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OPs points are valid. Filesystem work requires experience with system calls and I/O behavior. Java strives to abstract the underlying system away from the developer. System level tooling written in Java frequently requires twice as much expertise because there are two big systems in play instead of one, hence the unnecessary baggage.
Having personally attended meetings in which banks and the US Federal Reverse were present I can reasonably inform you through direct knowledge of the matter that the US Federal Reserve is telling banks they MUST adopt technology to stay not only relevant but to even exist. Should anyone find it of interest just look at the small town bank buyouts and local branches closing up as this has been happening well before the current global situation and will only accelerate as the Old Boy network continues to resist. Everything changes in time, one just needs to have enough to wait.
> 2. I like to use Poly/ML for automatic builds during development and MLton for "production" builds

Do you have/use any dependencies? Like a http/2 (or tls capable) web server, a database client or a gui library? If you do, how does that work with two implementations - if not... What kind of programs do you write/problems are you solving?
It’s not exactly correct though: at this resolution - maybe, but at resolution high enough there are gaps between galaxies. The reason for that is that region of space we can observe is finite. If it would be infinite, and between any two objects we would see one more object, all we would is see is uniform white.
The three questions are completely answerable by a human. He might ask a bit more information though to answer correctly, which could also be expected of the device.
One of their best features.
Why is baby’s response flagged and dead ?!?!?? He literally just gave his perspective as a person living in that city. The people that flagged them should be banned from this site.
Journalists have been dealing with this for a long time. For instance they don't release information about minors accused of a crime even if they have access to it, but they do discuss the events that happened. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
I've spent a long time trying to speed read and I'm still much slower than where I'd like to be. How are you able to read through 2 pages per minute and still have context on what's going on? Do you have any advice for learning to do that?
I use Resilio Sync in production with my servers. I like it more than this solution because it does not require a primary and replica design but instead uses bit torrent where all servers are equal. I can add a new server and drop an old server and it handles everything gracefully.
On some computers you can take apart an existing UEFI image, add/remove your own modules, then flash the modified image. https://github.com/theopolis/uefi-firmware-parser
There's two, Zing (pay for support) and Zulu (pay for access)
History has no shortage of horrific atrocities carried out by people with a genuine desire to remake a better world.
I would recommend trying 'surf' for those who want to try a browser without tabs, without also needing an email address/privacy violations that this one requires.
Isn't that what I said? That the cost of entering the market of mass-scale social media companies is extremely high?

I wholeheartedly disagree that the cost is "nothing, nada, zilch". The network effects of having everybody using a couple of sites is what makes the cost of switching high, not the technical triviality of creating a new website.
Sure, I'd support that. My above comments are certainly not a suggestion that these companies not be broken up!
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Which media companies and which families? I’d like to verify those claims about zero minority executives and board members?
> Its based on wireguard and seems even better performance wise.

I hadn't considered that, but it makes sense. Since ZeroTier is layer 2, I'd expect it to become a leaky abstraction (at least for performance) in certain cases where algorithms are expecting other layer 2 hardware to be essentially directly connected with a wire when in reality they're connected over the internet.
I would expect issues are not fixed, system is not stable.

> The primary development code repository can be found at:

> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver

Quite a lot of issues.
How extensive is your experience with other toolchains? Programmers notoriously use easy as a synonym for familiar and given how long Java has been around by now we'd have some evidence showing a major productivity advantage. Companies like Google with massive Java experience also investing heavily other languages suggests that this is not so compelling.
No. The access Hollywood tape wasn't made by Trump, and no one published the private tax returns. Had they published the original tax returns, rather than describing them, it would have been different.
I, and many people I know, have been the victims of property crimes and other crimes several times over in Seattle. The understaffed police force (meaning per-capita officer counts well below median) are unable to investigate these crimes and so perpetrators are never identified and arrested. This is because violent crimes take priority and so there simply isn't enough staffing to devote time to other crimes.

Surveillance and facial recognition could help our police force effectively put this limited staff to use, so that criminals face consequences and crime is deterred. I have no problem using technology to enforce existing law effectively, just as I have no problem with cops using cell phones or vehicles to do their job. I do find the dystopian extent of how these technologies are used in China (e.g. social scores) to be unacceptable, but we can institute the right regulations around these technologies to prevent broader abuse while still retaining the benefits (a cheaper and more effective police force).
Remember guys, PayPal Twitter Google Facebook aren't monopolies! You're free to create your own platform!
The ship computer in Star Trek was always hilariously underpowered. They had to put an android on the bridge to operate manual controls during battle, for god’s sake.
The "copyright protection scheme" in question, if it even is one, was written by and is provided by Google/Youtube, not the RIAA.

