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If there were high-speed trains that could make cross-US trips in, say, 15 hours, and at comparable or cheaper cost vs. airplanes, I can imagine there might be demand. I would be willing to take those overnight.

But even if we could replace most <500 mile flights along the most popular routes (starting by connecting cities up and down the coasts), it would be a huge win as far as fuel economy is concerned.
Most employer agreements have fairly draconian claims around IP. And I believe that many universities require their faculty to run consulting, etc. gigs through their legal teams, and the university gets a "right of first refusal" of sorts on the generated IP. Many academics get around this by claiming that they are doing research X at company (more applied, etc.) and research Y at the university (more theory, technically different projects under different grants). But with ML it seems like it would be harder. Regardless, I'd love to figure out if we can get these agreements through freedom of information act requests, to shed light on what state-employees are doing.
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I don't strongly disagree with your point here, but like all city statistics that aren't normalized for area and density (e.g. by using the MSA/CSA or some equivalent), this one is potentially quite misleading. Kansas City draws its borders around an awful lot of rural land that wouldn't be (indeed, isn't) counted inside the borders of most cities. This is all well within the city limits, for example:

https://goo.gl/maps/Dm76roteRbx

All of which is just to say: political borders are drawn differently in every city, so you can't meaningfully compare cities using political borders.

Does Kansas City (as a region) actually have more highways than most equivalent cities? Maybe. I don't know. That table doesn't tell us that.
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Those are not points of order. They're a response to OP's question. You can just respond to them like a regular person.
There are lots of reasons to spend money on military technology, but absolute reduction in deaths by U.S. citizens is not a compelling one — there are just too many civilians who die in preventable ways as compared to military deaths.

I think it’s kind of a silly comparison, tbh. I’d like to see us spend more money on both civilian and military research. I suspect that the military spends plenty of money on shit that is less impactful in the long term than research, and military research also often advances civilian technology.

My point was meant to be quite narrow.
The hype of open offices is how many people you can cram in a room. I’m tired of pretending otherwise.
As part of releasing 1.1.1.1, Cloudflare implemented DNS-Over-HTTPS proxy functionality in to one of their tools: cloudflared, also known as argo-tunnel. You can install it and configure the OS to do lookups agains cloudflared on localhost instead of some outside DNS server.
I'm not denying that at all, we've moved on from telcos too.

But it isn't a "just drop it" situation. It's a "gracefully transition when the social dynamics are in your favor" situation.
How did they make this tomb. Even ignoring weight factor, what type of saw could they employ to cut it from the block?

Right now companies use diamond wire blades to cut granite and it is not so fast and easy. Can not imagine ancients Egyptians could produce even steel

Also where have they got a granite in this part of Egypt... Aswan query known for having black granite deposits is 600 miles away.
> I hope WebAssembly will not only be a web technology, but the de-facto format for cross-platform high-performance embedding.

I don't think that's what's happening. They are looking to integrate webassembly more deeply with its host environment (which more-or-less assumes a browser and Javascript).

I don't think this is a bad thing, BTW. You may be disappointed, but they are just looking to solve a different problem then what you are concerned with. It's an imminent, practical problem, so nothing wrong with someone addressing it, even if it isn't your problem.
I think his (?) point is that if you don't have the backwards-compatibility goals of Windows, you can afford to be - and perhaps should be - a lot more adventurous. Which is something POSIX systems have summarily failed to be in this respect, for all that they've managed to polish that turd to an acceptable shine.
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This type of package is annoying [0].

[0]: https://github.com/madelinecameron/parsie/blob/master/index....
What contexts are you thinking of? I’d agree in the context of discussing de-anonymizing data. But all the policy, e.g., GDPR, and licenses that I’ve seen so far mean specifically 100% directly identifiable (such as name & address or SSN) when they say “personally identifiable information”, and especially when they use the acronym PII.
I agree with you on that
The "contact us" link on the tracker's website appears to be broken: https://www.redshell.io

Not sure if that is deliberate or not, but I'd like to submit a GDPR subject access request! Coincidence? perhaps.

Edit: privacy@redshell.io Looks like their webpage might be trying to do a "mailto:" link? For me it just opens a blank window and I cant be bothered to try and pick apart their javascript.
That's true. Military spending is the only kind of industrial strategy the US is willing to implement without one of the parties immediately blocking the effort. Pretty sad but it's the state of things.
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I never said it did. The argument was that there was no competition. There is competition, it's just weak for some aspects of Google Maps. And the argument here seems to be that Google isn't allowed to start charging for a product because they didn't before, which is silly.
I wonder what the practical side effects are of being off by one when discussing events that happened c. thousands of years ago.
First of all, I don't have to prove anything

Yes, you do. That's pentesting 101.

