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The ABA repudiated that letter, which was written in his personal capacity by the president of the ABA.

There was a great deal of pushback on him even before he was nominated. The knives were out for whoever it was going to be -- it wouldn't have mattered who it was, they already had their strategies for all of the ones on the list.

And I'm not sure what "cult" you think I'm representing. I like the Constitution and I prefer that Justices appointed to the Supreme Court actually follow it. That's my ideology.
This article reminds me of a phenomenon I sometimes see on LinkedIn streams: people who post about their own accomplishments, and use the headline "Humbled to/by ..."

As a contrived example: "Humbled to be named to SomeRandomMagazine's Top 30 under 30 list".

My first thought when seeing such as headline is, like heck that person is humbled. I can't think of any honest reason to post a story about one's own humiliation on a website focused on self-promotion such as LinkedIn.

And, perhaps I'm over-reaching here, but... Based on my assumption that such posts are disingenuous, I hold this against whoever posts it. Not only because it's (AFAICT) dishonest, but because it diminishes the avenues available for persons who which to show genuine contrition as a first step towards righting a wrong.
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Well that’s just incorrect.
> Was there a time when politics wasn't full of poison?

No. Reason made this short video about the political attacks from the election of 1800

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI
One way is to pay for feature requests. Pay $10 a month for you or a proxy to vote on various features to be developed/maintained.

There are multiple ways this could be funded. I don't know if any would work.
They all lobby, that is political just as a general example. Once you get big enough even the lack of action is a political choice.

My point is that when you are at that scale your very existence is political, so there is no sense in trying to pretend politics does not exist.
I know I'm going to sound like a microsoft employee or apologist, but I really have no skin in the game. I want windows to be better, but I think people are just going to far with minor gripes. Windows 10 has been the least disruptive Windows OS I've ever used. Maybe it's because I don't need to mess around with many settings, but I have had exactly 0 problems. On a clean install I used O&O Shutup 10, change my mouse settings, delete the 6-10 icons in the start menu that I don't want, and I've pretty much been good since beta (using O&O and making sure my drivers are good after every major update). I think the biggest disruption I remember was when they changed the audio settings completely, but that change was necessary (windows audio settings sucked) and is actually a pretty good change.

And I think people are not remembering just how many problems there were with windows 7/XP. Like the EXACT same problems people are complaining about now. Name a problem you're experiencing I can find a forum thread about someone having it on almost any version of Windows OS. And quite often many distros of linux as well.
Mass-democracy was well-known to be a terrible idea by many wise people in history, for the precise reasons that Twitter is revealing.
Workers derive 100% of their income and survival from their employer. Employers dervie some sub-percentage point of their income and survival from any one worker.

Unions level the playing field. Now, both sides have to negotiate from an even position - neither can do without the other.
She has near / over $1B, she is one of the highest earning actor in China. I wonder how much do Hollywood actor made.
So they won't even touch the efforts to combat ISIS, but they'll disenfranchise Palestinian civilians from their service.

Sounds like a great moral compass they have over there.
Capital holders can only ensure a large profit because those who are creating the value aren't themselves valuable. The value (price) of something is how much a buyer is willing to pay, not the value it provides to the buyer. Therefore the low wages are due to a surplus of labor. Not that this is a good thing, but I think it's important to point out because if we want to fix low wages, then we have to target the supply of labor. Give people mandatory six weeks of paid leave, 1 year of maternity/paternity paid leave, and watch wages go up automatically as capital owners have to adjust to less supply of labor.
Never say that.
> So I'm starting to rethink my views on bragging. Maybe its a good thing.

I'm not sure sharing should be conflated with bragging. You can talk about things you're doing or building without being excessively proud or boastful.
From looking it up, looks like you need ID for anything commercial interstate (bus or rail).
To begin, I'm not arguing nor have I come to any conclusion related to whether a fine or prison time is appropriate, however a fine/financial cost is very relative to a person's financial situation, and it is also more subtle, and perhaps also in some areas someone could simply declare bankruptcy or a fine will have no impact if their life is already "in the shitter." Prison on the other hand is a concrete/tangible separation from a person's regular life/routine, and so it's guaranteed to not be subtle - however as I replied elsewhere in this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18150041 - how prison affects someone can vary greatly and be much more detrimental than what a financial cost could potentially have, and I think it would be immoral to not properly account for this - if prison time is going to be allocated; another variable to account for is around the world "prison time" has great variability as to the conditions someone is put into, likewise with the social/safety constructs of taking care of people, or not.
They are, but sram takes space, and thus money.

