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>The Supreme Court is supposed to be above politics

Huh? The purpose of SCOTUS is very much partisan politics and always has been. It's actually the nature of the job.
Podcast interviews with screenwriters of major productions -- Die Hard, Terminator 2, Back To The Future -- Script Apart by Al Hoerner.
Digital Infrastructure Incubator: Essential Readings
Thanks!

I constantly wonder, however, if my true purpose is to be a failure. Maybe God needs someone for others to point at and say "see that guy, don't live your life that way."
> While I have no doubt than basically anything from China is probably backdoored (and to the fault of western countries outsourcing manufacturing for cheap labour), what exactly has Huawei done?

Some others have pointed out some Huawei incidents, but that’s not the big problem.

The big problem is, if you build your entire telecom infrastructure on Huawei gear, and then you go to war, it will then be weaponized. In the best case scenario, you have a telecom infrastructure for which you can’t get any parts, patches, or support. Replacing your entire telecom infrastructure is not something you want to do during the opening months of WWIII.

It’s the same reason why we don’t want to rely on Chinese parts for our missiles.
I love me some Gareth Evans. He might be a bit too focused on action to be a Tarantino though.
> but that only makes memory-fences (load-acquire, store-release) even more important.

I would say that the importance is in the correctness of the algorithm that implements the shared memory synchronization.

Lowering the algorithm/code to architecture instructions that enforce memory ordering is trivial at that point. So what if it means a fence instruction isn't needed on x86 but it is on arm64 at some particular point in the code.
Because Tomlinson starts out by talking about 2012?? The company got to where they were on the basis of regulatory credit exchanges for the majority of its relatively long history. It is no longer some startup darling, mind you, it's got years on it comparatively: https://www.businessadministrationinformation.com/news/the-t... If another 10 years pass where credits do not significantly contribute to its profits, then we can make a case for a fundamental change.

Also, take a look at what happened in 2020: https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/sec-pushe...

And their significance in 2021 as well: https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/sec-pushe...
"This section contains close paraphrasing of a non-free copyrighted source, https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-pag...."

It's not paraphrasing, Wikipedia has directly stolen the National Gallery of Art's description. This whole section is copied verbatim, except the last word "nature" has been changed to "the land itself" and "ever more turbulent" has been inserted in the middle to describe the stream:

"Cole's renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the "River of Life." Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of "Youth" and its aspirations for glory and fame. As the traveler approaches his goal, the ever-more-turbulent stream deviates from its course and relentlessly carries him toward the next picture in the series, where nature's fury, evil demons, and self-doubt will threaten his very existence. Only prayer, Cole suggests, can save the voyager from a dark and tragic fate.

From the innocence of childhood, to the flush of youthful overconfidence, through the trials and tribulations of middle age, to the hero's triumphant salvation, The Voyage of Life seems intrinsically linked to the Christian doctrine of death and resurrection. Cole's intrepid voyager also may be read as a personification of America, itself at an adolescent stage of development. The artist may have been issuing a dire warning to those caught up in the feverish quest for Manifest Destiny: that unbridled westward expansion and industrialization would have tragic consequences for both man and"

Even with the disclaimer as a citation, this is plagiarism.
I just can't stress enough the amount of US propaganda you've put in your mouth.

Chechen War has nothing to do with Georgia/Ukraine/NATO/etc. It's a different conflict.

Moldova was attacked by both Russia and Ukraine you simpleton.

The war in Georgia was the result of NATO welcoming Georgia.

Not a single country before the 2007-2008 events joined NATO to get protected from Russia. You are throwing misleading facts and misrepresenting the reality.

NATO knew that Russia would attack Ukraine because that's what they did in Georgia–for the same fucking reason. That's why the US was packing Ukraine with weapon since 2014.

The US doesn't like China's rising economy and the fact that they are friends with Russia, because this partnership negatively affects the US dollar. The US doesn't like they have less leverage in Europe, because it's the Russia who keeps the Europe warm and hooked.

You are naïve as a 5 year old.

I lived in Ukraine for 30+ years and then 10+ years in the US. I know these two countries very well. You know shit.
The bloated tech gaint that refused to acknowledge the reality of the dotcom crash and then was brought down by an accounting scandal? That Nortel?
How do you ensure that a language with explicit interfaces implements what the expected behavior is?
My father worked for what was basically a bootstrapped startup at the bleeding edge of computing in the late 80's. Eventually his company, through a series of exchanges was part of Nortel Networks.

He'll tell you a different story. When you mention the "espionage / sabotage" he doesn't laugh or shake his head, it actually just outright infuriates him. Such a naive narrative only angers him because it seems to absolve the people who managed the company of outright incompetence and corruption, which is how it should be remembered.

