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This is how legal arguments work when actual money is at stake. If there's a non-insane point of view that says you could interpret a clause in either direction one side takes one position and the other side takes the other position.

It's usually something similar to this, for example a policy with a clause saying we always cover if X and another clause saying we never cover if Y, when both X and Y are true. That kind of thing.

My favorite example along these lines is the insurance for the World Trade Center disaster, which hinged on a question of if the 9/11 attacks were one event, or two, since of course it was two separate planes taking off at different airports piloted by different terrorists.

No matter how much you plan ahead and try to use definitive language it's usually possible to end up in a spot where it's still a matter of debate.

In this case it's a lot of discussion of proximate cause (the phrase "but for" is the tell there) which is a standard feature of insurance claim arguments after some sort of major loss.

Typically what happens is each side assesses how close the other's argument is to compelling and then based on that both sides come to a settlement agreement.
"could drive clock speeds down under heavy thermal loads"

So now it just don't give a shit and fires away at the highest clock, without a care in the world about temperatures?

The clock speed should go down under "heavy thermal load", that's not a bug...
Laptop and notebook is the same thing...
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That PC vs Mac dichotomy really doesn’t carry into pre-built PCs and definitely not into pre-built laptops and other portables. Both have a responsibility for quality control.
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When did MacBooks became famous for "bad solder joints"?

Have you noticed how low the bar is for "famous" these days?

Whether it's some FaceTube "star" or tech "scandal" du jour, everything is massive these days and everyone on the planet is affected. Somehow, there are no small issues anymore.
I can't see any reason to favour this over Concourse.
The issue was not the CPU throttling itself, it was the CPU being configured to draw north of 100W and the VRM not being able to handle it, overheating, and leading to the system board hard throttling (down to 800MHz rather than slowly stepping down) the CPU until the VRM cooled down at which point the CPU would be un-throttled and the cycle would restart.

Apparently the power configuration is the one Apple's always used but previous CPUs didn't come close to the current generation in ability to draw power, so they'd never reached the VRM's thermal limits.

By lowering the CPU's maximum TDPup to 50~55W, they avoid the VRM over-heating and while the CPU does not turbo as high as with a 100W TDP allowance it can stay there just fine.
Or to put it another way: there's not a lot of reason to have two layers of log-structured storage. Your SSD already needs its own log-structured flash translation layer, and if that's tuned properly for your database workload, then another layer of the same kind of thing may not help much.
Funny how they needed to make the story serious by applying machine learning to determine exactly which type of monkey the Lorax was based on. One would think that just looking at them would be sufficient.

The Lorax living on that land does make him even more sympathetic but it's not like he was un-sympathetic before that. Funny that a popular children's story has the message "Capitalism will destroy the environment" at a time when the politics of that statement and environmental policy in general are so fraught.
It's public by default, and users have to explicitly change it to private, something the average user might not know. (Or even expect that their payment app is set up by default to broadcast their payments to the world)
I would say that the monopoly fear is a pretty significant one?

Walmart and Amazon are the largest US retailers in the physical and online retail spaces, respectively. Yes, they have helped reduce prices on goods for the average American consumer.

The question is, at what cost? The US taxpayer also picks up the welfare tab for Walmart and Amazon employees, as well as the costs associated with un- or under-insured people getting sick from physically demanding work. The American taxpayer directly subsidizes these companies [1][2].

If you create a system where the lowest cost retailer now has government-backed authority to lower prices to whatever it wants, this means that stores that pay their workers a fair wage are naturally at a disadvantage. Over time, the consumer may benefit from lower prices, but on the supply side (retailer + manufacturer), an increasing share of the profits accrue to the retailer as they are able to negotiate lower and lower prices from the manufacturer due to their increased scale.

The kicker is that the enforcement of predatory pricing laws is difficult. Short of selling the goods at a cost below the invoice price paid to the manufacturer, on what basis can the government intervene? Physical retailers generally need to markup goods 50-100% depending on the industry. If Amazon is willing to sell the goods at a 0.5% markup to gain market share, can the government intervene? What's the brightline for markups below which the state can intervene?

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[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-...

[2] https://newfoodeconomy.org/amazon-snap-employees-five-states...
This joker should have been fired. His tweets are completely uncalled for....

https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/23/james-gunn-say-tweets-got-fir...
is this a shout-out to Mitch Hedberg?

reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVTLFoB6yHk
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Rook is creating software for solving this problem. This does not at all mean that the problem really is solved.

I have yet to hear about any big production deployments of rook, care to provide any to support your claims?
> Technical debt is not a loan, it is an anchor.

