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> Since racism is systemic[1]

> [1] If you don't believe this, you're in the minority now: https://www.vox.com/2020/6/11/21286642/george-floyd-protests....

This part was a little odd. It sounds like you're saying "because this belief is widely held by people, we should treat it as true"?

I definitely am in the minority, but I find a much more logically consistent view than the modern definition of systemic racism to actually be "there are systems of authority/control/oppression, which by their nature can be exploited by racists (or other groups) to advance their ends".

In other words - and I hope this isn't too off topic of a tangent - one of the primary goals of the BLM protest seems to be "racism is leading to excess death/imprisonment for black americans, so let's try to purge any traces of racism to eliminate these excess deaths". Which to me is missing the point: practices/systems like no-knock raids, the war on drugs, civil asset forfeiture, etc give police officers an excuse to be able to violently invade someone's home (no-knock), violate 4th amendment rights (war on drugs wrt "I smelled weed in your car"), criminalize behavior that happens to be broken along racial and class lines (non-violent drug usage/possession/distribution). In other words, the problem is not that there are racist people in the system, but that we have these systems that give racist individuals the perfect excuse to achieve their nefarious ends. That's because we've built a system that justifies and encourages oppression, and we can see that without having to introduce racee.

Anyway, I'm not hear to debunk "systemic racism" since like so many of the new-speak definitions/words, as soon as you try to debunk it people claim that you're using the wrong definition. But I do think it should be noted that when it comes to looking at actual research literature on, say, likelihood of being shot by police in a given encounter broken down by race, the "systemic racism" doesn't seem to be borne out in the data. Whereas we can make incredibly important societal change without needing to introduce the idea of systemic racism, simply by addressing the actual systems of oppression we have set up that give police officers the ability to randomly pull a citizen over and harass them since at any given moment each of us is violating a nonzero number of laws.
> They shouldn’t be allowed to place them without notifying people beforehand

They shouldn't be allowed to use them, period.
Xbox One architecture talk (2019): https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/

> Every game console since the first Atari was more or less designed to prevent the piracy of games and yet every single game console has been successfully modified to enable piracy. However, this trend has come to an end. Both the Xbox One and the PS4 have now been on the market for close to 6 years, without hackers being able to crack the system to enable piracy or cheating. This is the first time in history that game consoles have lasted this long without being cracked to enable piracy. In this talk, we will discuss how we achieved this for the Xbox One. We will first describe the Xbox security design goals and why it needs to guard against hardware attacks, followed by descriptions of the hardware and software architecture to keep the Xbox secure. This includes details about the custom SoC we built with AMD and how we addressed the fact that all data read from flash, the hard drive, and even DRAM cannot be trusted. We will also discuss the corresponding software changes we made to keep the system and the games secure.
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The “so what” is related to the fact that people aren’t telling others they have a permit from the pope, where the implied consequence is that the gullible person loses some money. They’re telling people that, for example, immigrants are the cause of all their problems, and that climate change isn’t real. The result of that isn’t that the gullible people are inconvenienced. The result is that they vote, en masse, for people who are actively hurting nor only them, but also the non-gullible people who are part of the same city/society/country/world. They do this based on information that is often provably false, but that the gullible people still believe, especially when it comes from someone in a position of power.

And that valuable service you mention, where gullible people become less gullible, never materializes if all the gullible people ever see is their own echo chamber, which continues to be disconnected from reality. The person with the pope permit to mine black holes has convinced enough people that he's definitely legit, and now he's digging a mine beneath your neighborhood, which will one day cause it to collapse, because there's gold in there and he can get rich selling it on the side. If you're willing to live with that in order to maybe, eventually, teach the people who bought into his permit a lesson, well, that's your call.
Sure. Those are called "apartments".
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this is like saying art should not exist. I'm likening these companies to artists (no value judgement attached).

Artists make stuff they want to make, and it provides value to the world in some way. Otherwise they shouldn't exist. Artists don't deliberately make things with "real broad societal value".
It took me 10 minutes to get over my shock at your comment. Information entirely refuting your "guess" that the larger numbers are due to more people being tested is available at your fingertips. It takes about a second to google, click and read this information. I think you may be the victim of propaganda. You would do well to rethink your information sources and implicit biases.
Indeed. I'm honestly surprised to read of such poor experiences here because I've honestly found that Windows 10 has given me a lot less grief than macOS has recently.
E.U. Plans to Bar Most U.S. Travelers When Bloc Reopens
Saw two excellent productions by Big Telly that were done over Zoom and they made pretty good use of tech tricks to add a lot to the experience

Some details of one of the shows, Return To Elsewhere, here: https://www.big-telly.com/return-to-elsewhere-23-24-may/

