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> We seem to have gone from FB being the enabler and hero of 'arab spring' to now being accused of being a tool of darker forces against states.

Well, (1) you may have confused FB with Twitter in regard to the Arab Spring (both were involved, but Twitter seemed to get more credit at the time), (2) the Arab Spring itself was a set of anti-State uprisings, and (3) in Myanmar, the atrocities FB is accused of facilitating were committed by, rather than against, the State.
Are there extensions with a stronger memory model by at very low cost (matching the one of x86)? If not, we might not get excellent perf with x86 emulated by arm in the multithread & multicore era we are.
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From the article:

"He recalled one incident where Facebook detected that people were trying to spread “sensational messages” through Facebook Messenger to incite violence on both sides of the conflict. He acknowledged that in such instances, it’s clear that people are using Facebook “to incite real-world harm.” But in this case, at least, the messages were detected and stopped from going through."

Notable: "through Facebook Messenger"

So one extrapolates that FB actively monitors private conversations carried on Messenger.
That also explains the abnormally low response time of CloudFlare's solution compared to the 2nd and 3rd place solutions; the geo-location lookups require more time to reach and resolve a decision and thus represent an increase in response time from the resolver (in exchange for improved latency in all future communications to the target server).
It raises a few 'who' questions, besides 'who is sending these messages?' but also 'who receives that alert and makes the decision to block these things?' and 'who's in charge of the heuristics the system uses to identify these behaviors?'
Just pointing out how you can siphon off massive amounts of money from passive investors because they invest in a certain fixed way. Smart entrepreneur (he's smart after all) would also likely raise his capital from a wealthy family office, thus take very few risks himself.

Private equity roll-ups are another example -- you buy one amazing asset at 15x earnings, roll up a few other ok or "meh" businesses that you can buy at 5 to 10x earnings, and go public with a group that then trades at 20x earnings. Preferably while loading it up with a ton of debt before going public. Who buys that? Why your pension fund, of course.
> What are some downsides I'm missing?

Maybe forcing owners to give up equity in their business just because their valuation hit some magic number? Keep in mind that not all $5B companies are Silicon Valley, VC-funded startups, and some founders still retain the majority (or in rare cases 100%) of their equity.

I also think you're over-exaggerating the benefits. None of those things seem like problems that need fixing.
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If its bad for Democracy and I believe in Democracy; I'm going to delete that shit.

And for those that do not delete it; it needs to be regulated.

Today its completely clear, Mark Zuckerberg lacks the willingness to self regulate and does not appreciate the damage his platform has done to our society.

FB isn't a detainee nor a victim.
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Acquisitions for a company's data is not something that's limited to China.
> "This work includes a dedicated Safety Page for Myanmar, a locally illustrated version of our Community Standards, and regular training sessions for civil society and local community groups across the country." [1]

Obviously I don't speak Burmese, but given Facebook has been weaponized for hatred and ethnic cleansing, a one-page cartoon PDF seems more than a little inadequate.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/safety/resources/myanmar

[2] https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/15516483_3...
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It would be in line with their warnings on 32-bit apps. You certainly wouldn’t want to have to continue supporting 32-bit as a first-class development target when you’re about to change your entire architecture.
> This wouldn't be the case this time.

I don't think we can make that assumption here. I would be very surprised if the ARM chips they put in desktops are identical to the ones they put in phones.

For one, the power budget is going to be a lot larger (even for a notebook), and power is roughly equivalent to speed.
Right, given the *soft in the name, Microsoft has never seen itself as a hardware company and every move it has made into hardware (except Nokia) was reluctant and to fill a need for software they couldn't convince hardware friends to make at scale for them.

Microsoft started building mice because they wanted to add a wheel to them to make working in Office applications better.

Microsoft started building 2-in-1 tablet laptops (Surface) because they'd been calling it the future for a decade and no one was paying attention.

For the most part Microsoft's hardware strategy is at its best in "if you build it, they will come (and copy it as soon as they understand why you built it)" mode.
I'll change 'the' to 'a' as both FB & Twitter were lauded in the western media.
Most religions basically declare base intentions of humans and there instincts holy. Its gods will that you procreate in numbers.
Yet, they always get to shirk the consequences of the social dynamite they piled up.

