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> But those people aren't innocent.

Some of them certainly are; we get “beyond a reasonable doubt” wrong often enough with murder that there are fairly regularly news articles about exonerations after lots of resources from public interest groups dug out the truth.

Just because no one is spending the same resources—and even if they were no one would treat the results as newsworthy—on lesser offeses doesn't mean people aren't imprisoned wrongly for them (perhaps far more often, largely on plea deals, then is the cases for wrongful murder cobvictions.)

> But again, I think this flows more into the "mass incarceration" problem/rate than it does into the "imprisoning innocents" problem/rate.

Mass incarceration is a product of mass criminalization plus high imprisonment penalties on the books. That also produces a volume of criminal cases too high to handle without expedited process, and a heavy pressure tool in terms of high potential penalties that can be traded far down for guilty pleas. With many of the accused unable to afford more than the barest defense, that also creates a huge likelihood of significant imprisonment of the factually innocent on top of that which comes more directly from mass imprisonment plus the failure rate of even ideal criminal process.

That is, mass incarceration causes, rather than being a separate unrelated problem from, imprisonment of innocents.
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Interesting to see so many John Carmack projects in this thread. He's a good candidate for "best programmer of all time", if there were such a thing.
the only solution to this is to launch your own satellites :)
Of course you would need vast increases of parking spots. But it doesn't matter, this is all hypothetical. WMATA isn't going anywhere.

DC would not be DC without the WMATA. And those WMATA trips from the burbs into DC can't be replaced with car trips or bus trips.
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>Another thing to consider, for cars, is that these things need PARKING SPACES.

Every single parking spot at any transit center in and around Seattle is full by 7AM. There was a new one built south of the airport at Angle Lake Station with something like 1000-1500 parking spots and you can't find anything past 7-8AM.
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You know him personally? Or he has some prior works that we can take a look?
I don't think anyone disagrees that our current system has flaws, it's just that the switching cost is really, really high, and even that assumes the next system is a lot better.

Also, there's a huge difference between pointing out problems and pointing out solutions.
Olympia would be a good stop too. When Worked down there for the State there were people that commuted all the way from Renton and even Portland(Seriously). Not to mention I reckon there is a lot of traffic from Seattle <-> Olympia. Now that you mention it add it Bellingham too.

The only issues with this is I can see a lot of complaints about rising property values in the more rural parts of the Sound, but you've got to start making adaptations for the influx of people at some point, right?
The problem is that the bound on clock error directly affects your performance. So if you're willing to accept, say, a second in clock error, then all transactions will take a minimum of one second. That level of performance is going to be unacceptable in many situations.

The potential clock error on VMs without dedicated time-keeping hardware is so large that performance turns into absolute garbage.
Correct. The key word is "inspired". Multiple companies have run a DO-178B cert on SQLite, I am told, but the core developers did not get to participate, and I think the result was level-C or -D.

While all that was happening 10+ years ago, I learned about DO-178B. I have a copy of the DO-178B spec within arms reach. And I found that, unlike most other "quality" standards I have encountered, DO-178B is actually useful for improving quality.

I originally developed the TH3 test suite for SQLite with the idea that I could sell it to companies interested in using SQLite in safety-critical applications, and thereby help pay for the open-source side of SQLite. That plan didn't work out as nobody ever bought it. But TH3 and the discipline of 100% MC/DC testing was and continues to be enormously helpful in keeping bugs out of SQLite, and so TH3 and all the other DO-178B-inspired testing and refactoring of SQLite has turned out to be well worth the thousands of hours of effort invested.

The SQLite project is not 100% DO-178B compliant. We have gotten slack on some of the more mundane paperwork aspects. Also, we aggressively optimize the SQLite code base for performance, whereas in a real safety-critical application the focus would be on extreme simplicity at the cost of reduced performance.

However, if some company does call us tomorrow and says that they want to purchase a complete set of DO-178B/C Level-A certification artifacts from us, I think we could deliver that with a few months of focused effort.
I use PyTorch a lot; it's definitely my preferred framework at the moment. I just wish there was something as thoughtfully done and well-supported in a more functionally oriented language.

Flux.jl on Julia is the frontrunner in this regard, IMO. The added benefit is that being written in Julia the whole way down makes it easy for practitioners to delve into the source code and extend it in a performant way without going into the C level nitty gritty.
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Also, I believe all the major cloud providers provide a "TrueTime" API service. I forgot the name that AWS uses, but you can call it on your EC2 instances and make sure your hosts are all in sync. It's pretty cool.
It depends on how stable is the Kernel, the rate of external changes (e.g. new processors), new discovered vulns, and the capacity of the new leader.

