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> - Apple can double speak all they want about digital privacy, but their actions tell the truth. As a paying Apple customer, you’re not deemed worthy enough to even understand how your own machines work, less even to “tamper” with their working, and who knows what data is actually being shared?

> - Personally, I say no thank you. I’ve been on Debian or a variant for almost 10 years now, and haven’t looked back. It’s only gotten easier, as software generally moves more and more to SaaS web apps and the intrinsic cross-platform nature of the browser.

Personally, all the paying Apple customers in my family have been able to understand how the systems works to make video calls and talk to their grandchildren.

10years ago we tried installing Linux on an HP laptop we paid for and could barely get a picture opened up because... (do I really need to spell this out?) of unreliable display drivers means that the screen blacks out on whim.

I find it so odd, Linux users overlooking the fact that people who don't tinker with computers all their life do not have the time to get Linux up & running.
In this context, what does mvp mean?
What is the incentive for a server operator to take on all this risk?

Most of these people running servers don’t charge anything, so I can only assume that it is a (1) a hobby or (2) they have bad intentions.

If 1, they have failed to understand the dangerous legal position they are putting themselves in.

If 2, they are wonderfully set up to entrap or just monitor people and send info to the authorities. Maybe that in itself is a fun hobby for them, who knows?

Every single point you bring up here is completely unnecessary work. It’s just a lot of work.

Why would I find a server with exactly the policies i prefer when I can just self-moderate and follow the people i want to follow?

Not to mention that these “policies” are basically written on a napkin and at the whims of a random person who may have gotten bad indigestion that morning. My question is simply why bother with all this needless bureaucracy when you can be left alone?
"I built a tool and it found this many bugs" doesn't feel like part of the social sciences, but these papers are regularly published in ICSE and FSE.

I listed Software Engineering because it is one of the fields I know well but is way less esoteric than the other one I know well (PL). You'll find the same kinds of replication problems in POPL or OOPSLA papers too.

I suspect that other subfields don't fare any better. I certainly hear from my ML friends that a huge portion of ML results are untrustworthy.
Why are you quoting a random op-ed, as opposed to the scientific article linked in the OP? They have very different tones, arguments, and data.
> It's essentially saying, we don't believe your degree says anything about your ability to perform the job.

That says more to me about the companies practicing this style of interview than it does your degree or the institution granting it.
Why real-time messaging and edge computing are an amazing combination
He backs peaceful protests. Why not condem the violent portions of the same protest?

Why not similarly back the democratic legal processes?

Or are Canada's laws more sacred than India's laws?

Why not supoort peaceful protests in Canada?
Because we will be destroying way more jobs than will be making and more than will be available. It will be highly disruptive to other labor markets and will cause a race to the bottom for workers' salaries.
So much of that seems redacted, for some reason, that I couldn't make much sense of most of your comment. Or maybe it was joke I missed or something?!
An important problem also in the West is closed services like Discord replacing public web forums (and mailing lists with public archives, and usenet). It’s harder nowadays to discover and get access to communities you’re interested in, and as the article explains it also leads to a decline of longer-form content with long-term value.

Of course, the chat-like interface almost all modern community platforms feature doesn’t help. This again comes from the mobile-first trend, because long-form discussions are difficult on mobile and you can’t fit much more than a chat window on a mobile display.
Did you not read my GP comment?
You can make an app OOM by setting big string values anywhere. You gotta handle that at a higher level and reject requests larger than a certain size, which there is already a default for.
Legitimation Crisis (Book)
IIRC, some widespread and notable ones have consistently failed to prove they're backed by the reserves they claim to have.
A marginal increase in utility makes it easier to rationalize paying a premium for style.
Madness has driven us to this point, where instead of being colorblind we assign importance to race in every single thing that happens. Ironically those who spend their days and nights fighting racism have become the ultimate racists - As Nietzsche predicted they would long ago.
Just to be clear: I agree with you that I handled it badly. I disagree that just because a manager says something you automatically should do it, but I’ve learned to play ball and sometimes make the best of a bad situation instead of swimming against the tide. There are some policies that I disagree with at my current job, but I explained my disagreement to the right people and then moved on and followed them anyway. In my opinion knowing when to push back and when not is something that depends a lot on internal politics and personalities involved, less on technical “objective” realities. There are usually many ways to get to the destination, and the long way around may be the quickest if all the right people are bought in to that approach. I failed to appreciate these subtleties at the time.
I was once told by one of those lucid types of stoners this little quote:

"Drugs don't make you stupid. You already were."

