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No need to make it an open server. For applications that require a limited number of resources, you can implement a whitelist--only allow connections to certain IPs or addresses. Inspect the connections if you have to. For everything else? Make the user run it locally, have your runtime try to connect to a local instance before connecting to a remote instance.

Alternatively, figure out a way to ship remote dependencies alongside the swf file, and define a patch format that allows replacing network requests.

All of this is more work to do, but all of it is also workable solutions.
They are non-profit, but bureaucracy begets bureaucracy. The growth in higher education from raised tuition partly goes towards better facilities, but most of the money is going towards administration. That, plus a competitive environment, has almost makes a zero sum game where colleges offer more services to attract a dwindling pool of full-pay students.
Incentives are a lot more complicated than simply being non-profit = altruistic mission optimizing. The president makes a million bucks a year. Faculty pursue status, power, and resources for research or personal interest. Alumni often wish to keep their institution exclusive and elite to increase the value of their degree and average member of their community, and provide resources to their institutions (Donations) as a means of control over “mission”.

Of course, that’s all on the pretty cynical side and the majority of people I think are overall aligned with the mission of providing the best possible education and research environments. But, the above is where Scott is coming from, and certainly holds some water. Particularly in his area of academia ahem business schools ahem.
so it is a ponzi scheme?
Are these fuses extremely small? I would assume they’re easy to bypass otherwise.
To kind of go against the flow here: _most_ of the projects I worked on seemed to be a waste of time when I worked on them, but ended up making a lot of money many years later, years after I'd moved on. I like the green field stuff, and green field stuff looks like a waste of time most of the time. The first three versions suck ass and don't do much, but without having them you don't get to something that doesn't suck. Both the first and the second project I worked on at MS seemed like horrible waste of time in early aughts, but have likely made tens of billions of dollars for it by now.

Then there are projects where I did something ahead of its time (and was ultimately unsuccessful) yet other people did the exact same thing later and made a ton of money.

Finally I ran engineering at a startup which spent ~3 years largely wasting time and money, only to be acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars for reasons that are still unclear to me.

You never really know. Success is a random, nonlinear process and your effort is but one input to it. I've given up trying to predict if something will be successful if the work that's being done at the front lines is solid from the engineering standpoint. Business is mostly about being very persistent and/or being in the right place at the right time.

For all you know your company might be one PhD hire away from absolutely blowing the doors off competition. Or it may get to that point years later because it started thinking about it now. Or having at least some sort of an AI strategy (even if not very successful) might double the acquisition price in some upcoming merger. All of those things would make your work worthwhile in retrospect even if the project fails. You never know such things.

These uncertain situations are usually a blessing in disguise: because management has no clue, you can pretend that you have clue, and steer things in the direction that's useful to you. Put some cool things on your resume, if nothing else. Move on, see if you have better luck elsewhere.
PreSonus Notion user here and quite agreed it's excellent. I just wish they'd rev it more frequently.
> Who said anything about social stats?

You did.

> Dubner went went down the podcaster route. 15 years later, Dubner has reached millions of people [...]

I assume this is measured in terms of subscribers or listen counts.

I'm not saying the Freakonomics Stevens have/haven't had quality contributions to the world, I'm not even saying anything w.r.t. average podcast quality vs. average academic paper quality. I'm only saying that people often measure impact along only one dimension.
They lost the lawsuit: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/harvard-admissions-law...
Why aren't high school class grades enough? If we want predictive measures then why not make the preparation for college the actual measure instead of tacking it on at the end as another exam. I can see it being useful for people who don't go through the traditional path and need to prove that they have the equivalent knowledge of a typical American high schooler but otherwise I really think there is no value in these tests.
Adorn: A one click support of black code formatter for IDEs and text editors
If you're looking for market/competition research, I'd recommend https://coscout.com as well, for info about companies, funding, competitors, tech stack etc

It's in alpha right now, so you'll have to get in the waitlist, though they're only a few weeks away from launching AFAIK.

Full disclosure: A friend of mine is building this :)
Corrected. Thanks.
Previous employer did something similar. Hired a crazy expensive data scientist, spent truckloads of money on a data swamp, er, lake, and then didn’t really have any goals for what to do with all that capacity.