If all of those things go in the wrong direction, Linux could lose its reputation. For example, imagine a new vuln discovered and Linux failing to fix it for more than a year, or imagine Linux becoming slower than other alternatives in new processors
A lot of Bernie supporters hated Clinton. Also, Johnson received 1.5m more votes over his last run. Meaning plenty of Johnson & Stein supporters hated Trump.

Polls like this illustrate why approval voting is useful. List all the candidates, check the ones you like.

Meanwhile, Democrats continue to gain advantage in the generic congressional ballot.
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Went there when I was in Santa Fe. Great experience.
Interesting read, thanks for sharing!
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> application-level guarantees

If your database doesn't "guarantee" consistency, but instead provides eventual consistency, your application needs to be aware of how long "eventually" is. In effect, you'd be coding something similar to Spanner's timestamp uncertainty estimation. In the photo sharing example, it'd be reasonable to put a delay on sharing new photos with other users until after permissions changes would have propagated.
And majority of developers don’t need NoSQL or NewSQL - they are well off with PostgreSQL.

I think the old and tried should be the default choice here and other paths taken only after careful consideration and good justifications.
do you think it only tracks emails if you are using the default Mail client?
This sort of discussion always puts me in mind of what J.R.R. Tolkien said (via Gandalf),

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."
This will be very useful for platforms (mostly game consoles) where JIT are prohibited / security risk.
I don't see that, and I use uMatrix as well.
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"This is a good read" is a statement of opinion. You're free to assign whatever value you like to the op's opinion, but that opinion is "content" in and of itself.

"The article has false claim" is a statement of fact. A vague statement of fact about a non-obvious topic that puts no effort into providing concrete examples and reasoning is pretty much worthless.
Look through youtube for university lectures, like these ones
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_Ig1a5kxu57NQ50jSuf0...

Most intro classes just require familiarity with basic calculus (differentiation, chain rule), linear algebra and basic probability all of which you can just lookup directly on https://www.expii.com for a short tutorial. Toolkits are usually in Python or Lua, plus the numerous textbooks 'Deep learning with python' that are around and specific DL books such as http://www.deeplearningbook.org/.

Afterwards look around for Adversarial Learning, like detecting perturbations that force mis-classification and other attacks described in papers by Carlini and Wagner. Currently there isn't a perfect defense developed for all of these attacks, except robust optimization that provably defend some of them. Attacks are an interesting area in DL you can get into since we don't have access to large resources and can only do DL on a small scale (in my case anyway).
That post was actually quite different than this one. This one focuses on distributed vs. global consensus.

But I added a note at the end that clearly documents my connection to FaunaDB. As far as Calvin, the post itself clearly says that it came out of my research group.
Except the government massively expands it's own debt ... constantly. I mean, here is an article with a lot of figures:

https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-an...

Good times or bad, times of plenty, times of hardship, war or peace, ... government goes deeper in debt. When there is a tiny bit of debt relief, it's ... essentially accidental ... (nevertheless great respect for Bill Clinton, who proposed the budget made it happen, however it was not his intention. He could have spent the money though, and he didn't. Which is more than can be said of many others. On net however, Bill Clinton was like every other president: the government spent way more than it brought in)
1) Apple has a pretty good privacy record so I'm more inclined to trust them on this one. Go ahead, light me up for saying that. :-)

2) No one I know ever calls me anymore. I am however getting 10 to 15 spam calls a day (one literally just came through as I was typing this up). Its so bad that I had to install a paid spam blocker and even that only catches 80% or so.

If Apple is looking for ways to deal with these jokers, I am all about it. This is getting ridiculous.
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>Riding the Link Light Rail is super depressing when it stops at all the streets on Rainier Ave, just waiting to T-bone another left-turning car that isn't paying attention to how things work...

I rarely have it stop anywhere on Rainier, but when it does it takes so long for something that already takes forever. I live south of Seattle and it takes me 45 minutes to get home on the light rail where a bus will take 20 -- unfortunately the bus I need doesn't run on weekends so I have to take the light rail.
"They actually have to test to that degree to follow aviation standards..."

I didn't know that, and that's very cool.

