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There's always been propriety code installed on systems, who knows what that big Oracle database is actually doing?

Are these sysadmins actually looking through the open source code that they're compiling to make sure that there isn't a security flaw in plain sight?

With Docker you can get containers maintained by a trusted source, as a sysadmin you don't have to deal with all the hassle of upgrading things, you can just replace the container with the latest version. With Docker content trust the containers are signed.

There have always been cowboys out there and that has nothing to do with the tech stack.
> A bit simplified, but think of the money as coming from the profits from the companies that have been successful.

To be honest, most of the money is coming from pension funds, endowments, and state bodies (i.e. large institutions with monstrous piles of money). They allocate most of that money to post-IPO stocks and bonds, but they'll hand over a small fraction to 'alternative investments' too.

Post-financial crisis, when interest rates came tumbling down, two things happened. First, bondholders (i.e. large institutions) made a lot of money. Second, bonds became less attractive as an investment, making alternatives like early stage tech look good in comparison.

It's partly accurate to say that the hot money pouring into silicon valley comes from previous companies' successes. But a lot of the money is coming from 'me too' institutional investors who are chasing previous investment performance.

> The companies create jobs which create huge amounts of income taxes...

It's possible to create jobs wastefully. I could pay ten people to dig a trench while I pay ten other people to fill it in. Your arguments would seemingly still stand, but not much of value would get built.
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the biggest giveaway is the purported ROI. mining is barely profitable. the returns they promise are a big red flag
> I know there's a theory that the northern economy depended on the southern slave economy, but when it was cut off from the southern economy in 1860, it prospered while the slave economy crashed.

The Confederacy crashed economically because they tried to pull a 19th century equivalent of the Arab Oil Embargo, cutting off their main export crop in the hopes of compelling Europe to intervene. The Confederacy suffered from what we'd call in modern times the resource curse--ironically, one enabled entirely by industrialization.
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The solution they pick is typical linear programming problem using die size, yield and price of different options after disabling failed areas.
Why not write a test that fetches the chromedriver page and verifies that it is running the latest version? That way you will be notified as soon as you're one version behind, and won't have to chase random inscrutable error messages.
yeah, that's what they want to achieve
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So don't create your own startup? Doesn't creating your own startup give you a more invaluable skill set? People say you learn faster when you start a startup. What do you think of that statement? How is doing a corporate job a smarter move than going all-in on startups?
The solution I have seen for desktops is to put them inside a locked metal case.

You cannot access anything besides the power button.
> Plus, there are already several instructions on x86 that for string manipulation.

Also SHA1, AES, CRC32, and other specialized functions that may have less staying power than UTF-8 (SHA1 in particular, but also AES being a block cipher has some nuisances that means it is not always used in new algorithms).
You are missing the point you don’t need a rubber ducky to input malware, all you need is a sheet of paper and some time.

On restricted workstations even if you can run command prompt which isn’t guaranteed it won’t lead to anything.
Jobs aren't intrinsically good. These startup jobs might be, but it's an insanely complex system you're trying to suss a value judgement out of.

If these startups didn't exist, the money going into them would be seeking returns elsewhere. There would probably be jobs involved there too, and the people working those jobs might be doing something better for society than building a short-lived money-losing consumer product.

If the mysterious "elsewhere" didn't create jobs with the money say because it was spent on capital assets, that's still not the end of the story. Wherever it went, someone else has it now and they're probably spending it, perhaps hiring some people with it ie creating jobs.

The simple interpretation of your second line is the broken window fallacy, which is false. The grasping-at-straws interpretation is that paying software engineers to work on junk is a better than average way to route capital through our economy - measured in terms of how much real value the capital produces for people as it changes hands from company to coder + tax man, coder to shopkeeper + tax man, and tax man to public works employees, etc forever. I don't think we could possibly measure the latter interpretation, but I don't believe it.
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They will operate in one form or another that is for sure. All 75000 people are not just going to sit idle.

By being overly draconian you generate a ground swell of ill will against US suppliers. Everyone in China will be looking to replace their US components as soon as it is feasible.

For what is its worth, ZTE actually self reported the recent faux pas that led to the reimposition of the sanction. Even if they don't get any credit for self-reporting it shows that the threat of intrusive audits works. ZTE right now is a lot more under the US government thumb than any other Chinese tech company. If anything Chinese government should just let the corporate form die to end the humiliation. US on the other hand, by being the executioner, only ensures that ZTE will be replaced by another Chinese player not subject to the same supervision.
I would be interested to know about that... I don't see anything mentioned in the Project Fi Terms of Service (https://fi.google.com/about/tos/) about Sprint, T-Mobile, or US Cellular. I assume that by signing up with Fi you are also subject to each of their privacy policies, but I'd be happy to be corrected!
> Three factors drive the advance of AI: algorithmic innovation, data (which can be either supervised data or interactive environments), and the amount of compute available for training. Algorithmic innovation and data are difficult to track ...

