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> That’s not the primary purpose of government in the United States. And that’s not how government derives the right to execute laws in the United States.

> We govern ourselves. The government is given the right to execute laws by the people who vote. The Bill of Rights clarified that any other rights are reserved by the people.

I agree with you in principle but in practice it seems the US has drifted far from its origins.

The US government has murdered at least one her own citizens without due process. The Constitution has been contorted around trade such that nearly everything can fall under federal purview (currently being tested in the states with marijuana, remember the CA raids?).

The government for all intents and purposes, seems to be putting self-preservation and perpetuation above all else, and has been for quite some time. I suspect _that_ was what the parent poster was getting at.
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Being “full” in danish is to be drunk.

The literal meaning might be the same across languages, but it’s understood meaning is something else.
I don't think there anything in there that is unexpected.

The most interesting part is probably how Facebook will compete with TikTok in the coming months and years.
Your dictionary definition I guess.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/superior

I don't see definitions about being cheaper as sign of quality, quite the opposite.

Maybe you would like to share your dictionary as well?
The Ikea symfonisk speakers that are basically rebranded cheap Sonos speakers support Airplay 2.
So Apple users can still stream from their devices towards the speakers.
At 100$ a piece that's not bad.
I wouldn't call it cyberattack then; rather it should be cyberespionage
True. Every TV trope you can think of is already there.
>>>There's no bombshell revelation in this leak

Oh boy is that an understatement. Of course Zuck's strategy if the government attempts to break up Facebook for antitrust or whatever else they can spin together is to fight it legally. Of course his preference is going to be for a presidential candidate who hasn't made an overt commitment to force that break up.

There's really no there, there.
Seems like it doesn't contain anything surprising or terribly noteworthy.

Also, while FB, Instagram and Whats App being under the same umbrella is very questionable (and the Whats App acquisition should have been blocked by regulators), I'd argue breaking up Google or Amazon would be more important.
The full transcript is on the verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-...
We gave him a lot of hell thinking he did exactly that.

He claimed he unloaded it and checked he unloaded it.

A couple weeks later every single one of those guns was recalled and replaced by the manufacturer. The gun, itself, apparently had a defect wherein it could pop a round loose, hold it where you couldn't see it, and then chamber it if you knocked it a bit. I have no idea how this could possibly occur, but the manufacturer actually claimed this and wound up having to spend enough money that something wasn't right with those handguns.

Fortunately, he adhered to standard discipline and made sure the gun was never pointed at anybody. So, when it did go off, nobody was in line of fire. However, it did ricochet and still could have caused quite a bit of harm.

Always adhering to discipline doesn't make probabilities zero--it just minimizes them.
Intel VTune Amplifier can help you with that, although it has to be tested with each release of your code to get the most juice out of it as every application is different in terms of Computation, Disk IO and Network IO.

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>Solving the wrong problem is a very common thing in software development.

there aren't much right problems in software development to go around, while there are so many people and money that can and have to be put to work, and as result we live in a kind of a golden age where instead of subsistence and survival of a typical stressed&oppressed office drone most of the people in the industry are in a position to work on wrong problems, and to try and to develop more and more of new tech, and the high failure rate of the projects isn't an issue. Which other engineering discipline can allow itself to have such a luxury?
Do you know something is running / can be triggered? Someone can't prove a negative (X isn't running) as easily as a positive (X is), so the burden of proof should fall on you. Saying "yeah, but how do you know your toaster can't be remotely triggered to record you?" isn't useful.

Maybe your threat model doesn't allow any hardware with a speaker that has updates, but that's not a reason to say it's an invalid setup for everyone's threat model nor to claim that, even without evidence, it's definitely going to be abused.
The way you phrased that makes it sound like Google the company treats our data in the same way individual employee does.

