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Corporations are made up of people and people can make decisions despite incentives to behave otherwise.

I’d argue Zuckerberg did this in his Georgetown speech [0]. Recently the head of the woman’s tennis association did too when pulling out of China. Palantir is also principled about this (read their S1) - though incentives are more aligned there.

Add in the South Park writers too.

It is possible to do the right thing in difficult contexts - and that should be the goal.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/17/zuckerb...
Apple shouldn't have to.

There should be laws that US companies can only cowtoe to the US government WRT free speech.

In this case - it appears to only be happening in China - which I guess is fair game.

But the line should be drawn at China being able to use its market to force US companies to censor people outside of China.
That's why you do research beforehand about the company, the market, the product/service, and the people who are going to drive it forward. If those things together give you confidence in what the company is trying to do and their ability to achieve it, then you are taking what's called a "calculated risk" when you join them.

Existing companies also fail. You take similar risks when you join one of those as well.
One slightly supporting evidence is a higher correlation for budget percentage being road infastructure as opposed to other areas. Not causing it but likely because it is easier to slip corruption and kick backs in those budgets than say education budgets, so it winds up inflated for worse results.
Good thing those Silicon Valley Ponzi-schemes, aka. "Startups" are not the only way to make money!
Does your SSC concept include things like profile-guided optimization (ie, consuming runtime statistics for some representative sample)?

If your program is doing calculations on data read from a CSV, for example, and you happen to know facts about that data that allows you to make a better algorithm (for that data), then I don't see how a compiler would be able to compete.

That aside, I am reminded of: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery....

"grep sells out its worst case (lots of partial matches) to make the best case (few partial matches) go faster"
I enjoy using x2go, but it's not exactly an easy to use system. If either end of the connection needs to change firewall settings or enter IP addresses, it's already far behind on usability. It could work with some setup in corporate environments, but doing this right is quite a pain for smaller businesses.

I agree that STUN/TURN servers are a necessity, but they're not _that_ expensive to self-host. You could stuff the STUN/TURN feature behind rate limits for the hosted version or put them behind a pay wall entirely so companies don't have to mess around with that stuff themselves.
I have been gaming with AMD on F35 with some demanding stuff, no issues here. Proton works great.
Can we call this kind of research 'science' if it's not reproducible?
And people bragging about their Google PR ranks was super annoying.
That solves reentrancy, when you don't want two copies of a script active at once, but what if you only want to run the lines in a script that weren't already run on last invocation?
If this low energy consumption confirms itself at scale, that will be a huge progress. Possibly not quite there (there’s still the Ponzi problem to contend with), but at least that’d get rid of most of the externalities.

Now we need to nuke the Bitcoin farms. (Half serious: I wonder whether launching tactical nukes on those farms would generate less pollution in the long term than letting those farms be.)
Damn! True, sorry about that!
Is your justification for not working with the Chinese military that working with a military is unacceptable?
> and zsh is sufficiently different

But generally not with stuff that one typically uses for scripting. In most ways, it's a superset of bash.

Besides word-splitting on unquoted variables being turned off with default settings (which is turned on when zsh is called as bash/sh with a symlink or similar), what other differences do you think would be common to find when running random bash scripts with zsh?
and what do you do if the script stops for some reason? It can be difficult to know what you need to do properly get back into a valid state. Just deleting the lock can cause problems.
> Importantly, gravitational waves are not waves of Newtonian gravity. Gravitational waves do not "push and pull" along the direction of propagation. They stretch and compress space along axes perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

This may be, likely is, a stupid question, but how do you measure this if space itself is stretched or compressed? Won't any yardstick lying in that space also be stretched or compressed? Or is it a matter of this distortion of space changing geodesics through it so light following a straight line will end up in a different place? It seems that LIGO uses interferometry to measure a change in distance between two points, though, and I don't understand how that can be measured if space is stretched, only if space is added. Perhaps that is the answer right there: when space is stretched dimensionless particles traveling through that space are not stretched, because they are dimensionless. Or perhaps better, objects in space stretch, but their momentum vectors don't stretch.
Lightbulbs too, even a 5.5 watt 470lm lightbulb has an F.
+1

I assume part of the massive china/apple deal was a promise to stay in china (and act as a passive marketing prop for chinese manufacturing).
I can't either, and indeed I don't analyze the options at a given employer that much.

But for people with chronic health conditions or who intend to start a family, there can be a huge difference between private and public sector positions due to health benefits.

There's no need for a spreadsheet and evaluating fine-grained differences, you look around at what your friends, family, and acquaintances do and why.
Pulling welfare funding numbers from "The Desk of Jeff Sessions" might not be a good place to start.

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/the-deeply-flawed-sessions-report-...

