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I've been an Apple customer for the past decade or so, starting with the white 13" macbook, and the first iPhone.
I've heard the argument many times that Apple is just as bad as Google/Facebook when it comes to collecting data.

I checked my data when the GDPR came into effect, and was pleasantly surprised to find only information i "expected".
It has my complete purchase history over every Apple product I've ever _registered_ as well as iTunes/AppStore, it has every service/repair call/appointment I've ever made.
It then goes on to list everything I've uploaded to iCloud.

There were no unpleasant surprises. No records of phone calls, no text messages (I don't use iMessage in iCloud), and absolutely no data i wasn't expecting them to have.

Google/Facebook have become greedy, and i expect a backlash will happen eventually (if not already) where people are fed up with them siphoning every little detail of their lives.
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How could you do 10x better? Because it's a broad design flaw there is no suspicious LOC or suspiciously overcomplicated code needed to hide the backdoor. You have to understand the whole context to notice the bug.
You would have to eliminate all government policy to get rid of subsidies. There a million ways around every clause in a 1000 page free trade agreement. It's just not possible.

I'm a supporter of liberal trade between all countries but you've got to be honest that pure "free" trade just ain't happening while there's a few hundred individual countries on Earth
> but it's essentially the modern IRC...

> I definitely wish they exposed client apis and sanctioned 3rd party clients, but this is likely at odds with their ultimate business model.

So, kind of the antithesis of IRC then.
Trade war or not. This particular move makes sense though. There is no reason to continue giving China - an economic superpower - a discount on mail.
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Yes, fine tuned and fast caches is what Apple was going for last few generations. AMD Ruzen also got much faster caches than their previous gen chips. Most importantly, fined tuned caches don't come as a power/performance trade-off - they are simply better.

Moreover, when litho generations progress to 10nm, the difference in power consumption in between working and non-working transistors gets so small, that the traditional convention that "a slow chip is also a low power chip" does not hold true. You are better off in regards to power consumption if you get your IPC up and IO-wait down.

The best analysis of A12 cache performance I know of that is written in popular language is this piece: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
Which is why Avengers: Infinity War (Thanos) was the only Marvel movie I ever liked.
field: A particular field is a particular subject of study or type of activity.

So the authors are using 'field' to mean area of study which has standard usage in English I think so probably didn't need to be explained further.

When the authors wrote:
"Nonetheless we think cataloguing these risks is important if we’re going to be serious about having an impact in important but ‘fragile’ fields like reducing extinction risk."

They are talking about 'reducing extinction risk' being a field of study. And the risks of doing damage to a that new field with early research.
Prior to 2014, AV companies' collisions were not required to be reported under California state law.

This is false. A collision resulting in any injury or total damage over $1000 ($750 before 2017) has to be reported on SR-1 forms regardless of whether there was a police report; this requirement goes back to at least 1982.
Not to be splitting hairs, but isn't the mechanical Z1 more like a first gen computer, making this second gen?

(This doesn't make CSIRAC a less impressive feat ;)
Let's say your city government has a budget of $100M and spends $20M on schools, $20M on roads, $20M on the fire department, $20M on police, and $20M on a solid gold hot tub filled with wine in the mayor's office.

You see the signs on the schools, the fire stations, the roads, the police cars, and you think, "wow, my taxes sure are paying for lots of useful stuff!". You may be less enthusiastic about the solid gold hot tub, since it doesn't benefit you at all, but the system "corrects" for that automatically: since you don't use it, you never see the "paid with $20M of your taxes" sign that it, too, prominently displays.

Later some jerk runs for mayor with a bid to lower taxes by 20%, but thanks to the signs, he's easily defeated. Instead you vote Yes on Proposition Q, which raises taxes by 5%. The mayor buys a bigger solid gold tub.
Yes, this is pretty standard.

I recently pay my home insurance's renewal that way (Europe).

However, these days many systems use voice recognition rather than having to key in numbers. I'm guessing that this is on Twilio's roadmap.
Most of my games are on Steam, but for Xbox One X I prefer a physical copy due to size and price. 100GB download for one game is a bit much on my current connection.

Red Dead Redemption 2 on Xbox Store, $85 (cheapest edition). Physical copy, $66 (prices converted from NOK to USD).

EDIT: Apparently RDR2 Xbox One X download size will "only" be 88.57GB. Still, a bit heavy. Forza 7 was 95GB.
Depends. Are they so desperate that they want to go to war, or are they rather becoming more of a middle class that wants to play the newest video games?
Scratch is good from around age 8 to 14 or so, depending on their ability. Most kids don't even know they're learning, scratch is really fun. Coder Dojo has some great lessons, eg this one to make your own version of plants v zombies:

http://kata.coderdojo.com/wiki/Scratch_Plants_vs_Zombies
What other way is there? Have a button to “let the CEO call me and pinky promise me that the website info is truthful, complete and correct”? Would you believe it then?
In California, you soon won’t be able to keep 6 months max. You have to hold a year.
As someone who has suffered with depression and massive panic anxiety disorder, I can absolute say that, yes, being sleep deprived actually helped a lot. A tired mind has no energy to wander.

