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> How many elections have you voted in or been eligible to vote in where a single vote being added or removed would have changed the outcome? Zero? Cool, me too.

So if you aren't the one, single deciding vote it's not worthwhile? That's an immature approach. All the more immature because you go on to couch it in rhetoric about economics and "rationality" that amounts to nothing more than third rate sophistry.

You're not a taxi cab that has to be in service 24 hours a day to maximize utilization. You're a person with responsibilities. Your "economic rationality" is just a lazy justification for only doing what you feel like doing ("provides marginal value!") and never doing anything you don't.

If you're going to be a bum, be honest with yourself and those around you.
Wow! This is great count me in
Interestingly I never saw that phenomen on ETHZ graphical Workstations powered by AOS.

And apparently no one noticed that a part of Bing used Midori for a while.

That is alrigth, according to Midori team, Windows team also did not accept what Midori was capable of, even when proven wrong.

Having a GC is non different than malloc spending all its time doing context switches to reclaim more OS memory, using the actual OS memory management APIs.

It is up to the developers to decided to use a GC based allocation, stack, global memory segment or plain untraced heap allocations.

The tools are there, naturally there is a learning process that many seem unwilling to do.

And by the way, Swift's reference counting implementation gets wiped out by tracing GCs on the ixy paper.
Most freeways and highways are 65mph/105kmh, some interstates are 75mph/120kph.

People tend to drive approx 10 over posted limit on highways/freeways/interstates when traffic allows unless there is speedtrap.
> Optician: “Now with this lens, do you see better or worse?”

> O: “Honestly, I have no clue. Maybe. Maybe not? The letters look similar but different.”

[edit] Reprahsing to make it clearer:

will it be possible in the future to measure objectively?
I just found out about this last night: EnviroMission[1] is looking for funding to build solar updraft towers that could radically change the world’s reliance on fossil fuels. The design is very simple, and at scale could generate massive amounts of power. They’ve been having trouble getting off the ground, unfortunately, but the technology is so promising that it should not be ignored. More info in [2].

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They have had startup pricing of $20 per month for unlimited instances, which is what I've been paying. Though mostly I've just installed the free version with the HTTP ad header.
Why not try to solve it at multiple levels?

For example, I’d heavily wager that just by Facebook changing this policy verbiage, a significant number of entities will try to distribute false ads that otherwise wouldn’t have even tried. Even just the appearance that the distribution channel will aggressively punish or reject false ads will have a big effect towards reducing them.

Yes, it’s not as effective as law. But it’s another tool in the tool box. Why wouldn’t we use it? Why wouldn’t we apply social pressure for distributors to use it?
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Orwell wrote:

>when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on
no opportunity at $CURRENT_JOB, but in the future, sure, it is definitely on my radar!
I think it is, but it's a worthwhile point to reiterate. It's also worth pointing out that it can be worth doing a rewrite to a less scalable architecture if it simplifies the architecture and provides more flexibility.

The company I work is currently undergoing a similar rewrite from firebase to Postgres (although we're doing a gradual migration), and it's amazing how much code we have been able to throw away, and how much quicker we can move in the parts of the code that have been migrated.
Don't be afraid to speak your mind to them and ask them whatever you want. They only treat you as a resource so why not treat them the same? Chances are it's some former waitress with 2 months experience in recruiting that learnt all the buzzwords and is trying to test you even though she has no idea about technology and is just trying to make her commission.
If anyone is curious about an updated resource, I've found Modern Compiler Design much more approachable than the Dragon Book: Published in 2012, it includes chapters on designing object-oriented, functional, and logical compilers.

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Our company runs on a pile of VBA/Access. At least it talks to a MariadDB server on Linux.

The biggest problems are trying to run/develop this code on machines that were made in the last ten years, the other is that it's a horrible, horrible codebase. Code practices from the early 90's.

To make things worse, objects are 'evil', all HTML/SQL/XML is built by appending strings, there's no data sanity checks.....

I started a proof of concept replacement system that was written in Python and ran on the web.

It was met with "We can go with a web based system, since if anything changes in the browser we'll be up shit creek."