I think we have to be be pretty naive to believe this is event remotely true.
Exactly; it's just the same old story with Google. We all know ISPs and Telcos are greedy af, but when Google is getting into providing DNS, they do it to close a loophole (from their point of view) where web visit sensor data is going to someone else; they really think they own the Internet. In this particular case, even if Google succeeds in establishing DoH via Chrome (and, sadly, also Firefox), ISPs will still get to see your IP data; they could try reverse-DNS lookup to get back domains, but this is much less targetted ever since HTTP/1.1 shared hosting. At the same time, Google is also engaged in AMP such that requests for many sites go to a single IP, with the actual requested site SSL-encrypted. What will happen next is that Google will, via piecemeal extension of HTTP/3, fuckup TCP/IP even more.

I hope somebody in regulation will finally stop Google and others to monopolize the web.
Also for PlayCanvas one has to pay for the extra features, which scares another set of developers.
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No particular use case. I think its one of these things when they first built machine then all of sudden bunch of different uses case are found.
Physical books will not suddenly disappear one day due to a bug or business decision.
and it is not clear at all how updates are merged on cluster and which will definately fail, not proper math applied
Is there any concern about the implications of breaking up big tech in an attempt to make US markets more competitive, but in so doing allow a foreign competitor to swoop in and become the de facto choice in some market? I imagine the US benefits substantially from the likes of Google and fb dominating competitors in foreign markets.
> Mark Zuckerberg has said he would "go to the mat" to fight against Facebook's break-up, in leaked audio published by tech news site The Verge. US presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has said she would consider splitting up it and other tech giants.

What these little weasels talk about in private about the American people attempting to retain control over their own lives.
I agree 100%.

If only the news article/stories followed up what they had touted after two-years it would make a good journalistic report. Or even trying to balance the article by acknowledging the drawbacks of the the system they are advancing.

I like to read articles that debunk the previous hypes and put a retrospective article detailing what went wrong.

For e.g. MOOCs were touted as game changing to the online education and after years, it hasn't really 'disrupted' anything.
Changing the semantics of getrandom(flags=0) breaks a lot of userspace ABI.
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“ISPs are evil and spying on you!” - One of the largest commercial companies acting evil and spying on you.
If you want to model a city as a circle, you should probably instead use a radius where half of the area of the circle lies within that radius. When you halve the radius, you divide the area by four!

For example, the area of a circle with radius 15 km is about 707 km², while the area of a circle with radius 7.5 km is only about 177 km². If the population density by unit land area is evenly distributed, this circle will only enclose a quarter of the city's population, rather than half.

I think an interesting future limiting factor is air traffic from delivery drones. Right now it seems absurd to worry about that because there are no delivery drones flying, but if this method becomes popular, the presence of other drones in the airspace could limit delivery drones' mobility.
You're still vulnerable at the operating system and hardware level. It doesn't matter what you do after booting up if you're computer has already successfully been infiltrated from the Hardware/BIOS/OS initialization that always happens before.
In this case you suppose to add a ! after fix: fix!
By using patch, minor and major you lose some information (the purpose of the commit)
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That's awesome! I learned a ton about buck regulators from the ADP3050 datasheet [1]. The rest I know about switching regulators, I learned from the LT3757A [2] (now the same company of course). I built a 20V to 190V boost regulator at the very edge of capabilities of the LT3757A for a nixie tube clock project -- that learned me an awful lot haha, in particular that next time I'll be using a flyback topology.

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I think we mostly agree - the deduction is not the problem of the naturalistic argument, the axiom that natural equals good is. We can neither infer deontological conclusions ("it is natural that some offspring dies before sexural maturity, therefore we don't have to change the system"), nor consequentialist ones ("this material is natural, therefore not harmful to me").

Because of this I think the naturalistic fallacy is indeed a fallacy. Instead of the appeal to nature, I propose sustainability as an ethical core value. One can infer arguments for both human and environmental wellbeing from sustainability, achieving what I think your (and my) goal is. (Sorry if I misunderstood - philosophy is a topic where me not being a native speaker can severly hamper mutual understanding..)
> if your system is meant to endure the test of time (think Google-scale)

While some exceedingly few products have that destiny, it’s precisely the naive bias towards thinking that your project does that leads to wasteful over-engineering.

