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> Disagree.Your argument is like why buy Financial Times when all the info is out there for free. Wikipedia,while a brilliant invention on its own, is not, and probably never will be a substitute for Encyclopedia type of sources, including Encarta. Subjects like politics, history, nutrition and medicine are very sensitive ones and there's tons of resources out there that tend to either massage the data,or bent the reality all together,which renders them absolutely unreliable.

What make you think Wikipedia would be more prone to these problems than other encyclopedia, including Encarta? Research has shown that the quality of Wikipedia is comparable to other encyclopedias, which might surprise some people given that anyone can edit it. Encarta will never have specialist in all domains known on Earth; something that Wikipedia can have.
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Although Wikipedia is without a doubt extremely impressive, I definitely do have a very soft spot in my heart for Encarta. Much of it is nostalgic, but the immediacy, content consistency and ability to use as an interactive offline experience was fantastic. What a time capsule it is.
Will this make a meaningful difference? Wont this just push all the propaganda off onto Super-PAC type organizations?
The networking implementations I've had to do were all made a lot easier moving to async/await from hand-written state machines. It's a reduction in LOC terms of 6x or so, and the logic is much, much easier to follow.

State machines are viable if your transition function is such that effectively every combination of (state, input) leads to a different state. If the transition function is mostly describing "go to the (single) next state or error," then you're essentially asking the user to do a lot of bookkeeping that compilers are good at and users are bad at.
If there was something like Mind Maze today, I might check it out.
Wafer scale integration does seem to be a logical conclusion of integrated circuit. When Jack Kilby invented IC it indeed was a stroke of genius.
Sounds like this PCR software should be structured around letting the operator enter information almost as freeform as possible, basically collecting timestamped notes that are reviewed and formalized afterward.

UI up front can be very fast capture, with asynch layer to parse and formalize constructs, with a third stage of prefilling the final form (if paper layout needs to be maintained etc) and allowing very flexible revision.

Last step would be archiving locally and then transmitting to whatever outside system.
No status on their official status pages yet
who freaking cares?
We don't know that's how intelligence happened. That's just speculation based on materialist assumptions. Intelligence is most likely immaterial, i.e. abstract concepts, free will, mathematics, consciousness, etc. In which case, it's beyond anything in this physical universe.
If the tests are ever waiting for I/O or something, or otherwise using less than one full CPU core, then I think that could explain why running more than the number of cores would be an improvement. If you run "top", or use the "time" utility, what fraction of a CPU core does each test use?
If you could get this to work, pivot and build a recruitment/jobs startup.
Those were more innocent times, to be fair.
I'm still not able to heard the full version of Sicuriada as played in Encarta, the full version is only available in cassette version of Music of the Andes and Argentina and can only be borrowed on library far away from me :(.
This area desperately does need terminology to be nailed down.. but.. I don't really like the proposed terminology. It's kinda hard to understand and follow. (The meat is in the table at the end of the article.)
I actually just found an encarta 95 disk in a spindle of other random disks I had. Good memories from it.
Both are wrong. I don’t think anyone is arguing anything different.
Taking in input, and making decisions based on that input, are what computers are for. And conditionals are the simplest version of "making a decision".
+1, our customers can't log in via Google sign-in, I can't log in on any of my personal or work accounts
Ok, I'll give it a shot.

Smalltalk environments don't typically have "configuration files" because it's so much easier to just directly manipulate the configuration parameter. Interactive development- the kind impossible with anything but the most specialised of IDE-- simply makes "config files" obsolete. Take a look at the seaside configuration guide[1] to get an idea what this is like.

In k/q[2] we also don't typically use configuration files, but for a different reason: Every type can be serialised over network or onto the disk, and when it's written to the disk it's usually in a format we can mmap() and access transparently. This is how q is also a database -- the data types q supports also includes tables.

k/q also has a built-in event loop that's not dissimilar to what you get when you run nodejs with the debugger port open except it's fast, and it's the regular way k/q processes communicate with each other.

What typically happens is that a table is designed for configuration, and we just expose it to the UI. Production environments are usually locked down so the only UI is to edit existing configuration parameters (and those are permissioned accordingly). These UI are typically quite general for any k/q data type, so they're quite rich and easy for people to use.

Then parts of the application interested in configuration just query the appropriate configuration table - this is only about 1000x faster than you would expect connecting to a remote database, and in many ways it's similar to a python application just storing its config in an sqlite database, except SQLite doesn't let you have a table as a data type so you can't put a table into another table, and you don't have tooling around comments and advice like you do with k/q UIs.

