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Strange move to name a security focused embedded programming language the same thing as Apple's security processor in the 2016/2017 MacBook Pro.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/10/28/examined-the-new-...

Names are hard I guess. But if you're going to pick a [letter][number] name it'd be hard to come up with one that has a worse naming collision.

Apple's moved on to T2 in their current machines, so beyond "Isn't that Apple's old security chip?" questions it probably won't run into much overlap, but first thought was "is this Apple releasing something related to the T1 chip?"
Why do they need diversity?
Execpt the question isn't about an organization or company its about running a country and there are a lot of countries where democracy just does not seem to be suited/desired, unfortunately.
I was a stomach sleeper before getting a CPAP. In retrospect, I was a stomach sleeper because my body figured out it made breathing easier. Rarely find myself sleeping on my stomach any more.
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Of course not - but plenty did.
The SAT selects for two things: Can you give this school prestige with your brain (high score, low income, no test prep)? Or, can you give this school money with your (parent's) wallet (high score, high income, test prep).

All this will likely serve to do is show that given two equally scored students, the one with less adversity tends to get in because they help the college pay its bills or provide connections to their family's firms.

Schools already have financial aid data for poor students for grants, so this just makes this data more transparent to the rest of us.

I'll be interested to see if future data shows I'm correct on this.
> He said you ought to import a person like you would import an orange

It's awkward phrasing, but you don't know that they meant to compare people to commodities. Lots of people on this site do not speak English as their native language.

> Literally the only reason to bring in someone from out of country which is implicitly a larger effort is because you have implicit leverage over that person and can use that leverage to extract more work for less money.

They don't work for less because you have leverage over them. They work for less because they are not permanent residents of the U.S. and their cost of living is calibrated to their own country, which is typically less developed than the U.S.

But that's if they work for less. The price OP quoted was $2k/month. If you add on $500 in free housing, it works out to the same annual compensation as the $15/hour you cited (assuming 2000 hours/year @ $15/hour). And, FWIW, when I've looked into an au pair in the past, $2k seemed like the lower end of what they cost.
Why don't more drinks come in reusable glassware and milk crates?
Are single use cans and cardboard packages cheaper? Safer?
Remember the McDonald's styrofoam crisis of the 1980's?

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/11/nyregion/mcdonald-s-is-ur...
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Keep in mind that the definition of "white supremacy" has been expanded to include things like opposition to affirmative action, or support for enforcement of existing border control regulations (let along their expansion). Of course calls to censor those things are going to garner much more opposition than censoring explicit terrorist organizations.
The beverage industry knows they have a festering PR problem. I recently got a random poll from the American Beverage Association. They were primarily interested in understanding how people feel about the industry’s sustainability (or lack thereof). The good news is based on some of the questions they asked it sounds like they’re considering bringing back glass containers.
The problem isn't the adversity score, it's the admissions practices that reward mediocre performance in rich public school districts.

Colleges already weigh a GPA as better if the school district is more wealthy (competitive). So the adversity score counter-balances that existing bias.

If you go to a big state school you meet a lot of mediocre people who went to rich public schools and got mediocre scores and high (memorization-oriented) GPAs. They had access to lots of AP credits and get admissions advantages not just for the results but for taking the AP classes in the first place (weighted GPAs, etc.).

The adversity score, if it works correctly, will help colleges find students who attended high schools that were little more than daycare, offered no weighted GPA, few AP classes, lousy teachers, etc. A high potential student from one of those districts will fly under the radar compared to the kid who had a memorization 3.8 GPA and 8 AP classes from a big suburban high school.
Since 2014 yes
Would separate ground lines prevent this kind of data gathering?
This is not a good solution. :(

The only solution is UBI.
What I meant by "people like tetha" is people who can't play games on their own hardware, don't want to buy their own gaming hardware, and/or don't care about these rights.
True. But it does not make them "more" selfish because they just disagree with one's just as selfish opinion. (My point) Let's stop calling people names, and all argue what evolution we want, and possibly respectfully disagree.
The survey found that 10 companies were responsible for more than half of the identifiably branded rubbish found on the UK’s beaches."

But are they? Isn't this shifting the blame from the end user that improperly disposes of their trash to the company? Sure, they could do more to reduce packaging issues, but in the end, it is the consumer that is tossing these things out rather than recycling them.
These matters of taste are subjective, and the more someone believes in the righteousness of a given aesthetic opinion, the less you should listen to them regarding matters of culture.

Controversy is difficult to quantify. But millions of people cheerfully photograph themselves together with the pyramid each year, which leads me to believe that those who smile seeing this building far outnumber those who scoff and yearn for the "striking beauty" of the brutal, decadent monarchy that built the original Louvre palaces in order to project dominance.

