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> US constitution has "We the people", but Americans don't really see their government as "We" ...

I think you misunderstand. I'm an American, so I should probably clarify a typical American perspective. Caveat: you probably can't find any statement all Americans agree on :-) ).

The US Constitution does begin with the phrase "We the people", but I think you misunderstand its context. It never says the US government and its people are the same. I can quote that sentence from memory. The text follows with the goals for creating a federal government (e.g., "establish justice" and "provide for the common defense"). It ends by saying that We the People "... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America". In other words, it's clearly stated that the government is not the people. The US federal government is instead an organization established by the people under rules defined by the Constitution.

So Americans would generally agree that the US government is NOT the people. The US government is instead an organization set up by the people, in order to accomplish certain goals. If we don't like how its current leadership runs things, the intent is that We the People can change the leadership via an election (as established by the Constitution).

> but rather as some incompetent entity they're forced to live under.

You'll find lots of claims about incompetence, especially at political rallies where someone is trying to convince everyone to vote for them. But while many people want someone or other voted in, and there are always proposals for changes, few call for the elimination of the US government. They just want "their side" voted in.

> Europeans more strongly see governments as their representation. The government is seen as people banding together, through their representatives. Governments exist to resist undesirable forces, like exploitation of people by commercial entities.

Americans also view their government as necessary to resist undesirable forces. Per that sentence, the government exists to "provide for the common defense" and "promote the general welfare".

However, the American view is that governments can also be the source of tyranny. This is not a crazy view; see the various dictatorships around the world. Governments can be powerful entities. Therefore, there needs to be a way to ensure that they are (1) representative and (2) constrained so they don't become tyrannical.

> This is also the reason why Europeans like regulations, a thing unfathomable in the US.

The US has lots of regulations, so it's not that the US doesn't have any. However, Americans are generally more skeptical of regulation than Europeans. All regulations have unintended consequences; if the regulation is not carefully crafted, the regulation can be worse than the problem.

For example: I would instinctively ignore the goal of any proposed law or regulation. I don't really care what its goal is. That is mostly irrelevant. What is the actual impact of the law or regulation? If it does something good, but overall makes things worse, then it should be rejected even if it has a good goal.
It's a good thing that I have disabled Gmail app on my device and use k9 for all my email accounts. Seems like I should stop using WhatsApp too.
Right. 2.5 hours initial wait to then play a game normally is... fine. It's a non issue for most folks:)

I noticed Battle.net from BLizzard tracks couple of thresholds in the progress bar - when the game will be fully downloaded, but also when the game is playable. For many updates, those two thresholds are very close together; but occasionally, the "playable" is half the distance or less of "completed", which makes me think somebody there is still putting in the effort :)
"Earth", "human" and "value" are human concepts. Don't even get me started on "concept"
Flagged on the basis that the article does not, in fact, reveal any such thing. Just mindless clickbait.
Sounds anticompetitive to me, antitrust action should be taken.
Please try not to skew the results. Poke around with Archive.org plz.
> My concern is that we (US) aren't doing enough to seek peace as the world leader with clout and acting not too different than the other jerks.

How do you have peace with a country that doesn't abide by the peace agreements it signs when it's not convenient for them?.
> On top of that, one would be thinking that EU should be painting legislation with broad clear strokes, for the national parliaments to implement the specifics

Define "broad clear strokes" for, say, food safety. "Make your food safe, EU commission"?

> And much of the bad legislation would not have been possible in the national parliaments, where completely obscure nonsense usually is read by at least someone, that will call it out.

What makes you think that:

- EU legislation is not read by anyone when we're literally discussing the issues in one such legislation?

- National legislation is any better considering reality (how many national laws have you read and discussed?)

> EU legislation is usually wildly more complex, oftentimes to the extent that nobody anywhere really can understand it. E.g. take a look at the GDPR

Tell me you're parroting someone else without telling me you're paring someone else.

