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It’s 100% romanticising the past.

Threads like this always make it painfully obvious how logically-minded and clever tech folks (HN crowd) are really clueless about anything outside their area of expertise.

"Copyright violation" is not a crime. The rights holder can sue you in civil court.

Chinese national security law includes a gag order for such assistance requests.

Apple can say they don’t allow it, because their local partner company is the one actually doing it. And the local partner would say they don’t allow it, because Chinese law (and the Party) requires them to keep all national security assistance secret.

Really? Spam, scams, seo trash, bots and AIs, are utterly rampant.

I don’t want Google and Microsoft to have the keys to the kingdom, but on the other hand, I really want a way to know that I’m having genuine interactions with real people.

I wish government was getting more involved here.

> Fermi’s paradox has two good answers — we don’t see aliens because they don’t exist, or we don’t see them because they are here already.

These are not "good" answers to the Fermi paradox, and definitely not the only answers. Much better answers (in my opinion) are things like: their signals haven't reached us yet; they haven't developed interstellar communications or travel yet; they haven't developed intelligent life yet.

I would think an alien spacecraft carrying the energy and resources needed for interstellar travel (including the return trip) would be pretty obvious and detectable even by amateur astronomers. Instead what we're doing here is chasing at shadows and grasping at straws. Credible reports deserve to be looked into, yes. But what is Grusch alleging here? Existence of a UFO crash retrieval program. Presence of non-human biologics. OK, experimental Soviet or Chinese military technology with dog or cat DNA counts. Of course the US military guards those in secrecy. When we ask, "did you find aliens?" they aren't going to reply with "sorry no aliens, and to prove it, here are the details of all the experimental Soviet/Chinese/US military tech we recovered."

PBS Space Time has a number of great episodes on the subject of aliens, including questions like how do we know whether humans are among the first spacefaring species: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTrFAY3LUNw

I just had the same thing happen last week.

I’m moving away and selling some of our stuff that we can’t take with us. I have a spare 5G/LTE router that I thought I’d throw up on eBay as well as Facebook Marketplace.

I followed their onboarding process to the letter to create a listing, verify my email and mobile phone, add a bank account, etc.

About an hour later I got an email saying I’ve been “permanently suspended because of activity that we believe was putting the eBay community at risk”.

Apparently doing nothing but following their onboarding process is putting the community at risk. They also tell you that “this decision (that was made 100% by an automated system) was not made lightly”.

Get fucked, eBay.

In practice I usually see that when developers finish tasks early, then they don't just sit around doing nothing for the remaining 2-3 days, they pick up new tasks right away. This means there's never a clean "end" to the sprint, it basically just turns into Kanban with scrum ceremonies.

It's quite difficult to get an org comfortable with developers having so much downtime at the end of a sprint where they can spend those days focusing on other stuff.

Yeah I don't think it's fair to compare him that way. Einstein on the other hand benefited a lot from the timing of when he was born and started working in physics. His work was very much built upon that of others... Maxwell discovered the relationship between electromagnetism and light, Michelson inadvertently proved 'c' was a constant, Lorentz described the transformations between frames of reference and effects like time dilation and length contraction. It sounded like Lorentz was on the verge of special relativity but just couldn't accept the universe being that weird. I think what it took was not a super-genius, but someone smart who was willing to embrace the weirdness and take these ideas together to their logical conclusion.

Even if they don't ship to Taiwan yet, I love that they have "中華名國 TWD" for the country+currency selector. Nice one Framework.

They aren't real in the physical sense. Physicists do not believe that the singularity is a real physical phenomena at the centre of a black hole. They are only an artefact of the incomplete maths. When a singularity appears in the math of a theory, it is seen as an error or incompleteness in the theory. GR breaks down and fails to describe what happens at the centre of a black hole. It's like how a "divide by 0" doesn't actually equal "infinity", it's answer is undefined.

It’s not surprising because they are promoting it with, for example, pop ups in Instagram about claiming your username. They already have a wide reach to promote the product.

> On average the amount of trickery in advertising will cancel out and decisions still get made based on the quality and usefulness of the products.

Sorry, what? This sounds like wishful thinking not grounded in reality or data…

Also, most of the marketing totally fails at explaining what passkeys are to both ordinary users AND developers.