So no, we do not spend $1T on "welfare" a year. But let's focus on the money spent specifically for helping house the homeless. It is only $2.5B.

https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HU...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today awarded $2.5 billion to renew support to thousands of local homeless assistance programs across the nation. HUD's Continuum of Care (CoC) grants will provide critically needed support to 6,597 local programs on the front lines of serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness. See local impact of funding below.
Why would Apple by the cow, when they can squeeze more concessions and profits from a captive "partner" who can't easily transition away?
Funny how the author complains about how ISOs make the rest of the drive unusable and then say they see "no point" in multi-boot tools. That is exactly one of the use cases multi-boot tools like Ventoy support, being able to store other data on the drive. (The only caveat is that you must format the whole drive to install Ventoy in the first place, but after that you're free to store both ISO and non-ISO files on it.)
How do you mean, "memorize the millions of different types" and "You sit there staring at the code wondering what's wrong with the variable you created until you Google it and find out it's a certain type that you never heard of"?

I don't think I've experienced this in any language, even ones with the most expressive type systems. More typing is better, as far as I have experienced, and as far as I have heard from people who take it up in their projects.

The compiler will tell you exactly what goes wrong if you pass the wrong type. If you mean that type inference was confusing, it's the same as `auto` in C++. Except the Rust compiler does an enormous amount of handholding with errors, often showing you exactly how to correct your code.
It might also be to get Chinese citizens to care more about having sovereignty over those islands. Laypeople in China might care more about the issue if the islands look big rather than looking like "oh who cares about that mound of dirt anyways".
> Which agricultural revolution?

Don't take it too literally, his comment is a modified quote from the unabomber's manifesto, which opens with, "The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." It's something of a meme to swap out "industrial" with something else, usually with a tongue-in-cheek intent.
I like how you don't even contemplate reducing profits as solution (as opposite to mass deaths or mass starvation).
Foxconn has an iPhone City of hundreds of thousands of people (something like 350k).

They make something like 200 million iPhones per year.

If you think that can be moved "just fine" then we will have to agree to disagree.

Producing something of the iPhone's quality, at the scale of a half million per day, every single day (that's 23,000 per hour, every hour, 24/7, for an entire year) is not something one can just pick up and move, even with Apple's resources.

It would take several years, if indeed it is possible at all. There are dozens or hundreds of managing workers at Foxconn who have been designing and producing iPhone manufacturing lines for a decade+, and I doubt China would give them and their families all exit visas to move to some other country to assist Foxconn and Apple in divesting themselves of the CCP's prerogatives.

This ain't Factorio.
Nicole Perlroth's book on the cyberweapons arms race was somewhat of a bizarre read.

I'm not sure if it was poor research or a significant bias for/against Israel, but Israel the country is mentioned only once in the 646 page book.

This is a country that invented ICQ/AIM (Mirabilis in 1996), the Firewall (CheckPoint in 1994), and Skype (2003). It has one of the most well regarded cyberwarfare units in the world (Unit 8200).

This is a very large piece of history / persons to be missing from such a technology history, particularly for a journalist who spent 10 years covering the cyber field before writing the book.

That being said, the book's prose was excellent and it read quickly despite the length.
Apple has an actual fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. And via survival bias, companies that act purely morally simply cease to exist as they are out competed by companies that focus on profit instead. Such entities simply can't survive via capitalism without, perhaps, government regulation that ensures everyone is playing with the same set of rules.
It seems like there's a basic version of the server software that's open source (only does one connection, no NAT or encryption, etc.) but someone could make a server based on that. It could get the bitwarden-rs treatment to make it more enticable.
Oh, that last paragraph. Are you saying the way the world writes software is totally fine? You're entitled to your opinion, but I think that's too big a chasm to bridge in this text box :) I'll just say this: one pattern shared by the best programmers and systems thinkers I've met is that they took the trouble to look under the hood. I really consider this to be a non-saturating metric. The more someone looks under the hood, the better a programmer and systems thinker they are.
I heard rumors that the latest TSMC factories have a government-controlled self-destruct feature for this reason.
what are "BVR-proof and ADA-proof weapons systems". Are there planes that can survive being shot at by air defence? Or can evade missiles ? (Is this "stealth" as the answer? If so it seems the war is based on the targetting / anti-targetting arms race?)

I am not trolling - just asking as it does seem that all the advantages are with cheap missiles hunting expensive planes (a very similar situation to naval warfare I believe)

I think I am asking for a good primer on modern warfare ... I suspect it is a contentious subject.
You didn't say you were giving away a lottery ticket for open source. How much of the 350 is salary?

