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Is the semiconductor industry particularly vulnerable to China for some reason? I am obviously in a news bubble but it looks like it's always the silicon technology companies that have these issues.
"I'm hoping someone can explain why I'm wrong." The answer is in your own words: " I suppose I don't know if I think it should be LAW".
I suppose you are right: you don't know. Many people know for sure that they think this is a bad idea to put in place such a law.
I'm struggling to remember the name, but there was a company that sold a TDCS machine marketed as a game performance enhancement device. It only did one montage and was ridiculously unsafe. It used to leave red marks under the sponges on my forehead. Eventually, the app that controlled it aged out of the app store.
As someone who went through pretty much the same thing and fought very hard to earn where he is today, I'm glad you're bragging and I'm glad you're proud of yourself.
It is only useful in languages
with sufficiently expressive type systems, like Haskell. Otherwise you quickly hit a wall where it's impossible or impractical to express your idea in the language's type system, the same complaint that python programmers have when they try to write Java.
Thank goodness the trend line is moving in the right direction. It'd be terrible if we got this news and the trend was downward (getting worse).
But think broadly about how the Western world utterly dominates music and movies. It is probably due to copyright.
Good job!

ASML initially said it wasn't the commies. Outstanding security experts!
I think that at a lower height, a rescue is considered to be easier.

10 ft would still require a safety program, it just wouldn't be fall arrest, more likely prevention (scaffolding)
Relevant tweet [1]: "Do you know S3 throughput is higher than a SATA 3 controller and almost as much as PCIe 4.0 2x? Depending on the usecase, mounting S3 as a filesystem, not only makes sense, but it saves a LOT of money (and time) as well. You just need to use it a special kind of filesystem." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/dialtone_/status/1115130667677786112
The Sea Organ of Zadar – A Musical Instrument Powered by Wave Movement (2015)
Otherworldy Instruments Played by the Ocean (2014)
Also, +20 years ago, in the big Swiss banks, you could go up in the (top) management almost only if you were an officer in the army. Times have changed. hehe
I was confronted with recursion early on, but didn't really see the point outside of tree/graph traversals. It just didn't seem worth the effort given lousy performance and constant risk of stack overflow.

Then I started writing Lisp, and the &rest is history.

The cool thing about optimized tail recursion is that any loop you can dream of [0] is just a macro away. It also helps with keeping the core of the language clean, as fewer primitives are needed.

https://github.com/codr7/g-fu#macros
You should consider that semiconductors make it more obvious than, say, software IP theft.
China looks at things that US / EU have a monopoly in.
Thanks! (And thanks for having those docs up, they have been useful to me the past couple days.)

Another thing I couldn't find is exactly what a trailer with an empty OBLIST means. Does it use <ROOT>? It shows up in TELL for the uses of RETURN!-, which probably are to use a non-overridden version of RETURN.

(Or any idea what SETG20 is supposed to mean? It shows up in Bureaucracy.)
Always a bit terrifying powering up the MB for the first time.
Not just Silicon Valley, Boeing has had similar problems. I imagine every industry with manufacturing has been affected.
There's probably plenty of bias, but a large part of the China2025 plan is to achieve dominance in semiconductors. Since the domestic chip industry needs to catch up and the intelligence services are not above IP theft, this isn't surprising to me.
You are spot on, my friend. These are the tough questions I've been asking myself every day for the last few weeks, and I'm still trying to answer them!

