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The thing is that all farms (producing a given product) are pretty much the same. When something is a commodity, there is no benefit in differentiating your business through process. A tomato is a tomato is a tomato. Nobody cares about what it took to get it to market. This means that everyone converges in the same direction. This means that the tools that are out there for other farms are pretty much guaranteed to fit right into your operation with ease. It would actually be counterproductive, economically speaking, to try and recreate this existing tools. It will cost you more in the end.

In this consumer space, there is more effort to try and be different. In this case, the customer notices processes and better processes make for a better customer experience. That is how you beat the competition. Often the tools that are out there don't fit nice and tidy into the way we wish to do business. They are either tailored for other businesses or try to be a jack of all trades, master of none. There is all kinds of room to build software that is specific to our operation, and beneficially so. There is a room to get a leg up on the competition if you do it well.

As a bit of an aside, when you're paying $500,000 for a tractor what you get, in terms of technology, is also quite different to a $100/month SaaS product. That is the other big thing I have noticed is simply quality of software. Nobody could ever afford to pay $500,000 for a system in this consumer industry, so the options that are out there are quite low quality. Understandably – I know all too well from my day job the corners we often have to cut and the concessions we have to make to keep things within budget – but in an ideal world the software would be better.
Re (1), when you say "don't allow programs that can execute arbitrary, unsigned/unverified code" -- does this mean we are blocking all scripting languages?

For (2) and (3), I agree that capabilities and containers are very important, but they are not really related to code-signing -- either python is signed or not.

So I don't see how code signing + python can co-exist? Once you allowed your python (ruby, perl) binary, the "binary whitelist" is pretty useless. Seem like other technologies -- like containers, sandboxes, SELinux-like labeling etc -- is the only way to go.
For one thing, all third-party code is checked into one top-level folder in the monorepo.

This is publicly documented here:

https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/

This means that dependencies on a third-party library can be found simply by looking at deps lines in BUILD rules. That can then inform which projects you want to run (for example) fuzzers on:

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/12/announcing-oss-fuz...
https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz/
Okay, I put MIT license. I found this type of license is most appropriate for this product.
I like my Eufy Cam. The video lives on an SD card in my house. NSA probably still watches it, but at least it's not every other Google/Amazon employee.
Unlikely, it will just eliminate the "easy" jobs. Just look at writing, mass literacy surely eliminated many jobs but lawyers are still quite well compensated. Another area is mathematics with actuaries.

Democratization of computing will lead to greater stratification of programming jobs. The "Excel Programmer" won't exist being supplanted by the "Office Drone" whereas the "Distributed Systems Engineer" (or whatever) will keep on going.
Update the license, now it's MIT.
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Just a picture? Who won? Any game record?
MLB has a world-class engineering team [1] so that's not a surprise. You might even say they're in a different league than other content providers.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/4/9090897/mlb-bam-live-strea...
Exactly. And to further the analogy it's challenging to tell the difference between investing and gambling.
It is a good career as long as you keep learning. If you stop learning it will be like being stagnant in other careers

It’s far more important what you make of your education once you have it.. and not what your education makes of you.
The issue for me isn't Reader itself but what it says about the disconnect between Google management and us, the users of Google products. That seems to have happened around the time Google went from _having_ a "user base" to being effectively ubiquitous. I can't speak for others, but Google of the 2000s "got" the hacker/nerd mindset in a way that was the closest thing to empathy I've ever felt from a corporation. That sounds naive to write down here in almost-2020, but that was how it felt at the time. When Reader died, so did that feeling, and now all of us are running around unsure if the Google products we personally care about are the ones Google management care about. Leaks like this one do not inspire confidence in that.
I changed all those words to just MIT :)
It's not super profitable due to tight budgets.
Yes, it makes sense for the game company. The stream is more of an advertisement than competition.

I can see that if you organized game-streaming as an entertainment provided by a company, that company would most likely want to hire an editor to provide a best-of version.

(That's essentially how all those reality TV shows like Big Brother worked. Plus some extra dramatization, of course.)

There's economic value to consumers in getting the best-of version, so I am hoping that the participants will find a way to share the larger cake.
No, it actually doesn't.

It says "her/ princess". It's not clear to me if that's to be taken seriously or not.
I will believe Google is serious about supporting GCP when they decide the job of interacting with their customers and partners is worthy of being labeled a 'Googler'.

