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Older techs typically more win biased and IBM swings older. youts and some older devs wanted Macbooks, and fought a trench war. Built their own support system. Lenovo Tpads went to crap for a long while after the last IBM t6X, and replacement brands were even worse. So many of the older crowd gave in. There were guys dragging their duct-taped t60s until 2017 or so.

CFO/CTO saw the light and formalized the Apple lovefest.
They care because they've been given a voice. Yet lack the power and respect of someone like Elon Musk. It's best to ignore them, if possible.
You have no idea how hard people work here. Some of the smartest and diligent people work here. It's a big company so your friends maybe doing 9 to 5. But HN will never mention all the people who put in the hard yards at Google.
You can build them just about anywhere, all you need is a tiny amount of land area for the reservoirs enough of a vertical gradient. There are large mountain ranges running down both coasts with more than enough space to accommodate this. Looking at the surrounding geography of the bath county installation alone looks like it could easily be scaled to 10 times it's current size.
Those free vpn you can get from people who want to target you and get your traffic ? Not as bad I hope.
Friends who work at Google have told me they often spend hours a day reading and responding to internal threads about politics, investments, philosophy etc.
It's Google so people post negative things here without reading the article.
Then get to use Visual C++, which does bounds checking on collection types (array, string, vector,...), memory dumps leaks at exit.

Or Solaris SPARC and iOS compilers that make use of hardware memory tagging.

Clang and GCC do need extra flags to enable FORTIFY mode though.

However on Android FORTIFY is now a requirement and future versions will make use of memory tagging on ARM hardware.

So ironically something like Android does have a better sandboxing model as WebAssembly.
Yes. That is why it is interesting. Want to democratic this area so no big brother. But then.
FYI for all, the W3C TraceContext specification will become a Proposed Recommendation later this week. I'm one of the co-chairs of the group and am happy to answer questions about our W3C work or OpenTelemetry.
A public label is often only surface deep. For example, Google's original motto was: "Don't be evil."
Good to see common sense prevailing
It would be interesting to see the amount of carbon reduction that 7 billion in annual subsidies generates compared to what you would get investing it in replacing coal plants with the equivalent pumped hydro.

The current US Government investment seems pretty small.

https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles/usa
Are you using Gnome? I remember when this was impossible to get working on Gnome for a couple of releases. Hoping that's fixed now.
No, just plain bounds checking on C++ standard library and integration with hardware memory tagging when available.
Meh. The future of aviation has to be lifting bodies that have enough room for necessarily low mass-density hydrogen fuel. The energy-to-mass ratio of hydrogen is so far beyond every other fuel that it is worth upending a great deal of past practice. Batteries will never come close; they start at a disadvantage and are no bettcr at the end of the flight, when fuel tanks have become much lighter.

Hydrogen can be efficiently converted directly to electrical power to drive electric motors, which being small, light, and not given to exploding can be mounted in ways and places not practical or safe for combustion engines.

All of this will take a long time to happen, because to get optimal performance, many different aspects of the design need to change, many of them radically.
One of the best things about the USA here
If you have a stranglehold on an exceptionally rare resource, I'm not sure it would be a wise business move to suddenly triple the world's supply.
I like Observable for sharing JS tutorials - was just updating https://observablehq.com/@lmeyerov/manipulating-flat-arrays-... today.

Observable does some things quite well for that use case:

-- Easier dependencies: no need for 'npm install', just 'require(...)'

-- URL publishing

-- Collaborative merge flow

However, Jupyter made some good decisions that make it win over Observable for our day-to-day data work:

-- Manual reexecution vs. automatic: when working with big data, outside APIs, etc., Observable's automatic reexecution is a non-starter

-- Fully open source, embeddable, and successful history of non-vc funding: Jupyter is organized and provided in a way companies ( who aren't Amazon ;-)) can rally around, evidenced by contributions by Bloomberg etc.

-- Access to underlying unix/windows env and multiple environments (multiple Python versions, ...). As much as I wish Observable's choice of JS could provide a viable data environment, and I've personally invested in making it so and the path to making it first-class is clear, we need way more gov/google/nvidia/etc. support.

Ultimately, for not-too-sensitive collaborative data work, we use Google Colab, then offline and sensitive commercial work via Jupyter (Graphistry ships with it preloaded for GPU dataframe & GPU visual graph analytics goodness!), and if we did more in JS tutorial land, Observable would be my first choice.
Inept State/Corporate entities who hire based on immutable characteristics of an individual rather than their actual ability to complete given task.