And a talk they gave about how they did their shows: https://youtu.be/iYTizaG6NOc
as long as the data is stripped of PII. I don't care..

what's the harm?
What information vacuum do you live in that makes you think that your statement is true?
Sometimes I use a quad-core laptop with 2 GB of memory and no swap (because it doesn't have enough disk space for a meaningful amount of swap) and five tabs is practically a hard limit. Even with adblocking, news sites and sites like imgur or reddit -- or really anything using heavy and fancy scripting or animations -- demand to be the sole tab on the machine.
I'm curious why TOR would maintain a list of exit nodes so that this is possible?
Granted, my PhD is in experimental physics, not theoretical. The story as I learned it was that QM is different because CM produced absurd answers for phenomena such as blackbody radiation, line spectra, and the photoelectric effect.
cryo a new file manager also supports end-to-end encrypted file transfers.

https://cryonet.io

For confidential content OnionShare is another good option.

https://onionshare.org/
presumably you can have more than one laser link using the same frequency and bandwidth of light since it is a laser beam just put the next link a couple meters over and they should not interfere with each other at all.
That sounds like a separate issue; normally, having to do a full dist upgrade means that you changed versions of lots of core components (kernel, init, libc, gcc), which is indeed traumatic. If you replace every binary but the only change is bumping the statically-linked libc from x.y.0 to x.y.1, it should be just as boring as making the same change with a dynamically-linked libc.
Wasn't someone forced to resign over the Cotton piece?

And for what it's worth, I read several people online who I'd be happy to pay and I respect them enough intellectually that when they hold opinions I disagree with, I end up changing my mind as often as not. I may be a weirdo, but I don't think it's unheard for people to seek out online writers precisely because of their independent-mindedness rather than their dogmatic adherence to a party line. In my experience, it seems to be traditional media that has drawn up along party lines.

I admire the NYT as an institution, but I certainly don't think it has anything like a monopoly on journalistic integrity.
Some distributions are switching to a more aggressive "reboot for any system update" model, with the system built on ostree or something of the sort. For instance, Ubuntu Core, Fedora Silverblue, or Endless OS. The update is downloaded and committed to disk (in a big, git-like repo for the latter two), but you need to boot into it. Your running system is untouched. This comes with the bonus that rollback is seamless: you choose an older commit from grub and it just works.

Of course, one key difference here is the system never tricks you into rebooting, and rebooting for an update takes just as long as rebooting any other time, so mostly (pending additional work, as usual :b) it's invisible.

I seem to recall Microsoft exploring similar to ostree with some Windows version somewhere, so I'd be curious to see how theirs behaves.
Widespread public infrastructure rented/leased to private companies is the only way to solve net neutrality, long-term. Otherwise it's just going to ping pong back and forth in the legislative/executive system for the next 50 years while a bunch of useful idiots argue that we should let companies turn internet access into tiered cable TV plans.
All considered this doesn’t seem as harmful as valuations could be in the current environment.

Still valuations north of 1mm.
There is only one substantive reason I am aware of: power.

I'm sure you can find more substantive arguments if you try.

Wanting to suppress discourse isn't a substantive reason. Saying that's the "substantive reason" that people want more content moderation is just a fancy way of calling those people bad people.
This release will be great. Lots of people were waiting for variadic tuple types.

I love when such "old" feature request is finally added to Typescript. First proposal for it was almost 5 years ago [1]. It really gives hope for other long standing and heavily upvoded feature requests that maybe we'll get them one day :)

[1]https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/5453
Ask HN: Contemplating moving from Engineering Manager role to a Developer role
I've been working in Tech for more than a decade now. I'm a full-stack developer and I've been an Engineering Manager for last 3 years. While I've not been asked to leave from my current company yet, but during my last 1:1 with my manager I sensed that I'd be asked to leave in next couple of weeks. I was asked to leave from my last job too. I'm not a bad manager, but I find it very hard to prioritise things at work and I probably know the reason for it. I might have ADHD (Though I haven't been clinically diagnosed for ADHD but I'm pretty sure I have it, I've got all the symptoms of ADHD combined type and I've known it for years).

I already have few interviews lined up and I'm confident that I'll be able to get another job sooner or later. While clearing the interviews for Engineering Manager role was never a problem but once I get into the company I lose interest quickly and start procrastinating. I get the job done but at the very last minute which causes a lot of problems. When I was a programmer, I was procrastinating but I was always able to get the tasks done on time (probably because I'm a good programmer). Right now, I'm confused. I'd love to get a remote programming job and on the side I can work on a couple of Ideas which I have. Would love to hear from someone who was/is in the same boat.
You comment reminds me of descriptions from people who have been near large capacitors blowing. Once you have heard/felt it, you don’t forget it.
If you're saying that monopolies only arise because of government interference, I'm gonna need a lot of citations.

