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By pushing things into the language, what I mean is that for example C# has stack allocation and the JIT is a very straight line compiler (for many years it was basically a C++ compiler, opts wise). The Java guys refused to add this complexity to the language and instead implemented escape analysis and scalar replacement. Now with Graal they're doubling down on that approach: there are no proposals to add stackalloc to Java, but Graal is capable of eliminating allocations in far more cases than previously. In other words Java can automatically mark things as stackalloc (sorta) without the user thinking about it, and it gets better over time. Whereas C# code does not get less allocation heavy over time.

A more obvious example is value types. CLR guys put value types into the runtime and type system. Now Java is going in that direction too, but actually, the Truffle guys have demonstrated that they can specialise data structures to get the same layouts that value types give you on the fly with compiler techniques again (e.g. List<Integer> is compiled to List<int> behind the scenes when possible). And both C2 and Graal inline code more aggressively than the CLR does, and when functions are inlined together more EA is possible, so that's like passing data by value instead of by reference. So it's not really clear that Valhalla is going to be necessary in the end, if that line of compiler research is pursued further, and over the years I've been revising what I anticipate the performance improvements to be from it downwards.

And finally Spans in C# are yet another example of this. Java has ByteBuffer which provides a similar abstraction, but it doesn't do e.g. array slices or access to the stack. But then again, you hardly need to think about the stack when writing Java because the runtime will use it most of the time the human would have done anyway, and the collections API offers sub-array access with inlined and fully optimised accesses. I would note that Go and C++ are both designed with AOT compilation in mind and neither are widely held up as examples of excellent language design.

Overall, it's not clear that we've reached the limit of what runtimes can do. It seems more likely we've reached the limit of what runtimes written in C++ can do before they hit the sort of complexity scaling limits that make Java and C# so widely used to begin with. The speed with which the Graal/Truffle guys have been able to develop new optimisations that were theoretical for years with the C++ compiler is remarkable - even things where the more traditional branch of Java development is considering .NET style language complexification to get it.
Creepy stalker vs subservient personal assistant is just a point of view. The example you cite is not creepy. It just shows that the ads are not congruent with the content of website that is showing it. Not sure who is at fault here, the webmaster or the ad algorithm, but its just odd, not creepy.
But good for business!
The US military is spectacularly inefficient, and the US military-industrial complex is a parasitical behemoth per Eisenhower's critique. It's not like the problem is unknown; the issue is that the state has to have a monopoly on violence, so we live with the inefficiency. Encouraging a marketplace of competing militia would not a viable approach. :)
Interesting that this showed up today also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43639704
interesting but annoying. they saved themselves some characters but cost you the time to google it.
Let's fork them.
Wow. And we're to believe that? I get it; that's the excuse for putting them there (on street cars) but really, they never get used for anything else? Like pervasive public surveillance by the state?
Does this no longer work?
NASA is about to step up its planet-hunting game with the launch of TESS
The only immediate value is satellites for telecommunication.

Next decade or two, maybe low-gravity vacations?
I agree funding our way out of this mess is the right solution, with the caveat that there might not be enough local revenue to do so, in which case the pension should be transferred to the US Pension Guarantee Corp and funded by the federal government.
> FTFY.
> Fixed that for you.

Fixed that for you.
What about a system that provides individuals with “medical endowments”? Ie in the event you’re diagnosed with a disease the government will pay out $x to cure you or $(x/720) per month for a management treatment. People would still have the ability to chose providers.

But yes, I still think healthcare needs to be out of the market, ultimately.
"If you're in China, you play by their rules, no?"

No. No one goes a day without breaking, at least, a minor law, especially in places where many laws are straight up crazy. Perfect surveillance, the power to make up laws, and the power to enforce them is too much for any one entity to have.
...and that's after one of the longest bull markets in recorded history.[a]

[a] http://www.finra.org/investors/5-longest-bull-markets-infogr...
I think when you look at it from that perspective Tesla are in real trouble. Essentially what they're publicly stating is "Our car detected it was in a dangerous situation, gave warnings to the driver but took no action". That's really not good enough. I don't know of any other system in a car which is designed to allow you to take your hands off the wheel - because that seems to actively encourage you not to pay attention and to increase reaction time. I could definitely imagine the NTSB coming back from this investigation saying that Tesla's active advertising campaign suggesting that drivers should take their hands off their steering wheel is bad and played a significant role in this accident.