I've had two people/friends do a bit of contract work for me (a few hours a week), but I'm not sure if hiring someone full-time is the right move. Not only do I genuinely love what I do every day, but I also really want to soak up the freedom I currently have while I still can. Real talk, I'll probably enter mommyhood in 1-2 years, so not being beholden to employers, investors, or employees is something I want to cherish for a bit longer. But who knows! Only time will tell... :P
One of the things that I find really encouraging is governments letting other industires to become ISP

>In Tennessee, for example, state laws allow publicly-owned electric utilities to provide broadband

I think this is the best way to solve last mile distribution. Electric companies already have the capacity to manage door to door to installations. Internet could become an additional source of revenue for them. They could lease the line from big providers and increase their reach. Win Win.
The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway
I have a lot of appreciation for the Soviet space program (this might be my favorite space story ever [0]) but it never ceases to amaze me how absolutely hideous Soviet architecture was. The concrete buildings are absolutely soulless.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/the-little-known-sov...
Heads up I can’t seem to get half the tags (self-funded for example) to filter. I select and then hit select values and nothing happens. On an iPad / Safari.
The problem with chip IP theft is the theif only has the IP they stole, not the skill to further develop or extend it (usually). The Qualcomm => Intel IP Theft that Apple facilitated is a great example, or AMD's licensing of the first gen Zen architecture to a Chinese owned company.

Intel wasn't able to get their chipset working well despite a treasure trove of Qualcomm code and documents, even with the ability to question Qualcomm engineers via Apple.

Meanwhile, Hygon (the AMD/China joint venture) has produced the Dhyana, virtually identical to AMD's EPYC chips of a year prior.

The limiting factor for Hygon fulfiling its goals (home grown, performant cores) faces many challenges, as AMD is moving to 7nm at TSMC, while the bleeding edge at Chinese fabs (and nearly all other fabs) is 14nm. Even Intel hasn't been able to jump above 14nm and make a sizeable number of chips.

Even if Hygon were to steal AMD's newer design, they have no native fabs to manufacture it, and they likely won't for another few years. Permanent industry laggard puts you in the same position as VIA, never making good profit or breaking ahead of competitors.
I think you are on to something, but are jumping the gun. We ideally would want as much in the commons and would want people to continue to the commons as much as possible.

The problem is that our economy is based around the assumption that most resources are highly limited. Unfortunately that creates incentive to move resources from the commons to individual's balance sheets. Unfortunately our species had reached a point where this leads to potentially catastrophic consequences where resources are actually limited. At the same time the economy only works for resources that are limited as well. If you produce something that's naturally in the Commons like digital goods you cannot get access to the limited resources. Therefore we do these unnatural acts of constraining these resources so that people don't have to starve.

As we automate more and we got the limit of our exploitation of limited commons we need to stop individual exploitation of those commons. Fortunately at the same time we are also teaching a point where shitty jobs are getting more and more automated. I think we need something like basic income to allow people to not exploitation the Commons to survive and at the same time use that gained free time from automation to instead contribute to the Commons at their own discretion.

Capitalism thus would slowly be phased out as automation progresses. If we just abandon copyright overnight lots of people's work will go unrewarded. If we completely abandon capitalism right now, we end up back in Soviet communism because there is still too much shitty work left that's not automated yet.
MacOS for my primary laptop, Windows for my training/travel laptop, *nix in various other places
Play Dota 2 with OpenAI Five
Looks like a good course but nothing cringes me more than seeing the Massachusetts institute of TECHNOLOGY still using chalk boards....I mean come on now.
> Those employee wellness programs are being used as cheap place holder to cover up anti-social working conditions. Unpaid overtime and unhealthy working environment won't go away with Yoga. Even if it helps some to forget the actual issues, it doesn't solve them.

Absolutely. We need unions (or if that's a dirty word, some organization/democracy at the point of production) in order to ensure equitable society and also that people's contribution to society through their work & their productivity is adequately valued - that people are working because they see their place in the whole & on a voluntary basis - what's occuring right now is work based on fear and necessity, the false scarcity means people have to chose to put up with injustice at work in order to survive & the hours mean the working poor are mostly silent.

Look at Finland, look at Norway.
Turkey is not an European country. Having a few percents of the territory in Europe does not move you to Europe.
I hope they payed him a bug bounty!
Nice to bundle all Chinese people.