Apple optimises chip performance

Others optimize chip size
One of my professors at GaTech was detained while leading a study abroad course in China. After he was released, he said it probably was because they didn't like a book he wrote.
If they are under a gag order, they would simply not comment on it. Lying about it is never required and puts them at risk for shareholder lawsuits.
I agree with the author that a CLA is one sided since contributors are at the mercy of the organization they sign their rights over to. For the open source code a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) is more appropriate. I learned this when Debian brought it up https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/01/gitlab-switches-to-dco-l...

For our proprietary source available code we do use a CLA since it is a custom license and we want the option to make changes to it in the future.
I built my own solution for this after using many different apps and not quite being satisfied with any of them. My ideal editor is markdown based with preview as you type, available everywhere (so sublime wouldn't work), plain text storage that's easy to export, and simple linking between notes.
It's at https://www.nominal.net if you're interested.
I mean, acronyms are fine but what is HtWFaIP supposed to mean?

Article related funny thought: you're bragging about being in enough on a certain study area that you recognize/use foundational texts by acronym even if they're complicated.
Really, you think it’s easy to spot a few stealthy packets among trillions? You have far too much faith in detection capabilities. Many of the best companies go years without detecting rogue traffic.

Also, just because you don’t know where the boards are does not mean that they don’t exist.
Because it explicitly contradicts Bloomberg's story, which repeatedly claims Apple had knowledge of compromised hardware.
I only used the "eat meat" example because the guy I replied to did. A better one, IMO, would be "arguing against companies having to pay taxes because the employees already pay income taxes". My CEO has said something akin to that on multiple occasions and I'll keep challenging him on it because I strongly disagree. That doesn't mean I expect him to change but I do expect him to defend his standpoint.

There's nothing wrong with challenging people on different topics, lots of healthy and fruitful discussions can come of that, it's just the "don't be obnoxious and entitled about it" part that seems to not resonate with some people but I think that's an entirely different issue.
I think the attacks are real and if China is doing it then anyone else may be doing it as well including the US.
Start here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUkh9m2BorqkNzSSPrCDk...

This is a class on valuation. Very interesting and teaches a lot of important concepts.
Why limit yourself to news agencies? If trustworthiness amounted for anything, nearly all corporations big enough to have a PR department, and all governments would be out of business.
You have too short a time horizon on your "nobody".
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>single answer to several messages

Always surprises me that out of all the different kinds of internet communities, it's only the oft-maligned imageboards that consistently provide that feature.

I was kind of expecting Discourse to play with the idea, since they seem to be the modern-reboot-of-forums with the most traction + willingness to experiment, but they haven't so far, afaik.
There was a recent incident, were drivers were almost lynched, after making a wrong turn.
Decoding the Chinese Super Micro super spy-chip super-scandal
Ah, I see what's going on. The Skylake numbers are for a single threaded test. Assuming the A12 ones are as well, what's being said (poorly) is that the single threaded performance of Apple's A12 is better than the single threaded performance of Intel's Skylake Xeon 8176.

Of course there's a different number of cores in each, and the performance of multi-core code will likely differ based on technologies (memory architecture, hyperthreading vs real cores, etc).

If it's accurate, it is still fairly impressive (just not as crazy as it first sounds).
The parent remembers "history", but strangely in singling out China forgot than one might also happen to know or remember the Philippine war, the Mexican War, the Korean War, Vietnam War, colonial occupation of 2/3rd of the world (including China), countless "third worlders" murdered fighting for their freedom, extinction of native populations, and countless other times those criticizing China were doing the same or worse (and in which ways they still do it) just a little before.

Those are "old"? Well, and the Cultural Revolution isn't?

Besides it was an era of internal conflict and civil war, when a country of more than a billion people changed regime. Europe had tons of wars (and started and fought 2 world wars) when its old feudal provinces turned into nations, and as its later colonial powers and empires broke down.

China went through that much later, and after 2 deeply humiliating periods of Western and Japanese occupation and imperialism. And they did quite well despite the toll to turn the tides around from a mostly agrarian dirt poor nation in 1900 to the worlds 2nd economy today.

The cultural revolution had a huge toll from the fractions fighting for power and idiotic decisions that led to famines etc (90% of what's count as its toll is that), but it left the country not decimated, but more populous and prosperous -- from ~650million in 1960 to 1 billion in 1980, and more democratic.
It's not like java gtk or qt were a thing.
Cruise Automation presumably, which is owned by GM.
It's a 165 watt desktop CPU running a single-threaded integer benchmark that doesn't use the other 27 cores, doesn't fully utilize the 6 memory channels or 40 PCIe lanes, etc. Also, you're comparing TDP to average power. Skylake won't come close to the TDP running an integer benchmark (it's the AVX units that really suck power).

