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> Before you put US on the same pedestal of morality as China, you must equate them on apples to apples basis.

I think the mistake you make here is that we're talking about China's interaction vs the rest of the world and comparing that to U.S. interaction vs the rest of the world, which is more important to many than what is done domestically, because most of the people on here aren't in China, but the U.S. interference affects them even if they're not in the U.S., which is mostly not true for China.

How many coups has China been involved in as compared to the U.S. for example? Because these affect people on the other end of the globe from the U.S.

Why was there a military-style raid on Kim Dotcom in NZ, for something that is possibly a crime in the U.S.?

Why was there pressure put on Sweden to prosecute TPB from the U.S. side?

How come the U.S. claims to believe in the free market, but when a Chinese firm gets competitive there, they try to block them?

How come U.S. feels entitled to bomb in foreign territory, where they were not invited by the local government? Without UN approval at that?

How come U.S. feels entitled to bully other nations at the UN to vote their way on Palestine?

How come is it OK for the U.S. to attack a country that did not attack them?

How is it OK to go to war on a completely false pretext?

How is it OK for the U.S. to use chemical weapons?

How is it legal for the U.S. to commit terrorist acts in other countries?

How is it OK for the U.S. to tell other countries that they can't have nuclear weapons even as the U.S. is the only country to ever use the in war?

How is it moral for the U.S. to block civilian and medical goods, starve a country and help commit war crimes?

There are plenty of more local issues too, like the War on Drugs, the targeting of minority communities, the infiltration of civil rights groups, the jailing of whistleblowers and intimidation of journalists etc. but the above affects much of the world in some way or another.

This is why U.S. behavior is seen as such a problem outside its own borders. China has nowhere near the worldwide reach the U.S. does.
He still works on browsers, but blogs less. You can see his contributions on GitHub.
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I find I consume more salt at times after intensive sport (semi-marathons, swimming). It looks my body naturally requires more salt to restore itself. So the advice to consume less salt should not be generalized.
Just in case my comment came out as "why are you working on Snigl ?" ... I was thinking aloud on what are some of the other languages that you might like. Snigl sounds pretty cool and fun.
If you’re going to use a library just use straight freetype (what SDL wraps.) It’s very easy to use.
The climate is a simpler, easier to measure, and easier to experiment on system than the human body. Also there are lots of different bodies which all change over time, but there is only one atmosphere.

The science of climate change is also multi-level, gradually converging on details with more and more sophisticated models, but the core of it rests on the absorbtion and re-emission spectra of CO2 and water vapor, which is some fairly simple long-settled experimental chemistry.

(Wikipedia traces it to this fascinating little paper by Eunice Foote in AAAS in 1856! https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6xhFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA382&re... )
Then maybe you should globalize workers rights before you globalize the economy. Nobody likes protectionism but maybe it's justified in this case.

But your president is doing great work there from what I gathered :^)
The way I see it, it's basically just a cost-saving measure. If you have some very varying workloads, instead of paying for having a bunch of servers running all the time (and idling most of that time), when you actually need the extra compute power you can let AWS Lambda spin up a server, run the code, then spin it down again. That's clever and all, and might save you a pretty penny if you have huge workloads only part of the time - but for most users, it's hardly worthy of the hype.
I imagine https://www.cvedetails.com/google-search-results.php?q=bpf&s... is his complaint.

The most recent catastrophic one was CVE-2017-16995.
The hardware companies are not super profitable in the first place. Most just struggle to keep light on in their quest for hitting the margin bottom. Also, lot of these improvements don’t usually translate to higher sales because MTBF data is typically not even published for many consumer SSDs.

The solution for this would be to open source such projects so engineers from many smaller companies can collaborate. These companies needs to understand that they will not be able to attract top talent and collaboration instead of competition is the way forward.
Adding to this, I once bought their hosted container service, and when I contacted them they told me they no longer supported this product. How?! Why was I able to order it in the first place?!
No idea about xhyve in particular, but bhyve got the NVMe support in FreeBSD 12.0.
Streets with UK's slowest and fastest broadband named
Is the Lightning network ready for commerce?
Ah thanks. That makes sense.
That was my thought as well. If this is due to gross negligence from Marriott's side, it's more their fault than the hackers. At least that's my personal opinion.
I have been wondering about this. Does anybody know what the original "salt leads to hypertension" paper was?
It's the new PaaS, but scoped down to a smaller payload of just a single function, although most platforms now let you upload an entire app or container anyway.

