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> Because there's not a visible security presence, the Alamogordo Daily News is making this up?

Nope.

At this point, I believe that this was a fairly orderly shutdown (temporary or permanent) that wasn't communicated very well. The "FBI" and "Blackhawk helicopter" were probably federal employees removing federal property from the observatory's antenna arrays before handing it over to the university. I suppose it's possible that some of that could have been classified, since it's situated within line of sight of a military base where project testing occurs and it's conceivable that they might have used that site to received telemetry, but I don't see any reason to think that it's anything more than a case of poor communication between agencies and a pile-on by people who aren't familiar with the details and who want to see something that isn't there.

Note that I was one of those people at first - I gave significant thought to the idea that this was some sort of coverup associated with the coronal mass ejection and the ensuing solar storm that happened right at the same time. As time went on, other solar observatories starting going down and I got much more intensely interested. I took a step back though, and did some more looking around. The other observatory that went down first was in Hawaii, where they were experiencing a tropical storm.

I'll keep watching this, but at this point I think it'll just fade away into nothing, as there really is nothing happening there.

I will give a nod to one theorist on another forum who suggested that the cryptic communication, lack of a press conference, and the local sheriff denying knowledge of everything is all intended as an opportunity to study how conspiracy theories are formed, investigated, and disseminated in online forums. I hope that's the case, because I want to read that paper.
It does. You're left with little recourse when policy makers and lobbyists are apathetic or actually working against the public good (by refusing to raise the minimum wage, which hasn't increased in some places for over a decade, and should be indexed to inflation).

Can you not assign blame to someone abusing a broken system? Surely you can. They are still abusing the system.
Redux is overused, because of a meme that suggests that the de facto standard React "stack" is React, Redux, and React-Router. That's just a meme (Dan Abramov even wrote a blog post debunking it!) but some memes are hard to fight.
As a conservative who worked at Google: There also is risk is that if a conservative shares a conservative view correlated with intolerant views (but not actually intolerant), they become likely to be lumped in with the intolerant. The hard part about Popper's paradox is defining what is intolerant (outside of the obvious cases cited in the comments here).
That's a pretty gross oversimplification considering the dominance of Arabic as a scientific language during the Dark Ages (when Europeans preferred burning people to actually thinking). The word "algebra" is definitely not Latin.
Turn it around again, Amazon has underrun the competition that was paying living wages before and destroyed the jobs those people had before, by not paying taxes.
See but you're just putting words in their mouth. Saying that paper ballots are required for a functioning democracy seems like kind of silly.

chance of compromised digital ballots * cost of harm < cost of switching + chance of compromised paper ballots * cost of harm

Are you really faulting government for being rational and pragmatic?
We can argue until we're blue in the face about whose fault it is and who should be responsible for ensuring workers are paid a livable wage, but I would hope that we can all agree on this:

If you work full-time and you do a good job, then you should earn a wage that you can live on.
> This is very hard to do for mainframes because of access to them.

Bingo. I work in an AS/400 shop. I simply can't invest myself personally in the work because I know my access to that environment is predicated on working for this particular company.

I can hone my Linux skills and even my Windows Server skills any time. I can bring it home. I can use it myself. I can own it.

I can't do that with the AS/400. Just spinning up a "virtual machine" in the office to play around on is a licensing mess, and there's no "cloud" where I can rent one for a reasonable fee (that I've found). I have no sandbox.

Since my continued access to that environment isn't guaranteed or even convenient, I don't really want to dive in. And if I don't want to dive in then learning about it at all feels like a waste of time. Which then means I end up learning the absolute minimum before moving back to familiar territory.
They’re a little vague, but it stands to reason they were referring to the pack assembly machinery.
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Given that Bezos envisions, for example, creating a network of preschools in low-income areas, I'd say he's at least thinking about helping people get out of cyclical poverty.

Still, I'd also like to see Amazon pay its employees better...
I bet the kickbacks are like any other enterprise IT sales process: wine & dine, golf and box seats. Except the restaurants and courses are probably much nicer. Decision makers have pretty strict policies to follow that restrict gifts over a certain dollar amount but invite a bunch of employees to a box seat at a sporting event you already paid for and how much that gift is worth depends on how you measure the value.
That is exactly right. At the bottom of the blog post we touch on this, but if you are using consul-template to provide secrets via a configuration file, it can either restart or reload (signal) the application to pickup the changes. Alternatively, an application could be Vault aware and use the SDK programmatically.
Also a potentially sparking invitation to the fire department for a visit!

Working with lithium batteries is not to be performed without lots and lots of caution. The amount of energy in such cells that can be delivered, in a very surprising manner that is guaranteed to catch attention, is dangerous to say the least. And that's just from a single cell, a failing bank of cells is guaranteed to be a great conversation starter!

