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I can’t pick and choose where my taxes go any more than I can pick and choose which constitutional amendments I want to see enforced. I can’t stop a war but I can choose not to work for military contractors.
> z80 and 8086 were both garbage, next to the 68000.

At that time, Z80 and 8088/8086 targeted very different market segments than the 68000. So, this is a quite unfair comparison.
Hong Kong nationalism is not pro-democracy. The Chinese Government supports holding elections for local government officials, including in Hong Kong. Given that, the anti-Chinese attitudes we're seeing there are quite unproductive.
Inflation. It does not matter how much money is in your account if there is nothing to buy.
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Compressed RISC ISA's (e.g. RISC-V C extension) achieve density comparable to x86, with a much simpler decoder.
I think there is a valid point to be made that as the difficulty of something goes up the number of people capable of producing good results with it goes down. That leaves all the other people who try to use and wind up producing poor results. If the difficulty is such that there is a greater chance you will produce a poor result with it than a good one then it might not be worth taking such a gamble but rather sticking to a simpler methodology capable of producing good results a greater portion of the time even though the best result it can possibly produce is less good than that of DDD.

I really think there is an argument to be made for that. It's not that people are stupid, it's just that things are hard. Doing simpler things helps communication scale as it's easier to get everyone on the same page and engineering failures are almost always the result of communication failures across the engineering org.
The finitude of earth's resources is without question, but the scale at which that becomes a pressing concern are up for debate.

There are in general 2 ways we can use technology to extend our viable resource consumption:

1. make our consumption of a resource more efficient

2. Use technology to find new uses for previously non-useful materials

Furthermore, the Earth is not a closed system. The Sun's energy is continually pouring onto our planet, staving off our descent into entropy.
Good point. I'll stay away from cheesing up my commands and wait for it to be built in.
Companies are dictatorships. Get in line peasants.

It could just be that if we want a democratic society, we'll need to directly attack the idea that we have no democracy in the place where we spend most of our lives.
I think people just don't often get the chance to think about what principle or virtue first impulse drives them to say one thing or another when an issue comes up. I think it's a strong and productive to prompt ourselves/others to put those into words...
Open source (or free/libre software, which is the more appropriate term in this context) guarantees you the right to modify the software to your liking, including the removal of that signature. It does not guarantee fitness for your purpose or usability out of the box.
There are quite a few Americans who would prefer to receive no services from ICE. "Abolish ICE" is a concept that has even started to gather steam in Congress itself.
Signal's software is timebombed to force you into taking automatic updates. These updates could be used to force targeted users into backdoored builds.

Additionally, the signal has had a long history of being feature hostile to strongly secure use, through things like making it very difficult to cryptographically verify the identity of the party you're talking to... or automatically resending the last message you sent when the far end merely claims its key has changed.

I recommend people treat signal as unencrypted communications-- _actually_ unencrypted private communications are too absurdly insecure to use. But in practice signal does not provide the kind of strong security that we would associate with 'encrypted communication', and maybe UI considerations make that an unrealistic goal. Instead signal provides the kind of security we should expect from _ANY_ communication, but which isn't actually provided due to pervasive surveillance.
Nothing is stopping companies from doing this. But they need talented engineers more than talented engineers need sales staff with red hats. That's why the firings haven't started. It'll be worse for the company, and it won't be any worse for the employees - as you say there are a billion other tech companies they can join.

Employees don't deserve a job; they work for cash. And employers, similarly, don't deserve labor; they give cash for work.
The government isn't a monolithic entity, remember.
> Yet, strangely, these people curiously will often ...

I don't think you have any data to back that up. I could just as easily see a lot of these people deferring to the "wisdom" of management.

I think the number of people who have left jobs when confronted with an ethical problem from their employer is quite small.
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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. It sounds like an article written to show that Windows is finally understanding and has now embraced Linux, therefore users do not need to run away anymore : "Come back guys, we have all the Linux you love here inside Windows." This article does not seem to be an honnest point of view to me.
Why is this myth still repeated? TV networks are forced to air misinformation by law: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/should-tv-stations-ban-fal...

This movement to get social media to enforce misinformation is a new one. It might be the right thing to do, but it's drastically different than the status quo.
Even if that happened, I'm not connecting the dots on how it leads to a famine. Do we not have the ability to move food any longer, or something?
* also separation of children from smugglers. Stoping human trafficking is primary role of ICE.
I'm probably never using AirBNB after reading this, and many of the stories I am seeing in HN.
That is such an elegant scam. It's like a magic trick complete with misdirection.