This is a great analogy. You can still sail a ship with one anchor, maybe two, but eventually you are going to have so many anchors that ship isn't going to ever get to its destination.
Possibly! We're targeting Go 1.11 as we want the module support. It might work on GAE as is, but we haven't tested.
I think that's the most important message of the book. It's not enough to sympathize with the Lorax, you have to do something about it if you want it to be any different.
How do you pronounce it?

Native with a silent K? (like "knave" or "knee")

Kay-Native?

Kuh-Native?
Thank you for this great response! The "generic" versions apply to me immensely. I'll definitely take these to heart.
He's obviously talking about business failure.

I remember when I first saw a Macintosh. To my childish eyes it was a joke compared to the Apple II because of its laughable screen. Tiny and B&W? What? What the hell were they thinking? I still have no idea, though I realize that's not such a big deal.

To my adult eyes it's still a joke compared to the Amiga, but that's another story. I'm still not sure what was supposed to be special about that original Mac. WYSIWYG? I get a squint. The later ones were okay, though expensive.
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The master node is on-prem? Does that mean that this requires that Google has permanent access to my intranet ?
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You describe the UK system, this video somewhat shows it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U19GzqfGdqM
Oberon, Eiffel and Common Lisp already had VM/JIT + AOT.

When Java came around, latest Oberon variant was Active Oberon (Active Objects are similar to goroutines), then we had Eiffel and Modula-3 as well.

Hence why I say it should have been Java 1.0.
Damn, that's amazing. I would imagine that the city could be convinced by forecasting the money they would bring in on fines.

How does that system work for honking between intersections?
They won't if you don't make it worth their while by sharing of your resources. There's many an apocalyptic novel which contains just that scenario where some rich person created himself a hideout stuffed with tech and food and weapons (and more weapons, and even more of them - the genre might as well be called 'gun porn') only to be denied access (or killed) by his own people.
The CPU itself had plenty of thermal headroom, but was overdrawing the power system - which then thermally throttled itself way more aggressively and in a less-controlled manner. The update changes the curve to ensure that the CPU doesn't draw more power than the power system can handle for extended periods. The CPU will still downclock itself as needed if it experiences its own thermal overload.
Container Builder has been able to trigger based on changes to GitHub repos for a while (tags and merges to branches). What it (and the new branding) can't do, and what the parent comment is referring to, is trigger builds when PRs are opened, and update the PR with the build status.
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How would this compare to something like serverless.com?
It is plastic waste, after all.
and what "truth" might that be

that how amusing a story is somehow makes an idea more truthful than evidence?
It was “some Internet analysis” — by a 9 year old apparently? — that got the ball rolling on this latest legislative fleecing.

Banning straws are a non-trivial step backwards which will lead to more pollution IMO.

It’s a mockery of real steps which could be taken that would have orders of magnitude more effect on actual pollution levels.

If you think banning straws are an actual benefit, I think you’ve left science behind and moved on to politics.
Price Control and lower Quality.

For example in the EU Ward style rooms are common with 5+ beds per room many have 10+, in the US 4 people in the room is bottom level of care where most get 2 people per room

They also have heavy price controls on Drugs, if the US one of the few remaining countries with out them goes down that path Research will suffer as the US funds a huge amount of Drug Related research that the rest of the world gets for far far less investment

There are 100's of other differences in how te US system works different in the US, and US Consumers have come to expect those things.

This is with out getting into the all the problem associated with 3rd party payer systems like the US has where we have "insurance" that is not really insurance but prepaid healthcare.
I wish that would happen, the SSC design is even more powerful than LHC. But not sure Texas is culturally the optimal place for such high science these days. Part of the opposition to SSC back in the day was religious. CA or NV might be better.
I am from a 3rd world/developing country my maternal grandfather died at the age of 42 from a disease that is easily curable today. He was from a rich family that could afford the best healthcare of the time. Today a poor man can get cured of the same disease so life expectancy has gone up. But it is an avg more people are surviving to an older age
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Lathe of Heaven an incredibly beautiful story. One of my favorites of all time.
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I use Back In Time on Linux (which uses rsync) to back up data to a USB external drive. I backup critical data on 2 USB sticks one of which I carry with me at all times, the other one in a bank locker (this version of backup runs a little behind since I have to make trips to the bank). Not the most convenient way to make backups but I find it an acceptable trade off for me.

Pros

1 No data in the cloud.

2. Multiple copies of backup one of which is outside the house (to guard against fire etc.)

3. I have the most critical data with me at all times.

Cons

1. Data still in same city (does not guard against major earthquake, flood etc.)

2. Manual back ups (not automated on a schedule - though that can be set up on a home network, I just haven't bothered).
I recently went through this, though with the (arbitrary) goal of running for free indefinitely. This is tougher, since you can't use API Gateway and need to throttle your dynamo operations.