GDPR is really clear as day compared to most legislation, and you yourself could read it in one sitting, and understand it, if you ever bothered to do so.

Instead, you're complaining that no one reads EU legislation
This is false, because Let’s Encrypt uses servers in multiple places to get a mix of routing paths to eliminate it as an attack vector.
John Oliver did a good 20min segment on that last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Y7uqqEFnY
I think that’s roughly how the Coachella music festival started, but yeah…money.
“I remain unconvinced that FTX was not a wash trading front for a money laundering operation run by an intelligence agency”

Haha this is not an opinion you should share with others. :)
Geometry of entangled states, Bloch spheres and Hopf fibrations (2001)
Why did you not include Signal?
You should try to come up with some yardstick for measuring your monthly results. If you can show that you've been delivering value for your subscribers in the past month, and how your paying users could have cashed in using that information, then that might persuade some free users to start paying.
PS5 has a similar system to let you start playing (properly designed) games before downloading is complete.

I know iOS has something like that, though o don’t think I’ve ever seen it used.

And I’d expect Xbox does as well, but I’m not in that ecosystem so I don’t know as much about their features.
it is very hard to know if your raspberry pi issue is power related if you don't do what you can to make sure that power isn't an issue.

prior Pis didn't log when they had power issues, and current ones do, if they are able to.

on a Pi 2 A (I think) I had to hook up an oscilloscope to catch all the tiny power problems I was having, and only then realized what was happening. I was 100% sure I was delivering enough power. I was not. those symptoms were only visible without the scope as weird errors in the OS and running applications, and corrupted SD cards.
You're making a lot of assumptions in a smug sort of way. There's plenty of spots where a single script makes sense, and plenty where it doesn't.
Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR) 2023 Proceedings
Recover lost text by coredumping Firefox
The headline makes it seem it was just the translation issue (“bug”) but the article is surprisingly in depth and covers a lot of discriminatory policies (whether that’s the intent or not) and pretty good feedback from humanitarian rights organization.
I actually think it depends on what your type of threat is. If secure means talking to trusted people, and no one else should know what you say or to whom, Telegram is still great and who cares if my confederate knows my IP. He doesn’t care.

If you’re using it to communicate to a hostile party who would love to unmask you, then very not so much. Personally I’m not in the second category but I’m sure some are.
Disc Brakes Took over the Cycling World. Here's Why That Was a Mistake
It's not about "other peoples computers" (there is no evidence of the system itself to be backdoored). If you are running on your own hardware in your own house, you still need an ISP that can do exactly this time of MITM.
Exclusive, and frequently draconian, arrangements with venues (and sometimes artists).

Kind of like back in the day when Intel & Microsoft imposed drastic licenses on Dell and HP that you couldn't get Windows license if you shipped ANY linux or non-windows laptops, Ticketmaster has the tremendous power of blacklisting non-conforming venues.

And then there's the REALLY SHADY stuff they do like hiring competitor executives who bring over their passwords, excels and accounts (https://www.directitcorp.com/blog/ticketmaster-caught-access... and other ridiculously wrong stuff like this https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ticketmaster-resellers-las-... . Just start google search with "TicketMaster Caught..." and you'll find fascinating stuff that should be made up but isn't.

Basically they are a big evil bully.
You can easily get a mortgage for 3x income and 4x isn't that hard. So $500k can buy a $1.5m house with no problem. $500k income is easy to buy a house forth $500k cash after a couple years.
Anti-trust (at least to me) has a connotation with trust-busting and splitting up companies, but I'd be interested in the ramifications of restricting Ticketmaster to creating contracts no longer than, say, 6 months.

On one hand, free markets involve sellers and buyers coming together freely which exclusivity contracts prohibit, but on the other hand exclusivity contracts are nominally voluntary agreements which is a free exchange. Perhaps free-exchange simply isn't a useful framing here.
Not allowing types to be nested within themselves would be a massive downside. You'd lose the ability to model anything tree-like in a reasonable manner. There are some obvious workarounds, but they're so inconvenient that nobody using a scripting language would ever want to be limited to using them.
> I think that's all true, but you also have to take into account NATO expansion.