Is there market where HN-type people come up with these and sell them to people to implement?
ICE didn't exist until 2003, and isn't necessarily needed.
I spent the better part of last winter developing in the article author’s Vapor server-side Swift project, which I found to be absolutely delightful (shout out to Tanner and the crew, you guys are amazing!)

The following summer I got a gig doing Typescript on both client and server; mostly the experience has highlighted to me how well designed Swift feels, and how stapled on and hacked Typescript feels. Do not like.
I've been living in Airbnbs while backpacking through Australia for the last year. Here are some things I've learned for anyone needing some tips (Also because I like to share stories)

Pictures on the rental are meaningless. Only the price and amenities matter. Whatever the lowest 10% of price per night for a type of home (private vs shared room etc) is probably a scam. Don't rent in this price range. Money may be different for each person, but the upside of saving $100-$200 is way less than the downside of a last minute booking in a place you're unfamiliar with. I suspect most of the scams happening are people who book something that seems too good to be true.

If you're able to, message the host prior to booking with a generic intro and some generic questions. Many many times when the host got back to me for a great looking listing, alarm bells went off and I moved on. I personally ask what their internet speed is. If they don't know this its not a deal breaker, but their response can be pretty telling.

A lot of professional renters list on Airbnb. Especially multi-bedroom houses where you rent one bedroom. These can go either way, but are often a good deal. I personally like these because its a business transaction for both sides. Usually these types of listings are more open to negotiating on price, but its not staying in someone's home like an Airbnb might be pictured.

Reviews don't mean too much, but number of reviews and/or super host are pretty good barometers for quality. It is much harder to fake a lot of reviews. A less obvious red flag is the age of the listing vs number of reviews. If there are only 3-4 high reviews on something around for a long time, look closely at it. Even if the reviews aren't fake. There is a lot of incentive to not review a bad experience. Unfortunately price usually correlates with number of reviews.

I've personally never booked a new listing (no reviews). I'd be interested to know if I'm passing on some amazing deals, but my risk/reward tolerance doesn't allow it.

TLDR; Ignore the pictures look at price range compared to the marker and message hosts before booking at all.

Adjacent tip:
Bring the bare basics with you (maybe this is backpacker logic talking). I usually have a knife/fork/spoon as well as some toilet paper and enough close to be warm without blanks. Don't rely on them to have things you absolutely can't survive without. Its stupid you have to do this, but you can rest a little easier having it with you if something goes wrong.
They're basically just ads for whatever the author is selling, since you obviously couldn't just post a literal ad to hackernews, people make simple how to articles (they have to be simple to reach the most people) and post those instead.
It's a purposely extreme example of evolution. Because blue eyes are a recessive trait, there would not be any babies with non-blue eyes until a fresh new mutation occurred. The trait really does go away when there is no DNA in the population that could express it.

The point of my example is to crush the mistaken notion that evolution is inherently slow.
> But it is possible [...] that more communication leads to better political outcomes

I believe this is true and also that this is basically the hypothesis motivating freedom of speech under law. However, I believe that modern digital political advertising is a very different kind of communication than the open, genuine discussion in a free marketplace of ideas that free speech advocates often envision.

I think one big problem is information fragmentation taken to the extreme: Each person is now subjected to his or her own individually-targeted propaganda. It is a non-genuine, abusive form of individualized communication that in my opinion tends to erode opportunity for political consensus.

In my view, some forms of political advertising are perfectly acceptable. Attending a political debate and arguing well for your candidacy is perfectly acceptable. Enlisting Cambridge Analytica or foreign intelligence services to employ individual psychometric profiles to serve up the most effectively manipulative propaganda is not acceptable.

Advertising that is more generally broadcast as opposed to narrowly targeted is perfectly acceptable, and potentially even desirable for political discourse. Advertising that is "too" targeted is potentially corrosive to political discourse. I would love to see proposals on how to draw the line, legislatively, that would address these concerns and also pass strict scrutiny.
> hell not suitable to fan out ML workloads

depends on the scale? Not everyone processes petabytes of data.

> PG might play the role of the slow

You have any benchmark in your hand to support this? I believe highly optimized C code in PG can be significantly faster than Scala inside Spark.
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There was a sequel to this, from different researchers, also at IBM, proposing an improvement called a tasuki lock:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.92....
Thanks! We're truly looking for this to be community driven as well. So if you see places to contribute, or where you might disagree, or where you could share a story - do let us know or make a pull request on GitHub!