:-/
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Ha ha, nice one! Count me in!
> isn't it an objective way to measure it

No it's subjective - I think that's the main point of the article.
> I'd imagine 1.1.1.1 has a very negative consequences for Netflix local caches, for example.

Is it possible for Netflix to use anycast?

For their appliances they can advertise to an ISP's routers via (i/e)BGP or OSPF / IS-IS to keep traffic internal, but have a fallback of having a presence in various IXPs.

Isn't this how Cloudflare works, anycast?
Just mount the network share where Calibre expects its library and be ok with the way it organizes the books in there. No local copy happening then.
Calibre CLI is awesome. I've used it to convert ebooks to PDF
Netflix has a great series called "Explained", short 18 minute episodes about interesting topics. I just watched the one about water and it was a real eye opener. Who would have thought that cotton t-shirt required over a 1000 liters of water to produce. Even a can of Coke required some ridiculous amount of water to produce.

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Musk’s $50k “pedo guy” investigator is a convicted felon
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Cloudability's pricing is publicly available on the AWS Marketplace [1]. In general, we encourage people to work with our sales teams so we can work to fit our commercials to your requirements, but if you're happy to go with the standard terms and pricing, we're happy to supply product without talking you through it. [2]

Often though, teams will want help evaluating us against our competition, or will want us to help them convince their management that our tool is needed. Most frequently, your lawyer is going to want to work with our lawyer, and the sales team has to make that happen. The last thing we want to happen is for you to not buy our product because someone on the business side said no, or for a reason that could have been negotiated. That's not good for anyone.

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Until one tries to do GUI programming, then it is Rc<RefCell<>> everywhere, or arrays with vector clocks for managing old entries.
When there are stupid and idiotic power trips in the workplace, then I can't put up with the situation and will quit.

Nothing annoys me more than people exerting power over somebody else unnecessarily, especially to coerce or bully somebody in a social or work related way.

Also, if there is gossip about other people, then I don't want to work in that environment. Social gossip is toxic.
Some cron implementations do have @reboot (and several others).
Kyc: check, form filled: check, standing by with my validator!
How much of the code can be altered? Are all attack possible, like social hacks?
Currently, IRMA is indeed still phone-only. We're quite aware that not everybody owns or wants to use a smartphone. Our software is not very tightly bound to the iOS and Android platforms, and we've explored various options over the years (smartcards, random-reader'esque devices). However, executing one of those options will only be possible if we see more adoption in general.
So basically what China does: take down content that is illegal according to the way we see the world or exit our market.
This feels like a far safer path to take
> Depending on the service and its users, this mandatory down-time might or might not be acceptable.

True. But if it is acceptable, then it may well be a good trade-off to make.
I'm not sure if it's reasonable, but I'm starting to think that the amount of people that are currently inhabiting earth is just not sustainable. We are inhabiting many places that high risk for the people living there (fault lines, hurricane paths), we're exhausting resources and causing plants and animals to go extinct. And, according to this article, we're also exhausting groundwater reserves.

Meanwhile, projections show that probably another couple billion people will be added in the next three decades. There's strong resistance against any proposals to cut back emissions, especially if it means giving up some of the luxury we're used to (flights, meat, cars, large houses, etcetera).

I might have a bleak perspective of the current state of affairs, but I'm really not seeing any feasible short term solutions, that can actually get people on board. Naming possible solutions is easy, but getting everyone to agree seems downright impossible for the foreseeable future. And I fear that we won't change a thing before it's too late.
I am a convicted felon, so are mny people. That is not a defacto judgement of character. While musk may be slimey, cavorting with felons is as fake news as it gets.
I am already contracting my hackers, hope you guys are ready. ;)
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Calibre is so darn useful. It gets hate for the eclectic ui but it's absolutely essential for any ebook Downloaders imo. Kovid is a real hero for as much work as he does on this. He must spend several hours a day every day of the year on it.
Yeah, I agree. It was more of a general comment, because you seem to have one Postgres instance for every client, which is already a big step against SPOF.