The most ironic part of this is that Russias invasion of Ukraine is directly responsible for recent NATO expansion.
I think this totally makes sense and is reflected in the US's historically high unemployment rate of check's notes, 3.8%.
Parallelism ended up going off in a few different directions.

For things like running a web service, requests are fast enough, and the real win from parallelism is in handling lots of requests side-by-side. This is where No-GIL comes in.

Within handling a single request, if there are a lot of sub-requests, that's usually handled by async code, but not so much for the async performance win as much as spinning up threads is either expensive or thread pools are a hassle. Remember that async is better for throughput, but worse for latency, and if you're parallelizing a service request, you're probably more worried about latency. Async won mostly on ergonomics.

The other place you see parallelism is large offline jobs. Things like Map-reduce and Presto. Those tend to look like divide-and-conquer problems. GPU model training looks something like this.

What never happened is local, highly parallel algorithms. For a web service, data size is too small to see a latency win, they're complicated, and coordination between threads become costly. The small exceptions are vectorized algorithms, but these run one one core, so there isn't coordination overhead, and online inference, but again, this is heavily vectorized.
Originally?
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/07/17/artists-touring-...

Literally a web search will give you plenty. The NYT even did an article about it.
Interesting.

What about smallest number of views V, and word count C.

What is smallest V/C?
What was the poor choice of database on Element (Android or Electron), and how does it increase power usage?
> What never happened is local, highly parallel algorithms.

GPUs maybe? Also, excellent answer.
> The public keys for that step are hardcoded into clients.

Yeah, and the private keys are shared with Roskompozor.
Don't get me wrong, it's a wonderful thing, and I'm happy to have it. I've lived a lot of my life on much slower connections, usually 10-20mbit..

Over that same span of time, I've seen my local storage throughout go from ~100mb/sec to ~6000mb/sec.

The improvement of internet bandwidth for the average person is moving at a glacial pace. I'm happy to live near the middle of that spectrum; and I'm frustrated to be so close, yet so far away, from the bleeding edge.
K9 is great and has worked well for me for years, very impressed with its numbers here.
Amazon had an “anonymous” internal Slack channel where you could discuss pay by using a bot to post on your behalf. It was called #pay-equity and there was another one called #pay-equity-discussion.

I’m surprised anyone is crazy enough to try to work through a pip. They give you the choice of trying to work through an impossible, subjective list of requirements or take a severance that’s one month severance for each year you worked there + the partial year or “leave Amazon”.

If you fail the PIP you only get 1/3 of the amount.

If you appeal and lose you only get 1/2 of the 1/3.

Who would want to work there after they have already showed their true colors?

Amazon ain’t that serious to work for.

I worked there remotely knowing full well what Amazon was about from day one. It was my 8th job. I made my money, put it on my resume and gladly chose to “Leave Amazon” with a decent severance and had a job within three weeks.

People who choose to try to fight and stay after a PIP is like begging to stay in an abusive relationship.
This looks really promising.

Here's an alternative designed to work with an ORM, if you like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsO551E7ySY&t=1094s.
Thanks Mr Buzzkillington
One lesser known moat that Ticketmaster has is they have the best tech stack.

From what I've heard from folks in the industry, literally no one else is capable of handling the biggest artists like Taylor Swift.
My only complaint is that F-Droid is often slow to add new software releases.
Yeah, but it generally goes in the direction of more privacy, environmental and labor standards. Less so from other countries.
The absolute lack of giving a shit is one of your major clues this was a lawful intercept scenario.
>affected 100% of the connections to XMPP STARTTLS port 5222 (not 5223)

Why did they only target the STARTTLS port? On a related note, I would never use the STARTTLS port (opportunistic encryption) if I knew that the server had a regular TLS port...
If you scroll a bit into the "400 richest Americans" section, the author brings up taxing stocks. (Copy and Ctrl-F to see it on the site.)