I don't know how much I want to put any faith into that being correct; but the anecdotal evidence definitely seems to agree. From my angle at least.
New, faster method to measure global warming shows no acceleration or slowdown
Energy websites crash in meter readings rush
We don't ignore it. It's hard to know what to do about it.
There's lots of python libraries for graph visualization, it's probably force-directed layout or something else similar.

The name is indeed a reference to data warehouse design, where you normally have heavily normalized data in a snowflake schema. The Kimball book is the canonical one on data warehouse design.
It was the initial IBM FORTRAN written in 704 assembler. Very much an optimizing compiler.
I definitely do follow Manyverse development.

But as you alluded to, I won’t use it until a few new features are developed like “strong” follows vs “soft” (doesn’t automatically seed all of their follower content) follows.
I had a black macbook in 2007 which I sprung the extra $200 for because I didn't want to be one of "those people" with a gloss white macbook and the extra $500 for a macbook pro was just too much. It was my daily driver and I got a lot of mileage out of it until 2015 (with some upgrades along the way) or so when I replaced it with a chromebook. I was really hoping this article would have something insightful but it literally just says:

"Was this modest storage upgrade worth the $200 premium? Absolutely not; Apple was charging more for the black enclosure because it could."
I'd love to see them repeat that, but comparing Material to native Windows forms circa 2000. Or even default browser-styled forms with no modification aside from making it match the general layout of the Material one.
A bargain compared to paint colours for cars.
Given some of the services you mentioned, are you talking about transferring money in and out of the country? In that case I might agree. It is a huge pain in Colombia as well. I was referring to alternatives to small cash transactions between people in the country. For which there is for example Nequi. Easy onboarding, no service or transaction fees, no minimum amounts, free cash withdrawals, instant transfers. Yes it is by an "evil" centralized corporation, but it works and has very high adaption at least in cities.
> >>"one of the most important cultural battles in this war with Capital" - War with the capital? Nobody is at war with the capital except the fringe right who have already shown their inability to understand the complexity of US institutions and how the world works except through violence to serve their own needs.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you said, but it sounds like you interpreted "Capital" in their sentence as "the government" (or maybe "capitol" as in the building?). I'm pretty sure they meant capital as in "capitalism".
Yeah, having seen the monstrosities Tableau generates, that example seemed quaint.
The central thesis:

> We propose that describing COVID-19 as disproportionately impacting people of color may lessen White U.S. residents' concerns about COVID-19.

This does not seem controversial, if true. It seems, simply, that affluent (mostly white) people would make the not-far-leap that COVID-19 was a problem for the poor and working class (mostly people of color). This, in fact, hasn't actually been far from the truth for portions of the pandemic.
Sorry, it is not. You use 'a/an' to establish a new entity. 'a Ubiquiti employee' is clearly not the same as 'a former Ubiquiti developer'. The proper way to acknowledge an employee(establish new entity) has been let go is to say the employee(refer to previously established entity) was no longer employed there.

This is something you have to be very careful about in patent claims.
At least we seem to have gotten out of the childish period of "oopsie doopsy" style 500 pages. Although I guess we're also in the everything is an SPA period where a website will just break in opaque ways you won't even see an error page.
If by reductive and naive sense you mean by the actual definition of private vs public sector.
I once met an “angular 5” developer. Coding interview I started on the whiteboard.

var a = 1;
a = 2;

Before I could write anything more (this was just setup) the person pipes up “that’s false!” We went through the rest of the interview but I just couldn’t believe it. The individual had been working for a government office as a software developer for 5 years or so before this.

I have no idea what this persons work day looked like but still shake my head when I think about that interview.
This feels like you read the headline and didn't even read the conclusion, and are just injecting another issue.

This paper suggests when told that there are racial health disparities, white people felt less worried about it (as they felt less at risk), and so rejected control measures more.

To take the bait a little and address the article you linked, calling a Catholic healthcare company that is actively against contraception the "woke left" pushing race-based treatment (that company claims they used an outdated set of metrics by mistake and changed it as soon as it was noted) is clearly a massive stretch to reach a conclusion the author wants.

Looks to me like one (very conservative) company made a bad decision about how to judge need for a treatment, not some left-wing woke conspiracy to deny white people healthcare.
Or they could pull an NVidia, and dedicate a whole in-house kernel team to maintaining an out-of-tree kernel module.
Ok so I read the mail from Andy and understand the real problem better: UAI is not context switched and is to be enabled system wide. I don't know what AMD has been smoking.
> most enthusiasts do not accept that the blockchain will became unmanageable by most just due to it's ever-growing size

Some blockchain protocols like Bitcoin make the silly argument that in order for a chain to be worthwhile, a full history of all transactions needs to be maximally available on the network.