For example: one story I vividly recall because I could never fully fathom it involved a specific female executive who was traveling for business - first class overseas. She never made her intended engagement because she was immediately arrested upon disembarking the plane. She had got drunk and (although married) decided to perform overt sexual acts with the gentleman sitting adjacent to her. On the plane. In her seat.[1]

At some point the culture of the executive at Nortel, for whatever reason, became completely incompetent and outright immoral. Rather than Huawei underhandedly perpetrating the perfect crime, it was simply the people at the head of the organization that solicited the crime to pursue their own benefit above all else.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2000/04/06/former_nortel_exec_fi...
No question, but:

"Though the group tested the technique on a chip made using a 16-nanometer process technology, it will be able to comfortably handle those made using the new 7-nanometer process technology, where the minimum distance between metal lines is around 35 to 40 nanometers."

The discernible feature size required for imaging CPUs of 6502 or even 8086 vintage is much lower than that. The latter was apparently made with a 3 µm process, so barring any differences in process naming since, that's about 3 orders of magnitude less.

Plus, as Ken's article says, the 8086 has only one metal layer instead of a dozen.

So my (still ignorant) hope is that you maybe don't need a synchrotron for that.
It wasn't xenophobia, the West has been gradually waking up to the realization that their idea of converting countries into more ideal partners by building strong trade is not really working as the countries they're trying to influence will just take the benefits and not reciprocate.

It has become especially clear over the past few years, first with COVID highlighting the fragility of supply chains dependent on such one-sided relations and now with the invasion of Ukraine showing that such relations may also not be as strong of a deterrent against war as previously hoped.
"#metoo" movement?

if you so much as blush at the wrong girl she could get the wrong idea and you're almost maybe a predator. if you're an older male and you offer any kind of help to children you're a predator.

women are highly encouraged to leave their men, get abortions, etc.

more and more women are taught to see men as toxic, or manliness as toxic. there was a whole thread freaking out because an exec had a VR pillow fight with hot girls, who cares?!
I don't think having equality between the genders is a cause, but there have been some bumps as we make our way along that road. A boy going through puberty and entering manhood over the last 6 years has had to do some serious soul-searching. Our media has rallied behind the idea that men are sex predators who need to acknowledge all the benefits that living in a patriarchy has bestowed upon them. That is a relevant message for a 60 year old and something they should be aware of, but may be harder to internalize for a 14 year old.
The first two are the same problem so this is almost correct.
SLOs for most SaaS are really loose (if they exist at all). Almost the whole industry is leaving 10x-100x performance on the table because I guess very few people even notice.
I keep thinking about how I disagreed with this comment before I even finished reading the username, 'phpisthebest'.

I've been thinking for hours about red-state vs blue-state coding and platform tastes. I bet that in the future, the platform wars and the culture wars will merge, and there will be a stack that is more likely to be used by a startup in (say) Florida, vs a stack that screams left-coast. Like how much do you want to bet that the new Twitter walks back from Scala, embracing straight-up Java? ...And all you have to do is go to a Rust meetup to see how that language has strong roots in specific communities, but not in others. (Specifically, I can report that it's the language of choice for me and my LGBTQ friends)

Imagine a future where there are several competing ideologically- (or even theologically-) fused stacks, promoted by companies that sotto-voce act as intellectual caretakers of the political ideology in question, funding friendly politicians and even nation-states, connected directly to banks and payment modalities, structuring towering billions in investment, all of it carefully calibrated to promote not just an API, or a language, but a whole worldview.

I mean, having typed that, it basically just sounds like the present moment, but as described by some prescient eighties cyberpunk novel.
I think that's a pretty established fact.
Bashing Clive Palmer isn't a national sport, he's demonstrably deserving of it.

He has manipulated the Liberal/National Party coalition in Queensland to his own benefit, deliberately bankrupted Queensland Nickel to escape liabilities, including to the employees that were bailed out by the Federal Government.

He has spent millions in quixotic political activities primarily to harvest preferences to the Liberal/National Party coalition to his own benefit.

He, and Gina Rinehart, are both exploiters of workers and of Australia's natural resources without compensation to either First Nations or the people of Australia for the rights to those resources.
> Yes, these people are speculators - but they're ordinary people with incomes much closer to the median than likely you or I.

That doesn't make them not speculators. Speculation comes with risk.

