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> Not sure when you last checked, but about:config is its own tab.

It was last I checked also, but felt awkward to use, and then you have to know what settings to look for, as opposed to having them in the UI (all can be easily overcome, but it is a little more work i think, maybe not enough to matter for some use cases or if I just forced myself to get used to it).

Is it possible to define ongoing exception lists there? How easy? And how many options to they allow for cookies (always, never, save until exit, ...)?

> Anything this offers over Linux containers / AppArmor / SELinux+permissions on a theoretical level, implementation nonwithstanding?

I don't know fully, but for any of those I definitely have to think more, as the user, and there is (probably?) more room for error due to complexity.

> I don't have any citation on hand (one would be welcome) but AFIAK Firefox typically has had less major 0-days than Chrome in the past, due to Chromium team's "move fast, break things, and don't communicate" policy.

Thanks for pointing that out.
It would be great if the audio could be transcribed and the text ran through some ML models that could analyze attributes over time, like:

sentiment,
new use of words (ideas & technologies),
the varying viewpoints for the same story,
correlations between when something was first announced to later outcomes,
etc.

From this it would be possible to show in a compelling way how the hearts and minds of the masses are shaped by the media they consume.
I thought that it was implied Zion was still part of the simulation, part of the equation to balance things out and give the illusion of choice. Like a nesting of VM containers or Inception dives.
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This article makes it sound a lot worse than it is.

Went a couple of years ago and used Google Fi network when traveling. Was still able to access several services like maps, Yelp etc, but the info was pretty minimal.

At least in Shanghai and Beijing, never experienced any issues as long as I had cash or card available. It’s anecdotal, but I promise you can still travel there. It’s unfortunate if articles like these convince you otherwise.

p.s. Don’t get drinks/coffee/tea with Chinese English speakers unless you know them. In the big cities it’s almost always a scam if someone walks up to you and speaks good English. Edit: If a stranger suggests a place to hang out at, suggest a different place. That is a good test to see if you are about to get scammed. Many scammers have a particular shop they collude with.
Huge kudos to the author for taking the time to investigate this issue. Interestingly in the book Freakeconomics from 2005 they did an analysis on car seats and found that after 2 years of age they don't make much of a difference. During their study the came across the same type of behavior from child seat manufacturers - ignoring requests for information.
With certbot, the check to see if certificates are close to expiry is done offline. So the service is only hit if a renewal is needed. The developers of certbot actually recommend that you schedule the cron twice a day.

EDIT: Actually I'm wrong. It also checks if the certificate was revoked via OCSP. However I can't imagine that it consumes much resources.
Yeah, that sounds reassuring but do you have any basis for this? (More than it should work like this, but I'm jaded.)
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Is your cron, by any chance, configured to run on every first day of month at midnight?
Wickard v Filburn isn't really relevant here because the Clean Air Act has a specific carveout for California.
It was a giraffe, for which that nerve just seems out of place.
GM, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler are actively fighting emission rules. I will be in the market to buy a car next month and will be actively avoiding these 3 brands
I've conveniently blotted the details out of my memory, but nowadays you have to go through multiple car seats per kid, because there are different types for different age groups. Multiply by how many kids you have. Multiply by how many cars you have in your family.

Truth be told, there are plenty of secondhand car seats out there. For one thing, they get handed down from one kid to the next within a family. For another, relatives and neighbors share them.

It's like any secondhand item... something could always go wrong.
So they went off and implemented a brand new fancy service discovery tool for I bet a problem they didn’t have, but couldn’t do the basics of tracking 2kb of data for the CA. I don’t think that’s a age issues, that and there’s nothing that prevents companies of any size from self reflection on what they’re doing and what’s important.

Also what’s the point of transparency if you’re not getting critical feedback from it and learning?
> The code stems for the same-machine IPC library. No point in doing any byte order normalization.

Some processors can run one process in one byte order, and another process in another byte order! For example Itanium and the UM.be bit which the user can set.
doing dishes too! and for a modern take on the topic, watching mindless youtube videos! lol
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Is it just how they think, or is it the reality of the business?

Would be cool if manufacturers would make old versions of sourcecode public after a couple of years, and the final version when a product goes out of production.
The computing power needed to train AI is now rising 7x faster than ever before
> Visiting Berlin in early October, Gorbachev cautioned the East German leadership of the need to reform, and confided in his advisors that East German leader Erich Honecker had to be replaced. Two weeks later, Honecker was forced to resign, while hundreds of thousands marched in protest throughout major East German cities

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/fall-of-commu...
But that was a couple of years ago and the article says that the trend has been accelerating.
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A lawyer representing someone can have whatever person positions the lawyer desires, but in the course of representing a client, the lawyer can only be an extension of what the client wants to be represented for.

