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Agreed, and everyone has the right to conduct protest or civil disobedience.

If one chooses to engage in activism, then it’s worth recognizing that this is what you are doing and that they will be likely consequences.

It seems, before engaging in a protest, to be a good idea to think about whether it’s likely to be effective or not.

For example, before deliberately being disrespectful to an individual government employee, why not consider whether it would be better to be cooperative in that moment and then make a donation to a group that supports political change in that particular area?
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Previously (in 2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8475809
“through powers granted via the “EAR” (Export Administration Regulation 15 CFR, subchapter C, parts 730-774), along with a sometimes surprisingly broad definition of what qualifies as export-controlled US technology.”

Boom! I told people they might do that back in the crypto discussions. Custom crypto and high-assurance security are still munitions with only a few things re-classified such as mass-market, one-size-fits-all software and use of ciphers in browser (https). This is what they might do to the rest with the leverage if it was ever truly threatening. They’re already doing it to companies over Huawei.

I also speculated they might have done this to get backdoors in products. A combo of offering payment and threats together. We know they do the payments. I don’t know if they do export threats, though.

“some independent security research would have already found and published a paper on this. Given the level of fame and notoriety such a researcher would gain for finding the “smoking gun””

Bunny is being really naive here or maybe doesn’t understand computer espionage. Most subversion must be done in a way that doesn’t look like subversion. The system just has to be remotely exploitable. The best route to that is to intentionally leave in memory safety bugs or a configuration that enables privilege escalation. Hackers find those all the time in all kinds of devices. They say, “Hey, they just made a common mistake.” Maybe it was there on purpose. We won’t know.

“It’s no secret that the US has outsourced most of its electronics supply chain overseas. From the fabrication of silicon chips, to the injection molding of plastic cases, to the assembly of smartphones, it happens overseas, with several essential links going through or influenced by China.”

And this is why what the U.S. government is doing is incredibly stupid. You could substitute other industries in here. It’s a smarter move to minimize one’s dependency on a country before pissing that country off in a way that can prevent them getting what they depend on.
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Seen from an IT perspective, they ran a complex network without enough monitoring. So they didn't detect multiple leaks in time, and ended up wasting a lot (too much) water in dry season.

With enough sensors on the pipelines they could have at least found the leaks in time before all the waste. How practical that is I don't know.
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Executable bloat can be avoided by stripping the executable afterwards, if that's what you mean: Although the function body will have been provided if instantiated and used, the compiler will have probably inlined a huge amount of any code that is actually used - a lot of templated stuff is made up of one liners or single uses, which compilers are very very good about reasoning through the motion of these days.

I guess a naive compiler could have issues but every time I check something on compiler explorer, the modern big boys (GCC, LLVM, ICC?) are pretty shrewd (Especially if you optimise for size).
Something I haven't seen mentioned anywhere yet is the amount of power controlling the reserve will grant the libra association. They are free to move the reserve around between "low risk" investments. If the reserve grows to a large size that will mean they can prop up a (small) countries currency (and thus economy) by using the reserve to buy some of it, or it can crash a (small) countries currency that it is currently invested in by divesting.

Small countries might have to start thinking much more carefully about regulating the companies controlling this if it succeeds.
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I fully support this suggestion. It would be great to have a law mandating this kind of training.

Randomly disrespecting government officials seems to play no part in bringing this about.
Metcalfe's Law probably applies, though perhaps not at full effect. That would suggest the diminution in effectiveness of the FOSS ecosystem would be more severe than linear.
It seems to me that the idea of free will is used to justify horrible acts as well - the entire concept of retributive justice for instance.
> the question is if an early stage start-up with 4-5 devs where they typically already struggle to get basic CI in place ...

Nowadays it's super easy to setup a CICD pipeline. The basic settings and intro examples alone are enough to build and publish container images to a container registry.

> and where 1 of the devs loves K8 and the others don't really know it (but don't object because it's nice to have it on the CV), whether they should really already focus on orchestration and scaling before they even have a MVP.

That doesn't make any sense. Developing services to run on kubernetes is a software architecture problem, one which only affects some minot dev level details such as supporting env variable settings. Devs can be entirely oblivious to kubernetes and still be effective.

> I think we have reached peak k8-hype last year when F. Campoy

That's largely irrelevant and misses the whole point. Just because some people present some gimmicky take on a technology it doesn't mean the fundamentals are not good. Kubernetes allow distributed services to be deployed transparently across multiple providers (thus you are not held hostage by a seller), and allow services to automatically scale horizontally with demand and within resource limits gracefully degradate after that point. That doesn't go away if someone decides to reenact Inception with buzzworthy technologies.
ARM does allow for customized silicon. But right now I’ve heard the architecture is slower than x86 at division because it doesn’t have devoted registers to the operation.