> Some will argue that using this wealth for public benefit is not possible, because it's "tied up" in stocks, and therefore inaccessible. This is just not true.

On the featured site the last sentence links to the author's argument that taxing stocks is possible over a period of years or decades [1].

For context, the author of the site is Matt Korostoff.

[1] https://github.com/MKorostoff/1-pixel-wealth/blob/master/THE...
On the topic of the Dreamcast: the writer of the article, Jörg Tittel, appeared in the Dreamcast comedy horror game, Illbleed.

https://illbleed.fandom.com/wiki/Jorg_S_Baker
It wasn't a withdrawable loan; the attacker used pumped-up MobileCoin as collateral to go leveraged-long on some other shitcoin in a wash trade against another FTX account which he (presumably) also controlled. The attacker withdrew the profits from the second account; when the first account went into liquidation MobileCoin tanked and the collateral was worthless.

At least that's what Michael Lewis' book Going Infinite says happened.

FTX's mistake was that their liquidation engine valued collateral using something that could be manipulated. It's actually a very hard problem for an illiquid asset -- the correct valuation is the order book depth during the margin account's liquidation -- but that's always in the future so you can't know it exactly. And an attacker with two accounts can manipulate most of the things you might want to use as an approximation (like the last trade price or the order book depth right now).

The book claims that the bankrupcy trustee found the exploiter and the trustee CEO claimed they "had video of him entering and leaving his house" in (IIRC) Mauritius. However since the funds haven't been recovered the bankruptcy trustee could be bluffing or simply wrong about this. Or they can't extradite the guy. So not quite total silence, but also definitely not resolved.

BTW the book is really good, although it feels a bit rushed (obviously Lewis had a hard deadline for optimal publication date so this is totally forgiveable). There is a crapton of juicy stuff in there, like "Operation Warm Blanket". The number of powerful people who have egg on their face because of that book is absolutely unbelievable. No redactions. So many of them would have been able to quietly sneak out the back door with no public record if not for Lewis. Oh yeah and the mother of all easter eggs on the inside of the dust jacket.
Well, I get how mathematically you do it, I'm talking about how to make it contextually aware like the OP. A sentence like "The latest generation doubled MPG from 15 MPG to 30 MPG" should be localized to "The latest generation halved L/100km from 16 L/100km to 7.8 L/100km".
“Solving the 100GB Game…”

That’s been solved already. Play older games. Better story, less fluff. As an extra credit, they are smaller, don’t require top of the line hardware, do not need to insert any kernel anti-cheat rootkits, and do not spy on you.
IMO, TypeScript fails as a developer tool. Developer tools should guide the developer towards making good decisions. TS guides developers towards making poor decisions by facilitating code with complex interfaces.

JavaScript taxes interface complexity through increased cognitive load. Typescript frees developers from that tax and harms architecture in the process.

Funny how business gurus keep saying over and over that incentives are everything and yet when it comes to choosing developer tools for their businesses, they choose tools which promote terrible incentives, instead they choose "that which sounds good"... It's like communism. It sounds good in theory but it fails spectacularly at the incentive layer... It fails at the most important layer.
They better be sorry for that.
The Hetzner one is a physical server. You would need to stage a "power outage" and backdoor it, which is probably not that easy - e.g. planting a kernel module which survives kernel upgrades and is pretty advanced at hiding itself (the article talks about analyzing raw memory dump).
To me, that intuitively seems very untrue rather than true.

Small countries have less resources to combat misinformation, bribery, and corruption of other forms.
Who are the end users of xmpp.ru and jabber.ru? Are they hoping to pick up traffic between Russian soldiers? Spies? I hate mass surveillance as much as the next guy but why target Russian domains specifically?
I propose cutting administrative costs by 90%. A bunch of paper pushers in meetings all day making too much money driving up the cost of everything they touch.
> The authors claim that modern 15th century people already knew the "pre-historic" narrative about rocks being axes.