The question is whether repeated incidences could cause the NTSB to suggest removal of the autopilot feature entirely (in its current state).
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I've had my suspicions but this confirms it. Tesla's autopilot cannot detect non-moving obstacles. This thing is a killing machine! The problem is not caused by an opaque machine learning network running wild or anything of similar complexity. It's something as basic as a lack of sensor input. With the current hardware on Tesla cars full autonomy is simply not possible. It's basically a glorified lane keeping assistant with marketing that fools people into risking their lives.

Tesla's stance to blame the driver without admitting that their hardware is inadequate will back them into a corner in the long term. They cannot transition from highway to city driving without significant changes to the autopilot software and hardware and this means they effectively have to start over from scratch. They have to start working on a serious competitor to Uber or Waymo now otherwise Tesla will be too late to the market.
Not when you're taking small data samples. If you look at past years of investment, you'll either have a sample size too small to be meaningful, or your start lumping years that don't reflect today's realities into the mix.

These investments are basically saying, "the market will always get 10% return", so we're going to put future tax payers on the hook for 10% returns. The average guy investing his 401k doesn't get guaranteed results at the expense of other people's work.

Even if there is a historical 10% return that holds, that's still going to produce underfunded (and overfunded) pensions based upon fluctuation in yearly returns and population dynamics (like if an unusually large number retire in a down year).

Then there is the pension spiking, and maybe even no consideration that people are paying into the pension at low rates but tend to retire at high pay rates.
> IMO, the correct approach is to regulate what is advertised, not who is targeted, or how they are targeted.

I disagree. The point made in the article is that individually targeted advertising requires information on individuals and necessitates the surveillance economy.

Personally, I don't care if advertisers show me ads for drugs, for instance, but I do care if they're doing that on the basis of what medical conditions I search for information about, and might have -- information which could be leaked or sold on.

Even perfectly benign adverts can be targeted using information which the subject may find sensitive. While targeted advertising remains, an incentive to retain personal data exists.
Someone's got to bear the risk. And, indeed, most private companies have switched from defined benefit (e.g. pension) plans to defined contribution (e.g. 401-K) plans. This isn't a bad thing and generally lines up better with the reality that people mostly aren't with employers for decades. But it means it's now in the hands of the individual to properly fund their retirement given great uncertainty about investment returns.
Amazon isn't the only company using USPS this way. It might be worthy of investigation, but Trump's motive here is to get back at Bezos for things that The Washington Post publishes. The president using the power of the executive branch to fight personal political enemies is never the right thing to do.
I won't downvote you, I will just say: duh! the objective is that you spend more time on Facebook, NOT on your mailbox :)
This could be a preview to the future where content is generated on the fly by bots that gather events on their own (and hence no content ripping). At present, most of the financial content of day to day events like stock price movements is already auto generated.
Paintball markers are likely a better choice, but very high cameras will still be out of reach. And then there is the issue of finding the cameras, but something like http://www.jet-protect.com/CS300Klanding.html can help...
>I wonder if a law that clawed back these government official's pensions if they were found to break from good accounting practices, would be a deterrent?

Yes, but the people who pass the laws are the people who would be affected. You'd have to find a simple majority of people moral enough to do it. I think today, that's a hard sell.
well most companies "underpay" if baseline is FB and Google
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

Canadian here :). By that list, our per-capita healthcare costs are about half of what our neighbours to the south pay. I don't have it handy, but I've worked out the currency conversions and things before with various tax estimators, and in my province (Saskatchewan), we pay approximately the same overall income tax (Provincial + Federal) as someone making an equivalent salary in California (State + Federal). But included in that is all of our health care and some pharmaceutical coverage.
I ran one of those for awhile for fun. I stopped after the demonetization epidemic where every video got demonetized.

You can do a lot with ffmpeg.
Read carefully to identify the source: Police said the 31-year-old, who was wanted for "economic crimes", was "shocked" when he was caught.

The source was Chinese police. So, in essence, this is propaganda, not news.

Propaganda: information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
"Is there a term besides "Mexican" that you prefer? Something less offensive?" -- Michael Scott
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To quote your quote of my response:

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> > Going from 8.9% to 8.5% is a 5% reduction in flu cases. If this translates to 5% fewer sick days during the flu-period and a 5% reduction in doctor visits that are due to flu symptoms (some people go to the doctor for everything), that can absolutely be a reason for the government to want people to get their flu shots.

