Seems weird to call it sharding since it's not sharding indexed datasets or anything like that. Is this just a tool to mitigate Databricks’ internal service-scaling challenges?
Right - this is not about sharding data/datasets. This is for sharding in-memory state that a service might have. The problem of building services at low cost, high scale, low latency and high throughput is common in many environments including our services at Databricks, and Dicer helps with that.
The key words are "essential" and "temporary" - the nouns can be replaced with pretty much anything.
In what way do you think the USA is currently doing better than China? Yes you can talk about Tiananmen Square, obviously, but there are other things you can't talk about.
Safety protects liberty, otherwise you get public safety authoritarians like Duterte or Bukele. This is not advocacy for authoritarianism. It's advocacy for assertive liberalism that is effective at delivering a core human need in order to protect liberalism from itself.
Freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom from abitrary detention, just to name a few.
Of course some speech, association and rule of law (as opposed to rule by law) is enjoyed by most people. But it is indisputable that China restricts speech and association severely, and silences "troublemakers" arbitrarily.
Let me preempt the inevitable replies: this comment is about China and China alone. It it factual irrespective of what freedoms may or may not be enjoyed anywhere else including the US.
I wasn't saying China has those freedoms, just that China has at least as much of them as the US. Just today - or was it yesterday - an ICE agent peered into a woman's driver side window and shot her three times point blank. Because of her speech. Where's the freedom there?
A freedom does or does not exist. Some cultures have more freedom than others. If it's "Western" of me to admit I prefer more freedoms rather than less, I'll very proudly own up to that. But I don't know what that has got to do with the question I answered.
As for concrete examples:
#1: Freedom of speech -- one may not advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, criticize the ruling party, advocate for a change of government or political system in China, state that Taiwan is an independent nation, argue in favor of free and open elections in Hong Kong, advocate for workers' rights, talk about Tiananmen Square, talk about human rights abuses in Xinjiang, talk about human rights abuses in China at all... and the list goes on. Someone might manage to do so, sneaking past the firewall, but they are liable to be slammed with #3 below.
#2: Freedom of association -- contrary to what one might expect in a country with "Socialism with Chinese characteristics", one may not unionize. In fact one may not set up any civil society group outside the approval of the CPC. I could editorialize on the reasons for this but I'll refrain in the interest of brevity.
#3: Freedom from arbitrary detention -- China has a specific category of criminal offense just for this: being able to detain anyone at any time for any reason. The crime is "Picking quarrels and provoking trouble", and is used liberally on anyone who speaks out against the government and manages to catch their attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picking_quarrels_and_provoking...
Now, Chinese people, and others, will argue that there's this reasona and that reason why it's good to restrict freedoms in this way. I obviously disagree. But what shouldn't be in dispute is the fact that these freedoms are very much restricted in China.
I agree that they do control information, but we also face the paradox that laws in the West do very little to regulate social media, and even the current US administration threatens to impose tariffs to EU [0].
Even Google and other big techs did a gigantic lobby against it in Brazil[1].
The appointed lawyer by Twitter, in 2023, even said in a meeting with the Brazil Minister of Justice: “That the Brazilian laws did not follow their Terms of Use”[2]. In the previous week there was a massacre at childcare which killed 4 children[3].
What the government asked at that time was to delete/suspend related accounts that promoted this type of crime.
It may seem like an attack on queer books, but as far as I can tell none of the straight books seem to be trying to explain how minors should get access to adult dating apps to meet older men, or showing obscene graphical depictions of sodomy involving children.
I think if librarians were buying "straight" books with the same explicit and adult content and putting them in elementary, middle, and high schools, the same parents would be complaining about those too.
I suspect that whatever example they had in mind, it's a passage that is descriptive of someone's personal experience while not being prescriptive in telling the reader step-by-step how to follow in their footsteps.
I mean I wouldn't say it's misleading, it just says what the graph contains. It's important that it shows 18 months so you can see how flat it was before
Did he really need that crazy probe or was that a joke? Normal probes that come with Fluke 179 couldn't do it? I guess mine says 1000V so not rated for it. Do they even make 4000V handheld meters? How are you supposed to do the calibration?
I'm sure you could solder together some 1kV 1MΩ resistors, but if you can buy a 10kV probe designed, built, and tested by people who do that every day, betting your life on your DIY creepage allowances may seem unappealing.
If you've ever looked at the admin panel of even a minor league, single page Wordpress site you'd probably recognize it as a major risk for any organization instantly. So many of the plugins look like spaghetti, with most you're trusting some random name to not be malicious. Unsurprisingly there are 60,000 CVE related to WP. I get that we all use a dozen node packages that we can't reasonably verify, but WP seems so much more wild west than that. I guess i's fine if you are a low value target, but a commercial CMS is not terribly expensive, and should be mandatory for any government org.
Interesting claim that the reactor doesn't need water and can be built away from the coast. I thought all reactors used steam to turn a turbine to produce electricity. Something special here?
This type of reactor would probably use super-critical CO2 instead of water to transfer the heat from the reactor to the turbines, so no water. The design is safer that way.
The way water might be used in this design is to make a synthetic fuel instead of electricity. In that case, you are swapping out the turbines for a process that extracts CO2 from seawater, uses electrolysis to crack the water and then a FT process to make a (renewable) hydrocarbon fuel (you might even use some feedstock to make it more efficient).
Because to steal bitcoin by reverse engineering a private key from a public one you need to be able to factor a very large number. Currently the highest number they have factored using only quantum computing is 21.
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