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Is there a legal problem. What's the basis for the opinion. What is the precedent.

Let's take a pre-web example: Use of the early Internet was restricted to military, academic and later other institutions. Pre-1993, advertising was generally not permitted.^1 Were those rules legal problems.

1. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED350986

"ICANN", a secretive non-profit coporation with some very well-compensated staff, domiciled in the US, supposedly regulates "the Internet", at least in part. But no one can tell us where ICANN's "authority" comes from. Maybe acquiescence. I don't know.

When ICANN started handing out "domain names" in the early 1990s there was a rule that certain obscene strings could not be registered. Was that a legal problem. Later the restriction was inexplicably lifted. At first the registrations were free. Then they were $100. Then they were $50. All apparently arbitrary decision-making accepted without legal challenge. Where do these rules come from. Under what authority are they made. If ICANN had some rule about how websites can use "their" domain names, would that have been a legal problem.

The Internet has all manner of "rules" and "limits". Some may be technical in nature, but some are policy-based, at least in part. And those policies may come from a variety of non-governmental sources, including mysterious ones like ICANN. How can anyone challenge these "rules".

Let's say I want an IPv4 address block, but a "regional registry" says I am not allowed to receive one. How does this registry even have any authority to set rules and tell me I cannot have a block. Who "owns" the rights to network addresses. What legal recourse do I have when I am refused.

Whatever the answer, the fact is that there is an enormous amount of cooperation and acquiescence to restrictions imposed by sui generis "authorities" that goes into creating a single "Internet". And AFAIK these registries and other organisations like ICANN have few if any "legal problems".

Obviously the rulemaking is not only limited to made up "Internet authorities".

For example, Cloudflare can "kick a website off the internet". Cloudflare makes its own rules. The website may continue to publish via Tor or some other option, but the point is that most "rules" of the Internet are not found in any legal system.

Or how about when .org was going to be sold off to a shell company. Public protest stopped the sale. Although ICANN would have us believe they stopped it. Who "owns" .org. What are the rules. Who makes them. Can they be challenged through legal process.

Websites like Facebook and Twitter need the cooperation of many parties to do what they do.

The Internet, including the few mega-websites, operates according to cooperation and compliance with self-appointed "authorities" whose "rules" are generally never subjected to legal analysis.

In the rare cases where such "rules" are legally challenged, the defendants almost invariably settle to keep the novel issues out of the courts and retain their uniquely derived "power".
The Romans wrotewithoutspaces as in "continuous script" [1], however they·did·use·the·interpunct for delineation on inscriptions. In order to have spaces in domain names we would need to use another sign, such as • [2], to separate words and avoid ambiguity.

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

[2] The bullet • (U+2022) alt code is 7, or Opt + 8 on Mac. The interpunct · (U+00B7) alt code is 250, or Shift + Opt + 9 on Mac. Rather inconvenient for the regular user.
I tried this once when my DVD player died. I used it on top of my main camera to use it as a macro camera. It was surprisingly good.
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I have moved my side project (single server handling ~3 requests/s) from Heroku to Clever Cloud about 3 years ago and they work very reliably for me.

The truth is, on this scale Heroku worked well too. The reason to move for me was that they are an EU company so there is less questions from my clients about GDPR compliance.

I'd say the UI is quite old-school and I am missing good built-in metrics. There are some paid add-ons providing metrics but I'd really want to have it built-in.
But it's not easy for the computer, since it needs to recompile the statement every single time. It's just easy for the programmer, and even that is questionable.
I'm not sure if it's sarcasm but in case you are serious, Unix shell has been around for over 50 years and its variants are installed on millions systems around the world, and it's still the fastest way to accomplish simple tasks on these servers. PowerShell is something vastly different.
"What I want from Facebook: To know what my friends are up to."

I found out that this bend my view on people that I know. I prefer to curiously ask in real life about what they are doing instead to start coversion with knowing of what they want to be known about them online. Which is mostly saturated with "filters" and not real.

So I disabled feed completely by plugins in browser 4 years ago. Nowadays I use FB only for marketplace and sharing links of my works from portfolio.
Do you know of any good explanations of the techniques you used for those who only touch PyTorch Eager + occasionally torchscript?
> Apple also restricts what app developer can offer to people who don't agree to tracking.

To be fair, so does the GDPR which Apple is subject to
The so-called "5 nm" CMOS processes have minimum pitches around 30 nm.

I do not know what minimum pitches are planned for the future so-called "2 nm" CMOS processes, but it is likely that they would not be smaller than 15 to 20 nm.