If schools are teaching ordinary people to put a significant fraction of their net worth into speculative investments, the solution is better schools, not banning things.
credit card = buying things that are not needed with the money you don't have
This document can be rented for $6/month or purchased for $37.82

IANAL but if it's a publication of the US government, I believe it should be in the public domain.
Please don’t do whataboutism. Your comment divides and derails the conversation and assumes the worst of the people here who might have a problem with Elon’s behavior (that they also want people to get assaulted because of their political views).
In the past I have routinely automated PtP downloads...
I used to think the same think having lived in the suburbs my whole life, but once I moved to a city (San Francisco), I came to see that while there was certainly truth to the media hooplah, a lot of it was just hype designed to polarize us.
Shanghai protestors calling for the end of Xi Jinping&#x27;s rule
What a fantastically low-effort op-ed. Not only is there complete hand-waiving of the negative effects of being alone - literally, there is no evidence given whatsoever of how being alone might be harmful to us - but the article just abruptly ends a couple paragraphs after this. There is literally no "Here's why" to follow up on the title ("Here’s why we should reverse that.").

It's like both the writer and the editor just... forgot to include the second half of the article. Did the guy have a stroke and die at the keyboard and they decided to print what he'd gotten through?

Meanwhile, the comments section is chock full of people debating the merits of something with no evidence. This is why journalism is supposed to be held to a higher standards. The human chickens will cluck-cluck-cluck about anything you put in front of them that seems mildly controversial. Maybe that's the point of this kind of shoddy writing. Generates comments/engagement without saying anything of value.
Remember when fail2ban had an RCE to execute things on a server via root user and it was as simple as parsing an email string because it was executing the mail binary on the other end? [1]

That's pretty much the reason why I started to write my own guard tools.

I don't need people from China or Russia logging in to my server. I don't understand why tools like this are never built in an ASN aware manner, blocking mechanisms would be so much easier.

[1] https://research.securitum.com/fail2ban-remote-code-executio...
music to my ears

More footage: https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/z5s107/protesto...
The NBA has extreme requirements. You can be an incredibly talented athlete and not be in the NBA. If you bring have what it takes you are out.

At Google, or any large company, there are plenty of people who for various reasons just aren’t good performers but don’t get cut. The requirements to stay on there are not “extreme”.
The Ship of Theseus sails on…
Here's an idea: land-grant elementary and high schools in the US :-)

Or a tradition of donating land to schools, likely with the requirement that it not be sold, rather the rent used to fund the school
I don't see why the middle ground is indefensible. We'll buy your widgets, but not if they're sophisticated enough to be backdoored and cause a national security issue? That seems okay to me.
> Map that port to 192.168.1.252

What's that supposed to do?
No, the parent is exactly correct. Research in quantum computing has been mostly mathematical, and it predated any practical development of useful physical implementations of quantum computing. Quantum computing as a field does not depend on empirical results any more than study of Turing machines depends on properties of physical tapes.
Have felt similar. I had money and the woman and the house and blah blah, so what? Kind of discovered being a father and somewhat of a leader is my purpose, plenty of people below you that you can help if you're even a mediocre software engineer. I really stopped thinking about myself.

This video resonated with me years ago, may resonate with you now if you haven't seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLvd_ZbX1w0
Nice work on both refine and mantine! I’ll definitely be using it for our next project
What is loneliness people speak of? I am alone and I don't feel like I am missing out on anything. I am happy and content. I have fun. I am fine just entertaining myself or going out to do things. I'd say I am by myself 95% of the time of every day.

Is loneliness related to depression?
https://youtu.be/cTlsc1W7tO0
> The multiverse isn't ascientific

The harder it is to test a given hypothesis, the closer to fantasy it becomes. It may be valuable if it simplifies the math or makes better predictions, but we've certainly seen a lot of careers spent on string theory and other conjecture.
Try that when you're working 3 part time jobs at 70 hrs/wk to make ends meet, because most cities in this country are horribly expensive (especially housing/rent/etc).
> The issue is almost certainly one of class

true class is how someone conducts themselves, not their color, neighborhood, job, or income.

is it nice to stage street takeovers or is it dangerous and thugish? what did the "cops" do that was questionable, except perhaps show too much restraint?
For those curious who this is, it's Wallace Carothers, the inventor of Nylon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Carothers
Yeah I saw Minority Report. I know about future crime :) Now I'm imagining clones in vats at CIA headquarters telling them which companies will turn evil.

