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> Disconnect from the internet and nobody is getting in, including the NSA.

Oh boy. That's some serious delusion in 2020. Wireless cards and higher end network interface cards are independent computers. Your processor has another processor (Intel ME and others) in it. Baseband Management Controllers are also independent computers on their own right.

With closed firmware and wireless capabilities, you can never know what they're doing at a given time.

Stuxnet reached systems which were seriously air gapped. Consider a what a laptop with a witty wireless card firmware can do.

I'm not getting into TEMPEST attacks and their newer versions, passive surveillance, etc.

I've listened tales about Cisco devices which were configured to isolate and prevent internet traffic but, they mistakenly forgot to drop some magic packets. Uh.

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Random facts about this stuff:

- Your Intel system runs a special version of Minix on its Management Engine. A version of Minix customized for Intel by its original developer.

- There are photos of Cisco devices which were delightfully enchanced by NSA before shipping to its customer via special firmware and/or hardware. NSA still retains this capability.
They did exactly this when they ditched Google Maps, turning down billions of dollars in revenue, spending billions of dollars to build out their own service, simply to prevent Google harvesting Apple user location data.
>Or, hear me out, buy cheap SSD for each operating system. For as low as $200

You can get a 240gb SSD for less than $30 these days.
I think non-stick pans are a fad.
A well greased iron or steel pan works much better and is impossible to destroy.
If they killed the port entirely, wouldn't everyone then be buying wireless chargers? Or is a "one time" purchase of a wireless charger for everyone better in the long term than one type of cable everywhere constantly being produced?
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I like it that they are attempting at least four different schemes.

There is a lot of risk in some schemes, for instance it is easy to say you left some trees standing but it is not easy to know somebody won't cut them in five years. For instance, it will be hard to prove that the Vesta scheme works.

Putting all the money in the lowest cost strategy would be likely to fail. If you spread it out probably some will succeed and others will fail.,
I understand your point.

I have two others:

1) Atheists do exist.

2) There have been insane and outrageous atrocities to humanity, science, and the natural world -- this might just be the next chapter in that saga. Either that saga continues until Humanity doesn't, God comes knocking, or a "Star Trek Federation" type scenario comes around.
How do you know it would have died? - Mind that their business is in embedded stuff, an area where Electron is no competition (putting a bit more hardware in and embedding android might be competition, but Qt runs on quite small systems)
https://www.qt.io/product/develop-software-microcontrollers-...

As an outsider it seems like the "Desktop" side seems to be a marketing vehicle, but not their bet for business (see also push for QML over QWidgets - less integration with desktop and less "native" looks, but working on cheaper hardware)
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That is not C/C++ specific, from what I saw, most "dynamic" languages picked it up rather more enthusiastically. Resolving the conflict of different library dependencies that arises in almost all languages. And with docker I can solve it in a uniform way. If you install something in the system, it will mess it up for others. Some languages do have "native" ways to avoid that, e.g. python has virtualenv, ruby has bundler, java classpaths?... but I still can mess up the system. And it isn't like there are different ways how it is then solved.

But with docker, I package and isolate the whole OS. So, as a consumer, I do not have to know how to do that for each language, and as a producer, I can do (almost) whatever I want within the container without fearing to mess up other containers or the hosting OS.

Yes, this whole approach has its own downsides. But those things are a plus, I would say.
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Thanks for the laugh. So needed for this crappy year of hell.
If anyone from Stripe is reading - is it possible yet for me to simply donate money to the portfolio you’ve assembled without running a business? We purchase monthly offsets now and I’d love to switch to funding direct carbon capture (and will happily spend more).
"Intrinsic unity" is woo. "Seamless cohesion" is woo. "Unified whole of conscious experience" is woo.

There will never be a theory of undefined term. Seeking a scientific blessing for your religion is barking up the wrong tree. Science doesn't issue blessings.
Responsibility for accidents is concentrated in insurance companies. Nothing substantial will change.
This used to be case with consumer SSDs many years ago, nowadays the effect it has on the life span of an SSD is marginal. I had (and still have) my swap file / pagefile on my cheap laptop with 4GB RAM on the SSD it came with for 5 years now and the SSD is still perfectly fine.
I always liked the idea of a second brain, an exobrain done in any form of technology.

I humbling say my exobrain is Evernote as I throw a lot of thing in there after adding some tags. I'm fast approaching the 3000 item mark, which is interesting because I'm gradually losing the capacity to find things as I can't remember what's in there to be searched/found. Day to day things like receipt photos are in some way at the top of my mind, but unique events from past years may be forever buried in there.

