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I'm going to be downvoted but... Android has access to all my files and is installed on my phone even before I reach the USA. Since the US government seems to have close ties (1) with Google, this makes me a bit nervous as well.

So I'm not sure the chinese are more evil than our occidental countries...

Moreover, it seems that chinese authorities force people to install their software on the phones. But, last time I checked, I was forced to accept the EULA on my phone as soon as I turned it on (Nokia One for the record). I'm sure that I'm just as "forced" to install Android on my phone as I'm forced to install the chinese software : basically I can refuse, but it means that I have to throw the phone away...

Obviously I make a kind of caricature here, but my point is : whatever the way it is installed, the software on your phone is controlled by a powerful entity, controlled maybe by a powerful government which has, like most of them, some blood on its hands. There's nothing wrong with that, that's history; but we don't need to look to far away to see problems with privacy...

[1] https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Nobody says that in the post or in this thread though...
A frustration I have with articles like this is that it's very easy to for the author to make the statistics support the conclusion they want to write. For example, from this article:

> One study by the Violence Policy Center found that in 2012 there were 259 justifiable homicides by a private citizen using a firearm.

The implication is that firearms were only successfully used for self defense 259 times in 2012, but that's not true. Most incidents of successful self defense using a firearm do not lead to the death of the attacker. The same report from the VPC[0] says people used firearms in self defense an average of 67,740 times per year from 2007 to 2011.

> Tightening Gun Laws Lowered Firearm Homicide Rates

But did it lower homicide rates overall? I don't think it's much of a benefit if murderers switch weapons and complete the same number of homicides. If the overall homicide rate is reduced, that would be a much more persuasive figure to cite, which leads me to suspect it isn't.

[0] http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable15.pdf - note that the VPC is an anti-gun advocacy group, and this study is written to be persuasive rather than analytical.
It's not about poor people trying to make a living. It's about rich people trying to get even more rich.

Wood, Soybeans and Cattle. The agricultural industry is behind this.
Agreed, "Yes/No" is in no way correlated with "50/50 chance".

Will I win the lottery? Yes/No. 50/50?

My favorite conflation is the "are we in a simulation?" argument. That's a yes/no also, and the ignorant conclusion is that its very likely we are. Without any statistics on the probability either way.
> And this point isn't even up for debate. Present value calculations essentially prove that a copyright long-tail provides minimal benefit to a corporation. Especially since long-tail sales are incredibly rare.

Actually, the long tail does benefit corporations.

90% of all money goes to circa 10% of PRS for Music members. Those 10% members being the big labels.

The companies themselves have a long tail, but the losses in the 90% of their long tail are paid for many times over by the successes of the 10%.

The long tails is literally he business model of the music industry. Saying it provides minimal benefit is kind of moot. It’s how showbiz works.

> So it a 1/200,000 shot at making a classic that will actually sell 100 years from now.

Any stats or references to back that up, or have you pulled that number out of a hat?

> And even for that one shot, the discount rate says a million dollars of sales 100 years from now is worth a couple thousand dollars now. There is no way 100-year copyright incentives art now

I have no idea what this discount rate you’re talking about is (I don’t think we don’t have anything like that in the UK), but the long duration of copyright totally incentivises creation of art if you think about it.
That, and when you already control the ground, you have less-costly options for shooting down aircraft than using fighter jets so there's less reason to risk them.
The french military parade with Macron had me laughing my head off when I saw the clip.

If anyone wanted to defend against this type of aerial soldier other than them sticking out like a sore thumb to shoot people would could put up some thin cabling between tall building.
> on average, mass killings involving firearms occur approximately every two weeks in the US

This seems significantly higher than what I'd think. Do most mass killings not make the news? How is this defined?
BA is if the person has a 4 year college degree. The vertical is deaths per 100k. It was sourced from page 49 of this: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/6_cased...
I, for one, support the effort to raise the signal-to-noise ratio.
Despite it being a violation today, I get the point of wanting to know marital status. But why height and weight?
I am aware of that detail. But why? Why does the aircraft always use the sensor on the main pilot's side? That itself seems like an arbitrary, ad-hoc rule. What does global AOA state data have to do with where the pilot's ass is currently located? Why even have two sensors at all, if you only use one at a time? Given you have two sensors, why not fuse them? Any fusion logic is more intelligent than what they did.

I'm sure each decision seemed logical to the person making it. But from a bird's eye view, it gives the impression of poor coordination - Team A [hardware] thinks "clearly we need multiple AOA sensors for redundancy". Team B [software] thinks "AOA isn't all that important, we barely use it and failure is non-critical. Sensor fusion is hard, let's go shopping!".
I look at it like x86 / x64 processors.

