skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's highly doubtful that this are just the actions of a single rogue actor.

The CCP requires that all eventually companies have CCP members embedded in the company as an instrument of control.

Irrespective of the Zoom executives disposition/views - they're going to be under immense pressure for a host of related things.

"The party’s efforts to place itself inside private companies have been, according to its own figures, very successful. One recent survey by the Central Organisation Department, the party’s personnel body, found that 68% of China’s private companies had party bodies by 2016, and 70% of foreign enterprises. Although these figures sound high, they don’t match the targets the party has set for itself. In Xi’s old stamping ground of Zhejiang, for example, officials set a target in August 2018 to have cells inside 95% of private businesses. There was a need, the survey said, to retain the revolutionary spirit inside the companies as their ownership was handed on to the next generation." [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business...
That's not how I handle things.

As just one example: I used to think video games would rot your brains. I've done an about face on that position.

It's not something I talk that much about in part because everyone just insists that no one operates that way, in part because it encourages abusive behavior from closed minded bullies and in part because it just doesn't typically come up in a natural way.
That thesis necessitates a shallow reading of the material, imo.

ASoIAF isn't praised for its "realism" so much as the subversion of fantasy tropes that are a staple of grimdark fantasy. The "realism" is in the notion that knights aren't chivalrous and ladies have to fight for themselves, while the commoners suffer under their lords and medieval society is generally dysfunctional.

At the end of the day it's still fantasy with dragons and ice zombies pillaging fictional societies. There are absolutely allusions to real peoples, but something Martin does exceptionally well is the synthesis of his fictional cultures from various influences in real history to create things that are familiar enough while still being distinct.
These days there are actually a ton of really good ciders (which are naturally GF). There are a number of GF beers, but they're mostly not that good.

I can also recommend Udi's GF bread, a bit pricy and you keep it frozen, but it defrosts in the toaster easily and is actually pretty decent.

I'm afraid you're out of luck for GF Pizza, of most of the frozen ones the cardboard packaging tastes better.
That has to be one of the most ridiculous titles.

Nowhere does the article come close to explaining a ‘Detroit’ like scenario.

It does talk about realistic challenges SV must face.
Key takeaway from that story for Americans: "Angela Webster, a professor in clinical epidemiology at the University of Sydney, said the coronavirus is so prevalent in the U.S. that at this point widespread vaccination is needed and an Australia-style containment strategy wouldn’t work."
It's simply fun. I bound a couple books for a bookbinding merit badge back in ancient times. One was a blank book, which I used for notes.

I used thread and sewed it together. It was an easy project. It's like making a metal toolbox in high school metal shop. Sure, you can just go buy one, but it's nice to have one made by hand.
I've worked at a place where variables (and in particular, database table and column names), had to be approved by the naming committee.
HSA has been a thing since 2015:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_System_Archite...
So, once the recipient gets the classic message, they can instantly set their local system to the same state as was measured by the sender's system?

Can this be used to 'pause' a system, by delaying the transmission of the classic message? Or do you get the state the original system would have had, had you not measured it?
I think it's unlikely to be an isolated incident, 20 years from now we'll be reading stories about the CCP listening to every zoom call in the world for years. (Just the same as the CIA did with Crypto AG[1])

They were routing all calls such that the CCP could listen to them. [2]

They lied about calls being End-To-End encrypted. [3]

Zoom was founded by a Chinese national and all of their development is done in China. [4]

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

[2] https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...

[3] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-zoom-plans-to-bette...

[4] https://technode.com/2020/04/13/is-zoom-crazy-to-count-on-ch...
The accounts of cheating on tests suggest that Boeing isn’t confident the problems haven’t even been fixed in simulation, let alone on the actual planes.
search isn’t a solved problem yet. you could search your local server, or spider your neighbours, or build some kind of decentralised search engine. it’s the same problem for Matrix in general; we tend to cheat and just rely on Google to have indexed everything for now :)
We can hope!
> Maybe Ajit Pai’s FCC replacement could get V2V/DSRC back on track?

It's a bit late for that. The FCC reallocated the spectrum last month.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-368228A1.pdf
> Literal holocaust

This is holocaust trivialization and really not cool. China is not murdering 11 million people in gas chambers.
Op here, yes I wanted to mention ghost it was there back of my mind but forgot to add it when I started writing :/
I hope native Linux happens for these someday.
I'm not sure that this is true.

The documentation on fuchsia.dev heavily references Rust, and there is even documentation for usage with FIDL. I don't see anything explicitly relegating Rust usage to the kernel or even drivers. Seems like anything is fair game and "official."

Is there another source you are referencing?
The real issue is how such a fundamentally important thing - video communications - isn't rock solid and a commodity by now such that any of FAANG, Verizon/AT&T and a host of others don't provide it as easy as anything else.

