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>maybe we should have more internet infra paid with taxes

We already do, taxpayers are just not getting much value for their money.

>ISPs that take billions in government subsidies (from programs like the FCC’s Connect America fund) traditionally focus their efforts on more competitive, urban markets, leaving less-affluent cities and rural markets with sluggish DSL that fails to even meet the FCC’s base definition of broadband
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywkn4b/study-throwing-taxpay...
There are vendors in this space already like Black Duck who already have significant traction, Docker would have its work cut out especially considering its reputation for security already.
> You really can do whatever you want, you'll just be limited by money than by other people :)

I think that your idea is the practical one and you'll get a lot of mileage out of it, but may I add one more limiting constraint, one I've had to learn to respect from experience? That constraint is mental energy.

Your job in tech has constraints that mean if you're doing it right and are working in a role that's pushing you to your full potential, you won't have enough mental energy at the end of the day to work on your side projects. While that might be disappointing, it's often a lot better than the alternative: if you select for a cushy job which has great WLB, you may experience a level of disillusionment from stasis that can also make it hard to want to work on things outside of work.

I wish I had an easy answer to this stuff but I don't. Long-term, if you have a stable career in tech, it makes it a lot easier to take time off for sabbaticals or periods of startup work (yours or others) because you can return to a well-compensated career that's pleasant and will give you enormous surplus lifetime earnings -- a perfect match for scientific work on the side, as you put it! But it's still a career.

To get growth you'll be happy with, it will take the lion's share of your mental energy and strategic planning, over a long period of time. Good fortune aside, there's often no way around that.
Plus it’s impossible to not look at a cute cat/dog/baby videos which starts you off on the treadmill.
Yes I suppose it's a question of ad demographics here, though why place a newspaper ad if you just want to reach politicians, then just use your lobbyists. I'm sure they want to reach voters, not politicians.

But either way, why say "old white" when the point is that they are old enough to read print media. They are targeted because they are old, not because of their color. Why bring race into it, except for virtue signalling?

Besides, doesn't the ad appear on-line as well?
I have a personal theory where the character from 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan as played by Tracy Morgan, is an example of reverse Flanderization. In the first episode, his character has a breakdown and is wandering the Brooklyn Bridge in diapers swinging a fake lightsaber screaming “I’m a Jedi.” It’s hard to get crazier than that. Tracy stays crazy, but the novel stuff because his normality. In the mid-seasons, they have arcs where he hates partying and has never cheated on his wife - despite the image he has created that imply those things.

He never becomes normal, but he starts out over-the-top. When a character starts there, sometimes showing normal behavior is more surprising than trying to be even more over-the-top.
I've seen articles that show Detroit in it's heyday, bustling and prosperous. Today it's much different, of course.

Some say New York, San Francisco and others will bounce right back. I'm not so sure, it just does not sound appealing. I took a vacation to New York a few years back, and I've been to California many times. Right now I have no desire to go to either.

I think they'd better be planning a massive PR campaign.
Making something a utility doesn't require it be centralized. You simply put it in municipal/local/state hands, as we do with all other utilities, and just set federal minimum standards. The federal government doesn't fill your potholes.

As it stands, internet access and services are incredibly centralized in the marketplace within just a handful of enormous companies.
Seems they removed the customer list even on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.solarwinds.com/com...
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I will get threw them eventually!
Your entire arguement is backed by a single anecdote of Tom Cruise. On top of that, your entire premise is the following statement:

"Regressing us back to before VCRs entered the market is the entire point."

First of all, let me point out, this statement alone is beyond absurd and I will not be giving it any legitimacy whatsoever. Let me put it bluntly, you're wrong, and here's why:

Users don’t experience Section 1201 as a copyright protection. They experience it as the reason they can’t fix their tractor [1], repair their car [2], or even buy cheaper printer ink [2]. And attempts to get exemptions to this law for these purposes—which, again, are unrelated to copyright infringement and create absurd conditions for users trying to use things they own—are always met with resistance.

Professor Jessica Litman, of University of Michigan Law School, laid out the problem of 1201 clearly:

The business that make products with embedded software have used the anti-circumvention provisions to discourage the marketing of compatible after-market parts or hobble independent repair and maintenance businesses. Customers who would prefer to repair their broken products rather than discard and replace them face legal obstacles they should not. It’s unreasonable to tell the owner of a tractor that if her tractor needs repairs, she ought to petition the Librarian of Congress for permission to make those repairs.