The new hire got lucky, as there was some low hanging fruit (optimizations we all knew about). The obvious solution was implemented and then he ex post facto claimed 100% credit for the revenue enhancement. Since it’s like 10x his salary every year he’s pretty much on autopilot.
I always found it noteworthy in that the designers of Microsoft Windows did not consider co-existance with other OS on the same computer, i.e., "dual-booting". When I install NetBSD I never have to worry about it clobbering any code needed by other OS to boot. Not sure about today, but years ago Windows used to require being installed in the first bootable partition. If some other OS code occupied that position it was clobbered. On the other hand, the designers of NetBSD seem to have considered the possible co-existence with other OS on the same computer. To me, that is great design. NetBSD has this author's favorite bootloaders and I consider their kernels more flexible to boot than Linux kernels. I do not use grub. NetBSD has long supported the 1995 multiboot specification. Years ago, Linux did not. Perhaps that has changed. It always seemed like there were only a limited number of bootloaders that could boot Linux.
Rethinking bpfilter and user-mode helpers
Oh, this is very nice:) One question: Why does this page open with a link to FreeBSD docs? (Just general information on x86 boot process? Is this code similar/shared between the BSD family members?)
Billion-Story Building
Ijit Pai is on the case. Everything will be better soon.

The current FCC leadership is about as inept as the Fed, except that they're not ashamed to admit they're selling out to carriers.
I mean if you wanted to affect a change on a society.
Welcome news!

This guy is trying to emulate x86 in the browser and run the actual Flash player within that:

https://medium.com/leaningtech/running-flash-in-webassembly-...
There are legal pro drugs classified as „research chemicals not for human consumption“, which get metabolized into LSD, i.e. 1CP-LSD (http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12478/)

Unfortunately there’s even less research on those than on the original.
If there was an 0.4% chance of me being killed by being hit in the head by a comet, and if wearing a bike helmet would give me a 75% chance of surviving, then yes, I would want the choice to walk around in my stupid bike helmet.

That's about the level of risk and investment we are talking about here.

[1] https://www.statista.com/topics/1750/violent-crime-in-the-us...
Mailing unmarked drugs to world leaders seems like a good way to get a ballistic response.
Probably because no one uses it since most of the world is on Chrome. If G is maintaining the Pepper flash player for free, why would Adobe need to bother.
Your reply to this comment is dead for some reason. As a response: I really, really wish Mozilla hadn't abandoned Shumway. I also wish they'd written it as a standalone translator instead of making it depends on Firefox. The worst part is that I've got several flash sites I used to visit that are still around, but now can't be used because even though they worked with Shumway, Shumway itself no longer works with Firefox.
As much as it hurts my heart to think about all of the people who have been made to suffer needlessly by shitty companies, I'm really glad that more and more information is being made publicly available about the organizations that tolerate this sort of hateful, destructive culture within them, so that they can be avoided by decent people (as employees or users), and so that they hopefully begin the process of improving themselves and their organizations (or just wither and die, the rest of society having moved on from their backwards views).

> African Americans have been living in a burning building for many years, choking on the smoke as the flames burn closer and closer. Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible — even if you’re choking on it — until you let the sun in. Then you see it’s everywhere. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands. But we have to stay vigilant, because it’s always still in the air.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Thank you to the staff that endured this and shouted it loudly, and thank you to the reporters for highlighting it. Love always wins, and we can accelerate that process by making sure as many people have access to accurate information as possible.
To anyone who wants to learn more I highly recommend https://www.profgalloway.com - Basically a bunch of idealogy around why the big four need to be broken up.
Nonsense.

You can't fix a model to handle unknowns, and you can't test that.

We've seen with Tesla's autopilot software that things like obsolete road markers and overturned trucks are meaningless to software.
The difference is that the author's suggestion as to what to do instead doesn't work in Rust. In Haskell there's no need to use a type class/trait here at all; you can just use a record. We could try to do the same thing in Rust with a struct:

struct EventHandler {
handle_start_event: fn(),
handle_completion_event: fn(),
}

...but this differs in a key way from the haskell example:
Rust's `fn` is not a closure, it's just a pointer to some code, and you can't construct them dynamically. If you want to pass around a _closure_, you need ...a trait object.

Something like:

struct EventHandler {
handle_start_event: Box<dyn impl Fn()>,
handle_start_event: Box<dyn impl Fn()>,
}

...but that's exactly the pattern the author of that post is suggesting getting away from.

I agree with the author's point, but it doesn't really apply to Rust because there isn't actually a simpler way to do it. And I think that's part of what the OP was getting at -- Trait objects are the closest thing Rust has to proper closures, and they're a bit awkward.

Note that I'm still something of a newbie at Rust, and don't feel like I can really say much about the day to day experience of using (or avoiding) trait objects due to limited experience.
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I'd want to hear exactly how that was achieved.