There are other places if you look carefully: Environments people have used (even beyond thirty years ago) that didn't have configuration "files", often had interesting and useful solutions to storing configuration. People tended to build configuration into part of their application, and so the legacy of that has tended to be excellent tooling instead of novel file formats.

[1]: http://www.shaffer-consulting.com/david/Seaside/Configuratio...

[2]: https://kx.com/
It's "funny" to read about this, as in my spare time this past weekend (and sparely for a number of months now) I was thinking about creating a non-profit/foundation focused on "reducing the environmental impact" of workers by 10x, as a way to combat climate change.
The basic idea is to have companies "pledge" to vastly reduce the overall environmental footprint of their workers, either by direct action, or by buying or investing in initiatives that provide the same effect (a-là buying carbon credits to offset CO2 emission).

I don't feel ready to discuss it in greater details; however, if any of you has experience in setting up non-profits and/or foundations (I am based in San Francisco), I would love to talk to you.

Also, if any of you think it's a great idea, feel free to ping me.

MyHNusername at gmail.
We never really used Encarta, and I don't really know anyone who ever did. Right in the middle of the CD-ROMs are big and DSL just starting to become available period we got a few educational CDs that did more specialised things like only the history and current state of geographical information, or just mathematics, or just historical events of one country. No full encyclopedia was really digitally popular as the schools and libraries all had plenty of physical copies and people around to help use/find them.

It probably didn't help that it was a Microsoft-only deal as most of the stuff was an odd mix Netware-driven PC's without Optical drives (we had ZIP!) or library computers that were locked in a box so you couldn't really put a CD in them. And everything else was an Apple Mac, so you could put the CD in but you got nothing out of it.

We did have something else, I don't remember the name of it, but it was like a network-CD-drive-server device that worked on Windows 95, 98 and 2000, as well as Macs, and we had a cross-platform (flash/shockwave based AFAIK) viewer thing that was probably an encyclopaedia but it was never named or marketed as such. It didn't have videos but it did have the same information as the paper versions.

Most people who did end up owning (some version of) Encarta got a demo or companion version with some other product, much like the Microsoft Works package you sometimes got with systems, but right around that time Wikipedia was already gaining popularity.
I don't think your premise that you are saving time is correct.

Apple advertises similar to Luxury car buyers to make you believe you are getting a high quality product. But it's going to be really hard to prove things are quicker.
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What I don't like on current state of server side rendering with hydration is that server still sends initial state data, even thought, it is already contained within initial html. This means, that site is rendered twice on first load. First time from html and second time after initial state (some json) arrives as state atom is usually null at this time. Why can be initial state just reconstructed from html (data-attributes ...).
"Work" also use to be free-range
Beijing would have FB testify if it were possible to compel them and if it suited their purposes.
In Israel school teachers have 2 competing unions.
And even if you do have a policy of “designing your apps to be SQL agnostic” and you have had that policy for 5 years over dozens of apps. Would you trust your policy enough that you would change your connection string from pointing to Oracle to pointing to MySQL and hope everything would work?

What about all of the programs that you used that depended on Oracle specific drivers. Even in a perfect world where everything was using standard SQL, would the regression testing and migrations be something you would want to tackle as a CTO? Would you be willing to take the reputational risks of something going wrong?
I haven’t seen a perceptron circuit done in less than 4 transistors plus a few diodes. However these chips are almost certainly digital and will use a lot more to perform the floating point math.

Single transistors can’t even compute our simplified model of a neuron let alone the complexities of the real thing.
A separate detailed analysis of the 941 boats by, H.I. Sutton - his "Covert Shores" blog and publications are my favorite Naval tech OSINT and historical data sources:

http://www.hisutton.com/The%20REAL%20Red%20October%20-%20Typ...

.. I really enjoy his material for the original artwork and diagrams.
Doesn't catch entities like PAC's and Fox News though
To quote myself:

> although it has some uses in comparisons

So we agree about that. In terms of EBITDA's "other uses" your example proves my point? From an EBITDA perspective, those companies look the same, so if you want to paint a rosy picture and you're the company with lousy financials, EBITDA is your go-to metric for your talking points.
Encarta still has the best video/animation on Quantum physics I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnhqqISBSA
I remember a book that went exactly like that back in the 80s. I just can't place what it was other than it was sci-fi of the variety that didn't take itself too seriously (maybe one of the Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh novels?).
> Sure, Wikipedia has more articles; but the content is of a significantly lower quality by every other standard going.