1201 covers pretty much anything that has a computer in it. In 1998, that meant a DVD; in 2020, it means the Internet of Things, from TVs to refrigerators to e-books to tractors. Which is why farmers trying to repair, modify or test those things—farmers, independent mechanics, security researchers, people making ebooks accessible to those with print disabilities, and so on—either have to abandon their work, risk being in violation of the law (including criminal liability), or ask the Library of Congress for an exemption to the law every three years.

Put simply, the existing scheme doesn’t discourage piracy. Instead, it prevents people from truly owning their own devices; and, as Litman put it, “prevents licensed users from making licensed uses.”

The intent of the DMCA 22 years ago was to discourage copyright infringement but create space for innovation and expression, for individuals as well as Hollywood and service providers. Over the course of the last two decades, however, many have forgotten who is supposed to occupy that space. We need to remember that this is not “Big Content v Big Tech” and ensure that users take center stage.

> When weighing the very livelihoods of hardworking film-crew members against the complaints of a few whiny nerds who could otherwise get cushy jobs elsewhere, which would you -- as a lawmaker or judge -- side with?

Excuse me? Everyone from Farmers, to Truck drivers, to mechanics, are ALL negatively affected. Not just "whiny nerds".

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/john-deere-really-does...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/one-weird-law-interfer...
All of your communications, sure probably not, but for all the ones that are already for government purposes, with government entities, and other basic purposes it's a good place to start.

At least some uniquely identified email address is better than hoping things like court documents with legal implications get paper mailed to some previously known physical address you may or may not still have any access or relationship with.
> If there is a government monopoly you will not be able to shop around, choose best service and will have to deal with

In a functioning democracy, you'd be able to elect the right people to make sure service is maintained properly and not abused.
Yeah, you have no expectation of privacy in public. However if you go to say Walmart and start recording, they have to right to ask you to leave or stop.
Ads online don't work anymore.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/

Small businesses get their sales from being highly engaged on facebook/facebook pages...not by buying ads on the platform.
It’s low hanging fruit.

Any developer can implement in under a day.

Other solutions can take weeks to decades.
Sorry, you can't blame Republicans for mis-managed cities run by Democrats.

Detroit? NYC? San Francisco? etc. Democrats bring some good, Republicans do too. But Democrats must own the failures in the cities they dominate.
I don't second that. If the java web app also has some privilege escalation, this allows somebody to overtake not only the container as root, but, given how Docker works, also to overtake the docker host as root!

Security matters, even if it is apparently about unused parts in a complex system.
> There is no guarantee, but try to find Android-style malware in F-Droid or in GNU/Linux repositories.

The by far biggest reason you won't find it is nobody uses it, so there is no incentive to try. These operations require large audiences to be worth trying.

> Expect a revolution there...

I don't. Because, once again, nobody is even acknowledging what the real problem is. People are patting themselves on the back for doing things that do not really matter, while leaving the barn door wide open for attacks that only do not happen because they are not worth it. I'm not seeing any sign of this changing.
The beatings will continue until the box office declines.
2020: The year in charts, from Covid-19 to the election
My fear isn't an AI with malicious intent.

My fear is AI with a logical intent that understands humanity is the problem.
>Win32 examples would have been peak hilarity.

ExAmples
The main problem with Meego etc was that they never released a damn phone. The N9 was both released and a very good phone. That was the "wonderful" part. I know that it was a bit of a mess technically behind the scenes. But it was also a mess that was possible to clean up.
A container is not a VM and should ONLY contain the exact files needed to run your app to run securely. Any additional packages increase the security footprint.

Every container is one RCE vulnerability away from being compromised and escaped. if your images are distribution based, even slim ones, you’re giving the attacker a broad set of tooling out of the box.

Container runtime defaults in Docker and Kubernetes are insecure and grant attackers a lot of privilege — running as UID 0, no user namespace separation, and potentially dangerous kernel capabilities added to the container’s parent process.
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I was getting a Roadhouse Blues vibe from it too haha - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2_X4VTCoEo
It goes back even further than that. My father, at the time an operator on a Honeywell 6000, demonstrated a program (loaded from paper tape!) that played "Daisy" if you held a transistor radio next to the CPU. The choice of song was appropriate: 2001 A Space Odyssey had come out a few years earlier.
> It's like: okay, sure, a common form of suicide is to lock yourself in your garage and idle your car engine.

