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Some companies have a commit queue that takes care of actually merging a PR as part of their CI that mitigates this problem.

The article mentions the key problems:

- once private information is leaked, it can never be undone - being treated differently by some party because that party had knowledge of private information about you is difficult to prove

The ultimate solution is to legally require that important services cannot depend on private information.

An example would be: define a set of properties health insurance cost is allowed to depend on, and then have health insurance providers publish their formula for the premium (that can only depend on that set of properties).

The western economic system cannot deal with lockdowns, and more generally, any kind of stop-the-world scenarios.

What will be most important now is how the west will be able to deal with this crisis in comparison to China.

If the Chinese system is able to deal with the crisis more effectively in economic terms, this may put the western system as a whole in jeopardy, in particular values like freedom and privacy.

I feel uncomfortable at the ubiquitous, silent assumption that what is marketed as AI is a computer implementation of a brain.

I see how the term neuronal network reinforces this believe, but we (especially the researchers among us) should allow for the possibility that we are missing something.

I've followed Bitcoin for a while. What seemed to happens there was the deliberate manipulation of the price using all means available (ads, etc.) The result was a few winning big.

I have no reason to believe the same doesn't happen on the real stock market.

Oh I love the idea that you need to pay to leave a review. This way it becomes harder to fake a large number of reviews.

Could someone explain what this means? I read it as proof that quantum computers cannot compute more functions than Turing machines, is that correct?

This is why the world is acting so sluggishly to climate change.

Tldr: privately funded research is not working.

I don't understand why antibiotics research can't be done at (publicly funded) universities?

The German voter is against coal (the young climate concious), against nuclear (the old green party supporters), against wind (everyone when it appears in their backyard), and the government killed solar in 2015 which resulted in approximately 80000 lost jobs.

What the German voter doesn't want is to consume less and/or save energy.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Let's also talk about why LTS is a dangerous idea: It provides an excuse not to update.

Many tech debt traps start with relying on an LTS version of OS or libraries. The philosophy behin that is, that software behaves like a chair: You buy it once, and then you sit can sit on it until it is no longer needed.

A much better analogy is a horse: You need to feed and take care of it daily, and you need to be ready for it do die when you still need it.

That is not the only way technical debt gets introduced.

Often, teams cut corners to release a feature earlier/on time, and only make it work for the MVP use case without restructuring the codebase to fully accommodate the change. In this setting the term debt is pretty fitting.

Suárez' work also develops a utopian/dystopian (you decide) vision of society, which is an aspect of science fiction I really enjoy.

Jetstream, and even octane, are not relevant for most users.

JavaScript performance is good enough and has been for quite some time. (Server side node is another story)

If a website is slow, it is mostly because the website is shipping too much crap at the wrong time.

The US sanctions and the effect on Huawei just made it very easy for Chinese companies to justify expenses that increase technological independence, on all levels (not only hardware).