It’s going to be a huge factor in the DC. Never before have people been able to customize silicon. And now (ish) they can for figures that make sense to more than just the usual suspects.
The only defensible standard is that abusing State authority for personal or political reasons is grounds for immediate termination, AND should be prosecuted as a criminal matter as a matter of course. That it isn't, whether at the border or at a traffic stop, is a national disgrace. They are employed by the public to enforce rules for public reasons.

Saying that such prosecution would clog up the courts with a million cases is to admit the problem.
I understand the sentiment, but I wish you would. Despite all the weeds that grow in the threads, many of us are here to learn. That's the purpose of this site. If users won't comment in their areas of expertise, that purpose is stymied.

It doesn't mean you have to get into tedious arguments with ignorant, indignant comments. (It's interesting how often those two go together.) It's enough to post a substantive top-level comment explaining what you know from the point of view of someone in the business. In the end, those tend to get upvoted; there's one at the top of this thread right now. And as moderator/gardeners we do what we can to give those more interesting plants a fighting chance vis-à-vis the weeds.
Think of it this way: a barrel shifter has to be able to "carry" every bit to (potentially) every other bit.
This is really a nice thing to put out there. I want to add that AD (automatic differentiation) can be a great jumping off point to other things. (It sure was for me in my studies anyway) Here is the path I followed (though I am sure there are many paths; I am too dumb and tired to dream up another right now. Perhaps that is why I am so eager to put this all out here in a "gushy" way -- my apologies):

First I implemented simple forward mode AD in Python (with NumPy, handling gradients and Hessians so you could apply AD to find extrema of constrained variational problems, (to design constrained B-spline geometry for example... or construct equations of motion), then extended to handle interval analysis, which introduces a tiny bit of topology (fixed point theorems and such - provably find all solutions to nonlinear systems over some domain).

Then pick up declarative programming (unification) and revisit overloading to build up a mathematical expression tree for anything you have implemented. (In detail, overload math such that, for some object which is a mathematical combination of two other objects, store in the new object's memory some representation of the two original objects, and also the operation used to combine them. Remember to track your automatically generated-connectives! (all expressions are ternary - n-ary stuff get broken out into ternary stuff) )

Then starting at the final "node" of this mathematical tree, walk back down the tree to build whatever you want. (Reverse mode ad can be done this way, and is a good thing to try) I used it to automatically compile math down into logical rules for constraint programming. Much fun!

Now re-do it all in C++ but use overloading to build a math lib to support everything, or, use eigen, or some other expression template lib. (I'm not done with this.)

Ah, expression template libraries are another instance of "reverse mode style" expression tree computation. AKA the "interpreter pattern". Good fun here, but more involved I think.
This very article is about the organ harvesting. What it amounts to is that it's impossible for China's number of listed donors to have supplied all the organs necessary for the recorded number of transplants, by a substantial amount.

The PRC could easily dismiss this by providing transparency into its organ donor procurement system, but it takes a hard line on limiting all information about it.

Numerous eyewitness accounts also testify to the forced organ donation, though I find first person accounts less compelling than actual statistics and observing how the government actually behaves.

Cite on the KSA leveling cities? Or is this just a weird way to reference the (terrible) war in Yemen?
There's a part of me that would love to see this for cars parked in bike lanes. Bikes already get almost no infrastructure compared to driving or walking, having what little there is so often blocked by the more privileged party adds insult to injury. Not to mention the danger it puts cyclists into where they have to move onto the road where drivers may not be expecting bikes (because, y'know, there's a bike lane on the street).

Of course I realize that this could easily be abused, and you'd instantly get a lot of irate drivers calling for volunteers giving tickets to cyclists who blow through red lights, and it's tricky where exactly you'd want to draw a line there on citizen enforcement.

It seems like a sociologically simpler option may be soon within reach, though: once we have fully self-driving cars, you could commission a few parking enforcement bots that would tirelessly hand out tickets, in a more or less unbiased manner, all day and night long!
Sure, you won't get back the same USD, but you will always get back the same amount of the underlying assets as you put it. This is the the same situation you would be in if you had a bank account denominated in euros.

Alternatively, you can look at this like an exchange traded fund. In both cases what you are buying are tokens which represent shares of other assets.
Sure, but the choice to include them in that set is what's in question. Someone who crosses the border and makes an asylum claim may have technically made an illegal entry, but their status is under review to determine if they're a refugee or not. Most refugees can't simply make a claim from the country that they're fleeing, because the government that they're running away from isn't going to help them get their documents in order. Plus they're in danger while they're there. They're removing the imminent threat and waiting here while their status is sorted out.
Right, I mixed up GPUs and CPUs, here.