Are algorithmic innovations and improvements in data so difficult to track? Could they be measured by the cost of certain outputs? Or is it that the information about algorithms and data is not easily accessible?
A lot of cystic fibrosis patients I know that have been colonized with bacteria, such as pseudomonas, resort to phage therapy. Typically they do it in Georgia (former Soviet Union state that was very active in Phage Therapy). Many CFers swear by phage therapy. It needs to be individualized, with adaptation to every individual.
Good luck proving I have any connection to the company in the foreign country sending you the invoice.

Also, if payment isn’t received within 30 days you can expect to see the domain forwarded to a “for sale” page.

And given how fast the legal system moves especially across international borders, you will lose hundreds of millions in revenue before getting any kind of verdict, possibly even go bankrupt.
Leap years account for a year not being exactly divisble into days. Leap seconds account for a day not being evenly divisible.
To add to that - we already have fake news along ALL political spectrums, and propaganda and lies coming from fake and legit places, to further be told what we can / can't view because of net neutrality, or for corporations to ban content themselves or make you pay to view certain websites moves us further into censorship territory like China. -- We definitely need to ensure that the internet stays as open as possible, if not we may need to create a new decentralized uncensorable internet like in Silicon Valley where net neutrality cannot be revoked.
Tricky problem: how do you establish real-world identity to prevent welfare fraud?
I can’t see how it was about cryptography either as they seem to define it based on the center of gravity of their papers: https://eprint.iacr.org/2004*

A quick search shows eight papers which have "side channel" in their titles, so I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that they don't consider side channel attacks to be cryptography...
Machine code is just source code for a cpu.

Anyways, how is a transpiler different from a bytecode compiler, except that the bytecode is human readable?
The previous >0 algorithm didn't short-circuit. There is no change to short-circuit behavior here.
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I used to work in semi- in Asia, and it was pretty loose compared to Financial and Pharma. Maybe things have gotten tighter, but...
>> To think in such a manner can certainly be considered heartless.

> How does that follow? They're considering the needs of untold billions of individuals not yet born

Are they really considering the needs of unborn individuals, or just ignoring the needs of actual living individuals to focus on sci-fi tech stuff that excites them?

By focusing too much on the speculative sci-fi needs of future generations, you may condemn those generations to suffer through the same hard problems we have now that were left unsolved so some tech billionaires could focus on sexy stuff.
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I think you're correct on the origin of the term, and I should have mentioned that - but in the past few decades, I've been accused of "NIH"-ing whenever I've "rolled something" of my own from authentication to IoC. Just because there's a library that has a particular description attached to it doesn't mean that it should be used as often as it can be.
> what is attracting investors to these start ups in the first place

Growth, basically. As long as you can make a case that your 75 cent dollar store is rapidly accumulating customers, investors will be more than happy to overlook the economics of the business. Sometimes that works out, but I guess at that point it's more like gambling than investing for investors.
> but generating machine code is quite different

It really isn't though. PCC just walked the AST, writing out text to a file with hardly any optimizations just like most of what people call 'transpilers'. But you wouldn't call a c compiler to asm a transpiler, right? Pretty much everything that gets attributed to some intrinsic difference between source-source and source-machine compilers is just a function of the immature tooling on the web.
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And a league is the distance a person can walk in an hour. The actual distance doesn't actually matter; two places can be 5 leagues away and be at different distances. However, it'll take you 5 hours to get to any of them, be it because different quality roads or elevation changes
> Well, teach your sysadmin to use the system configuration tester when they edit a system configuration file.

Wrong. Teach your sysadmin not to overload a single service with different
functions (debugging channel, user-facing shell service, running remote
commands, file upload, and config distribution channel), especially not the
one that should not be used in batch mode, without human supervision.