I don't want to replace free markets or have a totally planned economy because I agree with you that excessive power centralization is a problem, including when it goes to the government. I am just saying that the system of capitalism (which, again, doesn't just mean free markets, it means that individual citizens can own essential means of production) has power concentration as an inevitable consequence. Government interference on behalf of the super rich, which leads to more concentration of power, is a consequence of capitalism, not a foil to it.

To be clear, I don't know what the best alternative is. But it looks something like more democratic control and accountability over the essential means of production. I'm not convinced government ownership would always accomplish this. But letting individual citizens own it and use it as leverage to increase their own personal wealth and power, virtually without limit, at the expense of those who depend on it and labor on it, is unacceptable.
Are you serious? You seem dangerously self-absorbed and misinformed. Your original comment referred to CALIFORNIA. Now you are arguing about Santa Clara hospitalizations (a very lagging indicator), which is many levels different from your original (and incredibly incorrect) point.
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> But it is arrogant to assume that anyone who supports it must be ignorant of how encryption works

No it's not. Because your analogy is, excuse the term, utter bullshit. Producing a safe requires an expert. A government could actually try to force all producers to give them a second key or some backdoor. Producing an encrypted messages requires software. Government has no chance in hell to restrict the distribution of "illegal software". Everyone who supports that narrative is stupid. Period.

Government officials aren't stupid in general, though. So why do they support the fight against encryption? Because they want to read the messages of average Joe, not the messages of Don Heroin or Sheik Al Explosive. They want to know where the next BLM gathering will be, or where the documents about city council corruption leak.
This is an interesting line of discussion. Maybe the more relevant difference is group punishment/accountability. Could that be ported over the police (ignore the current political realities and unions etc ...)

Can you fine a whole precinct for the abusive acts of one officer? Would that encourage more self-policing or more coverups? What kind of incentives could you build into the institution that would encourage "dealing with the shitbag"?
tldr: If you're worried about the high cost or the efficiency of UBI, you could fix it with taxes.

If we are just talking about giving cash as charitable donations, smaller-scale experiments about giving people cash tell us what we need to know about the effects. But at large scale, yes, we will have to also consider the effect of whatever taxes are used to counter the increase in the money supply. This isn't an immediate concern considering very low inflation, zero interest rates, and a depressed economy, but might eventually become an issue, someday.

The thing is, you could combine UBI with any tax, so that means there are a huge number of possible policies. My favorites are a carbon tax along with making income tax more progressive, but there are others.

If much of the benefit of UBI is earlier in life and the taxes are paid somewhat later (at higher income), then this has similar effects to a loan. If the benefits happen after peak income (in retirement) then it's more like forced savings.

It's also similar to an insurance scheme. On net, some people may never benefit due to always having a good income and paying more in taxes than they get back, but it still reduces your risk if you somehow lose your income.
> [...] Having said that, I do wish the average linux distro still statically linked everything in /bin and /sbin. It was nice to still be able to administrate the system even when the dynamic libraries were hosed. [...]

This argument came up back when Solaris 10 was in development and the project to get rid of static link archives for system libraries came up (search for Solaris "unified process model"). The disposition of this argument was that if your libraries are damaged (e.g., someone unlinked them or renamed them out of the way, or maybe ld.so.1 itself), well, the dependent utilities in /bin and /sbin themselves could have been damaged too, so you can't know the extent of the damage, and it's not safe to continue -- you have to use boot media to repair the damage, or reinstall. And, of course, the packaging system has to be safe, but that's not a lot to expect of a packaging system (is it??).

To my knowledge there were no subsequent customer calls about this.
> These things are evenly distributed across society

This is an unproven assertion. You should provide evidence of it, because on its face it is a completely ludicrous claim. Rates of illicit drug activity, violent crime, etc are _not_ evenly distributed in society. Not even close.

> Exhibit B) Silicon Valley openly brags about microdosing acid to perform at work at their half million $ jobs. Overpolicing would ensnare them if overpolicing existed in that demographic and then they would be ineligible for jobs the rest of their life. If you cant be subsidized by your family then you have actual crime to consider. Guess where you will live too.

Quite simply, the reason people that microdose are not getting thrown in jail is because they're not doing the other things that would lead to them getting discovered, i.e. engaging in crime or driving a car with significant (meaning, more than a person can safely swallow to avoid arrest) quantities of lsd.