The irony is- this even happens, when there is no other ethnicy around to blame- in mono-ethnic societys. The religions having created the critical mass, will split along other social rifts or sects, and the whole butchering goes on, until the population reduced itself to numbers that allow for about 1.5 generations peace before the cycle is repeated.

And this is not unhuman and monstrous. This. is. what. we . were. and. are. And staying in this cycle optimizes us towards speeding it up. Fermi could have a field day here.

The only way to break out of this cycle is by overfullfilling all ressource demands of a potentially exponentially growing species or by hacking the cycle supporting behaviour.
> marijuana, alcohol, tobacco and other "drugs"

are all unhealthy for kids.
I find your response interesting. Thank you.

I think that the nature of the context can vary a lot. Some art speaks to people on a primal level, and the context is shared human experience. Other art needs more shared cultural context. Then there's art that requires the context of the artist's life to really move you.

In short, I concede your point that context matters. I think it can and does vary quite a bit.

I still don't want to conflate works requiring the context of knowing and understanding the artist with thinking a work is deep because the artist is well regarded.
And if you are willing to depend on Rust code, there's also a C++ symbol demangler written in Rust... :)

http://fitzgeraldnick.com/2017/02/22/cpp-demangle.html
I don't see anywhere in the article where Windows is going away or no longer being invested in... if anything it's going to get more focused on in terms of a pure client OS perspective than some mixed bag of services + built-in apps + OS.

This should be good for Windows as it will focus on what it's good for.. being the base system for drivers, windowing, app launching, etc. While the services/cloud gets decoupled from it allowing more flexibility for their developers/programs to work across multiple platforms.
I'm not a chip designer, but how practical would it be for Apple to try to make a CPU that has good hardware support for both ARM and x86/x86-64 binaries?

It's a radical direction, but they are designing the chip by themselves and for themselves, they have deep pockets, and if it worked well it would reduce an important risk.

There are already several chips capable of running multiple instruction sets. Most desktop machines have chips that can run either x86 or x84-64. Some(?) ARM chips have a Thumb mode. So that seems very practical, and obviously there is a bigger "impedance mismatch" when trying to do both x86 and ARM on the same chip, how much worse is it?

If you could do some kind of hardware real-time instruction translation without wasting much silicon and without reducing performance (for x86) that much, it seems like it would take a lot of the pain out of the transition.
Looks like I have a new Chocolatey package to create and push up when I get home tonight.
Produces? Are you sure you don’t mean designs?
Microsoft really should have pursued creating a version of Windows specifically for gaming. I imagine there are lot of users who only use Windows for that purpose.
What's the advantage of using a ProcessPoolExecutor over just using multiprocessing? Is it that there's a single interface that you can use for both threads and processes?
They could make a Linux distro, a "yellow box" for Linux. I know it sounds totally ridiculous, but if Apple really doesn't want to make computers for software engineers, it doesn't stop them making an OS for software engineers.
Going public is super expensive. Are you saying the state should pay companies to go public?
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A GTX 1060 would still be useful for someone who wants to learn more about GPU programming, practice and start working on ideas they might have.
Did you try reaching out to Troy Hunt, by chance? In the event of failed response from the site, I would maybe pass breaches to him, as he seems to be fairly successful at getting responses from breached organizations, and has an effective setup for notifying those breached.

Good work, in any case.
> Nadella is (rightly, imo) focusing more on o365 and Azure.

Windows is a perfect example of no focus at all. Maybe this makes sense for a true mainstream OS.

To be honest, I wonder if Azure, Exchange online or Office 365 can really be their future. Why not use AWS, Scaleway or a local service. It's cheaper and better.
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exception - something excepted; an instance or case not conforming to the general rule.

An invalid argument parameter is certainly an exception. Human readable exceptions are a much better solution than the alternatives, such as return codes or returning null. What other solution would you propose? The only thing that could improve this even more is if the parameter named itself were visible, i.e. "buffer cannot be null" rather than "Value cannot be null"
Why? A lot of these parts are commodetized. Are they really getting that much better battery life from their own stuff?
As long as Facebook still aggressively and effectively policies its platforms for violations of its reactionary puritanical agenda, nothing they say about the difficulties of policing hate speech and other hateful propaganda is in any way credible.
I found 'The Basics of Process Mapping' by Robert Damelio quite useful when starting out.
I like NewsBlur. The site training system is very effective at filtering out stuff that I don’t want to see and it has reasonable mobile apps for both android and iOS.