The other big change was removing the concept of servers/instances altogether so there is no step-wise scaling at all that you can see or control.
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LiveView looks like a game changer. Can't wait to play with it.
iMeshup (startup) is launching–cloud workflow tool for 3d game development
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Amazing follow up. Thanks so much.
A basic way of getting that on Unix systems is forking - you get a copy of the process with the same memory state, and likely relatively small interfaces would suffice to manage which process is currently receiving input from e.g. a REPL. (Sockets, open files, ... are more complex, but I guess many REPL workflows could do without that). Sadly you can't easily save much memory for the snapshots from copy-on-write (which otherwise is a neat trick with forking to keep old state) due to the way Python manages memory, at least not without modifying the interpreter.
> "The Sola TS became concerned about the situation. However, because the Ingstad wasn’t showing automatic identification system (AIS) data, initially neither the Sola TS nor the traffic station on shore could identify the frigate to warn it of the imminent danger."
Lawyers are compensated better for their time than Amazon warehouse workers. The raffle tickets aren't for, you know, a performance bonus or anything of value, it's just a cheap gimmick.
It makes no sense for AWS to launch old instance generations in a new region. Also what do you mean by 10x more if you were using t2? t3 is available in Stockholm and cheaper than t2 (and t3 in Ireland).
When Amazon first launched they only had a few FC's in the US, and as a result claimed they did not need to collect local taxes because they didn't have a "presence" in all the states of their shoppers.

Lawmakers complained this created an unfair advantage over local retailers and insisted on regulation that forced Amazon to collect local taxes.

Except that meant that there was no longer any reason why Amazon wouldn't open local fulfillment centers in basically every state, improve delivery speed, lower costs through economies of scale, and make it even harder for the local brick and mortar retailers to compete.

The Cobra Effect[1] is a bitch.

The relevance here is unions are good, and worker rights are good. But Amazon is already working hard on replacing all those workers with robots and automation (who isn't?)

If these workers succeed in unionizing, it will only just accelerate Amazon's quest to replace MOST of these workers with robots.

And then it will be the government's problem to figure out what to do with millions of low skilled workers leaving the labour force at the same time as millions of truck drivers becoming redundant with self-driving cars.

I do not have good faith in the US figuring this out without substantial social upheaval (The rest of the West will handle it much better because of the existing safety net and early experimentation with Universal Basic Income).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
I've been through netscape, prodigy, aol, and IE5. Mozilla really made the web better during those days as IE5 dominance really stagnant the web scene at the same the current web dev pace seems crazy. I'm glad for innovation and for mozilla. Will always be a fan and will be using this over chrome any day. I trust Mozilla more than Google.
I agree with your sentiment, but I can see how this would be different. A lawyer has a career of very unique hard work that requires much self discipline, but success brings great rewards. I imagine a fulfillment center probably feels somewhat like a a cage, where "working harder" just means running the hamster wheel faster.

Relatively mundane work doesn't get any more interesting the faster you do it.
Yes. The US political parties are nothing like parties in a parliamentary system. You don't vote for a party to gain a majority (even if the media sometimes makes it seem like this) and the head of state is not elected by a party.

There can be much more diversity within each party organization than there is in the parliamentary sense of "party."
The organic layout was what made Exposé different and useful. Imagine this scenario: four fully maximized windows, one on top of the other. Exposé would put one window on every quarter of the screen, but their places and sizes would be different, so every window moved in a different way. That helped A LOT with eye-tracking. I remember the Compiz knockoff (of 12 years ago) simply assigning each window a quart
er of the screen. Same core principle, slightly different execution, yet much much worse usability.

Exposé was a feature of a time when Mac OSX was at its peak. The OSX usability guidelines were very different to the Windows ones, and it showed (every user coming to Mac had to adapt). Apple decided to throw all this away a few years ago. Exposé was turned into Mission Control, which has more features, but worse usability and aesthetics. And macOS is more intuitive to Windows-trained users, at the expense of consistency and power-user productivity.
At least with Chrome you have a rough idea of who will be using your data - Google. I use Gmail at work, and I have an Android phone, so I'd be fooling myself if I were to say that Google weren't tracking me already.

With Firefox, it's a breach of trust. The analytics stuff was a major fuck-up, and I would've accepted that apology if they didn't then align themselves with a TV company to run a promotion in my browser.

I could understand all of it if the code base was amazing, but when your flagship product receives exploits from bugs raised over a decade ago, before Chrome even existed, it's hard to trust Mozilla to be able to compete with Google.
Do we really need classes in JavaScript after all?
Sorry, I'm afraid I'm much less experienced than you think I am. My comment's value is entirely in sharing the slides, I only put some of my thoughts there so that my comment isn't just a link to a google drive file.
> We assume this [anti-caking] chemical is harmless, but I'm not aware of any actual studies on what it does to the body, especially not if you start consuming a lot more of it than "normal".

In Europe, thankfully, it's Sodium Ferrocyanide[1] which has been studied[2][3].