I'm sure there are those that can safely work with the stuff, but I'd not bet the house and family on it. Play safe!

(okok, enough with the puns now)
> The most popular politician in America just introduced the Stop BEZOS act

from the article: > Bernie Sanders

Popular by who's standards?
The answer given by the article is literally conscription: the authors were assigned to the mainframe unit as part of their national service in Israel, and found that they liked it.
It's worth noting re: #4 that the iPhone did not debut with an App Store. It had the pre-installed apps and that was it for the 1st year. The App Store arrived in year 2.
“Not committing genocide” is a very low bar for a presidency in the worlds sole superpower and I’m concerned that anyone would hold this or any administration to such a low standard.
> From a PR point of view Google has handled this whole privacy debacle very well.

Yes, but only because Google allegedly aided the media's preferred candidate, while Facebook allegedly aided the candidate that was successful and that the media hated. Google not showing up means the media can sort of just sweep their behavior under the rug, which is good for Google's PR in the minds of Americans who supported the media's favorite candidate....but it's terrible PR for the other half of the country who voted for the other one and sees the bias. You're just not hearing about it much because most of the media leans the same direction Google as a company does.

Can you imagine if Mark Zuckerberg hadn't shown up? How big of a story that would have been in almost every single media outlet?

Google's only sliding under the radar because the media is helping them slide under the radar. I assure you if Google's policies had aided the winning candidate's campaign - intentionally or not - that would not be the case.
That doesn't follow from this line of reasoning.

I objected to an article premised on a self-interested statement from someone who's inherently optimistic about Tesla. Neutral, grounded reporting about any profit-making company is always welcome.
No, he removed his original "Also, aren't you a Googler?"
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Not amazon but the organizations they fund and the people who work for them.
I think, instead, they know people like me will have to pay more for a device that doesn't meet my needs very well. They can leverage the fact that I need iOS, and can proceed to force people like me to pay more and more because we're locked into the ecosystem, even if there aren't any phones that are compact.

I got my SE for $100. I think y'all are unsatisfied with that revenue, and at this point, the XS is my next best option. So, I doubt they are discontinuing because they don't care about us. It's just a calculated bet that they won't actually lose us.

>they (OK, I should come clean here - we) might just not be a particularly profitable segment of Apple's user base.

I think this is a bad way to think of it, though. I know that's the way a McKinsey analyst might think of product, but it doesn't have long term focus. It's a lot like how Facebook quit caring about unprofitable people (the well-educated crowd), in order to cater to the consumerist suckers. But as the interesting people who created the content that built facebook into what it is today have fled, that content has gone with, and consumerist suckers are no longer entertained. The people I know with SEs are kind of like that crowd. If you start putting Androids into their hand, the rest of the people will take notice and follow.
Potentially hot take: charitable donations (perhaps over a certain small amount) should not be tax-deductible. "Philanthropy" by the ultra-rich is essentially just them deciding where their tax dollars go.
Try contracting; set up as a limited company and offer your services through that.
https://www.xkcd.com/343/ RIOT PRRL
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There's a place for charity in the world. But charity doesn't you give you a middle class life. When a man worth many billions can't be arsed to pay his employees a living wage, but wants to kick a few bucks towards "helping the homeless", something smells very rotten.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47675493/equivalent-of-s... notes const generics, const specialisation, associated type constructors, type-quantified higher-rank trait bounds and variadic generics.
They are in the business of buying and selling any zero-days. Tor browser primary goal is to be secure, unlike any other browser (which may still want to be secure but have many others goals). This zero day isn't exactly one either if you think about it, it only allow to run JS, which is a default feature on any other browser.

So they essentially lose nothing over it. People won't stop using internet and move toward written letters... they will just move toward other browser or update their browser, they will still be using something that Zerodium are buying and selling zero days for.
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You need to sell shareholders on the latter.
The $2B isn't over 1 year...it's over several years or decades. In reality it would be a few dollars per year extra for 600K employees. Let's not get carried away.
Tesla(and spacex) have a massive marketing presence but have failed to deliver on their promises over and over.

I stopped trusting their PR team, they must prove themselves instead of talking now. They did this to themselves.
It comes in the base of OpenBSD, and I use it in lieu of a calDAV server. Being able to quickly jot down an appointment and recall it on the command line is hecka useful.
GM Super Cruise technology (which you can buy today) is superior in some ways.
If progressives were really serious about helping the poor, they'd all become extremely wealthy and donate 1% of their wealth to a fund for the homeless.
I mean, most of the historic value in gold is not related to conductivity and almost entirely on aesthetics and scarcity (and the fact that you can mint gold into coins without lose an infinite number of times, but silver and copper also work there). "Pretty" is cultural. It's made up. It isn't objective. The industrial applications of gold come pretty recently relative to the cultural valuation of gold.