So there will be some time until multiple patterning could be needed again, and by that time there are chances that the transistors will have minimum sizes determined by other causes than lithography, so for further progress a switch to different semiconductor materials will be needed, not a further improvement of lithography.
> “well they were basically the same, so we went with the one that was cheaper to make”

wow, i wonder if thats a case of business people don't understand technology, or just a bad case of communication/marketing to execs?
Same thing happens with firearms yet no one seems to care, or actively promotes, the methods "policy groups" use to strip rights away from citizens. Now, the same tactics are being used here. I suspect many commenters will suggest these cannot be compared but I suggest generalizing a little:

The government and people interested in stopping this sort of thing realize there's no legal easy-button they can press to make it all go away. Firearms won't go away, neither will piracy. But, they can do the next best thing. Inundate the companies in the middle with lawsuits, mostly frivolous in nature, in order to tie up and burn capital and (they hope) bring the demise the companies allegedly "involved" in the "crime". This doubles as something that has a tremendous chilling effect on other related services. It starts with DNS, goes to VPNs, etc. It's so effective the government does not even need to enforce laws to make it happen. All it takes is a little encouragement of the right groups of people and the lawsuits take care of the rest. It is de-facto illegal to do something because the alternative is to be mired in billions of dollars worth of lawsuits for any perceived mistake.

This is why it's so important to support all forms of freedom. The tactic used to bring one to it's knees will be used to stifle other freedoms as well. In this case, they're now coming after information. Use your imagination to figure out what is next.
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A movie can be several gigabytes of data, an IP is several bytes. I don't like their odds of taking on the DNS system if they can't handle piracy directly. Steganography is a lot easier than learning how to use a torrent client.
My college gf had synesthesia. We played a game where I rattled off about 20 numbers from a phone book and randomly said several names. Without hesitation she recalled all their numbers, no mistakes.

Had a similar ability with music, upon hearing a melody or a chord, would rapid-fire off what the notes were. Detuned a string a few cents, could immediately tell is was out of tune. As a guitar player this was a bit annoying as she would always be telling me something was off when it was slightly out of tune, it was like a nails on chalkboard kind of experience for her.
This is a nice reminder of how much better we have it now. Sure, it sucks that Chromium now dominates in the way IE did. But at least all relevant browser engines are now open source, which means quirks like “how can I get the engine to know about my fancy new tag” can be addressed by looking at the source. That’s a big step up from IE.

It’s pretty impressive to me that a combination of Stallman inventing the (L)GPL, the KHTML team choosing it, and then market forces, brought us to the point that all big browser engines are open source. Mozilla would’ve always been, but I have no doubt that Apple and Google would’ve kept it all closed if they could have easily done so. To me, a long time GPL sceptic, this is the strongest example in favour of viral licenses.

Thanks, FSF and KHTML team!
Ah thanks, I wasn't aware of the finer details then.
> I would have liked to have learned more about how the query planner and evaluator work! There was almost nothing about that? Just the tests magically moving from 0% to 95%.

At the veeeery bottom:

> Detailed writeup to follow probably in a week or two.
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I hate ads but I live with a few now. I have privacy to some extent. I don't want to give up privacy for ads. As an example, there's no reason Apple couldn't hash the screen constantly to see what videos you're watching, what images you're looking at, who you're talking to (face recognition, text recognition). They own the OS, they can do all of that in the name of serving you ads. Some TVs apparently already do this. And if you don't think they can hash what's on your screen well they already shipped that tech.

So I would most certainly not choose a phone that spies on me over one that has ads. I already have a phone that has ads. Sure I want less ads but not at the expense of less privacy.

In fact arguably, the less privacy you have the more ads you'll get since they'll have more data to target you.
Because of the nature of criticality, no amount of traditional "training" or additional bureaucracy/procedures can fix this problem, it requires a new approach to give an much better intuition of the dangers, PLUS some new safety gear that is always giving feedback to the wearer when things go bad, along with networking/surveillance.

First - They need a VR/AR training system that shows danger levels visually, audibly, and via any other sense that make the user instinctively aware of what they're getting themselves into. In training, they should go through all the ways you can die, just like pilots do in simulators.

Second - There needs to be new safety gear that is an interactive, networked, set of sensors to detect radiation all the way from alpha through fast neutrons, and gives immediate feedback anytime things start to go south to the user. It should also warn everyone immediately in a criticality event.

Think of it like you would the explosive gas detectors that coal miners use, but more powerful/integrated into the network.

There should be very strict rules about the access of the data gathered, to ensure people feel it won't be abused for normal office politics, etc.

Third - A management system that catches the failures in safety, and discusses them, and a rate of zero failures/year is obviously unobtainable, and should also be unacceptable. There are always mistakes, they need to be caught.

Fourth - Everyone who works in criticality related materials should be required to have a will, advanced medical directives, and recorded preferences about euthanasia signed and witnessed, to stress the ultimate danger.

Fifth - Psych screenings (One would hope they do this, but probably not)

Sixth - Review these things every 5 years.
Tired: "Tubular!"

