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I'm consistently surprised that many people in the tech community treat China as some unknowable country that we only get a few snippets of insight in from our media.

If you work in tech, you most certainly have a few Chinese citizens as coworkers and colleagues. Talk to them about what life is like if you're curious, don't rely on "60 minutes".

TikTok in China may be moderated but only to keep anything controversial from the government perspective off. I've seen this myth floating that somehow tiktok in China is much more wholesome, which is ridiculous. As far as the ill effects of social media, TikTok is arguably worse in China as it's almost entirely people trying to sell things and make a quick buck, flooded with get rich quick schemes and scams.

All of the things mentioned in that 60 minutes video can be found in the US version of TikTok, there is plenty of educational content. The idea that everyone in China is watching scientific experiments on tiktok while its corrupting American youth is ridiculous.
Since I absolutely decided to take this in the worst possible way (get the downvotes ready)

What is the timeframe for those lasers to light a bulb somewhere, vs the timeframe of those lasers killing someone on a battlefield ? (As in, how much of is applicable for the military?)
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Thanks for linking to this!

Until now I thought logview.el[0] is the bee's knees, but now I can feel feature envy set in. There are some seriously powerful ideas listed on the lnav page, and it's also the first time I saw SQLite virtual tables used in the wild.

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[0] - https://github.com/doublep/logview
ZFS at least supports sending a deduplicated stream.
Zelle REQUIRES a banking app. It is not available through a web site or other electronic means.

Which means, among other things, you'd better have a locked down, stock OS image for your phone because without remote attestation banking apps simply will not work.
I figure this is not including the UK, considering silicon valleys software runs on the thing invented by the Brits (www).
Building a macOS Spotlight Importer CFPlugIn in Pure Swift
As has been said, this happens because of cutting on the closest keyframe, which is the only point where the cut can be done losslessly.

This is how it's been done traditionally, since basically forever as far as I can remember. To be honest, I think modern tools could do better. If you happen to want a cut just 20 frames after a keyframe, those 20 frames could be computed (decoded) in order to create a new keyframe right in the spot you wanted. There are a myriad tools to do the typical lossless easy cut, but no idea of one that goes the extra mile to do this more advanced technique.

UPDATE: Navigating the GitHub issues I found out that this is indeed an in-progress experimental feature! That's amazing -- https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126
>> Ignition is a runaway process, so small changes in the input can result in large changes in the output. Hydrogen bombs, which also use a burning plasma as was demonstrated here, also suggest that the gain and yield may be scaled up.

Hydrogen bombs are driven by indirect implosion by a nuclear primary. It isn't a runaway process; the yield of a secondary is limited by the implosion achieved by the primary. Most hypothetical designs for an inertial fusion power plant achieve similar energy gains.
I think the only real argument I have here is that in a competitive game mode, all heros should be available.

It's just odd to think that a certain part of the meta is paywalled. It really messes with the sense of competitive integrity.

Normally I'd be fine with a battlepass, but I refuse to pay activision any money out of principle.
Hey do you think kings and queens and other established interests are innovative?

But more seriously, while US is great at technical innovation, Europe is great at innovating a better society, better healthcare longer vacations faster trains more support for humanities.
In the US, it is the opposite.

The younger generations are (correctly) panicking over climate change, but the octegenarians in congress are working tirelessly to make sure that we'll continue burning the planet down for decades after they've kicked the bucket.
What have you seen from Safari that looks like "moving further from usability"? I get that it's missing features that Chrome and FF have, but its general direction seems to be toward greater usability, at least as far as features and changes I can recall.

Not trying to pick a fight or "sealion", just curious what you mean because I truly don't know.
> Why not regulate how the data is used or stored, like the EU does, but ban?

That is also a good idea and the US can do that too. In the past, Facebook got a multi-billion dollar fine from the FTC for violating user privacy. The exact same should happen and apply to all social networks worth over $1BN and repeat violations should be in the billions of dollars; not in the millions that the EU is doing.

If that is enough for them to stop these privacy violating operations or even better, to make them leave like what the EU is doing, rather that than companies worse than Facebook to continue their repeated invasive privacy violations just like TikTok.
You don't think the US government requires information sharing?
For conversions you usually find an optimal reduction ratio for your motor and whilst you can reuse the transmission it’s fairly rare that you continue to operate it.
i expect this to be total comp, weighted towards RSUs; with a 1 year vest; that employees diversify rapidly.
Completely true! No snark taken.

My problem is mostly that the thing in my pocket runs Android or iOS, but I'm working on that problem.

> How well-equipped do you think your average person with a smartphone (or pocket computer) ...