Most of this "spies" are trying to escape China ! all the regime did was offer them more money / opportunity than what they went to the West to find.

China could have achieved it through "turing" normal white citizens too / but I guess they are the real patriots ? Mark Zukerburg learnt mandarin for god's sake.

Its a game among capitalists and most of us regardless of nationality will switch sides to whoever gives the most value.
The problem with adhoc public praise is that it invariably gets unevenly applied which makes people feel unvalued if they work on a less visible or more esoteric part of a system. It may actually result in them being undervalued because some manager who has twenty reports, never sees Bob get any :claps: and so begins to assume bob isn't generating value.

Ultimately this about measuring and rewarding value generated which I prefer be evenly applied, objective as possible, transparent, and continuous. I prefer a culture of professionalism - a premise that we're all good at what we do and we all have agreed on some process to determine what is valuable to work on so we don't need continual praise - if the work wasn't valuable we wouldn't be working on it.
Its not very easy to redesign the 737. Bigger Engines need more clearance. More clearance requires longer landing gear. Longer landing gear requires a wider plane to fold up into. A wider plane is less fuel efficient and needs bigger engines and suddenly you are a 757,767,787, or 777
If you don't have to worry about scale and you are sure your user base is going to remain small and stable, then you are fine. If you expect it to grow, then you should look into dumping your files on a file server. This way you can scale, backups of your database and file server can be done quickly, independently or in parallel and it allows for better use of network resources ( your app/server/etc can distribute requests to both db and file server instead of having one large request from the db).

At the end of the day, if it works and you are aware of the business needs, that's all that matters.
Still the best solution for teaching complicated topics that have a compact notation.
By 2025 they might figure out newer processes than 14nm, but even Intel and Global Foundries has hit a wall at 14nm. Samsung, TSMC and IBM are the only companies with productive sub-14nm fabs.
I wonder if said book included a false copyright claim.

Is falsely claiming copyright for US government publications a federal crime? That'd be a trip.
I’ve seen the data and it’s true, but non-linear. Going from 19s to 3s is going help much less than going from 3s to 1s. The curve is almost entirely in the under 3s part.
You're probably thinking of green boards when you say chalk boards because black slate chalk boards are a pleasure to draw on.

If you have ever used one, you'd know they keep using them because they prefer it.

They are also easier to read from a distance compared to a dry-erase board.
I think the West could if it wanted to do so, but the West (a collection of States and companies) is not a centrally controlled entity like China (one state, which has more or less absolute control on how organizations within the state operate).

Western companies do not care about losing IP. They say they care but they don't really. It is just a cost of doing business. They know they are losing IP, but they are going for short term profit (either from the Chinese market or from cheaper manufacturing in China). When the chickens come home to roost the CEO will have been paid big bonuses and ready to move on. If the CEO did not save costs or expand into China, shareholders would have revolted and replaced the CEO anyway.

The West (USA + Canada, EU + UK, Australia) could circle the wagons, form a trading bloc, essentially negotiate with China as a single entity and start a trade war if China did not bend. But even if they wanted to do so, the cost would be high in the short term and voters would punish them.

What might stop China is if another large country such as India, Indonesia or Nigeria decided to position themselves as the ethical alternative: cheap labor and manufacturing without the rampant state sponsored IP theft.
History repeats itself...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater
Yeah, the geolocation is city/zip level accuracy. The coordinates are the centroid of the city or zip, not a specific point.
To be fair, much of Episode 4 was inspired by Hidden Fortress.
tl;dr: this app is supposed to be used only for governmental staff. It does so by checking if you have a @elysee.fr or a @gouv.fr email. He bypassed the check by using myadress@protonmail@presidence@elysee.fr. He could access the "public" groups normally reserved for employees.

The hole has been plugged.
Essentially, Linux was a copy of UNIX (yeah, I know MINIX) so...
Arguing without literacy is shouting.
You have it backwards.