The same is true of anyone representing a shareholder.

The company's goals and constraints are 100% informed by the shareholders.
Incidentally, I think the producers of Star Trek nailed this with design language of the Borg, perhaps accidentally.

For those who don't know, the Borg are a machine intelligence hive mind species that roams the galaxy in their cubes, spheres, diamonds and other ships shaped like basic solids, destroying or assimilating anything interesting in their path, and speaking a lot about "bringing order to chaos". Yet seemingly despite their focus on order and perfection, the individual drones and the microstructure of the ships both look like a haphazard bundle of lights and wires. This is in line with the article - machine intelligence optimizing for extreme efficiency across multiple dimensions isn't going to create sleek-looking constructs.
I think I have to quibble with this:

> Here, I propose Scott’s Law: never put order in a system before you understand the structure underneath its chaos.

James C. Scott wouldn't probably never underwrite re-ordering of systems from the top down.

Central to his argument is that viewing complex systems from any singular position requires a process of simplification (legibility) that prevents a complete understanding.

The presumption that one has gotten to a place of "understand[ing] the structure underneath [the] chaos" is in fact the false confidence he attributes to most of these ordering projects.

I think if you want to wrangle a suggestion from Scott's book, it's more about making lots of small pokes at a system and seeing how it reacts, and slowly building on positive reactions from the system.

(Also, messiness and complexity are not intrinsically linked to the efficiency of a system — systems can optimize for lots of variables and it's really context-specific. So as much as you shouldn't take order to be innately good, don't take messy to be innately efficient!)
You are really trying to twist this in google's favor. The fact is they claim they don't editorialize and they do.
FWIW, I haven't done a lot of reverse engineering but I have written code to drive the USB peripherals for a few microcontrollers in the ST and NXP series and the techniques discussed in the article are just as applicable when trying to debug what the heck is going on in your USB code. I always get something interesting out of them.
I believe there's more. Oracle had specific clauses in the licence terms to prevent usage of JVM on mobile. In other words, Google actually releasing Android under GPL is not enough for the case to be finished off.
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> Yeah, a 16K Spartan 6, 64MBytes of DDR3 RAM, and an FX2LP USB High-Speed controller

The last one alone, CY7C68013(A) has always been an expensive chip (like $10 a piece if you just want a few).

What is funny is that I wasn't aware it existed in QFP-56 package, it is not supposed to exist :-)
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I'm not sure what the legal standing for this is. If the EPA can legally grant states the ability to set their own emissions, why can't it revoke it or roll it back?
The need for that carveout is predicated on the assumption that the federal government has the power to regulate internal Californian activities in the first place.
“States’ rights” has always been selectively enforced, and mainly exists as propaganda to justify specific policies to low-information voters. Before you laud the Bush administration on this, go look up their approach to enforcing Federal drug laws in states that legalized medical marijuana.
Because it's not a "dangerous bad practice".

There are examples of actually bad and dangerous language misuse, but this is not one of them. It's mostly pedantry. Like using KiB instead of KB.
The company doesn't give out driver ratings. Other marketplace participants do.
Murder is also a federal crime. You can be charged under state law or federal law or both. Not saying it's right, but it is what it is

If there is going to be an EPA, then the 14th amendment asserts equal protection of the law. So, states with their own emissions regime are actually nullifying federal law and violating equal protection. The incorporation clause of the 14th amendment would also be in play. How far this goes appears to be a constant battle in the courts and legislatures.

The EPA itself is on shaky ground, as there is no authority granted to the federal government to create an EPA. Relying on the commerce clause is pretty lame, and barely a fig leaf. Generally when interpreting a text, the most specific statement is determinative, not the least specific.
Great work. While on the topic, I believe everything ranging from Uber to Google can be replaced by an open source alternatives. There will be some cons but overall lots of benefits.
I'd happily use a second-hand expired set from a trusted friend.

Off something like Craigslist, I'd worry about it having being in an undisclosed car accident.
Yes, that AI is called Life, and some surprising optimisations have lead to flying eight limbed creatures, floating lizard-like beings, and a machine within the simulation that is supposedly capable of creating a simulation of reality itself.
What if the automation breaks?