Amber Lake Y (a 2-core part with 4.2 GHz turbo) should achieve similar performance on a single-threaded integer benchmark like that, and it's a 5W part. Still, that's incredibly impressive on Apple's part.
> It makes it safe by not letting you share

That is simply wrong. Rust makes it easy and safe to share immutable data – it's the ability to mutate that can't be shared.

> data is owned explicitly and passed explicitly

Yes, data is owned explicitly, but the permission to read or write the data is somewhat independent of ownership – the owner of an object can grant permission to access the object, and it can pass this permission to other threads without relinquishing ownership.
The US fought a civil war over politics.

But there are times where it is better/worse than others.
The attacker and target have VMs on the same hardware. The attacker has a fake presence serving cat pics which is constantly sending “valid” logging traffic to an S3 bucket.

The chip passes the stolen data between the VM instances by DMA. The stolen data hitches a ride inside an otherwise innocuous TCP packet storing log entries in that S3 bucket.

Logs are routine backed up off site.

There would be absolute nothing at the network level to distinguish the infiltrated packets.

Lower latency scenarios could be devised which would be similarly invisible but allow better command & control.
I'm getting 120mbps on iPhone 6s in Seattle (T-Mo).
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> As of today most games may actually already run better on Linux than on Windows.

I think that may be overselling it quite a bit. Every time I've checked to see how a game I'm currently playing would run, there are always caveats. Like random crashes in Rise of the Tomb Raider and Monster Hunter World.
See "Life and Death in Shanghai" by Cheng Nien, this isn't exactly "new" behavior for the Chinese government.
Meh.. That would impact things they didn't publish -- But for the work they publish, the contra findings aren't really relevant.

E.g. for the MH17 investigation where they disprove many of the lies from the Kremlin and decisively identify the specific BUK system used, the route it took, who was at command and their specific role within the Russian MoD all via open sources, social media, etc: https://www.bellingcat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mh17-3...

The Russian government made many claims after MH17 was shot down, some attributing the anti-aircraft attack to Ukraine and some categorically denying their involvement. Bellingcat with their supporters gathered tons of evidence that shows dispositive proof which contradicts both sides of the Russian story. It's common knowledge now that the Russians carried out the attack and Bellingcat is largely to thank for that being public -- I'm sure various security services were performing their own attribution work, but it's nice to have plain reading material to prove so.
Exactly. Non-Waymo companies have the benefit of Google/Waymo taking care of many of these obstacles for them.
"In Japan, the criminal justice system has a conviction rate that exceeds 99%, including guilty plea cases. This has been attributed to low prosecutorial budgets impelling understaffed prosecutors to bring only the most obviously guilty defendants to trial."

"In Canada, the national conviction rate is about 97%. This does not include cases in which the charges are dropped, which comprise about one-third of criminal cases. Absent Quebec, the province with the lowest conviction rate, the figure is 99%."

"In China, the justice system has a Conviction rate of about 99.9%. This has been attributed to the use of torture and other coercive measures to extract confessions and pressure on courts and prosecutors."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
Not taking a postion here, but given motivations it's hard to know what to conclude

> That's not what you do when you're trying to brush something off.

It /could/ be what you do if good relations with the Chinese government are crucial to your business (true for both Apple and Amazon).

As for the UK NCSC, it's bizarre that they would comment at all. One possible motivation: eagerness to discover how to use such a backdoor themselves

> “The NCSC engages confidentially with security researchers and urges anybody with credible intelligence about these reports to contact us”
"But there are 'high-end' Android phone manufacturer as well"

Sure, yes, but not at a volume that allows them to create a processor that competes with iPhone only on their flagship model. Also, they can't charge $999 for their flagship. The average sales price for an iPhone is higher than the flagship model at Samsung.
Congrats, you've found the 2% of the industry that isn't insane.

For many of us who fell into the other 98% the statistics aren't in your favor and some of the bigger publishers(EA, Microsoft) tend to go in ~6 year cycles.

Had a friend who worked on Dead Space, which should have been a stable thing. Alas, Visceral isn't around either.
Passives don't have enough pins to do much of anything, unless it's an array of passives in a single package that happens to be on power, gnd and data lines at once.