The fact that everyone, everywhere thought gold was pretty 10,000 years ago AND it's elemental AND it has chemical properties that make it useful for applications now is why it's valuable. But it's still survivor bias and retconning that the Mayans and Romans had any clue what future applications there would be for gold.
I agree, but just don't wander into the comments. The community is very on sided, which is to be expected I suppose.
Let's go back a little bit further in the history. In 2010, Washington took a shot at an income tax for individuals making over $200,000 a year. Bezos spent $100,000 to oppose that (along with a lot of other wealthy Washingtonians). Bezos also didn't support the Seattle income tax, although as far as I know he didn't spend money to oppose it.

The head tax was suboptimal and, yeah, stupid. Nobody would have proposed it if Seattle didn't have a regressive tax system. Compare us to Texas, another state with no income tax -- our property taxes are substantially lower. Seattle's infrastructure problems will continue because the city is underfunded to deal with them.

Anyhoo, I'm glad Bezos is spending this money on the homeless. I would recommend that he divert some of it to a deep dive into Seattle's problems. I think that committing to solve the problem in one city would yield insights that would be very valuable when he expands the program elsewhere.
Every time I see Seattle mentioned on HN, there is someone who says something to the effect of "That is all very nice, but let's talk about the homeless problem in Seattle." Considering that that is where Amazon's SWE core is, it might be profitable for Bezos to see this problem reduced/resolved.
Or perhaps it's because the EU is a failed project nobody wants or wants to pay for. All of currently relevant 'benefits' of EU membership existed before and will exist after. The EU is becoming increasingly insignificant in terms of global GDP share and will continue to do so.

Frankly, I'm an advocate for our security services doing whatever they feel is required in relation to `republicans` in Northern Ireland.
I found this excellent talk to be complementary to my talk[1] on data-oriented GUI in Rust, not to plug my own work too much.

I found a lot of common ground:

* Trying to write object-oriented code in Rust doesn't work well. Writing data-oriented code does.

* "Fighting the borrow checker" is a sign you might be doing it wrong. Try data-oriented approaches instead.

* Use a structure-of-arrays rather than an array-of-structures.

* Use what I call "state splitting" to borrow mutable references to just the state you need; this works well with the structure-of-arrays approach and is a powerful motivator to use it.

* To build graph-like structures, reach for a Vec of components, and indexes into the Vec for relationships, as your first choice. Self-references, arena allocators, and Rc are viable alternatives, but you should have a good reason to use them instead of Vec.

* Some form of dynamic typing is useful to keep your system loosely coupled (though we ended up with very different forms of dynamic typing, see below).

* Data-oriented approaches have taken root in the C++ gaming community, mostly motivated by performance, but adapt well to Rust, and some of the ideas may be useful in domains beyond gaming.

There were some other points that went beyond what I talked about, but could fit in well:

* A "generational index" is a good way to avoid use-after-free style errors that result from the use of a stale index. The slotmap crate can help.

And now for the things that are different.

* The exact nature of dynamic typing is different. An ECS usually uses a registry of the different component types (anymap is a useful crate) and is quite open-ended in adding new types of components. My xi-win-ui, by contrast, has two main component types, Widget and listener, and does dynamic dispatch on a Widget trait.

This naturally raises the question, which is better? From my perspective, both are valid. The pure ECS approach definitely makes sense when the components are interacting with each other in diverse ways (collisions, damage, etc). In a GUI, the components are mostly interacting with the framework, and have diverse behaviors within standardized interfaces (input, layout, paint).

Thus, one point of my talk is that you don't have to reject all vestiges of object oriented programming, it's perfectly reasonable to hybridize, using data-oriented approaches for state splitting and graph structure, and dynamic dispatch for the behavior variation.

My talk also went deeper into the ideas of "data flow rather than control flow" and the use of an event or command data structure rather than method calls. I'm not sure how deeply these ideas apply to games, but wouldn't be surprised if they do.

[1] video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTfxresvS8 , slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aDTRl5R-icAF38Di-qJ4...
Except that they, as far as I know, changed from saying the head lawyer was fine, to saying the CEO or nothing with less than a month before the event.

And again, if you want a discussion, you need people who are contextual experts. A CEO can't speak intelligently about security and privacy at Google or Facebook. Nor can Congress. You can discuss things in broad strokes and talk about high level initiatives, but actually real, useful discussion is unlikely.