At $previous_job we had a "one service" = "one MySQL instance" policy. Every time a MySQL server would go down all clients would all lose access to that service at the same time. It was stressful and much less robust than your setup.
The Burns Slant Drilling Company wasn't too far off base!
Skimming the book, it does not use type annotations in its functions. I would talk about type annotations and encourage their use soon after presenting the concept of functions. Agree?
Yes, you have to comply with laws in all the countries where they operate.

If Facebook were to pull out from France, there is almost nothing that France could do to force Facebook to comply.

This is why Google left the Chinese market. They did not want (or, more specifically, their employees refused) to comply with certain Chinese laws.
Could you tell calibre to open the network share as a library?

Not quite the same, I'm currently using calibre with a library on a remote server (albeit samba share over VPN) and it doesn't download the books to my local device, unless i choose to save them from my library to it.
To compete with Ada, Rust needs to offer something like SPARK, binary libraries, Ada like IDEs, real time specification, and most important certified compilers.
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Calibre 3 advised very strongly in the docs not to put libraries on network shares.
HK protesters are peaceful?
Estonia has had a mask ban since around 2008 I think, after the Bronze Night riots. [1]

This does produce ridiculous results occasionally. My friend was briefly detained by the police for wearing a ski mask on a long winter walk. It was -25°C outside.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Night
Android zero-day used in the wild
You mean... cameras
Nuclear war between India and Pakistan would be a planetary catastrophe
Bus ride-hailing services are facing difficulties in Kenya
Slander is still a civil liability, though there is an understandably high bar to prove slander against a politician.
> I am not the US government.

Yes, sadly, you are. "We the people" is the foundation of the US government.

Our failure to prevent the government from pursuing these actions makes us tacitly responsible for them, even though there is virtually no path available to prevent them.
Who is in his position because he doesn't feel sufficiently bad about driving others to generate money for him. Or something along those lines.

You're right about the first step being more like the CEO. But you don't have to give up the 100%-work-hard track record. Just shift your focus toward working hard at finding a style of ever-so-slightly psychopathical indifference that can work for you.
I once made a shim that would revoke a core permission of our system and halt some 80% of AWS usage if the spend went above a threshold.
...identification that they remove or lose before knocking some protesters over the head. Obviously China and HK are pathological cases, but police correctness in Europe also seems to be overrated.

There was a bloodbath in Italy at the G8 summit. UK, France and Germany are better, but there's still cases of police brutality.
It's not about a law being internationally valid.

It's about courts in the EU imposing things on EU hosts. Facebook has legal subsidiaries in the EU.

Companies that are present in several countries do have to employ lawyers to comply with each country's law.

It's like when the SEC fines an EU bank. It's not that the SEC has jurisdiction in the EU, it's that the EU bank has a subsidiary in the US and does business there.
> An example of another approach would be using anycast IPs.

Anycast IP is very expensive, unfortunately. Just getting a /22 has been expensive for years, and is now also getting difficult as well. It is beyond the reach of smaller companies.

GeoDNS is extremely cheap in comparison. You can run distributed services using GeoDNS for low latency on multiple continents on a hobby budget these days.

Anycast is technically better in many ways (the combination of anycast and geoDNS is better again), but anycast is so expensive that smaller operators just can't use it.

These days, smaller operators can use Cloudflare for their CDN, and the suspicious mind might think that suits Cloudfare just fine. But that doesn't really help for low-latency interactive services, or non-HTTP services.

> I’m also surprised that traffic from Cloudflare DNS users caused any significant problem.

Maybe the problem isn't amount of traffic, but rather that the site doesn't want to gain a reputation as slow (and therefore incompetently administered, and offputting to use) when everyone running Firefox switches over to 1.1.1.1 DoH automatically.
In most European universities CS and Engineering are intermingled.

Pure CS theory tends to be a maths major.
> I think there's danger in this kind of statement.

I agree, my intention isn't to encourage people in the US to let their guard down but rather give an explanation on how structural differences between Russia and the USA lead to different propaganda and manipulation dynamics.

Citizens in democracies can and are manipulated by many different actors, it's just that these actors are more likely to be adversarial at some point. Healthy media competition and freedoms are a good antidote but not the silver bullet.
> The space repetition apps I have use doesn't have a similar concept of interrelationship.

