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I was just thinking that having used various FTP/SFTP-as-a-filesystem, not to mention NFS and SMB, over a decade or so before Dropbox arrived made the sales pitch immediately obvious: do you want everything to be slow and unreliable, with frequent jank even on fast networks, or not?
I was of the same opinion - but I've recently noticed (because youtube-dl, I think, automatically downloads music at a fairly high quality) that I enjoy some music substantially more when it's not compressed to hell. Classical music especially seems much juicier with a high quality recording.
You could also use the functions with explicit bit widths, like bswap64 and bswap32.
I think it was Churchill said that "protobufs are the worst form of data serialization, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." I really don't understand why you would ever want to serialize data without a description of what can be in the serialized data blob. And yes, I do care about the difference between a single precision float, a double precision float, or an int64. Thank you, typing system.
You went from some interesting conversation you had, to the SEC’s reach wrt securities fraud, to ICOs committing wire fraud and felonies, to probabilities of jail time etc. All without actually saying anything of substance.

Why is this person’s imagination the top voted comment on what could be an interesting discussion?
Wages have increased since the 1970s. Median and average wages are at new all-time highs. The middle class hasn't improved, the bottom 25% have seen dramatic improvements since the 1970s.

That 1970s income figure, is a fluke of history. The sole reason it was that high back then was because the US inherited a unique position post WW2, in which it had 55% of all global manufacturing, temporarily. That caused a brief 20-25 year period of artificial economic results that saw the US pull far away from everyone else. Over time much of the developed world has caught back up.

Total compensation has increased since then. That includes health care, which is very expensive. The per capita cost of healthcare is near ~$11,000 now, several times what it cost in the 1970s inflation adjusted.

Homelessness is near an all-time record low in the US and poverty is near 40 year lows.

A record number of people are covered by health insurance.

The per capita income transfers for social welfare policies have tripled since the mid 1970s, inflation adjusted. That is, the US welfare state has dramatically expanded over 40 years, to the benefit of the poorest.

Sure, there's a lot more to do. That doesn't mean there haven't been some vast improvements.
Yes, they are. Even if they get their energy from fossil fuels for now, it's a whole lot easier to replace a few hundred power plants than it is to replace millions of ICEs and all the associated sunk cost that they represent.

It's also just generally easier to make electricity from renewable sources than to directly power cars with them.
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Have they not removed protected characteristics from the data? If they had, AI wouldn't know about gender and there would be no bias.
Behavioral economics is popular because its a better model. It's clear that any model of human behavior and decision making will necessary be very complicated. It doesn't make any sense to right at the start decide that the only factor that will be considered is financial expected value. Even though any model based on such an assumption will be severely flawed, this is the view of main stream economics, and this explains why behavioral economics is a better model.
Product and coproduct types are not category theory (what is that?)
A quick search reveals https://www-static.bouldercolorado.gov/docs/Mobile_Food_Vehi...

> a restaurant fire suppression system shall be required for all cooking operations that produce grease-laden vapors. These systems can be activated automatically or manually to dispense chemicals to suppress the flames of a fire

I.e. it's not "each truck". You can have a food truck that doesn't create that particular fire hazard without an expensive fire suppression system.
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But the process is broken by people not realizing that invoices are fraudulent. The method of delivery, be that email or some other system, is completely orthogonal.

Running their invoices through SAP or having gpg signed pdf invoices or using more node.js would not help because all of those solutions fail to address the fact that people are dumb and need to be trained to avoid scams.
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True! What matters is that doPerson() doesn't get hold of a reference to the object which could cause escape. Since it doesn't get hold of a reference, it of course can't modify the object either. Had the call been doPerson(&person) it would have gotten a reference and Go would be forced to heap-allocate person. I agree that escape analysis is tricky because it is easier than one might think for objects to escape. That Go is better than Java at imprisoning objects I think is mostly because of different usage patterns between programmers of the two languages.
How frequently do you find their UI badging to be inaccurate? I’m not sure I ever have caught it reporting the wrong state.
No where in the literature does it mention GNU outside of the GPL.

https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/linux-syste...
Doesn’t that depend on the characteristics of the work robots are replacing in modern economies?

Let’s take Japan, ftom the article. They are replacing warehouse workers. Demographically, Japan is experiencing a shrinking workforce.