There was a popular post yesterday showing pichais response to a question about fake news at a Google internal meeting. It was a widely derided answer and being uninformed, despite it being to a roomful of engineers who work at Google.

That leads to one conclusion, through any number of avenues (pichai doesn't understand the issues, realpolitik, people don't understand the issues, googlers don't understand the issues, etc.), That a congressional hearing asking Google about fake news would be unproductive theatre.
Came here to say this. Snipper does seem a little faster to set up at least, and might be useful for one-off scenarios.
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> The real loss is Senators no longer trusting Alphabet/Google after this snub.

The Senators that wanted Larry or Sundar to voluntarily submit to and draw more media attention to their spectacle of abuse directed at the firm (and others in the industry) obviously didn't trust Google in the first place, and the rest know the game and aren't going to be effected by this except perhaps by realizing that Google's leadership isn't completely braindead politically.

There was no possible net upside for Google participating in the charade of a hearing, and the committee rejecting Google's offer of the most qualified person to address the substantive questions notionally at issue in response to the voluntary invitation for participation was an unmistakable signal that that was the case.

> You really don't want to turn the government against you.

You also don't want to voluntarily cooperate with the parts of the government that have already turned against you and are trying to scapegoat you to build support for policies hostile to your interests.

Law enforcement isn't the only part of government that can seemingly innocently invite you to talk with malign intent, and it's not the only part of government you should decline voluntary cooperation with when you don't have good reason to believe that the intent of the invitation is aligned with your interests.
>3) non-WAP browser: all phones prior to the iPhone had a wap browser. The consensus knowledge in the industry was that doing full web on mobile was still years, maybe decades away. Apple came in and rendered the full New York Times on mobile and it changed the world.

Well, almost all. There were non-WAP browsers (Nokia, Windows phones, etc), but still crappy and limited at their html rendering.
What's up with the critical comments in here? How many of the judgemental and jaded posters here donated anything close to this to a charitable cause?

Good deeds must be applauded, not shamed for not being better. Especially if the definition of "better" is made up randomly on the spot.
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A note to any Rust maintainers reading:

There is something wrong with the line spacing. It's so narrow that it's hiding the underscore in one of the code examples:

https://screenshots.firefox.com/PYoTEXQwowBJoG30/blog.rust-l...

Firefox 62 on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04)
Elon Musk interview on Joe Rogan last which made their shares drop 8% for the day because he took one puff. Everyone went berserk because you are not supposed to do something like that if you are the CEO of a large company.

The stock dropped because the CAO departed less than a month after starting at Telsa. Not because of the puff of marijuana.
A lot of Amazon employees make a lot less than $50K. You think $200/month wouldn't make a difference to someone who can't afford food?
Let me add a shameless plug here:

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It's a proposed Stack Exchange website dedicated to mainframes. It is in commitment phase, which means people need to come up and commit to support the site - with questions, answers, moderation, comments - in numbers sufficient to ensure its viability.
The question is, "what is a living wage?" The goal posts keep shifting...which doesn't help the case for this. If it were just "you can afford rent and food" that would be fine, I suppose...but it has now extended to so many other things that I wouldn't really call necessities.
AirPower's challenge: variable position wireless power by co-op flux generators?
I'm not sure if your argument supports your conclusion:

1) You mentioned layoffs, but you didn't mention how long it took those people to find new jobs.

2) For those who couldn't find new jobs, how many of them avoided interviews or job offers because they were unwilling to relocate?

3) How transferable are "mainframe" skills to other "mainframe" installations? (As a non-mainframe-programmer, I have no idea how much one's skillset is peculiar to a specific mainframe vendor, mainframe OS version, etc.)

4) I get the impression that long-term mainframe developers actually have two parallel skillsets: (a) technical skills related to mainframe work in general, and (b) skills related to their particular installation's line-of-business and specific applications. For laid-off employees who couldn't find work, is it possible that their (b)-style skillsets were just not marketable to many other employers?
Why don’t you spend a little more time thinking critically about the real options faced by the working poor in a society with vast inequality and decades of flat wage growth?
Art for art sake doesn't mean you can't draw realistically, it means that art does not have to support a narrative or serve a utilitarian function, such as for holding tea. At least that was my understanding from whistlers ten o clock lecture.
Thank you! I recently merged a PR to change some CSS; I'll tweak and/or revert it. It looks okay on Firefox on Windows...

https://github.com/rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org/issues/269
You should try rereading Gene Wolfe novels.

Different book every time.
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How about pay your workers so they're not on food stamps and pay taxes so public schools are supported first.
And for a lot of families that is the difference between a staycation and Disneyland. Don’t underestimate how much an unexpected infusion of cash helps people that are near paycheck to paycheck.
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