Deaths using this method decreased dramatically when cars started having catalytic converters fitted.
Go too far down that road, and you're applying it to all altruistic behaviors, claiming there's really no such thing as altruism because it's all in service to the ego, and concluding you might as well act as selfishly as possible.

Personally I think it's ok to do altruistic things, and conclude from the evidence that you're an altruistic person. It is the most simple and straightforward explanation, and Occam's Razor is as sharp as ever. And given the way cognitive dissonance works, even a person who starts out as ego-driven will likely become more altruistic over time, if they do altruistic things with no concrete reward.
Agreed, but not for beginners. I just about fall into the second category (I am a school teacher) - I have published (internally to my school) a couple of VB apps and written a lot of code in Python, but I have never touched C. I understand nearly all of the terminology and feel that I would be able to use this to learn more about C. Beginners (of whom I have taught many!) simply wouldn't be able to use it.
Next level of coding courses
PostgreSQL enums don't have a binary encoding AFAIK. This is partially why they aren't considered that useful in many contexts vs a fact table.

From memory this is because there is no natural binary encoding, you could use the int number of the member in the enum but then you would need to communicate the enum members to the client in some way. PostgreSQL network protocol currently doesn't have such out of band information/metadata support.
All the details were hashed out in posts here a few weeks ago. I won’t summarize because one side or the other will downvote me, but you can search HN.
My experience with the exposure to excel is that it isn’t used in a way that exposes all users to programming experiences of any sort.

Even presently I’m staring down the barrel of a project that involves what is looking closer and closer to NLP to simply parse cell values to map them to positions in a layout and character styles in a given InDesign template.

The people responsible for a inputting the original data do it in what is basically paper napkin thoughts that have to be interpreted accurately for want of running aground advertising regulations (should a value end up incorrect in the entire process)

So I’m only speaking anecdotally, but applications as seriously powerful and user-friendly as excel do as much to obscure as they do to expose people to programming/computer science. I mean, excel does work so well for so many—even unintended—applications that the users expect unlimited magic in all things computer and fail to understand why new limitations may be imposed when they want their workflow simplified and it can’t “just work” no matter what.

(Forgive any latent frustration making its way into that comment, the project I’m referring to has felt nothing short of Sisyphean while a new application in the space of it would be quite simple to develop)
Another interpretation here: US regulators have been asleep for decades, and they haven’t taken much of a look at a number of companies abusing their monopoly positions.
Are there any research paper/studies available on benefits of online/mobile advertising for small businesses? Can't find anything useful on duckduckgo.

Before fb/google small business seems to serve local demographies (mostly?), not sure how much they really benefitted by going/selling online. Eyeball-to-real-cash. Or may be they are just brain washed into online advertising benefits when there aren't any.
if they were not launched why are they in the image to begin with?
I can't stand either company but Facebook is clearly scared to lose their product (You).
Can run wine on windows finally?
Yeah, it really irritates me when renting or purchasing a house/apartment that they often won't say (sometimes don't even know) if it has fibre coverage or not.

I lived in a flat that only had ADSL a few years ago and I never intend on going back to that.
The usecase I always envisioned was an all-in-one replacement for multi-monitor setup, TV, and essentially all visual media. I also imagined the flexibility to operate a computer in bright sunlight or while laying in bed thanks to a the goggles being sealed and replacing your vision. This is surely only a matter of the technology improving a bit. I believe a redesign of periphals suited to the ergonomics of VR would be required for my particular vision to be achieved. I suppose what I'm talking about is just a HMD but it could be optionally combined with head tracking like the implementations that exist now. I recall many years ago that HMDs where available so theyre nothing new. Why didnt they take off? Too clunky? Unpleasant somehow?
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Glitterbomb 3.0 vs. Porch Pirates
The tank image has been debunked. The tanks stopped for the man, and didn't kill him.
Link to the actual PDF: https://prevasio.com/static/Red_Kangaroo.pdf
Just on a slight tangent, what are the security benefits of having a process run as a non-root user within a Docker container? It's obvious what the benefits are when running outside a container. Inside a container, on the other hand, there should only really be one important process running. That process will need to have access to all the interesting parts of the file system anyway, and being root inside a container doesn't let you do crazy superuser stuff like installing a kernel module.
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> Outside the CS bubble, being a PhD physicist has more prestige and status than being a PhD computer scientist.