It’s probably one of the more expensive of the hosted options though.
Why is it so important that our motivations be concern for future generations? We're people, too.
Batteries are of varying quality and constituent purity, this is not a conclusive observation.
Xbox One supports it natively (via good old USB) as of a "silent" update a year ago or so. Not all games support it (for various reasons of engines and developer preference), but you might be surprised the ones that do.
Which means it's not a big stretch for iOS, either, since it's built on top of MacOS.
I think the people selling anti-depressants would see themselves at helping the person in a weak position, since the medicine could potentially relieve them of some or all symptoms. The line of "abuse" is very hard to draw when someone is willingly buying and using a product designed to have value.
It's also possible that Panera would prosecute you for hacking their systems, if they were able to identify you. Better to be safe and disclose anonomyously.
While a noise gate is an obvious starting point, I suspect that much smarter filters are possible. A wide range of design choices are possible that trade CPU <-> complexity <-> accuracy. If a high error rate (including "no data") is acceptable, a filter might simply default to "off" when any unusual condition like "noise gate has been on continuously for 15 minutes" is detected.

If I was designing this kind of spyware, I would put a hard limit that cuts off uploading any "extra" data after sending some low multiple of the "legitimate" data.
I understand where you're coming from and what you mean. I even understand why some people, reading the original comment, would stop after the confusing and inflammatory statement and not finish reading the rest of the fine comment.

It's possible that such people might be best served to read the rest of the comment and cogitate for a moment before objecting.

In this context, I found that the parent comment covers health, safety, anti-trust, and more under the umbrella of improving market function. I understand that others may have arrived at a different understanding of the comment.
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Maybe an advertisement re-direct for NXDOMAINS?
A deeply connected world is a more volatile world [1].

We're on the cusp of understanding that - if we're lucky.

[1] http://www.niallferguson.com/journalism/miscellany/why-twitt...
So I read your links. How is Angela Kerr's job any different than a spam filter function? We've got production grade techniques for handling that now, and without going into technical details everything you mentioned as being in her set of tasks could be implemented using ML and NLP techniques, most of them not even that cutting edge. In many ways, an algorithmic approach could do her job better because some "crackpot" articles will not be crackpot but genius and if you give researchers the ability to tweak the filter settings by adjusting sensitivity / specificity to their own tastes you're mathematically guaranteed to increase the likelihood of getting the next breakthrough out there.

The actual problem, which I think you implicitly identify when talking about Nature and Cell, is the "prestige" factor. As long as researchers are motivated by a prestige level of a journal b/c they may fear being ostracized by their peers or not getting recognition for their research - which has monetary and career costs involved - I think it will be very difficult to convince anyone to switch, regardless of how effective the platform could be.

I haven't thought about that problem before so I'm not sure how to address it as of now.
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Arguably, gaming on an Xbox is still gaming on Windows so it's a funny option to pick if the goal is to avoid Windows. ;)
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Yeah but they don't give 2 signing bonuses right? That seems downright weird from a terminology perspective... how can you legally have 2 signing bonuses if you sign only once? :)
I think the point the parent is making is that standards are being applied unevenly.

On Twitter, for example, there are a host of accounts that have been banned for seemingly harmless activity while other accounts with much more serious issues remain active.

Despite it being easier to report violations on Twitter (taking your word for it...I have no personal experience), standards aren't being applied fairly. That undermines the whole point of standards.
Could you at least try to make your point?

All I said was that the act of loading/unloading etc. would be done by different people than the truck driver.

Also, we already have semi-automated warehouses, it is not unimaginable that the drones driving around with boxes could be adapted to able to help load a truck. Probably with the help of another machine. Not saying that this process needs to be void of any human at all - just that the truck driver wouldn't be part of it.

I really didn't say that the inventory work would just disappear - it would just be moved from the truck driver.
Chrome is, actually, not scanning files on my computer. Because I don't run Chrome on my computer.

This is very much a no-thanks piece of functionality. If I already have malware scanning software, the last thing I want other apps doing is also scanning my entire file system. I'm mostly on SSDs now which significantly reduces the performance hit, but still.