Somewhere between 170 and 225 is my guess. Still a lot of money but after taxes it's nowhere near retirement after 4 years. The stock could be worth something or nothing.. unless they are public or liquid I would discount that amount by 90%.
Does anyone know offhand if past versions of the top 1M are easily accessible?

Thanks!
ISO 9660 discs still have bootable floppy images in them. The El Torito standard for bootable CDs specifies that a floppy image be incorporated into the disc image. The PC BIOS knows how to find this image, load it into memory, and boot it as a virtual floppy.

But of course, ugly hacks like this were only ever a peecee problem. Macs could boot CD-ROMs like any other drive for as long as they've had CD-ROMs.
> almost every appliance on the market has managed to meet the most stringent label(A grade) so it was common to see say, dishwashers all rated A++++ or A++++++ or something equally stupid. So last year the labels got significantly revised, and the old A label became the new F or whatever

Y'know, this is why we invented ... numbers. Efficiency is not something that can be easily measured with a constant rating. Just let the number keep going up! Even people of below average intelligence can tell that a "1000" efficiency rating is better than an "800", even if a decade ago, manufacturers struggled to hit 100.
It is due to orbit in L2, in eternal shade of earth. So no solar power
Why fund nonprofits, public agencies, and other organizations through grants?
Have we considered yet whether this is, to quote Stephen Diel, another handwavy technobabble nothingburger? I have very serious misgivings about all this what we currently call AI. Also, even if it is something, is it beneficial to all? Sure it can be beneficial to some corporates/VC but we didn't stop at the dawn of social media to think on the societal impact and we already know there's a lot of algorithmic bias being cooked here.
I am homeless. The problem is not complicated. I need money and I do not get enough on disability to live in an apartment near my doctors. So I live in a minivan for now.

People who say "it's complicated" to these issues really just do not want to spend the money on caring for the worst off.
It is absolutely a national security issue - that is why the CCP makes these demands of the largest phone manufacturer in all of their country.
Yes, my partner was a conference planner and whenever they had one in NYC in the Time offices their team wasn't allowed to adjust tables by themselves, everything had to be done by formal work order tickets and only union hands could touch anything, even equipment they owned and brought in themselves.

Coincidentally, this new infrastructure bill has union requirements for any EV work.
You probably didn't even realise it was a memory error. A lot of the instability of Windows can be attributed to the use of non-ECC memory in typical home PCs. Linux tends to run on servers with ECC memory, so at least some of the perspective of it being "more stable" comes from this anecdotal evidence.

The parent comment saying that they never see ECC errors in the wild is missing a few things:

- Server memory tends to be clocked lower than consumer memory, so errors are less frequent to begin with.

- The errors are not evenly distributed. Some memory sticks have a high error rate, others are virtually zero. There's batch-to-batch variations.

- I've done my own tests on hundreds of servers. We run burn-in tests for about 24-48 hours. About 95% have zero errors of any kind, but 5% have a high enough rate that putting them into production would be a mistake. ECC allows us to catch those bit errors instead of silently accepting them and allowing data corruption to creep in.

- I've personally had 3 different personal computers experience high memory error rates, to the point of multiple BSODs per day and data corruption. They all started off "good" and slowly turned "bad". The only reason I knew to look for memory corruption as the root cause is because of my extensive industry experience. A grandma using the same PC would have just blamed Windows for being unstable.

- Vendors like Microsoft simply ignore all crash error reports sent back by telemetry with only 1 or 2 samples, because those are virtually guaranteed to be caused by memory corruption, not programmer error. I've done similar memory dump collection and found that easily 30% of all crashes were unique in this way, suggesting that ECC memory could improve PC stability significantly.

- Suggesting that ECC memory is not needed because "good" memory doesn't need it and only "bad" memory is a problem is missing the point. All memory is bad, it's just that the bit error rates are different!
Wait until you hear where Musk got the money to stop TSLA going bankrupt a couple of years ago (spoiler: it was the Chinese govt).
This longer article from the Tailscale project also does a really nice job of explaining the complexities of doing this properly:

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
Why should it be easier to have corruption in road work vs anything else?
> We’ll, what Apple built with CSAM checking is a tool that checks images uploaded to their servers, and only those images, against a digital fingerprint.

No, that's not how any of it works. Apple scans and matches your photos, on your device, against a list of hashes that represent government provided images that Apple has no knowledge of. The stipulation that images are only scanned when uploaded to Apple servers is a courtesy, not a technical limitation. The exact courtesy that would be rescinded by pressure from the Chinese government.

> If you’re not against Apple scanning CSAM uploaded to their servers, as they are actually required to do by law, then it’s a non-issue.

The law explicitly stipulates that Apple is _not_ required to scan photos for CSAM. The text of the law [1] explicitly protects people's privacy in the section titled "Protection of Privacy".