Average people were pretty handy with computers and internet, even before the smartphone entered the scene and made it even more handy for even more people. So that would be the challenge in bringing some 'personal mobile server' to life.
Of all places, hacker news might be the optimal space to find others interested in the radicalization of wokeness; that is, pushing past 'spoke woke's use of essential identities and alliance with the carcereal state-NGO complex....towards a wokeness to the completely performative nature of social life, and with that wokeness, a sense of the undeveloped possibilities which open up beyond the confines of essential attribution - that is, the current system of singularization where individuals are forced into coercive classifications, name, gender, age, wealth....
Let him finish twitter before starting new affair :)
The B53 bomb was built in 1961 and it released 38 PJ or 10 BILLION times more energy than this experiment. Data gathered about plasma and fusion at NIF temperatures and pressures is not helpful for the insanely different environment of a nuclear bomb.

> What do you think the US nuclear weapons research lab will use their research for?

Why do you think that fusion is not enough? Complete strategic energy independence for the US, and dominance in the electricity sector? That's so, SO much more valuable than better nuclear weapons.
Oh, something must be broken with their search, or my Safari content blocker is blocking something which is breaking the search.

I found the a job listing in boulder here, which has the same pay range link as above:

https://jobs.walgreens.com/en/job/boulder/pharmacy-technicia...

But yes, per CO law, the job posting you took a picture of should also state the same pay range and benefit info (page 4).

https://cdle.colorado.gov/sites/cdle/files/7%20CCR%201103-13...
You have about 300+ years of history to rewrite before it could ever even approach being the other way around.
> Why would the US not do the same with TikTok?

Millions (?) of Americans have freely chosen to receive and interact with the app, wouldn't their freedom of speech allow them to enjoy the content they choose?
The GOP has been pro-nuclear for a long time.
(Tailscale employee)

We certainly didn't try to make it click-baity. The point of the title is that people assume that Tailscale was slower than kernel wireguard because the kernel must be intrinsically faster somehow. The point of the blog post is to say, "no, code can run fast on either side... you just have to cross the boundary less." The blog post is all about how we then cross that boundary less, using a less obvious kernel interface.
> "Most well-educated Americans"?? What, did you read that "somewhere on the Web"? Stick to what you know.

Well, what do you know? You're not giving any arguments or data.

What I know is that there's about 45M Americans who're out a cool 1.7T USD, and that both POTUS and Congress passed a bill called the "American Rescue Plan" to adress this situation.

Yeah, it seems to affect most well-educated US adults.

Stick to what you know.
But he is not wrong. In some states the average student debt is $40k [1] and APR is 5%. Anecdotally I have friends (and family members) who seem to be resigned to never paying back their loans or doing so very late, when they are 50 or something like that, and some of them are in well-paid tech jobs.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/average-student...
Yes, that post was mentioned in the article I linked:

Even Emacs current threads library suffers from data races which is one of the reason I believe it has not seen much adoption.

(where suffers from data races is a link to Chris Wellons' post).

The idea now is, as Chris states:

There really needs to be a safe, high-level API with clean thread isolation. Perhaps this higher-level API will eventually build on top of the low-level threading API.

While you are right that for 99% of standard usage single-threaded code is entirely fine, not utilizing between half to 15/16ths of potential processing power is a bit of a shame, especially considering it means doing something like indexing an entire project (yes, we can use GNU Global) will require the user to just sit and wait.
I’m glad we might see fission power plants in my lifetime (next 30-50 years). My father still finds it novel that he basically gets to wear Dick Tracy’s watch.

Yet I’m concerned that shortly thereafter, the giant robotic laser death spiders will destroy entire cities. This might also be be before we’ve built the arcologies to launch into outer space to escape the giant robot laser death spiders.
So let's imagine that Binance has $4B of USD customer liabilities backed by $2B of USDC and $2B of BUSD. Fully solvent and fully liquid. Then customers try to withdraw $3B of USDC which Binance does not have. Binance would be happy to give you BUSD but for whatever reason customers specifically want USDC.

(I am absolutely convinced that Binance is evil but this specific situation does not appear particularly bad.)
That zeal.

From what I heared, anti-drug laws may be construed is that selling is a different matter and possession and production are accessory. That's why possession of small amounts of cannabis for example is decriminalized while traffiking is still prossecuted where I'm from.

This is arguable because addictive substances will be sold with the intention of creating dependence, not unlike the loot box topic, thus it cannot be argued that they act under good intentions.

And to be real, the wonderful smell acts on your parasympathic nervous system because of appetite, for the smell is associated with roasted food. Add to that the childish reflex of sucking on a nipple. So it is pretty much an eating disorder, in my humble opinion.
Making money is a downstream output of the activities of your people. So, if making money is your goal, the most important thing you can do to reach your goal is to hire the right people.
https://www.platformer.news/p/how-elon-botched-his-war-on-bo...