Since it seems the majority of support and service at Google Cloud is made up of TVCs, with 2 year 'life spans', it seems Google is just hedging their bet, no need to bring people on permanently if you're going to downsize in 2-3 years. In fact, is it entirely coincidental that the goal is to be #1 in roughly the same timeframe as the TVCs are allowed to work? Seems like the same sort of lack of commitment to GCP that Google place in their workers.
> When I arrive at a foreign border

We didn't arrive at the border today, we were born here, and now we are being asked to stand in line to submit documentary proofs of not only ours but of our parents and grandparents.
Yes. I agree as well.
Also love the idea.
The RFCs are very specific that e-mail addresses should be case preserving but not case sensitive.

What is the use case here for violating the RFCs?
ZFS eats memory for breakfast. All thats stopping a Pi being a really great BSD+ZFS filestore is the USB bound disk access and the lack of memory. The sweetspot would be north of 4GB, but probably 8GB would be enough. SATA would totally rock because you can get SATA enclosures which handle all the hot swap you need, and the bandwidth is fine.

So.. you can get a SATA Pi-Hat. But.. you can't boost memory north of 4GB. (sigh)
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With NCR everyone will have to prove citizenship(probably, govt hasn't given any clarification regarding this) regardless of the religion. CAB bill doesn't immediately give citizenship to non Muslims in India. It specifically states that its for people from those three countries. The people who is living in India who is not from these countries regardless of religion will be declared illegal immigrant(again, not clarified)
This is all drama to keep the public distracted from the real issues like a crumbling economy, deteriorating law and order, budget shortfalls in almost all sectors. This has been a recurring play BJP playbook seen throughout the last 6 years.
Expecting citizens to produce proof of their right to exist at a moment's notice is a famous signifier of a police state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_papers,_please

If you have a specific reason to suspect and investigate an individual, that's a different matter.
risk of counterfeit goods and really the cost of Prime have pushed me away from Amazon. I can get free overnight shipping from walmart if I just do batch orders of $35 or more. I don't care about their music, video or other misc services.
Few CS majors are good developers, and few good developers are CS majors.

But you're a natural so you don’t need to worry about where the crowd is surging. They’re not relevant
Do the numbers. You’re off by several orders of magnitude.

In case you don’t want to bother:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21816395
Cyanide and other such harmful chemicals were used. Let's not mention hydraulic mining. That said, the history, the left over relics, and such are interesting to explore. Empire Mine in Nevada City/Placerville is worth visiting. Sixteen-to-one up in Alleghany (an interesting drive) is still active and on my list to visit.

One of my favorite tidbits from the general Sierra / Plumas / Nevada County area is the Engel Copper Mine. There was a narrow gauge rail road that brought the copper ore down to Keddie which was then loaded onto the Western Pacific. Wikipedia says it was hauled out to Utah to be smelted down, locally people say it was brought down what is now SR-70 / the canyon (where the Camp Fire that decimated Paradise started) to Sacramento/The Bay Area for processing.
It's not that simple; in that part of India (the northeast), there is all sorts of dynamics between different ethnic AND religious groups. The Assamese versus the Bengali vs many tribal groups who speak various Tibeto-Burmese languages. Then there is various religions. Hindus, Muslims, tribal animists, various Christian groups, etc. Between India and most of Bangladesh there isn't much of a natural border. There has been en masse migration after 1947, 1971, and more recently.

The BBC had a good story about this recently:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50757093
Why do people need PDF readers anyway? Chrome browser and all the major OSs ship with one.

Is this because of the users of old Windows versions? If yes, then good news: once those disappear, those attacks would die off as well.
For Assamese the 'outsiders' are anyone from not Assam. It means the citizens from other parts of India themselves like from Bengal, Bihar
This is especially disappointing considering the time, legal and administrative effort and money will be spent on trialing and detention of alleged non-citizens.

For a government which has attained a historical majority for the second time, just imagine the impact they can have if they focussed this energy on improving economic and human-life indicators instead. India still ranks 103 on the world hunger index, even below its less developed neighbour – Pakistan.

I hope they don't squander this majority away, but I fear they will.
Is this statement a joke? Who makes a statement from a company by saying they are making a statement by the management? What's the point? To look official? Next, this "statement" says nothing. Of course that's the point, but at least be creative. You should be, because I can imagine how challenging it is to defend something universally indefensible.

How dumb do you have to be to make this guy an officer. He could've been the chef in the basement washing just as much money.

Associations with Mark Karpeles are like wearing blackface: it's never okay. Never. It doesn't matter what the reason is.
India's hunt for illegal immigrants is transparently aimed at the country's Muslims. Any suggestion otherwise is just wrong.

The government, over the last few years, has subjected many of its citizens to a bureaucratic nightmare to prove their citizenship. In many cases, all it takes to be declared a foreigner is for a neighbor to file an "objection" letter, which amounts to nothing more than an accusation. From there, the onus is on you to prove your own nationality to the nightmare that is India's legal system.