Think of it this way. Would it be reasonable for pentesters to say "You're critically vulnerable. But I haven't verified this"?

More times than I can count, when I went back to verify whether I was correct, I wasn't. For subtle reasons. If you haven't put in the work, you don't know whether you are right.

Security, most of the time is about prevention rather than mitigation after the fact, just like you would wear a seat belt even though your likelihood of dying in a car crash isn't very high. Am I supposed to be not shocked to discover my car comes with a seat belt made out of a thin piece of printer paper?

You have never worked in security. The fact that you're shocked at this shows how green you are. I don't mean that in a dismissive or insulting way, but if you'd just go do a stint as a pentester for a year, or talk to some pentesters in the field, you'll quickly stop being shocked at this.

You have a responsibility as someone who is presenting security issues to know what you're talking about. Most people listen to whoever talks the most confidently. And the bare minimum work is proving that the exploits you're presenting are actually applicable to the situation at hand.

Most people don't know security, and very few people will check your work to ensure it's correct. That means when some hobbyist steps up and starts yelling about theoretical issues, it's important to step in and say "Actually, these issues haven't been demonstrated."

What if it takes $100M to MITM someone? Would you say it's still worth being shocked that you're theoretically vulnerable to this? What is the precise cost of someone who actually wanted to MITM someone else using emacs? Have you done the math?

This isn't me downplaying the significance. This is me saying "Do the work." And if you haven't, then you should classify the vulns as low severity. That's what we did whenever we didn't know for a fact that you could own someone's app/box.
I hadn't heard about Rupert Everett biopic before reading this article. Sounds interesting.

I want to throw out a recommendation for the Ellman biography mentioned in the article:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5294.Oscar_Wilde

I consider it one of the great small triumphs of my life that I once persuaded my younger brother (a college engineering student at the time whose taste bent toward fantasy and sci-fi) to pick it up. He went on to read it all the way through with pleasure.
Oh no, I can say that quite publicly. When I started on the team in 2015, that code was some nightmarish shit. It was hardly componentized, you'd have 70 different places in the code all calling out to GDI to do rendering at seemingly random points in the app's lifecycle. It was painful to get work done in the codebase.

After a LOT of refactoring it's finally in a state that's really quite managable, and much more modernized.
Many companies already spend inefficiently (from a productivity point of view) on stupid lavish office features like gourmet coffee stations, video game rooms, roof decks, or things like booze-focused parties.

I don’t get why anyone believes open-plan offices are chosen to save money. Maybe in the most spartan of bootstrapped startups, sure, but most of the time it’s for optics and status signalling, part of turning the office into a shrine to the executives.

Companies have been studying, measuring and carefully quantifying knowledge worker productivity for a hundred years. The idea that “productivity lost to open spaces is hard to measure, but short term savings is an obvious win on paper” is silly. Companies are not that stupid.

No, open plan offices are deliberately chosen for status and optics, and to some extent to make the environment routinize your fealty as a worker and ingrain into your mind the obvious fact that your productivity isn’t valued; that your economic worth in most of these companies is higher if you function like a decorative piece of furniture.
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Yea, and there was a lot of controversy that went all the way up to the government and there was the attempt to break apart the tight centralization that had become Telcos. Obviously this is repeating itself.

Social systems are built by people and broken apart by people. People are telling you to stop using Facebook because they don't have anyone's best interests aligned with anything besides their own. So stop using Facebook unless they figure out how to prove differently. Trust takes time and when it's broken, it takes effort to regrow. Don't give them that power over you. That's the point of what a lot of people are saying. All of that stuff influences the ways we see all online communication. A breakdown in trust from one superpower affects perception of everything it is connected to. And some people like socializing online freely, without having to constantly police themselves for every statement uttered, because for some people, that's all we ever had for real and fluid and trusting social interaction and that's all we learned to feel comfortable with. Facebook changed that dynamic to an extreme.

So Facebook sucks, that's why we have that perspective. They are going to have to do more than AI research because it's still very obviously aligned with their own interests and not necessarily the interests of the people that use Facebook. They need to rethink stuff, or at least think about the perspective of folks that use Facebook without projecting their own insecurities onto the rest of the world. Do different things, think about what Facebook does that breaks relationships down instead of builds them, think about how to solve those problems. Because it does. It establishes social dynamics that are not useful for meaningful dialogue. They took advantage of that, which is an abuse of trust. All of this stuff matters in this political climate. It affects all of us.