Corrupt State/Corporate entities who'd rather have money in their private bank than complete given task for public good.
Both Debian and Void Linux have proper packages; did not try other distros.

Android has an app, though I don't know whether the GUI part is open source.

So far, works great for me.
I travel across the US Canada land border from time to time (in the mountain west). My experience has been that Canadian officials are universally civil and respectful while US officials are universally not.
They moved it to the basement with Milton.
And it's amazing, it's the only yogurt my family eats.
That's because our government (referring to the USA) is extraordinarily inefficient with taxpayer money.

My tax rate in NYC was something like 36% (not counting student loan payments and healthcare premiums), but where was this money going? We're paying practically the same tax rate as countries with universal healthcare, free/affordable universities, and strong safety nets, but we have none of the above. In my 5 years in NYC I saw the subway get progressively worse every year, while the homeless population exploded. I felt like that money might as well be getting flushed down the toilet.

If I could more tangibly see where that money is going, then I'd probably feel differently. I think taxpayers should have some agency in choosing where their taxpayer money goes. Andrew Yang proposed something like this, and I love the idea:

> "Each American should be able to direct 1% of their taxes to a specific project. During Revenue Day, these projects will be highlighted, showing what, exactly, America’s money was able to accomplish during the previous year. Initial profiles of the next year’s projects will also be announced so people can get excited for them." [1]

I wouldn't mind paying taxes in the U.S. if I felt like they were being productively used. It's hard to feel that way.

[1] https://www.yang2020.com/policies/making-taxes-fun/
That's good. Plug in the battery at the station, "here, jack this." Plug your phone into the output jack of the battery.
Right, but so the fact that they are so open-minded means they can be easily mislead which means they are corruptible.

It's not so good to be open-minded if that is the same thing as readily-corrupted. Or in other words we shouldn't strive to be in a child-like state where we are easily corrupted, easily mislead, because we are so open-minded.
> The AMO will go negative sometime in the 2020s and it will coincide with a negative PDO and a grand solar minimum and that is well correlated with global temps dropping based on thousands of years of ice cores and tree rings.

That's not the issue. You attacked my sources but yours don't present significantly different facts. I'll grant that we might get a relatively chill decade. And then those pendula will swing back. And when we're looking at a 3-5C increase by 2100, a decade-long 1C dip won't make that big of a difference for my kid's lifetime.
Most of the decent, semi-mature decentralized VPN or VPN-like meshnet things I can find are GPL or LGPL, so App Store incompatible, meaning no Apple phones (or tablets), at least.
VIM?
Have you tried cacao / chocolate instead of caffeine? Less unpleasant side effects in my experience.
Your "argument" ignores the ridiculousness of China's nine dash line altogether.
If we just let China continue to do what it does, civilization will continue to deteriorate.
If I’m reading this correctly, it means the private key of a certificate is leaked during generation. Boot chains rely on the verification of certificates and signed data, not signing. So no.
Except that you load code from multiple sources and one could eventually have a piece of JavaScript code that makes use of such behaviour to have access to some feature that by default is not accessible.

I rather let WebAssembly turn out to be the next Flash, when black hats start looking at it with the same care they had before, no need to waste cycles myself, as it is a lost battle against WebAssembly advocacy.
Cross-site request forgery is only "useful" in auth context. There is no auth in Volatile, nor in the hit counter.
I worked for a fortune 500 manufacturing company not long ago (2-3 years). Their main ERP was running on an AS400 mainframe and multiple pseudo-linked applications that were recently (4 years ago) updated to run on Windows 7 (which took 7 years to complete).

> I’ve never understood why modern businesses have these deployment issues.

Not every business is a tech-first company. Plenty of huge companies have legacy systems in place that can't be pushed to Windows 10 with a simple update.
I had a similar experience. At a certain point in my life things got so bad I just didn’t want to know what was happening anymore.
Awesome win for Berlin.
The monster truck narrative of the U.S. in this article is not really a fair portrayal. Electric cars are expensive, even the Tesla Model 3 costs about the same as an entry-level Lexus.
So this lets you grab the key on your own device which is used to encrypt the storage but not the OEM key used to sign the firmware image?
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> False comparison. Google users are voluntary.

Not entirely. I can choose not to use Gmail or similar services.

I can opt out of Google ads+tracking only because I'm technically adept enough. I can't (realistically) opt out of reCaptcha.
Yeah, but then one should acknowledge those issues, and not advocate WebAssembly as if there weren't hundreds of other attempts since the late 50's.
All valid points. But it’s open to pull requests it being open source and all.
The anonymous ID is fine, and not the way you’re going to be outed. They aren’t lying to you.