Under India's new citizenship law, Hindus (and members of most other religions) swept up into this mess can simply petition for citizenship. Conveniently for the current government, Muslims cannot.
With Slack, anyone in the organization can file a ticket and get a human to respond in a few hours. If something isn’t great about Google Sheets (or of their cloud offerings), I have no idea how to submit and issue that will get attention of someone at google. They lose big time for this stance.
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This is beyond bad. The government has slowly inched to their religions roots and have made religious segregation their primary mandate. I mean, at this rate, we will be no different from Saudi Arabia or other countries where religion dominates all policy decisions.

I don't know if Modi is a hard core religious fanatic or if his hands are just tied down by RSS brass who are most likely inciting this nonsense, especially at a stage when the economy is in near doldrums.

The government has also passed the equivalent of patriot act in India.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/10/india-personal-data-protec...

CAB + NRC + Data bill => Orwelian fucking dictatorship all around.

What an awful time to be in India. Sadly, most people will wake up to the reality later than sooner.
I love the idea of a land value tax, but it has about as much chance of being approved by the landed gentry (let’s call them what they really are) as any of the other measures that threaten their “investment.”
Very similar experience at a recent conference. Love his blog, and writing in general as well
Maybe genetic algorithms could help you optimize correlated questions you might need answering.
This is disgusting and I feel it is a crime. Freedom is of the most precious things living humans have. So maybe progressive part of the world will wake the f.. up and apply some pressure.
I understand. However self-consciousness is not what I mean by consciousness. If you observe 'your' actions there is still something there along for the ride. It is this which I surmise is common for all humans.
> "asked to leave"

And that's the funny part. Where is such a person supposed to leave to? They were born in India, lived all their life in India. They have never seen another state let alone another country.

CAB + NRC is just a play to render millions of poor Indians 'Stateless'.
I've seen a few. It's sort of like hiring programmers when you are not one. I feel like 80% of nutritionists that are 'on the market' are not competent, but I'm not qualified to judge. It's just that they say things that contradict each other, and instead of falling back to some study, they get defensive.
You used to be able to click on a link like file:///etc/passwd and it would show up in the browser.
The crater and the resulting aquifer disruption is a contributing factor to why several nearby cities import their water from far away. Another is that the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Newport News acquired water rights to nearby creeks long ago, back when nearby jurisdictions were rural counties, so by the time other areas experienced growth, all of their surface water rights were already owned by the oldest cities [1].

Caught in a wave of post-war growth, white flight, threatened by annexation, and discontent with having to buy local water from their neighbors, counties in this part of Virginia started becoming cities. In Virginia, cities are independent from counties -- the federal government therefore considers Virginia cities to be county-equivalent -- and cities are protected from annexation by adjacent cities.

Counties turned into cities, then merged with an adjacent friendly city to avoid annexation by a rival city; Princess Anne County merged into the City of Virginia Beach; Norfolk County merged with the City of South Norfolk and renamed itself to Chesapeake; Nansemond County changed into a city, then a year and half later merged into the City of Suffolk; the county surrounding the City of Hampton merged back into it; and the City of Newport News eventually merged by mutual agreement with the City of Warwick, even though 6 years prior Warwick changed from a county to a city to avoid that exact fate.

After experiencing major growth, Virginia Beach wanted to have a better negotiating position with Norfolk over water supply. It build a long interbasin transfer [1][2] to withdraw water from Lake Gaston on the Roanoke River, adjacent to the North Carolina border. Chesapeake joined as a minority partner. The resulting water is delivered into to Norfolk's system, who filters and treats it, and distributes it to Norfolk, Virginia Beach, the most urbanized areas of Chesapeake, and most military bases in the area.

[1] http://www.virginiaplaces.org/watersheds/lakegaston.html [2] https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/public-utilitie...
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Ops is getting commoditized through no-code/IaaS-turnkey solutions -- not there yet but I can see what is hard now, becoming easy for 80% of a business needs.
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If a single person can generate a signed binary by themselves, then restricting execution to signed binaries does not address the threat model in the article.
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>How is a user supposed to verify the infrastructure?

May be opening the logs for intrusion detection systems for their servers could help user be aware of external attacks. Also may be internal access logs?
http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~hile/math100/logice.htm :D
How did you find out about them? Do you know anything regarding their fundraising or their team? Theres nothing on their webpage
That's like one set of protests. The situation in that part of India has always been way more complicated than that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Northeast_India
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The good news is that linear algebra is one of the easiest forms of algebras out there to learn.
> The people who is living in India who is not from these countries regardless of religion will be declared illegal immigrant(again, not clarified)

This essentially is 'stripping citizenship`.