Matrix [1] (the protocol and network) and Riot (the client) are both open and used by many many people already.

The matrix team on behalf of the French goverment [3] developed a fork of the Riot app (TChap) [4] that connects to a private network of home servers with custom registration policies and probably other features as well.

1. http://matrix.org

2. https://about.riot.im

3. https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/matrix_french_state

4. https://github.com/dinsic-pim/tchap-android
And they probably do benefit from it...
I don’t want to agree with you (it’s not the responsible thing), but I do agree.
Ain't nobody got time for that.

(Apologies for the vernacular but I am attempting to conceal my digital signature)
Off topic, but this looks like a great film. I always struggle to find worthwhile movies to watch, so thanks!
They can’t just “refine” it if their 3rd iteration still has problems and it’s been years. They would have been better off reverting.

And honestly, I’m not sure I will trust them if they get up on stage again with another “all new” design. I want them to basically say “we went back to exactly the same design as our 2013 laptops”.
It's not just technology. Every industry has suffered. All the steel recipes have been stolen costing smelters billions in R&D expenses and decades of time. Chemical Industry has suffered, Auto, etc. The end game is to dominate everything.

I suppose the best approach is to avoid doing business with them.

Perhaps the current US Administrations position concerning China warrants wide spread support.
I was just talking to the team at Airtable this morning about whiteboard interviews... and how they aren't binary. Companies use whiteboards in their interviews to varying degrees, and it's not always to answer algorithms or questions about data structures.

I also wrote about this exact topic last year: https://www.keyvalues.com/blog/engineering-whiteboard-interv...
If you’re insinuating that every immigrant from China is a “spy” then a significant chunk of our tech infrastructure is built by these spies in the first place.
Facebook logged 100x more Instagram plaintext passwords than previously thought
Can it go through lots of solid metal, copper for instance?
at its core "be yourself" would be better phrased as "don't lie to yourself"

the latter is less uncompromising on how you go about living and presenting yourself but contains the same principle of unity between knowing when your acting in the world is aligned with your ethic and when it isn't, so that either your acting or your ethic can move to the point the other is, to reduce entropy in your life.
It is a fork of Matrix' Riot.im (ironical name in that setting) anyone can use it right now. This specific one is only for government employees and I guess is hosted on servers that are physically controlled by the government.
For Some Legal Weed Businesses, Cryptocurrency Makes Sense
> there exists possibilities that excessive warming into uncharted temperatures might trigger some feedback that might slow this warming too.

I very much doubt this is the case.

What is happening to the world can be explained by science and using scientific principles the changes can be predicted by modelling.

The hard part is creating the model, only because the problem domain is very complex. But what we have seen, is over time that modelling has been getting better.

Now if there was some possibilities that excessive warming into uncharted temperatures might trigger some sort of cooling effect then surely that would have come out in the modelling.
I guess I'll qualify that and say I don't think Black Flag is a bad band I've just never heard anything from them that I really loved either and that's in a genre I'd say I'm pretty predisposed to liking.

But really he just comes off as one of the smuggest people to me which I find to be a really obnoxious trait. Like every interview with him feels like he has to go out of the way to make the interviewer feel like his time is being wasted when in reality he seems to like being interviewed as he spends a lot of time in front of cameras.

To each their own. I certainly don't fault anyone else for liking him or Black Flag and there's certainly a lot worse music out there but he just always rubbed me the wrong way.
The stupid mess that are the copyright laws today is something the US has voted for and imposed to the rest of the world. Funny US only wakes up when EU forces companies to follow the same rules as users.

Had the rule of law been applied equally to companies and individuals, youtube could never have existed as it is now. Solve the root of the damn problems. Fix the copyright laws.
Not more than they are harmed by the looting of the public domain that media conglomerates are engaging in. Having a small public domain hurts everyone who can't afford a legal team to research and litigate for them. When you weigh the heavy costs against the slight benefits, it's a net loss.
Having used said chalkboards there - they are amazing. The chalk is really smooth to write with, and the tactile sense is much better to draw on than a white board.