Imagine if you thought CCP were reading your emails? Would your company/school/government use that service? I don't think so.

Having supply chain problems for ASICS is one thing.

But 'video conferencing' ... my gosh we should be embarrassed as an industry that this wasn't nailed down a decade ago.
> ... McKeown, a Bill Clinton appointee, wrote.

> Sammartino is a George W. Bush appointee. U.S. Circuit Judges N. Randy Smith, also a Bush appointee, and Barack Obama appointee Jacqueline Nguyen joined McKeown’s opinion.

It makes me sad that the judiciary has become so politicized that most news outlets point out which president appointed a particular judge. The proliferation of this feels like a fairly recent development, but maybe I'm just biased.
This is basically what writing a Python script is. Python code is compiled into Python bytecode and interpreted by the Python VM, after all.

(I know what you mean by VM, but I don't think the distinction is very important here, you get the same benefits either way, and using Python is arguably a lot simpler than using a full VM.)
It depends a lot on how you frame it. The absolute time spent waiting on memory has improved, although not at nearly the rate of other things[1]. When I was young and rosy cheeked, the performance gap was only order of magnitude, but it now spans more than three. So the cost of a cache miss, in terms of number of CPU cycles lost (which is what I meant by the term "relative") has grown by quite a bit. Worse, while we keep adding CPU cores, there's still only the one memory bus. Even if one core is waiting on a memory access, the others can keep working - but only for as long as they don't need to access memory, either. Which may not be for very long if, for example, you're allocating lots of short-lived objects, or using persistent data structures. In memory intensive applications, things can quickly back up so that all the cores are blocked up, waiting in line behind each other for data. If you look at the cost of this in terms of per-core CPU time rather than wall clock time, things start to look pretty icky. And this can be a devious thing, because it's an effect that isn't typically shown in the output of a performance profiler.

On the cache side, it's true that caches are bigger. But then we run into that old saw about software people's greatest achievement being to negate to efforts of hardware people. Caches get twice as big, and programmers decide the best thing to do with all that extra space is using 64-bit numbers as a matter of habit, or perhaps even switching to programming languages that don't have 32-bit numbers. Or by switching to dynamic languages that cram the cache full of pointers and object headers. Things like that.

Which isn't to say that all of these practices are objectively bad - spending computing resources on human productivity is typically a very good trade-off. Just that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Memory usage still has a performance cost, and, in stark contrast to how things worked a quarter century ago, it now kicks in long before the system starts experiencing actual memory pressure.

1: See, for example: https://assets.bitbashing.io/images/mem_gap.png
Australia sues Facebook over its use of Onavo to snoop
Is this likely to go anywhere? The press release says an arrest warrant was issued, but the person charged isn't in custody. I doubt china is going to send him over, nor is he going to be on a plane headed to the US anytime soon, so nothing's going to happen to him unless he decides to enter the US?
I believe the point was that we need to worry about a pandemic that is as bad as the black plague was, not that we just need to worry about that disease specifically. The OP even mentioned bird flus as one class that could cause similar devastation.
But are they placebo based health effects?

Placebo does not just mean an effect that is questionable or might not be present.
A Black AI Ethicist on Her Experiences at Google and Controversial Departure
Why do you think that? We could work to improve our ability to rapidly develop vaccines and stockpile PPE. Those two things would go a long way. Analyzing our supply chains and finding critical points of failure would be another conceivable step.
The thing is, wont calling a blocking api block a lot of things the statchart is supposed to be doing at the same time?
Fixing the 30 file paths was not just a quick global search/replace?
S3 is newly strongly consistent within a single region since last reinvent or so (google cloud storage has been strongly consistent for much longer). However, the cross-region replication for s3 is based on 'copying' [1] so presumably async and not strongly consistent.

GCP datastore and firestore are strongly consistent nosql databases that are available in multi-region configurations [2].

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/replication....
[2] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/locations
There's even an FBI wanted poster for this executive:

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/counterintelligence/xinjiang-jin/...
"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away" (Andy Moore, Bill Gates)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
I was a very happy Codekit user way back in my undergrad days when I hand coded html landing pages as a side hustle. Glad to see Bryan is still making useful, well-marketed apps
A Universal Flu Vaccine Has Aced Phase I Trials
And also impossible for you, as an individual, to verify.

I think it's bs.
Alright, this is pretty good.

I typically just go into DND mode, so I'm not sure what the point of this app is, but cute landing page.
Wiretapping probably requires zoom to be a public utility. CFAA I don't know enough about.
This is brilliant. The simple solution though, is - don’t sign into personal account in a corporate device!
Something like that would be great. That scale actually feels pretty good.
This doesn't contain the details that would interest me.