Products and projects are not the same thing. Most of the Google-scale products that you see leveraged tons of technical debt on projects along the way, some critically valuable and some certainly wasteful.

If you’re adding a feature to one of these products that are already at that scale, then your attitude toward technical debt will be different.

But effectively nobody reading this thread is doing that, and the few that are know who they are.

Most readers here are working on projects with near-term deadlines and development lifetimes measured in a few months or years. As much as judicious exercise of technical debt enables those projects to deliver on their requirements more quickly and for less cost, more is better.

Many of us come into the industry thinking otherwise because we’re drawn to the intellectual purity of clean systems, but that purity just isn’t what actually matters most of the time. It can take a while to accept and internalize that.
It's called the Dunning–Kruger effect.
Andrew Yang has been one of my favorite things about this election cycle. Very focused on issues instead of politics-as-usual, able to explain the impact of automation on the economy in a mainstream way, and presenting proposals that (even if seem strange at first) have rationale behind them.

Even if he doesn't make it to the end, he's already moving the Overton Window.
There is which is why I’m finding that the Costa machines here in the UK are consistently better than the humans are.
4 bytes isn't enough, but yes, it's quite possible some SoCs could persist 256-512 bits of entropy in some hardware-specific way. It's hard to abstract that into a general-purpose operating system, though it could be a good solution for specific applications.
When you are FB or Google or Amazon or you know... Microsoft... there are issues with how the government could ever effectively regulate such an industry with outsized funds (much larger than the fixed regulatory budgets) and power (influencing people and elections). The legal process was never designed to work effectively or efficiently at such a level. The legal process becomes such a war of attrition that you can weather any investigation as Microsoft did.
The bigger thing is a mismatch between the employees of facebook and the management. These weekly meetings happen all the time, what is different is now the employees are recording them and releasing them to the press. This means at least one employee no longer thinks the interest of upper management and the workers align and she or he spent forethought in order to record the conversation and then spent time afterwards figuring out a way to contact the press.

This is a there there, even if the actual conversation transcript is banal and what you would expect from Zuck.
What would be the point? The orders for planes are already done. And most airlines use either boeing or airbus. They couldn't just switch that easy.
The Speed of causality is hand crafted for our scale. It pretty much prohibits conscious beings of different scales to exist.
There are a few redaction tools that do exactly this, but in software.

You get a PNGish version, which you redact and combine back to PDF
Not a machine for the Italian market for sure.
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Who hands out the key to the letter carrier, a security guard?
Do you think they’ll know where my dad has been for the last 13 years?
Starbucks is selling an experience and it's central to this experience that there be a human putting a little TLC into what happens, whether it's a friendly greeting, a product recommendation, remembering your name and writing it on the cup, etc. The key is literally for there to be a human involved, because we get emotional satisfaction from a positive interaction with other humans.

There's nothing new in this discussion -- we've been automating away manual labor since the Industrial Revolution. We end up creating these human touch jobs with the resulting productivity gains (this is the transition from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, the value isn't in the muscle anymore, it's in the relationship).

In fact, thanks in no small part to capitalism's ruthless efficiency, loneliness and isolation are at record highs. The demand for a little TLC has never been higher.

We'll have fewer pizza makers but more people whose job is essentially to make you feel good.
Absolute numbers are a distraction. Retraining 1 person in a population of 10 has the same net demands as retraining 100,000 in a population of 1,000,000. Human society is massively parallel by default.
Agreed. GDPR already discussed this, and the only reasonable and enforzable thing they could agree on was "clear use and purpose of storing your data".