Do ports (as in the picture) have independent pipelines, or do they execute certain pipeline stages of a big pipeline?
I suppose, either way you can't issue to the same port in the same cycle.

This paper sheds some light on how instructions are divied up between units on NVIDIA GPUs.
http://www.stuffedcow.net/files/gpuarch-ispass2010.pdf
Table IV.
Notice that fp32 mul is in the SFU and SP, while others are not.
The report outlines what can best be described as a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Info Security shit-show.

It's mind boggling how these folks are responsible for the credit monitoring (i.e. financial security) of millions of people.

I wouldn't trust them with my family's secret brisket recipe let alone anyone's personal financial data.
To your second point, I agree, but I was comparing specifically the common top posts ("front page") to one another. HN is obviously more niche, but the ways in which its niche is defined are what I contend do, in fact, result in a better quality of discussion.

To your first point, I also concede that this phenomenon certainly does happen, but would counter with the notion that this probably happens with every conversation ever, with it perhaps tapering off in materials science discussions amongst experts.

I'd assert that it's happening right now, given that neither of us are likely informed enough to empirically support our assertions here. We're merely sharing our rather vague impressions.
I used to be a heavy comma user. Still am. But try being ‘radical’ and not using a comma more often. (It’s not actually radical at all)
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It's completely practical and deployed globally. But knowing there's a leak (akin to "knowing there's a bug") is not enough to find and fix it. And the cost-effectiveness drops to likely negative for a small place.
Mir is actually still alive and being developed at Canonical.

Ubuntu phone (the software stack of Mir and Unity8, running on Ubuntu, on phones, as opposed to a phone backed by Canonical) is still alive, usable and arguably the most mature of the FOSS "GNU/Linux on a phone" projects.
Are they breaking any laws?
Honest Q: Isn't that's where tracers like AWS XRay and Google Dapper come in? And somewhere down the line, solutions like Envoy/istio try to make the whole ordeal manageable?
I keep wondering if the person who came up with the name was a Charlie Stross fan.

Stross's Laundry Files novels feature a hybrid magical/technological device codenamed Scorpion Stare. It's a weapon rather than a surveillance technology, but it's also built into government surveillance systems as a hidden feature. And the technology behind it was discovered by dissecting actual gorgons (which are a real thing in the Laundryverse).
Actual money? Paid for by the executives in the form of fines, bankrupting the company if necessary.
I'm continually impressed by the Keras team's API design decisions. They clearly understand that usability should be the focus, and even just the small snippet they post gets me excited about using the API. Compare this to CMLE's hyper-parameter tuning API: https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/tensorflow/using-hyp...

It's unclear though from the Readme how this tool works with distributed compute. I assume much of that would be abstracted away, and I'm not sure how you'd make it flexible enough to deal with all the various possible setups.

One other aside: I assume that the Keras team has basically decided that Tensorflow is the only first class citizen in their ecosystem?
Each team does represent different entrenched interests, and so the results of an election will affect which agencies get worse. Given his focus on marketing "border security" (read: build a wall to keep us in), associating this specific tooth in the totalitarian ratchet to Trump is justified.

The equivalence is that it's foolish to be goaded into voting support for the blue team by this specific outrage. A change in team won't reform the long term rot of these particular thugs, but rather just direct the lucrative decay onto other aspects of society.
Yeah. Since working at a place that does have to think about problems in these terms, I find such YAGNI stuff much less compelling.

Guess what, some of us actually are gonna need it. And if you don’t begin with the future in mind, starting out with something “simple” can result in some very not-simple situations down the line.
I think that's an over-simplistic way to look at it. Ahem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

If anything loss leaders are more important for platforms, since learning a platform is a big time investment and people will reach for what they know when the time comes to choose something.