When you write an application, you don't put a HTTP server in database
connection handling code, but when it comes to server management, suddenly the
very same approach is deemed brilliant, because you don't run an agent (which
is false, because you do, it's just not a dedicated agent).
Who would complain, though, particularly in this scenario?
Yes, user docs are customer-facing, but the problem is that if they're under the control of marketing, then documentation priorities will be set as if they are marketing materials. And, possibly worse, a writer who works in marketing will by and large be treated by engineers like, well, somebody who works in marketing. (Without getting into sordid details, I'm speaking from personal experience of having been a tech writer under engineering at one company and under marketing at another.)
Generally no. You will know when you need it.
> more trustworthy than airplane mode

All airplane mode does is turn of transmitters. There is no reason that the firmware should stop caching GPS data for later transmission
I dont know the origin but some of my bosses and managers like to use compute to sound cool and fancy... 'We need to know the execution time and compute cost for this job'. Good luck tracking the 'compute' of our 'job' that uses like 10 AWS tools. ec2, rds, cloudwatch, s3.
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Well, bias towards "infrastructure as code" and minimise the need to actually access the servers. Read logs through Splunk, configure through version controlled Puppet (or similar tools).

The only machines that can actually SSH into prod at least have screen-session-recording software, perhaps are kept in a separate room, with a policy of two staff present at all times. The general idea is that the closer you actually get to being able to bypass the checks and controls, the more attention you bring to yourself and your errand.

Yes, it can't be Git and Puppet all the way down, at some point someone will necessarily have access to do something as root on the server that hosts the Git repo that Puppet runs from. But instead of that being every dev on every laptop anywhere in the world, you can make sure it's a very small group of people, from a small number of workstations.

This is difficult and requires a substantial and very competent team to implement correctly.
The analogy is closer to the house being on fire, but the landlord 100% won't budge on that, so you might as well ask them for a glass of water, which you have at least some chance of getting.
Have you ever experienced or met someone with schizophrenia?

It is hell.

Not only for them but often for those who care about them. It's not about a rosy, whacky persons that the society whimsically outcasts. It's often legitimately tortured people that almost always need serious treatment and constant care, otherwise they risk falling into a very dark abyss.

They often wind up hobos or sometimes in prisons/asylums because they don't have treatment and a very supportive family available, falling in disrepair, not because an evil plot of society.

If this condition were the price to pay for breakthroughs, I'd consider the price too high. But indeed it isn't -- there are no examples of seriously ill paranoid schizophrenics that put out meaningful work. It's a massive hindrance, fogging your view of the world and yourself. Often cited cases like John Nash actually stopped being able to conduct any good work once the disease got hold of them. There are countless examples of extremely brilliant people productive through their lives that never showed signs of delusion, and almost no cases of delusional persons doing good work.

This disease largely embodies the obscurantism, mysticism, fear, distrust, that scientific enlightenment was idealized to fight against. I can't wait for its root causes to be found and it completely eradicated (along with MS, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia, please).
If you blow a bubble, I won't know how long it'll float around before it pops. But I know it's going to pop.
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This is so cool!

I didn’t realise that WSL supports Debian and that Xming is good enough to get running. I have a spare Windows machine — maybe it’s time to give WSL a shot …
A lot of them are combination money-laundering schemes and scams. Someone who stole a bunch of shitcoins wants to "clean them up", so they create an ICO and buy their ICO-coins with stolen shitcoins.

By doing this, they also inflate the "market" value of their ICO, which leads to increased popularity and others notice and throw some money in.

It's not clear to me what proportion of ICOs are money-laundering vs. real purchases, but I suspect it is quite high.
And also your phone is still collecting GPS and Wifi information, which is better than tower information anyway.
Line between telecom and media is already starting to blur
I understand that's what you're saying, and I'm saying you're wrong because:

- Beyond toy examples, writing Python isn't easier. Writing reliable, easy to maintain, bug-free Python programs is just as difficult, and your average person won't be able to do it right off the bat.

- You don't need to really know what a monad is in order to write Haskell as a beginner; that's a red herring.

If you want to argue that it's easier to write toy examples in Python, without regard for good programming practices, then... it'd still be debatable: if I remember correctly, some years ago there was a post here about someone teaching Haskell to highschoolers, to great success. They found it fun and easy.
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By works I mean, doesn't cut out permanently and from then on at every small hill or rise in the ground. I've done a lot of real implemention of 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz mesh wireless networks.

I currently operate a 5 MHz channel at 910 MHz using broadband hamnet firmware on ubiquiti transceivers. This is for between home (custom antenna up on a tall 10m pole on my apartment) and my car (custom antenna popping up through the sunroof). By work, I mean, work at all for more than the first slight change in elevation. I've even tried using custom FPV narrowband solutions (56k SLIP) at 433 and 900 MHz and those do not better. The first slight rise in the ground kills you after a block or two. And I'm not in a super-hilly region.