I disagree with this take. Just as there is more “applied” physics and “theoretical” physics there is similarly “theoretical” computer science and more “applied” computer science. The former camp are similar to the theoretical physicist as many of them are mathematicians with a computer science bent. Even within the “applied” CS camp you have experts in number theory and algebra that apply their skills to cryptography, whereas in the “theoretical” camp you may find theorist using mathematics like homotopy type theory, category theory and the like in their research. Number theory, graph theory, combinatorics, abstract algebra, category theory and the like can get really hardcore in the pure math world. Similarly, theoretical physicist also have to know a lot of mathematics.

I think your optics of what a computer scientist is and does is a bit removed from reality and that PhDs in CS are highly respected (I didn’t even mention the folks working in AI or quantum computing or the other important areas of the field).
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>> the BSL is not an open source license, but I can see where they are coming from

I wish more people could pause and appreciate this.

I understand little on how an open source license gets approved by OSI body etc. But Im sure there is a need to mitigate threats from AWS and likes.

We can't be far from today from where AWS takes a github URL as input and starts offering it as its own service!
Facebook is disabling Instagram stickers in order to meet EU privacy directives
>that this was one of the things that confused me most about C when I learned it.

absolutely same, me too. and, there was no good websites / videos on the web back then.
Never thought about it in quite this way, you may be on to something.
From the newspaper that campaigned harder than any other against the party that had it in their manifesto.
How long does it take to clear the air without the filter? I'd imagine sawdust is heavy enough to fall down on its own after a while.
Nice Bosch IMU?

I'm working on a design using the BMX160 (10 DOF Sensor).

What bluetooth chip is that? Are you using a PCB trace antenna?
For that I reason, I typically create my Docker images using Nix. This has been discussed here before a couple of times, for instance at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22295102. :-)
I know of audible and chirp books. Any other service that you can recommend?
Our minivan came with one and we've literally never used it. After a while the kids stop asking. I think we keep a dvd in the van in case we're stuck somewhere with nothing to do but it's never come up.
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It's shown in the video verdverm posted:

https://www.liquidpiston.com/how-it-works

1. air flows in as the chamber is expanding

2. fuel is injected when it is at maximum size

3. the chamber contracts to a tiny size to compress the fuel-air mix

4. combustion occurs, and runs to completion, in the tiny chamber

5. the chamber expands to extract work from the high-pressure gas

6. the chamber contracts to exhaust the waste gas,

The video makes the geometry clear. The way that the chamber contracts down to a tiny nub gives you the high compression ratio. The nubs being fixed in the stator lets you have injection. The fact that the combustion happens while the tip of the rotor is sliding over the nub gives you constant-volume combustion. I suppose the rotor being asymmetric lets you have overexpansion.
I wonder if it's literally an inverted Wankel engine, as in taking the geometry of the Wankel engine, applying inversion with respect to a circle[1] then fixing the frame of reference to the outer geometry, which was originally the rotor in the Wankel engine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversive_geometry

edit: on second though this would probably be too simple to be true.
Fair enough.
Still "successful people use it, so it must be good" isn't a valid argument for me.
Using social&behavioral science to aid Covid-19 pandemic response (full paper)
I have used the iPad but not with the paper-like screen protector so I can't comment on that configuration. The feel of the remarkable is much better in my opinion.

Tbh, it's not only about that, I'm really trying to reduce my interactions with modern tech (especially the notifications, email drip campaigns and such) and this is the main benefit of remarkable for me, but it might not be for everyone. I'm gonna work towards just sending pdfs of articles/papers to it automatically and having it as my main way of consuming media.

The remarkable could use some more usability features (https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks thinking of installing this), and a backlight but it is what it is
Most “Facebook Ads” are not delivered on Facebook. It is delivered through their Audience Network. I think their ability to track users on and within Facebook will be largely the same, but their ability to identify users while they are not using a Facebook owned property will be significantly impacted.

I think digital advertising does not have to be bad, but it very much is. Unfortunately it will probably get worse before it gets better.
I don't have a rating, but somewhere in the 1000-1300 range is a reasonable guess. I have beat a USCF 1500, but that was 1 game out of hundreds.

I don't need a 2500 rating to know something about how they play.
I would recommend you to watch "CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWhqhNdYyk
One day they'll have to shutdown old dynos... Either because it's no longer compatible with their systems, or because there is some wormable vulnerability...