It is not even clear to me the RIAA has standing to sue under §1203: "Any person injured by a violation of section 1201 or 1202 may bring a civil action in an appropriate United States district court for such violation." RIAA are not injured due to utilisation of a non-member's mechanism.

The claim does not pass the 17 USC 1201 (a)(2)(B) test: that the technology "has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title".

Yes, Github (or its owner, Microsoft Corp.) may have liability under 17 USC 1201 (a)(2), "offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic" the code, subject to the same test above. However there is no safe-harbour provision for such violations.

Microsoft is listed on the RIAA's members page. Neither Google LLC, its Youtube subsidiary, nor parent Alphabet Inc. are. The RIAA are threatening a member for a §1201 violation against a nonmember. That's ... weird.

From TFA.
Do you have any good links for anecdotes about the concrete ways in which this kind of discrimination occurs?

The USA Today article is helpful for seeing aggregate statistics, but I don't really get how these kind of biases played out in real life. Does it look like explicit, unapologetic racist comments? Or micro-aggressions that where the speaker may not realize what they are doing? Or that and everything in between?

I am not asking for your personal examples, as that would be prying. More along the lines of anonymous stories to better understand other people's experiences.
Energizes the right wing GOP base or strictly the entryist faction that has taken over.
What is one example of ZH’s accuracy?
>It doesn't matter if there are dozens of CDNs. Look at what happened to dailystormer, they were unable to find a CDN. Yes, they are bad nazis and are pretty much underserving of anybody's pity, but it still shows how easily those few market players (and an angry twitter mob) can banish stuff from the internet, driven by some public outrage.

My claim isn't that they didn't face any censorship, but that the scenario is not analogous to utilities, like you proposed earlier. Furthermore, if we're talking about dozens of market players, how is this any different than ye olden days where there's only a few dozen print shops within 1 day horse ride, and all of them refusing to print your pamphlets? It seems like your position is "no businesses shouldn't be able to discriminate on ideology", not just "common infrastructure companies [...] shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against people with the 'wrong' opinions"

>There is a handful of CC companies and payment processors. Look at what happened to adult performers and sex workers (even the ones operating completely within the law): they cannot even get a bank account once they are found out to be in those businesses.

Many payment processors don't want to deal with adult/sex content not because they're puritans, but because it's associated with high rates of fraud. I don't see anything wrong with dropping clients that turn out to be more trouble than they're worth. Furthermore, the problem you describe doesn't really exist. There are processors dedicated to processing adult content however, as evidenced by sites like onlyfans.
What blows my mind is how little spectroscopy fingerprint data is available in the public domain!

To wit, considering how ubiquitous camera sensors are, you'd think that we'd have the ability to do spectrosocopic analysis on our smart phones with a simple/cheap adapter by now.
You are describing the abridging private organizations' right to free speech by congress...

Twitter isn't the government, and they don't control speech anywhere but on the platform that they own. They could ban the American Flag and they still wouldn't owe anyone an explanation short of their stakeholders who are going to want to know how this factors into Twitter's only business: Selling ads.
Yes, but it’s bizarre to complain about the deal while not knowing enough about it to even accurately remember which company was a signatory to it.
One thing that I noticed about this product is: I don't know what to call it.

It's missing a definite logo with a name.

Nat App?

Personal CRM?

If I was to Google this? How would I find it?
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Maintainer of jsdom here. jsdom will run the JavaScript on a page, so it can get you pretty far in this regard without a proper browser. It has some definite limitations, most notably that it doesn't do any layout or handling of client-side redirects, but it allows scraping of most single-page client-side-rendered apps.
Yeah, well “their property” happens to rely on A LOT of public infrastructure.
I believe the 1918 flu also had the unusual property of killing people in their 20s at a higher rate than the middle aged and old. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979-f3
they aren't acting differently for Biden. They are acting responsibly to the American public. Do you support the destruction of truth free_rms?
If you had to put it into numbers, how would you say the user base of HackerNews breaks down in terms of right-leaning versus left-leaning? I think that's where it all stems from.

If you lean right, you don't want to see this level of censorship.

If you don't, you're fine with it because it's pretty much exclusively in the direction of Trump.
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It is a minority until people start to see a direct impact an issue has on their lives.

I know it is de rigueur to bash the minority of liberals at the forefront of these "wars" (as opposed to the conservatives pushing back to "conserve" the cultural status quo, hence the names), but this article kinda shoots itself in the foot when it shows the increase of of awareness around issues that used to be fringe, like Climate Change, that are now regarded as a main-stream threat and not a "culture war", which is what conservatives have tried to paint it as for 30+ years.