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A
The problem is the lack of a feedback loop. Formal requirements will never accurately reflect what is actually needed unless there is a feedback loop that makes it possible to improve/update the formal requirements as problems/issues are discovered during development. Changing a single UI element requested by astronauts apparently takes a year for NASA and a day for SpaceX. Guess which software works best?
I haven't touched a physical optical drive in many years, but I still use ISO's regularly for building virtual machine images or booting servers into something quickly. I can get away with plain pxe/netboot for distro's I'm familiar with the packaging of but an ISO is the distro packaging unit I know that will work wherever it is needed.

EasyOS might be targeted elsewhere? Compared to say debian/ubuntu/rhel
Put another way: “We” didn’t think anything. There is no such thing as a group changing its mind because a group doesn’t have a mind. Each member thought something, probably something slightly different even when they largely agreed, and very often they completely disagreed with one another.

The Naval and Balaji type folks often seem tricked into thinking that organizations are actually atomic entities simply because we talk about them as if they are. They’re abstractions. Abstractions over groups of people who are each individually as complex as you and I are. Easy to forget sometimes!
Flipping it open and clapping it back is takes quite some effort. Because of that some trash falls outside the bin.
Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”
I suspect apple manufactures in china at least partially because china requires it to access their market.
I want to point out that The Netherlands has a similar dynamic. They build a lot of infrastructure all the time. Very little corruption. I suspect there is a healthier relationship between the private sector and government. (The US is weirdly anti capitalistic when it comes to government. In the Netherlands, so many public services are delivered by private companies, by concession. Like, the equivalent of Amtrak is a private company. Also, private companies selling coffee/beer/ice cream in parks, which for whatever reason rarely happens in the states)

I’m an expat, but maybe a local could explain how/why the Netherlands has the best infrastructure in Europe?
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> This is my favorite way of blowing off adrenaline after an earthquake.

This is not something I planned for when I moved to the PNW 25 years ago. But maybe I'll start trying this. Thanks for the protip. :)
I tried doing this once. It just wasn't worth the additional testing effort and increased complexity. Switching to Ansible was far more productive.

Interestingly though starting in Bash was a good MVP approach. Fast to get started. But as things started to slow down the project switched to a better tool. I expect for many projects the number of bash scripts may never grow large enough to merit a switch. So, sure write scripts that are safe to run multiple times, but if that effort grows know that there are better tools.
It’s astounding that for a $5 Trillion dollar neighborhood (Bay Area), we are incapable of having a first world infrastructure and solve homelessness.

The will of the people is weak.
I have used every trick in this article over the years. Nice to have them in one place. Will save many hours of googling.
Thank you for the context. Makes much more sense now.
Is any car small enough that the ratio of car-weight to human-weight becomes low enough to protect a human in the event of a crash? By the time a human body has managed to significantly change the momentum of the car, I would expect the damage to be done.

The real question, I would think, is whether a larger car takes longer to brake to a stop than a smaller car, or do the quality of the brakes go up linearly with the weight of the car.
Synthesia, which is developing AI to generate synthetic videos, secures $50M
Anything "China" or "Russia" in the USA has negative connotations, even when it is the exact same shit the US government does domestically.

China, Russia, and the USA all work much the same way.
> I have yet to make a mistake

For some carefully chosen definition of mistake.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
> outside of the central south

That's an odd take. Most of the northern states (excepting the temperate coastline) get cold enough during the winter that a 5 minute drive is far better than a 10 minute walk. When the polar vortex comes through and it is a windy night, a 10 minute walk is short enough to get frostbite on exposed skin.

Then, 90-100 degree summer days aren't uncommon, except the humidity makes them more dangerous because you can sweat all you want, but it wont evaporate to cool you down.

Some cities- Minneapolis and St. Paul- have indoor walkways and climate controlled sky bridges for pedestrians, but they're pretty primarily used for business people's lunchtime, since they're fairly limited in where you can actually get to.
Sadly anything can be politicized these days.
France is known for its aggressive unions, but aren't Germany and the Nordics known for more cooperative labor relations?
I don't get it. Can you explain to me what the ROI would be if the pension fund invested their money into public infrastructure?
Unions get a bad rap. They don’t have to be bad. Everyone should have an incentive for efficiency.
> I would judge that support to be a "nice to have", but it shouldn't block what I consider to be more important concerns (security and robustness).

So what happens to users that depend on these archs & drivers - get left behind on the last non-Rust kernel?
In some regards (foot-pounds), Apple is way more of a Chinese company than an American one. Nearly all of the people who actually make Apple products are Chinese citizens subject to Chinese law, in China.