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That’s not how I’ve understood the Streisand effect - nor how Wikipedia does either: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

From the link:
> The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the Internet.

It’s not so much about whether a piece of information has been “published” or “publicized,” (although obviously that is typically the situation!) - but rather the act of trying to control the narrative causes the narrative to spin further away from your control.

Anyways, pedantry aside, to me this neatly fits the definition. There is information that Coinbase really doesn’t want out there: and their attempt at controlling the narrative has ensured I will be looking for this article and make time to read it as soon as it is published.
So they finally made a weapons grade laser work, by bundling together a bunch of fiber optics cables.

Where each light output adds to the overall intensity of the laser.
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> It's very annoying that preserving privacy comes with this cost.

It doesn't necessarily have to if Google supported privacy pass like hcaptcha does. The problem is that they don't.
"Nobody wants to build housing "

Construction is 11% of the Canadian economy, and it's not just a function of housing shortage.

"It's supply and demand"

Technically, but that's not the best way to describe it.

This is not 'more people fewer homes'

It's mostly due to low interest rates, and, the very strong expectation there will be increased value. This leads to explosive valuations. Add in some foreign interest, banks making loans for ever longer periods, and it gets into an ugly cycle.

It's very, very bad for the economy to get into this state because money pours into assets that don't increase productivity.
When Octopus realize they don't have to starve themselves to death when they are 3 years old that will be the end of our reign.
I think the specific pre-emptive denial of claims by specific ex-employees reads as righteous and dismissive. Who knows what is going to be published in the final version? They later state that only 2 of the four claims were investigated by third parties.

"likely quote three former Coinbase employees and a former contractor by name, and include photos of some of them....The story will likely imply that Black employees were discriminated against during this process; this is false."
The capitalism machine demands that your free time be used for something monetizable. Since this project has no commercial value it must be worthless.
Why not? They would've had intel from current employees who were interviewed about the likely contents, and they claim that a number of the allegations that are likely to be published are false. If I was either innocent or guilty of such allegations, I will want to try to control the narrative ahead of time. Doing so doesn't seem to update our prior beliefs about the probability of guilt, all it shows us is that the allegations are significant enough to warrant damage control
> "Your government shouldn't have enough power to fight an epidemic, because that's too much power"

What’s enough power? A government-mandated lockdown is legally impossible in Japan but they have managed to keep COVID cases within a number that can be handled by their medical system.
[edit: Not going to risk retaliation for my family, not sure why I bothered]
Like with other ambitious creative projects, at times it felt like a grind, but seeing it slowly come together kept me going.
> Also since it has no C api, it's not attractive from an extensibility perspective.

Blender is very extensible via its Python API
that’s racist and excludes people who don’t have specific examples to point to but have nonetheless been wronged

as a marginalized person i think your comment is deeply racist and could only be written by a racist
I have to wonder to what extent this is just punishment from the establishment for Coinbase’s recent rejection of political activism in the workplace. Of course we will need to see the article from the NYT first before drawing any conclusions, but the timing is pretty suspicious; this implies that the NYT more or less launched this project immediately after that announcement went out.
Saying something to the effect of “we’re not racist, we have ONE black person that works here” isn’t a good idea. Especially if you’re the premier cryptocurrency exchange and still rely heavily on outside funding.
Most of the time, it's considered unethical in journalism not to alert your subjects that you're going to be publishing about them.
> Although the story will likely allege that a number of Black employees and contractors referenced in the story filed complaints with the company, only three of these people filed complaints

This is funny in a literal sense because three is most certainly "a number".
For big budget Hollywood work it's still primarily Maya/internally developed tools. Interestingly I've seen more people working in the industry adopting Blender for side projects.
Yes, Line Rider will survive because it's no longer made in Flash. I recreated it in Javascript.
I've been following this topic as a curiosity. I'm not totally certain but I think the LM systems don't have adaptive optics. But DARPA had a program where they were making something analogous to a phased array out of fiber lasers, where each individual laser had its own independent lens, and a phase shifter is used on each to align all the beams in real time so they're all mutually coherent. The phase shifter is tuned in real time by reflection back along each beam line from the target, split off with a beam splitter to some sort of sensor.

They stopped talking about it after like 2 years, which maybe means it was a flop or maybe they took it secret. Who knows. If you're curious this is the name to google: https://www.darpa.mil/program/excalibur
I think you’re being unfair at best, and personally vindictive at worst. As I read, the NYT called them up with threat of a story about discrimination, and gave them 48 hours to investigate the allegations. If someone did that to you, and you had done nothing wrong, it would seem you might say something about this journalist drive-by. If not then perhaps the public might believe the stories, not realizing you were put under the knife of the NYT with 48 hours to respond.
I've played this game before. Why should I expect it to be any different from the usual political social media cancel culture nonsense it always is? I'd love for my assumptions to be wrong though.
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That's the beauty of it.