So, the issue isn’t exactly whether ribots replace workers, but whether the pace of replacement is in sync with the reduction in the aging workforce.
More than that, though. Graduates of all-women colleges were also caught. If you're using school as a data point, that's extremely hard to sanitize.
Won't take long for the crooks though. Most government regulations are introduced in response to abuse and everywhere they've been rolled back, the abuses come back. No matter if in finance, in taxis (e.g. Uber's surge pricing), net neutrality, whatever.
Fox could be pushing an anti-AGW agenda for numerous reasons, not the least of which is in response to the affinities of their viewer base. They're a media company, so their job is to pander to some group of viewers to get ratings. The tail could be wagging the dog. Media is entertainment to sell ads and nothing more.
It’s just as easy easy to justify regulation by adding up all the imaginary costs that will be avoided.
The author isn’t trying to say either of those things, really.

I think their real point was something like: many companies that have an Enterprise Service Bus architecture for their pile of polyglot microservices, have a dogma for the encoding of the data flowing over the Bus. And Protobufs, though good for some use-cases, are a particularly bad dogma to be stuck with. That is, when they don’t work for a use-case, they really don’t work for that use-case—and an ESB means having to try to shove a wire format into pretty much every use-case. So “when it’s bad, it’s really bad” is a bad property for a format aimed specifically at being an enterprise’s ESB-interchange-format dogma to have.

(Contrast to, say, JSON-RPC, which I’d place on the opposite end of the scale being described here. JSON-RPC is mediocre at best in terms of data fidelity, performance, etc., but it’s inoffensive—when it’s bad, it’s no worse than when it’s good. That makes it a good choice of ESB dogma... even though, in engineering terms, it sucks!)
>>As someone who watched all this quite closely back in the day I cannot believe the amount of money these hucksters pulled out of people and still are to this day.

I don't like people promising the moon to hype up speculative investments, but there are non-government solutions to this, like reputation markets.

In fact we see these non-government solutions working already: token investors today are unrecognizable from those that were giving a website with a white paper $40 million worth of cryptocurrency in 2016. This transformation has occurred completely independently from any regulatory action. The collective intelligence of the market has increased from hard-won lessons in the need to do due diligence, and the emergence of numerous sites for rating token sales (mind you, there's still a lot of room improvement in the curation market).

Regulations can obviously address some of these problems too, but any restriction on how consenting parties choose to interact is going to have massive unintended consequences, and in my estimation the unintended consequences do much more harm than what's alleviated by the regulations.

Also worth mentioning is that the regulations that the SEC is trying to impose on token sales go far beyond prohibiting issuers from promising big gains. They try to micromanage how an offering is conducted with inflexible cookie cutter rules that inhibit innovation and make the entire market dependent on a centralized gatekeeper, which is a monopolistic and fragile situation prone to systemic failures.

It's obvious to me that a free society should not tolerate this level of control being exerted on how people engage in voluntary interactions with other consenting adults.

The problem is that the idea that we ought to be free to do with our money what we wish threatens many powerful special interests, so we get a never-ending stream of rationalizations and emotional appeals for restricting people's contracting rights, and for funnelling commerce through centralized gatekeepers.
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In your derivation, do

builder = ./builder.sh

and then write a shell script named builder.sh that builds what you want.

This is documented at https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#chap-writing-nix-expressions
texas has 50 % hispanic population ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Texas
It has 84% white population, not noticeably different to UK makeup at 87%

Iowa has 88% White (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa) or maybe 91 not too clear what they mean as difference between white and not hispanic

So them is some pretty small numbers to play with - somehow the "whites do better, and iowa has more whites" argument has only got 4-7% to play with

I would like to see the actual figures but it smells to me
What unique problem do you think the Trayvon Martin case proves black people face?

I'm a middle aged white male and I've been confronted by neighborhood watch and by the police while walking in other neighborhoods.

If I had attacked someone who confronted me, as Zimmerman claims Trayvon Martin did, it could easily have ended with a gunshot.

I agree that a big part of #blacklivesmatter is claiming that black folks face unique problems, but in order to make that claim they ignore the cases in which white people have the same experiences.

As a white person from an impoverished family who grew up in a mixed race inner city neighborhood, I see a lot of wealthy white people who claim my life experiences don't happen to white people. I see Hollywood and the news media making the same claims. I see BLM making the same claims.

