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The main interest I've seen in OTel from Android engineers has been driven by concerns around vendor lock-in. Backend/devops in their organisations are typically using OTel tooling already & want to see all telemetry in one place.

From this perspective it doesn't matter if the OTel SDK comes bundled with a bunch of unnecessary code or version conflicts as is suggested in the article. The whole point is to regain control over telemetry & avoid paying $$$ to an ambivalent vendor.

FWIW, I don't think the OTel implementation for mobile is perfect - a lot of the code was originally written with backend JVM apps in mind & that can cause friction. However, I'm fairly optimistic those pain points will get fixed as more folks converge on this standard.

Disclaimer: I work at a Sentry competitor
Okay and? Wouldn't the fact that their population is 4-5x larger also mean that it makes sense for them to pollute more? And regarding your first point, I don't see how that's relevant to China polluting more or less per capita. They still do pollute less per capita.
Oh I see. Thanks for letting me know. If it’s obscured behind a cloud like Nike Run Club now, there might still be a way. But maybe I’ll start with simpler services with an existing public API like Strava :)
For a mobile device, such as a laptop, lots of people other than the device owner will have physical access.

The useful use-case of a TPM to me is the ability to encrypt my disk without having to type a decryption password each time I use it.
Why did Oracle set up an ad business in the first place ??
> Are there other reasons?

Yes, many. For example:

-- A radio bridge to a bank account already does not sound right.

-- Payment must need some signature: it could be a PIN, it could be that the payer hands money to the payee. It cannot be that the recipient approaches a card.

-- Technical circumvention of security systems is a possibility that overwhelms any possible benefit of "contactless" payment. Risks are created and no value is added. (Actually, less then zero: tapping the card instead of inserting it in a reader seems an unjustifiable transition.)

-- Already reading the card contents could create access to personal information (it apparently happened that some cards revealed full details).

-- Were the card stolen, the thief would be able to use it. Then you should go through bureaucracy to void those purchases - but there was no need for any such unretributed waste of energies in the first place. Nor there was a need for insurance when what you wanted was security.

-- The protocol was apparently faulty, in that transactions between card and reader always work (as if to prevent failures in case of data connection outage), and if the card was recalled the transaction is cancelled at a later stage (instead of being validated as a condition to carry on the expense).

-- In case of a major failure, good luck in winning the litigation.

-- In case of a mid-sized failure, e.g. the thief committed more transactions having gained access to the PIN, the declared policy of many banks is to put the fault on the card owner, who "must have misplaced the PIN - they all do that, don't they".

-- Unclear contract: the expense roof is 10u today, maybe 100u in the future, later 1000u - decided by the systemic side.

-- Unclear workings: proponents will often be unable to answer to simple questions such as limits in rate of expenses ("You set a limit of 10u for PIN-less expenses: what happens if somebody tries many transactions in a short timeframe? One may not fear a transaction of a 1000u, but 100 transactions worth 10u" "Ah.")

-- Vile communication, such as "it is secure because you will always keep the card with you" (this was on the website of a major player) should as always be an alarm.

I may have not remembered a few while writing, especially obvious ones.
>It's not really feasible to fake something like a raw metal.

No one is trying to pass aluminum or steel as titanium.

It's pretty straightforward to pass one titanium alloy as another, or claim provenance or material properties it doesn't have. I have two indistinguishable scrap pieces on my desk right now, one Grade 5 and one Grade 2. It's also possible to pass a billet or sheet of alloy with defects or poor quality control, voids, or inclusions. "Titanium" is a broad class of materials that are indistinguishable without exotic tools like XRF guns, or, in this case, a well documented and trusted supply chain.

Alloy substitutions and similar fraud happen all the time. It can even be the same alloy but have issues in post treatment and not meet spec. Here's a case where a NASA supplier was committing this fraud for over 20 years. It included fraudulent documentation, but the material itself was not up to spec:

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-supplier-was-delivering-fault...
25 years ago I started coding chatbots to manage a Dragon ball Z IRC channel. Many AI trends started in group chats, yes
That's why nobody lives in them.
This seems unwise.
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Surely all digital audio is lossy to a certain extent as you have a finite number of quantization levels and a finite sampling frequency.
You should look at Refal as well.
No. It should be easier.
Getting married should be more difficult. Divorce should be easy.
Who ate their lunch?
If you thought dating was bad now...
A useful illusion of Free Will is that we can to some degree predict the future state of the world and influence the future state of the world. To make meaningful agent type activity you have to have a world full of causality, in other words --- and to have causality it is awfully nice to have some deterministic properties (or science might not work out so well). So! I for one am a hard-compatiblist. I think that not only is "useful free-will" aka Agency compatible with determinism, I think that determinism is necessary!