Yes, you use a service, you become the product. That's what we've been led to accept. How about just not seeing people solely as means to an end (profit)? It's a balance. Capitalism matters to this country clearly, it matters to lots of people on Ycombinator, entrepreneurs, startups, small business, developers, etc. But it's still a balance. You don't want it to override everything you are and everything you do because then it controls you, instead of you have control over you. That would seem like a contradiction because the point of having financial security is to have your own control. But the world is much more complicated than the business of making money. This doesn't mean toss everything you've ever done in the garbage. Just means be mindful of the balance.

Facebook, for whatever reason it was built, was sold to a consumer public as a means for improving socialization. It is not doing that because it chose to not do that. It took an action that was orthogonal to the mutual trust established in the business dynamic. Takes time to repair that. AI is still too tightly coupled to predicting how people think.

Bottom line is, you have to ask yourself "Why do they want to do that?".
Your post reminds me of just how spoiled I am, and I understand the problem with my understanding of the situation might be exactly that. I totally worked for companies that match what you describe.

My current employer though? If we had crunch time and then told my boss I was gonna go home an hour early and do 4 days a week for the next 2 weeks to make up for it? No brainer, they'll say yes. It's also not that uncommon for managers to send people home if they shipped a lot of stuff that day.

I'm a manager myself, and I frequently had to have the talk with my reports to tone it down. The last thing I want is burnt out employees. I've actively told some to calm down and work less.
Probably not.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/26/
You are focusing on very narrow concept and scenario.

The overall maintainability, durability and cost is the issue. The ability of brigades to operate long time independently with minimal maintenance logistics is essential.
To summarize why I think professors are going with this arrangement (in order):

1) Much less, if any, grant writing. A standard NSF $500K 3 year grant provides a lab about $100K per year (due to university overhead). This will support 1-2 PhD students on a pittance of a stipend.

2) Less teaching (1 course once a year)

3) Computing resources that are far greater than you could get a grant for. One NVIDIA DGX-1 is about $100K. Very hard to get a grant for something like that. Companies have far greater resources than just one DGX-1

4) Access to software engineering personnel to help with research

5) Access to data, and the ability to create new datasets. Many datasets cost over $100K to make (e.g., those for semantic segmentation). Very hard to get a grant to make a dataset (I've tried)

6) Much better media relations to popularize your research

7) Bigger salary

A big part of this, in my opinion, is just that FB funds their labs. Getting government funding for a lab is difficult and frustrating and must be done continually, especially for these professors that run huge labs. NSF has a 7-15% success rate, and it can take a lot of effort to write a decent proposal. Including teaching regularly, this takes a lot of time from actual research. What these professors, I think, are negotiating is only teaching one semester a year and having a spigot of cash to fund their labs. They also gain access to massive amounts of data and computing resources.

Other companies don't seem to be as open to this arrangement as FB, but it has a lot of appeal to me (although I'm not a lover of FB).
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> Yes, or you can skip that part and do the tricky part in an actual programming language

That works great up to a point but will not scale for environments that need to scale. I’ve worked on a number of systems where they implemented excel export or bulk import components and wondered why their application locked up after a few thousand rows.

Usually the developers turn around and blame their SQL engine for being deficient and then try Mongo or similar - not because it’s better necessarily but it allows them to continue working the way they want to (on application code).

Not to sound mean but the developer types who shy away from writing proper SQL queries also seemed to be oblivious to asynchronous programming techniques and using the right data structures in their code - indicating that they were generally less interested in finding the most efficient methods.
It's amusing to watch the old media pivot against free speech lately.
It's hard to say the CSA was not a country. They had land, currency, bonds, postage stamps, a government, an army, and a constitution.
Google Maps API is not a consumer product, which is where you might have an argument there. A good engineer identifies their use-case and checks out the major players to determine what's a good fit. Once that determination is made, pricing is pretty much all that matters.
You might be surprised by how much can be done with a mere chisel. As for transportation, Aswan is on the Nile?
> I never signed a contract with anybody, yet the place I was born in ultimately decides the boundaries of the space I'm allowed to live in.

To the contrary: you never signed a contract, but you still got a free education, roads and libraries and schools, etc. growing up in your own country.

You're as free to live a hermit life in France as you were a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand years ago. And somebody else is also free to attack and imprison you for it (more recently French law enforcement, longer ago various peoples/tribes).

But you have this amazing things called rights in your own country, such as due process of law, where the police will protect property rights and the fact that you live in your home. That's not archaic, that's amazing.
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Yep that's it!
skim. truly minimal. the one sentence hit is all.

wisdom-of-the-crowd in this case, is about summing ant-like impressions, to get scale to peek above the surface to rise to the top to accrue karma.

its hard. I am very sure interesting things just pass me by
Interesting things people are saying in that forum thread.

