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I really enjoyed this talk, and not just because I like Racket. Academics rarely talk about how they manage to build the infrastructure they need to support their research and teaching and how they reconcile that with the other demands they face. This goes beyond computer science as well.
What is keeping Boeing's share price so stable in the wake of such catastrophic news for the company this year?
> OpenSSL

I know what you meant to type but, for the benefit of everyone else here, he meant OpenSSH.

(Normally I wouldn't comment just to correct a typo as the intention is usually obvious but this is a bit different.)
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Sounds like craigslist in the US. Someone once offered me football tickets in lieu of the asking price on the car I was selling.

Took about 3 months but eventually got the price I was asking for. Had to wade through a lot of BS though.
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> United’s 757 planes will reach the end of their lifespan in about a decade

About a decade?! I was on one of their 757s returning to Dublin a while ago; it felt like they were already pushing the end of its lifespan. I suppose the repair of the interior doesn’t say much about the airframe...
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Boeing doesn't really have anything to replace the 757 with except the -MAX at this point.
I would also wager that it's tied to find my iphone.
I trust Russian and Chinese companies not to respond to US fishing expeditions violating my privacy more than I do US based companies.

As far as someone spying on my emails, I get that no matter who I go with other than self-hosting.
I think this would be more interesting if it was found out that the location data also went to a remote server.
Dude, Musk actually showed up in Thailand and was leaning on local officials to insert himself into the rescue planning. Unsworth did not find out about him from Twitter.
This is an often used argument, but can you elaborate how exactly that's the case?

In most western democracies (the US included), the only way to elect a politician is for a human being to go to the polls and check the box next to the candidate's name.

This opportunity is present regardless of whether one is a billionaire, a millionaire, a member of the upper-middle class, or a blue collar worker.

A real world example of this is Sweden, which has the highest per capita population of billionaires. The country doesn't seem to care because the minimum standard of living is high enough. It's not even paid for by taxing the billionaires, it's paid for by high taxes on the middle class and a VAT.
Love the article. Were I reading it last last night, it would be while sipping a Sapphire and tonic for sure. Learned much I did.
It sounds like you don't like the bitterness of Campari and you're not alone in that. I guess it just takes time to develop the taste.

There are many delicious Negroni riffs, but the standard and classic is always equal parts gin/Campari/vermouth. I use a good London Dry gin (personal preference for Beefeater) and Carpano.
This is already happening. Various local wiki sites (including my country) have become infested by right wing conspiracy theorists, but even though it gains media attention, the Wikipedia "court" labels it as independence by local contributors.

Meanwhile kids are learning that the Holocaust wasn't all that bad.
I don't think having people in concentration camps getting their organs harvested is so similar that comparing numbers makes sense.
That and the implicit guarantee from the government that Boeing is too big to fail.
I know no one wants to hear this, but Airbus just has a better product (from a passenger standpoint) - the cabins are better, the planes are quieter, the ergonomics, lighting, HVAC and pressurization is better, etc.

Boeing is now Ford to Airbus's Audi.
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That's their business model but not everything they do is in support of that. The hundred or thousands of employees that works on GSuite-only products like Currents and Meet don't care about phoning home data for ad targeting purposes. The same goes for a multitude of other things they do, eg. hardware, cloud computing, security, mapping (as in the actual mapping; I know G maps shows ads), and probably also 99% of people on the Chrome/Android teams.
I'd have to do a double-blind taste test using beers shipped to India on a slow boat without refrigeration, but I'd hypothesize that all beers subjected to such conditions would be ranked poorly when compared with beer that hadn't made the trip.

Porter was already strongly hopped--a practice that overwhelms other flavors introduced in the brewing process, not just those that develop during transport. As a style of beer, yes, it is worse than more lightly hopped styles.

Or at least that's what the subjective testing in my household shows. De gustibus non est disputandum. Your own testing might rank porters differently, according to your own tastes. But if the test subject does not specifically enjoy the flavor imparted by hops, then all strongly-hopped beers will rank poorly. For someone that does really like hops, all the beers that are basically carbonated alcoholic hop juice will rank highly.

As for myself, I hate IPAs. In a double-blind test, I will always rank all the IPAs in the test set as dead last, with tasting notes such as "worst beer I have ever tasted" and "this beer causes suicidal ideation". It's still okay for other people to like them, I suppose, but I will never be able to understand those who do.
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It is not that. It is that regardless if the plane is "fixed" or not, many frequent travelers will refuse to fly on a 737 MAX from now on.

