages, either your scale or your gains need to be massive to make that investment worth it, which is why TCP replacements are so rare outside of FAANG.

> The over abundance of resources has made the majority of software engineers lazy.

I don't think "lazy" is the right word, it's just that cheap hardware makes most optimizations not worthwhile. Why spend weeks optimizing an application, costing thousands of dollars and potentially introducing a lot of complexity bugs, when paying 50$ instead of 5$ for a server is also an option? Not to mention the importance of time to market and the time value of money (even if the server cost will armotize, spending the money later might be worth it).

There obviously is some laziness and useless complexity in our industry, but a lot of it simply is the rational choice. We all love the ingenuity of assembler-hacking the last few bits of performance out of the CPU, but for most usescases, this is simply wasted effort.

> Also, I'm skeptical how much better modern hardware will fare in deep space conditions, considering the use of finer and more fragile electronics.

Since then, we had massive advantages in manufacturing. Maybe COTS parts aren't as usable in space as they were back then, but we can now easily manufacture something more resilient or, as a fallback, simply use those old parts. Also, basically all current electronics are designed to be and are used on earth ~100% of the time. Over-engineering it for use in space is just a waste.

It's explained in the article:

> Fortunately for Spivack and the Arch Mission Foundation, spewing DNA and water bears across the moon is totally legal. NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection classifies missions based on the likelihood that their targets are of interest to our understanding of life. As such, missions destined for places like Mars are subject to more stringent sterilization processes than missions to the Moon, which has few of the necessary conditions for life and isn’t at risk of contamination. In fact, Spivack isn’t even the first to leave DNA on the moon. This honor belongs to the Apollo astronauts, who left nearly 100 bags of human feces on the lunar surface before they returned to Earth.

> and it's a great place for investments & startups, so even if Polymarket isn't licensed to operate in the US it still makes sense for them to be there.

Well, maybe for startups in general, but it apparently didn't work out for Polymarket. Also, it's probably a better case if you're just not targeting US customers, rather than being actually forbidden from trading with US customers.

> Similarly, movies named after a protagonist have a title drop rate of 88.5% while only 34.2% of other movies drop their titles.

What is much more interesting is that 11.5% of movies named after their protagonist never mention them by name. I guess I can imagine a few edge cases where this would be usual (protagonists not usually called by their name due to their position, like kings, and movies with little talking), but it's surprising that there are that many.

Not really, since the geography is quite important as to how the conflict evolved and where the conflict zones are.

If you already know the area, why would you need your nav to direct you to the alternative route instead of just driving it?

> 3. Defend your trademarks vigorously from day one. Being lenient in the hope of free brand awareness will bite you.

As far as I see, he did defend his trademark - he just had some very reasonable rules under which you could use it (like saying that you're hosting WordPress).

He then walked back on those rules to attack WPEngine for his personal vendetta.