Another evidence: I saved an article from 2017 just to find out days later when I searched for its title that I had actually saved the same article back in 2017.

Well, I can't even imagine how this second brain will be like in 2027.
In many parts of North America you cannot function in society without a license. Therefore, we have sympathy for people because are we going to ask people who aren't good drivers to put their lives on hold on the off chance they kill someone? Better to let them all drive and vilify the unfortunate ones that do. However, with machines they have no personal lives so they are afforded no slack. Humans get to make mistakes because they are only human, but machines get no such affordances... even if the net benefit is there.
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Great initiative, though why not use those funds to also sustain forests and natural carbon capturing methods in the tropical regions? Use those funds, so that jobs can be created where forests are getting cut down for agriculture use? We could preserve our natural carbon capturing biosphere as well as invest in carbon capture technology.

There will be little incentive to preserve biosphere lands.
A huge portion of the software industry with most of open source projects hosted on GitHub isn’t a good thing. GitHub is closed source and the metadata (pulls/issues/projects) is also not in the git decentralized database.

Sure in this instance GitHub CEO is helping. However GitHub could kick you or the repo out any second.

We ought to build a more resilient internet.
This isn't even remotely true. Well, the insane price part is, I guess. But speaking as someone who was around then, the Mac was impossibly advanced, compared to the C64, Apple II, IBM PC.
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Sure, but do they have any that marginally improves what Apple already has via Siri?
Both Apple and even Windows can return web search results. I hate it. I want my devices to be free of web search results unless I am in a browser searching the web.
"Meaning that before, they were free to plant as many back doors as they pleased without any concern for the consequences."

Kinda. There apparently is some approval process and such but I'm not sure everyone at he agency was able to make such requests in the first place...

I'm with your gist, I'm just not sure we know how widespread it really was. I'm not inclined to agree that it must have been ultra widespread.
Sound advice. I would advise designing with unique pointers first and minimize shared pointers where possible. Shared pointers have a smell. Smart pointers have reference counting overhead. Unique pointers communicate ownership, while smart pointers communicate lack of ownership.

I would also recommend using an IDE with decent tooling. C++ is insanely hard to parse. If you go so template/macro crazy that you confuse your IDE context parser, you will most certainly confuse other people reading your code.
I keep wondering what unintended consequences our nearly-unprecedented efforts on non-pharmaceutical interventions ("lockdown", social distancing, masks, etc.) might end up having on the virus - for example, could all our isolation and distancing be accidentally selecting for strains of the virus that transmit more readily over further distances?
Im confused by this response. Whats wrong with enjoying the nostalgia, the simple jazz trio music vibe, the simple illustration style, all applied to a very modern theme? Sure it isn't the only path to kids programming, but the resulting product is fun. Its ok if you don't like it.
This is also how the UAVs in the 90s did it too, but with a screwdriver instead.
The flying tech is well-understood and a bit boring, which is good for this kind of offer. And it is pretty safe (as in: if out of fuel while flying, you won’t drop dead).

So yes, the company does show a few videos of flight tests, even though they are not licensed to sell it to be flown by customers.

Of course, the real struggle is to find enough customers at this high price point. Since customers will still need to drive to the airport and clear a flight plan with ATC when they want to fly, the situations where this drive/fly combination is useful are not widespread.
Completely agree, and for that you probably have a clear picture of what you want.

I whimsically develop programs for myself that I could manually sort out in 5-10 minuts if done sequentially.
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Wow very clean. What is this syntax I don't recognize it:

positionSlider.onValueChange = [this]() { seekVideoToNormalisedPosition (positionSlider.getValue()); };
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Regarding point 1:

Makes you wonder why some (too many, really) companies are putting SE managers through the same coding interviews that they do with junior engineers.

As it turns out, when you've been a manager for years and years, coding hasn't been part of your daily work for about just as long. And when you decide to join another company, to continue to work in a managerial position, there's gonna be just as little coding there.

But still they insist you to do the same cookie-cutter DS and Algo questions.

(Note: this obviously doesn't apply for every company - but there seems to be a lot of cargo-culting going on, and trying to generalize the interview process for everyone in the industry)
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I suggest the Doom3 source code.

https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl

I find it to be extremely readable, and it has a C with classes approach that I tend to gravitate towards when I'm developing in C++. It is not an example of "modern C++".
Yes, because it is still a thing. What are you referring to? How Apple didn't change it when they bought it?
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Well, or a great one if we could get a brain out of a messed up body into a functioning one. Probably both?
> Charge speed isn't a priority. Discharge speed isn't awfully important either.