My understanding is modern surgery routinely involves significant antibiotics to prevent serious infection during the operation. If that's followed with both "sham" surgeries and real surgeries, then it points to the possibility that the strong antibiotics are more important in some cases than the procedure.

There may be other medically significant details of sham surgeries that we overlook as not therapeutic. Many diagnostic exams involve not eating for x hours beforehand. Surgeries also can involve restrictions on diet during recovery or exposure to drugs like anesthesia that are given without intent to be therapeutic per se.

You can't really rule out the possibility that those types of things are therapeutically significant but overlooked because they are done to be curative.
Ah yes, it's definitely a conspiracy, not the fact that the Biontech/Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are RNA based, which are far faster to make, but which also are known to break down at high temperatures while AstraZeneca is a traditional vaccine.

Yep, it's definitely not the logical reason but Big Pharma and the US government and Germany at it again.
https://jitsi.org/ Opensource version of zoom

https://meet.google.com/ Google Meet(recording is with the enterprise version) integrates with google calendar

https://www.gotomeeting.com/

https://www.skype.com/en/free-conference-call/

https://www.bluejeans.com/
Notably, these are prices for the EU members
DevOps: CI/CD Trade Study for the Top Platforms
Amazing demonstration of how intermable copy right terms have enabled asinine rent seeking behavior.
That doesn't mean you need less RAM. That reviewer doesn't know what he's talking about.
Amateur journalism came into my awareness through reading about Lovecraft. My impression is that people engaged in journalism for various hobby/interest groups, clubs through at least the 1920s and considered themselves amateurs in the sense of practice for the love of the activity itself. I can see a similar strand in 'zines and later web logs and blogs.

A rather older sense of "profession" (maybe concurrent with people calling themselves amateur journalists) meant any job which entailed a primary responsibility to the public, like a doctor, a lawyer, or a journalist. Unlike the other professions, one didn't need any educational credentials, bonding or special license to be a journalist.

Journalism is unique among the professions: in at least some sense of the word, if one considers oneself a journalist, one is a journalist.
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If it's a single executive, and the executive is a rogue, then it is exactly a single rogue employee.

Also, although it's beside the point from the perspective of whether what I said is true, I read the complaint. It's not clear if this guy was an executive executive, or an account "executive" (i.e. a low-level administrator). I'm inclined to believe the latter based on the actions he is alleged to have taken.
Sure but Intel doesn't support it right so it wasn't in use for MacBooks as far as I understand. I'm not saying Apple invented the concept but they implemented it in their laptops for the first time so you logically wouldn't need as much RAM for many use cases where you can share memory that you couldn't share before.
What exactly is wrong with allowing a company to profit from performing a literal miracle?
That shows kdb is faster than BigQuery, Spark & other similar systems. But it doesn't compare K to C.
Care to elaborate...?
As alleged, the defendant was an active agent of the CCP and PRC intelligence[a] working inside an American company to deny the rights of freedom of speech and religion to residents of America.[b] The PRC is willfully breaking American law to disenfranchise Americans of their constitutional rights.

[a] “The allegations in the complaint lay bare the Faustian bargain that the PRC government demands of U.S. technology companies doing business within the PRC’s borders, and the insider threat that those companies face from their own employees in the PRC,” said Acting United States Attorney Seth D. DuCharme. “As alleged, Jin worked closely with the PRC government and members of PRC intelligence services to help the PRC government silence the political and religious speech of users of the platform of a U.S. technology company. Jin willingly committed crimes, and sought to mislead others at the company, to help PRC authorities censor and punish U.S. users’ core political speech merely for exercising their rights to free expression."

[b] "As this complaint alleges, that freedom was directly infringed upon by the pernicious activities of Communist China’s Intelligence Services, in support of a regime that neither reflects nor upholds our democratic values,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “Americans should understand that the Chinese Government will not hesitate to exploit companies operating in China to further their international agenda, including repression of free speech.”
The executive branch actively encouraged states to do nothing and create chaos. It wasn’t a question of constitutionality, but lack of leadership.
Case Study about a remote livestreaming platform
I am not sure about some of the requirements, but we’ve had a lot of success with Uberconference. Google Meet is also decent if your are I the Google Workspace ecosystem.
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I think you'll enjoy this: https://tracingwoodgrains.medium.com/speedrunning-college-my...

There's actually a bit of a college speed running community.
You already get banished from half of the internet for hiding your IP address, I hope this wouldn't be used to make our lives even worse.