There are always hardware errata. But they're patched and papered over with firmware.

Essentially, I'm operating a system, and if you can guarantee the system functions as documented -- I don't really care how the sausage gets made.

What I would care about is if a pilot (in this metaphor, my compiler, I guess?) doesn't feel comfortable operating the system.

And I think the pilots' unions have been interesting in this. Because they don't really want to slag their employers (the airlines), but they're willing to push back hard on Boeing for essentially the same issue.

A lack of transparency about and sufficient training in differences.
Design obsolescence is absolutely built-in for railway systems (safety related or not). It’s part of the fun of the profession to deal with bizarre voltages that are inherited from the 1930s. For sure it’s not something consumer electronics care for but that’s precisely the point I am making.

Actually, it’s one of the required extension to ISO 9002 by IRIS, the quality framework for rail engineers.

Components are chosen not only for their function but also for their supply availability in the long run. One of the things we look at is « multisourcing »: how many different folks can provide this stuff. The more the better.

Going back to this great idea about hardware diversity (that is absolutely not a general rule in railway): with an architecture requiring 3 different hardwares, you essentially shoot yourself in the foot. Instead of having 3 suppliers for one component, now you need to find at least 6 for 3 components. And the probability to face an obsolescence issue has basically tripled...

And for what? It’s proven useless by science... :b

And as far as dodging bullets, railway is no better than SCADA. Older tech means older vulnerabilities stay in place, and there are countless people on HN that will tell you it’s /not/ a good thing. I don’t think we dodged, I think we were just lucky. There is a reason why now cybersecurity is making its way inside the last revision of standards.
This is a false equivalence; The foreign policy of the state has nothing to do with the levels of violence between its citizens.
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If you're in Racket consider using syntax-parse instead. It's syntax-rules/syntax-case's more capable cousin: https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/icfp10-cf.pdf
The argument that you wouldn't hire a magician without asking them to do tricks is laughable. Magicians are hired on their reputation. Like all professionals - doctor, lawyer, even plumber. You don't say "Doc, treat my bunion first, then I'll see if I want you to work on my cancer". Its preposterous.

Except coders get asked. One fool writes this idea down in a blog somewhere, and we're all saddled with it for a generation.

I've never given in to it. You want to hire me (and I'm always busy), you talk to a reference and make your decision.
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I understand the rationale, but all that hardware today will probably get more bits on input in a single clock cycle than at the time this was a concern.

Today, you have to process way way more bytes in a single clock cycle anyways.

Internally, for a chip designer, almost all modern high speed serial busses look way wider than a single byte. And all of its serialness is kept inside the transmitter/serdes/interface blocks without any external exposure.
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As a German I find it a bit unsettling that the ratio in guns-per-person between the US and Germany is smaller than that between Germany and, say, Italy. We do like to fingerpoint a lot at American gun ownership (it really feels absurdly archaic to the average German), but we're apparently not that much ahead.

I wonder how the numbers would look if they were broken down further into "made to be pointed at people" (designed for military, law-enforcement, or self-defense use) and "others" (hunting, dedicated competitive marksmanship). Hunting must be huge in the US, but the whole field of "testosterone booster" use cases from small scale "defend my family" right up to the field of full-scale second amendment militia fantasies (sorry if you are a believer) must account for quite a bit as well. I guess that dedicated competitive marksmanship might be low, I suspect that Americans who are into that kind of thing would tend to do it with hardware from somewhere in the "designed to be pointed at people" range.
There is a ticket about this that might interest you. It seems like there is work to do, but that it might get there

https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187
Not a datapoint by any means, but I think kotlin gained grounds mostly on Android, seeing the questions on stack overflow. When they ask about kotlin it's almost always in the context of Android, while Java questions seem to cover a wider range of fields and platforms.

So, could it be more of a reaction to java-for-android being sub-optimal or the fact that Google suggests kotlin to new developers than Java itself being sub-optimal for the task?
Well didn’t I read somewhere that if I cross the US border I could be forced to allow a search of my electronics? Actually think I only need to be within 100miles of the border and they are allowed to do that in the name of security.
My point is who cares that the Chinese are doing this when I can look to my neighbors to the south doing the exact same thing. Well I care but I am not about to look down on the Chinese because they do it too. So much “do as I say not as I do” with the US it’s rediculous.
Not completely true, Scandinavian and Baltic countries have more forest than Brazil compared to their area. Mediterranean countries have less but started with less as well. Also forest have been growing for a long time in Europe, while they are still going down steeply in Brazil. Some Other developing countries such as China also now have growing forests.
> Go turned out to be a pretty bad choice for container tech due to its awful multithreaded runtime.