A manager of a handful of employees generally knows what their employees sound like, what issues are important to them, and knows which ones tend to go against the grain.
Oops, seems my split second skim of Wikipedia was a shortcut too far. :) I had to look up a quad (a short-scale quadrillion BTU). Haven't come across British Thermal Units in Britain for decades!

Anyway. 100 of that scale might be better or easier as 1,000 smaller capacity, but even then we can reduce further. Some percentage of the grid is nuclear (roughly 20% of US electric) which would not need underwriting nor would 100% of continental wind power ever be becalmed. I would further assume that any concerted national effort to electrify carbon neutrally would come with a matching efficiency drive - insulation, tax inefficient users, take first steps toward a national grid (that TIL the US apparently does not have), etc to allow you to use the power you have rather better.

Yet ignoring all that, the US must have thousands or tens of thousands of disused mines and quarries, probably many open ones with an accidental lake in their place that could be repurposed. If there's adequate volume, you don't need much head of water. There's no shortage of hills and mountains with rainfall or snow melt that should give plenty of potential spots, population and environment permitting. The one thing America does not lack is space - of all terrain types.
Checkout this internal memo from Elon just as the Model 3 was going into ramp-up for production:

– Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short.

– Also get rid of frequent meetings, unless you are dealing with an extremely urgent matter. Meeting frequency should drop rapidly once the urgent matter is resolved.

– Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value. It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.

– Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software or processes at Tesla. In general, anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication. We don’t want people to have to memorize a glossary just to function at Tesla.

– Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the “chain of command”. Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.

– A major source of issues is poor communication between depts. The way to solve this is allow free flow of information between all levels. If, in order to get something done between depts, an individual contributor has to talk to their manager, who talks to a director, who talks to a VP, who talks to another VP, who talks to a director, who talks to a manager, who talks to someone doing the actual work, then super dumb things will happen. It must be ok for people to talk directly and just make the right thing happen.

– In general, always pick common sense as your guide. If following a “company rule” is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, such that it would make for a great Dilbert cartoon, then the rule should change.

If there is something you think should be done to make Tesla execute better or allow you to look forward to coming to work more (same thing in the long term), please send a note to [redacted]

[1] https://medium.com/@StartupJourney/elon-musks-6-productivity...
This might put a big beurocratic burden on a/b testing _anything_ by definition.

Do i exploit human psychology by changing my sign up button text to free trial? Now we might need a committee to decide.
AP Capstone introduces two research focused classes with pretty high academic rigor, I think it’s great for college prep. We should do more research not less.
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It's still not the correct tree, either.
> Basically it requires dropping down to the assembler-level for each supported architecture to implement the context switching, as modifying the CPU context registers and stack frame directly is not permitted by most sane programming languages.

I thought that was (essentially) the definition of longjmp? Thinking further, it seems like the initial setup of additional stacks would require at least taking the covers of setjmp and interacting with its implementation details directly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setjmp.h
It would be far better for the average citizen if the tax receipts were burnt in a giant dumpster rather than further the malignant tumor of a state that we are afflicted with.
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And yet the government gave us the moon landing and the Internet--two massive technological feats that could never have been accomplished by private companies.
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Huh, you are correct, never realized that was possible. You have to dig a little to get to it (change view format and then select from sorting options) but it's there.
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It’s totally reasonable, almost a guarantee, that they were in fact stalking their perceived enemies. The fact that they are highly paid Googlers makes this more likely, not less. I don’t want to drop names, but multiple people have been fired for openly targeting others at Google on ideological grounds. There are definitely some vindictive nutjobs there.
This is assuming the binary you are running on your internet-connected computer is doing what you expect.
FWIW I have a Roku TV and it is fantastic. The best software of any smart TV I have ever used and the interface is always snappy. My parents just bought one based purely on my recommendation for how good of an experience it has been compared to every other smart TV I've used. I primarily run Plex on it, maybe Hulu is implemented poorly. But that would be Hulus fault, every app I've used has worked great.
RuPaul cribbed that one from Bill Saluga's Raymond J. Johnson Jr. character. Saluga basically made an entire career out of this stupid spiel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Saluga
Is there a similar guide for TouchID?
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Yep, I totally agree. I actually dislike the content these days and have been much less engaged than in the past. But that's the way it goes. It doesn't surprise me that some people like it a lot better.
Technology from the standpoint of media creation is different than building a resilient network for content delivery.
> Which would no longer be protected from others obtaining copies of the film and showing it.

We already live in a world where piracy is rampant, and yet rarely if ever are theater-quality copies of movies available. People have to record the movie with a camera to get it out there before the home video release.

