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In contemporary American politics, "filter bubbles" that suppress facts--as opposed to providing a slanted interpretation of the meaning of facts--are exclusively a product of conservative politics.

If there was concrete evidence of malfeasance involving either Biden, actual media outlets (NYT, WaPo, CNN, ABC, CBS, etc) would report on it. They might downplay it, but they would report it.

In contrast, conservative media gleefully provides politically motivated "alternative facts[0]" -- more properly known as 'lies'[1] -- and fails to report on stories that are politically harmful to conservatives. Conservative media is not intended to inform; it is intended to keep people ignorant of actual, objective, facts.[2]

Has your filter bubble told you that Trump was impeached specifically for attempting to blackmail the Ukrainian government into framing Biden?

Has your filter bubble told you that this kind of conduct is not normal in a democracy?

Just because conservative media lies to people to further a political objective does not mean that the entire media ecosystem is equally bad.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

[1] https://www.politifact.com/article/2015/jan/29/punditfact-ch...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/11/21/fox-news-v...
> Because of its scarcity, a cryptocurrency soaks up surplus currency created by banks and prevents it from being wasted on creating less-than-useless startups and jobs which harm society. It also stops surplus currency from being soaked up by corporate monopolies that are eroding our personal freedoms and society.

I've read this several times and can't make sense of it. Can you explain what "surplus currency" means and what "soaks up" means in economic terms?
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I am excited about this. Two questions:

1) Does scaling a Supabase app basically just boil down to scaling a Postgres database? Firebase (Firestore) claims they can do like a million concurrent connections & 10 megs per second of writes. Any idea of the scaling limits of Supabase? Totally understand if this isn't on the radar yet, it is not really a concern for most applications.

2) Do you have a built in authentication solution? One of the pleasures of Firebase is the built in authentication that mostly just works by enabling it.

Happy that you are building an alternative to Firebase.
> But there’s also this idea that the magical compiler does good enough abd there’s no reason to challenge the assembler. But there are programming problems where that is in fact essential.

Citation needed. I've seen people claiming this for years, and I've yet to see a single case where handwritten assembler actually did better than spending the same amount of effort on speeding up the compiled program (e.g. taking 5 minutes to actually set the right target architecture).

> Writing great asm or C is as challenging as writing great css. But to be sure, knowing what your code actually requires hardware to do is really valuable. It matters and we don’t have abstraction in many cases to abstract that away totally.

> It doesn’t hurt to have a good idea on how the machine works.

On modern hardware both C and ASM are distractions. If you actually want to understand the performance you need to look at cache misses and mispredicted branches; reading through C or an ASM listing will only serve to mislead you. Strangely enough, the crowd that wants you to learn C seem to be the same people who are vehemently against using the kind of profiling tools that will actually tell you what's going on.
No, it's not. AFAIK, NYC Train Sign went out of business over a year ago.
MicroSoft is shit, has been shit for years, and presumable will always be shit. Stop using their software and tell your gloating friends that win10 is horrible piece of shit and they know it, most of them are in denial.
I can't speak for OP but while this is a common cognitive pitfall it's also one which you can intentionally correct for by attempting to anchor your beliefs on original sources and making an effort to find things outside of your immediate community. People are going to be successful at this to varying degrees but as we can see currently there are large segments of the population who never try.
Are you saying 100% of your applicants could write FizzBuzz at step 3 or at step 4?
How is Cisco a monopoly?
He probably used tor or a vpn to hide location / ip info and that was the cincher.
Could you elaborate more on the widespread use of AI in Google?

Does search actively use AI as well? Is it fully dependent on a NN without manual algorithms?
the typical interview is a series of unstructured intuitive judgement calls - Kahneman suggests something more like a survey with a strong emphasis on its calibration and isolating/controlling biases. Thinking Fast And Slow goes more in depth on how terrible typical interviews are - the article merely summarizes the advice he provided for what to do instead.
A quick search will lead you somewhere like here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current.

> Most HVDC links use voltages between 100 kV and 800 kV.

By contrast, high voltage AC lines are around 10kV to (very rarely) 100kV. AC presents some more problems to high voltage than just phase synchronization (so even two point lines are DC), but the gains come mostly from the HV part, and AC is avoided because it doesn't play well with HV, reverting the gains.
I'd love to apply Occam's Razor to Apple's network connections. Those entitles should not be multiplied without necessity. That's why I use Little Snitch!