Last year I took 73 flights. At least three of those were on a MAX. I profusely refuse to get on one of those, regardless if they are fixed or not.
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That — and I am not a big fan of browsers getting more and more access to the hardware/OS over time.
Why would Airbus be different?
I mean, one option is to break up Boeing (and Airbus). They’re far too vertically integrated.
Which assumes that the musicians aren't lying, but yes, an occasional lying musician is probably still more accurate overall than Wikipedia's sourcing.
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Likely observing how they handle specific situations, how their technique is etc
It would be good to get some feedback on this instead of just anonymous downvotes.

I'm thinking the way it would work is that, at the application level, you'd open sockets and other file descriptors and then lock everything down, so if some malicious library tried to read a file or spawn a process the application would be either be killed or return an error, obviously depending on the application logic and whether or not it can handle the error. I would advocate this kind of approach as it doesn't need any external hardening, i.e. you get the benefits whether or not you're inside or outside of a container, whether or not the application is being run on a distro with SELinux or AppArmor, it's basically built in. I may be missing some big thing here but like I say it would be good to get some feedback here.
I’m not a lawyer but in this case that guy’s data getting sent to DoJ doesn’t really bother me...
Fuel-efficiency and increased range are enticing airlines to opt for smaller planes on longer routes as they seek to control their operating costs.
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not the parent's OP, but yes; I'm saying the whole notion of exploitation is rather silly
I use Yubikeys for signing multiple times a day, yet I must still enter my PIN every time (and the same goes for my "real" smartcards as well).
I agree with this. They don’t mention this explicitly in the article, but it has a capability-based security model, which is something I think we desperately need in our OSes. (They do link to a paper about it that mentions this.)

There are a few other such systems that look interesting; Agoric is working on one for JavaScript, Google has a kernel patch set that adds capability support to Linux, and Christopher Lemmer Webber is working on a similar system on top of Racket called Spritely Goblins. I’m excited about all of them though, because it feels like this kind of security model is starting to gain public awareness!
> But someone who earns more will also have a higher marginal tax rate.

Not currently on capital

> But someone with $10M will be able to get the same risk adjusted return as someone who has a net worth of $100k.

That's exactly what Piketty has shown to be false. If you look at stuff like endowments and sovereign funds you'll see gains that are nowhere near what's possible even for funds that have $100M in capital.

There are economies of scale involved here, both in diversification and in management. Moreover some markets are not even available to investors who are not larger than a certain threshold.
Twin-aisles are much easier to get around in.
The fact that these news are not catastrophic, but rather wishful politically-motivated thinking. Boeing is here to stay, until maybe a viable competitor in China springs up.
Capitalism has its perks, great advancements have been made in technology, quality of life and the development of cities that would otherwise have never existed.

The real issue lies when you look at the system in a more holistic, long term view, lets say another 200 years. In that time-frame the self propelling cycle of capital will make the accumulation of all wealth lie in a very small group.

In itself it is not a bad thing as long as advancements are still being made and the average quality of life is improved, however it leaves the system with a very centralized point of control.

This point of control could quickly deviate the system for purposes not entirely in the best interest of the species, put it as "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." It may be a possibility but not the great peril. The real issue lies in the central group having accumulated all resources, and then not being able to maintain said resources and leaving the whole system open to a single point of failure by a revolt of some sorts. (starting from scratch can take more energy that the energy required to topple the system, and sometimes there may not enough energy to build over...)

Do we really want to have a society were the integrity of it depends on a single point? Maybe we do, but it just might not end up being the most resilient system.
Compared to what? I have the same issue with books in my focus areas that are widely revered, and even some peer-reviewed articles in good journals. I often disagree with things said on Wikipedia, but that's because I often disagree with the novice-accessible versions of things I know a lot about.
SO copypasta is better than NPM, because no one can change the codesnippet to steal bitcoins once you've copied it into your code base. It's much more secure than a mutable database.
Airplane lifespans are determined by pressurization/depressurization cycles (i.e. number of flight trips), not distance flown or interior wear and tear.
At pypistats.org download numbers of the last half year can be found.

