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Jeff Bezos.

I'll put it to you another way: if Tesla vanished tomorrow, life wouldn't really change. There may be a few brownouts in a corner of the planet as Tesla batteries vanish and power generators kick in, but life would largely be the same. EV adoption would continue sans Tesla just fine. Self-driving would probably even improve because there wouldn't be the risk of one greedy company, guinea-pigging people and ignoring laws for the sake of share price and potentially bringing the wraith of regulators on the sector.

If Amazon vanishes, Western civilization collapses. That's it. There'd be riots on the street. Critical infrastructure would cease to work for months. Entire supply chains would fall apart and billions of people would be impacted negatively. And it's not like the world would go on. It would take years for competitors to spin up the capacity to replace the void Amazon vanishing would cause in multiple industries.

And the beauty is that while Musk is clearly obsessed with Bezos, I don't think Bezos really thinks about Musk much at all. Just like we can tell that Musk checks the share price multiple times per day, but I suspect Bezos has no idea what Amazon's share price is at unless he's selling to fund other ventures. Also importantly, Bezos has set things up so when he dies, Amazon goes on just fine. If Musk dies, that's the end of Tesla.
There's a lot of people up in arms about this–either because they are mad because Apple is forcing employees to merge their accounts, or that they think this is completely false because this is not strictly required. As always, the real truth is somewhere in the middle.

Apple does not mandate that you use your personal iCloud on your work device. You can absolutely make a fresh account (from a new Gmail or something) and use that to sign in, and then throw it away once you have left. Some employees do this: it's possible, but fairly difficult.

However, it is also true that many (dare I say most?) employees do sign into their work devices with personal Apple IDs. Why? Because there are several fairly strong pressures for them to do so. New hire training has natural variation, but often the person will tell you to "just sign in" to when the iCloud screen shows up on your new computer, without explaining (sometimes not even knowing) that this doesn't have to be an account you actually use, and many people do so thinking it is required to go forwards in the setup process. And Apple rewards you for linking your account: you'll get iCloud storage and access to all of Apple's apps for free.

But that's not all: there's a very strong culture at Apple of "dogfooding": using the beta software for yourself to try it out and file bugs against it. Doing this effectively all but requires having an account you actually use, and for many this is the main reason why they only have one work phone rather than two phones. Plus, on Apple devices if you're not signed into an account that you share elsewhere, a lot of things will not work: your Apple Watch will not sync or unlock the device, you can't listen to your Apple Music, the iMessages your coworker sends you to pick a spot of lunch are not going to be seen.

Obviously, it is always easy to tell an employee that they should trade privacy for convenience. But my point is that the culture explicitly pushes you in this direction, and Apple themselves are pretty bad about employee privacy. They've developed a full BYOD MDM solution that keeps your work data separate from your personal data, so companies can just access or delete that, but they don't actually use it internally. And you think you're being cool with your two iPhones that you bring to work? Nope, any device you bring onto the premises is subject to search, even if you have never MDMed it and only use it for personal work. So they, too, are way behind on where they should be with regards to maximizing privacy. It's regrettable that this employee found this out the hard way–but she certainly will not be the last, and I think it's entirely valid to call out Apple for not moving forwards as other companies have.
I'm curious about this. It's 'not allowed' explicitly by the judge? Can the employee be charged with 'evidence tampering' even if the judge didn't issue any order that explicitly prohibits the employee from deleting their files?
When was that? I've been supporting people on Patreon since 2014 and it's basically been the same mix of independent comic artists and Youtubers the entire time. I know there was a ruckus when they kicked porn off the site, but I never knew they were on there in the first place.
If they're visible to children surely you can inject a DLL and exec into a new child process with access to the key?
Quinnipiac University will cut off internet for students who are not vaccinated
Most of it ends up in the pan and plate, though
I'm bookmarking this comment in my browser.

Given how rarely I clean my bookmarks, I'm sure I'll still have it in 10 years to visit. Naming the bookmark "Open 8/19/2031"
If you do say one set of max push-ups every other day, you will get noticeably stronger. Handwaving bro-estimate is you will start upping reps within a couple weeks, and start noticing stronger arms and chest after a month. Add in another set and you’re still under 10 mins.

If you’re starting from zero I wouldn’t suggest max sets, though. Start by trying to get the form correct. It can take some time to learn to recruit the right muscles. Watch a couple of YouTube videos and then film yourself to spot your deficiencies, correct, repeat. Still under 10 mins every other day.
I've had a lot of grief from a few users' Exchange doing it (likely as part of some anti phishing plugin of sorts), to the point we changed validation links from one time to sort lived.
How often is 'continually'? Is there any way to estimate how many times per year is each major company sued?
> If so, you've never listened to a song and later had some sort of experience where something about that song stayed remnant in your mind?