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Just incase you try to pin a belief-set on me, I oppose the war on drugs, no-knock raids, and even speeding tickets completely and would entirely abolish them if I were the BFDL.
The person you are approvingly replying to is overconfident and wrong.
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NIMBYs put laws in place that makes it harder to install fiber.
As always, static and dynamic linking both have their advantages and drawbacks. The usual arguments for dynamic linking around brought up in the article, and as others have mentioned here, the analysis is a bit lacking so the conclusions aren't generally true. Static linking has its own, fairly straightforwards benefits as well. It's no surprise that those who push one or the other usually do so because of their specific needs. Sometimes we even see some interesting hybrid solutions: one recent one is Apple introducing dyld shared caches on macOS, which (while being a pain to reverse engineer) are basically all the system (dynamic) libraries all statically linked together and presented dynamically, with some linker tricks to make it appear seamless. Likewise, a lot of statically linked binaries are only partially statically linked, still using things like libc or graphics libraries. The moral really is to try both and pick whichever one is the one that's better for your use case, and perhaps even consider a mix of both to give you the most flexibility in which tradeoffs you'd like to make.
If you go to a bar or a park and play loud music over everyone, or amplify your voice loudly enough to try to have a conversation with everyone simultaneously, then they can kick you out. These locations can define their range of acceptable behavior, and that usually includes a lot of norms about socializing and letting people in their own subgroups be free from egregious distractions. Social media can similarly construct and define its own norms. No single location or specific social media site has a monopoly on speech. We have a large choice between them, and especially online, the barriers to creating your own space are low.

Already on Facebook, I generally can't make a post that's shown to other people automatically who are disconnected from my friend group. Is Facebook limiting my free speech by doing that already? Hypothetically, if Facebook did stuff like decreasing the volume, er, show rate, to far-away people if my post is re-shared from my friends and so-on to very far outside of my immediate friend group, is that then censorship?
next they'll hook the camera and microphone into the telemetry service

(sounds far fetched, right? if you told me 10 years ago that the 2020 version of Windows Pro had adware, spyware and reboots whenever it wants I would have laughed at you)
I am willing to admit that there is strong current of anti-government tendencies in US society ( in the old country they gvmt prolly could tell you to glue your passport to your windshield and people would obey ). Minor anecdote, a person at my wife's place said he won't wear a mask, because gvmt, but he will ( after some talking to )
submit to company policy. Go figure.

I don't want to make a glib statement as I know lives are at stake ( mine and my SO too; we are in high risk group ).. but the more I am watching the ensuing aftermath , the more I am leaning towards just letting retards roam free.
What makes one thing "foreign interference" and the other the "international community"? Besides that, I agree with you on Syria: many deaths could have been avoided if the US had refrained from sending billions of dollars of money and weapons to various armed groups there.
I think what happened was that once the internet became widespread and ubiquitous, it empowered a lot of people who were otherwise unable to acquire a massive audience and spout nonsense propaganda and narratives. In the earlier days of the internet, there was a larger portion of sane people because the barriers to get onto the internet were higher. Also, many crazies didn't understand the power of the internet until in the last decade.
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Haha, I get what you mean, but the people who want that get that from the Thread Unroller apps so the need really isn't there. The Twitter restriction ensures that I get Tweet-style content.
This is an interesting analysis. For my part (anecdata), in my /usr/bin (Debian) I have 2,956 files under 9MiB in size, 1 of 13MiB and one of 39MiB. Most of the files are (much) under 1.0MiB.

On the other hand, I have a three statically linked binaries for CloudFoundry in my home directory. One for Linux, one for MacOS and one for Windows. They are each between 24MiB and 27MiB each.
> the wave function’s numbers have no obvious meaning

A lot of things in physics (or in other model in science, for that matter) have cannot be measured directly. (I think "has no meaning" is a stretch here.)

I can go for ages talking about things in physics that are less intuitive than simple, non-relativistic, quantum mechanics (Poynting vector, anyone?)

But think about something simple and concrete: electric potential. You cannot measure it. But you can measure its difference.
Problem is, more and more of FB's advertising customers would prefer not to have their ads run on a dumb platform.
Preliminary Injunction Sought to Release Hydroxychloroquine to the Public
Here in the US, AT+T was ordered to allow independent DSL operators to share its twisted pair to households. Worked okay for a while, but AT+T found ways to get the shared equipment e.g. at the local office, misconfigured for those customers. Source: I was such a one, with a year and a half of intermittent service.

My fear for open access is where the open market ISPs and the natural monopoly fiber demux meet -- we should fear attempts at collusion and market manipulation.
The first hurdle is that you require source code to do any of this. Then you need to actually rebuild everything.