Source? Research papers on this subject don’t find a great difference in quality between Wikipedia and other encyclopedias.
Does anyone know how easy it is to extract just the text / html out of an Encarta CD/DVD? If it's easy, I'll go out and buy one right now.

For no particularly good reason, I have this urge to create a local txt or basic html version of one of the major encyclopedias (something a bit more concise than the full Wikipedia). I love the idea that I could keep a summary of most human knowledge in a 400mb plain text file on my hard drive.
You are flirting with Nihilism. Nihilism is sick beyond belief. It's alluring because "people are more afraid that things might have meaning, than that they might not."
Some operations are basic enough that theoretically you can build any other operation out of them. “NAND” is commonly used as an example but in practice “nand” doesn’t really map to how people think. Conditionals are another one. They are a bit more complicated in a sense (three inputs rather than two) but they map better to how people think so people actually use them in practice.

So Turing completeness is basically two things. 1: the ability to compose an arbitrary number of conditional statements. 2: the ability to keep computing recursively, until some output is true.
Not to undermine your concerns, for you raise fair questions, but this is justifiable behavior on Twitter’s part for a simple reason: Twitter is blocked in PRC.

It seems fair to block the activities of even entire governments to operate on a platform that is itself blocked from operating normally in that country. Governments are not above reproach or criticism anymore than corporations are. If PRC will not subject itself to fair scrutiny or allow their subjects to participate on Twitter’s platform, then why should Twitter have to play or even allow PRC’s game on their platform, especially when they are blatantly breaking Twitter’s rules and intentionally trying to deceive Twitter’s users.
> I'm surprised this hasn't been done before

It has, a couple of people have linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer-scale_integration
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I used Encarta heavily in 6-8th grades.

Internet searches were of dubious quality, and libraries were inconvenient.

Encarta was the first stop for looking something up.
When serverless functions access resources in a VPC, the Network Ops, router, and configuration skills get put to the test.
A wise mantra is to not let perfect be the enemy of good.

Those PACs were likely already going to propagandize. It's not like they suddenly become more powerful or concentrated because the state media promoted posts that happened to align with them disappeared.

Also in some instances like foreign influence (e.g. the HK protests and surrounding state ad campaigns from which this policy ostensibly stems), there may not even be a corresponding PAC. So shutting down that advertising could be surprisingly significant.
I was recently in Beijing and noticed when posting on Instagram many bot accounts posting "Shame on Hong Kong" in Chinese.

This is a Facebook problem too.
I originally came to rust because I was hoping to replace my c++ usage, but now Rust doesn't seem to care about that segment anymore and it tries to replace people's JavaScript usage. Has rust given on being as fast as c++ now?

So when does the GC go (back) in?
Neither is ok, but Jack likes the guys who chants “Russia is our friend”:

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/03/twitter-was-going-to-ban-c...

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/10/when-white-na...
I was recently in Beijing and noticed when posting on Instagram many bot accounts posting "Shame on Hong Kong" in Chinese.

This is a Facebook problem too. If you work at facebook please help!
It'd be even better if, say, your insurance card had your basic medical info stored on it in some encrypted form, and then the EMTs could just scan the card and have half the form populated with accurate information automatically. Or if it just stored some kind of UID that the PCR system could use to pull that information from the insurance company's database.
Interestingly I feel like leaning on some work in the field of genomics where comparing different formats, each of which contain potential 'errors' is something done.

Search engines also seem to do something like this already as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinHash. MinHashing is also used in genomics. White space, if handled appropriately are just more characters.

But most literature won't be available via flat text files I imagine. Some sort of image -> text converter would be needed, which I bet exists, but may require tweaking to allow more fine grained representation of white spaces.

Authors publishing new texts could release some kind of checksum to go with it ... or to venture into waters that I don't know much about ... could blockchain be used in some way to keep a record of edits to text?

I'm sure someone out there has put a lot of thought into guaranteeing the authenticity of a text.

Edit to add:
This is interesting to think about in terms of all media. Wasn't it just last week that there was a headline about Boris Johnson editing some of his old videos? How do you guarantee that the information that you viewed a year ago is the same today as a year ago?
> But it's also worrisome that a single company has the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas.

Twitter doesn't have the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas. Not by a long shot—the very idea is laughable. Twitter has the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas via twitter. And that is in no way worrisome; that is a very good thing! If it were impossible for Twitter to do so, that would be worrisome.
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What a beautifully structured, thoughtful, surprising, and helpful document!