Denying the charge or defending yourself simply digs you deeper into the hole.

What you're supposed to do is admit you're a racist, fall down on your knees, abjectly beg forgiveness of your accusers, and list all the new things you'll be doing to stop being racist.

Then your accusers have the power to forgive you. But you really, truly have to go all the way in submitting to their demands.

And they still might not forgive you. After all, you're racist scum, the lowest of the low.

It's an incredibly toxic and destructive way of handling the issue of racism.

I know I'm not a racist -- I interact with people of all races. I don't let race enter into my interactions. I sleep well at night, because I know I'm not a racist.

Defending myself against ridiculous allegations of racism is a game I refuse to play. For the good and simple reason that if you play the game, you can only lose.
Interesting that they referenced the Jepsen report, even though it was a damning indictment of MongoDB's unreliability... and then Mongo referenced the report on their website as a positive, despite the negative result in their report. That was a bit of scandal not that long ago, so it's odd to see them still talking about it.

It's like those supplements that say "scientifically tested!", which is a true statement even if the scientific test found that the supplement is ineffective and does nothing.
> But this is not the case! Some of these parts have never been the case - MongoDB has never been "eventually consistent" - updates are streamed and applied sequentially to secondary nodes, so although they might be behind, they're never inconsistent.

This is what eventually consistent means! If i wrote (key=X, value=Y) to a primary, then read X and see a value thats not Y (because the secondary node hasn't caught up yet), that is inconsistency. Strong consistency (e.g in a single node SQL database) would mean its impossible to read stale values.
Good point. Let's see if CB follows up with evidence and details after the specificities of the NYT story come to light, but I agree that the lack of detail here is a bit suspect
That's one of the downsides of using Medium to host a blog.

Looking at the footer links: "9 Fantastic Signs That Your Partner Is Madly In Love With You" and "The Elites Are Preparing a New Currency to Replace the U.S. Dollar"

...really detracts from the message.
That is unlikely to work. You may have heard of implicit bias [0]? A case can be made that you were born a racist and you have to prove that you have shaken yourself free from your racist beginnings.

I personally think it is a silly case, but 'well, just don't be racist' is a silly defense - so maybe they'll work well together.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_stereotype
This is enormously unfair to the journalistic profession. There are quite a lot of leaps from "it's not possible to report every fact" to "all journalism is slanted for metrics." Journalists like getting a big scoop but the good ones do their due diligence and go to great pains to report fairly and accurately.
Counter whatever evidence is presented with facts. The same way you make any argument. "You can't prove a negative" is mostly an imaginary problem, you don't need to prove anything, you need to convince people that your argument is better.
Sounds like a good conspiracy theory to me!
> It's really really hard to prove your not racist. If anyone has any clue as how to do so, please share.

If you have been accused of racism that's because somebody has an example of you being racist. If you did not have racist intent you can clarify your intent. Simply claiming you're not a racist won't do because pretty much everyone accused of racism makes that claim (example: central park dog walker, or any other person in the news accused of racism).

Edit: I am talking about instances where the facts are not in question. For example, you did not hire Xyz, and you're accused of racism.
It's worth discussing but I'm not sure how to move in with the entrypoint, it feels like 'i know, its a strawman, but its not because the strawman is always real'
I can't agree more. Everyone wants amazing software yesterday. They don't want to spend money to do it. The company that wins the bid tends to over promise on delivery dates and under supply resources to do it.
As many of my HR friends have said (I’m sure most of you have heard this too, HR is in the business of protecting the company and not the employees.

I’ve been at plenty of startups and have witnessed people doing the right thing or rocking the boat and being let go. I myself have been in that boat for reporting sexual harassment on behalf of a friend/peer at work who was too afraid to report the manager. I caught the heat from it and was let go over that.

This is going to be an interesting who said what and what really happened in the next few days.
> Do the users like it?

Absolutely. Having to solving only one captcha every few days beats solving 5 or 6 on each page visit. hcaptcha supports privacy pass but Recaptcha doesn't.
Hardware storage got really fast and cheap, but on the cloud it seems still super-slow and expensive. AWS's gp2 offers 3 IOPS/GB, and upgrading to something like io2 bleeds money really fast.
I don't think any response they could make would change anyone's mind about anything.