Zero ops is a good goal as.it builds the right incentives but even the most mature systems need a good run book.
So someone upload many videos generated with this tool to youtube. I was really impressed when I stumpled upon it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_mSedHiTk0
To elaborate a bit more, pihole is essentially this (dnsmasq + banlist), but with a pretty UI and admin page. Running your own DNS server is something more people should do and it took me all of 20 minutes to set it up on my docker homeserver with no prior knowledge of DNS except for 'it's the thing that translates domains to ips' and 'it's the thing on port 53'
Very interesting examples provided in the article, the "topological optimization" one [1] made me think of the Vauban fortifications. As can be seen from even a cursory look on the dedicated Wikipedia page they're mostly pretty symmetrical and especially well-organized, as can very well be seen for the Alsatian town of Neuf-Brisach [2]. I'm wondering if the "ideal" solution for the problem Vauban was set out to solve (protecting towns against artillery fire) isn't a lot more less symmetrical, like in that topological optimization example where the "ideal" AI-found solution is a lot more "messy".

[1] https://twitter.com/jo_liss/status/674332649226436613/photo/...?

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuf-Brisach#/media/File:Neuf-...
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"laud the Bush administration" ?!! You grossly misread my comment.

I meant I miss having more political common ground with many friends, as it was when their concerns were on the receiving end of the out-of-control federal government. During the Bush years, with the wars/gitmo/patriot act they were reading up on Constitutional law and buying guns. During the Obama years they switched to explaining how pushing people to buy into the corporate health "insurance" racket was a good idea.

I've come to the conclusion that the main function of voting is to make the winning voters think they asked for the ensuing policies.
How do you learn how to do something like this?
I believe how many of these emission rules are written is poorly done. They are effectively quota based that apply to the quota of a given car manufacturer. Which is actually leading car manufacturers to consolidate, removing choice.

What's worse, emissions are not done holistically. They rate battery-powered car as effectively having zero emissions, which does not consider how you charge you car. There was a study earlier this year, that revealed a Tesla charged by a power plant using coal generated more emissions than a standard unleaded gasoline car.

I get the intent of these laws, but they are poorly done.
why would you use Credit Card, smart phone, or even internet though?
I think for a lot of software businesses there is a truism that "your competition doesn't want your code, they think you're morons and you think they're morons."

But in the hardware game there is a lot of counterfeiting. There is rarely any shame or consequence when it comes to outright IP theft. Making it easier to access the firmware makes it easier for someone to counterfeit your widget.
Government bureaucracy isn't noticably better. Everyone was writing over their tape archives back then, including the BBC (see: Doctor Who lost episodes) and, uh, NASA (the moon landings).
yes, same research, different publication spinning it, much deeper / better HN discussions on the issues on that thread imho. They maybe should be merged.
Sure, all I’m saying is that you will survive. The title suggests that you will not be able to function.
It'd be more helpful to read the plaintiffs brief but one argument I'd guess they're making (as a non lawyer) is that the revolution was arbitrary and capricious under the administrative procedures act
The Aristotelian “Peripatetic” school gets its name from the act of walking while philosophizing if my memory of undergrad philosophy still serves.
Maybe that's how Musk's ventures are different - he knows how everything in his corporation works?
Do you recognize differences between ideal theory and practical reality?
It was suggested to us (can't remember where from) that a second hand car seat might have been dropped or damaged in some un-noticable way and so would not be as strong as it needed to be. So it wasn't so much about expiration dates as it was about knowing what had happened to that particular seat. I was kindof unconvinced by the idea of unnoticable damage* but then its your kids so you shrug and fork out for a new seat.

That said, in the UK there's plenty of second hand car seats changing hands via ebay etc.

* incidentally I've heard the same thing said about bicycle helmets, which use similar materials (plastic, polystyrene)
> This seems pretty formal/professional for an HN comment.

That's pretty much n-gate summary format :-)
Revealed preferences show that
when given the choice among economically sustaiat options, customers prefer to pay value based pricing and to rebuy things they still use, instead of paying more upfront for forever products.

> when a product goes out of production.

By the time this happens, the company has lost their throwaway source code.
The collection was donated to the Internet Archive, but I’m not sure the status of its digitization:

https://blog.archive.org/2019/05/24/71716-video-
Almost guaranteed that's not a Docker compose issue.
Remember, this is the same Microsoft where people are frowned upon for merging fixes and optimizations to the Windows kernel instead of implementing new-and-shiny features [0].

[0]: http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-w...
I'd also add - Public transit - don't take your phone
Seems like the FTC should get involved for deceptive marketing...
With uBlock Origin/uMatrix, it's possible to block all Facebook domains on every site except on facebook.com itself. With DNS-based blocking that sort of nuance isn't possible; it's an all-or-nothing approach.
> So, besides the plug of my work (sorry) I would say that the earlier paradigm that you say has "failed" with respect to recent connectionist success is alive and well and it still gets many things right that the connectionist paradigm struggles with mightily, in particular robust generalisation from very few examples (without expensive pre-training etc), and of course any task that requires reasoning [2].