We live after the end of aesthetic teleology. There is no more objectively defensible aesthetic criteria. There is only a morass of yawning subjectivity, and hopefully a critical perspective regarding the ways and reasons that power utilizes the sort of rhetoric you perform here.
I meant that a datetime string is generated from the combination of a Unix timestamp and a timezone together, not that it lossily retains both of those inputs. For example, if I want to show the time of day of an event like "3:12 AM" to the user, then I need both the Unix timestamp of the event (for example, 1558050450579) and their timezone (could be as a UTC offset, like -7) in order to produce "4:47 PM". That's true whenever I'm trying to make a string from a Unix timestamp, regardless of whether the final date/time string explicitly says its timezone.
People shouldn't be viewed as financially coupled to their parents until 25. Our current system is set up to discourage people from furthering their educations, with exorbitant tuition and fees.

If you had been in the Netherlands, you'd get a stipend of ~$10k per year when enrolling in school, and other countries have similar systems. UBC in Vancouver, Canada generally pays masters students $30k a year, having had a few friends depart to Canada due to said offer.
As a reference: The Chinese equivalent, Gaokao [0], is notorious for its brutal difficulty, but also widely regarded [citation needed] as a great equalizer. To that end, high school students spend obscene amount of their class time doing test prep (yes, in school instead of after). Although YMMV, and the total score usually spreads out quite nicely without need for curving (one such attempt was recently made [1]; it didn't turn out well). That is, despite all the extensive test prep, Gaokao simply refuses to be maxxed out (effectively, due to human scoring of essays). With all its problems and totally valid criticism, Gaokao remains (IMHO) the golden standard in equality of opportunity. Sadly China is moving to "diversify" college admission recently --- euphemism for bias towards wealthier families.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_College_Entrance_...

[1]: (Chinese Wikipedia) https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E5%B9%B411%E6%9C%88%E6%B5...
I think culturally (western, not explicitly American, unsure about elsewhere) there is a bias toward people being incapable of change, that their actions in the past define who they are, and this probably results in people just continuing to do more of the same if they are unable to escape it.

Consider when children make a mistake or do something silly - often they are chastised or punished rather than educated and forgiven. Because of this we learn to lie about, hide, or pretend to misremember mistakes in a bid to mitigate the punishment we know we're about to receive. Later in life we're remembered by the things we've done in the past, and if you've done something bad enough (or even just silly or ignorant) it'll hang over you like a shadow for the rest of your life. Even if you personally feel like you've grown and moved on, there is always the risk that someone will dig up your past and throw it at you. In the end we live in fear of our past and feel controlled by it and that makes it harder to look into the future to become the person we might like to be. Those with sufficiently unfortunate pasts are increasingly rejected by society so they have no alternative but to continue adding to their unfortunate past because the communities that contributed to their past are the only ones that accept them.

Personally accepting that the mistakes you make don't define you as a person can go a long way to freeing yourself from some of the burden, but culturally it still lingers. Ultimately though there is a huge difference between shoplifting when you were a dumb kid, and becoming a serial killer. The threshold for redemption clearly varies with the severity of the crime, however it seems to me that in many cases we simply reject any chance of redemption outright and this probably hurts us more in the long run than it needs to.
Any sensible candidate will prioritise your job and company to the round filing cabinet.
Giving resources is also a zero-sum game. When you're giving more resources to those that aren't privileged, you are in effect denying those same resources for those that are.

For example, school admissions. We can provide more funding for underperforming schools, but that is also less funding going towards better performing schools. At a certain point you will have to accept that to help the poor it will mean cutting off certain benefits for more well-off. Then the discussion becomes around how much resources should be shifted around.
One interesting thing about rust here is that you can mitigate refcount traffic, since you can also take a regular reference to the data. You only need to increment/decrement on actual ownership stuff.
Wouldn't surprise me if law abiding black people are the biggest beneficiaries of the way the system works. Imagine living in the ghetto if there was no policing.
I differentiate between savings and investments. For example, my own savings give me the ability to modestly live for 1 year without work AND without liquidating my investments.

If I had everything invested and nothing saved in bank account, I might get into situation when I need to liquidate my investments ASAP, which could be very unfortunate, timing-wise.
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>Or do you just want to be entitled to the good college in exchange for the childhood your parents chose to give/were coerced into giving you?

It should generally be noted that such policies usually do not hurt the truly well-connected as much as the nouveau riche, who fought their way from poverty to a home in the suburbs only to find their investment pulled out from under them. For instance, black families were disproportionately affected by the subprime mortgage crisis. One way or another, society told these people "do this", they complied, and they face being punished for it. Not to perceive an injustice here is wilful blindness.