> The project was part of Elon Musk’s attempt to rid Twitter of spam. But rather than work to remove individual offenders, the company identified mobile networks associated with large spam networks in specific countries, and blocked users who relied on those networks from receiving SMS messages from Twitter, impacting people with two-factor authentication. Then it blocked traffic from those carriers completely.

> From 5:35 AM to 6:45 AM PT on Sunday, Twitter shut down access to the primary telecom providers in India and Russia, as well as the second biggest telecom company in Indonesia, Platformer has learned.
Thank you! We totally agree, behaviour change is hard: no doubt our public beta feature set will appeal best to our core fans but the hooks will get more and more compelling to mainstream consumers as we develop the product.

It's not so much about moving all your conversations to Onin though: it's about using us as your personal and social calendar. We support showing/editing your existing calendar events in-app too so there's zero switching cost to trying us.

With this in mind, we've found this feature set to be very compelling with our non-technical friends and family who are on the private beta.

Sorry for the multiple edits :)
This is actually backwards. Fusion weapons are substantially higher yield because they result in more fission, partly by preventing the fission primary from blowing itself up before it has finished.

Wikipedia: "Fast fission of the tamper and radiation case is the main contribution to the total yield and is the dominant process that produces radioactive fission product fallout."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon
Thanks for the deeper explanation and higher quality comment. What other term would you use then?
Fission's amazing potentially is nerfed by three main things: proliferation risk, meltdown risk, and waste handling. These are all solved problems but dramatically raise the cost (you need armed guards, and the reactor has to be built to withstand a 747 strike, etc etc). The fuel cost is a very small fraction of the price of nuclear.

If you can eliminate or reduce the need for armed guards and mountains of red tape, this has the potential to solve many of fission's problems while providing the same benefits (unlimited zero carbon power with dirt cheap fuel).
You have to remember that all of the classified details about US hydrogen bomb designs we have were leaked from leaked from Russia after the Soviet Union broke apart. And yet only two countries have managed to become nuclear states since then (Pakistan and North Korea).

It's the engineering that makes nuclear weapons hard to do, not the knowledge.
As a European this article is sadly just a lot of noise. It simply all comes down to investment capital.

1. The EU does not have a stock market that rivals the NYSE/NASDAQ. There are few exit strategies available to EU companies. This there is no perpetual money machine where the old generation funds the new. There is simply VERY little investment capital available. Companies tend to be self funded and thus growth is much slower. This is by far the most important factor everything else are just minor details.

2. The EU is a conglomerate of markets, cultures and languages. The cultural difference between Italy and Germany is larger than between any US state. The cost and effort to expand past your own borders is very high and a very small amount of companies are able to overcome. A company that can immediately sell to 350M users is going to be much more successful than one whose home market is 5M.
"The illegal donations he seems to have admitted to..."

Source?
> The blog post states "default mode maintains aspect ratio and the resize mode is fill", but the docs say that cover is the default mode.

The default resize mode is cover and the blog post had a typo. Fixed now, thanks!

> resize or crop

We crop by default since the default mode is cover.

> gravity

we will be adding crop with gravity soon.. currently the crop is always from the center

> requesting an image at a specific aspect ratio while not exceeding a maximum size.

I'll get back to you on this one - Inian had to get some sleep, it's very late (early) for him
Multiple lies.

Google was banned after they decided to stop censoring searches.

Facebook was banned after they refused to provide the government the identities of protestors in Urumqi.

Google cancelled Dragonfly after outcry from their employees.
You do realize that this would effectively ban American apps outside of the US? I live in a country that is quite cozy with the US, yet our governments usually have to reject American software since there is no protection for our citizens. Now imagine that applied to the population as a whole.
> Its super easy to move and change job in europe. Sign the contract and its done

From what I've heard from Swedish friends that have moved to e.g Germany, it's almost impossible to setup a normal life without the help of german speaking friends. To get the pay check I need a German bank account, and then I need to fill out paper forms with tax agencies and stuff (all in German of course).

"Super easy" for me would be if I could sign a contract, move to Berlin, get an apartment, get payed to my Swedish bank account etc all without having to deal with the German government in a (to me) foreign language. Essentially that I'm a citizen where I would like to vote and have my "main presence", but that I then just can roam around EU and live/work anywhere.

But all that is not really possible, since different EU countries have wild varying tax schemes, and take different levels of responsibility for e.g health care, school, pension etc. It would be unfair for someone to pay Irish or Dutch taxes while living in Sweden and getting Swedish benefits.
Sir, this is The Verge. Hardly journalism.
It sounds like you are not their target audience, which is fine, it just means a different service would be a better option for the way you value convenience vs privacy.
The EU is running a risky gambit by attacking U.S. tech giants whilst doing next to nothing against Chinese counterparts like TikTok. They're too afraid their population won't be able to buy cheap Chinese trinkets. And Germany is too afraid it won't be able to sell its cars in China and is blindly selling its soul to keep the exports flowing.