I can't claim to know if this was the right economic decision for Canonical because it's a very complicated question, but what I can say with certainty is they just gave 900,000+ people a reason not to use their platform, along with sending a strong signal to a lot of observers that might be thinking about investing time in their platform. Is the engineering time they save going to gain them something that makes them attractive to 900,000 new users? That's a lot of people to appeal to.
I'd say it's symptoms vs cause. America has grown increasingly xenophobic, and as a result you have a POTUS with a base that rallies around him more when he fear-mongers in direct contradiction to easily verified data. Things definitely weren't going swimmingly before Trump, but trying to separate Trump completely and pretend like Obama's border policies were just as bad is also inaccurate.
Paywalled articles can embed a token allowing a certain amount of free views, so links can still be shared.
HN is a tremendous pool of groupthink.
over continuous functions?
Open Source effectively is out of America or any other single jurisdiction: think of all of the people who have up to date copies of virtually every package all around the world. If the U.S. were to say tomorrow, as we used to do with cryptography, that (certain types of) software can't be shared outside of the U.S., the development of said (Open Source) software would likely just be taken over by groups outside the U.S.[1]

I recall that happening in the 90's with a few different types of software due to U.S. software patents and corporate legal departments. VLC hasn't always been the go-to Linux multimedia application, for example.

[1] The infrastructure part is easy, the giving away access/bandwidth for free part is hard.
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Am I wrong in being skeptical at believing something that is essentially a messaging platform is worth 16 Billion?
And, indeed, harass. With impunity.
That’s because browsers on iOS can’t use their own engine and have to use Safaris. Unfortunately, Safari is not supported.
The original MacWrite fit on a 400 kb floppy.
Can someone summarise why we should care about 32 bit sw other than old things that might not be ported?
And Apple will milk that agreement long after Trump leaves office, doing whatever makes more sense for the bottom line, even if that means moving to production to Mexico eventually. And, just like all these large companies, will avoid paying corporate taxes to an even greater extent. Trump will claim he restored American manufacturing, and he will have, long enough for him to Tweet about it, and not much longer.
Not everything is an affectation.
different radio bands than civilians use, off satellite links
Good pointers would point somewhere, somewhere more precise than "the truth is out there".
I believe the majority of FOSS developers reside in the US. You can't really pipe them out through a fiber channel.
> By pegging it to a flurry of other currencies they’ve started the planet down the path of ditching the dollar as the default world currency.

That's probably false. FB's coin will be at the mercy of the Fed and ECB, and most likely will be an equal or worse choice than any of the fiat currencies in the basket , considering central banks move in concert these days. It doesn't seem FB will pose any real threat to central banking unless they unpeg their currency.
> It was the regulators who failed us here, not the market

On the contrary: the credit reporting industry is a perfect example of market failure thanks to regulatory capture.

The actors in the market exercise a high degree of control over the regulators. The regulators are not independent and the companies that influence them are not innocent.

All markets are constructed. The credit reporting market is just set up with rules which are grossly harmful to individuals.
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We cannot count on them.

Donating money and time to them helps, but to actually fix things takes regime change, which they don't get involved in. We each have to do that.
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What does this change in practice? Are there before/after screenshots?
Are you implying snowden is a woman/African American/lgbt or an advocate for these groups?
I always find comparisons with tcmalloc hard to parse, since it has a million knobs and the defaults are terrible. If they are running with 16 threads I would normally advise increasing the thread cache size far above the default 3MiB. also interesting would be jemalloc in per-CPU mode.

As always the thing to do is build and run your own workload and see the results.
Some more info in this thread from December: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/a5upu5/emacs_text_sh...
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Why is it abuse to ticket cyclists that don’t stop at red lights?
From a previous comment of mine:

Gorgon Stare was featured in PBS Nova Rise of the Drones (2013)

Skip to 30m mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_T45UG1-o?t=30m29s
We have laws requiring smog checks, requiring odometers not be tampered. Those apply to cars.

Why not laws requiring leakage check meters (or whatever would be the corresponding tech) to be installed for every mile of pipes? Pay it up one time and reap the benefits long term. You do not want to be wasting water for 3 months before finding out there is a problem.
Website has a default login to try it out. I created myself an account.

This is something I can use to avoid noises from twitter or social media sites.
Upstart was originally developed by Canonical. Several years after it shipped in Ubuntu, it was shipped in RHEL6. RHEL7 replaced it with systemd.
While it probably had some RedHat contributions, to call it a RHEL thing does not make much sense.
Capital flight is already a thing. But large scale speculation on the economies of random small foreign countries isn't a "low risk" investment and the Libra Association has literally no incentive to move the backing of assets away from bonds denominated in currencies its user base wish to convert to.
You know, strategically, when you’re about to get super regulated and the government is touting antitrust probes: maybe don’t start something that competes with the Dollar.
I think this is the tension for me in trying to embrace a fully libertarian mindset. When companies in their blind allegiance to producing shareholder value and conducting profitable free enterprise perpetuate harm upon consumers, what does the free market do with that?
What if management was fined through increased income taxes in some way? If structured right, it would prevent a 5 million personal fine to a CEO being made up with a 5 million company bonus.