Besides the need for a new data book, we realized that it needed to be of a different format, as the space is moving so fast the expertise is very distributed.
There's the edge of a definitions rabbit-hole looming.

To short-circuit it, let's establish as ground-truth that some people think "neutral" is the same has having no position, and some people think "neutral" is a position one can try to take that will have consequences, same as any other position, and at the end of the day, the effects are the same whether it's not a position or a position so the question of "position-ness" of neutrality is moot in a discussion of outcomes.

If a company declares selling computers to the legitimate government of a country is "Just doing business," then, well, that's IBM during the reign of the Nazi party, and history has held them accountable regardless.
> An interesting question is why Intel believed otherwise when they created IA64.

For numerics code, VLIW can indeed offer huge advantages. Unluckily, computer programs from different areas have quite a different structure and thus do not profit from VLIW so much.
If you pay taxes, you "support" the entire government. That doesn't mean that you are in favor of all of the things that it is doing.

If you pay taxes, you are a citizen, not a "customer". These things are not the same.
So what kind of plan B are you talking about?
> ZFS is not encrypted

It certainly can be (as of zfzol 0.8, and oracle zfs has its own encryption scheme).

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5769
It could be cultural trait that survives from generation to generation.

I'm an example: I wanted a large amount of children, and taught my children the joys of a larger family. So far, they think along the same lines.
Windows 10 is honestly really good as a user desktop as long as you run the appropriate optimization and debloat scripts on an LTSC image.

I'm still using Linux as well, but I've been really impressed by the stability of the LTSC Win10. Even fewer problems than the recent iterations of MacOS, in my experience. It's worth considering especially if you need access to commercial software like Excel or Adobe CC products.
Any idea what hotels typically do in this situation? It's not exactly apples to apples but if you're going to make money by the same methods it seems within reason to play by similar rules.
I think, at least traditionally, unions have tended to reward seniority over merit because seniority is something that can be tracked with relative objectivity, while merit is something a bit slippery to nail down.

Of course the business owner has strong opinions on what constitutes employee merit. To the business owner, the merit of an employee is largely a proxy for whatever is profitable for the business. That's fine for the business, but if the union uses that same metric as merit, they'd become little more than a proxy for the intention of the business owners. For a union to be merit-based rather than seniority-based, they'd need to find a measure of merit that was in the interest of the workers, not the business.
Emoji use is just the latest step in the "Language Game", Facebook seems to be quite reactionary these days.
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I personally do, but I also recognize that that may be at odds with the First Amendment.

However, political ads aren’t usually just any kind of ad; They are almost always using scare tactics, or sometimes, just flat out lying. Stuff that would be illegal for a regular ad to do can sometimes be done simply because it’s a political ad.

Besides, who’s going to enforce the accuracy of the ads? We’ve seen many times that the government cannot hold itself accountable, so why would they do it for political ads.
Lower birthrates are our best hope for lowering our population from above what the Earth can sustain without suffering and early deaths due to famine, war, disease, and so on.

There are large uncertainties over the planet's carrying capacity, but the numbers I find most believable say we're over it, which can work until we exhaust non-renewables and perhaps destroy some renewables.

I find the most compelling understanding still comes from the book Limits to Growth and this 2014 research showing us tracking their business-as-usual model pretty well, 40 years later https://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/00....

Steady state economics has worked. "Population growth is vital for the world economy" is a statement about a system approaching collapse.

Reading the book Affluence Without Abundance I found of human societies enduring hundreds of thousands of years without growth. I've since learned of more. We don't know their level of happiness, but recent versions showed happiness and health greater than ours. In any case, they didn't collapse the entire planet's systems in a few hundreds years, so our systems don't stack very well -- a few generations of wealthy few and destitute many followed by collapse.

Thailand lowered its birth rate voluntarily and successfully https://www.context.org/iclib/ic31/frazer.

Lower birth rate is our best hope.
The article says: "The Facebook-owned software giant alleges that NSO Group built and sold a hacking platform that exploited a flaw in WhatsApp-owned servers to help clients hack into the cellphones of at least 1,400 users."

The actual complaint reads: "Between in and around April 2019 and May 2019, Defendants used WhatsApp servers,
located in the United States and elsewhere, to send malware to approximately 1,400 mobile phones and devices (“Target Devices”). Defendants’ malware was designed to infect the Target Devices for the purpose of conducting surveillance of specific WhatsApp users (“Target Users”). Unable to break WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, Defendants developed their malware in order to access messages and other communications after they were decrypted on Target Devices. Defendants’ actions were not authorized by Plaintiffs and were in violation of WhatsApp’s Terms of Service. In May 2019, Plaintiffs detected and stopped Defendants’ unauthorized access and abuse of the WhatsApp Service and computers."

https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...