The most amazing thing though, is that person or persons unknown goes round and cleans the boards at the end of every day. Even in the holidays.
When should we consider storing uploaded files in the file system instead of in S3?
The Magician Killed by an Autopsy (2014)
Please do not cross into personal attack no matter how wrong another comment may be.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For all the posturing, Apple was nerfing Qualcomm's chipsets in the iPhone X to bring them to feature parity with Intel's garbage.
Once you're dead, what someone says or writes about you doesn't even need to be true (in the US).
Hire local poeople and treat them as if you need them.
That's not the case. When a tree dies it will be broken down by microbes, animals, fungi, etc and as that happens, all of the co2 it sequestered will be released back into the atmosphere.

The only time this was not true was during the carboniferous period.. before those microbes existed.. that's how we got coal. But that will never happen again.
This is asinine. What is the point of a symphony of holistic privacy initiatives like the GDPR cookie policies on websites and a so-called "privacy browser" if the browser people inconsistently move away from opt-in to opt-out and sell-out their users?
Well, I"m almost happy about the steel recipes. I'm getting really tired of Chinese-made screws and bolts that almost seem to be made of plastic.
Just an FYI, the site is blocked under Sophos.
You wouldn't think they are "fairly harmless" if you were a non-Mormon living in Utah.
Speak for yourself there. Not everyone is driven by money above all things.
Uh, that's not how I read this at all. The linked document is not a policy document. It isn't defining micro-promotions either. It is a response to the general question "how can I help?", in the form of a practical list of example actions that someone could take if they wanted to do something to improve the situation. There is no implication that you have to do all of them. In fact, just the opposite -- it is presented as a Bingo card, directly suggesting that a given person is only likely to do some random subset of everything listed.

It's linked from "micro-promotions" because it's relevant. That's all. If you have no clue what the term is about, and you go to the link, you can now say "oh, promotion as in encouragement or countering bias. Ok, at first I thought it was small meaningless title changes or badges or something."

I enjoyed the article and mentally filed it into my "things to keep in mind" category. I'll probably think of it when I do my next code review. Not "oh, I have to say something nice! Uh... your indentation is absolutely perfect!" I'm not into meaningless positive comments; they devalue legitimate praise or gratitude. But I already face the choice of whether to do a basic "lgtm" vs something like "cool, this is a lot easier to follow now" or "thanks, that's been bothering me for some time." And this is a reminder of valid reasons to say something more. Even though most of the time I'll still be sticking with "lgtm".
Keep in mind Linus thoughts on microkernels made sense in 1991, with first generation microkernels.

Then Liedtke's L4 happened, spawning the 2nd generation based on the principle of minimality. This changed the situation.

We're currently in the 3rd generation (with capabilities), its main representative being seL4, and the current landscape bears no resemblance to that of 1991.

With google's financial muscle behind fuchsia, operating systems will only get more interesting thereon.
It was an ongoing performance art in the farce of CEOs, executives, and corporate oversight.

I hope they get them, although we all know they are too rich to be successfully sued.
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It's not uncommon, unfortunately (although the penalties are usually not so extreme). Usually it also happens to be the countries that have some large-scale territorial disputes with neighbors.

For example, in Russia, there's a law against "public calls to actions that would violate the territorial sovereignty". In practice, this means that saying something like "Crimea was illegally occupied" is technically illegal, and occasionally enforced.

I recall India mulled a similar law with Jammu and Kashmir in mind, although I don't think they ended up passing that.
The Ghost Stations of a Once-Divided Berlin (2014)
S3 latency and availability are many (3, 4, 5?) orders of magnitude worse than those other things.

In other news, smart cars and supercars have comparable leg room, and are therefore interchangeable, depending on your use case.
A copy of UNIX written by a MINIX user and OS design&impl reader, Linus.