The policy is quite defensible, but grandparent's concerns are legitimate and do not warrant sarcasm.
If you don't lie it's not fraud. You can game metrics all you want, you can get divorced for any reason.
Should adversity points be included in that citizen score?
For the past few years I've driven a car that cost under $1K.
We should call it the social credit score.
> Not at all.

For your example? Yes, it was.

> Devirtualization + inlining + dead branch elimination is an instance of specialization

Your example did not involve any devirtualization.

> No. Some things are undecidable and/or would lead to code explosion. E.g., it's often hard to statically prove that a subroutine that takes an int would always receive the number 2, and specializing it for all ints would cause code explosion (again, contrived example but with real-world counterparts).

Again, your example did not have any such issues.

And if it was hard to statically prove a subroutine that takes an int always receives 2 then guess what? A JIT wouldn't do it, either. They don't actually specialize that much for runtime information because gathering that information would destroy performance. Devirtualization? Sure, limited in scope, and huge payoffs to be had for doing it. All arguments analyzed & binned? Good god no. That'd be ludicrous in resource usage required, and the payoffs would be incredibly hard to quantify in any meaningful way.

Take your example - all it would do is eliminate a single branch. If it was so common to take a single avenue that it could be eliminated, then pretty much every branch predictor would do it anyway. So... why specialize it?
We took it from C++ which has a long history with the term; take it up with Bjarne.
I remember an xkcd that was basically saying if you really want your files to be portable and available reliably until the end of time, the only solution is to pirate it
My point is that this is not the case. When you take out high Federal and State taxes, high rents, tuition, etc., it's about equivalent to $80K/year income without kids. Seriously.
“Convenience”
Things have different degrees of guarantees. This is something we’ve explicitly said is guaranteed.
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I guess I'm flattered, but you understand the point, right? If you have 'rights' to a product or service (i.e. something that requires another person to work for you in order to satisfy) then you effectively have 'rights' to their labor and goods, also known as slavery.
Issues Around TRIM in SSDs
> A growing number of colleges, in response to criticism of standardized tests, have made it optional for applicants to submit scores from the SAT or the ACT. Admissions officers have also tried for years to find ways to gauge the hardships that students have had to overcome, and to predict which students will do well in college despite lower test scores.

Taken to its logical conclusion, the SAT will cease to exist and the only thing the College Board will report to schools is a secret student dossier.

This dossier can contain anything. Think about the ways in which it might be possible to compute an "adversity" score.

What if we mix this "adversity" score with some factors indicating "deservingness?"

Today the dossier may be composed of mostly harmless stuff. In the very near future it may well become a terrifying concoction of privacy infringements.

There may be a silver lining in all of this, though. College today is increasingly a mere credential. The information conveyed through a degree can be obtained by those who want it from numerous sources.

If initiatives like the one in the article become widespread in admissions, then a degree will increasingly symbolize not accomplishment but rather something much less worth talking about. Colleges themselves would have precipitated their own well-earned demise.
I know what you meant and I think you're whitewashing the intentions of these corporations. They aren't motivated by good will, but rather by greed. They want to seize more control from consumers and they are going to normalize this first with the youngest consumers who don't know any better. Once these systems have proven technically feasible and consumers become compliant, the option to download the software and run it yourself on your own hardware will be taken away. Before you know it, there will exist games that only exist in "cloud" form.
That’s actually something I have been thinking about. How do they get so much sugar into a drink? You could never produce something drinkable with this amount of sugar.
Cheaper to produce, cheaper to transport and generally favoured by consumers due to weight and easy disposal.
You'd have to do better than that. 'cause lol no ain't that gratifying to one's intellectual curiosity.
People also did that ~60 years ago right in the middle of San Francisco. There was plenty of cheap empty land. I have a relative there who bought her 4-bedroom house in 1963 for $9000. She likes her neighborhood. There is plenty of free parking. If there were still any kids, they could play in the street. Normally there is zero traffic of any kind. There is no trash and certainly no biohazard problem.

I guess she votes to keep it that way. Wouldn't most people do so? She helped create the neighborhood that so many people envy. Anybody else who wants a similar neighborhood can go do the same thing: build a house in a cheap area with open land, then live there for 56 years. What people are demanding is to skip that effort. People don't want to build out on empty hills and then wait 56 years. They just want to take what people like her created, degrading it with excess traffic.
Both middle class (35k-100k income) and the poor groups are shrinking as a percentage of the population. Mobility is upwards, not down.
As someone who has never been to prison and not worked in any part of the legal system, my opinion holds limited weight.