(In no way am I recommending this though)
Makes sense seeing as Windows is the primary PC gaming platform
I think they verify the clients using letsencrypt and avoid using a turn server everytime to establish a connection. Not sure. It's quite confusing
Do you happen to know what is their approach towards people with a full-time job?
I smoked for 20 years. I loved driving with a Marlboro Light hanging out of the window. I chose to do that to my body from my own free will, and willingly paid to do it. I'm glad I stopped, but I enjoyed it while I did it.

Things that are bad for you can still be valuable. I still willingly buy beer, even though I know it's bad for me.

Value isn't what you think it is, if you think that smoking provides no value.
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I can't understand why Google just doesn't release its archives. To what end are they keeping it private? How is it a significant competitive advantage for anything they do?

Google keeping the archive locked up was what (many years ago) made it clear to me that it stopped being the company of "don't be evil". In fact, locking up the archive is about as gratuitously evil as you can get short of actual violence and theft.
Well, I’d expect there to be aggregate result stores as well for other dashboards that may store the same data sorted and aggregated a different way.
I can afford to tip, so I tip. I pay 20% more a year for the privilege of consuming expensive capuccinos and muffins served by people who are being priced out of the city in which I live by my profession.

Whether or not the system is just, the businesses are compensating their employees fairly or not, or my tips are going to one person or the whole group, I feel better about not needing to worry about such things, eliciting a good reaction from the employees I interact with on a regular basis, and putting more of my money into the local economy in which I live and interact with on a daily basis.

I can't solve any of the macro problems, but for a minimal cost to me as a highly paid tech worker, I feel good about my contribution to the micro problems. YMMV.
Definitely looks straight out of the 1950's.
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This is true, but the other side of the coin is that you want to make attacks hard enough. Yes, a group with $100k and a team of 3-5 people planning for a few months could really be destructive. But attacks (this applies to the digital world too) are generally unsophisticated, poorly planned, and take the easiest route possible. If you protect against, or at least mitigate, the easiest possible attacks, you eliminate a very large portion of security risks weighted by the likelihood of attackers to actually take those risks

It's just like there can be no legitimate safety guarantee that software companies are unhackable. But you can make it really, really hard. Of course the TSA doesn't make it that hard, and mostly wastes a ton of money on things with little value, but in theory there should be some amount of physical security to prevent people from hijacking what are essentially missiles containing 100s of regular people
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How it works:

Government officials want more money for random nonsense and corruption. Voters disapprove. Government officials pick something to hold hostage, such as the library. They propose a special library tax. Meanwhile, the random nonsense and corruption is getting funded.

The voters aren't that dumb. They know the library could be funded, and they don't wish to fund random nonsense and corruption.

It's a threat, "Give more money or we'll cut something you like!", when the voters can plainly see that funds are going to things that are improper.

Suppose the voters fund the library. Next year, when that funding gets diverted, the government will come asking for more. Maybe it will be a different thing needlessly on the chopping block.
> dark energy is only dark because it doesn't interact electromagnetically

That's certainly the case for dark matter. After decades of work we still don't know what it is, which has given the word "dark" the additional meaning of 'unknown'.

When it comes to dark energy, I think it mostly implies this second meaning.
Are you using this in prod? I’d be very surprised. I wouldn’t use this for prod data.
A "proper" HDFS cluster also wastes incredible amounts of disk with it's naive redundancy. It's a bear to maintain (see sibling comment) and the disaster recovery story (at a DC level) is non-existent.

If you invest a chunk of that money saved by not having to do 3 or 4 way data replication into good network, a lot of that move-compute-to-data complexity becomes unnecessary. The second big efficiency promise of the basic map reduce is doing lots of sequential I/O on those pesky disks which can do 100x sequential throughput compared to their pithy random read performance. Alas, in today's mixed workloads, you're certainly not getting those >100MB/s from a disk that might make a benchmark scream. So the network savings (you're still going to do that shuffle before your reduce anyway, aren't you?) from compute-next-to-storage becomes less useful.

Best I can tell, the compute-next-to-storage trick does still matter as you get to large data sets (PB in a job), but then as you keep growing your infrastructure (and I'd wager Uber would be just about at this point), the benefits of disaggregation start weighing increasingly heavily. In particular, fleet management becomes considerably easier with less resource stranding.
very good write-up - thanks.
Any receiver design, bandwidth and modulation technology will have an ultimate sensitivity. Far as I understand this is due to both noise created by the circuit itself and the thermal noise over the band.