(concepts probably stolen or bad copies of Daniel Dennett models)
> Unless you have a full time person with physical access to your server who can go press buttons.

Every colo facility I’ve used offers “remote hands”. If you need a button pressed or a disk swapped, they will do it, with a fee structure and response time that varies depending on one’s arrangement with the operator. But it’s generally both inexpensive and fast.

> What about hardware loss? You need backups regardless. On the cloud when a HDD dies you provision a new one. On premise you need to have the replacement there and ready to swap out (unless you want to wait for shipping).

Two of everything may still be cheaper than expensive cloud services. But there’s an obvious middle ground: a service contract that guarantees you spare parts and a technician with a designated amount of notice. This service is widely available and reasonably priced. (Don’t believe the listed total prices on the web sites of big name server vendors — they negotiate substantial discounts, even in small quantities.)
Sounds like money laundering project.
Right, that's the NTSB.
I’m also 30 years into my career. I love collaborating. Yet at progress update meetings my boss wants to know not how much I “collaborated”, not how busy I was, not what problems I solved. He wants to see results, especially results that make him look good.
It would be remarkable indeed if humans can invent a technology that sequesters carbon faster than self-replicating, adaptive, distributed independent biological machines that have been around for billions of years, also known as "life", which use CO2 in the atmosphere for most of their body mass. Whatever the technology, it would require something (currently science fiction) like industrial scale fusion power generators, or a miracle improvement in solar cells.
>> These applications would be novel, at least on a widespread basis in Western liberal democracies.

> How? We already know...

I think you're making the mistake of interpreting this as a binary thing, which obscures the difference between, for instance, tapping phone calls and installing bugs in every room of everyone's home (a la 1984's telescreens). Or in this case, Google scanning the emails you sent/stored on their servers vs. Microsoft storing and scanning every action you take on your PC.

It would be novel because most people outside a corporate environment don't have a keylogger/screen-recorder running on their system.
Steam Deck + bluetooth mouse and keyboard + external monitor if you want
It's not a loss if management consists of a bag of dicks.
Sorry I misremembered. The Pharma pricing thing just made him an easy target for the media you are correct.
> It focuses on security, reiterates that security is their top priority (and we know that this is untrue).

I think that messaging is a direct response to their hearing in from of the House yesterday. They were being grilled on their numerous security lapses and Brad Smith (president of Microsoft) constantly reiterated that they are refocusing their priorities to be security. They were also questioned about Recall specifically so it's not surprising to see this as one of the first places where they are putting out that messaging.
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I was just about to suggest the same thing.

Here's a related Veritasium episode: "The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPfZ_XzisU
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> few incidents that have been in the news that were clearly suicides.

i only know of two - one was a stolen plane by a mechanic or ground crew, not a pilot. the other was a mass murder, not a fantasized suicide.
That is sad to hear. Spending even just thirty minutes on the website to better communicate what one can/cannot do would go a long way.

In any case, thank you for your work.
This is where I land too. Python is very handy when I need to do something quickly, I expect to modify exactly what I'm doing often, and security and efficiency are not core goals.

But every time I start to write a class in python, it feels like bikeshedding to me.
It seems like you are moving the goal posts.

> Virtue: Positive trait or quality deemed to be morally good

Saints were certainly concerned with virtues.
VVC has a lot of the same issues that plagued HEVC adoption. There really isn't much reason to not use AV1 if you want the best codec currently.
Honestly, people just need to touch a hot pan every now and then. Let them slap their LLM onto something low-stakes and experience the results for themselves.

Everyone does, it's just that some of us have the decency to do it in a homelab or on a cheap proof of concept first.
are signal and noise the same thing?
The first 'major lunar standstill' in more than 18 years is about to occur
With large corporations and governments the general rule is: assume a cynical take until proved as not.

I actually think this is a pretty healthy mindset for anything that is political.
Money quote at the end

"Enthusiasts present AI as a magic wand that can solve humanity’s biggest problems. In the meantime, it uses an exponential amount of energy to make everything the same."
Well, one always has to consider the first manned expedition to the Sun and how they'll navigate.

