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I guess that feeds into the cultural/temporal ambiguities of "what is new york?" and "what is a mayor".

New York could be the state, and mayor could just be a word that means leader of an area.

Perhaps that is getting too into the realm of deterritorialisation, but the point being that these concepts are context specific.

this wouldn't be covid-19 vaccine, rather a vaccine for another disease. We absolutely do not have any data on the efficacy of any covid-19 vaccine after a decade (or more than 18 months or so) yet.

The source also notes that:

> In debian 9, I get 't=ffab' in the search url instead.

Running on debian, I also see this, though I haven't tested on another distro. Is this the OP's distro too?

"The mirrors guiding this light, made of sandwiched layers of silicon and molybdenum, are ground so precisely that, if scaled to the size of Germany, they would have no bumps bigger than a millimetre" <https://www.economist.com/business/2020/02/29/how-asml-becam...>

Also, I've heard some say that if China were to try and develop its own ASML like lithography machine, it would take at least 10 years. I wonder if anyone could throw any light on that claim?

Another related view on this, especially Chapter 6, is Chapter 18 of Scott Aaronson's "Quantum Computing since Democritus" [1], that discusses some interesting stuff you can do with SSA.

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

For those interested in reproducible builds, the gitian [1] project is a fairly simple VM which sets the up the necessary environment for doing this sort of thing.

The tooling and community around reproducible builds is growing all the time, and imo we should be insisting on it for things such as government apps.

[1] https://github.com/devrandom/gitian-builder

I prefer m.xkcd.com because the alt-text is easier to access

This blogpost [1] by security researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis suggests that the false positive rate could be very high:

[1] https://pseudorandom.resistant.tech/obfuscated_apples.html

calling resized thumbnails metadata is a bit of a stretch imo.

Surely that's just the data, but resized?

The book Halting State by Charlie Stross (2007) [1] had an interesting self driving car model, where it was autonomous on simple roads like highways/motorways, and a human driver took over remotely for more complex city streets.

Of course the book showed some failure modes for that, but I wonder if network coverage and latency, as well as "backup driver response time" could be considered good enough, perhaps this sort of model could have an acceptable risk trade-off.

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

I have some contacts who work for organisations use it instead of Slack for SMEs of 100-1000 employees.

Unsure what their billing looks like, but it works pretty well for them apparently.

one of the founders and current CEO Jason Citron had a previous org called OpenFeint, which:

> was party to a class action suit with allegations including computer fraud, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, bad faith and seven other statutory violations. According to a news report "OpenFeint's business plan included accessing and disclosing personal information without authorization to mobile-device application developers, advertising networks and web-analytic vendors that market mobile applications" [1]

Of course that doesn't mean anything about the current model of Discord, but good to be aware of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFeint#History

Not in the Unicode guidelines as they currently stand ':).

They are very explicit that this is not permitted [1].

Also, RE :poop: 1. Huffman encoding philosophy - encode frequently used symbols using fewer bytes. 2. Standards are helpful, :poop: is very English-centric, whereas U+1F4A9 is much more interpretable.

[1] https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Selection_Factors_I...

Yes, and emoji came from emoticons, meeting a need to express more complex ideas. Unicode adopted emoji after they were popularised.

RE point 4, I believe that this was initially a descriptivist rather than prescriptivist step.

People were using emoticons, showing that emoji might be desirable. Some cell phone manufacturers/carriers added their own emoji [1]. They were very popular. Unicode added emoji to the standard, since lots of people were using it.

Not adding emoji would have been _more_ prescriptivist, and since it was desired anyway would have just caused fragmentation.

[1] https://blog.emojipedia.org/correcting-the-record-on-the-fir...

would need to subject oneself to the pushy notifications, whims of Brendan Eich, and the dubious approach of the BAT cryptocurrency [1], but the Chromium based Brave browser on Android has a built in ad-blocker.

I think Opera might have one too.

[1] <https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...>

Additionally, this is about encouraging gradual shifts by reallocating funding.

It's not an instant global ban.

Well designed incentives can work better than violence.

Random doesn't mean unweighted. Choose a number at random from this list [5, 10, 5, 12, 8, 5].

Not to mention the people who design many of the machines that TSMC use in their plants: ASML.

"The mirrors guiding this light, made of sandwiched layers of silicon and molybdenum, are ground so precisely that, if scaled to the size of Germany, they would have no bumps bigger than a millimetre" <https://www.economist.com/business/2020/02/29/how-asml-becam...>

Indeed, thank for the post!

+1 on org-roam, and may I add org-roam-server, which visualises that graph in the browser very nicely, in an interactive way: <https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server>

I've been using org-roam for my research for a couple of months now, which has a lot of overlap.

The org-roam-server visualisation are really useful for me, since it makes it easier to see what areas have sparsity in them and should be expanded upon. Plus it gives me something more tangible to look at to understand how my research is expanding, there's a bigger sense of "building something". https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server

Toffler's book Future Shock has some interesting discussion about advanced production techniques allowing high degrees of bespoke customisation with very little additional costs beyond a generic production line.

We're still a long way from there RE smartphones, though projects like the PinePhone with hardware switches for things like microphone, camera, WiFi etc, along with a less locked down OS perhaps show a path to achieving this.

It gets me thinking about community agency in technology.

Large scale consumer technology has a lot of central planning in it, by nature of how specialised the skills required to produce many aspects of it are.

But central planning has its tail risks and other downsides as history attests.

I'm curious about how communities can be better empowered to make these choices for themselves, be it how moderation is done on social media, or what features are prioritised in consumer electronics.

Quantum data links seem great for establishing shared symmetric keys, which are much more practical than asymmetric keys for fast de/encryption.

However the key sharing process still relies on some process like Diffie-Hellman, or sending a PGP encrypted symmetric key generator.

Are there any key advantages to using QKD over these methods?

SiFive are definitely amongst the most interesting players in RISC-V right now.

Though there other organisations doing things, e.g. the PULP Platform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768080

I hope that the acquisition doesn't go through, more competition would be great, and perhaps within a decade a wider commercial RISC-V ecosystem could emerge.

One of the most compelling short VR experiences I've tried is Titans of Space PLUS, which gives a tour around the solar system, and then compares our sun to other stars.

The sense of scale when you have depth and head movement had me quaking at a few moments.

Well explained video of the concept: <https://youtu.be/ffUnNaQTfZE>

The wilful cognitive dissonance on the part of the British establishment, and "sunlit uplands" types is remarkable.

Demanding statues remain up so "history is not forgotten", then making moves to ban the discussion of unfavourable history, such as the legacy of empire and such, Churchill's policies during the Bengal famine being the classic example.

The cwtch.im project (metadata resistant E2E chat app) started with Golang backend, and Qt as the front-end (targeting x-platform desktop and mobile apps).

However they had some issues with Qt, and have been transitioning to Flutter.

Their technical blog discusses their issues and experiences. https://openprivacy.ca/discreet-log

I'm curious about the opportunities for co-design of hardware and algorithms, especially since we are building more ASICs for neural networks - they're an increasingly used workload.

Things like grouped convolutions were invented for AlexNet as a practical engineering step because of limited GPU memory, but ended up giving nice cost/accuracy trade-off choices.

Perhaps algorithms will move too fast for dedicated hardware to be worth it, but there will be primitives that should be relevant for a while that can be integrated into whatever hardware we use - see Nvidia Tensor Cores, which also include things like sparsity support.