Seriously though, Tim Cook has been absolutely trashing Apple's hard won reputation by relentlessly pushing (via push notifications no less) TV shows and other garbage "subscriptions" on computer buyers. It's not what I signed up for when I became a Mac user many years ago.
I think the most brutal in that song was "... who owe their large pensions..."
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Back in '97, Microsoft invested 150m into Apple as well as published office on macs. This was very likely an effort to keep a competitor alive to pretend windows was not a monopoly.

Mozilla is in a much worse position than Apple was in '97. The only way they can continue to exist is to be on the take from Google's handout.

The corpse of Mozilla as a puppet to perform for regulators at Google's command is probably a net negative for the world.

Maybe Mozilla has run its course.
This the engineering corollary of "The grass is always greener". For engineers it's "The other engineering disciplines are always harder"!
I think a lot of people assume that Jamstack sites need to be static sites through and through. I don't think this is realistic and you will be overcomplicating things for yourself if you try to do this. For things that don't change often, having a static site has obvious benefits and Jamstack is well suited to build those parts of your site. For user generated content, you are better off just storing it somewhere else and loading it dynamically.
It was only about a year ago that I realized the line was "Take us to your Lieder"...
Typescript is extremely good at this. Rust is pretty good. Even Java is okay now.

I firmly believe type inference is the future. Most objects in dynamic languages are statically typed anyways, the type just isn't exposed at compile time.
Same. Pretty much every candidate we interview is more than capable of doing the job technically. Overwhelmingly, why my team picks one person for the job and reject the others is for non-technical/behavioral reasons.

Then again my company is a boring investment bank, not a hot tech company. Top quality candidates are not in a rush to trample each other to join us. 90% of the candidates we get would not be able to brute force naively solve an leetcode medium or even a harder leetcode easy, let alone come up with an optimal solution. We would never be able to hire anyone if we rejected everyone that wasn't able to code an optimal solution in 40 minutes.

Yet if hired, I have no doubt nearly all of them would be able to do the actual job more than well enough - and that has been the case with everyone that I've interviewed and gave the thumbs up to.
This is pretty much it. Constant temps are more important than lower temps. Within reason of course.

Modern equipment is pretty tolerant to high intake temps, due to lots of very poor datacenter designs. It's pretty common to see servers in older co-location facilities at the top of racks seeing 95F intake temps if the on-site staff don't really care about rack blanks and the like. These can go unnoticed for years and simply chug away with their fans at high speed.
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Blog post or not, it could definitely benefit from some examples.
It looks like most of those points are because you wouldn't necessarily be transmitting power over frequency like you would with AC. But, if we're transmitting over long distances wouldn't we end up transmitting the DC in frequency to avoid attenuation loss?
If the function you trying to keep is in non-pub module, it will be removed.
Maybe you could move it out of private module: <https://rust.godbolt.org/z/PYPbG8>.

There's also an `#[used]`[1] attribute, but only for static items.
If your use case is special, consider open a feature request in
Rust repo.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/reference/abi.html#the-use...
> Do we really want to trust that Apple will keep all 50+ of these privileged services fully protected?

No.[1] That's what people need to start understanding.

Even if you decide to trust that someone will attempt to act in your best interests (you really shouldn't, see Google's extinct "do no evil" mantra), you can't trust anyone to do so perfectly.

All this aspirational goodwill that fans express on behalf of their favorite FAANGMUULA is the tech equivalent of flat earthing. The facts are simple: no software is perfect, you can't trust any software.

1: https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/49/Apple.html
There's actually a comment in the paper about what it does:

> shift the input by 1 byte, shifting in the last byte of the previous input

I'm unsure that I think the naming or parameter order is very good, but being able to lift the code into something nicer than intrinsics seemed nice to me.
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there's issues with decades of one provider also owning the infra. It got split up in recent years, but we've yet to see new providers connected.

in the top end, fruitbats and cyclonic storms are common disruptions

its got better in the suburbs since lotsa wires went underground, but just a few km down the highway and the grade of service drops.
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The article says the team at the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania didn't think it was mass hysteria:

The neurologists at the University of Pennsylvania found that some explanations for the Havana Syndrome, including mass hysteria and group psychosis, were highly unlikely. Many of the patients didn’t know each other, their performance on these tests could not have been faked, and they did not wallow in their pain. In fact, according to the study, they were desperately trying to get better and “were largely determined to continue to work or return to full duty, even when encouraged by health care professionals to take sick leave.” The study also concluded that these injuries were likely not caused by exposure to chemicals, since no organs other than the brain were involved. Nor were they likely to have been the product of a viral infection, the doctors said, because these patients did not display associated symptoms, like a spiking fever.
That's why the 2012 MBP is under my desk 99% of the time collecting dust. I use it mostly for command line applications through homebrew these days. Haven't quite figured out a good way/something comparable for windows. Would love to get another Mac, but what I would need is quite pricey. Would love to see a Mac Pro 1/2. And its hard to justify 2 expensive machines when I have what was at the time of building was a pretty high end PC with an Intel i7 3.70 GHz CPU, GTX 2080 GPU, 16 GB Ram, and 2 SSD's. Interestingly enough Lightroom Classic is still slower than molasses on it, apparently because there is so much legacy code in it. I've recently switched to Capture One which is super fast, but now I have to relearn a bit as it functions very differently than LR.
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I think you're creating a straw man here. No one is saying that the only two investment options are Bitcoin and stock. There are literally millions of other investment vehicles, from real estate to cattle to Legos.

You also have to acknowledge that most people don't pick stocks. They have exposure to the stock market indirectly through pension funds, or they manage their retirement funds by investing in ETFs.

If your ETF is sufficiently broad, you're not really betting on a single thing. Buying crypto is betting on the liquidity of that coin (or equity in a company or whatever the coin was made to track).

Buying a stock is betting on the dividends of that stock.

Buying industry-wide or nationwide index funds is betting on the long-term stability of society. If that society crashes (due to war, a pandemic, or climate change), you're probably screwed anyway because, well, your entire society has crashed.

Perhaps you could argue that investing in crypto is the opposite bet -- that society will crash in our lifetimes -- but it seems unpalatable to most people to bet on a Mad Max-like future for themselves at an old age and for their children.
Check out the link in my reply above, it's pretty interesting. It lays out exactly how they collect the unemployment statistics and calls out that they can't use unemployment insurance numbers for the exact reason you said - benefits run out, but people are still looking for work.

They basically survey 60,000 people and ask a specific set of questions to figure out which "bucket" people are in.
The day Mozilla shuts its doors is the day when Google would become synonymous with the internet. Nobody would ever be able to make anything in it that Google doesn't want to exist.

Google would deprecate APIs for other APIs that seemingly have the same purpose but are missing a single crucial feature.

They would build websites on Chrome private builds that include features that make these apps possible and conveniently release them at nearly the same time so nobody can contest them at launch.

Add-ons would be deleted because of arbitrary "ToS violations" like Apple already does. Although they are already planning to cripple add-ons like ad blockers with manifest v3.

And much more.
No, it is not open source.
This is a pretty good breakdown of the dynamics of software engineering hiring, even if I don't follow to her conclusions.

It seems like "abstraction" is a recurring theme. The hiring manager is abstracted from the job description by the recruiter. Whether by institutional affiliation or passing a quiz, candidates are abstracted into punch cards that can be fed through the system.

Furthermore there's a seemingly overwhelming institutional bias for companies to congratulate themselves on making the right hire, and for their employees for being the right hires, that the whole thing becomes kind of circular.
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I've been wondering if Mozilla ends up owning Chromium eventually.

It would make sense... it's the part of Google's business that they'd be most likely to be okay parting with (after all, it's open source), they wouldn't lose much (Mozilla would still keep Google as the default search engine), and they could get regulators off their backs.

Plus, Google and Mozilla have a longstanding relationship – the early offices were provided by Google and for a long time, every Mozilla employee had a Google badge. The Chrome and Mozilla teams like each other.

(I'm an ex-Mozillian with no inside knowledge!)
Similarly: http://www.a1k0n.net/2011/07/20/donut-math.html
80% of starting ww2 was also Russia, on the German side. By surprise Russian declaration of war you surely mean Hitler breaking Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 2 years into the war.
Less CTO AI Strongman, more underhanded/nuanced pressure in the form of this is a big pitch we could win and we're a small start up about to be acquired by a big conglomerate and it could affect how much we make from that deal from the MD and founders etc.

Edit: I only joined the company because I thought they were above all the snake oil, turned out their oil was just a different color.
Thanks for the links! I do found that inverter AC seem more popular in East Asian countries. But then again, they don't use central air conditioning in residential as much as the US do, so probably not an apple to apple comparison.
AFAIK, it works like this:

A web server need root privileges in order to bind ports 80/443.

But in this case it’s only the primary Nginx process that will run as root. The subprocesses will run as a non-privileged user, as specified with the “user nginx” directive.

https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerized-nginx/blob/master/co...