Telling time of day would be the first problem as it's always high noon. And star sightings might prove challenging, at least at optical frequencies.

(Am now thinking of an SF story set on the Sun in which navigation and timekeeping play critical roles....)
I appreciate your respect. Can you contrast POSIX with IRC and explain why IRC can work on the web but POSIX can't?

https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/websocket
> It's pretty straightforward to pass one titanium alloy as another,

Sure, but per my actual point: characterizing the wrong alloy as "counterfeit titanium" is misleading, no? If I hand you a nickel when you expected a quarter, did I give you "counterfeit money"? No, I gave you the wrong thing.

Cheating on material provenance is fraud. It's not "counterfeiting", and for a journalist to claim so is misleading spin. A counterfeit is something deliberately constructed in imitation of something else, it's not just a low grade substitute.
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> The seconds are not added, because the corresponding activities are concurrent

A passenger has practically zero information as to the seriousness of the crash. It could be a doozy. Or there could be a fuel leak waiting to ignite.

> backpack carried on the breast would not occupy space in which another human could have stayed

You're claiming given two lines of people, one wearing backpacks, the other not, that the latter cannot be compressed more than the former?
Yeah I hope I don’t give anyone ideas. You could make a lot of money selling mushroom supplements that supposedly contain the same fungus studied in this research.
It is not enough for merely the standard library to be open source.
Only three-four years lifetime for a conspiracy theory?!

They don't make them like they used to...
Get good at people skills and management as you age.

A good manager is worth a lot to a company. It's a subtle art, and one that doesn't really scale all that well. But it's a very valuable one.

General people skills and emotion management are also very valuable and not easy to deal with.
Internet Archive or Computer History Museum? Ask @textfiles for recommendations for places that might be interested.
Related, and yet not mentioned in TFA:

"Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922006

Excellent S3 piece on Terraform [20min]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NngCHTImH1g

I agree with Terraform's founder on at least one thing: atmospheric carbon capture needs to be cheaper than ground extraction. Market forces will decide the rest.

This is not a CO2 cop-out, we need to both stop introducing CO2 into the atmosphere, and also extract gigatons from it. Terraform Industries is addressing both sides.
Sometimes it's really hard to tell the exact boundary between current day software development and elaborate jokes:

> Blitz builds upon:

> Parley for text/inline-level layout

> Currently, Parley directly depends on four crates: Fontique, Swash, Skrifa, and Peniko.

> Peniko builds on top of kurbo
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> In summary: the only customers that matter --corporations paying site licenses-- declared this to be an unacceptable business risk.

I think it's more narrow than that. Yesterday, Brad Smith (president of Microsoft) went in front of the House committee for Homeland security and they were making the case that Microsoft is a national security risk.

Corporate customers may react based off of that testimony, but given the timing, it feels like the US government is the motivating factor for this announcement today.
To be clear, there are a number of things I’m bad at that I feel motivated to improve.

Handwriting just isn’t one of them.
Always fascinating to see how many different ways old hardware can be repurposed when it's left even moderately open to hacking. Most of those hacked Gameboys and similar hardware would have been thrown in a landfill decades ago instead of being used today to play with electronics and programming.
As for adding radio capability to old hardware, there are super cheap very small modules available using the RDA5807, TEA5767 and similar chips that can be easily driven by a microcontroller; some are well supported by Arduino libraries.

https://github.com/pu2clr/RDA5807

https://github.com/big12boy/TEA5767

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32310815975.html

(no relation with the seller, just search for chip name and module)
If that's the case, why don't they sell Teams activity data to companies? I mean, after you're idle for 5 minutes, Teams detects this and changes your status to "idle". Following your reasoning, they should be selling this data already.
I would never have advertised a single iota with oracle. The fear of having my pants audited off would have caused premature death.
Agreed, there are to "steps" we need.

First, we need the universe to not literally just be a function of the previous state and the current time.

Second, we need (and I'm quoting myself from above to illustrate what I meant): "some kind of metaphorical "door" for our soul, or our true selves, or whatever you might call it, to propagate through meaningfully into our consciousnesses".