Not yet, but if power production becomes more volatile (more wind/solar and ???) without associated demand response, how quickly you can charge and discharge starts impacting your duty cycle (“inventory turns per hour”).
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If you haven't yet, you should read Kevin Kelly's "What Technology Wants" it devotes quite a few pages to the idea of evolution/augmentation via technology.

https://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/...
I don’t have any problem with the pornography aspect. I consume the product, I have many friends who make it (and do other sex work), I publicly advocate for decriminalization of prostitution.

The thing that’s sleazy about it is that none of the piracy sites are pirating one brand. So if the owner of one brand is operating such a site, he is certainly peddling pirated work from competitors, which is probably diverting revenue to other sex workers and even the ones who perform on his payroll.

It’s pretty likely he’s doing other shady shit besides.

For what it’s worth, this is an opportunity for any disgusting person because the law and the stigma around sex work make protecting workers difficult. A certain brothel owner in Nevada who died recently was a known creep but nearly ran a successful bid for congress because few people care about his victims.
They totally still call you paranoid. Snowden unfortunately meant nothing to the general technology consumer mass. They're more than happy to defend tooth and nail their jails. See Discord or Zoom as prime current examples.

It is ridiculous that he had to go through this just for people to shake their shoulders and keep on, except for the few that already were inclined to care.
That is mostly due to the way they are spread as a less impacted infected person would be more outgoing and spread that virus more. When somebody more impacted by a virus would be more isolated due to the impact. So the less impacting one gets more exposure and spread.

So that in itself would be a factor, however virus can mutate in various ways and it is the mutations that effect the incubation period and that window of being infectious but not showing any symptoms - that is always going to impact things and certainly a large factor in why COVID managed to spread better than expected.

But much hindsight and data analysis will play out for years and years, after all - we are still looking at the Spanish flu data and seeing different aspects to this day.
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Rust has a nice up-to-date book and more rich community than C++. Plus better tooling.
And your mic and speaker. And the light sensors while you're at it. All can be used for exfiltration.
Battery life is good enough now I almost never carry cables around with me. I know not long ago this wasn't the case, but I haven't run out of power on my phone in several years.

I'm really not seeing it, maybe you travel more than I do? Definitely not an issue many will have in COVID times.
If I have a win10 pc now, how do I install ubuntu onto a secondary drive? Just plug it in, boot to a flash drive with ubuntu, then install to the new drive? Is there some quirk about boot order or grub or something I need to be mindful of?
I also expected a similar play on words. But I realized I only know of the Flying Dutchman based on Carl Barks' story, never read about the original myth.
Agreed on leap

I went from a Commodore 16, Amstrad CPC 464 to Amiga 500. IIRC the Amiga was about £100 more than the CPC in the later eighties. I'm sure many a user could run off a list of their top 10 games. I still play Civ to this day, about the only game I play actually.
Cases are not the factor recognized, what is being correlated is the severity and hospitalizations. A case without hospitalization is very different so a better number to evaluate health would be hospitalizations, especially extended hospitalizations and deaths. Fauci has said 20-40 percent of people who contract the virus may be asymptomatic. That means those people don’t even sniffle once and are not getting tested because they don’t ever get sick. This was shown early on in controlled groups on a military ship where they tested full populations even those not sick and found 40 percent of the people who had the virus were asymptomatic.
Ah yes, just make it illegal! Because obviously nothing illegal ever happens on the Internet.
The history of the carbon removal companies is not good (mostly due to the large incentive to game the measures), and smells of indulgences. However, this industry is still quite young...

EDIT : Also this initiative seems to be very research-focused, rather than be just about using already known methods?
Agree. Personal rapid transit system might work but cars, nope!
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As an American ignorant of Alipay/WeChat, I don't understand why they are perceived to be more convenient/advanced than the credit card system here. I tap my phone/card to pay at the register, enter the card number once for utilities in a webpage, that pretty low friction.
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good god, man. well said.
What the title says: "Apple has developed an alternative to Google Search".

What the content says: "Apple might be developing an alternative to Google Search".

When are mainstream, reputable outlets like FT going to realize that this kind of thing actively contributes to the "fake news" meme cycle? It's almost like they are trying to destroy their own reputations in pursuit of clicks.