I dunno man, in the US you don't just ban people and companies for stuff they haven't yet done. Sure potential attack surfaces are important and you should think about stuff like that. But that's kinda my point.. you should make laws about that and regulate critical infrastructure. (maybe networking equipment shouldn't get OTA updates at all? Maybe that's too simplistic..）
“Zxyn – A C escape language”
A lot of the time, the person who takes this stance tend to forget that execution matters more than the idea being objectively correct. Good "politics" is about persuading the actual people who have to own and execute that idea. There are bad situations where you find yourself opposite people who add little value that is obvious and yet demand they be persuaded or else they will stand the way of your idea. When the emotional burden of fighting such battles crosses a certain threshold you feel burn-out and give up. This threshold is high for people who can do office politics well and it is low for most self-described techies. This does not mean that latter kind of people don't create the same emotional stress for others through their own political schemings (yes, even without knowing consciously, we are all political animals in our own ways – we wield what powers we have to attain our agenda, in however good or bad ways we do it).
That X-ray technique is very cool. One problem, though, is that it only shows the metal layers. The doping of the silicon is very important, but doesn't show up on X-rays.
Tailscale is a good solution. I have no ports open on my internet facing router at all any more. Tailscale has proved to be as reliable as the servers themselves. I like it so much I use it to access my AWS machines as well, by running it as an exit node up there.
In languages with dynamic properties on objects, it’s a data structure that keeps track of which properties are present, and how to access them.

Short example In JavaScript:
Var a = {};
a.b = 15;

The hidden class object a maps the property b to where its stored, may include type information, etc.
If you're asking, here's what I would do. I would build the business case for the app. Sure, make a demo. Get feedback. Push it until it's clear there's a strong demand for the product, rather than an assumption that people would want it.

A good CTO is more than knowing Swift and if you ever have a technical startup, you're simply going to have to have a good CTO who is deeply technical. It's just a must. But you can honestly get most of the way there just by validating the concept so well that potential co-founders will feel like a fool not to sign on.

Also, you don't need great chemistry with a co-founder -- just mutual respect and open communication.
Dismissing security through obscurity as pointless is an advice from the 90s.

Basically security comes with layers of obscurity. Even key based auth is a random string that no one is meant to guess.

If you have more obscurity, the less chance one reaches to the actual attack surface.

If an attacker gains a key, without fail2ban etc, he may try bunch of user names against the key file consecutively but if a login attempt is limited to 3 times every 5 minutes, see it's better than nothing.
> All current observations are also consistent with quark stars.

Gravitational waves are a prediction of GR but not of quark stars, so GR explains more of the available evidence than quark stars alone.
> "Apple is so petty, it may murder your kid"

> Git as a platform for mentalillness

What!?

> Show HN: Open-Source PyXMP Cryptographic Algorithm

I'd love to see that!
Ask HN: What web tasking do you wish someone else did for you?
For me, booking a flight is always a pain, and I always end up procrastinating it and paying extra. I wish I had an assistant who could do the research, find the flights, and book it for me.
MBS reminds me of Thami el Glaoui in Gavin Maxwell's Lords of the Atlas in that he destituted many of his relatives.

But el Glaoui was much more astute than MBS. MBS' grandfather was known for his magnanimity as well as being astute.
You should entertain all predictions of a physical theory. That's how you test and possibly falsify them.

Multiverses are an interesting intellectual exercise, but are they the only way to "solve" the specific problems we're encountering in physics? If not, then presumably there is at least one single universe theory with different properties that might yield different insights instead of sweeping the inconveniences into different universes. Those different properties might even be testable.

It just doesn't seem like multiple unobservable universes actually gives you anything actionable where single universe theories might.
NATO flag emoji.
Redditors often bemoan how comment threads are ruined by low-effort commenters making low-effort jokes. It's an easy, knee-jerk complaint that ignores the bigger, tougher problem of bad moderation. Subreddits are plagued by bad moderators whereas HN at least has a few good moderators who can regulate the discourse well.

Some commenters can't tell the difference: they think so lowly of their fellow commenters that even one joke is cancer. Quite a silly condescension given that this one "joke" thread is buried towards the middle of the page and is also producing interesting links like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_and_Necessity
Jesus, believe it or not, someone downvoted me. For what?
I put together a set of Org-mode key bindings, config variables (file-local) and tag color codes for a screenplay project. Org-mode's HTML output was way off from what I wanted, so I hacked up a CLI filter, in a language I know better than Elisp. From HTML it's easy to get to PDF, an industry-standard format.
Don't forget to also thank the idea of "streaming" instead of caching; so they know exactly what, when, and for how long you listen/watch any content.
I think it's more of sadness that abuse took it away. It would be nice if hobbyists only used the free tiers and not successful businesses.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

-- Phil Karlton
I live on a street of 1950s era one story 3bed 1bath homes. Right now there is one for rent for $3900/mo and another for sale for $2.5m
“I Was a Starter Wife”: Inside America's Messiest Divorce
The question wasn't about common mistakes C programmers make
Electron Holography
That's some funny priority inversion! Reading up on it, the division error interrupt will be processed by the hardware first (pushed to the stack), but then be interrupted by NMI before the ISR runs.
Since when being written in Python automatically makes a program less vulnerability prone than usual?
HECnet: The Hobbyist DECnet Network
Interference Lithography (Holographic Lithography)