Other chains either drop, or plan to drop data that's been on the network for over a year or so (EIP-4444, for Ethereum). This relies on the weak assumption that the consensus algorithm will not finalize invalid data and then continue to build on it for over a year.

When you take history expiry alongside state expiry, the technology is absolutely out there to bound blockchain size.
I would pay a huge premium on a current day MacBook Pro if it were black, and not "space grey", metal - even with no additional utility.

Why are they all so bright?
How organisations are changing.. The next “next” generation
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13592-019-00715-7 - I haven't read it all the way yet.

The reason why it doesn't see more uses is the difficulty to scale it(a beekeeper can't keep a device tied up for 2 hours when they've got 5,10,50,400 hives to manage.
Yeah, I'm also curious about this approach by folks like ESA. Even NASA with their SLS monstrosity.

Imagine what you could do with an extra $4B per year in support for missions - it would be amazing. There is no way SpaceX can scale for that. You can't build a telescope targeting starship (maybe using starship has the frame and keep starship up there)? Or tons of other interesting ideas (spacesuits of a number of styles etc).

SpaceX is a bit unique, Elon wants to get to space and is crazy about Mars. But LOTS of other stuff to do, and he doesn't seem to hung up about what he is launching (see OneWeb and all the other space com businesses he's launching).
We don't ignore it. We just don't know what to do about it..
That's a far cry from "We know that the single best predictor of job success and performance is IQ."

I think when people say things like that, what they mean is "what simple number is the best predictor of success", which begs the question that a simple number can be a good predictor at all. Keep in mind that something can be the best merely because every other option is even worse: in practice, the best predictor is a really terrible predictor. So bad, in fact, that a five-minute conversation with somebody will tell you more about their ability to succeed at a job than knowing their IQ.
> Cryptocurrencies have never claimed

Cryptocurrencies have never claimed anything - and never will.

Proponents of cryptocurrencies, however, have claimed an impressively large number of things - often contradictory.
Perhaps it should be some sort of carrousel, but some script has not loaded correctly or not dealt with bad/missing data cleanly, so failed before it was supposed to do some DOM/CSS rearrangements. If you watch network activity, a couple of the many requests fail, and in the console output there is a script error.
It's winter...
> Winter wheat, which would be harvested this spring

Since this is a site that cares about accuracy, I'll mention that while winter wheat is planted in the winter, it's harvested in the summer or fall. It doesn't grow fast enough to be harvested in the spring. Instead, it's a way of getting a boost on the season by getting the roots established early. I don't think there is anywhere it can be harvested early enough that one can plant two crops per year in the same field. More details and dates for the US: https://www.machinefinder.com/ww/en-US/faq/when-is-winter-wh...

(If you want to claim that you are technically correct, I'll concede that it is true that hypothetical Florida or Alabama winter wheat might be harvested in May. I hadn't even known that they grow winter wheat there!)
Mueller talks about “ pharmaceuticals, or materials, or semiconductors” production shifting to space. Can anyone expand on this please? What aspects of these industries is better done in space? How large (in revenue) are those portions of those industries? Thanks!
Mission accomplished. The US has been an a downward slide into privatization and disenfranchisement since at least the early 80s, probably earlier. I was born in the late 70s and have watched the gradual dismantlement of public institutions my entire life.

Where this matters is: academics used to be able to conduct pure research. Now all they do is fundraise and hustle for grants. Anyone used to be able to go to college. Now the gatekeepers decide who has enough money or connections to attend. We even used to have news and (gasp) investigative journalism and public broadcasting and periodic reports to the public on the state of publicly funded research or some great public works project. Now we have infotainment and the suppression of any real tech that might materially improve lives by reducing the workload of the average person. They only fixate on phantom tech that distracts and enslaves. Now wonder the public doesn't care.

If we really want to get serious about fixing this stuff, it's going to involve at least in some part, a total rejection of vast swaths of the status quo. I'm all for that, I think most Gen Xers are for that, and certainly most people younger than that are for that. But there is just so much concentrated wealth now diluting social movements. And so much momentum behind the previous generation in congress that will do everything it can to hold onto power in the face of so many calamities we face, because at the end of the day, it's not their problem so they're just never gonna get the memo.

If a spiritual revolution away from wealth concentration isn't already underway, it's going to start with some version of "your money's no good here." And individuals withdrawing their contribution from institutions which concentrate wealth and power.
Asking the Governor General to act against the advice of her Prime Minister is a good definition of an overthrow of government.
The problem is deeper than this, though. All of the "scientific method" theory which is meant to ensure reliable results applies only to experiments and observational studies. Syntheses are just prose - there's no particular reason you should have confidence in a synthesis if you don't think the author shares your values or it contradicts something else you strongly believe is true.
You make trade-offs on dimensions that do not violate fundamental principles or when you are confronted with a situation when you need to choose the lesser of two evils.

