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We are a reaaally far cry from exhausting all our resources. Overpopulation is a concern but all trends point at a curb of growth in the 2050's. The problem isn't that we collectively consume too much, it's that some consume waaaaay too much and others fight for crumbs and get told off when they dare yearn for more.

Guilt-tripping middle-class and poor people into accepting lower standards of living is dangerous imo, because silly contributions you may make are dwarfed by corporate contributions. Studies show that people who do token actions such as eating less meat are less likely to take part in actions that matter e.g. dismantling Exxon and putting its top execs behind bars).
This is very clever, but clever usually loses out to practical in the end. Zipline[0] has a delivery drone with even fewer moving parts! It looks an awful lot like an airplane.

[0] https://flyzipline.com/
The article mentions gsutil being slow and not resuming transfers, maybe thats their main issue?
You should brush up on your history. First World War had nothing to do with "white supremacy" - every side whose opposition led to it was lily white, Germans, French, Belgians, Russians, British, Sebrians, whoever you point to - they where white. It was a very complex tangle of reasons that led to the war, but "white supremacy" had zero to do with it.

Second Word War, as we all know, has been mostly led by Nazis, who were, among other things, undoubtedly very very racist. However, even then they gladly paired with Japanese - most definitely not "white", Arabs - not really considered "white" by most Nazis - to achieve their goals. And they had absolutely no problem suppressing and massacring Eastern Europeans (very "white") when it suited them. Their goal was, ultimately, world domination under the aegis of the Nazi party, and their "white supremacy" was mostly "Nazi supremacy" - if you were white but not agreeing with Nazis, you were dead. So it was a standard totalitarian approach, which is no different in any totalitarian regime, racism notwithstanding. Nazis where definitely racial supremacists (though just "white" didn't go nearly far enough for them) but even if they weren't, it would end up in the same way.

And as history teaches us, totalitarian regimes like to expand, if they can, and cause wars, if they have resources for it (fortunately, North Korea has none, but even then they are trying to provoke something constantly).

> A white nationalist uprising in Europe would be deadlier

There is no white nationalist movement in Europe even close to pulling something like this off. In fact, I don't think there's even one serious "white" nationalist movement in Europe at all - most nationalist parties are specifically "nationally" nationalists - e.g. French nationalists, British nationalists, Hungarian nationalists, etc. and they couldn't care less about other "whites" as soon as they aren't French, British or Hungarian. Of course, racial movements exist too, but again - they are minuscule compared to nation-based movements.

OTOH, ISIS has already pulled off a major war in Middle East, and while it fortunately looks like they're ending up on the losing side now, it already cost major loss in life and economic damage, and it is very far from the end. Taliban in Afghanistan is far from being beaten too. They are massively in force right now, while "white nationalist uprising" is nothing but an extremely unlikely hypothetical.
My bigfoot dowsing rods keep drawing out the words "idiomotor" and "apophenia" but I'm not sure which of the myriad languages these concepts could possibly be a part; must be my subconscious connecting to the bigsfoot and deciphering their language.
Many very popular religions are supremacist in nature.

And pretending otherwise to allow them to skirt the censors just makes the entire censor regime seem like a hollow power play by a company trying to keep from sinking in a turbulent political time.
> I am just concerned about what might happen to the Rust community when truckloads of money gets involved.

Well, either truckloads of money get involved, or the community will fail to grow. I'm sure some people would love to keep the Rust community exactly as they currently enjoy it (for a multitude of different reasons, but I think most of them somewhat selfish), but for Rust to grow, there has to be money involved by the nature of how our economy works.

Either Rust is useful and provides benefit over alternatives, in which case it's also useful and provides benefit for commercial interests, or it isn't.

That isn't to say your concern is entirely unwarranted. It makes sense to be leery about what the money is applied to and how it influences the outcomes, as that isn't in the best interest of the community either.
Any library that's not on board needs to be wrapped, for sure. Fortunately you can do it in just the prototypes if you keep things ABI compatible. It fits well with the practice of decorating functions with empty structs, which is always ABI compatible (... in C, with mainstream compilers. In C++ it is explicitly not ABI compatible, sadly).

It's extra important, in writing this kind of C, to pick a granularity of types such that they help you make the distinctions you need without drowning you in casts. And I'm not at all sure such a granularity always exists. It worked out very well on the (greenfield) project I built this way, though.
Like I said, I wasn't commenting about out-of-range or those other things, I was commenting about the surprising undefined behaviors. :) JavaScript and many other HLLs have their criticisms, but they are generally far less surprising than C. In particular, there are languages like Rust and (to a lesser extent) Go which lack many of the dynamic runtime features of scripting/VM languages and behave very similarly to C, but with far fewer footguns (e.g., no architectures with 9-bit chars!).
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Well, on the machine I'm reading this on, I use:

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But I don't do webdev on this machine. for that I have a bunch of other add-ons..
You can configure the addon to open specific websites in different containers, and it all works seamlessly.