You can't get better than that.

Then you add interference which raises your noise floor both statically and dynamically. Unlicensed bands tend to be polluted with short coherent pulses of RF.

One issue with interference. While attenuation is symmetrical between two transceivers, interference is utterly not symmetric.
obviously you don't like living in a capitalist society, then.

Fair call, good stuff. I hope you manage to change the world to your liking.

Meanwhile, in a capitalist society (such as we live in, which you clearly don't like), we express value in money.
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The US is engaging in protectionist policies that will bring back inflation and reduce the purchasing power of the population. The country should better be prepared for the consequences of these policies, because it will be much more costly than the $300 million spent in the postal service.
Maybe that's as meta as it gets about evolution. The mechanisms of evolution itself are put under selection pressure once we put alternatives out there.

Once we truly break the barrier between metal and meat, artificial processes may create real life in completely unforeseen ways. Gives a new ring to "asexual reproduction".
We cover this issue in a separate blog here https://blog.rainway.io/encryption-for-all-3383217e4194

To summarize, you are correct WebRTC is end-to-end encrypted via DTLS and WebRTC handles setting all of this up. WebSockets, however, are not encrypted by default, and when attempting to connect to a WebSocket server from a secure origin, a valid TLS certificate is required. Because each user has their WebSocket server running from their Rainway instance, we need to create unique and valid certificates for each user to avoid having a shared private key. This is how we avoid needing a TURN server and maintain low latency.

I apologize that it wasn't clear in the blog I was describing how we handle WebRTC failing.
We also work in the field with a history of all these measures being circumvented.

The closest parallel we have is DRM, and the track record there is.. less than stellar.
Even for servers? I would've guessed most game servers ran on Linux. Seems like the licensing costs for windows servers would be fairly restrictive for that.
Yeah, it took me forever to find this setting.
"Now I understand that rdi, rsi, etc. are nothing but compressed node identifiers in an interference graph. Ideally we'd have infinite registers: each instruction would read from previous registers and output to a new register. And so we would never reuse any register, and there'd be no data hazards"

I'm under the impression that we don't see the causality flowing in the same direction.

To me we first had a limited set of registers (imposed by the ISA), then to get better perf through out of order execution, cpus had to infer a deps graph and use register renaming.

Ironically all this silicon is spent to recover information that was known to the compiler (eg through SSA) and lost during codegen (register allocation).
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It made sense when it was just mail (ie information) getting shuffled around, saving both sides from having to negotiate the other end in a foreign currency/language. But since e-commerce landed and it became real trade, being subsidized is suddenly a far greater issue
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We're very productive with Angularjs...
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> They are talking about 'reducing extinction risk' being a field of study. And the risks of doing damage to a that new field with early research.

Then this is an unfortunately named field to introduce first, given that the article is about 'risks' which are not 'fields'
> There is no reason why that should be required in order to fly without "harassment".

Can you explain why you think this way exactly? How does taking out your laptop and taking off your shoes count as harassment, exactly?

I submitted to a 10 minute in person appointment that included fingerprinting and answering questions about my criminal status (I'm not). That's it. It was super easy.

I have tsa pre-check, and I mostly enjoy it because travelers who have tsa precheck tend to pack efficiently and aren't surprised and hung up at various checkpoints during the security intake process. It's an added bonus that I don't have to take my laptop out or take my shoes off, but it's not that big of a deal.

I'm not a fan of the TSA but I have a hard time understanding why someone would be upset with the TSA precheck process.
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The belt approach is sort of hybrid between registers and stack architectures. A disadvantage is that values on the belt may be at unknown locations after branches:

var x = something();
if (somethingElse() { stuff(); }
print(x); // where is x??

Here x has to be spilled and reloaded. This is worse than a register machine where x can be assigned a register for its entire lifetime.

I think this style of architecture is at its best for straight-line code, but suffers with branchy code, loops, etc. which will require a lot of spilling.
Manufacturing jobs are a thing of the past, even China is automating more every day. When "the jobs come back", it won't be to employ the poor and middle-class but to set up automated production. Which, this time around, will be more competitive than low waged Chinese workers.
> Maybe the problem isn't Netflix and Youtube, maybe the problem is letting them watch for 4 hours?

I actually think the problem is specifically binge watching services like Netflix and services with very variable quality of content like YouTube.

Whilst it’s not ideal, as a kid I’d watch the BBC children’s afternoon segment from 3 till 6 after school and whilst 3 hours of TV is unlikely to have been great for me, I received a variety of programming, some ok and some great. My problem with Netflix and YouTube is a child can binge watch a whole season of average content without any variety whatsoever. It’s not just a question of quality which I’m raising but quantity of the same show episode after episode.