They've taken a stance that has generated a polarized response, and people are going to respond to any and all problems that arise at the company based on their now-existing polarization.

I don't exempt myself from that.
Because ideally your culture should be strong enough to weather things like these, and your damage control should read more as a statement of facts than "we did nothing wrong," especially when you issue it preemptively.
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Someone made a 20 minute breakdown of this video and it's history here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CikpAHiPlmQ
> race-baiting propaganda

I think it’s reasonable to debate the quality of the NYT (and I have serious issues with a lot of what they publish - and dear lord, don’t get me started on how I feel about their opinion columnists).

But I do think that calling the NYT “race-baiting propaganda” is a gross mischaracterization of what they do.
i will leave this here for anyone to validate the original article - http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6
What I learned from diversity training is that you need to accept the fact that society is systematically racist, and as a white person you benefit from this. So all whites are profiting from racism already. They have to come to terms with this, acknowledge the role that their ancestors played in furthering or creating racial inequality, and do everything in their privileged power to right this wrong: hire more black people. Promote more black people. Mentor more black people. Pay reparations to black people. Be a vocal supporter to black people. And realize and appreciate that you are different, and will never have to share what black people go through every day. What more can you do?
This first generation of defensive lasers isn't really intended to counter missiles. The Navy already has the SM-3 / SM-6 for that. Lasers are a cheaper, quicker way to defend against lower end threats.

Swarms of small drones lack the range to reach out as far a surface ships usually operate. And targeting is still a limiting factor.
TLDR: We’re not racist, we’re just not anti-racist.
Reflectivity of the target doesn’t matter. The specified power levels are high enough by design that a reflective surface will instantly be converted into plasma.

Even if you covered the target in dielectric mirrors specifically engineered for the wavelength of the laser, assuming such a thing was even feasible on a cost, weight, and functional basis for the target, you would have to keep them spotlessly clean in an operational military environment for them to be effective — an impossible task.

Hence why the military doesn’t concern itself with shiny targets. At the power levels they target, nothing real can be sufficiently shiny as a matter of practical physics.
I think there may be a mis-understanding; what I mean is that in the very essence of reporting a scoop, they have already chosen to report that event above other events. So the reporting about the given scoop may be 100% fair and honest, but there is still, in the bigger picture, a large statistical bias, since only some types of things qualify as 'worthy of reporting' and get converted to scoops to begin with.

e.g. imagine one news outlet that only reports about homicides, another than only reports about theft, and another that only reports about covid deaths. All three can be perfectly factual, but they still present radically different views of what is wrong with the world to their readers.
Like financial audit?
One of the other things a professional news org does is not fire its editorial page manager for printing an opposing viewpoint.
The US was founded as a republic because the founder's knew that most democracies end when the public discovers they can vote themselves largesses from the treasury.
Louis Pouzin's shell was called RUNCOM ? Is that what you're asking or something else?

Anyway this was a neat article, and I only knew of the Thompson shell as well. I knew that Multics had a shell but I didn't know anything about them.

Wikipedia knows of his invention and coinage of the term "shell": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pouzin
Tells you very little. If you pay a third party to investigate you they have a material interest in not finding wrongdoing and not reporting it if they do find it.
> But this isn’t “critical software”, either

I strongly disagree. Anyone on the project would have (hopefully) known what it was being used for and how critical timing is for that task. Heck, the entire reason the project exists is to expedite the task. That translates directly to minimum-latency being a project constraint, so this to me just sounds like a project that failed to meet its constraints.

If you're an application developer, you're generally going to have a clear idea of what the priorities are for your project and what does and doesn't matter (in terms of performance and otherwise).

Maybe there's a case here for systems/library programmers erring on the side of performance because they genuinely don't know who will be using their code for what. But even then- if a library isn't fast enough (put differently: if the library's priorities diverge from the application's priorities), the application developer should know that and not use that library for their application.

This trend of universalist performance-puritanism is exhausting. Performance is one of many priorities that a project may have. Know your target user, set your priorities accordingly, and develop your code in line with those priorities. No single priority gets to be so important across an entire field that everything else takes a back-seat.
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I agree 100%. As an Asian American it is baffling how throughout years of propaganda, so many Americans firmly believe that personal freedom and democracy cannot co-exist with a competent and effective government that has all the tools and resources to do its job.

I think it comes from shallow interpretation of sayings such as "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". I mean it's a catchy saying, but in reality it's just a result of terrible system engineering (in this case the government system) in many places.