Wired: "Circular!" (economy)
AWS is IaaS not PaaS. With IaaS you need to hire competent infra admins. PaaS abstracts away much of that requirement.
The timeline here seems quite contracted. Windows PCs started to really sell after launch of 3.0 and the PCs with that did not even have CD-ROM drives by default, let alone DVD. I would say DVD drives started to be a norm at least a decade after the rise of commodity PCs, if you count from Windows 3.0 launch in 1990. And in the PCs that first shipped with DVD drives, the CPUs were not powerful enough to decode DVD video in real time so accelerator cards (and their crummy software) were needed, keeping the appeal limited.
Household gas prices are as high as they can make it partly because the government has given a blank cheque to the energy producers, partly because of the way the cap is calcuated (Feb23 delivery of gas was a far higher cost in August -- 880p per therm [1])

the cost of gas for delivery in the winter is high due to predicted demand outstripping predicted supply. Prices per therm in Feb are 480p [0], and while prices are dampened a little next summer, similar high costs are there the following year. This time last year though prices for Feb 23 delivery were down in the 120p/therm level. The cost peaked at 330 last December then backed off a little

Cost for Feb 22 delivery this time last year was about 200p, and for Feb 21 delivery in Oct 20 was about 40p. Pre covid it was about 80p in Oct 2019 for delivery in Feb 2020 [2], so we're running at 5 times the cost of pre-covid despite the recent falls in price.

Sensible countries have put in measures to reduce and move towards rationing gas usage (thus reducing costs), the UK has put in measures to encourage gas usage by subsidising consumption.

[0] https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/NF*0/futures-prices

[1] https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/NFG23/overview

[2] https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/NFG19/overview
I mean…

Fundamentally they've done the right thing for the wrong reason.

Yes, code as database instead of code as text files is an old idea that has been tried many times and never really works.

…buuuut, if you look at the places where “not as text” coding works, like blueprint in unreal, you’ll see the successful projects that do this make a new language that takes non text input to the compiler / runtime.

So, building your own language (which is what they did here) to run in your database-ide is actually going to work. There are examples of other things in this category that have worked before.

Thus, the work probably seems quite promising when viewed naively.

…but, I think any conclusions about datalog or general applications of the approach to existing text based programming languages are probably misguided.
Fly's multi-region capability is BGP Anycast-based, which is vastly superior (and much more complex to deploy, outside of Fly) to DNS-based solutions like GeoDNS.

One example of app-level tooling is the fly-replay header, which permits your app to automatically replay requests in different regions. This works really well alongside the FLY-REGION environment variable that is available to each node. https://fly.io/docs/reference/fly-replay/

Another example of app-level tooling is the availability of NATS Jetstream, a key/value store that is less feature-rich than Redis, but supports multi-region active/active replication. This is a big deal, as Redis doesn't offer it at the free tier, and many others (KeyDB) who advertise it seem to have trouble delivering it when there's more than two regions in play.
Other than culture, which also plays a large part in this, many people in Japan live alone. And, as opposed to the West, that means living in a space optimized for one person. It is neither convenient nor pleasant to accommodate guest(s) either for the person living there or for the visitor.

You want a party, AND privacy ? Rent a large private karaoke room with service that will bring you anything you want and nothing to clean yourself afterwards, make as much noise with as many people as you want. Quiet space to chill, study, or work in company ? A myriad fantastic cafes. Family stuff ? Famires to the rescue. Etc.

The vast majority of these places are clean, safe, cheap, and within walking distance of wherever one lives -- if not, nothing beats Japanese trains and other means of public transportation.

As for community, if the above isn't enough, just compare the streets of Japanese cities with those of Western cities and tell me in which ones you will find small children going about safely ( or adults for that matter ), and which ones are covered with litter, cigarette butts, people yelling in public, and idle cars or disturbing filthy traffic everywhere. Which ones suggest to you "don't disturb your neighbours, be agreeable, enjoy being here" and which ones scream "no one gives a f*ck about you, get out of the way" ...

We could go on, and compare individualistic societies and collective thinking ones, but that's a long conversation.
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It's very convoluted, and I probably got some details wrong, but that's the gist of what GP was probably thinking about.

Not sure what the Illumos guys ended up doing in response, either. My memory from browsing their mailing lists was they were pretty surprised by FreeBSD's decision, and didn't seem particularly happy about it, since Illumos/OpenSolaris is the "proper home" of ZFS, but...
Well, I sure hope it's more interesting than the game portrays because this an item on my bucket list.
this webcam went through a near-death-experience in 2019 :

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The Supreme Court is finally taking up Section 230
My Wyze camera has already paid for itself when it caught a delivery driver backing into (and partially wrecking) my mailbox. Their insurance paid up.

Really my only complaints with the camera are:

* It randomly decides to turn off my “lite” camera subscription in the app so I have to reset it up

* Too much pestering to upgrade to a monthly plan in the app

* Camera doesn’t come in black

* Can’t read license plates (but higher end cameras have trouble with this too)
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Maybe it's Maybelline.
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Who is this “we”? Back in the day my town (college town of ~100k) had lime 5 taxis total, and they mostly
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Sorry Jeff, I mean Suspend to RAM :)
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Wait, doesn't this mean that residents of the City of London ought to be exempt from inheritance taxes?