* python3-dateutil has 271 downloads from non-mirrors in last month[1]

* jeilifish has only 106 downloads from non-mirrors in last month[2]

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I think partly it’s the nature of the business. Even if every airline wants to drop the 737 and order all A32xes from now on, they can’t; Airbus simply doesn’t have the pipeline. Boeing will sell either a patched up MAX or a less ambition re-engine (a MEDIUM?) Probably for less money, but it’ll sell; the airlines really have very little choice.
My wife's friend used to make a habit of offering to pay people on CraigsList cash for things, and then showing up with 10%-15% less cash than she committed to. Usually people were annoyed but eager enough to get rid of the thing that they sold to her anyway to avoid the hassle of posting it again. But it was scummy.
The USG is already putting tariffs on foreign planes. We have all the downsides of nationalization without any of the benefits of collective ownership (except for the fact that Boeing is in people's retirement accounts, which is a little collective ownership). Capitalism and socialism on their own both have provisions for taking care of the elite and taking care of the average person. What we have now with these pseudonational industries is a combination of both that takes the elite-benefiting parts of capitalism and combines them with the elite-benefiting parts of socialism.
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You're destroying property and work. Denying someone access to their work is just as bad as usurping control over it.

Remember, copyright gives the owner of the work full control over it. For Google to remove that specific control without a court order means they're violating the law.

Go read chapters 2 and 5 of Title 17. This makes it abundantly clear.
Whistleblower: One who reveals wrongdoing within an organization to the public or to those in positions of authority.

By that definition everyone I listed is a whistleblower.

Also, FYI, you should use proper pronouns regardless of how they identified at the time. It's still a form of misgendering and unnecessarily brings up the fact that they are transgender.
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Hyperbolic spaces are a bit freaky because of how huge they are. Living on a flat plane (like we do for scales smaller than a few thousand kilometers), area grows quadratically with the radius, i.e. if you venture out twice as far, the area you cover gets four times bigger. Go 10 times further, and there is 100 times more area to get lost in.

On a hyperbolic plane however, area grows exponentially when you stray further than a few times the characteristic length of the space. Increasing your range from one such length to two, the area covered grows by a factor of about 5. Going from ten to twenty however, increases the area by about ~20000!

If the characteristic length were a kilometer, you would never be able to get more than a few dozen kilometers away from your home before being irretrievably lost. The area around you 10 kilometers away would have the area of Manhattan. A circle with radius 20 kilometers would be slightly bigger than Egypt. And everything within 50 kilometers would be spread out over an area about the size of the Solar System. Unless you left a trail of breadcrumbs, you'd never be able to retrace your steps.
Can't save if you can barely afford to live. Student debt, high COL housing, healthcare, etc. Boomers got a head start with great incomes (high quality of life on single earner income), cheap housing, cheap healthcare.
Places like gitmo aside, almost everyone goes through a judicial process before they're locked up. China has judicial processes too. It's a question of the integrity of those processes.

If you'd like to understand the integrity of the US process, please read The New Jim Crow. It's not at all clear the US process is better than China's.
I flew about the same, fortunately never on a MAX. That being said I'm in the same boat, you couldn't pay me enough money to take a ride on a plane that the pilot literally cannot fly without the MCAS system functioning perfectly.

Maybe I'm just blissfully ignorant to how bad all the planes in the air are... but I feel like pilots would be screaming bloody murder if they were all as bad as the MAX.
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That only matters if you realize the gains. If you own a business like a hotel, car wash, etc. and intend to keep it, you are not affected by value increases of the business itself. In fact, for many privately held businesses, it is not even known what the value of the business is because there is no reason to calculate it.
Go read chapters 2 and 5 of Title 17.
Vertical integration means fewer middlemen driving up the margin on each part.
> It means [a billionaire] has more power than me in a capitalistic system, sure. But is that really so wrong or unfair?

Where does that leave democracy?

> I think it’s actually kind of a good thing: most people would just consume like crazy and ruin the planet if they came into that kind of money...

That bears a striking resemblance to some anti-democratic rhetoric I've seen. For instance, one of the rationales the CCP gives for the lack of multi-party democracy in China is that the Chinese people would use their political power irresponsibly, so it's better for everyone that the [insert positive adjectives here] party have a monopoly on political power.
It's not, and it could easily have gone the other way. By not having any competition or diversification, countries expose themselves to tremendous risk: the balance of the aerospace industry rested on a coin flip and the US bet tails. Without the cronyism, we could have had many separate raffle tickets against Europe's one.
We built Locklock mainly because simple patterns of distributed locking kept coming up in our system designs.