It is totally possible to have a powerful government and have that government supervise. In the end there is a clear distinction between "big government" and "authoritarian dictatorship". If your big government devolves into individual dictatorship it just mean the single executive position likely had too much power to begin with.

In fact, similar to companies, it's very well possible to avoid a single dictator CEO even as your company grows large and end up with a large management hierarchy.
Don't forget, we just went through the same thing back in 2001, as it relates to governmental power grabs, and it is pretty much why we are where we are today.
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You raise an interesting point. Where I work, most of our public status dashboards update to yellow or red automatically, with only a few failure conditions requiring a manual update. It’s always made me wonder whether we’ll ever get around to implementing capitalism with some manual update only dashboards.
Agreed. Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Concluding that there was a second shooter is like saying that "your runny nose and sore throat are definitely caused by the flu, but the dry cough could be either flu or lung cancer, so you probably have both".
> NYT's recent decline from paper of record to race-baiting propaganda

Good newspapers must always speak truth to power. In a country where white people hold virtually all of it, sometimes that means speaking truth to white power.

You’re sort of telling on yourself if you find that offensive.
IMO, the prevalence of libraries like MTL, or with poor documentation, is a consequence of design decisions as well — maybe not of the abstract language, but at least of the primary implementations.
That's fair enough. They did say that three former Black employees made false allegations though, so there was some specificity there. Although it would be been better to outline what those allegations were and why they were false, in that I certainly agree (and not having done that, it is a bit suspect)
Yeah, might be okay for small overseas businesses to ignore economic nexus of US states, but I am sure some states will eventually go to great lengths to get their hands on big liabilities built up by big companies.
What about in the day and age where "silence is violence"? Apparently just trying to not get involved is enough to make a whole company raciest?
The context matters. At the time it felt justified given the violence of England against Argentina.
Have you tried using privacy pass? Having to spend 70 seconds solving one hcaptcha every couple of days might be a good middle ground.
I'm not sure it will be as secure as captchas though. Browsers will probably allow dummy platform authenticators for ease of development, which can be used by bots as well.
That's how the electoral college was supposed to work but it never did from the 2nd election. States voted for their delegates, and the delegates would choose the executive branch. Turns out if the delegates didn't vote the way the state wanted, they didn't seem to get selected for that duty next time. Citizens would have only direct input on legislative representation.
Agreed. The entire post is filled with vague language, such as talking about what the story will "imply".

Also, I think it goes without saying that there are plenty of very understandable reasons why people don't file complaints even though they have very legitimate grievances (which allows companies to stand on such technicalities). So we'll see.
Anybody can accuse you of anything, it’s true, but accusations of racism without specific allegations of racist behaviours or actions are rarely reported in NYT.
I used to work in a managed investment department of a large investing company in midwest. We used MongoDB as a single source of truth for daily market analysis data. We used C# .NET Core. I loved working with mongo, although it gets slow overtime but it was enjoyable. One thing I really hated was the C# driver. I just hated it. It fails translating complex LINQ expressions into mongo query and its BSON implementation is extremely slow. We literally wrote the data-access-layer in python wrapped it as an API and we got a 10x speed boost. Eventually, we replaced it with Postgres and utilized its JSON columns, and retired MongoDB. Good memories learning its query syntax and investigating where the slowness was coming from.
Head slapping moment for me too. Without a DMARC record I would never even know that it's happening.

I wonder if the systems that generate the DMARC reports could be set up to keep historical data for domains with DMARC shut off. When DMARC is turned on, domain owners would be able to see what has been going on without them knowing.

It might be a bit of a shock to some. I learned a lot from my first report.
I dunno, I can do without Robben's no era penal. 2x. Vs Mexico and Costa Rica in successive games.

And Panama's ghost goal keeping USA out of the last World Cup. Ridiculous. I thought they at least had goal line sensors.
Sure, but you take a massive performance dive marshalling things through Python. Additionally the Python API is only semi stable between releases.

If you want to add performent extensions to Blender, it requires maintaining an entire fork of the app.

Contrast this to other DCCs, where they almost all provide compiled plugin support (usually C++) and API stability is largely guaranteed between releases.

This makes Blender very unfriendly for production pipelines.

Add to that, Blenders Python extensions don't have a very friendly UI story via ghost, whereas other DCCs largely provide a Qt + PySide2 backing.

Fwiw I'm very much pro blender, having rolled it out to artists in production settings, but I am far from recommending it in any core production pipelines unless the studios are willing to maintain an entire fork of the app.
Gee, somehow it sounded like the headline referred to laptops.