The government is essentially saying this: "We are not doing wrong right now. So bear with us.
After CAB debacle is done, NRC comes in and the government will again say: "We are not doing anything wrong right now too. You just have to follow the laws already passed and PROVE YOUR CITIZENSHIP"
Well you don't know that, it's Simon's assertion that he doesn't do insider trading and whether you or I believe him (and I do, fwiw) stating that he doesn't as an incontravertable fact is going too far.

"There's zero evidence that Simons and Renaissance do any insider trading." Is a better way to state it.
The RSS (which the ruling BJP party draws its members from) was founded in the early twentieth century drawing inspiration from fascism. It's members continue to espouse their admiration for Hitler (source: I personally know some). I fear their aim is to make Muslims (initially, later all non-Hindus) fear for their lives in India.
Good point. Google using GCP internally would be strong validation of the product and I think add more comfort for enterprising adopting it.

E.g. what coup would be for Google Search to run on GCP. Imagine the CIO conversation of, “well, if it is good enough for google search, it must be good for me”.
The president of the United States engages in insider trading regularly, right in front of the whole world, on Twitter. We just don’t know who is getting the payoff.
Um, not disingenuous. See, the company isn't funded nor owned nor managed by its employees. So it's not "abuse" and it is completely legitimate, even a mandate, and a fiduciary duty that compels companies advance their agenda. A corporation MUST take these kinds of actions, it isn't even legal for them not to, let alone abuse.

Conversely, an employee's agenda can be left at home, please, if they agree to be employed. The "Engineer" is lucky she isn't brought up on misuse of computing system charges.

I don't like companies that invade employees and customers outside-of-work freedoms. Just as I don't like employees that abuse and undermine the relationship that they freely entered with their employers. If you don't like it - quit and go work somewhere else. Then become activist.
Saving people is extremely profitable - curing, however, is anything but.
Advanced compared to what? Probably not microchip factories...
They are big and expensive now. If they prove themselves then the economics of scale apply and the price goes down. And of course a lot more funding in the sciences to figure out how to make them cheaper because there is more economic interest.
Betting on Google’s offering is like betting your business on Bing. It might work but it’s an also-ran. And that’s before this leak. Time for leadership to clarify hard, ASAP.

Infrastructure should be built on rock, not sand. Google has sold too much sand.

Businesses need to focus on their next battle not finding a replacement API, web toolkit or cloud.
I happened to watch an episode when visiting some family and even though the characters were slightly different it did feel like it was touching on EQ more than IQ skills.

That being said the count is still the count and Chappelle's skit [1] is still spot on.

[1] https://youtu.be/v595FBEngj8
This whole story seems weird and inconsistent, but particularly: “The pressure to show more progress very soon in the business extends to Google Cloud product teams, which the company is now asking to develop detailed multiyear strategic plans, a former Google Cloud employee said.”

Detailed multi-year strategic planning as a change from 18-month plans seems more consistent with a recognition that significant progress on the obvious indicators is a long slog and that positioning for it is going to take tracking less direct indicators over a longer period than it is with increased pressure for short-term results. Increased pressure for immediate results tends to be accompanied by reduced long-term planning.
It's great for operations but precludes major investment in new inventions.
If you only use hidden services then most of the risks are mitigated to being almost entirely benign.
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I can understand how you would feel that way if Mark was hired as the CTO of PIA, but as we stated before, he never had any operational role or access to anything at PIA.
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I saw Game Changers too. I liked the message, and as someone who built a business on keto, it was an interesting perspective.

But quick research on Google Scholar points out that it's probably hiding some facts. Like vegans may be healthier but get obese too. It helps with diabetes and insulin resistance, but not completely. Gladiators may have been a little fat, as a form of armor.

What's interesting is a quick search turns out that lacto ovo vegetarians do a little better than vegans. So "animal products" might not be entirely bad.
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I still use my Mx518 and 310 for LoL and PuBG. They’re still superior in my eyes.
We don't have all info on this though. Maybe there were more to it. If not, it follows US workplace culture and is unfortunate.
It's not using Matrix? What's the point in making an open source however non federated IM service?
Well yes there are treaties but you get to fight extradition in an Indian court where the hometown decisions may not go against you they way they seem to in US courts. If you find yourself caught in a battle, engage where you have the high ground is a good idea compared to running into the chokepoint to engage there.

I'm saying this while saying nothing at all about the guilt or innosence of the suspect or investigating agents in this particular case.