I have no confidence than any ad-hoc deployed mesh network of 2.4 GHz is going to be good for anything but within a single home or building.
Despite being well aware that 60 was chosen to be evenly divisible by small numbers, I find it a really cool coincidence that the exponents fell into place so perfectly.
Senators, you mean, and from the party not in power so that voters know their stance and the stance of the in-power party.
That can be mitigated easily by rotating keys in every app update.
Heck, that sounds like a fun gig.
If you say so. :|
I would love to see the cost benefit analysis that showed a company wide ban on USB keys would save more money than it cost.

Meetings happen daily, an iffy wifi connection is enough to waste the time of everyone in the meeting (10 minutes x 15 people is 2.5 person hours). These mundane things happen day in and day out. Someone walking around with an audio based keylogger is dramatically less likely to happen (and this ban on USB drives wouldn't prevent that anyways).

If you ignore the cost of people's time then pretty much every security idea makes sense. But its not a good way to run a business.
> Or mass-coordinated record-keeping for something like the Olympics. How do you know whether this year’s best runner beat last year’s best runner?

That sort of timekeeping a modern affectation. In the ancient past, it was sufficient to just be the fastest in whatever was the most recent contest. If you wanted to see if this year's best runner could beat last year's best, then you set up a race between them...
Except it is not, because US is near full employment, so bribes go long way to avert the looks. Until a solid recession hits, and double digit unemployment is in, corps like Amazon will never be on the quartering table by the masses.
“Better than most ICO papers”? That’s not exactly a high bar.
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> But even when a Christian church is the official church of the State, they are still distinct entities, as opposed to the Islamic model.

Sometimes, sometimes not. Clearly not the case in late imperial Russia, or in the Papal States, or in much of pre-Gregorian western Christianity where local bishops were effectively appointed by and subordinate to local lay rulers, etc.
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Don't think they're affiliated with the government. Bought a few kilos of crack off the founder a few months ago
As far as I can see, the Windows Store provides Ubuntu, openSUSE, Kali Linux, Debian, and SLES as of today. This might change in the future. The number of Windows X servers is still rather small, there are Xming, VcXsrv and that's about it, I guess. (Please correct me, anyone.)
You're on the money. Tesla, Emily Dickinson, and likely Van Gogh all had schizotypal personality disorder. Which is not so much a personality disorder in the sense most people think of them so much as it's the Aspergers analog of the schizophrenia spectrum. I've seen it suggested that Einstein may have had it, which I find a lot easier to believe than the notion that he had Aspergers given that his son had schizophrenia and these things tend to run in families. (He may well have had nothing, though.) I strongly suspect that Edwin Land, the inventor of Polaroid, was schizotypal.

There IS actually a proven connection between schizotypal traits and creativity where there really isn't with mood disorders (except bipolar to an extent), since you're "mad" but not so much so that you can't function well enough to execute your ideas. It's worth googling about.
The original article seems to be saying that the carriers track and sell phone location by cell triangulation ("less accurate than using GPS, but cell tower data won't drain a phone battery"). This is less accurate, as seen by the example of "within a city block."

The parent comment seems to be saying that the OS and apps use the internal GPS data to get a much more accurate location, which is then freely transmitted somehow and shared and sold. My question is to clarify that this more accurate data, needed to enable the "walk into specific store" scenario, can only be obtained via data (eg 3G, LTE, or wifi)?

Therefore not buying a data plan or turning off cellular data manually should prevent the GPS-accuracy tracking, but the only way to prevent the less accurate cell-tower tracking is to use a faraday cage.
Being a landlord requires time and money and energy, and it's not something you just dive into without looking carefully. It's certainly not something you should jump into if you can only put 20% down. If you are not willing/able to be on call every day, then you need to hire a management company and pay them a large cut of the rent each month. There may also be HOA dues and there are certainly taxes. There could be expensive maintenance, etc. Each thing takes a slice out of your rental income.

On top of all that, the renter may get angry at the world and trash the place causing tens of thousands of dollars of damage, or they may up and leave because they can no longer afford the place. Worse, they may stick around and stop paying rent until you forcibly evict them after months of no rental income. You may be suddenly forced to spend money updating the place to comply with some new law.

I'm all for making things easier, but don't fool yourself into thinking you're making free money, or even making money at all for sure.
And you are definitely not a sysad or any sort of sysadmin. The core mission of a sysad is to build the best environment possible while restricting that environment.

You seem to be the sort of developer that developers love and the sort of sysadmin that gets fired in the first week
Just my .02 after two and a half decades.

Not to say that you are entirely wrong or your approach doesn't have merit in the new world (especially SV). But
it doesn't work for sysadmins and production environments
anywhere but your bubble. Not yet.