With listening? Never. I can remember the lyrics of songs, and I can remember (sometimes) the progression of notes, but no: nothing I would refer to as an “experience”. They might as well be written down.

> you try to imagine the loud alarm of an alarm clock, do you feel like you're experiencing something?

No. I know what an alarm clock is and I know they can go “ding ding ding ding ding” - but these things are just the same words I give to you. Again: I certainly can’t experience an alarm clock in my head (or experience being in the same room as an alarm clock or anything like that)

> Also, what happens in your mind when you hum something?

If I hum and then stop, I have a sensation of the vibration and of the way my breathing changes. I can then recall (in some way) those vibrations and then reintroduce heavier breath so we hear sound again.

Is this not like how it is for you? Do you remember “the sound” of your own hum and try to reproduce it?

> Based on what you've said so far, I think you potentially might have visual aphantasia

If you are a researcher working in this space, you can send me an email from an edu address and I’ll connect you with the people who ran tests on me in London.

If not, could you explain why you’re giving your opinion?
> (...) What they did with streams kind of signals that they want to deprecate them in the long run. It's a missed innovation opportunity.

Do they? They kept evolving the Stream API after Java 8 well into Java 16 (Stream::multiMap, Stream::toList, etc.), it doesn't really seem to me like this is true.
An insane craving for sugary things. It happened to me with "sodas" which was the only high-sugar thing I was taking.
> The command line

I can think of no shortage of frustrating CLI experiences.

There is no perfect library that solves for all possible problems. Pros and cons and all that. I'm pleasantly happy with all modern UI frameworks across major OSes and HTML5 options. I have so many things to be thankful for complaining about.
The way I imagine it, Elon made Andrej put in that slide about "We are effectively building a 'synthetic animal' from the ground up." It vaguely hints at a small-scale AGI. A little bit of Andrej's soul dies when he has to says those ridiculous words, but he views this as the price he has to pay to have his dream job. Anyhow, that's how it would have played out if i had Andrej's job.
There's also RFC 8058 [0] that proposes to refine the `List-Unsubscribe` header for one-click unsubscriptions. It uses the `List-Unsubscribe-Post` header to indicate that an HTTP POST request can be used to unsubscribe with a single click.

It specifically mentions in section 3.2 that mail receivers are not to crawl this URL without user consent:

> The mail receiver MUST NOT perform a POST on the HTTPS URI without user consent. When and how the user consent is obtained is not part of this specification.

I haven't seen any statistics on how widespread adoption of this RFC is among the major mail providers, though.

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058
Are you familiar with Radar? It's an internal bug database that is used by all the teams inside of Apple. She redacted identifying information in the screenshot, but anyone with the appropriate amount of disclosure at Apple (several hundred, if not thousands of people) can go and look up the unredacted version where all the names and context is visible. Many with the ability to do so have confirmed it.
> Even the best students were expected to fail some assignments, because they would then learn from their mistakes.

Meh, if your goal is for students to learn from mistakes, you can give them those any time during semester. No reason to put them on test. The best students will try to crack them, in fact, will spend more time that test allows on them. The difficult questions, especially in math or computer science, may take multiple days and attempts to solve. Going through that frustration is definitely learning experience. Putting time hour limit on it during test just weakens it.

> Highest grades are only available for those who demonstrate understanding well beyond the scope of the class or the degree.

In that point, it becomes in scope. Because "beyond scope" is infinite you have people guessing what "beyond scope" they should learn to gain it. The tests and exams should not be game.

Let it be know what are you going to test in advance.
I can’t tell what would prevent a jailbroken device from pairing an illegal CSAM image with the safety voucher from a known-innocuous image, since the whole system depends on the trustworthiness of the safety voucher and that it truly represents the image in question. If the device is compromised I would think all bets would be off. To me, one potential flaw of this system may be that Apple inherently trusts the device. The existence of a jailbreak seems like a massive risk to the system.

In fact, Apple themselves generate fake/meaningless safety vouchers a certain percentage of the time (see synthetic safety vouchers.) If a jailbroken phone could trigger that code path for all images in the pipeline, apple’s system would be completely broken.

On the other hand, this may be just the excuse apple needs to lock down the phone further, to “protect the integrity of the CSAM detection system.” Perhaps they could persuade congress to make jailbreaking a federal crime. Perhaps they’re more clever than I ever imagined. Or perhaps they can fend off alternate App Store talk for sake of protecting the integrity of the system. Or perhaps staying up too late makes me excessively conspiratorial.
Btw you could just have JS do a POST request, the user doesn't need to do anything except open the page. This is how unsubscribe pages work.
Oh, that article you linked is interesting, especially since it says it takes effect Oct 15 and OF's changes take place Oct 1st.