The common use case is ensuring multiple components of a distributed system take turns accessing a shared resource.

A special case of that is guaranteeing a particular operation takes place at most once. For example, some AWS services guarantee at-least-once delivery, but sometimes consequences of these events need to execute exactly once. To accomplish this, simply acquire a lock for the identifier representing the originating event and don't release it.

Our secondary motivation was to unify locking logic across components of a distributed system, which may be written using different programming languages or deployed accross multiple cloud providers. By using Locklock, they only need to know how to communicate with a simple REST API.

Would really appreciate feedback from the community!
Sounds like NASA.
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> I think it’s actually kind of a good thing: most people would just consume like crazy and ruin the planet if they came into that kind of money...

Crazy to think we might consume ourselves into fundamentally altering our ecosystem and causing mass migrations and death if we didn't have all of those rich guys around.
Wikipedia cannot "sell" their product, that's antithetical to it's purpose and mission. Doctors without Borders is not a failure because they rely on donations for disaster relief rather then profiting from it.
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Efficient market theory would suggest that there is no margin in equilibrium, and what looks like margin is actually the cost of capital (which all companies, big and small, have to pay).
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Yep, I mean I know it’s nothing to do with the interior. But this didn’t seem like a plane that was being taken care of; it felt like one they intended to scrap the next week, so there was no point putting the work in any more. I was honestly kind of shocked; hadn’t been on a plane like it since Ryanair modernised their fleet.
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yes, exactly; to have equality, you'll have to reduce everyone to the lower common denominator, which will be rather low

Also, I don't see why exactly inequality is inherently bad. I'm poorer than Bezos, _and that is a good thing_. Pretty much like Steph Curry is better than me at basketball and so he should have a lot more ball possesion should we be playing on the same team, Bezos is much better than me in allocating resources, so he should have a lot more resources to play with.
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Do you have data/citations? I could believe this happens, but would like to see data on how wide-spread an impact this is.

There are always consequences and tradeoffs - if we had actual numbers about the magnitude of the impact, we could start to discuss if ACA was worth this particular tradeoff.
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Actually, it's really not. United has already bought MAXes to replace other planes, but to replace their 757 they waited Boeing new annoncement that was supposed to be this year (except Boeing delayed it to next year a few months ago).
The "well they drive fast in Germany every day" argument doesn't hold water either.

1) Even on the parts of the autobahn with unrestricted speeds, 130km is still the recommended upper limit, and you're more liable in a collision if you go faster than that.

2) Many people in Germany don't agree with unrestricted speeds, and politicians have compared it to gun law debates in the US.

3) Germany has higher than average deaths per 1000 km driven (for an EU country).
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> When I pip install paramiko, I do, in fact, want it to have access to my SSH keys

Do you? Wouldn't it be better if Paramiko was obliged to access your keys via the agent? Then we could secure the agent (there's more work to be done here anyway) and also it fixes problems where Paramiko wants to do something that the agent could facilitate (and so works with plain ssh) but Paramiko doesn't know about yet, like using a FIDO device to get a key.

One of the obvious things the agent could do on a workstation is mention that your keys are being used. Imagine you run a job, which reaches out via Paramiko to fifteen servers, you see a brief notification saying the agent signed 15 logins for Paramiko. That makes sense. An hour later, reading the TPS reports, the agent notifies you again, Paramiko just signed another login. Huh? Now you're triggered to investigate what happened and why instead of it just silently happening and you read a press piece in a month about how a new version of Paramiko is off-siting your keys because bad guys broke into a GitHub repo or whatever.
The pop-sci headlines hinting that quantum supremacy shenanigans means that we are close to some new paradigm of general purpose quantum computers. I suppose.
A lot of npm packages aren't longer than a typical stackoverflow answer, and they get used everywhere, to the point where installing a dozen packages can lead to tens of thousands of sub-packages being installed.

At that point, the packages are essentially "indexed snippets" of code.
Qubes instances are native virtualized via hardware-assisted virtualization, so there shouldn't be any ability for instances to access root UID processes unless the hardware virtualization solution's security fails (Intel's cache/branch prediction attacks).
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Hasn’t the Koran been static since it’s inception?