I'm going with dooglius here. You are presenting a simple regular grammar as a success story of the GOFAI paradigm (which doesn't have that much to do with Hofstadter's paradigm, anyway), while the DL approach has been producing real-world successes on the hardest of natural language tasks. Your example is "not even wrong" in terms of criticisms like Marcus's, because it is so many orders of magnitude away from being useful or reaching the point where it even could fail or be criticized on those terms.
> Success is ... a multi-generational task

Hence the momentum to address the monstrous differences in opportunity that have been created after many, many generations of treating particular groups of Americans as second-class if not outright sub-human.
It is dangerous. If you (illegally) #define a reserved name in your own code and then include a standard header file that (legally) uses that name, the results can be almost impossible to diagnose. There is never any need to do it, so not doing it is not "pedantry", it is simple good practice. The rules about double-underscores exist for very good reasons.
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> Don't discount the engineers who work surrounded by the "business culture" and perhaps even live in SV, but don't like that culture.

OK, I gotta share these:

http://hackersdictionary.com/html/index.html

http://bofh.bjash.com/
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I agree, as a non-professional driver the lifetime of the car is measured in years/aesthetics.

Meanwhile, a professional driver can put on 25k-50k miles per year[1]. Compared to 10k-15k miles per year on average[2]. Meaning professional drivers hit the car’s mileage limit, 200k-300k in 6-8 years. Already it would be better for them to have cars that are optimized for cleaning, maintainability, and longer lifespans. And this doesn’t even talk about lifespans of wheels or the expedited cost of maintenance.

Taking this math further: This is targeting 40 hour work weeks for professional drivers. If we targeted 75% (a lower bound) of the total hours in a week 168, we see robotaxis will drive 3-4x the miles of today’s Uber drivers. Setting lifespans of 2-4 years per taxi.

Large robotaxi fleet operators will likely become manufacturers but regardless they will change the mental model of how car manufacturing currently operates.

Robotaxis will not only absorb the profits of the taxi industry but also the profits from the car manufacturing industry, car maintenance industry, car rental industry, last-mile delivery (including food delivery) industry, rental housing industry, and more. The scale will eventually be unimaginable allowing the margins to be astonishingly low.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-miles-does-a-full-time-driver...

[2] https://www.carinsurance.com/Articles/average-miles-driven-p...
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> Like using KiB instead of KB.

They mean different things.
There are ways to make such "organic" structures more resillient. Life is one huge proof of that. One of the reason biologists and medical researchers have so much trouble figuring how anything works in living organisms is because in biology, there are very few clear boundaries; every process is mixed up with a lot of other ones. And yet the final result is incredibly resilient.
probably because exposure to the sensory information is required to be reproduced in dreams. People who are born deaf don't hear sounds in dreams either.
This has been posted on HN before.
It's a good thing the post is a teaching tool and not documentation!
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Good chance one of the classic CAs will use this outage against Let's Encrypt though. Some classic CAs have been spreading a lot of FUD about Let's Encrypt.
There was no first person to escape, there were people who survived the war with the machines and were never "in the matrix" to begin with. You should check out The Animatrix.
These costs don't sound exorbitant.

Are profane TLDs allowed? I'd love to register a particular four letter gTLD. I'm sure it'd make its money back.
Our industry is woefully ignorant of human psychology. We also invest very little in understanding qualitative improvements in software systems - as engineers we don't like anything we can't readily measure.

Anyone familiar with the magical number seven knows that systems need to be simple not for the sake of the computers, but for the sake of the people who work on it. As much as we like to think of ourselves as geniuses, at the end of the day we're animals with a finite amount of brain power. We cannot grasp large complex systems, and we need compartmentalization and simplicity so we can keep building on top of what we already have.

Maybe one day the computers will take over programming for us, but that day isn't today.
This detail is just one part of the library's broader disregard for the scope of names. One of the most difficult parts of managing large projects is dividing up the global namespace in a way that is equitable to all authors.

This library has a number of naming problems: It claims names that are reserved for the compiler and runtime libraries. It puts names into the global namespace. Worse, it puts generic names like "parser" and "store" into the global namespace. It also claims an extremely broad category as its own project name (Serialization++? Seriously?).

It doesn't matter how clever your particular library is. In total, the impact of those naming problems makes your library disrespectful to the broader C++ community.
Nice, didn't know that. Seems a bit unfair though they didn't cover middle-endian order.

Seriously though, how many machines are configured like that in the real world and what's the overlap with our target installation base?
This seems like a tricky problem to solve. I think a practical use of constraint solvers would have some criteria by which a solution would be seen as desirable.

For eg if I’m designing something in the real world I’d want to optimize for material or cost in terms of time or money.

Sometimes I’m just interested in seeing if a solution exists.

So the solution here seems to be able to add soft constraints on what kinds of solutions are desired to guide the search.