Makes me think that the name SQLite is misnomer.
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It was historically about "taxation without representation", not taxes per se. It was a about democratic representation when creating the laws (and taxes) that were imposed on them.
Meow Wolf in combination with George RR Martin's theater (cafe, bar, writing space, purveyor of miniatures and other goods) has made me seriously consider going to Santa Fe for a few weeks as a sabbatical... just a lovely town.
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> I am considering doing the UI in a WebView while using C# as the back end

Why not Xamarin + MvvmCross + native UIs? I just finished an iOS + Android app like that and while learning Android UIs on the go was a bit painful (build times are longer when you modify resources), I had no issues except for Visual Studio for Mac quirks.
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This is mentioned as one of the mitigation techniques.
>don’t give admin permissions to random applications
It's definitely true that putting the burden of consistency on developers (instead of on the DB) results in a lot more tricky work for developers. On my project, which started six years ago, we use Cloud Datastore, because Cloud Spanner hadn't come out yet. It results in complicated, painful code that would be completely unnecessary with stronger transactional guarantees. Some examples: https://github.com/google/nomulus/blob/master/java/google/re... https://github.com/google/nomulus/blob/master/java/google/re... https://github.com/google/nomulus/blob/master/java/google/re...

It's no surprise that we're currently running screaming to something with stronger transactional guarantees.
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If anyone of those are denied it will fail to load the content.
What do you use instead of Google Search and Gmail?
+1 for requests, I forgot about that one but it's quite good.
> no DRM, no Netflix 4k for you".

No drm is a feature, and fine I'll just pirate it, it's easier anyways.
How much teeth does the motion have if the sites were not listed in the complaint. It's a violation of the 4th amendment. there needs to be probable cause shown. This is an aggressive attorney fishing.
“He never married”

It’s rare to that euphemism used in modern writing. I’m guessing the author might have just read it in research and copied it.
speaking as an automotive engine mechanic, another problematic plastic youll encounter is stuff that goes in your car or light truck.

these plastics are doped with chemicals to help them withstand rodents, cold weather, or excessive heat/UV. The panels from a 1993 Saturn, while revolutionary in their dent resistance, are landfill fodder. No one will touch them. Certain parts near the ECU will also come doped with electromagnetic shielding.

The PHB's at BMW apparently got pretty fired up around fibre reinforced plastics around 2010 as well...so much so that most components like radiators, pumps and switches are all glass fibre reinforced polyplastics. These cant get recycled, even though they contain metal parts that often can.
JVM and Python use timsort, which is O(N) on mostly sorted data of all kinds.
It’s an observation, not a prescription. Is it “discriminatory” to suggest that gymnastics is a young person’s game?
unfortunately, this is true.

but it may change in the future, hopefully.
> Democratic style governance is pretty pathetic, but it seems to be better than all the others so far.

Not to detract from your comment, which is all accurate, but this statement is a pet peeve of mine: the same can be said of every other previous "best system so far"

Just because we dont currently know a preferable alternative does not mean we should give up on criticism of the flaws of what we have, nor should we just assume that nothing will ever be better. We shouldn't ignore the good of what we have, nor become crippled by anxiety, but surely there is a middle ground between that and apathetic resignation.

(Steps off soapbox)
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As the ephemeral Tom Scott also demonstrates [0], even IF you account for all the listed factors (and many more) you are STILL sometimes out of sync, just due to the nature of the power grid itself.

As Albert said: Time is what clock measure. The more you dig into it, the more you realize how true that is!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bij-JjzCa7o
Kind of. There's a probabilistic argument that paying a certain amount for something that will survive a smaller earthquake is sometimes worth doing. As a nuclear reactor designer, we learn that there is, however, no upper limit to how strong an earthquake can be. Once the soil fails your statement is accurate; nothing's going to survive.
Well to be fair that's not a system it's a magic wish with 4 bullet points.
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Serious question, what's the difference between this and a class?
This is counter to the current perception of professional players, which is that world champions from ten years ago played the way that unexceptional ladder players play today. I think the average skill level has been increasing monotonically over time.
He said it was difficult, not impossible.

I think it's a fairly noncontroversial statement. Dealing with eventual consistency is always going to be more difficult and require more careful thought and preparation than immediately consistent systems.

How many programmers do you think are out there that have only ever worked on systems that use a single RDBMS instance, and what would happen if they tried to apply their techniques to a distributed, eventually consistent environment?
> Time SRE has at various points had take measures up to and including calling the USAF and telling them their satellites are fucked up

It's another cute anecdote, but Google culture is full of these, always scant on details and always intended to show how big/smart/important/complex/indispensable their engineering is.