In other words: WhatsApp does not allege a server breach. It alleges that phones were hacked via carefully crafted messages to trigger an exploit[1] on the phones, but to do that, hackers sent the messages via WhatsApp servers. They mention that, because otherwise they would have less of an argument to sue over. As far as I can tell, they're alleging that NSO Group was part of a scheme to interfere with the WhatsApp relay servers and to break the TOS, stated several different ways under different theories and laws.

[1] this one https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3568
There might be a certain degree of culture that helped.

For instance we tech worker share a very distinct culture from the general culture. Maybe the general culture/ a big subpart of the general culture in Israel is closer to the tech culture, and thus spurring more tech development.
> Yes. If IBM built something that helped the government during the Obama administration, would you consider it "political" too?

Helping the government in general != helping one specific government agency with a narrow mission. Maybe you could provide an example of a government program/agency whose mission you consider somehow "opposite" to ICE.

But sure. Helping any entity accomplish a politically controversial activity is a political act.
Much of this depends on data availability. I'd need to dig into the paper, but depending on reliance, USDA or SIC classifications by county (ZIP Code is also often available).

Data availability tends to drive much analysis and research.
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> I think the EU would have a problem with the US demanding free speech

That's because you reduce it to the word "freedom of speech", and then expand it again, to all sorts of other things. Call it freedom to criticize governments, totalitarianism, murder, and so on, and there will be no issue.

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-milli...

Most people don't want to be treated like this. So, either they are against it, or they don't get to speak anything on the matter, being hypocrites. A double standard is no standard. It really is that simple.
Female breasts are a sex organ, male breasts are not.
This is good advice. Once you stay in the host's place (anywhere) you're probably not getting all of your money back. I'm a bit sympathetic to this. Scams go both ways. If you walk away at trouble, you will usually get your money back.
Or perhaps "the only winning move is not to play".

I hear it is difficult to surveil through books.
Even with ASIDs, it's still orders of magnitude more expensive to round trip through the kernel rather than call (even far call).
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I don't need to be a dictator to know better than other people. It is just a fact that some people know better than others.

You seem to be implying that you know more than me by taking the higher road, you dictator! :P
Why do you think this is the case? They have a PaymentProvider interface and multiple implementations for PayPal and Stripe. Should not be that much work to add another provider.
i disagree. this is cleverly appealing to the /potential/ of the technology to help people, a classic moral play to technologists.

re-read this carefully:

> We have learned from a number of nonprofits and refugee advocates that one of the greatest challenges facing immigrants is a lack of technology at ICE and related agencies, resulting in lost case files, court date notifications not being delivered, or the wrong people being charged or deported,” read a companywide posting sent Oct. 22, signed by Brescia and the leadership team.

carefully note that there are no examples given of the technology actually helping people, just the possibility dangled out there that somehow by offering GitHub services (??) various other mishaps may get improved.

the underlying theme is, "technology could help people, so it's OK that we're continuing to work with ICE."
Linux only took off on PC because POSIX support was pretty lame in the beginning, and later on not many care about SUA and Interix.

So we had to look elsewhere to run UNIX at home.

Nowadays Linux ABI is more valuable than plain POSIX source compatibility, hence WSL. Which by the way Windows wasn't the first to go through this route.
I am hard-pressed to think of a popular page which doesn't use JavaScript.
Several months ago my AirBnB (2FA enabled) account was compromised. The scammer booked me for a property - the listing populated with blatant stock photos, no ratings - that was stated to be somewhere in England, but the pin on the map was somewhere in the ocean off the west coast of South America.

Once I raised the issue with them, I didn't hear from them for over a week. While I was concerned about the ~$1000 they owed me, I was equally concerned that someone had accessed my account. After about a week had passed I got them on the phone again and applied a little pressure, and a couple days later I had my refund. I did this by explaining that I work in the industry and I'm aware of what a big deal the ability to bypass a large company's 2FA is, that there's no excuse to drag their feet over such an obvious scam, and I vaguely alluded to media being interested in a story like this. I don't know how Average Joe would have fared in my case.

By reading the article and this thread there appears to be a variety of ways to conduct a scam on AirBnb.
That doesn't mean much if they implemented it in the exact same way they did for the full app. Unless we see this happening in other apps, I'll default to the implementation being the problem rather than the API itself.
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