As far as teaching kids sure, by all means we should teach them to moderate themselves but as a 34 year old I find it takes discipline and will power to regulate myself, what hope does a toddler or infant have when faced with video services which are designed to encourage consumption?
It only feels academic because not enough people care. But it's not set in stone that people won't care.

Sadly, it may take very major data privacy or biometric abuse for there to ever be action.
You see the same in most governments though. A surplus is rarely banked. Instead a budget surplus is immediately spent on structural spending like increased wages. A ballot measure to force the government to give back budget surplus is a smart move - the borrowing and service cuts give people a direct linkage to how their economy is doing.

Look at Germany. Huge budget surplus last year which is now predicted to be spent entirely on helping migrants who turned up after Merkel invited them in. Would the Germans have liked the money back? Most likely! Were they ever going to be given that option when politicians had the option of feeling good about themselves through additional spending? No way!
Your problem is all the anaerobic-lactic work. Anaerobic-lactic training leads to quick gain over the short-term, but after 3-4 weeks you plateau and from then on you burn out if you keep doing that (This is why most competition preparation programs for endurance athletes only have anaerobic work in the last few weeks before the event). [0]

If you don't have a competition coming up (or if you are just training for health), then a mix between aerobic and anaerobic-alactic (strength, explosiveness) is much better.

Check my website [1] for the training methods that I usually recommend. For a non-athlete or someone in off-season I would stick to cardiac output, threshold training 1x per week and strength training.

You will see much better results and you will sleep better if you change your training approach. Hope that helps :)

[0] See Arthur Lydiard's work

[1] https://fit4bjj.com/

Sidenote: I would recommend actually reading the tabata study. You can see that they also plateau'd after a few weeks (but the study duration was not long enough to see the long-term effects).
IIRC, there is a way to do something similar in with the USPS, even if it is just a simple letter. Fill out a form, and the receiver gets a bill for the postage due. Something similar happens if you post a letter that cannot (for whatever reason) be returned: The receiver gets a bill they must pay before they can have the package.

I think that they figure the sender probably knows they are getting a lot of mail since the bulk of it is items ordered. They can know they are non-compliant by having standards on how many "free" packages one can receive and/or sending a notice when one is getting close to the limit.
Facebook cheated/miscommunicated massively on video view numbers
Can you draw seven red lines, all of them strictly perpendicular, some with green ink, and some with transparent?

And for bonus points, can one of them be in the shape of a kitten?
Not really. If you are under investigation, seizing your server is as simple as a search warrant. The challenge is accessing the data - if you've encrypted it well, it's impossible to access. However, on your own server, you may get complacent and allow some data leakage.

Major providers like Gmail and ICloud will have a longer and more convoluted process to provide your data to state actors, but analysing that data is going to be far easier since it will come in a standard format.

If your goal is to make your data difficult to seize, a better option is probably to self-host on either a cheap VPS or a corporate-grade cloud service. That keeps the data out of reach of a warrant on your home, and keeps it unreadable after they've actually jumped through the hoops to seize it from your provider.
I had a nasty sinus infection a few years ago that took weeks to clear up. My ears were stuffed up and it made hearing difficult for a while. After it cleared up, my left ear was tuned about a quarter-tone sharp, and only above a certain frequency (about middle C). It was the damndest thing.
Except you are actually exacerbating the problem by subsidising companies that don’t pay their workers properly.
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yeah, maybe. Though increasing humidity and rainfall should decrease forest fires. And there's a lot of science in forest fire causation, it's not as simple as "monoculture tree plantations = more fires".

Do we actually have a good grip on emissions for industries yet? I though we were still at the stage of "CO2 has gone up by this much, let's allocate that to human activities according to some metrics we made up based on guesses about emissions", but I could be wrong...
Showing someone (or another dog) that you're excited or scared ("tail between his legs") is a very potent social mechanism I think. I don't think it adds much to the motor skills of the dog, besides maybe giving it a tool to keep flies and insects away from the ol' pooper.
If your doors are sturdy, make a knot in a towel, hang it over the door and close it. Use that to do pullups. I used to do this a lot during traveling.

You can also do inverted rows under a table by holding on to an edge (not comfortable, but works).

You could invest into a dumbbell and/or resistance bands and do row variations. Or a TRX for inverted rows.

Or go to a park or anywhere else where you can hang onto to do your pullups.
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Would have been fascinating to hear a little about how the current crop of seven and even eight string guitars that have been popularised by metal musicians grew (or didn't) from this. I know they're different beasts used for different purposes, but that's where my thoughts immediately went.
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