> This line of reasoning assumes that there are only positive effects from vaccines. There are many many side effects of flu vaccines.

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This is why I also said:

>So assuming that the flu vaccine is harmless and the cost is not too great, it can make sense to get it even if the effectiveness rate is low.
If the US were to make all drug R&D a public service they'd have to basically increase the current NIH budget from ~$30B to probably $150B

It may be nice in theory to have government manage drug R&D, but it is not practical. It's simply too expensive
The "general public" that reads an article about a specific court case until the very end would be too scared by a case number appearing in the last sentence or in an end note? I don't quite believe that.
Downvote it. It won't disappear, but it then shouldn't appear organically (sidebar suggestions etc.) anymore.
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Sydney is already a number of cities, Sydney, Paramatta, Blacktown, Ryde, Liverpool, Canterbury, Blacktown, Penrith, (and a veritable stream of smaller "cities" like Fairfield) and various counties / shires as well, Hornsby, Sutherland, Hills Shire. The issues has never been the names or appellations, the biggest issue since WWII has been the sheer vast size of the suburban sprawl and relatively little coordination and NIMBYism that goes with it.
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How a web browser is different is that simply by stumbling into some web site, your browser is suddenly loading code from ten other domains. The current version of all that code, not the one the site tested with.

No signatures are checked; for none of those sites is there a validation whether it came from a trusted publisher and a prompt to install it.

With regular software, you explicitly download and install and in newer operating systems, there are certificates and signatures to give some modicum of protection. If you install something unsigned, you give your explicit consent.
We need to eliminate all public employee defined benefit pensions and replace them with defined contribution plans. Pensions are simply too risky for both taxpayers and retirees. Politicians can't be counted on to fund pensions properly. Many local governments will go bankrupt in the coming decades due to inability to meet pension obligations, which will result in cuts to critical government services and retirees forced by bankruptcy judges to take benefit cuts.
An uncensorable, global, distributed data store opens up all kinds of possibilities for weaponizing data. If you're intending to blackmail* someone by threat of doxxing, threatening to put their information on the blockchain is much worse than simply putting it on pastebin.

People have also attempted to use blockchain data for coercion. For example some folks were worried about the centralization of Bitcoin mining in China, so they posted information about Tiananmen Square on the blockchain, hoping the Chinese government would simply ban Bitcoin.

*blockmailing them, if you will.
"Chinaman" hasn't been the preferred nomenclature since at least 1998 (when The Big Lebowsky came out). Here, as others have noted, it's China man, though.

> The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYOzUHnPJvU
People still use YouTube for non specific search results?

All that shows up when I try to “explore” is what could be called tabloid amateur videos, top 5-10 lists and a bunch of other shit that will quite literally waste your life as it makes you dumber.

Maybe it’s my own fault for having watched the Churchill vs Roosevelt epic rap battle too many times, but nothing YouTube suggests is anywhere close to something that I won’t shut off after 5 seconds.

I mean, it’s so bad I actually spent time to turn off auto play on every device I access YouTube on.
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Putting a phone in a faraday cage kind of blocks the purpose of having a phone with you.
For me it's closer to "it worked in the past but even if it doesn't I'm going to be in the same boat as basically everyone else". Which is very different than the kind of promises pensions make.
Ergo, "Let's Replace MS Word with Something Better".

JS is much more foisted upon users than MS Word ever was.
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>It says the record is laser etched from digitised "high definition audio"

No, it doesn't.

>Wouldn't that make it a digital rather than an analog recording?

No, it doesn't.
> It's refreshing to see skepticism of both market-based and government-based solutions.

This in my opinion is a false dichotomy. The government can be owned/operated by coorporations or by the people or can be an entity in itself.

What I feel is missed by people leaning towards the idea of competition is that it is not a sustainable model under the current framework of ideas. If you optimise a society purely based on profitability, competition is the enemy, since it hinders individual businesses from maximising their profits. Hence the massive business consolidation we have seen in the last decade across the globe.

If you want competition because you want different ideas to be tested, then we need to explain what we want entities to compete for. Focusing on optimising one variable only, i.e. profit, will not work. We need new ideas.
the US market is the primary market for all big pharma companies regardless of where headquarters are bc it is the biggest

And big pharma companies don't do early stage research. Small companies do. Most of those are in US
.. or a fifth of the military budget.