Except of course, syncing container rule settings across Firefox sync devices.
It is absolutely not. They observed sub agricultural limit exposure in vivo and in vitro (see linked papers and their footnotes from the article). The identified pathways for observed effects. They then saw similar effects in human populations with higher than average glyphosate exposure.

You argument is precisely the kind of one that would be deployed to argue against the health risks of tetraethyl lead, asbestos, or CFCs.

It's possible it's not related, but it probably is. You are right, though "damning" and "urgent" are subjective, and depend on how much you care about preventable cancers and birth defects.
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What?

Mine has a ‘Turbo’ button!
Agreed. Amazon has lost my trust here. But, that being said...

With climbing gear, it seems to be less about counterfeits, and more about shady manufacturers / knockoffs with illegitimate safety certifications.

Hot forging takes a lot of work and tooling. I'm not sure there's ever been true counterfeit climbing hardware in the wild.
I would also prefer Youtube not banning those videos. But they certainly should not help them get views. Google is fully responsible for the output of its recommendation algorithms and the impact to society.
> We wouldn't blindly allow company-owned cities or states to pass laws, especially vague or undefined ones, that potentially violate our rights, so why do we allow "states" in cyberspace to be run in such a way?

Actual states have a monopoly on violence, and can deprive me of life, liberty, and property. So I want them to have as few excuses to do that as possible. These "states" in cyberspace can do none of that, so it's significantly less of a problem if they don't embrace freedom of speech as an ideal.

(I guess it depends somewhat on whether you see free speech as an inherent virtue or as a safety valve against government oppression. I've been leaning towards the latter personally.)
> I don’t see why they don’t just take down anything they damn well please.

Its because Youtube would rather be legally categorized as a service rather than as a publisher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
It's also worth noting that 2,4-D, in addition, to being dangerous, is organic.

A prime example of why "organic" food is dangerous. We developed artificial herbicides and pesticides to be safer than organic counterparts. I'm not exactly sure how people are convinced that "organic" food = higher quality and safer
Not in Seattle. The city is having huge issues finding places to build low income housing. Whenever they do identify a location, a bunch of lawsuits show up from nearby residents. Sometimes those lawsuits go somewhere, and the city has to start planning all over again.
Not to mention the visual pollution it may cause. I honestly don't think this is going to fly pun intended.
Urgent, extremely urgent in fact. This thing will take time to phase out if it's dangerous. As in a decade or more. And if it's actually toxic, considering how common it is... Oof.
I wish all internet comment sections be removed. If you have something to say, promote your own website. Yelp is the worst.
Thanks. I should read this more carefully - I just skimmed it, to be honest.
> I am just concerned about what might happen to the Rust community when truckloads of money gets involved.

Ah okay, I can very well understand that concern.

I'm personally not too worried about it, as I feel like Rust already had a bit of a "truckloads of money" moment with the cryptocurrency hype the last 2 years. During that time that sector probably became the biggest one in terms of number of employees working with Rust full-time. I can't say I noticed any significant effects from that in the Rust community. That might in part be due to the fact that your stereotypical Rust developer is very critical of blockchain technology, but I think the Rust community has fared pretty well in that money influx exercise.
This does not pass the smell test. Definitely propaganda.
That is correct. gsutil will be a one-time thing. If you want to ensure, constant replication with metadata tracking with parallel workers for transfer(fast), this will be good. And I think they support have AWS, Azure and Ceph along with GCP
The data you linked to is for private non-profit universities.

At least in the state I went to public university at, its not so much that per-student expenses went up (though they did to some degree), its that the State started funding a far lower percentage of costs, leaving the student (and the student's ability to take loans) to pay for a larger share.
Worse is impossible to determine.

But do be aware that white supremacist have committed more acts of violence in the US than Muslim extremist. And this not counting lynching which is a systematic form of terrorism that lasted more than a century.

The same people who cheer blocking Al Qaeda now claim that blocking neo-nazis is suppressing conservative views, so right-wing extremism has been and is far more tolerated and prevalent than other violent extremism.
Well, personally I am. I also think it's the sort of thing where a lot of people like it until they actually experience it. That said, if you do enjoy it, all the best.
I don't get it. Why does an author consider those equivalent:

> IRC has never really provided strong moderation tools as its largely antithetical to the beliefs of the platform. The intent is always that people can change and grow, this is why you can connect with no identity.

and

> Its almost a requirement for permitting certain kinds of personal growth to allow someone to completely throw away their old identity, and to allow this to happen without anyone actually knowing its happened.