"Had to" is a strong term here, it's made to sound like USAF could not possibly have noticed some deviation they were likely to correct of their own accord as a matter of routine as they had been doing for the 20 years of the GPS project prior to Google being founded.

The reality is drift and bad clocks are and always have been a feature of GPS, one explicitly designed for, one an entire staff exists to cope with, and designs depending on the absolute accuracy of a single clock have never been correct
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amen. the real world is being pretty stubborn about flakey and slow internet, despite what those living in the SV microcosm experience...
> Somewhere there's a great in-depth series of blog posts from someone who describes just trying to get libraries to agree upon and correctly use an author field or set of author fields for libraries.

That sounds interesting! Don't suppose you remember any more terms that might enable a Google search to find it?
Sorry for repeating myself, but since there is a machine learning and OCaml it worth mentioning Owl [1] - library for numeric and scientific computations, including ML.

[1] https://github.com/owlbarn/owl
Buoyant invented the service mesh concept and added that term to our vernacular as a way to describe Linkerd 1.x and similar systems. Istio was built using the same pattern as Linkerd 1.0. Those are "traditional", albeit in internet years not real years.

Linkerd 2.0 takes a fundamentally different approach. It's tiny, fast, lightweight and designed to add value as a service sidecar (installed on a single service) without any "mesh". If multiple service owners install Linkerd 2.0, it self-morphs into a mesh configuration and provides all of the value of a service mesh. This creates an installation and deployment pattern that is very practical and bottoms-up, delivering value to the individual service (and service owner) but also supporting a higher-level abstraction of a mesh at the platform level. This is a fundamental innovation and, hence, a new model for service mesh patterns versus the original, er, traditional model.
I agree with you. FWIW, the article is talking about assigning each user a fraud score for iTunes purchases. I'm guessing it's so that people can't use new iTunes accounts to game apps, or to use in-app purchases to test stolen credit cards.

Having said that, Apple should definitely be more aggressive about blocking spam numbers. My perception is that it does absolutely nothing about them. Does Android do a better job here?
Wait, I'm confused:

Are spammers using Apple devices? I always assumed they were just generic VoIP devices in boiler rooms (or bots, obviously).

Why would you invest that kind of money into a device for making spam calls?
Everything is recyclable. Not everything is cheaply recyclable. Hence some places are willing to recycle things like Styrofoam and some aren't - it's all about cost.

Recycling cardboard/steel/glass is cheap (you can even make money).

Recycling Styrofoam is expensive (you'll probably lose money).
Can confirm, beat all of the AI levels reliably before moving to ladder, and placed in bronze and stayed there for a few months.
If we seal the surface of, then boil the ocean we can launch our own time satellites with completely sustainable propulsion.
Distributed databases are like systems of government. Some are worse than others, but all of them suck. I'm not aware of any study that shows that X type of database reduces bugs, increases availability, and makes customers happier. Pick one that fits your application and deal with the suckiness.
>nobody trusts them to spend the cash the way they promised.

This is local propaganda by the large corporations here and Saul Spady running around whining on 5pm TV news about having to spend more money in taxes when he's enjoyed nothing but a booming Seattle restaurant industry directly due to the laws he opposed. Everything goes on the people because the businesses here don't really pay anything and those same people who complain about their taxes going up willingly defend not taxing the corporations reaping major benefits here. The tax system is also extremely regressive. Not to mention the public shows no backlash against giving $100's of millions of dollars of public taxpayer money to dumb shit like repairing Safeco Field when the owners and Mariners could've paid for it themselves.

Seattle is a fiscally right wing city, not this 'socialist hell hole' everyone makes it out to be.
AFAIK AWS is only offering NTP service with a GPS source (i.e. stratum 1). TrueTime appears to be a service offering that is a step above that in terms of the guarantees it provides.
I'm glad that we share the same understanding. By any chance do you have any teaching background?

As for myself I had 8 years of industry experience, followed by 4 years of teaching, then back to industry.
The news is because is five-star in every category. Not the same thing with let's say: BMW 3 Series.
> Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists.

Serious question: do you believe that letter to be immoral or indicative of immoral behavior? Or something specific?

Edit: format; quote.
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How much equity? How much salary? What happened to the previous Technical Co-Founder?
Not Xamarin but Xamarin.Forms. Xamarin just works because it's basically C# bindings to native.
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