"The Panel concluded that ferrocyanides (E 535–538) are of no safety concern at the current authorised use and use levels."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_ferrocyanide
[2] http://www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/jecmono/v05je02.htm
[3] https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/5374
The additional markup is very minimal: phx-click, phx-change, phx-submit, phx-keypress, phx-keydown, phx-keydown, phx-error .etc
Math Lingo vs. Plain English: Double Entendre (1997)
How is IO performance compared to Vbox? I've seen some old benchmarks indicating that xhyve IO is like 4x slower..
During peaceful maneuvers in busy civilian traffic, they should simply be honest about who and what they are. Safety depends on it.
> What would you prefer?

None of the above, as the U.S. is pretty much an oligarchy at this point. There was a study showing that unless you have a sizable sum of money, your priorities simply aren't worth much to lawmakers.

Why is there no single payer for example, even as the majority of the population is for it?

So to answer your question, I'd much prefer a world where the U.S., China, Russia, India, Brazil and the European Union are roughly on equal footing and then there are a bunch of smaller states that can try different systems, without getting economically strangled by the U.S. the moment their system isn't 100% predatory capitalist like in the U.S.

That way, any of these will have to think long and hard before commuting to a significant unilateral action, resulting in a much better equilibrium than we have now.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is very different from Jenkins-X serverless.

Jenkins-X serverless: Jenkins only runs when it has work to do and shuts down while idle.

Gitlab serverless: tooling to support FaaS creation

Serverless is such a silly word to begin with, now it's even more confusing.
That has to be some sort of arithmetic error, e.g. all of the 450 people assigned to a single square meter degenerate polygon in the underlying GIS data.
Submitting this because it's weird to me that Bamfurlong has such poor Internet speeds.

It's not in the middle of nowhere. It's close (on the borders of) Cheltenham, and close (a few miles away) from Gloucester. It's within walking distance of GCHQ.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Greenmeadows+Park,+Chelt...

Greenmeadows Park is the UK equivalent of a "trailer park". This means people living there are going to be on low incomes and state benefits. This means they need reasonable Internet speeds because the new state benefit in the UK (Universal Credit) is online only.
> If these workers succeed in unionizing, it will only just accelerate Amazon's quest to replace MOST of these workers with robots.

I'm sure they've thought this through more than some random poster on Hacker News.
Maybe someone thought about it mechanistically in the sense that more sodium in our blood also means more water (to keep both electrolyte balance and dilution in acceptable ranges to sustain life). More water means more blood volume or pressure if volume is limited.

Someone then probably tried to prove this by checking whether dietary salt intake leads to hypertension. However, medical and nutritional science are very limited in the ways they can conduct research. So they probably did an epidemiological study and saw that populations with hypertension also had a high dietary salt intake. Proof! Except... well, no.

Our kidneys are perfectly capable of balancing this out as long as we don't ask too much of them. More salt in your food than you need? More sodium in your pee. Less salt in your food than you need? Well, you're screwed.

Edit: Sorry for being unable to provide a direct answer to your question, but I felt compelled to reply.

Edit 2: After a search in Google Scholar, the earliest study I could find is from 1950 [0]. They studied the link between salt and hypertension in rats by replacing their drinking water with 2% salt solutions and measuring their blood pressure. It seems to me that all non-epidemiological studies are useless extremes... With no "clean" water (all water intake was hypertonic) the kidneys can't really dispose of much.

[0]: http://sci-hub.tw/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.31...

Edit 3: The actual paper recognises in the discussion (with citations) that it is impossible to cause hypertension in rats without artificially controlling all their water intake. Wow. Even if all water is salted, as long as it's iso- or hypotonic there is no hypertension.
I remember using Sabayon Linux way in the early days it came with or probably I tweaked it with Compiz and Beryl. The ATI drivers were something. So bleeding edge distro that it was crashing randomly. I had a 6 sides cube with each side representing a different desktop screen and wall paper. Fun times.
Yup, but even in cases where the expense of a proper HSM isn't warranted, you can set up a software solution/process that works in a similar manner to a HSM, just with less tamper-resistance.
>If these workers succeed in unionizing, it will only just accelerate Amazon's quest to replace MOST of these workers with robots.

It won't, though. Amazon is already investing as much time, money and effort as possible into automation. Nothing workers do, or don't do, is going to affect that timetable, only the feasibility of deploying automation technology at scale versus the cost effectiveness of existing human labor.
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Hi! I just released https://musepeach.com

If you are into journaling I would love to know your thoughts on the app and if there are any features in particular that you would be looking for.

Also, if do you keep a journal, what is your approach? Do you have a routine or do you write when you have something on your mind?