These in particular jump out:

- Risk profiles for diverse users can be very different:

Any discussion of the pros and cons of disclosure should take into account that risk profiles vary drastically. Taking this argument to the extreme, the question arises: "Is it OK to put 100m people at risk of inconvenience if I can reduce the risk of death for 5 people?"

- Ultimately a patch must be published. If a corresponding vulnerability disclosure does not also go out this leads to information asymmetry between attackers and defenders:

People in the offensive business can build infrastructure that helps them rapidly analyze patches and get the information they need out of them. Defenders, mostly due to organizational and not technical reasons, can not do this.

- The incentives inherent to the software development lifecycle are out of alignment with the incentives of writing secure code:

By the time the security flaws in the newly-shipped features become evident, [the software manager responsible] is four steps in the career ladder and two companies away from the risk they created.
Here's a classic article that addresses exactly your criticisms: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Cerebras is an MLPerf member, so they will publish MLPerf numbers some day and then we will talk.
Does this mean that the BBC is prohibited from advertising on Twitter?
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If you think that Rust doesn't care about addressing the needs of C++ users, I'm not sure what to tell you.

It's not like C++ only focuses on features with zero overhead. The zero-overhead principle means that you don't pay for what you don't use. It doesn't mean that compiler developers are forbidden from working on any language or library feature that consumes more than zero cycles at runtime.
Didn’t happen when the US did it to Iran.
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I feel this entirely depends on one's stance on the old "Would you rather let a guilty person go free or jail an innocent?".
This is something I plan to work on after getting my PhD in a few years. It's technically challenging, but there is so much things to do pedagogically around historical & linguistics maps on the globe.
You could probably still view these using any geotag of a major Chinese city.
Actual question (not trying to be snarky):

Is Fox News considered state media, and if not, will it be?
Facebook made a similar announcement today: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/removing-cib-china/
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Encarta confused me as a young kid. It wasn't a video game, but I played it like a video game.

I didn't understand what an encyclopedia was.
It's funny you should mention tools. This article uses exactly that analogy to explain why PHP is an awful tool for any job. https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Not always. We do work with a lot of teams internally though.
"free" as in speech... obviously.

There is no "neutral" here; one side is a wealthy government, the other is an informal assembly of citizens.

Do you also believe that political contributions should be unregulated? Wouldn't that be fair and "neutral"? Of course it wouldn't; it would heavily favor the side with the most money.
Flag all the accounts that seem suspicious. The more signal, the easier for Threat Intelligence to identify them.
I'm getting "Sorry, something went wrong there. Try again".
Yes. Part of the problem is the CC license restriction of Wikipedia/Wikimedia. A lot of primary sources such as the ones Encarta included were often proprietary licensed and copyrighted products. According to Wikipedia's annual donation bars they (supposedly) spend enough on hosting costs every year that spending money on licensing media content is (probably) out of the question for them.

I almost wish for a sort of intellectual property "eminent domain" promoting more things like famous news footage into the public domain where they fit an "almanac" need. Though I admit creating any sort of such program would be really hard to do, as the boundaries would be murky and it potentially would impact the revenue of companies and groups that generally need such revenue to survive (PBS, for example).
> "That changed in the 1990s."

it really started changing (slowly) in the 70s as a reaction to the free-wheeling 60s. 1980 was the major inflection point with ronald reagan's election as president, which ushered in trickle-down economics as national dogma.
Why not use an actual language instead? Like Guix uses guile.
Encarta was awesome as a kid. I never knew it was Microsoft that made it. The trivia game was creepy and fun.
Brittanica was the king of encyclopedias at that time, as far as I can remember. I had a set of those, and I remember comparing and finding other sets to be less good. I was pretty young but I spent a TON of time with them. I don't have experience with the Brittanica CDs but my guess is the content was of similar quality.
Not sure what to do with that but thanks for responding?
It is a combination of novelty and uniqueness.

Novel because it was the first time the author saw the moon landing.

Unique because we are bombarded with videos all the time.
In our case, it's because we have more than web/mobile clients talking to our API.

If the business case doesn't require partner/3rd party API access, then maybe Firebase is appropriate.

Mentioned elsewhere in the comments here is the risk of vendor lock-in.

Given Google's history of EOLing products from under developers, there is real risk in putting all the business logic eggs in the Google basket.
DFACS' also force many children who could be fostered out of falling into homelessness and poverty before they're even 18 because none of them want to report their case or else they'll be separated from their siblings. Got that from the older brother of a pair of young black siblings panhandling on both sides of a crosswalk. You "do something about it" short of taking them in yourself (that's a tall order) and you've just fucked those two brothers' relationship for the rest of their life.