You're mistaken, the article does not say that 15th century people knew the rock was a hand axe. The article claims (correctly I think) that the painting depicts a hand axe but doesn't say the painter intended to depict an axe. The painter would have understood the rock to be a thunderstone and painted it accurately enough that today we can see that it was actually a handaxe.
> The thing is, Jeff Bezos has done far more to push up my wages indirectly by virtue of Amazon existing and hiring talent, and offering great salaries

Well, you got to understand how the mind of a socialist work. They would rather have everyone equally poor and equally miserable quality of life, than a rich society where there might be huge disparities of wealth, and even the poorest may have a reasonably good quality of life.

It's a purely an envy thing. Nothing else.
Fast Stable Diffusion on CPU 1.0.0 beta for Windows and Linux
Haven't you read up on your NC-hard and NC-complete problems?
It would be faster to drive to a store, buy the game, and bring it back, I think you want to at least beat out that.
That's usually because of the slow review process. F-Droid apps have to be built on F-Droid servers.

Some projects like NewPipe have their own repository which has to be added manually.

It's annoying but mostly not a problem.
> For decades, advertisements have marketed toddler formula as nutritionally beneficial to toddlers, a claim the report finds misleading to parents. This finding aligns with a report the World Health Organization published last year detailing the aggressive digital marketing techniques formula milk companies use to sell their products. Among the tactics that WHO cited were companies inserting themselves into advice forums and social media groups for expecting parents and new mothers promoting false health claims on milk substitutes.

How can promoting false health claims be recognized by such a powerful and prominent entity and yet no legal action is taken? And yet the practice persists? Where are the social media police with their fact checking and suspending accounts for days or weeks?

Finally, why has CNN buried the lede? Why isn't it asking these questions?
> In languages without this feature (most of them), you sometimes see long blocks get labeled at the end anyway.

True. However, in Ada at least, if the block types don't match then it's a syntax error detected at compile time by the compiler. Comments like those listed above are often not checked at compile time, and thus aren't very useful for preventing errors.
Where was the bar five years ago?
Paywall, going to assume article draws from recent earnings. Emotions Click bait
How to self study pure math – a step-by-step guide [video]
A recent 5-page cryptography paper ended up winning a best paper award (albeit for an extended version)

https://eprint.iacr.org/archive/2020/945/1596227165.pdf
To put a finer point on this, I’ve had the misunderstanding in the past that the GIL made Python like JavaScript in some sense (only releasing the GIL on some explicit parts of code like sleep). But really Python threads can switch in the “middle” of your code. The reason the GIL is annoying is mostly performance related for Python code itself.

My understanding is the GIL does not protect against Python-side bugs, and bugs from GIL removal would only be introduced from C extensions.
> Are we to the point yet that a group with clout can just go write "the standard" representation

I mean, isn't that `-----BEGIN .* PRIVATE KEY-----`? Also obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/927/
That's what I mean by absurd: 120mbit/sec is fantastic!

It's also quite slow, depending on what you compare it to.
Agreed. We run a self-hosted Canvas LMS as well as Moodle LMS in our University.
On Canvas Open Source, We don't have access to the new quizzes, new analytics, RCE text area, and a host of other 'new features'.

We are always on the lookout for new LMS.

Canvas is okay (speed is a concern) but some things are very counter-intuitive.
Like matching quiz questions to competencies/outcomes/standards. Also assignments.

Moodle has a hundred different settings for anything - so people get confused and standardisation is hard.

I agree with @Abdullahkalids
I want algebraic data types, again not sure if it's doable but they already have the pattern matching to support it.
AMD Wants to Know If You'd Like Ryzen AI Support on Linux
> Seems the industry wants to take its sweet time.

We're inching towards an in vogue way to do what erlang had figured out in the 80's. We'll pick up the pace any day now. Surely.