You can have identity, moderation and at the same time allow throwing away old identities. Case in point: HN. I have my identity, and I can also discard it at any moment.
They're only removing content that's "bad" along certain axes. They can still disagree with remaining content for other reasons.
Except they can't really since its federally controlled.
They can choose to not enforce the law regarding controlled substances which I suspect is going to make other prosecutions interesting in a bad way.
Why would they need to recreate it solely based on 'documentation'? It is open source, the source code is the documentation. It seems just as likely that the source would survive as it is likely that some complete technical documentation would survive. Maybe they wouldn't be able to compile it (probably they would be able to compile it, I don't see why they wouldn't have some kind of computer emulator available), but it's better than any other kind of documentation you could provide.

The src/ tree of xz is 335k (compressed with gzip). If you are worried future digital historians won't be able to figure out the xz format, throw a copy of the gzip'd source onto every drive you store archives on, it would basically be free and would almost guarantee they would have a complete copy of exactly what they would need to decompress the files.
Definitely. Heck, in .NET's early days, there was a distinct difference in quality of the software and of the team using VB.net vs C#, when they were 99% the same language (they had some features unique to each, but they were very few). But C# was used a lot in new projects or by people familiar with Java while VB.net was used in VB6 migrations or teams coming from VB6. That had a drastic effect on the end result, but the language had very little to do with it.
That's the problem with policies like this: they might apply them to everyone. If a feminist tweets "men are scum", they are going to get in trouble. If some white supremacist wrote "anti-whites can fall off a cliff", I suppose many would support removing/banning that.

You won't get large companies to officially make value calls and say "no, it's okay if this user says that because they are part of a special group", they will be too vulnerable to public/media/political pressure, especially in a culture that is generally pro free speech.
Probably not, but then I don't think it's a like to like comparison, youtube is more of a broadcast system than anything, it's closer to TV or Newspapers were pre youtube and nobody has the automatic right to TV airtime or to be printed in a newspaper.
The 2013 proposal was very different from the Canadian system. First, the points based system would get, at most, less than half of visas, and the merit based category (tier 1) would get half of those. So less than 1/4 of visas would be merit based, versus 65% in Canada. Second, even the merit based category had a family ties component. That component was worth 10 points, twice as much as having a bachelors degree, and the same as having a master’s degree. The other part of the points based system (tier 2) was directed mainly to high-demand, low-skill immigration.

Moreover, the system would not replace the existing family ties based system, but been a large number of additional visas on top of the existing allotment. And it would have granted amnesty on a scale never seen in Canada.
Not any language have such smart compiler, perfect errors handling system, "cargo" crates system. Not in every language refactoring is so nice that you can do it absolutely without fear.
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Maybe so, but I still think this can work. I think the problem is that we've moved away from communities focused around a particular topic to just throwing everyone into a pool and crossing our fingers.

If a community has a topic and the majority of users are interested in discussing that topic, then when someone veers off-topic to rant about their favorite conspiracy theory, you don't have to be a judge of the validity of his viewpoint. You just gently point out that's not what people are there to talk about and that they're welcome to discuss said conspiracy theory over on yonder conspiracy theory aficionado forum (and ban them if they continue trying to detract from the conversation).

This then removes moderators as judges of what is Right and True (the problem facing moderators on Facebook/YouTube/other anything-goes platforms) and positions them in the much more manageable role of, well, moderating a conversation.
I don't know about OP, but when I say I want firefox to step up its game I'm referring to things more like this:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152872551609819&w=2
Reminds me somewhat of that AirBnB paper [1] around demand estimation for optimal price setting. In both cases the regression target was unobservable. In the instacart case: the counterfactual demand if all delivery options had been available. In the AirBnB case: the counterfactual demand if a house had been listed at a different price. In both cases, it appears the solution was to build bind models and score those to estimate what the demand would have been under the counterfactual case.

[1] https://www.kdd.org/kdd2018/accepted-papers/view/customized-...
Last time I worked with those languages was in college 10 years ago so I didn't know portion of shooting myself in the foot was my fault versus the language.
Development has expanded far beyond that crowd. There are eight different groups working on 2.0 clients, for example. This was part of the SEC's reasoning.
We talk all the time about the two internets, one of China and one of the rest of the world. But more and more we are seeing a new division arising within America itself of two internets. I can't say how this will play out long-term, but with alternative-media sites rising we may well see two broad forces developing.
I see they mention Raft in the article. If they are updating a directory of ownership data via Raft then your split brain problem is addressed.