But I believe prisons were originally designed to act as dissuasion against bad behavior from regular folk, and a form of quarantine for more violent or harmful people. I think they've since turned into some horrible form of daycare for adults who don't know how to be adults, and which makes no effort to improve the lives of inmates because it has no incentive to.

Meaningful jobs have diminished to the point that someone who didn't make it through high school will have an extremely difficult time finding success in life (and those who did will boast so loudly about it that you'd think anyone could do it). Entire communities in low-income neighborhoods have developed where people have no idea what to do with their lives. I think a lot of other-wise decent and well-meaning individuals get arrested for stealing or public intoxication or whatnot because they have no idea what they should be doing with their time.

One story that has stuck out to me over the years is that of a kid who was a hero in 2013 for rescuing a young girl, and by 2016 he was sentenced to prison for armed robbery [1].

Prisons themselves don't get any funding if nobody's going to prison, so they have a perverse incentive where they want people to go to jail.

[1] https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/temar-boggs-hero-t...
Getafix: Learning to Fix Bugs Automatically
If you develop an app, and everybody using your app always ends up deleting their data by clicking on the wrong button, and then people complain that your app loses data...

...in the end, the users are wrong in the moment, but the real problem is that your app allows a behavior that has negative outcomes, and the proper fix isn't to educate people, but to make it impossible for people to click that delete button so easily, or maybe make the deletion recoverable.

Maybe the users of coca-cola bottles are the problem, but maybe coca-cola should be made to not make products that have a propensity to be misused.
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Fear of Brazil President’s lack of concern for climate change continues to mount
I think a big part of the issue is also about what packaging choices are made, materials-wise. Surely not to say that people chucking their aluminum cans in the trash aren't also part of the problem, but corporations have a much bigger amount of influence and fault for pollution (packaging and non-packaging-wise).
Cloud stuff aside, the title can also read "two massive media companies will explicitly coordinate and not try to compete with one another in an otherwise practically unpopulated product space"
True, that’s a good point.
You definitely have rights to your property, it's one of the most important ideas established in the Constitution.

It's also your right to give that property away if you like.
Cause it’s a summit to talk about the whole ecosystem, not one file system. We btrfs developers talk enough to each other, we don’t need to bore the rest of the attendees with our own topics. That’s what the hallway tracks are for. I put together the schedule for the file system side of this years conference, I specifically don’t put single fs issues on the general schedule.
FYI, here is their privacy policy - https://ouraring.com/privacy-policy-device-and-application/

And an article they wrote regarding the impact of GDPR - https://help.ouraring.com/oura-account-and-privacy/ouras-pri...

Would you trust Oura more or less than Fitbit or other, similar vendors?
> Imagine living in the ghetto if there was no policing.

There would be plenty of problems, but not being stopped and frisked constantly because of skin tone even though white people are more likely per capita to actually be a valid target of the frisking[1] would probably be nice.

[1]: https://www.nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-data https://www.nyclu.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/20... ("Black and Latino people were more likely to be frisked than whites and, among those frisked, were less likely to be found with a weapon.")
I’m definitely with you in spirit but I really wish we could also work on the “disagree but commit” skill directly. This project was going to have 10B in cost overruns, meanwhile the F-35 project has hundreds of billions sunk into it and the project is in no serious risk. Part of learning how to build infrastructure effectively is going to be to start building infrastructure and gaining experience, so if we are going to do it, let’s give a bit of breathing room to let it work.
"Contemporary Art" is more or less circularly defined as big-ticket artworks/projects being sold to incredibly rich collectors, corporate decorators, and headline galleries by predatory dealers.

There's plenty of other art happening, but it's of no real interest to the big dogs - who are far more concerned with ROI than anything else, and consider artistic merit a means to an end rather than an end in itself.
> Take your example - all it would do is eliminate a single branch. If it was so common to take a single avenue that it could be eliminated, then pretty much every branch predictor would do it anyway. So... why specialize it?

I don't think you've actually read the comment. The particular example is just a demonstration of a principle. Obviously that particular case is too simple to be interesting.

> A JIT wouldn't do it, either.

Again, you've completely missed the point (read the original comment, perhaps?). In any event, a JIT could and would do it in some cases; e.g.: https://gist.github.com/chrisseaton/4464807d93b972813e49
If they acquire it legally, then who are any of us to object?
But Apple, Google, Microsoft aren't the cool start-ups either and they are mega-corps, yet people still want to work there. So I don't believe that line of reasoning holds up.
However there are plenty of bad GUIs that make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot!

Sourcetree maybe isn't the worst but it's also one of the slowest.