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134301/why-does-ngi...
I'm a hype-man at this point but I think Servo still shows promise
> Unpause? Is this a secret I don't know about?

I think this was in reference to your comment that your side gig that provides this service is “kinda on pause though”. :-)
I think there is a meme (in the true sense of the word, not a silly picture) where the basis of languages like C and assembler is implanted in say JavaScript and how it does things. For example references vs. values and how this affects closures. Why have a lexical scopes? All this stuff which confuses the fuck out of new programmers, might be simpler if they learned C first.

I think this can trip newbies up. Especially from bootcamps, who don't understand why their code is working, and I feel like replying with "well think about how the object is stored in memory" because none of the stuff that's built on that will make sense without it. I'd like to understand more myself. It would be useful to have some idea of what the compiler is doing with things like lexical scopes. I think that's the only way to really understand them as the abstractions are too leaky.
In other words, buying a default position in a browser or OS is not an anti-competitive practice. Many other things Google does are, but this isn't.

This DOJ lawsuit is basically a gift to Google if you actually think through what it is likely to achieve, and what a better targeted lawsuit could have achieved but won't, because DOJ chose to instead spend its resources on a weak case for an issue that is largely irrelevant to Google's moat.
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AlphaFold should be mentioned too:
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-sci...

Also, I wonder what happened with FB Deep Learning equation solver:
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-neural-networks-to-solve-...
In the off chance anyone here is able to answer ... does anyone know how to trace the originating app when Little Snitch detects an outgoing connection from netbiosd? I believe that happens when an app tries to access an smb mount. Some app on my computer is constantly doing that to an AWS-hosted mount, but I can't figure out what.
It would be amusing to formally terminate the rights of a few specific individuals to some piece of GPL code, as a sort of formal protest against whatever they're doing, requiring them to go and get the rights passed along to them again (... I assume that's how it'd work out?) from someone who still has license.
Now I wonder if that true IRL!
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Current Retool customer here. We had this concern as well and we're supporting it with a custom component. Retool has been immensely helpful in planning, developing and supporting us in the engagement.

Due to Retool, we've essentially overhauled 60+ 10MB Excel sheets that we had to generate,distribute consolidate for a business planning function into a single app that supports by-user profile settings with 2 guys that are decent Excel/SQL guys but by no means devs.

Strong data grid, and Retool will start eating into "Excel as a front-end" market.
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The latest update to Firefox featured a very prominent suggestion to use Mozilla VPN. It seems like a focus on privacy is their reaction. Keeping your data away from companies like Google is the suggestion.
You only get a low visibility notice ( https://signal.org/blog/images/safety-numbers-advisory.png ) which the counterparty can immediately scroll off.

And even there, if I send a message to you and on receipt the software finds that your key has changed, my client sends it again to the new key. Which means that even if I was savvy enough to catch the message, it's tool late and potentially a critical secret has already been disclosed to a MITM by the time I see it.
I like the idea of using it to provide a "safe" execution environment for untrusted C++. I imagine bochs or other similar user-mode emulation could also work, but this benefits from being smaller and thus having less of an attack surface (theoretically).

It's also just neat!
I've used browser extension last time:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/csp?hl=en-US

Helpful to gather all the assets being loaded and generating the rule sets, it's probably better to work on dynamic websites which may load additional data live.

I had a lot of Google Tag Manager and 3rd party libraries.
Who assumes this? This seems to be the JavaScript-bootcamp-I’m-a-coder-now crowd who don’t really understand their tools
Whenever I hear the term discipline in the context of computing I always think of Dijkstra's excellent book A Discipline of Programming[1]. His definition of discipline makes a lot more sense to me than the one in this article. And discipline in the sense of proficiency with the predicate calculus absolutely does scale.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2276288.A_Discipline_of_...
> The point is, any enterprise client is expected to have these features

"Features" seems like an excessively charitable word to describe spyware/malware-like behavior.

Expected by whom? Certainly not library patrons. On the contrary, library patrons expect their privacy to be protected.

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy
Google earn more per 1000 searches than Bing by quite a margin (I believe there is a stat for this in the UK CMA report).

Google can offer an amount greater that any other search engine would find profitable. If I remember correctly, Google earn around double per 1000 searches than Bing does. Other English based indexes tend to use Bing ads and earn even less per 1000 searches.

I suspect the amount Google offers is an amount that is deliberately at a level that Bing would not be able to match.
But a better alternative to measure power could be lobbying efforts and spending, which the tech companies are lagging in.
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