Or consider gay marriage. In the 80's this was heretical on both sides of the pond, now it is close to being the law of the land in the US and no longer a "culture war". But thankfully the minority fought for what is now majority.
> We need decentralized solutions

TBH maybe we just need to move on from social media instead.
And having free source code available on tapes for universities, without which would never taken off.
I work in a company that uses C# for HFT.

However, we moved away from “pure C#” about 10 years ago, to use FPGAs, especially in the ultra low latency stuff.

A lot of strategies can still be profitable with C#, colo’ed servers and kernel bypass NICs.
>It's worth pointing out that during a pandemic, while participating in a trial does carry a risk, so does not participating. A participant has some substantially greater probability* than the general population of avoiding an infection which apparently carries a risk of death or long term debilitating effects.

Participating also carries risks beyond simply that of the vaccine. Being exposed to any kind of healthcare setting is extremely dangerous right now. I'm taking part in the Moderna trial, and honestly I'm considering dropping out before the second injection. The risk of going into a clinic multiple times where I hear people coughing all over the place is starting to seem unacceptable to me given that I'm fairly certain I've been given the placebo.
It's called Nat.

Simply search for nat.app or "nat personal crm"
To be fair, that's just how Picard speaks (e.g. "engage"). I haven't noticed anyone else saying "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot".

In any case I think this kind of speech is formulaic for the benefit of the audience, most of all, who are made aware through the formality that the speaker is addressing a machine. Additionally, we're watching navy men and women in space, so we expect them to speak to each other and to their computers in a formulaic manner ("Deck 5! Report!" etc, I can't think of good examples, brain's too tired).

Or perhaps the idea is that Trek AI is not really as advanced as to be able to understand natural language and that makes Data such a unique specimen.

Then again, there's the example of the Doctor in Voyager. I'm confused, I admit.
Obama, proposing $2 trillion in new taxes, ~$500 billion in annual deficits going forward:

https://apnews.com/article/97f7a140f39a43d0995587be61ed388f

Trump proposing tax cuts and ~$1 trillion in annual deficits going forward:

https://apnews.com/article/e50aec4820da4e30aed4bea9ff440e86

The plans differ considerably in substance, your comparison speciously treats them as similar or the same.

And even more, Obama sent a wishlist to a hostile Congress. Trump got more of what he wanted.
Kinect, actually awesome tech, implementation on the xbox... not great. But the heart and soul of a ton of installation art pieces.

It's really too bad that MS went with a windows only sdk for the 2.0, the 1.0 being external tech had a multiplatform sdk.
I didn't bother boycotting BP because I assumed that all the big oil companies are similarly corrupt, put profit over the environment to the same degree, cover up their incidents, etc. BP is just the one that got unlucky and had a PR disaster about it. The article mentioned above implies that Corexit is commonly used - so nothing special about BP here.

> Corexit is a go-to product for energy companies like BP when they’re dealing with massive spills.

Wikipedia shows that BP's usage was by a very wide margin the largest use of Corexit, so I suppose I'm going to stop buying BP too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit#Use
Someone not having an emotional reaction would not use expressions like "All the worst and most time-consuming troubleshooting experiences of my life have involved Java" and "the JVM decided to vomit all over my screen".

See sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24899595
When people say "violating section 230," rather than correcting them it's more instructive to understand what they're trying to communicate.

Usually it seems to be they're really saying "this shows section 230 is a bad idea."

If we could move past the reflexive "well actually" there's a real issue people feel needs to be addressed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dredmorbius
From my side I will say, that creating this library gives me a lot of fun. Every star (today 3 from hackernews), every watch, every contributor gives me a lot of motivation to develop it forward!

Thank you guys for any support :)
Tidal forces from Earth have slowed the Moon's rotation to the point where the same side is always facing the Earth—a phenomenon called tidal locking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon
Both of Thorsten Ball's books in that series are phenomenal, could not recommend more. He's also got a great discussion of it on the Go Time podcast, https://changelog.com/gotime/28 and https://changelog.com/gotime/107.
ALL ENTITIES ON THE INTERNET MUST DISSEMINATE RUDY GIULIANI'S OBVIOUS RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA.

YOU MUST ALSO SPREAD AND AMPLIFY THE PRESIDENT'S PARTISAN MESSAGES.

FAILURE TO COMPLY MEANS THAT A CONSERVATIVE SENATE WILL HAUL YOU IN FOR QUESTIONING.

PLEASE SURRENDER CONTROL OF YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE NY POST AND THE ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK.

NON-COMPLIANCE INVITES "REGULATION".
Keen to see what happens!
> the romance of technology close.