They keep forgetting the U.S. is guaranteeing their safety through our NATO commitments. China will only play them out against each other to benefit itself. They're merely children playing amongst the wolves.
The difference between patriot and terrorist is a matter of perspective, huh?
If you live in California, even if electricity generation cost nothing at all it would still only lower your bill by ~15%. Transmission & distribution of electricity is the expensive part not generating it. It doesn’t need to be expensive, yet here we are.
I started a new job in April. The hiring process was quite slow and disorganized, but included in that were three separate "interviews" with my now-manager.

I thought this was great - I felt like I really understood who I'd be working for and what I was getting into. And now that I've joined I understand that he was simply doing the same thing: getting to know me; making sure I wasn't someone good at technical interviews but with misaligned values. Hiring the wrong person can be very expensive.

I wish the whole process had taken
2 weeks rather than 6, but I'd view an offer in 24h as a huge red flag.
Shelter and wages are lagging indicators -- they go up months after the impetus for their increase.

Oil prices doubled between 1975 and 1980 so it was still contributing.
I don't think you realize how widespread Tiktok usage is. I can reliably predict what Tiktok users will talk about in social events just by a few minutes of browsing that week's top.
Making money at all costs usually implies a shitty culture that I personally seek to avoid.
Any country with a track record that makes it prudent to keep a watchful eye on whatever it is they're up to, and to defend your population and strategic interests against it. The CCP is openly an opponent of liberal democracy both at home and abroad. You could take their word for it, or you can judge by their actions. Either way, you arrive at the same conclusion. You treat them the way they ask to be treated.
You're saying China doesn't have a time limit on daily use for children? Or the content that is available to kids vs adults isn't different?

There might be some half truths to the 60 minute story but AFAIK the time limit is real and the content available to children is different which is what the piece is referring to. It might be more similar for adults.
This is arguably biased towards justice, not guilt.
Because the press release stated that they’ve ramped up the reaction and got higher energy output and the scaling wasn’t linear in a good way.
This would ban all US apps right?
TikTok also answers to the United States if it wants to continue operating here. If Congress passed a privacy bill, TikTok would have to comply like all other social media companies.
For me it started wholesome, it used to make me happy when I used Tik Tok. Comedy, music, interesting self development content. All of it from clever and innovative independent content creators. Then it slid into exclusively red pill and relationship content that pushes a deeply cynical and pessimistic view of relationships. It appeals to something in my brain the same way a car crash or train wreck does. I know it's a distortion and will poison all of my healthy relationships if I really let it sink in, yet I found myself not wanting to look away, so I uninstalled the app.

If Tik Tok stayed the way it was when I first got into it I'd say it's fine, but the content it pushes now makes me concerned it will poison our culture with apathy, pessimism and cynicism.
Redactle Unlimited (launched in July) looks like it launched about three months after Redactle (launched in April), and is using the name of the original one in its name.

I’m not sure what I feel about this if the original really is abandoned (is something ‘abandoned’ if it is working fine and just hasn’t been updated in eight months?) - but it definitely feels a little rich that the Redactle Unlimited author is complaining about copycats.
This is an A+ comment—helpful, well-formatted, concise, with bonus interesting additional detail.

Thank you.
Very good advice, thanks.
right before my REISUB era ;)
Man, this is awesome. While my next car will be electric, I will be really, really sad to lose the clutch pedal. Shifting (with a clutch, paddle shifters are stupid) turns driving from a chore into a joy. Losing the clutch is going to turn driving 100% into a chore. I never thought a car manufacturer would actually make a fake EV shifter, and I'm still skeptical this will make it to market in any reasonably-priced car. But a convincing fake clutch pedal/shifter in an EV car would be a massive, massive checkmark in that car's favor.
nginx already comes with: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_image_filter_module.h...
“The [Inter]Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” — John Gilmore, 1993

“Now there's no question China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. Good luck! That's sort of like trying to nail jello to the wall.” — Bill Clinton, 2000
Because this is a matter of national security, that's why.

Yes, we can treat foreign companies differently than local companies, on the issue of data privacy, because of these national security concerns.
Fwiw, I stopped looking at them when I got the 4th or 5th one. I got good at sliding to unlock and silence the alert without even looking.

Once I found out that I could disable them, I turned them off entirely.

I'd be more okay with them if they didn't all use that horrible klaxon noise. That noise usually indicates an immediate threat to life, which doesn't feel appropriate for Amber or Silver (which indicate a potential threat to a particular person's life in a rather large area). Save the klaxon for "we're getting nuked" and tornadoes.