It is unsafe to mix trusted and untrusted code in the same process. This is why Chrome runs the renderer in a separate process. My concern is that using Java to execute JS increases the probability they are doing this…
Customers running js on your server in a Java VM doesn't sound very secure. I could be wrong but when I see Java I get the suspicion that user code and privileged server code are running in the same process. Of course…
Gwern had an article on Wikipedia's deletionist culture. https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism
This headline is misleading because it refers to single use plastic bags. In London none of the shops I go to even sell these bags. However, they do sell multiuse bags which I mostly use similar to how I would use a…
I think there is a strong temptation for this when there is a large gap between the value of the social housing to the occupant and the value of the social housing on the market. This flat is in Victoria which is quite…
This poison thing is interesting because it seems like one poison value could have the capability of poisoning all the data in your program. You could imagine a faithful implementation of the rust abstract machine after…
Controlling speech in order to prevent violence does not work when the people carrying out the violence control the institutions. In your Rwandan example the Rwandan government could not be trusted to censor their own…
There are 8 billion people in the world. I'm not surprised some of them hold terrible ideas. The idea that some people hold X view so now we need to give the state Y power is insane with our population level because it…
I think it is mostly on social issues that politics has drifted left on. So it wouldn't surprise that people would different opinions on the drift if they weighted issues differently. I would be interested to hear…
I'm not sure how it is not a problem of the users. The up next recommendation is a product of your past behaviour and aggregate behaviour from other users. If you keep on watching 'wrong think' content then yt is going…
I tried to find statistics for this claim by looking at homicide risk but was unable to find anything supporting it. Possibly this is true in non-western countries. For example here is a look at the data that claims…
It could also be someone trying to screw with the mining incentives to break the network. When this block appears other miners have a strong incentive to ignore the block and try to create their own forked chain with…
I'm trying to avoid ranting about this because the timeline looks more like someone powerful in the company needed an excuse to remove him so this was dredged up as a rationale. However, firing someone for not properly…
I think it is interesting the same kind of bias seems to be present in the gun control debate and the immigration debate and both sides seem to be oblivious to their own fallacy. In fact you will have people one side of…
Reading this comment. I have to admit the reason I write 10 lines of code on average is because I spend 95 percent of my work time browsing hackernews or slatestarcodex or dare I say r/the_donald. I also strongly…
It is unsafe to mix trusted and untrusted code in the same process. This is why Chrome runs the renderer in a separate process. My concern is that using Java to execute JS increases the probability they are doing this…
Customers running js on your server in a Java VM doesn't sound very secure. I could be wrong but when I see Java I get the suspicion that user code and privileged server code are running in the same process. Of course…
Gwern had an article on Wikipedia's deletionist culture. https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism
This headline is misleading because it refers to single use plastic bags. In London none of the shops I go to even sell these bags. However, they do sell multiuse bags which I mostly use similar to how I would use a…
I think there is a strong temptation for this when there is a large gap between the value of the social housing to the occupant and the value of the social housing on the market. This flat is in Victoria which is quite…
This poison thing is interesting because it seems like one poison value could have the capability of poisoning all the data in your program. You could imagine a faithful implementation of the rust abstract machine after…
Controlling speech in order to prevent violence does not work when the people carrying out the violence control the institutions. In your Rwandan example the Rwandan government could not be trusted to censor their own…
There are 8 billion people in the world. I'm not surprised some of them hold terrible ideas. The idea that some people hold X view so now we need to give the state Y power is insane with our population level because it…
I think it is mostly on social issues that politics has drifted left on. So it wouldn't surprise that people would different opinions on the drift if they weighted issues differently. I would be interested to hear…
I'm not sure how it is not a problem of the users. The up next recommendation is a product of your past behaviour and aggregate behaviour from other users. If you keep on watching 'wrong think' content then yt is going…
I tried to find statistics for this claim by looking at homicide risk but was unable to find anything supporting it. Possibly this is true in non-western countries. For example here is a look at the data that claims…
It could also be someone trying to screw with the mining incentives to break the network. When this block appears other miners have a strong incentive to ignore the block and try to create their own forked chain with…
I'm trying to avoid ranting about this because the timeline looks more like someone powerful in the company needed an excuse to remove him so this was dredged up as a rationale. However, firing someone for not properly…
I think it is interesting the same kind of bias seems to be present in the gun control debate and the immigration debate and both sides seem to be oblivious to their own fallacy. In fact you will have people one side of…
Reading this comment. I have to admit the reason I write 10 lines of code on average is because I spend 95 percent of my work time browsing hackernews or slatestarcodex or dare I say r/the_donald. I also strongly…