SQS ended up being the key to making this work: everything is asynchronous, and the js SDK is used to enqueue messages directly from the frontend.

That setup is described in https://www.simonmweber.com/2018/07/09/running-kleroteria-fo..., if you're interested.
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No one, anywhere, at any time, deserves any credit for "spotting opportunity for committing fraud"
It's really easy to trick people to commit crimes. Post a bunch craigslist job postings for a non-existant bank QA job that pays $100/hr. Have them withdraw the cash from the ATM, deposit it into their bank and wire the money out to an international bank.

https://securityintelligence.com/the-most-common-schemes-for...
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+1. It's been a couple of decades since high school, but I remember making a genuine effort at homework being one of the critical differences between success and failure. I find it hard to believe that there's enough time for all the practice during class.
There are two Volvos, the one that makes trucks, buses and construction equipment is still Swedish.
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My understanding about a cloud provider lock in that it is a well thought-out, conscious decision (at least it should be) and after you made that step, you can use the specific services of the given cloud provider and you never move out.

Are those hybrid/mixed cloud solutions or move between cloud provider viable or that common?

Is there anybody went through a huge cloud migration which went well?

If you need to move, there are huge amount of data you have to move for example between S3 and Google Cloud Storage, is that even possible to do beyond an early stage? I can't imagine.
Give me a break. They hypocrisy is astounding. Did I see this author write that Roseanne's firing set a worrying precedent?
The top 20 universities in the US are sitting on over a quarter of a trillion dollars in endowment money (including MIT at $15b), which continues to perpetually increase. I'd like to see them step up and almost entirely fund the creation of the EIC (the US Government could still kick in billions of dollars with little hassle). Far better to be directing their wealthy donors toward important projects like this, than another building on campus.
You still need a Kubernetes cluster running though, right?
I have always kept it simple. A storage array in JBOD (non-raid) setup. I buy two of whatever drive(s) will contain the duplicated data and just do a clean mirror using whatever backup software you desire. I happen to use 4TB HGST drives in a Mediasonic PROBOX 4 tower hooked into a PCIe card in my computer that connects them all through one multichannel eSATA cable. The software I use is Allway Sync (free for up to a certain amount of backed up data per month, after that a one time fee for lifetime updates).

I do one additional thing, and it's for third-party storage. So if you're dead set on cutting out a third-party, I understand. But here me out. If the data is encrypted on the third-party system, it's largely a non-risk in terms of privacy unless your filenames themselves put your privacy at risk. I am fine with my filenames being seen, but the content being encrypted. So what I do is use Boxcryptor to encrypt the "destination" drive and then I use pCloud as my third-party storage provider. Both pCloud and Boxcryptor show up as physical drives on your computer, which I find convenient. So I have my primary source drive synced with the Boxcryptor drive/location and Boxcryptor is set up on my machine to encrypt the data on the fly as it is copied (surprisingly, this is not the default setting). Then, The pCloud software is set up to automatically sync that Boxcryptor directory where the files show in their encrypted format (the "drive" version shows them unencrypted because everything is done on the fly both ways) to my pCloud storage. In the end, I have 3 versions - the unencrypted source, the encrypted Boxcryptor copy, and the pCloud backup which contains the encrypted copy.

Also important to note - pCloud is based in Germany and thus subject to the EU data protection laws and even without that I find pCloud to be a much lesser risk in terms of data privacy than any company in the US.
The rsync solution doesn't have to be manual. On Mac you can install a launchd script to run using StartOnMount.
Once again China is owning the future while the US twitters.

Hopefully, in that future, we can talk them into selling us a few of those busses (with a BIG tariff piled on, of course). Which we -might- be able to use, if we can afford to -charge- them.
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> get closer to pay-for-what-you-use.

How though, won't you need a Kubernetes cluster running?
I just started experimenting with Syncthing because Dropbox no longer meets my needs.

So far I'm pretty happy and impressed, it's a decentralized piece of software that Just Works (TM). My plan for backups is to spin up a VPS somewhere and have them back it up.

I also love that it can use LAN; I can finally sync up my giant mp3 collection.
So are we putting Qualcomm ads on HN now?
I loved Octavia Butler's Kindred. More than the science fiction, its cultural importance cannot be emphasized enough.
> Entire schools of philosophy disagree completely.

I'm sure they do; it's very much a matter of debate.

> brute force word nearness ML cluster doesn't understand the text it's translating, and therefore will always be lacking

Humanlike reasoning doesn't solve this problem. Understanding does not prevent this abstract "lacking." Strong AI is not suddenly perfect.