What I don't see fit is that some people is willing to give away their privacy for a fee, and we haven't accommodate that!
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To be even more fair, I feel pretty sure Zuckerberg would be happy to agree that "you don't magically become a paragon of morality just because you got a CS degree".
The big news is that one of Facebook's 40,000 employees is disgruntled, idealistic or just likes to feel important?
Early Opteron (with Socket 940) topped at 8 sockets glueless - with the same chipset one could drive a socket 754 chip.

However, with custom glue logic, one could expand it very far - AMD offering in that space was "Horus" chipset which connected 4 sockets with external fabric (infiniband, iirc) to create 64 socket systems. Similar tactic was (and still is) offered by SGI in their UltraViolet systems which utilize the same principle using NUMAlink fabric and Xeon cpus.
This concern does get expressed from time to time, but I think it is sacrificing the long-term for the short-term. Sure, you can prop up bad businesses through government intervention in the short term, and we do it all the time.

But in the long term, they're still bad businesses, and you end up with entire industries that are dysfunctional. Eventually, someone else eats your lunch.

In fact you can argue that's happening now, as the article hints: Zuck was able to assimilate Whatsapp and IG into his bloated empire, but he can't buy TikTok and its 500M users because it's from China. Maybe if FB has been forced to actually compete with its biggest American competitors instead of getting the greenlight from regulators to just buy them, it would be in a better position now.
I recall wanting to do research in university and needing this data. It would tell me how frequent bit flips are in dns traffic.

And in anonymous, aggregated form (e.g. only include domains that were accessed by multiple customers, the frequency per day and domain name, maybe geographical data precise to a region corresponding to a million people), I would be perfectly fine with this, even if it gets sent to ad companies. I'd not like it, but I'd also not see the harm and there is a lot of money involved, so if we can't stop it then I'll be fine with it in a basic form (aggregated). At least until we decide that trying to optimize manipulating/influencing people is brainwashing (I'm undecided whether playing psychological tricks on people while they try to get groceries or look for information online or whatever is morally okay).
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Is it just me or has this DNSCrypt project been doing things without any prior announcement?

Last month or so, the main GitHub repo for DNSCrypt randomly got deleted. It wasn't until several days later, the author posted a tweet saying he/she are not supporting it anymore.

Now it has seemingly been resurrected...after I have already configured my server to use a new project called getdns (and stubby).
> Would it be safe to say that CIA (and NSA and other parts of the intelligence community) is the actual "State within the State" (i.e., the so-called "Deep State")?

This shouldn't be done or said because it absolves the state of it's absolute willingness. When the CIA backed Pinochet, the state was absolutely interested in getting rid of Allende, and the same can be said of any other CIA-backed coup.
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The best part is that it tastes exactly like fast food because the robot, like fast food workers, also doesn't want to be making shitty pizza for you.
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When you start a family I strongly recommend this pattern:

Always, always, go home for dinner and put the kids to bed, then go back to work.

If you can work from home, this is relatively easy. If you have to be at work, it involves an extra commute, which may or may not be possible. If it is not currently possible, I would anyway recommend making your commute shorter, or negligible if possible, because it will make your life so much better.

As a personal anecdote, I used to commute to work by bicycle. So I would cycle home for dinner with the family. Then I would drive back to work, which was relatively short (~10mi, 15km). Sometimes, if I worked right through the night, I would drive home at dawn, change clothes, and jump on the bike to go back to work (single car family). Yes, tiring, but I was young at the time - couldn't do that now.
> MacCready, decided to get involved. He looked at the problem, how the existing solutions failed, and how people iterated their airplanes. He came to the startling realization that people were solving the wrong problem.

Being able to analyse existing solutions and previous attempts (successful or not) is a luxury that the first people to attempt a solution don't enjoy.

It's much, much easier taking an existing solution and improving it than it is to develop the existing solution.
IBM's AS/400 (and all of its renames) is a 128bit architecture. The huge address space is beneficial for implementing capability security on memory itself, plus using single level store for the whole system (addresses span RAM and secondary storage like disks, NVMe, etc)