What is a passkey? Most material I've read just defines them as a "credential" that is "used as an authentication method." That's it. It's a credential. What kind? Who knows. Only when you arrive at the Apple developer page you finally learn that they are "cryptographic key pairs". And then you start digging into WebAuthn, get a throbbing headache, close your laptop, and do something else productive instead.

Trustpilot also has paid subscriptions where the business can pay to send "review invitations". So a shitty business can get a high aggregate score because they've gamed when to ask for reviews.

My experience is the opposite. Google’s search results are total steaming garbage. The English language doesn’t have enough words to describe just how awful the situation is. And that’s before you disable ublock and realise all their results above the fold now are ads.

The only reason I use Google is because it’s a pretty good Reddit and Wikipedia search engine. It’s the only way to find genuine commentary or feedback about Thing or Subject.

Clearly those are decoy slugs.

For example, as a good senior engineer you could expect to get around 10-14m JPY, _maybe_ up to 16m is possible but a challenge.

Mid-level probably 5-10m.

That’s just based off what I was seeing when I was interviewing and considering a move there. Ultimately decided against it.

I've tried Jellyfin but still using Plex. As much as I hate Plex with a passion, it does work.

Jellyfin is buggy and laggy and full of security issues... it's difficult to even play content on my TV. Music doesn't even play on Android app without some weird jittering bug. Plex just works. It's interface kind of sucks, and it has its occasional hiccups, and they insult your Taiwanese content with "Taiwan, Province of China", but at the very least it does what it claims to do... play my content.

Huawei, and basically every Chinese corporation, should be considered extensions of the communist party as they can be used, willingly or unwilling, for espionage and any other national security purpose the Party compels them to, and they must comply in secret. That’s Chinese national security law.

It’s still feasible. The search space is limited to “The list of known user names” rather than “every possible combination of N characters”. That’s the difference between computable in under an hour vs computable in millions of years.

This is incorrect, according to Apple’s developer docs, which states that only the public key is sent to servers. They emphasise this as a benefit: your key can’t be leaked because servers only ever receive your public key.

The private key never leaves your device except to be encrypted and synced to your other devices using iCloud Keychain.

Even better, give that money directly to creators you like instead.

I don’t feel that YouTube’s abusive copyright takedown system needs funding.

And on mobile they force you to view it through the Reddit app.

Reddit really has become trash. I’ve deleted my accounts and apps. Good riddance.

I’m a fan of Sabine Hossenfelder’s viewpoint on free will.

Our universe, to the best of our knowledge, follows deterministic laws combined with random quantum jumps. Being “random” doesn’t imply that there’s any free will, only that what happens has randomness and you can’t fully predict what comes next.

Our appearance of free will is just an emergent property of the macroscopic system. But if the underlying system is “deterministic but random”, then the macro system must be as well.

Take these recommendations with a grain of salt and make sure you understand the implications of each license.

I wouldn’t add a license unless you specifically want to allow people to copy and use this code, otherwise just ensure that the appropriate copyright notice is present. No license is better than a badly written or badly chosen license — no license already means that all rights are reserved and no rights are given.

> I disagree, I think the Apollo dev would have happily taken the $10 million.

That doesn't mean he was demanding money.

> If Apollo had a standalone community, then it's easy to calculate the value of a user, and a fair price for acquisition

I do agree it's difficult to calculate the value of a user in this case.

Yes, Apollo users are Reddit users, but they are specifically Reddit users who don't use Reddit's official clients. The question is how many of those users will move to Reddit's official app after June 30, and how many will look for alternative platforms that aren't so manipulative and abusive. I for one have deleted my Reddit account and won't be going back.

How do I access my e-mail to reset my passkey when it's also protected by passkey?

The big problem comes when they want to use their crypto horde to buy real world stuff.

Want to buy a house? Now you need to convert your crypto into fiat and a deed transfer. People will start asking where your funds are coming from. This is where you tend to get caught.

I think it’s because many people are quite deeply invested in crypto, and the result is that they can be extremely emotional and irrational. Efforts to regulate crypto and make it “not a scam” essentially means they will have wasted tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars and that is embarrassing and shameful.

They’re locked into irrationally promoting crypto because it’s the only way to protect their “investments” and their dignity.

There's also the fact that it's filled with genocide-denying CCP-apologists, communists, etc. A bit of an ideological cesspool...