Imagining a grim future where sites block all ad blockers (how about some detecting if an ad blocker exists at all, rather than its usage?), VPNs, virtual machines, even incognito mode. No full trust = no website.
There's a lot of paravirtualized devices even within an HVM type of VM. This is necessary for performance. You don't want to have to emulate a lot of things if you don't have to.

https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio
Does anyone here know the reason for the difference? They're both mRNA vaccines, right? So why does one need a deep freeze and the other one not?
> Jin’s co-conspirators created fake email accounts and Company-1 accounts in the names of others, including PRC political dissidents, to fabricate evidence that the hosts of and participants in the meetings to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre were supporting terrorist organizations, inciting violence or distributing child pornography. The fabricated evidence falsely asserted that the meetings included discussions of child abuse or exploitation, terrorism, racism or incitements to violence, and sometimes included screenshots of the purported participants’ user profiles featuring, for example, a masked person holding a flag resembling that of the Islamic State terrorist group.

Ah. So it's not quite disrupting meetings, it's framing people as pedophiles an terrorists.
Is what you are claiming still accurate today? That Cochrane review is 15 years old, a lot has changed.

Spondylosis (vertebrae wear) has a primary cause, which is more often than not a herniated disc above or below that vertebra.

Unless there is some extreme space constraint most Orthopedists or Neurosurgeons would attempt an artificial disc replacement prosthesis instead of vertrebra fusion.
I think you may mean "may", not "might".
If you assert that without discussing any of the points that I brought up then its not very useful. Why wouldn't sharing memory for certain large objects instead of copying them not make memory usage more efficient for many tasks?
I'm gonna give the complex answer:

- Overall, Perf is better in Rider than VS w/Resharper

- Memory usage for a single solution might be higher than VS.

- There are scenarios where Rider may have much higher memory usage but -vastly- better performance. VS is only 32 bit, There's only so much process space it gets (2GB or 3GB, can't recall offhand) at which point it's gotta swap whether it wants to or not. Rider is 64 bit, so it will be less afraid to allocate if it makes sense on the hardware (and the JVM tuning deities.)

- You can load multiple solutions in Rider with much less penalty than you'd expect. Rider normally runs as a single Main process with Resharper/.Net/etc hosts for each open solution. This seems to give me lower memory usage than Visual Studio.

- With Akka.NET (53 projects, C# and F#) and Akka.Persistence.Linq2Db (6 projects) open, Rider sits at 1598MB nominally, goes between 1.2GB and 2GB, the Resharper subprocesses (already included in those totals) sit between 300-800MB and 60-200MB.

- Visual Studio 2019 with Resharper and Intellicode -DISABLED- shows up as 1363MB for Akka.Net, 653MB for Akka.Persistence.Linq2db, for a total of 2016MB.

Side note, Rider has been open for days with me doing all sorts of nasty things like switching between branches without unloading (Oh yeah, come for the lower memory usage, stay for the hot-reloading.) Those VS numbers were right after I opened, by comparison.
I recently applied to the faculty job market and wrote a diversity statement. I have also served on the hiring end (last year), and have heard enough to understand that the content in this statement will neither make nor break your case, but is an additional datapoint that the committee takes into consideration.

I hope the OP understands I was being mostly sarcastic, but really they wrote a (imo) uninformed post about the university life which is far from the reality at the research-oriented institutions I've passed through in the past 10 years.

Thanks for the additional datapoint. Speaking seriously, I am on the same page about bloat and there is a very real danger of it especially in the UC and other state school systems. Maybe private institutions are more robust to bloat since there is less protection for non-tenured employment. Generally the trend to hiring XM$/yr administrators as university heads is worrying, but I am not sure what the fix for it is in the endless competition for endowment and donor money.

Last edit: check out "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber if you haven't already. You may not agree with his politics or his prescriptions, but the book is a funny and highly alarming wakeup call to the proliferation of useless jobs (part of the book discusses bloat in university administrations).
also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25471274
Thanks for that link. Do you know if the results are posted anywhere?

https://shakti.com/license.php says "Customer shall not... distribute ... any report regarding the performance of the Software benchmarks..." which I would need to agree to if I want to download the binaries at https://shakti.sh/benchmark/
How has your experience been with J for on disk time series DBs.
Zoom is materially a Chinese company.

CEO is Chinese, staff are mostly Chinese.
I found this so often when I was doing simple back-office crud coding. There would be a new business use case that was very similar to something we already had coded. Code would be copied, since that's the easiest thing to do and you at least started with something that you knew was working.

Later, the new use case would evolve and have some new requirements. Had we abstracted the functionality originally, we'd have to go back and make the abstraction handle both cases. As it was, we could just change the copy that needed to change, and know that we weren't going to break the other case.

This was also before the practice of automated unit testing was well understood and supported by development tools, so the motivation to "not risk breaking working code" was much stronger than maybe it is today.
True - unless he visits a country (like Huawei’s CFO did in Canada) where he is snagged at request of the US
Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in 737 MAX testing: U.S. Senate report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25471274

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25474372