That's a distorted perspective of life in America that ignores the existence and life experiences of a lot of people.

No, it's doing worse than ignoring them. It's actively trying to silence them.
> ...GNU...

That’s not a valid comparison. If Microsoft was licensing their patents under GNU (if that was possible), we’d be talking about something different entirely, but they’re not actually open sourcing them in any way at all... they’re entering into a contract to trade them like Pokemon cards with a consortium that will actually, eventually become a monopoly. Once they become a monopoly with enough leverage, they will inevitably agree to change their terms to be more hostile to the rest of the world.

Open source software offers usage under some kind of license for essentially nothing in return, not “you can use our software if you make all of your software open sores as well”.

I’m gonna leave this comment here so that I can come back and reference it in an article that all right 10 years from now when everybody is talking about how this consortium effectively took over the world of IP and how it’s too bad nobody could see that snowball when it was near the top of the hill still.

Here’s another thing to consider: given the right terms, which the constituents of this consortium could agree to, this IP monopoly (read: mafia) could even use their IP to collectively sue basically everyone (the cross section of that many patents will overlap with much more IP in the world, creating an economy of scale nobody can compete with).
I'm not saying I need quiet because I'm a virtuoso genius. I'm saying I need quiet for programming like I needed quiet for my math finals in college.
I think you're conflating a "runaway feedback loop" with "a slightly less extreme event that simply eliminates 90% of life on the planet," which says nothing about whether it was caused by a runaway feedback loop.
Which among other things teaches you how to write a Prolog compiler in Lisp.
Also, clothing is a commodity. Whatever benefit Uniqlo shareholders get from this will be short-lived as clothing prices drop around the world, benefiting all clothes buyers (everyone) at the expense of a textile workers, who -- at least for the time being -- can easily find a job elsewhere.

At some point, automation might be a cause for concern. But I really don't think this is that type of headline...
It is also possible for regulation to be exceedingly onerous, like Prohibition.
We're doing pretty well so far =)
I read it'd be a bus hub for the Olympics, but I would bet money that it too will be razed right after the games to accommodate the more prevalent need of housing or business development.
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It definitely wasn't malice, but feel free to believe in whatever makes you feel better. The way people like to throw around words like "malice" and "evil" without seeing the ridiculous hyperbole is beyond me.
> I assume there must be a large segment of the population who are really bothered by

You could fill in the blank after 'by' and there will be people who turn up at planning meetings or city council meetings to deliver spittle flecked rants about how it'll be the death of the city.
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Pull out the revenue gun. It sounds like the revenue is actually produced by the machines though. I wonder why there isn't another search company competing with Google...

Btw, if you use glass door to deduce Google's cost on employee, you probably have no idea how company works...
Sure, but their children aren’t. Children of non-Hispanic immigrants that are born in the US do better than US-born children of Hispanic immigrants. While English ability is clearly important in education outcomes, it’s not what makes the biggest difference.
> But they do not point out that their bias is for libertarian causes. Had they not found that more libertarian states perform well by their measure, they would never have published this.

The first statement is true. The piece would be a bit stronger if the researchers noted that by publishing in Reason, they're at the very least giving the appearance of potential confirmation bias. Your second statement makes an unsupported assumption though.

RE: SAT scores - not all students take the SAT, some students take it multiple times, the SAT is taken at different points in time per student, and it's a test that is so influential in college admissions that success on it is strongly correlated with wealth, as scores are best improved by tutoring on test taking strategy, not increasing general knowledge. I agree that grade 4 and 8 are probably not optimal to get a complete picture of education quality, but there is no reward to the student for doing well, so they're less likely to have spent substantial time investing in beating the test.
There are enough tail risks from climate change that the stock market, should it still exist, will probably enter a terminal decline on the 50 year time scale. I should add though that I'm long on 150 year scale, so there you go.
So my thoughts are how this is a problem of a highly dynamic system. There has been this massive injection of CO2 that has pushed the chaotic system to a whole new cycle.

So my question is what exactly is the right amount of change that won’t push the dynamical system to a point of even more instability.

I haven’t seen any discussion about this. That also concerns me.
Not enough information to say in 20 or 30 years..
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The numbers used in the parent were for illustration only, not necessarily the actuals. Also, student population != general population.
Someone had to decide on the training material. Note that saying that they had bias does not mean that they acted with malicious intent; most likely they didn't. That doesn't change the outcome, however.
#4 highly depends on a project size. On big projects, some of these decisions might become effectively one way doors.