But, I'm not sure but it seems like a bit of a red herring. Reading the article the chip in question doesn't sound passive at all: "The Supermicro board here appears to have a QSPI chip, but also a space for an SPI chip as a manufacturing-time option. The alleged implant is mounted in part of the space where the SPI chip would go."

edit: so maybe it was an array of passives that were meant to go across every pin of this protocol in a single package.
What about the maintainer's right to not have their hands tied as they evolve a project by one person issuing a custom license on their PR? I agree with your final suggestion of forking off (hah) if you have a problem with the CLA... But it's unwarranted to say a maintainer protecting himself from a huge additional coordination burden is a kick in anyone else's groin.
Waymo parent has over $100B in cash and less than $5B debt.

Would expect they will just but a car company or at least a line.

They are going to market with a robot taxi service. Shared commercial offering later this year in Arizona and then San Fran and mountain view.

Alphabet does not do a dividend or need material buybacks to prop up share price.
If you are young, single and healthy, and can work on important parts of a game (engine), do it for 1-2 years, have a blast, ship an AAA game, then escape to more stable FAANG, where you will be a highly paid guru. You can even write a book or two then, documenting your tricks and achievements.
Because someone could interpret chips like this as an act of war?
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I've always wondered if there's a much differentiation between active and passive as is suggested. The main differences are:

1. list of stocks changes less frequently

2. the list is public

3. less trading

There's nothing preventing an "active" manager from behaving in the same/similar manner.
I've been using it for over a year now and still get lost in navigation and fail to understand the hierarchy.

One time I tried to put the effort to learn it but gave up pretty quickly.

What does all this customization worth if only a small fraction of the users can successfully use it ?

There's literally one person in the company who has mastered it. Everyone else just get by with it.
Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data
In the past I've run into projects where the source was on GitHub where you could compile yourself, but binaries needed to be purchased. Lemme see if I can find it
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Waymo is Google’s first AI robotics spinoff. That’s supposedly a (young) growth market.
Sean Smith aka Vilerat was a mod in the SomethingAwful forums for years before his untimely passing. He banned me for making fun of Hamid Karzai.
Unless we see major breakthroughs in the field of Fusion energy or long distance power transmission (Fibre optics for beamed power? Very high temperature superconductors?), I'm more and more convinced that immediate reliance on solar+wind is an unrealistic goal and we desperately need to be building nuclear plants as a stopgap.
Anyone know if their business actually getting traction?

I've seen the billboards, but haven't heard anyone use it
I agree; I considered making this comparison (especially with reference to "extrajudicial activities" China engages in) but I thought it might sidetrack the discussion. What I think is important here is that none of us would take this long rap-sheet as an excuse to believe, uncritically, everything someone said about the US, whether or not there was any evidence.
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> "Was there a time when politics wasn't full of poison?"

Short answer: Nope.

A couple years ago I read "Freedom for the Thoughts That We Hate." Aside from the history of the 1st Amendment, my #1 takeaway was: "politics has always been ugly and dirty."

That said, I think what's difference now is more and more people are less and less aware of history, as well as the fact that the MSM has finally figured out how to make money in the internet age (i.e., a "news" cycle based on controversy).

Editorial: Say what you want about Trump (I'm not a fan either) but even at his worst he's no where near as dangerous as Dick Cheney. To believe otherwise is only a sign of not understanding Cheney's nastiness.

Even if you compare DJT to BHO, BHO was no saint either (e.g., Wall Street was "pardoned" but Snowden was a Most Wanted). However, the MSM's narrative of BHO was one that over-glorified the upside and completely ignored the darkside. Unfortunately, playing to that manufactured extreme contrast today is good for profits in the DJT era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_for_the_Thought_That_W...
Your whole post is filled with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. The only program that named these companies was PRISM, which ingests data from targeted electronic wiretaps conducted by the FBI. None of the companies lied about that.
Bellingcat found car registrations registered to the GRU conservatory, where GRU officers reside. This has nothing to do with diplomats.
That’s very cool!

Is there a reason you’re using wasm-bindgen directly instead of using wasm-pack?
The open questions seem to be:

- Is a legitimate news organization incompetent when it comes to a deeply technical investigation?

- Why are large publicly traded tech companies refuting the article to the point of potentially defrauding investors.

I don't think the power of international players and the maturity of their strategies plays into it very much. I think you can assume they are incredibly powerful/pervasive and still doubt Bloomberg.
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Oh yes, my mistake yes, I thought Elemental was the name of the third party security company. Do we know the name of that company? They need some major kudos for this.
Lol, the Orville had an episode called 'Majority Rule' that is a funny take at a total democracy.
Opinion: The five reasons I believe Apple, not Bloomberg(Chinese spy chip claim)
Uh no. Having worked around those sorts of datacenters, the larger you are the more you're going to need the BMC and the iLO. Going to the server physically is almost never the answer at scale. The rack/data center guys generally don't know much at all.