Studios manage this by using proprietary formats and blacklisting theaters who fail to control their copies correctly. And theaters have a vested interest in those copies not getting out as well because that would cut into their revenue.

It does not at all depend on copyright protections for theater exclusive showings to exist.

> Which then can be legally streamed by anyone else immediately.

Yes but that relies on a competitor taking the time to rip their copy and upload it across all of their servers. That takes time so for live broadcasts like where an episode of Game of Thrones goes live and everyone wants to see it, they'll be behind the ball.

We already live in a world where you need merely search for and download the torrent to achieve the same thing you're saying will run rampant without copyright. This is already the way it works, but people still use streaming services because they're convenient and offer exclusive things they can't get elsewhere.

> Yes, and anyone else can take this role of curation. Curation is cheap compared to creation.

Wow you mean consumers won't have to buy ten different services to view what they want? That would be amazing!

> Yah, so once someone breaches contract everyone downstream can have the content.

Yes, just like our current world. Any contract with end users would be impossible to enforce just like copyright is now.

> This is a good thing.

What you're saying is that the fact that someone who has had no interaction with the creator, agreed to nothing with them, and caused them zero harm can be liable to the creator and even criminally liable is a good thing. Incredible.
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I think at the point where we're reading straight-faced advocacy of the One-Child Policy we've left the realm of curiosity-driven discussion and mired ourselves in provocation for its own sake. That's no good, and we shouldn't be taking comments like that seriously.
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Has anyone looked into data blockers such as “PortaPow” on Amazon.com? If they’re a scam that’s fine, but I will never forgive myself if they turn out to be loaded with exploits...

Also can anyone comment on how feasible defenses are against outlet power hacking at say a hotel? Is there any tool under $100 available to the masses? $200?
This is excellent and straightforward. People seems to get really confused and surprised that lift can be as simple as pushing air down to generate a counteracting upwards force. But it is that simple. The shape of the wing is about pushing air downwards with minimal energy expenditure to doing other things with the airflow. There's no need to over-complicate this thinking.
If you look at IBM's TPM 2.0 implementation[1], you can see that they don't use any well tested libraries for crypto primitives, but rather uses what looks like home-cooked crypto implementation.

Microsoft, on the other hand, seems to support OpenSSL and wolfSSL in their simulator[2].

[1] - http://ibmswtpm.sourceforge.net/ibmswtpm2.html
[2] - https://github.com/microsoft/ms-tpm-20-ref
Sure, but presumably you hone your senses as to which subs are trustworthy and which are not. For many classes of queries, there are some well-established subs already. Then it is a simple matter of parsing the comments, and the signal-to-noise ratio tends to be fairly decent for lots of things still.
I don't get how this works. When my phone connects to USB data it always asks me if I want to talk to that machine.

Does it emulate a keyboard or something like that?
> Tesla had several incidents with injured workers and safety violations

More than the industry average in the state of California? If so, care to site your source?
There are some nice opinions put forth in this essay, but that's just it: opinion does not carry the same weight as a scientific theory. And all the great examples of scientists ignored by their peers, had done the hard work of producing actual data.
Sure you don't have that now, but if nothing is going to be changed, nothing is going to be fixed. Coal until it runs out then.

The sticking point is political, not technical or logistical. If there are ever politicians convinced climate heating, and sustainability is important, it's fixable with no more difficulty than building a highway network. Undoubtedly you'll say citizens won't tolerate the taxes that would be needed -- still a political issue. Those can change.

As the International Energy Agency noted today whilst criticising the completely inadequate efforts the globe is making: “We will need to see great political will around the world. This is why I believe that the world needs to build a grand coalition encompassing governments, investors, companies and everyone else who is genuinely committed to tackling climate change.”

> That wouldn't even cover the electricity imported into CA

In a year. CA doesn't need a year's storage backup capacity, just enough to cover cyclic shortfalls. A few hours to cover winter nights, that's under a day's worth at most.
Please don't quote with code blocks. Requoted:

> “This study can’t prove that chronic psychosocial stress causes mental illness or substance abuse later in life by lowering dopamine levels,” Dr Bloomfield cautions. “But we have provided a plausible mechanism for how chronic stress may increase the risk of mental illnesses by altering the brain’s dopamine system.”
$200k-$300k is now the 1-3 years out of new grad pay scale for those companies for what it’s worth.
You might find this thread insightful https://twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/975545527973462016
I wrote a JSON parser in Elixir for fun. [1] If you've never written a parser, I recommend giving it a go!

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