"It's not practical of the US to maintain the most expensive military in the world, it's simply too expensive" said nobody in Congress ever.
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What do you mean by raiding? Do you have a particular state in mind that diverted funds in a controversial way?

(the report places much blame on aggressive assumptions about investment performance)
Is harvesting human organs a sustainable business model?
I'm sorry, but it's no longer the 1980s. In plain English, hacking now means "gain unauthorized access to a computer." You may not like it, but English is defined by usage, not whatever culture the one-time jargon was inherited from.
Aren't there regulations/requirements about what's allowed on the windshield?

I would think it'd be seen as a "distraction", those suction cup mounts for example are illegal in a lot of states.
> It's also the reason I've been begging Signal to do something similar for over a year now.

Aren't they in the process of doing that with MobileCoin[0]?

I know the whitepaper is pretty sparse on information, but according to the last paragraph in the whitepaper[1], it's designed to integrate with IM platforms, and, according to the only tweet from their Twitter profile[2], there is no ICO at the time.

[0] https://www.mobilecoin.com/

[1] https://www.mobilecoin.com/whitepaper-en.pdf

[2] https://twitter.com/mobilecoinone/status/960359924562739200
You were on about WhatsApp.... I mentioned Signal, Telegram does not use Signal's protocol.
It's not too expensive - the US can easily afford $150B. We just have to decide that it's a priority and make it happen. Each year we some how find almost a trillion dollars for defense (more if you include "black budget") and no one blinks an eye.
Yeah, not really. Recital 47 says "may provide a legal basis for processing, provided that the interests or the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject are not overriding".

If I ask to be forgotten, my interest is that my data is no longer used, and your legitimate interest in holding on to it to avoid lending to me in the future does not override that for any other purpose.
When is W3C going to formalize their standards?

It's one thing to write down "user agent should do such and such" and quite another thing to formalize it.
Is that a joke? It’s grossly inadequate for handling distasteful but legal material (remember GamerGate?), let alone actual illegal content. The people who want it (or their bots) are far more likely to upvote things in greater number than everyone else is to seek it out for downvoting.
I don't know enough specifics about this case or the industry to go much deeper into this. I don't know to what extent Backpage facilitated child trafficking or whether Johns are split between discerning and unconscionable groups who use different pimps. What I do know is that removing the middleman from a dark market while leaving the consumers, providers, and demand is often a high profile easy win, but rarely does much to curtail the actual problem. If Backpage execs were truly vicious scoundrels then fuck them, I'm glad to see them get theirs, but regardless it seems like a poor direction of our "stop sex trafficking" budget.

Also tor is as easy to use as downloading an installer, running it, and then using a modern browser interface. Anyone who is at the level of "installs their own software" is eligible, which may not be every last pedophile sex pervert, but likely the motivated ones.
I believe AI/ML can reduce government costs and boost efficiency by automating staff duties. But if I leave actual governing to a machine, I am left with an entirely new, but not necessarily smaller attack surface for corruption.

Traditionally: monied interest buys influence, maybe in the form of a steak dinner for the mayor.

AI Gov’t Future: monied interest buys asymmetric understanding of GovBot5000, perhaps by hiring an AI researcher or data firm to figure out how to exploit flaws in the algorithm.

If we tackles issues of inefficiency, opacity, and corruption in government first, then I think we can tackle judgment and representation, which are less “on fire” things imo.
That’s a flamey title. They’re objecting to them publishing their spec before the negotiations with WHATWG are over.
I congratulate you on winning the genetic lottery.

Do you have any suggestions on the prefered skin color or ethnicity of the people who need to be workers ?
Can we clear these troll accounts? This is beyond childish.
If you think this is a website about hacking, you have been very much misinformed...
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It reinforces existing knowledge so it might be difficult to use for those who have never touched SQL but it’ll still be useful to get feedback on how it looks and runs on your device.

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That's true that I put an explicit emphasis on C#

But let's face it, the whole CoreFX library is in C#, Roslyn Compiler is in C#... the line is already blurred

So while the CLR is not language specific (like the JVM is not Java specific), rewriting the runtime with the most prominent language used for the underlying platform sounds an acceptable implicit emphasis ;)