Generally, distributed locks are a fiat based system. I claim ownership of something and I have indisputable rights to that thing until lease renewal time. If the lease renewal fails for any reason I have to give up my claim on the object.

I might have an architecture that lets me make forward progress in a split brain scenario because I owned a lease before the split happened. If the recovery is fast enough then everything will be fine.

However my instincts tell me that it would take a pretty special problem domain and a very assertive dev team to maintain this invariant over a long period of time. Business people see all this data we have and they want to connect it more and more over time. They are not above selling a feature and then cajoling us into implementing it, even if it reduces long-term viability.

In the end you are left with is a distributed system with lower overhead per transaction. But that's nothing to sneeze at.
Those were völkisch (as in "Germans are the best, we need that space for us"), not white supremacist (since Poles, Russians, European Jews etc are white as well).

Hi. If you downvote factual statements, please leave a comment. It's annoying if you're using downvotes and flags as "I don't like that somebody says this". Write an argument, don't abuse moderation tools.
Youtube runs on the back of publicly-funded infrastructure and, as a natural monopoly in the space, it has a position of privilege that needs to be regulated.

We need an Internet Bill of Rights to ensure free speech on any platform of this scale. Yes, that means speech you don't like; may I suggest not watching it?
I don't see how that would work. If my site gets zero traffic, would I still get paid a flat rate to 'serve' ads? Pay per impression/click works to pay proportionally to individual site traffic and the extent of a campaign.

The current solution is effectively a flat rate as far as an ad campaign is concerned: impressions/$
Agreed. The only comment I would add is that, unlike newspapers, these companies receive a broad immunity through the laws so that they can operate without fear of legal retribution. Even though they operate as private companies, I would argue that they still have a mandate to the public good as part of their operations.
> but I almost never hear Islamic radicals cited as an example.

That's probably just because banning radical Islamists isn't very controversial.

>What you mean by "white supremacy"? If you mean actual people that think White race (whatever the hell that is) is supreme and are willing to take action to ensure its power - it is demonstrably false, the number of these people are tiny, and they could never pull off even one hundredth of what ISIS has been pulling off for years.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/world/white-e...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/homegrown-...
That would require the capitalism to end, so I hope we never get to see that. And considering that the only realistic scenario of ending capitalism before any of the people reading this are dead is world takeover by China - you probably hope that too, once you think about it.
It's not really novel. Hybrid quadcopter/plane designs have existed for years. Using the wing as a rotor guard is novel I guess.
It looks like a tool to analyze the psp firmware, which is a necessary step in this process.

Necessary only because AMD isn't being cooperative, that is. It'd be as easy as providing a shim so that the machine can boot without enabling the psp.
Yep, and it's something that is subtle and rarely taught. Having the natural tendancy to ~fight for your status so your position is neutral with respect to others.
Is it criminal to incentivize vandalism in international waters?

If not, I'd throw a some dollars at a gofundme to have every Carnival Cruise drone-sprayed with rotting fish guts until they go out of business.
I would assume that they're being downvoted not for their claim (which I would not agree with, though I would love to see that graph), but for missing the point of the comment they responded to which points out that even if older hardware consumes more electricity, it may still be less environmentally harmful than purchasing new hardware which required many resources to manufacture.
Broadcasters have purchased a license from the government to use those airwaves, and have to abide by rules. In contrast, anyone can put up a website. That is why broadcasters are more constrained in their behavior.
> Agreed. After what Oracle has done with Java, I am hesitant when corporations come bearing gifts.

I honestly don’t know what to make of that comparison. On one hand, as a sailing fan, I’d love to own a boat competing in the America’s Cup (1), on the other hand I can’t really see why you insult us that way.

On a more serious note: Companies with money will enter (and already have entered) the rust space, but unlike Java which was designed as a proprietary language and never free as open source, the rust language cannot be owned the way oracle owns java. So in that regard I wouldn’t worry. That doesn’t mean that all players will be well intentioned, but the leverage a hostile player can gain is substantially more limited.

(1) The Wannsee certainly would make a great training ground for Team Ferrous!
Anyone know where that video was filmed? It looks an awful lot like Eastern Washington around the Walla Walla area, but I'm sure there are other parts of the country that look similar.
These creatures never cease to amaze me.
And you're anti-women if you think trans women should be able to compete in weightlifting competitions as women.

This isn't an issue with easy, clearcut answers.