Can you please elaborate on this? My experience with Go is that it is able to fork/exec programs and manage cgroups via sysfs on Linux at least as well as any other programming language can.
There’s stupid simple way to test interview process - let your current engineers go through it. I bet best performing ones will fail mentioned algorithmic and abstract assignments.

Sometimes the best value to the team bring a person who doesn’t know algorithms but can e.g. foresee problems or ask “stupid” questions which lead others to think differently.
So what is the current pass rate for language and core specs? I didn’t see a number in any of those links or did I miss it? Do I have to build and run it myself to find out?

If you can run mspec at all then that’s pretty good to be honest.
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Did your crystals tell you this? Or was it the tarot reading?
Finally found a comment that makes sense actually [0]:

"Powered by X" is on millions of web pages because it gets autogen'd by popular web-facing CMS (Joomla, Wordpress etc). So when a search query includes "Powered by" google must determine which among the billion pages with this
phrase is most relevant"

[0] https://twitter.com/bradcog/status/1158008651619004417
Yep, but it was a comparison aimed to the real world and costs, not abstract efficiency.

Given that you need for both 5-10 square meters of surface exposed to the sun and assuming (and it is not necessarily given) that solutions "A" and "B" have the same "current" (maintenance, spares, consumables) costs, I don't care if solution "A" is more efficient than solution "B", I only care if solution "A" costs less than "B".

If it does, then it should cost much less, as solution "B" might have a tangible advantage (once you have purified enough water the solar energy can be used for other uses).

Now, be nice, check the actual Solar Spring Gmbh site /the spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems mentioned in the wikipedia article ), and see how - strangely enough - they build/sell both "A" and "B" solutions:

https://solarspring.de/en/products-and-services/#pg-356-2

https://solarspring.de/en/solar-purification/

In any case high efficiency - usually - means more sophistication, added components, and what not, so rarely exists a solution that is more efficient AND costs less.
Except, Google is accountable to shareholders and US legal code. The US government has accountability through elections and the judicial system. What accountability does the Chinese government have?
I'm tracking what you're saying now.

I'd hope they would have to demonstrate both things: (1) that a given mode can or cannot be active in a certain scenario, and (2) how the plane behaves in all tested scenarios under all modes potentially active.

Is there a reason this necessarily wouldn't be the case?
Becuase of the low density of renewables:

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_mackay_a_reality_check_on_re...

[edit, better link]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0W1ZZYIV8o
I had a quick look and seems some impressive little jet engines out there in the model aircraft domain. Quick look found one capable of 25KG thrust, weights just over 1KG. Then when you factor in fuel per minute and weight of fuel per minute. Can soon see why a 22 mile trip needed a refuel. Though still better than jetpacks.

But certainly not cheap, looking around $2,000 mark and much of that would be due to supply/demand aspect. If demand increased, that price would drop.
Do they even need to do that? He's got a tank full of kerosene on his back, a single rifle shot from someone with a good aim will be enough.
> I wonder if there's a way to add some Rust into MRI

Aaron Patterson spoke to this in a recent interview. In fact I think he specifically mentioned using Rust as a possibility for a JIT
FP certainly means that you get immutable data structures (and that you don't get or at least don't use mutable data structures, by the definition of FP); Lisp - I dunno, CL has setf (and singly linked lists made of cons cells which can share a tail where you can modify the shared tail when working with of one of the lists and the other will get modified as well). As to a "good" concurrency system, that's a bit harder to define.
That's an awful experience, and, unfortunately, all too believable.
The image is incomplete. Also what exactly does "incolved" mean?
According to the notes at the end of the article, the author is a professor of Moral Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, which suggests some degree of prejudice against gender studies; apparently enough to cause serious misunderstanding of "gender differences" and "gender inequality".
https://bluemarblepayroll.com/about/ might be able to help? needs your employer to set this up tho
It is. Auto-incorrect.
There's a huge wage gap with young women outearning men. The number of poor young men is getting higher. Men are increasingly less educated relatively.

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/B03E1C0B-B635-456...

Oh and literally everything is mens fault.

Now actually I agree that a lot of this is individual mens faults but theres also something cultural and societal that we need to address as a society
> why aren't we getting thousands of hits for "from what it is to a"?

Because Google isn't an exact search engine. Each of the terms in the phrase above appears on billions of pages. My guess is that for common terms Google doesn't store all postings in its inverted index but truncates the posting lists after a couple of million entries.
I’m not sure those hangars really are decoys. The military often uses inflatable tents and hangars. It’s not to fool anyone they’re just practical.
>All extracted information is bundled as a ZIP file, without applying any protection like a
password. The ZIP file is then sent via an HTTP POST request to
http://192.168.43.1:8080/. This shows that not only no transport security (e.g. https://) is
in place, but also that an internal IP address is used.