I think this is a really important insight and a big problem I noticed as well. When I started working on my own space repetition app[1] I really wanted to enable and facilitate this kind of interconnection of concepts. I added a notes section in addition to cards and the ability to link/reference notes from cards, cards from notes, cards from other cards, etc.

I found this really helpful for example with Japanese. Having a sentence card for a vocab word that also links back to a long form note on the grammar being used in the card. Another example is kanji. Making cards for individual kanji as well as vocab cards that use those kanji and linking them together. Over time I was able to build up a huge web of interconnected information.

[1] https://mochi.cards/
My first thought was that the motorcyclist in the picture almost deserves to be hit for driving illegally and dangerously between two cars - ie lane splitting.

But from the comments, it does seem to be legal some places. But, in all other states in the US besides CA, it is explicitly illegal. It still seems unsafe even it is legal.
call me when you replicate this
Yes and if we really really cared about this, we’d launch an investigation. But we don’t care that much. We just want to scroll this thread a bit, come to a conclusion about Cloudflare and move on to the next HN thread. Given that we’re going to spend only a couple of minutes on this, it’s easy to figure out which answer we’re going to agree with - the one that confirms our previous belief about Cloudflare.
What matters is subverting the sandbox behavior, no need to escape it.
AI/ML can play a role in future foods [audio]
As uncouth as this sounds, it's basically true. Would downvoters care to explain their objections?
Historically none of the above is true. iodized salt, and the OM3 where almost universally received from sea based foods.

You are talking about sources that have only affected people in the last small period of time. There are a couple of million years of development that got you to the point of fortified cereals and pills.

> There are people who never eat seafood.

Woosh
The article acknowledges that the study does not show causation and it seems a little strange to think a causal arrow in this direction is more plausible than the other direction. It seems like people who do better at thinking and memory tasks should also do better at their jobs and interviews and therefore be less likely to experience an income drop. To speculate on income drop's effect on mental acumen one would want to measure intelligence at the beginning of a career and in middle age and then correlate the delta to number and size of income drops.
China has clearly succeeded at this point, the internet is not a new thing anymore.
There's been a lot of talk in the U.S. of anti-mask legislation because of antifascists. A federal bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6054...

There's also been a lot of talk at local levels.
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Is there any downside to periodically taking strong antifungals? We don't have beneficial fungi do we? I have been considering a dose of ivermectin twice a year. Studies hav correlates it with a strong anti cancer effect.
If it is not water resistant, you just pull off all the keys and simply clean it up. If it is water resistant(like Logitech K310), you simply wash it in one piece.
It's legal in the UK for good reasons, in the event of the car behind not stopping you won't be crushed between the two cars.
I don't recall the use of masks being prevalent during either the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations or the Civil Rights demonstrations of the '50s and '60s.

The adoption of masks is probably driven by the digital imaging chip and the ubiquity of digital photos and videos. If the police don't image you, your friends and the media probably will.
This is clearly a case where the sole act of him sharpening his own perception of what glases do resulted in him getting better glases.

I work freelance as a colorist and re-recording mixer – both are professions which are highly based on perception. And it is certainly true: if you try to really go into the details of something, be it color, sound or anything else, it already helps a lot if you sharpen your senses to these things. I always say: you don't pay me for beeing able to use some software, you pay me for having developed my senses over years in a way that others didn't.
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Well it could be a lot of different things. No money for good food, sports and a lot of stress that accompanies having no steady source of income etc..
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Facial paint is included in the loose definition of "facial covering" for the HK anti-mask law
But in general, nearly all cats have more than the average number of legs for their species.
How many crimes are solved through wiretapping or evidence gathered from Facebook servers? Facebook’s 99% figure needs more context — maybe that’s 99% of just 1% of all child abuse / sexual assault / terrorism crimes?

Some more statistics would be useful to quantify the impact on criminal justice of losing either of those options. Otherwise the arguments just feel political or emotional.

End-to-End won’t impact the major source of evidence in, say, sexual assaults where the victim unlocks their phone and submits a copy of their decrypted message threads to the police, though this is a controversial policing method, recently reported on in the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/21/people-repor...
Phone verify any account without a mobile phone or SIM