Claims that deleting the related file causes the game to no longer launch. Why is that necessary for marketing tracking or were they just too lazy to skip over that particular file not found error?

That the SteamID can be transmitted. Seems like identifiable information to me despite the claims otherwise.

There is a way to opt out of the tracking. Going to the opt out page I see a request for your gamer ID for the game in question. Which goes back to that being identifiable information. It also states a game could have opt out options in place so I'm wondering why those seem to not be available in the game?

At this point I say I'm surprised that their actually is surprise from developers at this backlash. This sort of things gets attempted every few years that comes to the same result.
Pretty sure spying on people who just want to play a video game without telling them or letting them opt out ahead of time is not only a bit immoral but also very much illegal, at least in Europe.

I doubt the form they have on their website where you have to know your id to opt out of the spying would hold up in court.
Actually, that's not really the case: warring started at the dawn of civilization. There aren't many clear cases of large scale destruction of human life in prehistoric times. The proliferation of war only happened as sedentism gained popularity. Sedentism is the start of civilization. It also creates economic stratification, which is probably the number one reason for war across nations and inside nations.
Bill Clinton was very eager to get China into the WTO. Business and Industry and Clinton only saw gleeming $ signs. It blinded them to corruption, unfair practices, etc. They all had been warned about it.

They all thought they knew better and could bring China in line.

After Clinton, GWB didn’t even try. He was too distracted by bin Laden. Obama was trying to make nice to the rest of the world during his first term, then got embroiled with the unrest he started in the ME. They had all forgotten about blue collar America. They all thought people would change jobs and these jobs would offer a good living to blue collar workers.

Surprise! It doesn’t work that way. Sure your ivy leaguers got nice cushy advisory jobs and consultancy jobs and got to talk about their adventures diring their two year China stint.

All the whole mill workers, garment workers, furniture workers, tools workers were forgotten and left behind.

Now, while inelegantly, someone is finally recognizing the grievance. It’s about time. It’s a shame it’s taken 20 years.
This article actually made me more sympathetic to Facebook. These issues are not as simple as the NYT thinks, and Facebook seems to be making every effort to navigate them in a principled way.
I'm curious to know I'll f there is a study that these open office plans to actually work.
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> 4) Export / import mutable globals (and good module support in general)

Already done (at least at the spec level), ref: https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/pull/814. I'm currently implementing it in my non-web WASM backend now :-)
This is important. We’re at risk of the “gig economy” undoing over a century of hard fought gains in workers rights. Minimum wage laws, unemployment, etc, these are good things that should be preserved.

Uber has clearly shown that they’re happy to be as exploitative as they’re allowed to be. (And that even when they’re specifically disallowed they’ll do everything they can to ignore it and fight the laws.)
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I am a recent CS grad from a very known university, with very good GPA. But, I think that what makes me stand out even more than GPA, are that grades in individual and relevant courses are even higher. Do you think is it ok to list the most relevant courses with their grades in the education section? Or may I do it only for elective courses? I just want to make sure my resume doesn't look condescending that way.

Any advice will be much appreciated!
Yes, but, formatting is also useful. Most of us have come across a giant block of text, where the writer failed to break it into proper paragraphs. Most people who commit this sin are also poor writers, and that doesn't help, but the aesthetics of words on the page absolutely affect the way the reader experiences the information.
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I don't really see the issue with transparency.

As a EU citizen, I'm very much in favour of both transparency and I'd go as far as identity disclosure.

If you're willing to spend money to sway society in a specific direction, surely you wouldn't mind that people know your stance?
> make a can with even one baffle inside

Actually, you don't even have to do that. The ATF has ruled in the past that it the device is intended to reduce the report, it's a suppressor.

> Furthermore, I’m pretty sure 3D printing an impractical but illegal silencer is within the reach of most makers.

It's within reach of everyone with access to a soda bottle and a roll of duct tape.

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Gun laws in the US are Byzantine. There are all kinds of things that fall under the same law as suppressors (National Firearms Act of 1934) that make no sense at all. For instance - installing a vertical grip on a pistol, or installing a barrel of less than 16" on a rifle.

Using any of the items on this page on an AR-15 lower receiver that is configured as a rifle _or was sold by a dealer in the past while configured as a rifle_ is a felony and carries the same penalty as possessing an unregistered machinegun: https://palmettostatearmory.com/ar-15/barreled-upper-assembl...