Unless they're expecting a MITM from the police network (or wherever they use this app) why is no https a problem?

>BXAQ uses the default icon for Android apps, which means there is no attempt at being
covert or discreet about it.

...or maybe they didn't put an icon because it's optional and unnecessary for what essentially is an internal app.

I mean really they are not trying to be unbiased or anything about the analysis.
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Yes, exactly this. I'd like the same with TV and film as well!
Same as "dubugging". It's a typo. Should be "involved" ('c' is right next to 'v' on QWERTY layouts, it's weird, I know).
The original article at https://eve.gd/2019/08/03/elsevier-threatens-others-for-link... is more informative as it gives numerous actual examples.
A couple of silly questions:

1. How did publishers like Elsevier get started?

2. Was their value proposition true back in the day? How did it change over time?

3. How did the industry evolve?

3b. What are the barriers to entry and how did those evolve?

3c. What was the business model then and what is it now? Who are the clients (universities, I presume)? How do they pay for this (taxpayer money? If so, that's a huge clue). Who is the decision-maker regarding these purchases?

4. How is it possible that they still exist? If they don't provide value anymore, then what is it? Are people habitual creatures? Are they pressuring universities? Did they somehow get a vendor lock-in effect (can people get out)?

I'm simply trying to get why it became what it became and why it isn't dying in the slightest despite researchers trying to organize themselves a bit for open access.
Hard to say from an outside perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China

Certainly worth a read and would be very interesting to compare what we class as democracy and accountability country by country from a neutral perspective. Though I'm not aware of any such articles of comparison.
Will Brazil also pay Sweden and Russia for their forest management? After all Brazilians also need to live in 100 years.
“Attractability” of a candidate was not limited to their skills. As in some parts of the world today we know that these things are largely orthogonal to performance at job. As rational and simple as that sounds today, back in the day knowing these details was equally rational and simple. We just find it difficult to get that point of view since we didn’t live in that time. This is the same as ageism today. “Young people are just smarter”. What do you think people will say on hacker news 30 years from now when they read that was the thinking of some of today’s tech leaders
Sure, and one is far easier than six.
You're vastly overestimating the technical capabilities of the average person installing or creating software.
> What accountability does the Chinese government have?

Presumably, they need to answer to their president.
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I’m interested in companies in receivership in the US and EU. Can’t find anything on google
Is it really that expensive to set up a company in Germany ?
There were not too many spell-checkers around in 1974.
I think your comment mostly hits the nail on the head.

Ada is a really nice language that is fast, has lots of support for making sure programs are reliable, can run on desktops or microcontrollers, has a really good concurrency story and parallelism is coming next. I like the syntax a lot and was recently making some small programs and having a blast. That all changed when I found out I could only distribute my programs with the full source unless I paid adacore what is likely a lot of money (I can't be certain as it is not listed on their site). Technically, there is a GCC clause that allows you to distribute as closed source, but then you can't use any adacore libraries and it all seems tricky.

No thanks, I'm not even remotely interested in that kind of relationship. D will have to do for my use cases.

Commercial tools aren't a problem to me, but they need a tooling option for solo devs that don't work for a 5,000 person company on a military project.

Adacore seems like a neat company with a great product, but the current situation seems to be hindering language adoption outside of larger military contracts and university research
One of NeoVim’s goals was to also be a backend to multiple front ends. The eternal dream of having Vim on a <textarea> or when writing email.

I don’t know how far they’ve come as I switched back to Vim when version 8 came out.
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I’m not the biggest fan of AWS, but I feel like giving $10B to Oracle or IBM, well, you might as well just burn the money.
> Go turned out to be a pretty bad choice for container tech due to its awful multithreaded runtime.

What you mean by that? What makes it a bad choice in context of containers ? I ask because I know how Go is using M:N threading model in its runtime and what linux containers really are, but I can't find a reason in which I would use word awful to describe using Go in this context.
Even SQLite doesn’t lose data.

This “spite” reveals serious core design flaws in Mongo that still have yet to be addressed.

If someone has data showing otherwise — that the abject reliability and scaling issues were resolved via something like a complete rewrite, I’d be glad to reconsider my views (they won’t have any though).
Yeah, I agree, it’s still arbitrary, just on different level.
And their president answers to whom? Doesn’t Xi have a lifetime appointment?
#6 makes it worse.

#6, combined with all the institutional issues people are aware of, makes it quite likely that the 737 Max has a bunch of issues hidden away. The MCAS issue was only the most obvious and easiest to trigger, which is why it led to 2 crashes. If those planes had been around longer, and if they hadn’t been grounded because of the MCAS issue, it’s likely some of the other issues may have also caused a crash.
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