If you keep a paper journal, your thoughts are more than welcomed too and would also love to hear what makes this option more attractive vs an app.
How do you know your body naturally requires more salt?
I still remember when Gnome 2 reached its peak with Ubuntu in the early 2000's. It was pretty much the complete, reliable, configurable, and robust desktop that Linux ever needed. Anything since that has been a downhill, with new features being presented at the expense of other features and no-frills-but-functional design. I sometimes feel for Windows users whose basic desktop proposition has remained largely unchanged for quite a many years, disregarding some cosmetic updates.

The endless need to change things eventually caused Gnome 2 to gradually become unavailable. It would've needed maintenance, updates to support new library versions, and nobody was interested. There's MATE but each time I've checked is a non-polished mess based on Gnome 2 codebase. The original Gnome 2 was lean and tidy on the surface with lots of power underneath, possibly thanks to curation by Ubuntu.

The Gnome Classic in Ubuntu is okay-ish but it has a lot of leaky abstractions as well, and you feel it's sort of out of place. It takes some tweaking to change the window manager as the newer window managers tend not to be configurable enough so that I can't set my keyboard bindings to what I've had for decades.

The only thing that does remain the same is the shell which I gladly accept. Having grow up using an Amiga, however, it still feels weird not to have a fully-integrated, native desktop GUI that very much defines the feel of the operating system itself. Gnome 2 had that chance. Other Linux environments before and after Gnome 2 are mostly just a shell to run terminals, the editor and the browser.
> John Steinbeck - Cannery Row. This book is about a poor community in Monterey, Califor ia during the Great Depression. I didn't like this book as much as Grapes of Wrath, but there are some memorable parts near the end. 4/5

If you like Steinbeck, try "East of Eden". For me it was his best.
Ah, that explains it then. Thanks.

Hopefully they'll enable the asm code during Firefox 65 beta.
$19 is basically minimum wage in the NYC area. If even that.
Yes, that’s why there’s multiple hashes per package.
Also the reason lawyers make so much is that they have the best trade unions ever. There’s a reason you can’t buy legal services from Walmart.
Is it realistically possible to structure things so that an organization cannot fail within some time window? I'm skeptical. If there's some wind-down (or refund) money held in escrow, it's reasonable to expect that maybe a semester window might be realistically possible. A couple years probably isn't. It would be a lousy situation especially to the degree credits weren't easily or fully transferable but it's not clear to me how much power the government has to do something about it.
When I interview developers, I generally ask some basic questions about security - "Explain to me what an XSS attack is?", or "How would you defend a web app against SQL injection?"

Basic stuff, which - to my mind - literally every person who develops anything which is on the web should know.

And a surprising number of people - even "senior" developers can't answer this stuff. It's really worrying.
Honestly I feel like he covered the hardest and weirdest things (parsing html and CSS is just weird but not hard. Layout and painting is (IMO) pretty hard and there are a lot of places to get lost.)

Scripting is mostly about hooking up a VM to the other stuff and there are a thousand and one articles on writing VMs.

For networking you should just use libcurl. Now that the URL parser is part of the public API you’re better off with it anyway. Plus the networking should be done outside of the engine anyway.
Spy chief argues encryption laws target terrorists, not everyday Australians
They're occasionally the largest company in the world, headed by the richest man in the world. I'm sure they can find the money somewhere to pay their employees a decent wage.
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." A.C. Clarke

It's (partly) a story about uplifting a species. Our species ...
That doesn't answer the question (why no one on Ingstad saw the tanker on AIS)
Precisely this.

As an European, I just don't think China has as much power over me as the U.S.

Also, ask Kim Dotcom who he thinks is the bigger problem.
I think the X32 feature is vastly underused.

Ideally every application that is unlikely to use more than 2GB of memory should use the X32 ABI.

Cache latency is the most important bottleneck of today's general purpose CPUs. X32 Helps a lot with that and not just in "synthetic" benchmarks.
Makes it very clear what underlies the "this circle contains half the world's population": https://brilliantmaps.com/population-circle/
The aliens are not actually aliens though, they are robots which have survived after humans went extinct, and they recognize the boy as an ancient ancestor of their kind.
Is this similar to papermill?

https://github.com/nteract/papermill
The question is whether salt (sodium chloride) is exactly what your body needs... or just the best it knows it can get.

Perhaps magnesium would be better, but sodium chloride can also do the job at the cost of some side effects. And if salt is all you have tried, then your body will signal that it needs salt, because that's what worked in the past.
And to be fair, the episode Sagan criticizes (presumably "The Omega Glory" in which the Enterprise visits a post-apocalyptic planet where there was a nuclear war between countries exactly like the US and USSR, down to the US side having an exact copy of the Constitution), is widely viewed as one of the worst episodes and most of the show wasn't like that.