It's one thing to have the engine+drivetrain efficiency peak at 70. But for total efficiency to be worse at 60, despite massively reduced wind resistance, is pretty suspicious.
>This makes sense: Harvard has a huge issue with discrimination against Asian Americans, who are not represented according to their ACT/SAT score distribution. If Harvard could waive away these scores, they can continue their admissions policy that favor students from wealthy families who pay full price, and are likely to be institutional givers after graduation by focusing on admission factors that are much less accountable, like "personality".

Please. This is about affirmative action for people who aren't Asian or White. Not wealthy donors. The argument is that lack of privilege causes poor SAT scores which is preventing certain minorities from realizing their potential, and that this justifies selectively lowering the bar and allocating additional resources.

But this is all based on a conflation between equality of outcome and equality of opportunity.
Reading up on the Erlang system, it doesn't upgrade function-local state this way either. It relies on a convention where this state is stored externally to the function by the gen_server framework and passed in, right?

(going by https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1840717/achieving-code-s...)
It reminds me of a section of Thomas Sowell's book Discrimination and Disparities.

It was talking about automatic background checks for applicants at businesses. Some people wanted such processes to be illegal, on the grounds that they were supposedly racist.

In reality, automatic (i.e. indiscriminate) background checks actually resulted in more blacks being hired. Even if the local black population had a higher or much higher percentage of people with bad marks on background checks, being able to screen them out and allow those blacks with no bad marks to apply was made easy.

Without automatic background checks, employers fell back on their own biases, resulting in fewer blacks being hired.

The SAT is like an automatic background check. Without this indiscriminate screening, the schools have more ability to discriminate based on biases.
This may be a stupid question, but what does "client/server" mean in this context?

I would interpret it to mean any networked or Internet-based application that has both client- and server-side logic, which obviously isn't anything special in 2020, but it sounds like you're referring to something else that would now be considered outdated?
Weed is relatively low habit forming, significantly less than a lot of other legal drugs, especially nicotine.

I’m not sure if the difference between weed and psychedelics in the habit area is enough to affect the formation of a reform movement.
That's even better.
The people running Facebook seem to be pure evil, full stop
As an Asian American myself, I don't understand this notion of discrimination against Asian Americans by Ivy League schools. Per Harvards Class of 2023 Admissions data [1], Asian Americans makeup 25.3% of the admitted class. They're the largest minority group admitted.

[1] https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
Because there's nothing even remotely standardized about high school education. A kid growing up in Seattle learns about evolution, while a kid growing up in small-town Oklahoma learns that Jesus rode a dinosaur to work. Cultural differences aside, a student who graduated #1 in a class of 50 probably enjoyed a fraction of the learning opportunities available to a child who graduated #12 of 500 at a larger school.

These are the problems that standardized tests were supposed to solve. Eliminate the tests, fine, but you'd better have an adequate replacement for them in mind.
It's important to keep the customer in mind when you're looking at sales figures. It's too easy to be lulled by solid sales and low churn into not actually seeing the customers at all anymore. That's usually the beginning of a downward slide ending in massive churn once a competitor releases what your customers actually wanted from you. This advice is easy to keep as an individual, hard to keep as an organization (unfortunately).
I do the same, with National's Emerald Club service. It sounds fancy but anyone can sign up for free membership. I used to be so paranoid about taking photos and videos of the car at the start and end of the rental, but have gradually transitioned to parking the car and walking right off to the terminal since all my experiences have been so painless. I do have a corporate code from my employer on the bookings (one of business travel and one for personal travel), which probably doesn't hurt.
The only value colleges can hold comes from the rigor that ensures scarcity of degrees. Lowering the bar in a naive attempt to bring college to everyone only devalued the degree, and now we are seeing the slow decay of even our most prestigious universities.

No good will come from ignoring the natural distribution of intelligence.
I think they mean a dedicated thick client using the OS’s UI framework, rather than a web browser.
Woah so cool he was on drugs while he did it??? That amplifies everything, so meaningful.
There was a major cross-carrier outage in 2015 too https://money.cnn.com/2015/08/05/technology/cell-phone-outag...
It doesn't make sense to assume that the HS student population is uniformly qualified to meet Harvard's admissions bar (absent explicit racial discrimination). There's a reason nobody really accuses the NBA of racial discrimination in drafting players.
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Imo NetBSD source code is much cleaner than some of the equivalent FreeBSD code. I just wish the NetBSD documentation was on par.
I find that a C suite member talking about AI without a specific goal in mind (“we will use AI to automate X, which will help us do Y better”) is a huge red flag.
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Anyone reading or creating PDFs to begin with should ask why even bother with such a static and outdated format that was made for when it was common to print out documents on paper to read them.
Phaser is not using Pixi since Phaser 3
Functional Programming for Array-Based Parallelism
Nutritionally, cheese is interesting due to the calcium content and vitamin K needed to absorb it rather than calorie content. And requires large amounts of cow (& sheep & goat) milk to create it. If artificial milk was possible, it could be made by traditional processes into the traditional cheeses we use for our varied cuisines. Direct artificial cheese I imagine would only get to market in one or two varieties (likely American cheese slices for artificial cheese burgers, or Parmesan for seasoning pasta).
I would say that most people have had little or no experience with violence, outside of perhaps the occasional dominance contest (mostly the realm of males under the age of 30 or so).