I think at the company I worked at most of what is in there around record keeping wouldn't have been a problem because there were laws that required the company to do that already.

The "pre-screening requirement" could be problematic though.

> All uploaded content must be reviewed prior to publication to ensure that it is not illegal and does not otherwise violate Mastercard’s standards

That one seems crazy. I have no idea how much content they get uploaded daily, but I would guess it's a massive amount. If they needed a human to view 100% of the uploaded content before it's allowed to be published... I just don't see how they could do that profitably.
That is completely ridiculous students will also lose access to the "campus intranet network".
My understanding is that you get the porn after subscribing to a certain creator, but I haven't really even been to the site, so my view might be completely off.
I think your response is emotionally-charged and mixes feelings with data and anecdotes, which is unhelpful in a complex discussion of a sensitive topic, so I hesitate to engage further, but…

I’ve reviewed much of the existing data on minor-attracted persons (which is scant). The problem is that the samples are heavily biased towards including individuals who are caught or self-admit for care, which is not a very good representative sample. As a few of the studies and articles you posted mention, there was little study done until very recently. You also make the leap without supporting data that this system would catch those most likely to offend. Generally I would say the data is insufficient to conclude in any direction other than dumber people get caught doing crimes at a higher rate than smarter people.

Lastly, I have some serious doubts about your expertise in mental health and the study thereof from your use of “mentally retarded” and “retardedness”. You should know for future discussions that the clinical terminology has shifted to “intellectually disability”.
OnlyFans bans porn: over 1000 comments.

Tesla announces humanoid robot: 190 comments.

Rain at the summit of Greenland: 1 comment, after 7 hours.
WindowBlinds. Gosh what memories. Things were so much more hacker friendly then. Now everybody wants their way or the highway.
Maybe because they had 30 years in establishing complete domination of global online economy and all traffic even the one that ends up in crypto goes through them ...
Also there is nothing trivial for the public.
Toxic Code Snippets on Stack Overflow
A better title: "Why we don't build High Speed Rail"
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> First, no one denies that reusability is still not profitable. This includes Musk himself and heads of all the other rocket companies who have all made it clear they aren't pursing it because these is simply no business case for it.

What? Here is "Musk himself" saying in a tweet that Falcon 9 only needs to be reusable 3 times to make sense economically.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1295883862380294144?s=20
I think the problem has more to do with continued application of filters based entirely on one's ranking according to some metric. The problem with this is that we never have a measureable metric for the goals we actually care about. For example, universities want the students who will succeed the most at university and thus use some combination of grades, test scores, extracurricular participation, etc. as a proxy for future success. However, future success is a vague goal and the measures chosen would often fail as predictors even if the objective were formalized due to a combination of chance and various biases of the predictor metrics. This gets disastrous in the long term because all these filter processes reinforce each other's biases and due to people being filtered trying to game the system. I think to fix some of these issues, we should stop trying to rank everything precisely and introduce some degree of actual randomness in who passes a given filter. For example, instead of passing the top 10% of applicants in the old system, still keep the top 5%, but do a weighted choice for sufficiently qualified people to fill the other slots. I think this would also help improve diversity as well without the use of true affirmative action.
You are not alone. Based on comments here, I'm gonna call them.
> hands over data that was created before and outside the employment definitely points towards Apple abusing their position of power here.

Trust me, Apple legal would rather not dig through your personal information to find nuggets to hand to opposing counsel during discovery.

But if there's work information in your personal account, and Apple is legally compelled to go through accounts with work information as part of discovery... what's going to happen?
Why do we somehow assume that OnlyFans - a company that basically stumbled into success with zero innovation or business prowess - is even capable of adopting crypto in such way?

Of all companies that could adopt mass crypto this one would be somewhere at the bottom of the list imho.
A REPL-driven, zero-install, Get Started with Clojure guide
TL;DR: Two (OK, maybe three) clicks and you are evaluating Clojure code in a full blown editor environment running in your browser. And that's where you will start learning Clojure.

Guides for beginners picking up Clojure often start with you installing stuff which also brings on choosing the tooling to use and what editor, and what plugins, and so on. This can throw you off track, and reportedly feels a bit overwhelming for many people. It also often takes you via a REPL prompt that you later are not supposed to use very much. (You are supposed to use the REPL as it lives in the Clojure files building up your application.)

Leveraging Gitpod, VS Code, the Clojure extension Calva (which I created), and Clojure itself, I here take the approach of guiding you directly to the mode of Interactive Programming that we Clojurians never stop talking about. It is in this mode you then learn the basics of the Clojure language. The bet is that you will like it so much that you are eager to spend the energy needed to figure out what to install to create yourself a productive and ergonomic Clojure development environment.