That's the thing, after 15 years of doing this as a job (and after a few illuminating books on the subject) I found out that there's not that much "romance" about this industry, and more than that, I often ask myself "are we the baddies?" (like in the famous YT video [1]). For my current peace of mind it helps that my present job is nothing big, nothing that wants "to change the world" through technology (presumably for the worst).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
I’ve actually worked with Ryzen SoCs myself (I do board design).

This is the problem with all the marketing BS. When I talked about “top clocks”, I wasn’t referring about “boost” clocks. I’m talking of the clocks that the SoC is designed for (that won’t appear on the box), i.e. a lot of laptops are not leaving “performance gaps” due to bad cooling, those SoCs are designed for that level of performance and attaching a fat copper heatsink won’t do much difference.

I had a lot of trouble with a client that complained that our board was not properly designed because the performance they were seeing was not “as advertised”. In the end we had to ship the whole thing to AMD, and have them test the system with a thermal sink. Everything was as expected.

If anyone is interested in this kind of stuff, your explanation is really good, so I won’t add anything because I’d probably do a terrible job :)
You seem very certain of that, which is incredibly frightening.
The article didn't touch on this very well, but the reason to upgrade from cheerio to jsdom is if you want to run scripts. E.g., for client-rendered apps, or apps that pull their data from XHR. Since jsdom implements the script element, and the XHR API, and a bunch of other APIs that pages might use, it can get a lot further in the page lifecycle than just "parse the bytes from the server into an initial DOM tree".

(I'm a maintainer of jsdom.)
Ideally, private ownership of societally critical ownership wouldn't be legal. But America is a capitalist country, and Twitter owns their platform and has free speech by law.

And the equivocation of a tabloid to a utility company is just completely absurd...
not in my view, a person who knows neither java nor c. but i think the counterargument from the people in this thread would make would be something like:

i can write my C programs without ever thinking about java. it is irrelevant to me. however, C is very important for java since the JVM it is running on top of is written in C.

i think, personally, the outcome this type of thinking is that “therefore every java program is in fact just cruft on top of C” which personally as someone who does 80% of their job in SQL i am ill-equipped to object on java’s behalf.
No mixed feelings, this is unconditionally good. Who ever thought it was ok to force your users to download stuff from unrelated, commercial servers
You kids these days.

I started using RSS in, I believe 2003, back when Mac OS X apps looked like this:

https://ranchero.com/images/nnw/progress.jpg

We synced our RSS feeds via FTP or .Mac, and we liked it.
Nobody said it was deep. Just that it reflects their attitude.
> For the amount of time it takes - iPhone 12 Pro and similar can really outperform a camera

It's not the camera that makes the difference but the lens. And a smartphone just can't make up that difference with software tricks.

A smartphone will be fantastically practical and convenient as a camera in a specific set of use-cases. Outside those it's pretty useless.
They are, but when the FED keeps re-inflating bubbles and manipulating the markets, all conventional economic processes that they were using as sentinels were also getting disrupted.
It takes all of 2 minutes trying to use alexa each day to make me stop. "Alexa, play the damn song I have you play every day, I will cite title and author to you so you don't screw it up." "A random song? OK!"
Well if you actually read the article and didn't find cause for concern, then I doubt a link will help, but here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ratcliffe_(American_polit...

Here is a nice detailed account on why/how the WSJ decided not to run with the Biden narrative that Trump/Giuliani/Bannon were peddling: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-bid...
Uber Fires Drivers Based on 'Racially Biased' Star Rating System, Lawsuit Claims
you've misspelled "evil" ;)
>Basically the social media company argument is... we think people are too dumb to figure out what is "real" or not so we are going to censor

Why can't "we don't want this trash on our site" be the reason? It's "funny" how those who want to propagate banned material always cast themselves as some repressed group subject to the tyranny of government power.

It can still be posted on Gab or Parler, right?
The NYT had an article about how the questionable accusations targeting Hunter Biden was supposed to be published by the Wall Street Journal. But WSJ was taking its time, skeptical of the story, and then the Post ran with it... WSJ never ran the story as was intended.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-bid...

But yeah I've seen the post basically copy and paste accusations as fact (without claiming they're facts, but not qualifying them in any way) about all sorts of things.
None of this speaks to the social cancer that is corporations draining the society they function in. Individuals are expected to sacrifice and pull together, do the research, finance pharma production, give away patents, and yet the big pharmaceutical sits back and drains all of this into their stock. It's just not right.

Let them make a profit when we are thriving not while everyone else is suffering and making sacrifices.
> if the bees could make it more secure, they would

I don't think the bees really have any input.