Lacking the first means there's no way for the second to exist. Supposing the first exists, we then need it to provide some kind of way for the "us" that exists outside of physics or as an emergent phenomenon out of the nondeterministic parts of physics to meaningfully shape what our brain's electrical states make us do.

If we have all of that, we finally have the beginnings of a system in which we can start to try to philosophically assign moral designations to actions and people. Which is think is about 50% of the reason people want free will to exist: so we can punish others for their actions.

(And just to clarify, to anyone not familiar with how people usually debate philosophy. It's all about your presupposed axioms. Things you and your partner agree to be true. This kind of discussion is one that presupposes relatively little, so don't think I'm trying to make political claims about how crime shouldn't be punished or whatever. I'm simply saying that if we presuppose only that the universe is not deterministic, that alone doesn't bring us forward enough to start building a system of ethics.)
It looks like they're still figuring out the transition :(

I just tried a Google Takeout export of the Timeline data, but it was an empty skeleton of the previous Timeline that just has a text file saying "You have encrypted Timeline backups stored on Google servers."

I have no idea where that actual backup is, either on the phone or on the server. There seems to be no way to access it anymore, lol =/

Anyway, nevermind my niche use case. Good luck with the app and excited to see how it comes out!
I really like HEVC/h265. It's pretty much on par with VP9. but licensing trouble has made it difficult to get adopted everywhere even now. VVC/h266 seems to be having the same issues; AV1 is pretty much just as good and already seeing much more adoption.
> it is far easier and more understandable to adopt a hard rule

Looking at this thread, we might need to put into regulation that taking baggage during an emergency evacuation is criminally negligent. (If someone behind you dies, negligent homicide.)
Not per the linked article. In fact Spirit goes so far as to claim they've done extensive testing to prove the material's airworthiness, which is pretty much a straight refutation. Are you reading from somewhere else?
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You falsified documentation about the titanium's quality.

Side note: some things never change. Here's an ancient tablet, From someone complaining about the quality of copper they were sold.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%...
training is only one of many uses for the data.
Really, I’ve heard their audience segments were garbage
I get what you're saying, but from my point of view, this seems like something that doesn't need to be advised, because it is so trivial. Yes, if someone pwns my AD, then they can also pwn my cloud if i'm using some sort of federated trust. Even if i'm not, and both systems are completely separate, they just need to steal passwords from the cloud admin, which should be easy given they're already domain admins.

Maybe Andrew being overly cautious, was assuming most government users didn't know these basic facts, and should be warned anyway? Was MS pushing back on his report because communicating something like this to users would probably sow too much confusion?

That would still a failure on MS's part, but would make for a much more boring story. The article makes it seem like Andrew discovered an atomic bomb and MS pushed it under the rug. The reality seems much more bland.

But still, could you elaborate on the default configuration being insecure? I know next to nothing about Azure/Entra, maybe I'm missing something important.
Cynical, that's cute. The only thing that's "very clear" up to this point is that no one wants msft taking screenshots of their activity.
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Dell G15
Earth's magnetic field rotates in irregular intervals. The terrifying part is, the time it takes to complete the rotation, the different intermediate magnetic poles cancel each other out, and we are left with a much smaller magnetic field overall. As low as 10% of what earth has today.

Astrum's channel on youtube has several pictures and complete analysis[1]. (I have downloaded the whole channel on my computer, that's the filename.)

[1] How The Earth Got Its Magnetic Field (And Why It Might Not Protect Us Much Longer)
Exxon is still alive and well, so there must be something there.
You’ve got a point. Presuming you are correct, what do you think happens when the team has been culled?

Union busting & screen tracking already works pretty well as is for the goals you’ve outline.

We usually think about tracking/measurement as Big Brother looking over our shoulder, but all of us are living a day-to-day reality of losing context and having to invest a lot of effort and time to get it back (usually only partially).
> Consumption tax screws the working and middle classes the absolute most because they consume the most as a % of their income.

This is the rich corporation PR that I'm talking about.

So here's Richie Rich not spending most of his income, but also not selling any shares unless he wants to buy something. In fact, he doesn't sell shares even then, because instead he borrows money to buy things, so there are never any capital gains. Without a consumption tax he pays no tax at all.

But you're saying we need this tax, whose practical effect is to tax middle class people on the inflationary component of asset price increases, because they spend more of their income. Instead you want to tax middle class people on their income. But then what benefit do they receive by using an income tax which immediately taxes all of their income?
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