This is the first version, and just released. There'll be dragons. Knowing this, anyone here curious enough about Clojure to help me test how this works for you as a guide to start with the language?
It's amazing, isn't it? Somehow the dancer in the robot unitard wasn't an "emperor has no clothes" moment, or more aptly a "Nikola pushing a truck down a hill" moment.

That's on top of the news that the Cybertruck just got delayed. Again. We're approaching the two year mark of Tesla taking deposits for a product that they don't even have a final design for.
The QBE compiler back end
Honestly there is no small country in the world that is comparable to most of the US.
Got this "Access denied | www.amezmo.com used Cloudflare to restrict access" (from India)
> Seeing a high volume of NSFW queries that were so specific was eye-opening and disappointing to us, as we originally aspired for the generator to be a source for original artwork and NFTs, and instead it felt it was being abused by the internet.

I don’t see whats so orthogonal about “original artwork” and “NSFW” as if God didn’t put us on the good green earth to have sex with each other.

But, if the problem is the lack of creativity, it would be fun to do a cosine similarity between word vectors and deny any request too similar to previous requests. That would at least cut down on kids typing in “booby pics”
A star is an abundant source of energy. Outside star power (potentially stored in chemical bonds such as in oil), a civilisation may make use of their planet's heat (geothermal power), their planet's tides, nuclear fission, or nuclear fusion.

On Earth, none of those are available in the quantities needed to provide sufficient energy for us (close to a planetary civilisation in energy needs) on the scale of millions of years.

If you want your civilisation to not deplete available energy in the next million or so years and to allow for growth of energy demands in that time, you're going to have to make use of star power.

A planet only gets so much starlight that it becomes a limiting factor in energy budget. The easiest next step is to make more use of the abundant energy source next door: your star.

There are other options, e.g. using black holes. But those are orders of magnitude more challenging: black holes are extreme stars (extremely far from any developing civilisation).

On Earth, we've seen that every leap-frog in civilisation (fire, agriculture, industrialisation, ...) increased the available energy budget by orders of magnitude. There's not that many orders of magnitude left on this planet to grow further; if we want more, we'll need to get it from elsewhere.

Alien civilisations that remain bounds to their planet's energy budget similarly must remain stuck at a certain level of energy use. They can make advances in efficiency, but their total energy budget is capped.
>Why can't it just co-exist with other "acceptable" content?

Do you really think the critique of Only Fans is aimed at the consumers' experience, rather than contributing to the norm that it's OK for men to pay women to do what the men want?
- Unixy desktop OS, at a time when there weren't other commercial desktop unices aimed at anything other than high-end workstations (Solaris).

- Very friendly (but also effective) installer. Probably the best I'd seen, at the time. Hell, maybe still the best.

- File meta-data as a 1st-class feature. Some cross-platform version of this remains a huge boon to computing efficiency that we've yet to work out. BeOS was ahead of the curve.

- I cannot emphasize enough how magical the performance was. A single-core pentium back then with maybe 64-128MB of memory, if you wanted to browse the web and listen to an MP3, on Windows or Linux, you could expect pops and other problems with playback any time you hit the CPU. Video playback while doing anything else? You kinda could, but there'd be dropped frames and audio issues all over. BeOS? Buttery. Smooth. Practically no matter what you did to it. And the system would keep responding snappily to input, under load that'd have Windows or Linux lagging. UI and media rendering/playback prioritized over everything else, it seemed, and turns out that's 100% the right thing to do for a normal desktop OS. I've seen exactly two other operating systems that could even come close to touching it on low-end hardware, on this front: QNX (w/Photon) and iOS. And iOS cheats to achieve it, by aggressively killing anything that's not in the foreground—and it was kinda better at it in earlier versions, on worse hardware, when it hadn't bloated so much, so that's less true these days.
“ It’s Just Wood” on taking on new challenges and being self reliant
https://aboutbryan.com/2014/05/08/its-just-wood/
Tesla's announcements leave me with a sinking feeling we won't see anything for at least 5 years after they're announced, if ever. I miss Jobs and his iPod, iPhone, and nano announcements. Those were huge and they were available within months after the presentation.
Which is more accurate since clicking a link is not usually an issue while filling out a form on it is the real attack.
"We don't know what the risk of this condition actually is, but the vaccine is definitely safe and 18 year old men should get it."
> to open one secret link

"Secret link" is an oxymoronical concept. Resource identifiers are exactly that: identifiers. They're not private names, and any design that relies on keeping them secret is inherently flawed. If it's accessible on the openly resolvable web, then the content needs to be treated as if it's public. If your use calls for authentication or authorization, then actually use an authentication or authorization system.