> always have cases that it simply cannot solve.

This is an inherent problem with reasoning, not with strong vs weak AI. Which leads us back to:

> Strong AI is probably impossible.

If we measure "Strong AI" as infallible, then yes. If we measure it by "understanding," then no. Which is why I care more about results than the philosophical debate over understanding/consciousness/humanness. 99.999% is acceptable if 100% is impossible.
Sounds like a contender for public office in a GOP administration.
You're totally right. All of those movie theaters that were heavily subsidized by billions in public money or tax cuts based on the promise of providing foot traffic and value to adjoining businesses should have their day!
I always felt "bendgate" was a non-issue. Just a bunch of hipsters who were too dumb to understand that you don't put a phone in the back pocket of your skinny jeans.

It's a slab of glass. What kind of person thinks that's a good idea?
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45 render angles, but of the same geometry, and at much lower resolution.
Don't you need an existing branch to open a PR? I get your second point about updating the PR itself: everything needs to go through PubSub.

Edit: I found the changelog (https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/release-notes), which confirms that this is both a rebranding and update, but also points to a new alpha GitHub app: https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/docs/run-builds-on-gith...

"Observe that the Google Cloud Build app builds your code on creating a pull request."

"Go to the Checks tab.
You'll see that Cloud Build has built your changes and you should see that your build has succeded. You'll also see other build details such as the time it took to build your code, the build ID, etc."

There might be hope...
Gotta love million dollar charity donations to schools which are unable to go bankrupt they generate so much money passively.
Apparently [1] Lindows -> Linspire -> Freespire [2]. There's also Xandros Desktop OS but that's apparently discontinued anyway [3].

I never personally used Lindows (or any variation of it), but I'm pretty sure you could create an experience that users would find pretty difficult to distinguish between Windows and Linux for the most part.

The key would be making sure everything is redirected through Wine and for the most part the OS does all the maintenance itself. Then it's just a case of wrapping some common utilities with a Windows like layout and it should be good to go.

[1] https://www.linux.com/news/linspire-going-away

[2] http://www.freespire.org/

[3] https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xandros
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Seems like a pretty generous settlement, doesn't it? He just had to give back the money. The "permanent officer-and-director bar" is there to prevent him from continuing to defraud people, but he really didn't have to pay an actual fine at all.
> The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that New York entrepreneur William Z. (Billy) McFarland, two companies he founded, a former senior executive, and a former contractor agreed to settle charges arising out of an extensive, multi-year offering fraud that raised at least $27.4 million from over 100 investors.

So the issue is already settled, and the 24.7M is just the fraud, not the penalty.

> McFarland has admitted the SEC’s allegations against him, agreed to a permanent officer-and-director bar, and agreed to disgorgement of $27.4 million, to be deemed satisfied by the forfeiture order entered in McFarland’s sentencing in a related criminal case. Margolin, Simon, Fyre Media, and Magnises agreed to the settlement without admitting or denying the charges. Margolin has agreed to a 7-year director-and-officer bar and must pay a $35,000 penalty, and Simon has agreed to a 3-year director-and-officer bar and must pay over $15,000 in disgorgement and penalty. The settlements are subject to court approval.

I don't know what the forfeiture case involved, but this looks like a slap on the wrist given the numbers involved.

EDIT:
> McFARLAND, 26, of New York, New York, pled guilty to two counts of wire fraud, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and consented to a forfeiture order in the amount of $26,040,099.48.

from: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/william-mcfarland-plead...

That forfeiture does NOT look like a slap on the wrist
Note that this is the same author who worked on formally verifying Rust's type system via RustBelt (https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2017/07/08/rustbelt.html), which has managed to find a few bugs in the standard library (https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2017/06/09/mutexguard-sync.html and https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/13/arc-synchronization.htm...), and also hopefully provides (by the nature of formal proofs) some small comfort regarding the quantity of other latent bugs. :P
In what sense? I think Wine is pretty good on most applications up to a year ago as long as they're not games?
This is a very good point, but as you say and the article states, the lack of warnings for this is changing.

There's also the obvious question of having user login/signup on a non-HTTPS site in the first place (pseudo-anonymous user accounts or otherwise).
AFAICT, it's an entirely different design - it would probably cost more to retrofit the existing SSC facilities than it would to start from scratch.

More importantly, the SSC site was sold to private industry more than a decade ago.
I'm fairly certain there were regulations related to endorsement disclosure long before that guide was published.
That was the original draft, but they chickened out and just decided to halve poverty by 2015 instead.
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