There is a gross difference between a dominance contest and predatorial violence, and until you have experienced the latter, you really have yet to sample the full emotional gamut of human fear.

As an aside: I tend to avoid the word "criminal" in cases like this -- it's a loaded word with a lot of connotations -- and stick with "people that have never experienced predatory violence" or "people that have never encountered a predator".
I can't entirely agree, and that's basically the only problem I have with legalization.

I'm not talking about genuinely nefarious reasons, where yes, people would have no problem going to a dealer, but about simple idiots who get a bit too drunk/high/stupid and decide it would be a good prank to dunk a bit of LSD in their friend's coffee before a big meeting or something.

I've been on the receiving end of a person who's absolutely wasted deciding I had some catching up to do and mixing all my drinks double (always mix your own drinks people!) and I'd rather not imagine what the same thing happening with LSD would feel like.
I've already seen something similar with weed, where the new guy got the way stronger stuff, and few people saw why that might be kind of fucked up because "it's basically legal now, it's fine!".
Lets ignore your claim at possible discrimination, and ask what the ability to game a high score on an ACT/SAT has anything to do with how successful or contributing to society someone will become?

In the internet age that we live in today, with access to all sorts of methods of memorization, I would argue scores on a standardized test are largely irrelevant, beyond testing for if someone can pass a test or not. The highest score goes not to the person who thinks critically but to the one who gamed the system the most. If you can teach someone to win at candy-crush, you can get them to ace the SAT's.

Some of the most important people in society have not typically done well in structured schooling, and this is in part because a lot of education is bs in the first place.
Electromagnetic compatibility - every company that manufactures any kind of electronics has to deal with it but the circle of people who do it is comparatively very small.
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From the beginning of the article:

> It’s theoretically possible to physically modify the SoC and replace the fuses, but it’s so prohibitively invasive and expensive that it’s not a real option.
Rust compile times are just really really bad.
I remember writing essays in Word, and if you didn't save them every minute, who knows how much work you might randomly lose.
Even if we drop all the facts about technicalities about this server (stored on an encrypted container, doesn't log, uses ssl, etc), I fail to see how a telephone number can be compared to a contact list in the privacy scale. The first one is probably top 3, where the second one could probably be maybe on 10th place (it's probably much higher if the user is doing something illegal though). You probably might argue that the privacy scale varies for different people, and of course this is true, but the telephone number is always more private than the contact list given that it's impossible -- in some countries -- to buy a SIM card that isn't tied to the citizen ID. So, Signal ties its accounts to my tax reports in a way. How's that private?

But even if it can be compared in some way, then Signal requires both (phone + list), when I require just one (list), plus it's possible to set up different accounts on my server to diffuse the contact list if needed, what isn't possible on Signal. IP address requirement can't be removed, so I'm skipping it completely.

Well, unless your comment wasn't about comparing Jabber to Signal, but just to point out privacy issues on my Jabber server, then OK. I understand and I agree that I don't follow every privacy standard (I don't have a privacy policy for example), but since I know exactly what's going on, I'm 100% sure that even my light take on the privacy protocols, my server is way more private than Signal ;).
Amazing and made to look so accessible. I love posts like these.

FWIW, this ShaderToy doesn't seem to work in either Firefox or Chrome for Android. Had to view it on a Linux machine.
Looks interesting. I could be a paid customer, is there a way to get access to this?
It's pretty normal to account for use of cross department internal resources in some kind of financial way within corporations.
"Postgres is extremely opinionated"

When I think of the term "opinionated" as it applies to software platforms, I think of things that have intended purposes in mind and optimize for the ease of those use cases, potentially to the detriment of people doing other things. It also suggests a "one way to do it" approach.

If that is the definition, I don't think Postgres fits. Postgres tries pretty hard to meet users where they are, and tackle uncommon or emerging use cases. Examples include JSON support, support for writing functions in various languages (javascript, python, perl, R, etc.), and C extensions that can hack the engine in innumerable ways.
You would also want to price the contracts effectively to improve margins. If certain routes are liable to be delayed more often, you will want to charge a higher premium for them or refuse to insure them. This would both reduce the risk of abuse, and increase profits.