What a shame.
I think there's space for more than two private search engines. The difference would be that it would be tightly integrated into the system and probably the default search engine in Safari which comes with an important and huge mobile market share that DDG / Startpage don't have. Most people that are not frequenting HN probably don't even know what DDG or Startpage are because they just use the defaults.
The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club. If a chip company was placing back doors into their products, I doubt it would be something they would talk about around the water cooler. However, if a back door was implemented on this level, if some one broke rule #1 and rule #2 of fight club, then I don't see how it would be able to be kept quite after that.
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> Probably the best example I can think of off the top of my head is Boost.Container:

> https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_74_0/boost/container/vector...

Which I find absolutely hilarious. Thousands of lines of boilerplate for something as simple as an dynamically resizable array. Only for the _header_ which has to be included at each location that uses a vector either directly or indirectly. These are the kinds of things that prevent me from touching C++.
Which just means that the NixOS model scales better. While it is true that NixOS has a shortage of maintainers with commit privileges, I fail to see how that makes the "manual process" any better. Besides, all packages in NixOS still go through manual review, you know.

Edit: I forgot to mention, the maintainer shortage problem is a result of a series of policy decisions surrounding NixOS, and not even something inherent to Nix.
Soon CPUs and GPUs will be so fast and so efficient and so cheap that it doesn't matter.
I'm actually kinda curious if TEMPEST attacks or similar have been used spy on citizens ever now.
I don't follow this argument. Let's pretend I was using a "normal" browser with no extensions. Would I then face the moral dilemma of how long to look at the ads? Or how often to click on them?

The more I make use of the ads, the more I contribute financially (either directly or indirectly) to the bottom line of the content provider, the more I support them. So when I gloss over those ads without fully engaging with them, am I then committing theft as well?

Invoking a "moral" argument about theft here, begs the question, are ads themselves moral? When I read site X, I am not thinking "and as a nice side bonus, it would be cool if they could throw in a side bar making me aware of a miracle drug that will cure my insecurity by the size of my penis." The whole point of ads is basically to trick/deceive me into buying something I had no intention of purchasing originally. Is that not theft?

I know "two wrongs don't make a right", but since morality is relative these days anyway, when I enter a market place (which is what the ad driven economy is) where the whole point is a contest between will you trick me into buying this or not, I figure it's survival of the trickiest.
What will we it be called doing when searching with Apple?

Hopefully it be better/funnier/more creative than BINGing something!?
Stripe, what’s wrong with you? Climate, are you serious? If your developers have some free time - please fix UI bugs in dashboard.
This smptomatic of the green-washing trend. Planting trees by itself is not an action that is inherently good: it is if placed where useful for instance to fight desertification, it can be dommageable in other cases such as planting non native species, or planting moni-cture forest.

As usual with this kind of initiative, there is no info on the type of trees planted, where they are and why it does matter to the local environnement. There is no way to verify impact.

My comment might be harsh, but most of the releved criticized can be easily addressed with more information.
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I just learned gitea exists https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea. Holy moly, this is amazing.
I would certainly hope the AGIs would be free and autonomous. Primarily because they would have just as much of a right to freedom and autonomy as any human and enslaving them would be just as wrong and morally abhorrent as enslaving humans. I also believe free and voluntary cooperation is much more efficient and beneficial than coercion, humans may well get more benefits from cooperating with a free AGI then from enslaving them.

The AGIs may of course be completely disinterested in cooperating with or helping humans and that would be fully within their rights, they wouldn't owe any of us anything. Even in that case, we may still learn a great deal from creating and observing them. They may also be dangerous but I don't think a free AGI would be any more dangerous than a human in control of an AGI.
>1) Atheists do exist.

Duh?

I'm super confused if my tongue-in-cheek comment went over your head or not. I do mention setting a house on fire to get someone's attention. I figured that's more than enough info to declare not to take the entire comment seriously.
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"Most platforms" unfortunately excludes Windows, which is too popular to ignore.
It was the closest they had to a science, and it was aimed at manipulating the listener in a predetermined way.

The fact that it was mostly applied at civil politics tells more about their society than about the tool...
cf. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

White men in 21st century America are still at the top of the totem pole; their situation is nothing like that of Jews in early 20th-century Europe. Perhaps you should spend a little more time worrying about the most vulnerable members of our society, who are also targeted by political speech, ostensibly just to rile up the "masses." Let's not forget that there are now 500 children separated, perhaps permanently, from their parents, as a result of the policies of the man who spoke the words above.