I've been struggling a bit with these issues on the project of ~70k lines. I cannot even imagine what the refactoring would look like if we had, let's say, 1 million LOC.

To be fair, though, we use Rust the way it wasn't specifically designed for (large "enterprise" software, think Java-like enterprise).

I think, potentially, Rust could offer a much better story for this kind of software (assuming we are not mad and the issues we are facing are not because we doing something completely wrong :) ). In my opinion, the key thing would be to allow building "bridges" between pieces of the system which are "ownership-incompatible", so your decisions around ownership are not "one way doors" anymore (at the cost of translation / adapter layer).

Some random things which I think would be helpful:

1. Better self-referential structs, to allow going from "owned A + borrowed B" into "fully owned A+B" (rental crate helps here, though). Basically, hiding lifetimes in scenarios where you cannot easily change the original data structure to "own".

2. GATs. Honestly, this one is my speculation, but it seems like certain patterns which are hard to express now (abstraction of a "mutable reference", for example) would be possible with GATs. In our case, this would allow to bridge the gap between "trait object" world and "parametric over trait" world. The issue I was having is it is hard to express "mutably borrow from self" with traits (this is something similar to the issue "streaming iterator" crates solves). I was able to hack something using arbitrary self types, but it's quite... hacky.

3. Trait objects stable(r) ABI. Again, purely my speculation, but would allow to go back from "trait reference" world into "trait object" world. I won't go into details here, but trait objects want to "borrow" from something and it is not always easily possible (think that favorite vector+indices data structure) -- being able to "fake" those borrows would be nice (maybe).

Issues #2 and #3 specifically happens around deciding on data structure: regular structs have one set of tradeoffs, vectors with indexes -- another. In a big enterprise software, I would like to have an option to use whatever works in a particular spot and still have it API-compatible to the rest of the system.
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If a (insert centralized service here) friend tells me about a change of plans, and I know that messages with that contact were successful in the past, then plans indeed changed because it's spoof-proof so long as you didn't make friends with two accounts that end up sharing a name and so long as the sender didn't fall victim to phishing of creds.

If an email from a contact comes in, the from/sender headers can be spoofed without anyone having fallen victim yet, so maybe plans didn't really change.

Yes there are social aspects but there is also this plainly technical aspect.
From a quick glance, it looks like AssemblyScript compiles TypeScript, whereas Walt uses its own dialect of JS with WebAssembly types.
I see protobuf as being designed to be serialized fast and with a low footprint by not too complex assembly or C or Go. All the trade-offs are correct with that mindset. Maybe the author is looking at this from an academic type-theory perspective, and that's why he can't see the "why" for each one of the trade-offs.
hmm yeah why not
Ah, I might have been too over-reaching. I know it's certainly true in San Francisco.
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Because, though logical, it's a highly unpopular thing to discuss. Narrative has replaced critical thinking in many areas, this being one.
Not really. The US followed certain rules of engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan that a truly ruthless military would not.

For example the Battle of Fallujah was fought with Vietnam level tactics. There were about 100 KIA for the US side. The battle could have been fought differently with zero US losses.
The other posters have sorta said this, but the key is Cargo, and strong generics. I don’t write these things, I use a package where someone else has written them. The difficulty of writing this stuff does not impact my day-to-day getting stuff done. I don’t write Hashes in Ruby, I don’t write HashMaps in Rust.
Keep going. Then what happened...?

Ah, yes, Obama and Clinton went in, they saw, and they killed Qaddafi. The man surely deserved it, but! But he had made a deal with Bush 43 that needed to be respected so that others in the future too might pick a nuclear-free policy.

Obama single-handedly made the world a more dangerous place by killing Qaddafi. He made it that much more difficult for his successors (not just Trump) to negotiate nuclear disarmament with NK or Iran, for example, though in the future there will likely be others too. To think, Obama won a Nobel peace prize...

I wish sober people had argued this -and prevailed- at the time. I don't know, really, why the Libya adventure happened. It shouldn't have. I wonder if Bush 43 tried to get Obama to not do it, and if so, I wonder why Obama went ahead anyways.