I would also note this is a serious concern with the whole trend for auto-updating "evergreen" software. Without you even knowing, your browser software may decide to load up a different company's antivirus engine without even giving you so much as a heads up about it. You have to be aware of what companies you grant this type of access to, because once they have it, they essentially have complete control of your computer.
Move fast. Break things.
What's your take on Gmail then?
If the state used that argument, it wouldnt be able to run lotteries.

It is, as many other measures, used by some to profit at the expense of others. Investors have their competition blocked, and ignorant. If a company had the opportunity to go public a lot earlier, they would gain massive leverage over the traditional investors, which means better terms and cheaper money.

Cryptocurrency showed precisely the opposite: it showed the tremendous pent-up demand for investments that regulations forbid. And the best way to reduce fraud is to increase competition. Who wants to invest in cryptokitties when the other startup has actuall revenue and sales and asks for less money than the latest ICO?

Figure 100% of YC companies ICO'ing in comparison to what ICO's are today. It would be massive amounts of cash with al ot less strings attached.
Apparently he tried talking with Panera directly. First contact was 6 months ago. The vulnerability still exists so he decided to release it publically. I think that's reasonable.
Frequently, the rental car facilities are some distance from the airport, and the airport is just gatekeeping a bus service to the off-site rental facility. I don't think that land that facility lies on is a very scarce resource.

Having a driver meet you with a car at the terminal is a much better experience IMO, whether it's a taxi, a Lyft, or a rental. If the pickup area is too congested, the airport should address that problem directly with a toll to access that area. A targeted ban that happens to help incumbents in a particular industry doesn't seem like the best way.
Facebook is notorious from both ends of this, it seems. I've had a Facebook marketplace post taken down with no explanation other than a copy of the guidelines, I appealed, and now my marketplace posts simply don't get seen by other people, even if they search for them. I've had a friend's account get suspended for a meme that pissed some people off, while a legit neo-Nazi group that had Swastikas on the page I had reported months earlier for making comments about the extinction of the pure white race was still up. It seems they only police enough to claim they do. They don't actually do much that anyone is happy with.
Someone hasn't read the Old Testament. God mellowed out when he had a kid, but before that he smote entire cities. Sometimes God did it himself. Sometimes God ordered Israelites to commit genocide.
There are other companies (like https://www.carhireexcess.co.uk/) who will insure against that £1000 excess for very little money.
There's Windows for ARM, so important Windows applications will be recompiled to ARM and those who stay behind probably can take that performance hit.
So, you write down the formal requirements you have of an operating system (with aggressive auto-updates enabled, or disabled, as the customer chooses) once, on a piece of paper, and hope that they don't change?

Your method seems impractical in the extreme in a commercial team environment.
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"Indeed, when I asked the company whether it would permit an external audit of its News Feed workflow and algorithms to prove that there are no hidden or inadvertent biases against stories critical of itself, a company spokesperson repeated its statement that it believed there were no biases, but did not respond to two separate requests asking whether it would permit an external audit to prove it.

...

Machine learning approaches are especially troubling, as the company continues to refuse to release any information about the functioning and accuracy of its models, even as they play an ever-greater role in shaping what two billion people can see and talk about in its walled garden.

Most recently, when asked about its efforts to train machine learning models to autonomously decide what is "fake news," the company responded that it was using a large number of signals (though it declined to elaborate on the full list of signals used) to train computerized models to fully autonomously scan what is being posted and discussed on Facebook and identify new stories the algorithms believe are false - all without any human intervention.

...

Despite controlling what nearly a quarter of the earth's population sees and says online in its walled garden, the company has survived nearly a decade and a half of privacy outcries without ever having to open up and give its users even the slightest insight into how they are being manipulated, moderated and commercialized.

...

Putting this all together, Facebook's utopian vision has devolved into a surveillance dystopia in which even its programmer creators can't be certain how or why it makes the decisions it does.

In the end, the telescreen's of Orwell's 1984 only surveilled the citizenry at random, while Facebook's unblinking algorithms never let us out of their sight, silently shaping what we are able to see and say without us having any right to understand the rules they quietly enforce, while even their engineer creators are not fully aware of the ramifications of the myriad inadvertent decisions that went into their programming."

Source:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/04/02/faceboo...