"Inconvenience caused by a shorter-battery life" vs "patronizing a company that is systematically abusing its power to take away freedom from everyone" is not such a case that requires any type of trade-off to be made.
Same. 7 was a huge step back. They've improved it somewhat since then, but it's still worse, and now there are like 100 new secret gestures that I'm always accidentally triggering.
The velocity (aka churn) is a lot higher in software though, for questionable benefit.
Wait what about that is false? It’s not even really doing anything yet
These are not consequences of technology, but human nature.

What differ developed countries, they got technologies much earlier, when they where expensive and/or hard to achieve (like broadband internet with low latency, where not achievable on >90% of 1st world territory), personal computer costs like automobile, so internet become means of communication for elite.

- In 1990th, when you communicate via internet this automatically assume, you have high iq and good education.
Elite difference, they intentionally spent significant resources to achieve awareness, to structure information, that's cause of search engines appearance.

When smartphones wide distributed, they lowered the bar very much, so appear new reality in which most new users where not elite, but ordinary persons, not initiative, with average education.
But western elites already where capable to moderately good deal with new reality, and to save adequate information infrastructure.

China jumped over elite internet period just into period of average persons, Proletariat, and Chinese elite was not ready, it is just too young, not mature for such trials, consider this period as information chaos.

I'm in Ukraine, exUSSR country, and see very similar things, but fortunately, our society resists to totalitarianism and grow, because of this we have much less chaos, but we still suffer of problem that no information lasts long enough.

I have few ideas on how western elites solve this, and could share and discuss, but at the moment I have not much success in implementation if my ideas.
Is "Sheraton in receptions" speech to text for serotonin receptors :) ?
> Ukraine plants their wheat in the spring

This aligns with every single combat photo I've seen thus far. I don't think I've seen one field of winter wheat. So the shortfall is not in winter wheat, but in the types planted right now.
…and their customers will simply not buy their product if it needs a custom kernel.
I've never had spotlight hog things for more than a few hours, and only after a fresh install. It's generally well behaved. And it's very useful and fast for searching.
He is accused of making the claims through Twitter which is why it’s being used as evidence.
For most practical purposes, that's has the same effects.
"Reputational Risk" is a term bandied about in the banking industry when it comes to holding people's money.

While USDC does indeed look better, the management failure of holding corporate bonds in lieu of treasuries and dollars would have triggered an audit in a bank, and would have been big news.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/coinbase...
GParted 1.4: New version of live partition-manipulation tool
I believe cryptocurrency networks can still be useful even if "most" transactions are priced in fiat and settled in stablecoins.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the GP was referring to this: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-10661-006
I'm told, but haven't verified, that in older Intel CPUs loading an MPK wasn't a speculation barrier, but in newer CPUs it is. In other words changing your current MPK is like changing address spaces but much faster because there's no TLB flush or actual context switch.

I think there are also other caveats to consider. A lot of Spectre research (like your paper) is implicitly focused on the web renderer/V8 use case but here we're discussing theoretical operating system designs. Let's say you sandbox an image decoder library in-process, using type security and without using MPKs. Is this useless? No, because even if the image decoder is:

a. Maliciously doing speculation attacks.

b. Somehow this doesn't get noticed during development.

... the sandbox means it won't have any ability to make architectural-level changes. It can spy on you but its mouth is sealed; it doesn't have the ability to do any IO due to the architectural sandbox. To abuse Spectre in this context would require something really crazy, like trying to speculatively walk the heap, find the data you're looking for, encrypt it, steganographically encode the result into the images it decodes, and then hope that somehow those images make it back to the attackers even though the destination is probably just the screen. This isn't even NSA-level stuff, it's more like Hollywood at that point.

Compare to the situation today: the image decoder (or whatever) is a buggy C library running in a process with network access because it's a web origin. Game over.

I worry that the consequence of Spectre research has been that people conclude "in-process sandboxing is useless, cross-process is too hard, oh well, too bad so sad". Whereas in reality in-process sandboxing even without MPKs or equivalent would still be a massive win for computer security in many contexts where Spectre is hardly your biggest problem.
These are all good questions, and I'm not denying Ukraine is suffering.

What I'm saying is that they likely still will export wheat. The amount is the question. I'm saying that the question is harder (a lot harder) than a quick Internet search on what percentage of world wheat production comes from Ukraine.
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Here's an interesting fact – ~92% of Ubiquiti's shares are owned by its founder and CEO Robert Pera.